Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound

@vidarh
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MOVED TO @vidar - follow that instead.

Techie, #scifi writer (galaxybound.com). Using this for now while I work on adding direct support for Mastodon/ActivityPub to a couple of my sites. Live in Croydon, London, UK. Originally from Norway. #sf #sff #sciencefiction #books #author #science #space

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/BoundGalaxy
Site for my writinghttps://galaxybound.com/
Scifi bloghttps://galaxybound.com/blog
Personal blog (rarely updated)https://hokstad.com/blog
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022

I'm closing in on moving to my own instance. Thanks to the move support in Mastodon none of you who follow me should need to do anything, but if you suddenly notice my handle is different, that's why.

The new handle will be @vidar

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
Duane Aubin Nov 25, 2022
@mjf_pro @Lady_Star_Gem Nope, disrupting Twitter was a tactical triumph for conservatives. Twitter had long been a tool of community, organization, education and information for marginalized communities. Helped Biden get 82 million votes. Disrupting Twitter is the modern techie bombing of the Black church or opening fire in a gay club. Or burning down Black Wall Street in Tulsa. Disrupting marginalized spaces is terrorism 101 for Christian nationalist white supremacists.
Show threadVidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
@Ted_Cville @duaneaubin @[email protected] @Lady_Star_Gem I agree about avoiding totally leaving, but at the same time laying the groundwork for rebuilding better in a distributed fashion more resistant to takeover will pay off in the long run.
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
Nick Stevens GraphicsNov 25, 2022

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/25/esa_2022_astronauts/

ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall

ESA names first Parastronaut: paralympian and aspiring surgeon John McFall

23,000 applied, just 17 made the list of potential crew

The Register
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
(moving) APODNov 25, 2022

NGC 6744: Extragalactic Close-Up

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221125.html #APOD

APOD: 2022 November 25 - NGC 6744: Extragalactic Close Up

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayNov 25, 2022
This week I've mainly been reading (no.14)
One of the books that really rekindled my interest in #sciencefiction was Kim Stanley Robinson's Red Mars (1992) (& the trilogy overall). The story of the colonialisation of #Mars & its subsequent battle for independence from Earth is grounded in a very clear notion of how this would play out in political economic terms. In this sense for academic political economists its the ideal read as a 'novel on the go' (see earlier post)
@bookstodon
Show threadVidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
@nyrath Hah, I'm closing in on a scene in my WIP which will include a dialogue specifically on this. The contention of one of the characters will be that fighters serve one and only one purpose: Preying on the desperation of the person locked in a tin can with only enough air and fuel to survive for a short while leading to unconventional thinking. That is, pilots will make desperate choices that will not seem rational to a drone operator or AI without survival instinct.
Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 25, 2022
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀Nov 24, 2022

Why scifi single-person space-fighter spacecraft make no sense militarily, scientifically, nor economically.

http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/fighter.php
#AtomicRockets #scifi #SpaceShip #Spacefighter

Space Fighters - Atomic Rockets

Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 24, 2022

@samhkennedy @vidar Yeah, the documentation is a bit lacking but once I figured out the LOCAL_DOMAIN/WEB_DOMAIN distinction and forwarding webfinger requests it went smoothly. I expected more pain :)

Mail should be fine for me, as I already have my own inbound mail server running for my domain that I can give Mastodon direct access to, so no mucking with Sendgrid etc. since I'm not sending notifications to any external domains.

Show threadVidar Hokstad / Galaxy BoundNov 24, 2022
Actually turned out to be simpler than I though. If you're fine with the profile URL being on the sub-domain, Mastodon handles this fine without proxying anything, which is great. I'm going to need to test my new install a bit, but then I'll be ready to migrate this account to @vidar (if you follow me, don't worry about following that one - you should move over automatically when I move my account).