Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

Can't make a website without Wordpress or some other fully hosted browser-heavy application?

Learn HTML and CSS. They're just text markup code and styling code, not program source code; you can make it messy and still produce good pages with less jank than the HTML/CSS code emitted by polished applications.

https://htmlforpeople.com/ is a good enough place to start learning, but many more tutorials and guides exist.

Want something for sharing anything and everything where even Mastodon isn't decentralized enough?

Make a Web 1.0 website. All you need is a text editor, paint editor, file manager, FTP uploader, and old school website host. You already have the first 3.

Want federation for your Web 1.0 website, too? Adopt button badges for your favorite websites & join some webrings.

Yes, Wordpress-free website hosts & webrings both still exist.

I heard everything Bluesky-adjacent went down at the same time Jack Dorsey's "I rebuilt Twitter but better, I promise" service went down. Yet I heard from Bluesky itself that it's federated.

That's like my federated instance being dragged offline by an outage on John Mastodon's OG instance.

IPv8: too many cylinders and not firing on all cylinders.

Also, the tax prep site didn't show me terms & conditions until AFTER paying, & gave me no path to a refund without a forced agreement. Pretty sure that's de-jure illegal, but de-facto clowns with guns run the circus.

So do I accept forced binding arbitration, or do I opt out in favor of forced jury-less trials in the jurisdiction of Dallas County & North Texas?

Holy slop, all the AI fuck integration is too much!

And this marks the first time I've had to fight off *all* the "modern website" pop-ups throughout the whole filing process. Who the hell wants to subscribe to a newsletter in the middle of entering tax return data, especially after saying no on login? Why would you want to cover up one unwanted pop-up with a *second* unwanted pop-up just two seconds later?

Next year, I'm sending paper forms USPS.