official petition to the national french assembly just got 2 million signatures against bad farming practices and corruption and the speaker of the gvt responded by hiring a lobbyist as chief of staff...
For the US, just change it to say "GOP Run US Government Response: We'll not just say no. We'll do the opposite to cause the most pain, harm, and chaos."
Tom Lehrer on public domain (2020):https://tomlehrersongs.com/The recording is from Copenhagen, Denmark, in September 1967.Here are some other links:Tom Lehr...
The physical cart shows the original cartridge's label on a tiny screen? Heh, wow. (I probably still have a Star Raiders cartridge in a box somewhere, somewhere... I am sure I've at least seen my old Atari Assembler relatively recently.)
DecentCart2350, new upcoming open source #Atari8bit computers multicart with a nice screen (and many other useful features - see video). Entry for ABBUC Hardware Contest 2025. https://youtu.be/o-sEndb4mEI #atari #retrocomputers
The DecentCart2350 is a new multicart for Atari 8-bit computers. It's based on the RP2350 microcontroller and features a large screen that can display the cu...
DecentCart2350, new upcoming open source #Atari8bit computers multicart with a nice screen (and many other useful features - see video). Entry for ABBUC Hardware Contest 2025. https://youtu.be/o-sEndb4mEI #atari #retrocomputers
The DecentCart2350 is a new multicart for Atari 8-bit computers. It's based on the RP2350 microcontroller and features a large screen that can display the cu...
The scary thing about the data breach of the Tea app where peopleโs government IDs were leaked is that multiple governments are passing laws requiring people to provide their ID to random apps and websites to prove theyโre 18.
We are going to see some incredibly embarrassing leaks in the future.
@mattsqu It's not going to be long before we read about the death of someone who was blackmailed with stolen ID-check photos and details of the sites they were visiting. Or about them paying the ransom.
@mattsqu Exactly. Concerning adult content - itโs going to drive people to VPNs and/or deep/dark web or just overall sleazier sites with even worse control over illegal content.
They had absolutely NO REASON to retain this data. There is absolutely no way to completely trust someone you are handing your ID over to.
A few weeks ago I went to the local village fair in my new neighborhood. Of course, I Spideyed up the place. Got a card through the door the following day from my next-door neighbourโฆ looks like I'm booked for next year! ๐
(If you saw this post, did it appear to have 2 pictures attached, or just 1? I posted 2 through Friendica's web interface, and both show up there, but I'm only seeing 1 through Tusky.)
For anyone who couldn't see the second pictureโฆ (I'm guessing it was because I didn't escape some stuff in square brackets that wasn't valid BBcode. Oops.)
2 years ago I had worked on a piece where I was being such a red panda impostor, but now Cinnabar decided to reverse this and he's the impostor wah, disguising himself as a panda bear.
This is a continuation for this picture: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51395703/ Cinnabar got the original piece at MFF's Art Show and he wanted to have the reverse version with his character to put both of them together. So here it is!
Picture for Cinnabar Panda Traditional. Colored Pencils over toned blue mix media paper.
I would like to thank all those who signed the petition.
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The Government has no plans to repeal the Online Safety Act, and is working closely with Ofcom to implement the Act as quickly and effectively as possible to enable UK users to benefit from its protections.
Complete waste of time. Zero commitments given to the hundreds of thousands of concerned people who signed. No โwe hear your concerns and we will act on itโ.
Still has to go to the Petitions Committee to decide whether to debate in Parliament, because over 100,000 signatures. The (predictable) government response was triggered by 10,000 signatures.
@cyberleagle Iโm in the middle of writing another letter to my MP. Iโm considering asking to meet with them at their constituency surgery to discuss the matter too. Itโs far too easy for these politicians to wriggle out of doing anything meaningful.
Cue surprised centrist faces in 2029 โwhy did we get voted out?โ - โhow on Earth did extreme right-wing Reform candidates beat us?โ #OnlineSafetyAct
Personally, I don't think there's anything wrong with taking a centrist approach. People tend to be very polarised politically one way or the other, and the best way to prevent that is by taking a balanced position.
Write to your MP. I mean physically write - not just an email. Letters have far more weight as they are kept as documentation on an issue: "Additionally, written correspondence allows for a documentedโข record of public opinion, which MPs can use to inform their decisions. โคForโ instance, considerโฃ theโ case in 2020 whenโฃ MPs received an influxโข of โคletters regardingโ climateโ change."
Writing a letter to your Parliament member can feel like sending a message in a bottleโexcept this one actually gets read! In "How to Write a Letter to Parliament Member: Key Points," you'll discover how to craft a compelling message that demandโฆ
They seem to be in La-La land. They believe the things they are requiring are proportionate, technically practical and enforceable. Add to that the companies on the arse-end of the legislation taking dumb fool implementations to do age confirmation...
Of course they're going to double down and make it all even worse.
@Avon DeRussate @Rick I thought I noticed a lot of mentions of enforcement in tht statement, and how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against. Which basically means police state - so many are in violation the enforcers can choose who to take action against however they like. The whole reason so many sites are choosing to block the UK is because they don't want to get into all that. If the law shouldn't be so broad, make it not so broad, don't just make everyone a criminal and then choose only to enforce against people you don't like. But apparently they just don't get that (or choose not to get that).
"how they'll decide to choose who to enforce against"
If I were writing the legislation "any domestic internet connection the traffic of which (records of which are subpoenaed from ISPS) appears to have an IP signature that suggests VPN use. "
They had more than enough (indeed quite possibly excessive) power to deal with genuine problems before that act came in. That act just pushed things way into "excessive powers" territory.
The government response has come in ... and it is of course, total nonsense, demonstrating total ignorance of the real-world collateral damage the OSA is causing.
On the way home now from Anthro Irish and... It's seriously been one of my best con experiences ever. What an amazing weekend, made so by spending it with some truly amazing friends. I'm so grateful to everybody.
It's kind of weird randomly discovering today that my PhD thesis is listed on Amazon. You can't buy it (they "don't know when it will be in stock"), but it's got a page there. The damn thing's 25 years old now, almost completely uninteresting to me, but it's still out there. (As far as I can tell it's pretty uninteresting to the theoretical computer science community too, as it appears to have been cited exactly once in all that time.)
this entire thing is stupid and i frankly wish i could just fucking not have to deal with it, but alas, i am stuck in the UK on British internet for as long as i live, and i don't really feel like giving my face to a soulless megacorporation that's probably gonna sell my face data for AI training purposes and such, nor do i feel like handing over a photo of a legal document or whatever to some soulless megacorporation that's probably gonna end up getting hacked and my personally identifiable information will be stolen by hackers and i will be fucked six ways to sunday.
Speaking of Fetch, here's a #FursuitFriday pic last year by @northpaux.bsky.social of Thumper and friends on a boat! Will certainly miss you all this weekend! Have an Adult Capri Sun for me :)
Kip and Cypress teaming up for this mission, which today it couldn't be the cookie jar, that one is already too hidden. Together, theyโve cracked open the freezer, todayโs prize is something colder: neapolitan ice cream.
Or so they thought. Hope they like frozen beans!
Pic for Kip Fox and Cypress the Folf. As Patreon reward (Thank you!) Digital illustration. Procreate
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You can watch a quick time-lapse process video of this drawing, exported from Procreate, on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco But if you want to watch the full video, you can access to it at supporting me on Patreon or Ko-Fi, also you get the high resolution of this picture, and get to see pictures and paintings I haven't shared on my galleries yet. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco Thank you!
If you're going to say something in public, expect someone to get mad at you for it. The more it matters, the more this will be true.
There's always going to be people that disagree with everything you say. It doesn't matter if it's right. It doesn't matter if you can prove it's right.
And some people regardless will never be happy unless you agree 100% with everything they want or say. They won't give or compromise an inch.
I'll tell ya' right now, nothing you can say or do will ever matter to these people. Don't waste your time and effort on these folks. Making them happy is like trying to reach out and touch the moon.
Do what you want, say what you feel you need to. Don't let people stop you.
But also try your best not to be these people. Listen to others, if they give you info that contradicts yours, investigate it and see if they're right. And try to take the high road when you can.
You can't make people determined not to listen or care do so, but you can be an example of the kind of person you want to see more of.
Overall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two complementary directions: to reduce the number of software errors through rigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the remaining errors by providing for recovery from them. An interesting footnote to this design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be the result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the system.
-- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage Operating Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4, 1973, pp. 382-400 as rendered by /usr/games/fortune
Here we go, a two-fer for #WerewolfWednesday - 1994, Haunted Verdun Manor, Forney, TX. That's me in the then newly-finished Silvermane and Bart B_ in Lugaru, my previous suit. (Waves at Bart, wherever he is now; I've lost track over the years).
Imagine bumping into the two of us while going through a haunted house!
This was the only night Lugaru was "loaned out," and the only photo of both of us.
Arty and Mathias stand in it quietly, not needing to say anything. The sunโs almost gone, but thereโs still enough glow to catch their eyes. A pause, a look, and the feeling that everything is exactly where itโs meant to be.
The pieces I do are meant to be loved, not just approved, or feeling like a drawing factory to say "this is done, what's next", I think each piece needs to say something to someone, and I'm so glad this one achieved that for Arty and Mathias. I usually don't say this on my captions but I'm so proud of this one.
Traditional. Acrylic on canvas. Piece for Arty, the fennec fox, and Mathias, the arctic wolf.
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Also I recorded the process of this piece on a time-lapse video, you can check it out on the first comment of this image on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
There is also a full version of that video, as well as the high resolution and the scanned of this piece, along other pieces that I haven't even shared on my galleries yet. All this is exclusive for those who support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi, that also helps me to keep creating art (and hopefully I can get a point where I can work more on my own projects, including new comics): Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco Thank you!
A ninefold increase is the result of huge advances in our understanding โ and brings the hope of fulfilling lives to many more people, says author Gina Rippon
sorry everyone, my third wish from the genie was to make the world's electrical standards weirder.
south america is now using 70hz 40v AC, france & belgium are strictly DC outlets (no AC), and apple products are all on 3.3v USB. AA batteries are now 9v, and 9v batteries are still called that but they provide 6v.
they don't use molded plugs anymore. just 2 or 3 wires coming from the device and you have three separate ends which you put into the appropriate slots
those ATX power supply 8-pin connectors that connect to the CPU and those 8-pin connectors that connect to PCIe expansion cards are now mechanically compatible with each other
all power outlets are now PoE. If you yank and break the little plastic tang off of the vacuum cleaner's power cord, well sucks to be you. It probably had to request a high enough voltage* that the arc isn't going to go out without a fight.
a friend contacted me a few years ago to ask with help as he was moving to Brazil and wanted to know if his electrical kit would work over there. No problem, I thought, I'll just look up the mains standard for Brazil!
"Standard", yeah, about that....plug and voltage seems to vary based on location and the phase of the moon ๐ณ
Land line telephone connectors were weird and different in every country. I still have a set of telephone adaptors for different countries left over from dialup days (kept because it also has all the power adapters, which are still useful).
![Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!](https://floof.org/photo/832268496568896463ccc66086124038-1.jpeg "Inside the card: To [REDACTED] (and Spiderman). Thank you for coming down to the fete yesterday! The lads loved seeing Spiderman! From [REDACTED] (fete organiser). Next one 4/6/26!")
(As far as I can tell it's pretty uninteresting to the theoretical computer science community too, as it appears to have been cited exactly once in all that time.)
