http://blog.probablyquill.com/tags/article/ Recent content in Article on the inkwell Hugo en-us ©2026 probablyquill Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.probablyquill.com/post/2026/articles/reducingrelianceongoogle/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.probablyquill.com/post/2026/articles/reducingrelianceongoogle/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Earlier this year, I saw a now-deleted Reddit post about Google shotgun banning a collection of accounts due to misconduct on one. Per <a href="https://blog.stackademic.com/a-14-year-old-did-something-stupid-with-googles-gemini-ai-his-entire-family-paid-for-it-37702c2b37a9">this</a> medium article the entire situation can be generously described as &ldquo;unverified,&rdquo; but it got me thinking about my reliance on Google&rsquo;s services. It is, ultimately, a single point of failure held by a company that has no financial incentive to act in my interest. Google has the right to ban me at any moment, for any reason — if my Google account is banned, I lose access to my email, my cloud storage, my two-factor-authentication, my domains, and any other services or accounts tied to my Gmail.</p> http://blog.probablyquill.com/post/2026/articles/buildingablog/ Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://blog.probablyquill.com/post/2026/articles/buildingablog/ <h2 id="the-why">The Why</h2> <p>The title speaks for itself, but I&rsquo;m going to elaborate anyways:</p> <p>I had a rather annoying realization last week. I like writing reviews for the books I’ve read, and movies I’ve watched, and I like to send them to some of my friends over Discord. Imagine my surprise when on an otherwise benign Tuesday night, I drop a link into the chat and the site preview looks like this:<br> <img src="image5.png" alt=""></p>