COVID again

Well, this is annoying. Back to bed rest with COVID-19, in 2022 (nearly 2023). Fortunately the symptoms are a lot milder, so I should be back to work (and play) tomorrow - although I'll be isolating until the weekend. It's no longer a legal recommendation but I figure it's at least polite.

Rant time: so many sites and apps I use nowadays are turning into train wrecks.

A somewhat unhinged rant about how bad Amazon search is

Spotify keeps trying to foist ads on Premium customers

Gumtree giving not one single, solitary, fuck about spam ads

Ecovacs introduces ads into their Android app

(I should note that Ecovacs is a Bad Company™. They have an awful privacy policy, and steadfastly refuse to release APIs (or even document their existing APIs) for interop with things like Home Assistant. When my fleet of DeeBots finally dies I'll be replacing them with something else).

Uber enabling push ads again, and making it hard to disable them

So it's delightful to switch to one that isn't :) A while ago I finished migrating all my projects to Sourcehut:

My Sourcehut account

... and I'm loving it. Fast, simple, ad-free, and works on even simple Web browsers (e.g. Netsurf on Plan 9).

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Published on Mar 27 2024.