So, I’ve been no fan of Gumroad for quite some time, and now they’ve gone even further all-in on using AI for everything and being especially gross about it.Here’s some alternatives that are worth considering. Ko-FiIt’s what I use for my main shop these days. Their pricing is quite nice: 5% cut for transactions on...

A couple days ago, the fucking crawlers ramped up their efforts to get past my 429 error page, so I finally set up a fail2ban rule that would block anything that kept on poking at things.Hoo boy that was the wrong thing to do. When the bot farms started to detect that I was blocking them at the IP level, they...

Folks were looking for a centralized website for Chorus which wasn’t just the repository, so today I threw together another site, MecaGorp, which will be hopefully where I put all future information about Chorus/Canimus and its related efforts. There’s a lot more stuff to add but in the meantime it’s at least a...

xkeeper posted a blog post about their issues running TCRF.On a related note, here’s my webserver’s HTTP response code stats for today, across all of my websites:fluffy@nautilus[/var/log/nginx] fluffy$ cut -f3 -d\" access.log | cut -f2 -d\ | sort | uniq -c | sort -n 3 408 4 502 4 503 10 410 20 504 56 307 60 403 165...

A few days ago I happened upon this video about visual snow syndrome and I watched it even thinking that it was kinda clickbaity, since I always figured that visual snow syndrome is something that a lot of people have and it’s not a big deal.But it actually made me realize that there’s a lot of stuff that’s possibly...

Man, I am so tired of being tired.On the plus side I’m finally working on music again. Hopefully I can keep up a more sustainable momentum this time around, because I really do want to finish Misfits sometime this year. But I also don’t want to do my usual multi-month crunch that leaves me even more drained when I’m...

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These past 6 weeks have been quite tiring to me, and I have so many reasons to be so very tired of things right now. I’m doing what I can to enjoy the things I’m able to do, but, oh god do things suck right now, for so many people that I know. Induced gender dysphoriaI am so tired of getting misgendered,...

Oh yeah so a lot has been going on, this past week especially has been bonkers, and I’m super happy about things right now. FuralityFurality went great! I had a lot of fun seeing folks I hadn’t seen in a while, a heck of a lot of people checked out my booth, I gained a lot of new fans, and I contributed some of my...

Hey y'all! My birthday is coming up this Sunday. I have the following things going on: I’ll be spending some time in VR for the Trans Academy Trans Pride festival, and in particular will be speaking on the music production panel which is at 10:45 AM, Pacific time I’m going to be seeing The Amazing Digital Circus:...

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Yay, Furality is here! I don’t know how many people are coming here vs. to my music site since Furality doesn’t give me any dealer’s den click metrics or whatever, but welcome all the same. I already posted a Furality-specific entry on the blogpuppet, but since this is what I consider my main website, I guess I’ll...