Today, I was curious about just exactly how hard it would be to setup my own Bluesky PDS via a Digital Ocean VPS. I already had a domain that I grabbed a while back (mkultra.social), because it was available, and also cheap, and I didn’t know what I wanted to...

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Do you ever find yourself checking your e-mail, only, you’re not checking it to see if anyone’s trying to speak to you, or if someone you know has sent something. You’re checking it because the bubble on your phone says, “10,374” and you just heard the notification go off for...

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After a whole bunch of time and a little bit of lost sleep, and also some Python, my website, here, the one you’re reading, can now accept subscriptions and one-time donations, on-site! No more clicking through to Patreon, or Liberapay, or Ko-fi, or other third party sites that require additional...

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I’ve been running a little store in Second Life for over ten years now. I built it up with zero knowledge of Blender, zBrush, and Marvelous Designer, and I learned those things. Forced myself to learn how to use these applications so that I could participate in a virtual economy...

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This isn’t going to be a blog post where I link a million different sources and spend two hours writing. I’m honestly kind of tired, and about to crawl into bed, but, having spent a decent amount of time with the “Enchanted By Nature” expansion in The Sims 4, I...

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In another round of continued Microsoft fuckery, a week after it was found out that a Windows update was potentially bricking people’s SSDs (which are not cheap), it is now coming out that on September 11th, secure boot may stop you from launching into Linux (on a Windows machine). This...

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While I patiently wait for Distrokid to give me (and other artists) the ability to remove our music specifically from Spotify, I’m forced to watch as the dunces behind Spotify make wrong move after wrong move. First, it was their partnership with Joe Rogan, then it was their announcement that...

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In an effort to post more than twice or three times a week, I wanted to start up a little thing where I show off parts of OpenSim, the decentralized, open, and completely free alternative to Second Life. OpenSim a network of thousands of grids, all operated by regular people....

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As someone who’s been gaming since 1989, and whose introduction to RPGs in the early 2000s (yeah, I didn’t really play RPGs much in the 90s, for some reason) were titles like Anarchy Online, Oblivion, and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines … I’m quite a bit disappointed in what I’m seeing...

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I’m calling this “part 8” because I’ve written about Bluesky, so many dang times now. And every single time I do, it’s because they’re either protecting someone who is profoundly hateful, or because they’ve banned someone without good reason. Heck, I’ve been banned twice now for vague mentions of ill...

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