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ghalfacree

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About ghalfacree

Freelance writer, journalist, erstwhile sysadmin, and perennial breaker of all things electronic.

https://gareth.halfacree.co.uk https://freelance.halfacree.co.uk https://twitter.com/ghalfacree

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ghalfacree; my proof: https://keybase.io/ghalfacree/sigs/xTH3ni0Hd8VLxK8kbSlMHfhMrr47IZy8gpmSOizJcUQ ]

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    The problem with Patreon - and thus Quilette, which is 95 percent funded by Patreon - is that there's a massive gulf you can't cross. Popular Content Creator who has a hojillion Pa…

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    If you're using Brave, I'm assuming you're using the browser's main claim to fame: the ad-blocking/ad-switching functionality, yes? So, you won't support content creators who publi…

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    I'm not sure you read what I wrote, but I have considered other alternatives: it's called "writing for magazines." If you'd like to support me without supporting Medium, you'll lik…

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    Massively depends on performance. You get money from a subset of a subset of a subset: there's the set of the audience; there's the subset of the audience that are logged in to Med…

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    Hi, author of the piece here! You're right that WordPress wouldn't have given you a popup before you could read, for free, the article I spent a couple of months working on. It als…

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    Comment #1902073

    There's a fundraising drive trying to get together the money so Bletchley Park, the museum dedicated to the work of Turing and the other codebreakers at Station X during the war, c…