2024-02-20
news from the metaverse
This website now features the underscore section, which is
an up to date feed of new images and comics, using the familiar previous/next
navigation. Furthemore, the rss feed generation
has been reworked to include mostly all new uploads, with some exceptions1.
This should be interesting to anyone, who wishes to stay away from the fediverse feeds, and/or only wishes
to subscribe to nothing but analognowhere material. Images from the underscore section are directly included in the
feed now, as well as this and future texts from the log section, which could help you stay away
from even this website.
Future longer comic issues will be also featured in the underscore, but the overview of released comics will remain in issues.
The meta section should be the place where to find everything else this website publicly offers.
The mini section has been retired and will remain as an archive of old and miserable content.
OpenBlade's database (wiki) remains in its perpetual early-access state. Direct updates to it are not featured in the feed,
but when a large change happens, it will be mentioned in the analoglog (and thus in the feed).
Love and care went into making this website a fairly enjoyable experience with good web browsers.
thank you
I do not personally publish any of my work in the big-tech social networks. This proverbial shooting of my own leg has been my decision from
the beginning. There's a statement in there somewhere. Over the past few weeks, I've received a large number
of positive feedback. If you're a fan of my work, have donated to this project, or written me a love letter, know that I am
grateful.
I hope to continue littering this side of the internet for years to come. Thank you for your support, if it weren't for you, I would have
given up a long time ago.
P.S.
What's this website about?
You decide.
notes
- 1 the faux posters section is not included in the rss feed for reasons unknown, but by design
2022-04-30
In not too distant future...
TECHNO-MAGE
In not too distant future, in a universe not too dissimilar to ours, the world is barren.
Vast sprawls of arid deserts and inhospitable
jungles cover the face of the planet,
while the majority of its denizens persist in gigantic
walled-off metacities, governed by the omnipresent gov-corporation.
These cities are home to many beings living under the tyranical
regimes of their watchful overlords. This is the age of technocrats,
transhumanists and digisophers, all slaves to meticuously crafted
closed hardware, deceptive software and cyber practices designed
to enthrall all who wish to persist on this new frontier of the
future.
Most have forgotten the days of old. Times of revered hackers,
prophets of digital freedom, cults of the spirits of the machine and of free people
are now distant memories turned into myth. The buried trenches, where great warriors
once fought the abominable corporate monsters, and looted museums of open
technology are to those few who still remember but a sickly reminder of a great cause that was lost.
But while the large cities are host to most, the outside is not without life. Many sought refuge in the
vast wastes of the Wild, escaping from the cybernetic hell the gov-corporation had in store
for all. These remnants of the free people now inhabit small towns and communes, built from the
rubble of previous generations, gathering old knowledge and obsolete technology they sparsely understand.
In this world, where all but few have forgotten the language of the free machine, enigmatic TECHNO-MAGES roam
the desecrated planet. Hunted and persecuted by the restless gov-corporation,
but loved by the fleeting population
of the people of the Wild. Teachers of forbidden knowledge. Last warriors of freedom.
In a small settlement of an old Wild tribe a child is summoned by its elder and sent on a quest to
seek out the mythical Fish in order to become its student. This is a story
of that child in the world of Analog Nowhere.
About
The TECHNO_MAGE comic is a series of strips and episodes that tell the story of one girl's
life from her time as a student of a tech master through her adult life as the last
blowfish techno-mage on a quest to prevent the complete disintegration of machine freedom
at the hands of the world's corporate overlords. During her life she experiences many
situations strangely relevant to the current events of our world and many more fantastically macabre.
Among many of her companions and acquitances are
a mute redskinned hacker with horns, countless penguins, a talking sword running OpenBlade 14.2,
the deceased hacker-extraordinaire Robert Wellington, a sect of coin laundering cultists, pocket daemons, FOSS child
and a whole lot of floppy disks.
The episodes are not chronological. Rather they are snapshots of the techno-mage's life recorded
on tapes, played in seemingly random order.
About the author
My name is Tomáš Rodr and I am the author of the world of Analog Nowhere and the
TECHNO-MAGE. They are my love letter to the philosophy of Free And Open Source
Software and to all projects, programs, technology and hackers and authors, who dedicate their time
and knowledge of machine freedom in an effort to make our world better for all who dare listen, learn and share.
Privacy policy
analognowhere.com doesn't track you. It doesn't serve nor eat cookies.
There are no ads.
There's no unidentifiable proprietary code running in the background.
This website has been created with the firm believe in the free internet
and your right to surf it without shedding your data.
This website is a testament to my belief that projects like this
can exist and persist on the modern web, but certainly not without
your help.
analognowhere.com and its materials, namely the TECHNO-MAGE comic, are
offered to you free of charge under a permissable license.
Nobody even knows you're reading this right
now. How about that? If you do enjoy what is being offered here,
please, consider
supporting the project or spreading it around.
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