David Peach

Welcome to my personal homepage.

  • My website is now cut off

    I’ve decided to bring my website back to a traditional website without all of the “social gubbins”.

    I love the IndieWeb, but I just can’t be bothered to jump through the hoops of marking up the posts with the extra classes and fiddling with my theme to make sure other sites can parse it fully.

    And the Fediverse. The fediverse is great. It feels like a last ditch effort at having some kind of nice social interactions online. Without all the capitalist bullshit and “influenzers”. (Yes I intentionally spelt it that way)

    But I don’t want my website connected to it anymore. I dont want all my posts going out and getting saved in other peoples servers, regardless of how trusted they may be. Especially now big tech is hustling in on the fediverse game.

    So this is all there is. A single website, built on ClassicPress, with basically no plugins, with me as the sole author. The author who does not use AI in any stage of this website, or any other website for that matter.

    Just me, myself and I. And any of you lovely people who pop by and visit.

    Unless you’re a fascist. In which case you can fuck off.

    Tata.

  • Defeated the Yeti in the Ice Palace. R.I.P.

    Fediverse reactions

  • Chilling with the monks in the Barkhang Monestery, Tibet.

    Fediverse reactions

  • Some shots taken in the Tibetan Foothills level of Tomb Raider 2 remastered.

    Tricky level this, especially with the dudes on jetskis trying to mow you down.

    Fediverse reactions

  • Another great line-up for this series of Taskmaster.

  • Been getting back into Tomb Raider 2 via the remaster collection.

    The Maria Doria levels were always my favourites.

    Something about the isolation deep under the ocean just ticked a bunch of boxes for me.

    I took a few shots from The Deck level today.

    Fediverse reactions

  • So activitypub plugin does seem to work with . I dont see the customization options in a metabox like in gutenberg editor, but I’m not too fussed about that.

  • “ai” is the worst thing to happen to society.

    “ai” is the worst thing to happen to society.

    Removing more and more people from working, whilst making cancerous billionaires richer, is only ever going to result in greater and greater inequality.

    Everything else is parlour tricks.

    There is pretty much nothing good to come from any of this crap being peddled as “The greatest thing to enhance human capability”.

    The whole “human in a loop” thing – this is essentially taking people out of creative and critical thinking and reducing them to glorified conveyerbelt workers on a production line of “content”.

    Whilst “ai” is the worst invention to flood the world in recent times, the word “content” is the word I’d love to confine to room 101.

    People talking about “content” just pull every creative expression down to its lowest form that all comes down to “engagement” which itself basically equates to “analytics clicks / views / whatever”.

    The World Wide Web was a gift with the greatest of potential.

    It has been reduced to a mincing machine that steals from the creatively-gifted amongst us, in order to give non-creative people the false sense that they are.

    All so they can create, and I use that term very lightly, slops of images and videos that will be forgotten tomorrow.

    All at the cost of ours and the planet’s future.

  • Collect the Flamethrower

    Like mother, like daughter. Big girl shit about to go down.

    Fediverse reactions

  • The Space Jockey

    Never thought I’d get to visit this location from the original Alien Film.

    Incredible vibes and a scene almost identical to that of said film.

    Fediverse reactions

  • Its 2am here and my tax code changed half an hour ago.

    I shit you not.

    So until April 2026 ill be about £200 worse off

    There are much bigger things going on in the world than Dave’s tax code.

    But i felt i needed to write at least something to mark the occasion.

    Plus I do need to write more.

    Im gonna watch some “Marion and Jeff” to try and keep my spirits up.

    Night all.

  • My website (this website) does not track you in any way.

    I have even disabled access logging in my server config.

    A screenshot of the uBlock Origin tab that shows the sources of resources on my website - davidpeach.me. Only same-domain sources are connected.
    A screenshot of uBlock Origin section that reads "Blocked on the page 0%, Domains connected 1 out of 1"

    Until today I did use Matomo, which was self-hosted. But then I came to the conclusion that I just don’t need it.

    At the same time I both care about the people who visit my website — unless you are a fascist — and don’t care who visits my site.