Partly it's a problem of centralisation. If everywhere relies on the same system, one outage messes with everywhere. Partly it's a problem of Permanews. In Ye Olden Times, 1980 say, most of us would … (View Post)

As the song puts it, A man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest. It's always happened, but I'm pretty sure it's worse now than it used to be. Partly because it's so easy to edit video … (View Post)

I wish I could get as optimistic. At the moment, things are going the other way. The values of social media, especially engagement through windup, are infecting traditional media. Hence clickbait hea… (View Post)

Not necessary. A man walks into a library, and says, very loudly, "I want a large cod and chips, please." The librarian glares at him, and hisses "Excuse me sir, this is a library.&quo… (View Post)

Depends what it's about. A lot of the stuff in the Hackerverse genuinely roughly happened (though their sources were more from the Heath/Wilson/Callaghan years, IIRC). That's a period piece. But the … (View Post)