Message From Nightopia

Corbin | Male | Scorpio | My personal blog.  ♪ Twitter: @c24kun

[pigdemonart]

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Papa McCloud, friends and family

[filmphotofranz]

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

[lierdumoa]

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

[jenroses]

Please note that buying new servers and storage just became a shit load more expensive.

Because AI.

To paraphrase a comment on a Gamers Nexus video, the reason computer parts are getting so expensive is that a huge amount of RAM and storage that have not been produced yet were purchased with non-existent money to put in gpus and computers that have also not yet been produced to put in data centers that have not yet been built, to be powered by infrastructure that may never appear, to satisfy demand that does not actually exist, to obtain profit that is mathematically impossible.

So that’s fun. But it means that already owning computers that actually do the thing is SO MUCH BETTER than hiring other people to build more capacity to buy more computers to do the thing.

How bad is the RAM crisis? The price of ddr3, which is like 10-15yo tech, is going up. The price of DDR5 is now stupid expensive, 4+ times as expensive as it was a few months ago.

Mostly because there’s only one company in the world that is capable of generating the kind of chips needed and everyone uses that company because the modern world is a very precarious house of cards held together by tissue and string and we have a 50 foot toddler playing Godzilla with international trade.

Anyway AO3 is a goddamn miracle people need to respect.

[rabbitindisguise]

I think this is especially worth pointing out now because if they start fundraising more then this is most probably why they need money. If anyone’s mad that AO3 needs extra dollars then, remember to blame AI.

[molabuddy]

please. im so nosy.

[molabuddy]

addition which is maybe more pressing and also has been true since chapter 4. PLEASE

[alteredpanel]

thank you for making art with me

[rowanberrypop]

casually evokes the image of your college best friend

[beesmygod]

unrelated but one of the bad fanfiction lines that has been trapped in my head for LITERALLY 22 years was a beauty and the beast fanfic in which belle said “be careful, im a virgin in my vagina”. this has been on the tip of my tongue threatening to burst out of my mouth for decades

[beesmygod]

this one is SOOOO  good thank for you sharing. im going to be thinking about po’s honda civic too now

[hauntedchronicler]

this line from a wolfstar smutfic on ff.net has haunted my every waking thought since 2007

[do-you-have-a-flag]

this is one i only read as recently as 2017 but it’s from a 1999 star trek fic and it’s so good

[thememedaddy]

[ettaberrytea]

[image description: tweet by @ audipenny that reads "America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I'm like no girl u need to go to the hospital." /end id.]

[pigdemonart]

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Staaahh wooooolf

[thatbowserguy]

Heating him up in the micheal wave

[maskedkitsune]

Star Fox team (2026) Holoviewer profiles

[vxmpire-vxlle]

Official Windows XP themes by Nintendo.

[yuyu-finale]

HAPPY STAR FOX DAY ⭐️🦊

[paintedhen]

DELTARUNE Tip: I am so fucking scared.

[frenchifries]

[commodorepompadour]

Sorry I've been so quiet for so long. I literally have not drawn anything since March. Been busy with work and family emergencies. Last month or so has been really rough. (Dog had surgery and got diagnosed with terminal cancer.) I bought myself a pack of Arrtx markers as a treat. They're super fun to use in my sketchbook I've been picking away at for almost a decade lol.

I'm just emotionally exhausted from everything at the moment. Hoping I can kinda jumpstart my brain a little with the new markers. Happy I can share a bit of art again tho. c:

[epicsause-official]

i think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty

[epicsause-official]

heres kinda what i mean