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Jon Honeyball attempts to look for the good things in computing life

Today is my 60th birthday. This fact is mostly unremarkable, and I am pleased to announce that it feels quite the same as yesterday. Nevertheless, it is always useful to mark such a day with a large gin and tonic, and ponder what the world is doing both right and wrong.

I am increasingly despondent at the state of the wider internet, specifically the spiralling mess that is social media. Clearly the big players have no interest in making things better, despite their hand-wringing and wailing to the contrary. So long as eyeballs

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