Posts

• Fuck web services and why BasicSync is excellent
• Discord users are first victims of UK's Online Safety Act
• Labour’s Gaza stance, cautious optimism after past inaction
• Starmer’s AI gamble risks Labour’s future
• Ed Miliband sidelined as Prime Minister backs AI over hydrogen
• I've Finally Made It to Vim!
• (Not yet) 50 games that have influenced me
• How to use an emoji as your website's favicon
• Ellie Chowns takes on Starmer, new Green leader under fire
• How to get RSS URLs from YouTube channels and playlists
• Recomended web tools and browser add-ons
• Desktop apps I use
• A blop in the bucket
• Mastodon and fediverse tools
• Open source games what I like
• Gemini (the protocol) tools

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Where you can find me

You can email me at chriswere@posteo.net or 👇

• My audio blog
• Movie ratings
• Masto/Fedi
• PeerTube
• Owncast
• Discord
• Media archive

Podcasts I'm on

• Freebooters: Tech show with me and Drew
• Space Virgins: Me, Hamish, and Drew dive into films and everything else
• Ours is the Theory: Game of Thrones and other TV series reviews

Appearances on other shows

• 1 May 2025 Fireside Fedi episode 13
• 13 May 2020 Linux Spotlight episode 48
• 19 April 2019 Destination Linux episode 117
• 5 June 2017 Destination Linux episode 23

Tip jar

• Liberapay: Open source service for tips and donations.
• Ko-fi: Tips and donations.
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Affiliate links

• Filen.io: E2E encrypted desktop-cloud sync. Alternative to Google Drive.
• NordVPN: The VPN I use. Pretty decent, good Linux command line client.
• Digital Ocean: Hosting service we've used in the past.