I write a lot about social media, a lot about how Bluesky is screwing up because they’re opening the gates to bad actors, or they’re not really decentralized in a sense that anyone can just prop up a server. Or, how Reddit is aggressively pushing their AI upon users via...

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I’m sure most people are aware by now that someone signed up on Bluesky under the username @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, and that it was subsequently banned minutes after sign-up … because the team thought it was an impersonation account. Usually, that would be the case, because, as we know, Bluesky’s userbase leans...

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Today, the long-awaited “Happy Ghast” update seems to have finally hit both versions of Minecraft. This, of course, means that the Bedrock version now has the spicy visuals, and Java just the Ghasts. Which is fine. The Happy Ghast is an inversion of … uhm, the Sad Ghast? Is that...

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Earlier, around a month or so ago, I accidentally somehow completely erased my forum. PHPBB’s guided update instructions weren’t, uhm … correct, in some ways. At least, I followed the instructions, and nothing happened when I attempted to implement the update. So, I tried a different way, which I had...

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For the past couple of months, since I mention EVE Online every once in a while, corporate social media has been trying to push ads in my face in regard to this new … ish game, by the same company, EVE Frontier. The problem, is that it’s very cryptic, and...

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Trying to get back into the habit of actually writing posts on my website, so, in the theme of a massive changelog in regard to things I’ve done and have been doing on my website, I’m going to detail here all of the things I’ve changed in the past week....

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A couple weeks back I decided to take a hiatus from Second Life. Mostly due to the fact that I’m frustrated that the community has mostly turned into a mass of hermits hiding on platforms who don’t talk to anyone anymore. And that’s really how it is in most online...

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Remember back at the end of April when I wrote about the double-team of admins at the Fosstodon instance having themselves a little meltdown over having to come to public terms with on-boarding a neo nazi to their moderation team? Remember how they stomped their feet and declared they’d be...

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So, nobody’s really “reporting” on this, and, for all intents and purposes, I’m not a reporter. Never-the-less, nobody’s really writing about this, either. I suppose it’s partially because Meta and its platforms already jumped the shark about a million times in the past six months, and anybody who’s anyone, or...

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So, I don’t have a lot of brain-juice to spare lately. Mostly because I’ve been reeling from the existential crisis of turning forty … uh, TOMORROW (as of posting this), and I’ve been adjusting to a different position at work, which also comes with longer hours. But, with the limited...

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