Posts - page 30

A listing of all long-form posts published to-date. Herein, you'll find my thoughts on concepts, ideas, politics, and more.

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Lost in the Complex

I’ve been having this issue since I started going hard on developing this website into something that’s strange, or interesting, or maybe even fun to visit. I’ve embedded a small little box to the right where you can leave messages, I made a todo list that details what I plan...
published August 24, 2024
#thoughts
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Yesterday's Websites, Today

You’ve heard of the old-web revival lurking in the underground of the furthest reaches of internet-space, now get ready for: Actual Geocities pages, archived in an easy to navigate interface! I’ve been lurking the Melonland forums, and searching around websites people have built, and one of the main complaints, or...
published August 23, 2024
#tech
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Worlds Chat to Worlds Online

The year is 1995. We’re well past the eighties at this point, and a lot of people (not all) have a computer in their homes. Some even have access to the internet. Installing Windows 95 consists of waiting two hours through prompts and low resolution demonstration videos (which, at this...
published August 20, 2024
#gaming
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Rebuilding in VR Chat

It’s been days since I took my Second Life store, essentially, down. Sure, it still technically exists on the Second Life marketplace site, and sales do come in through that platform, it’s just not the same as actually having a presence in Second Life. And, I really do think that,...
published August 19, 2024
#vr-chat
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You Should Always Go Full ActivityPub

Hello good people of the indie-web, and shout-out to the fediverse! Why am I shouting out the fediverse? Surely they can’t see what I’m typing here, right now? Oh, but what if they could? What if, after I share this update via my own Mastodon account, all replies to that...
published August 18, 2024
#tech
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Urgent Financial Help Needed

So, yesterday, I basically shuttered my Second Life store in order to, pretty much immediately stop paying Linden Labs any money whatsoever in order to have land, and access to group space needed for both hosting my store in-world, and maintaining groups for promotion. As of right now, my little...
published August 17, 2024
#donations
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[REVOSA] Shuttered into Cryo-Stasis

I knew someday this day would come. When my ambitions of starting a store out of desperation, in need of an income of sorts, of any, would eventually come to an end. Sometimes it’s a molehill, and sometimes it’s a mountain. It’s not really a secret that I’ve been struggling...
published August 16, 2024
#second-life
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VR Chat: Second Life For People Who Have a Meta Quest

Lately, or, for the past few days, I’ve been messing around in VR Chat, the virtual world that aims to be Second Life, but with a strict, “Keep the NSFW stuff in private” sort of … uh, place. You’ll find out why that is pretty much as soon as you...
published August 15, 2024
#vr-chat
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Github Explodes

Today, for … uhm, whatever reason? Github went plop. It fell down. It shat itself. Its servers went down completely and totally. And I didn’t even really notice until hours, and hours after they’d already started investigating. And then … it came back! But this sort of thing has me...
published August 14, 2024
#tech
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Twitter is Viable, and Bicycles Are Boats

I was talking to someone on Threads, whose name I won’t mention, because I do think she actually believes Twitter is still the only real place to be. But it brought up some thoughts, and interesting points. There are some people who refuse to abandon Twitter. Sex workers, parts of...
published August 13, 2024
#social-media