░ Nova Online

Category: Updates

  • Initiate the Protocol: Nova Online Now Federating!

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    Over the past couple of months, or, since the beginning of the year, I’ve been tinkering around with moving, completely, toward ActivityPub. From taking my Twitter activity and killing it in its entirety so that I can run my instance at mkultra, to replacing Instagram with my Pixelfed, to replacing Youtube with my Peertube, and…

  • Apt Install Blog_Post

    Apt Install Blog_Post

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    I’ve avoided writing anything for a bit, maybe a week or so, or more? I lose count of days sometimes. I haven’t really written much for my book, and I’ve made drafts on here but haven’t published. I think it’s mostly to do with my writing-brain needing constant breaks. But that’s beside the point, because…

  • Go for (re)launch!

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    A little over a week ago, I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with the costs of running both my WordPress and a Mastodon server via Digital Ocean. The nature of Mastodon is that, the more you federate, the more media your server needs to store, the more bandwidth you use, and the higher your costs go.…

  • The MUKLTRA.MONSTER Disaster

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    Over the past twenty four hours, the instance over at mkultra.monster experienced … somewhat of a disaster of sorts. A disaster that resulted in the deletion of the original instance I had setup, and the installation of a new version. But what happened? As mentioned in the beginning of the post, this took place over…

  • Online!

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    To start my vacation from work, and my switch from position to position, building to building, I spent about seven total hours setting up my own Mastodon instance. An instance you can now view, right here. I first launched an instance through masto.host, but ultimately decided that I prefer full control. Not just full control…

  • TERMINUS, the album to end all albums (Get it?)

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    Or not, because this definitely is not my last album. Earlier this year, almost immediately after I released ReKall (which is still rising in popularity, especially on Spotify, where I’ve currently hit over 2000 monthly streams), I hatched an idea for my very next album (and yes, I already have my ideas for the album…

  • Throne of the Forsaken, and the Start of Something New

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    On May 24th, 2019, I published a short story named Throne of the Forsaken: The Shattering (available here and here), which detailed a fictional world where the Earth has been heavily impacted by cataclysmic climate change. The situation is so dire that the planet has transformed into what Venus might have been before it was…

  • Chapter 4 rough draft completed!

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    I know, I know. It’s been a little bit of a long time coming, but I have an explanation. There are explanations for everything. While I was in the middle of writing chapter four, Fallout 4 released! This was pretty awesome, because the game is amazing. But I won’t go into detail about that because…