Posts - page 8

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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What is a Chicken, if Not a Man

Usually, I would relegate posts about site updates and changes to my /logs filetype, but this is a bit larger than, “changed around a few CSS modules, added a new page.” For a lot of the year, I’ve had the website mostly running the same way, but I’ve taken into...
published September 9, 2025
#webdev #updates #thoughts
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Eyeshadow 2600 FM is Back

A little something I’ve started working on, quite a bit in the early stages of track construction. But, I felt it was hard and wicked as shit enough to share even if there’s almost nothing to it. Not even sure what I’m going to call it yet! Your browser does...
published September 8, 2025
#music #fl-studio
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Bluesky, Decentralized? Switching to a PDS

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...
published September 7, 2025
#social-media #bluesky
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You've Got Mail!

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...
published September 6, 2025
#thoughts #internet
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NovaLandia: Now With Integrated Subscriptions

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...
published September 4, 2025
#webdev
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[REVOSA] is Closing, For Real This Time

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...
published September 3, 2025
#second-life
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The Sims 4: The Fae Are Officially Back

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...
published September 2, 2025
#gaming #thesims
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Your Linux Distro May Not Boot on September 11th

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...
published August 31, 2025
#tech #microsoft #linux
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Spotify is Adding DMs, Still Doesn't Pay Artists

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...
published August 26, 2025
#social-media #music #apps
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OpenSim: Events Plaza Showcase

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....
published August 23, 2025
#gaming #opensim