Category Archives: Tech

Why everyone should pay attention to Stable Diffusion

Posted on August 30, 2022 by VM

Many of the people in my circles hadn’t heard of Stable Diffusion until I told them, and I was already two days late. Heralds of new technologies have a tendency to play up every new thing, however incremental, as the … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Tech | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Why everyone should pay attention to Stable Diffusion

When a teenager wants to solve poaching with machine-learning…

Posted on August 29, 2022 by VM

We always need more feel-good stories, but we need those feel-good stories more that withstand closer scrutiny instead of falling apart, and framed the right way. For example, Smithsonian magazine published an article with the headline ‘This Teenager Invented a … Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Tech | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The 5ftf blunder

Posted on July 16, 2022 by VM

Automattic owner Matt Mullenweg recently made a scene on Twitter when he called out GoDaddy as a “parasitic” organisation for profiting off of WordPress without making a sufficient number of contributions to the WordPress community and for developing a competitor … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off on The 5ftf blunder

The problem that ‘crypto’ actually solves

Posted on June 30, 2022 by VM

And why that makes cryptocurrencies hard to beat. Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Tech | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Tech solutions to household labour are also problems

Posted on June 13, 2022 by VM

Access to leisure is crucial in the climate crisis era, and technological solutions bereft of social change won’t help. Continue reading →

Posted in Analysis, Tech | Tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Hosting a Ghost blog on Fly.io

Posted on May 31, 2022 by VM

A noob’s guide Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Thoughts on the WordPress.com ‘Starter’ plan

Posted on May 27, 2022 by VM

WordPress.com announced a new ‘Starter’ plan for its users on May 25 after significant backlash from many members of its community of users that a previous price revision had completely disregarded the interests of bloggers – by which I mean … Continue reading →

Posted in Life notes, Tech | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Nothing cryptic about another ‘crypto’ disaster

Posted on May 22, 2022 by VM

Earlier this month, a cryptocurrency token called Luna crashed in price – an event that also brought down the value of bitcoin, became the biggest crash in cryptocurrency history thus far, earned the person or persons who (probably) orchestrated this … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Why there’s no guarantee that Musk’s Twitter will resemble Dorsey’s

Posted on April 26, 2022 by VM

Many folks are saying they’re not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren’t different. Continue reading →

Posted in Culture, Op-eds, Tech | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

To be better at being anti-crypto

Posted on April 20, 2022 by VM

Molly White has a difficult read, one that I’m forced to agree with in spite of my vehemently anti-cryptocurrency position. Three representative paragraphs from her post: I … think that [cryptocurrency-based financial solutions] are enormously attractive to people who see them … Continue reading →

Posted in Op-eds, Tech | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment