floof.org

"Glorfindel, my very old friend!"
"It's Arwen now."
"Arwen! My very old friend!"
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There are two hard problems in Computer Science:
1) People are the hardest problem in Computer Science;
2) Convincing people that people are the hardest problem in Computer Science.
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Dodging boulders and stealing priceless relics, Indiana Skunk grabs his whip and brushes his tail as he sets off to the adventure.

I know what's the music you are humming on your head!

Skunktember is here, and I had this sketch saved from a little bit more than a year ago, sketched on Photoshop and finished recently on Procreate.

Reason why on the time-lapse process video is only shown the coloring part. You can see it on the first comment on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or the full version at supporting me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco

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Having an *I just want to be a soft pretty coyote* kind of day. #furry #fursuit
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mastodon is so fucking tedious. i literally cannot follow people on types.pl and they can't follow me because of feuds between the admins of the instances

like, i get that you might not want to like automatically cache data etc etc but for fucks sake, i can't even opt IN to being followed?

mastodon is so terrible at times

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You may have heard of the /.well-known/ path, and the security.txt file, but there is a new one you should be aware of too:

/.well-known/change-password

It should redirect to your change password form, so password managers can easily send users there.

https://securinglaravel.com/security-tip-a-well-known-url-for/

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Coen Wesselman mastodon (AP)

@ErikvanStraten personally I will share this with the @internet_nl project team, and let you know.

Personally this would improve password management for me. Too often the tools struggle with password changes and storing the right information to access an account.

@bartknubben @valorin

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Internet.nl mastodon (AP)
@wsslmn @ErikvanStraten @bartknubben
Thanks, interesting! This one is also new to us and we haven’t studied it in detail yet. If you like a test for it to be implemented in Internet.nl, please file an issue at https://github.com/internetstandards/Internet.nl/issues. However, no guarantees if and when we can pick this up because the roadmap with improvements we are working on is already pretty full. 😅

More analogue photography?
YES!
I'm still enjoying it and love to experiment with chemistry, Filmstock and time.

The black and white pictures are shot on Fomapan 100, developed in Fomadon Excel at the recommended time.

The Color pictures are on Kodak Colour plus 200, developed using "my standard" Adenol C-41 mix.
But this time with a hacked together controller to closely monitor the temperature.

📍 East & Luitpoldhütte
w/ @Ican
w/ Spectrie
w/ Ari

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Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'


Can all the billionaires please just finally fuck off to Mars and leave the rest of us alone

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"every color printer inserts invisible tracking dots that can be traced back to the buyer" would be a pretty unhinged conspiracy theory if it weren't true
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.

A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone walking in. The air is filled with tense conversations between partners - drowned out by the noise of screaming kids.

In the middle, a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair. She is surrounded by canvas-bags containing her worldly possessions. She doesn't look like she is in a great emotional place right now. Clutched in her hands is a games console - a PlayStation Portable. She stares at it intensely; blocking out the world with Candy Crush.

Or, at least, that's what I thought.

Walking behind her, I glance at her console and recognise the screen she's on. She's connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit. She's not slicing fruit; she's arming herself with knowledge.

The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.

But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.

Not everyone has a big monitor, or a multi-core CPU burning through the teraflops, or a broadband connection.

The photographer Chase Jarvis coined the phrase "the best camera is the one that’s with you". He meant that having a crappy instamatic with you at an important moment is better than having the best camera in the world locked up in your car.

The same is true of web browsers. If you have a smart TV, it probably has a crappy browser.

Twitter's guest mode displayed on a TV.

My old car had a built-in crappy web browser.

The dashboard of a BMW i3 - there is a web browser on the central display.

Both are painful to use - but they work!

If your laptop and phone both got stolen - how easily could you conduct online life through the worst browser you have? If you have to file an insurance claim online - will you get sent a simple HTML form to fill in, or a DOCX which won't render?

What vital information or services are forbidden to you due to being trapped in PDFs or horrendously complicated web sites?

Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).

Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?

I chatted briefly to the young woman afterwards. She'd been kicked out by her parents and her friends had given her the bus fare to the housing benefits office. She had nothing but praise for how helpful the staff had been. I asked about the PSP - a hand-me-down from an older brother - and the web browser. Her reply was "It's shit. But it worked."

I think that's all we can strive for.


Here are some stats on games consoles visiting GOV.UK

Matt Hobbs (@TheRealNooshu@hachyderm.io)

@TheRealNooshu

Replying to @TheRealNooshuInterestingly we have 3,574 users visiting GOV.UK on games consoles:
• Xbox - 2,062
• Playstation 4 - 1,457
• Playstation Vita - 25
• Nintendo WiiU - 14
• Nintendo 3DS - 16
20/22


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https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

#HTML5 #web #WeekNotes #work

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Thankyou whomever put this meme together. It is perfect.
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Hali mastodon (AP)
you are adorable. Not sure if I ever said that before.
Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
@Halipuppeh Awwww, thank you so much! ❤❤❤
@Hali

I posted this on Tumblr. I didn't think it would go far. But ... people have clipped it from Tumblr, shared in on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, it's had at least ONE AI read on Tiktok, and a few on Youtube ... so ... just so you know who posted it ... Hi. My pharmacist stole my deadname.
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I reblogged that on Tumblr! Good to see it here too.

From the bad place.
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Sure, it's a joke about the IT dept. being furries. But legit:

I've been at companies where we had to draw straws to see who stayed on-call for the con.

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Sharkie mastodon (AP)
Yup. Super common, honestly.

they put kids in jail for downloading metalica in the 90s but the incels who scraped the internet to make a regurgitation machine are held up as our new gods because laws are just threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation
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After years and years of media reports that coal is having a comeback in the UK the last coal plant will go offline in just 2 weeks.

Coal in the UK is no more.

Credit for graph to @ketan

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When the goin’ gets tough, the tough…get creative!💪🔥

#furry #furries #fursuits #fursuit

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Meet "Breakpoint":
My "defective #protogen" #fursuit

📷 @NikTheDusky

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Sometimes learning to love yourself can be frustratingly difficult.

But sometimes it’s blissfully easy.

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Leina mastodon (AP)

Awwww, that's adorable. 💜 💙

Learning to love myself is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do, and I still struggle with it. I feel like I'm closer to achieving it now than I have been for years, though.

@Bowsette I was always bad at it, but Croc has really been a breakthrough way for me to appreciate myself, now I’m trying to extend that care to the human that I’ve always looked down on.
Giles Goat mastodon (AP)
I always thought "there's something quite strange" ( or at very least they don't know what they are missing out ) about adults/people that don't like plushies .. "Everyone should have at least one favourite plushie" 🥰

Disabled Copilot for markdown files because I just cannot take seriously the attempts to ad-lib high level documentation or summaries of functionality.

Machine, shut the fuck up. The sentients are talking.

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🌟 HE’S HERE 🌟

…and it was on #FursuitFriday!

Made by Nuke Creations

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Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
Super cuuuuuuuute! ❤
TK Wolf mastodon (AP)
so cuuuuuuute! ^^

Content warning: GB politics

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I'm OK

This song has just been stuck in my head for a while.

https://youtu.be/Qop5XLgwkNc?si=34WyNsqPl_epUX1P

Remember, there is help.

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
Something I wrote a couple years ago. Sorry the scan isn't the best. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45798881/

The other night I saw someone on here refer to the Tesla Cybertruck as the "Deplorean" and I've been laughing every time that's popped into my mind.
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Phil M0OFX hometown (AP)
@rotopenguin I low key love that Tesla wrote into the sales contract that people couldn't get rid of them, until they finally gave up on that... it's just that good huh


When you ask your sysadmin a question

#funny #tech #webdev #developer #programmer

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"mysterious caves and tunnels always have luminous fungi, strangely bright crystals or at a pinch merely an eldritch glow in the air, just in case a human hero comes in and needs to see in the dark."

- Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

In some ways more elegant than handing out Darkvision like candy.

#Discworld #DND

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Interactively zooming into the Mandelbrot set on a touch screen

Surprisingly delightful considering how many times I've built this and watched videos of it. It's a different experience deciding for yourself where to zoom in or out.

A bare script to render a single frame is 40 lines. Interactive touch support takes another 120 lines. Reducing detail during touches to make the UI responsive takes 10 lines.

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The acceptable number of people getting SARS at any given event should be zero. Not ten. Not one hundred. Zero.

SARS-CoV-2 causes chronic disease in 10-30% of infections. That means for every 10 people who are infected, for 1-3 of them that will be a life-altering experience. Some will eventually recover. Others may not.

As reports of people getting infected with SARS at RustConf roll in, it’s hard not to think of those whose life will inevitably change because of this.

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The cumulative number of SARS-CoV-2 infections in all RustConf events prior to this event was zero. That was possible by having basic precautions in place.

RustConf 2024, newly organized by the Rust Foundation, is the first event to break that streak.

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This is just a plain awesome idea!
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Content warning: Reverse Fedi Meta

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Eurofurence right on the corner, who we gonna see there 👀
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First-ever mRNA vaccine halts pancreatic cancer in its tracks https://flip.it/hcWGKV #science
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Fated Snowfox mastodon (AP)
You are stunning, you know? ❤
Thumper mastodon (AP)
*huff*

July 2023 quick draw for Noble!

'Quick draw' portraits are a monthly art reward for Glazed Donut members of my Patreon! 🍩
https://www.patreon.com/megjames

made in #krita

#MastoArt #ArtWithOpenSource

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Happy #SkyproSunday from Bedhead! 💙 Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Seize every opportunity and make the most of it!💪🔥

#fursuit #fursuits #furry #furries

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