D’oh! Turns out I’d forgotten to change my DNS settings after ticking the box to host my site from the EU. That explains why I couldn’t see any of my post there from mid-March onwards. 🤦 Fixed now.

Apparently, Apple’s Game Center has decided it doesn’t want me doing my daily Good Sudoku. 💢 All the other games I play on my Mac that use Game Center let me proceed, but in this case it’s a no-go. Not impressed, Apple!

On the one hand, I dislike having to use a card reader device to authorise some actions with one of the financial institutions I use.

On the other hand… it has Actual Buttons, doesn’t require daily charging, and hackers/scammers can’t get into it.

So, overall, I guess that’s a net positive. 🤷

I’ve now limited my news exposure via radio to three times a day (breakfast, lunch, teatime) in brief doses. I don’t need constant reminders of how terrible everything is, nor am I going to let the horrible people have any of my time or energy. That is better spent acting to make a better world.

When your RSS feeds are taking several hours to work through in the morning, you know you’ve over-subscribed.

Time to prune back & remove what’s no longer sparking joy.

#RSS4LIFE

Two plus two equals four. There are twenty-four hours in a day. And if we cannot summon the moral clarity to stand firmly against a President openly defying a direct Supreme Court order, then we have already surrendered the constitutional republic we claim to cherish.

The center must be held—not because it is easy, but because it is ours to hold. And holding it requires recognizing that some issues aren’t distractions but foundations. The rule of law isn’t a policy preference. It’s the condition that makes all other governance possible.

—Mike Brock, Gavin Newsom Has Lost The Plot

This is a purely symbolic statement—the loss of TidBITS will neither dent the revenues of these platforms nor change the actions of their leadership. But symbols have power, and even small actions accumulate. Every individual refusal, every quiet stand, every principled choice makes it a little easier for others to do the same.

—Adam Engst, Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook

Donald Trump attending Pope Francis’s funeral is blasphemy

Trump may strut into St. Peter’s Square with gold cufflinks and grievance, but no amount of spectacle can drown out the quiet, radical gospel of mercy that Francis lived. Let the cameras catch not the bluster of a man desperate to be seen but the bowed heads of the poor, the meek, the brokenhearted, and those whom Francis never stopped seeing.

On Saturday, may humility speak louder than hubris. And may the world remember which of the two truly walked in the shoes of the fisherman.

Setting your web browser to default to 200% zoom is a great way to:

1. Make most websites a lot easier to read.
2. Show up those websites that hate ‘small’ screens.

YMMV, of course. I don’t recommend this for most ‘app’ websites, simply because those aren’t webpages, by design.