floof.org

Briala mastodon (AP)

Good article.

Our visual cortex does a *lot* of guessing and throwing away of stuff before our consciousness sees an "image". I like reminding people that optical illusions work because our visual cortex guesses wrong and can't correct itself.

1 1
Chris Burgess mastodon (AP)
always look twice at intersections
1

I see Siddiq Khan is floating further tightening of the OSA's powers to censor "harmful content"* in order to fight the rising tide of fascism.

How about us progressives start doing our fucking job, and making people's lives less precarious and shit as a way to fight fascism? How about that?

* rather nebulous phrase isn't it? That's deliberate!

This entry was edited (8 months ago)
1 1

Me and @thumper today at FC!
1 1
LoranSkunky mastodon (AP)
Forest Friends !

#FursuitFriday with Cooper Tom, Prancer, myself, and Sparky in front of the Brandenburg Gate, #Berlin, #Eurofurence23 in 2017. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿฆ“ ๐Ÿ“ท @Dairishgoat
1 2

Me during ConFuzzled 2016.
Photo taken by Sacred the Bull.
#FursuitFriday
1 1

Fluffy version of an for this #FursuitFriday !

Arts by @Pudgical

1 1
RawiWoof mastodon (AP)
One of the best things; when you can replicate art in reality :blobfoxthumbsup:
Cheetah Obscura mastodon (AP)
@rawenwolf Is a lot of fun for sure! โค

1 1

Content warning: Comedy violence

1 1

This afternoon I wanted to show someone the moirรฉ pattern you get if you draw lines on a pixel grid from a single origin point to every point on a line some distance away. Those were a favourite toy program on 8-bit micros.

[Edit, the next day: I forgot to mention the *main* point! The lines are drawn in XOR mode, so that each line is drawn by inverting its pixels rather than just setting them all to black, creating an interference pattern.]

I could surely have figured out how to draw this kind of thing in a modern graphics system, but I _knew_ I could remember how to do it on a #ZXSpectrum, so I just fired up FUSE and did it the way I'd have done it in the 1980s.

โ€ฆ I guess this is worth tagging #Genuary, in a retro-nostalgia sort of way?

This entry was edited (8 months ago)
1 1
Same with symmetry, Amstrad CPC basic.
Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)
@Firesledge nice! I don't know the Amstrad CPC dialect, but a quick look on the web suggests that MODE 1 is a screen-resolution selection in a similar style to the BBC, so by process of elimination I guess the PRINT CHR$(23)CHR$(1) must be the magic that puts the drawing into XOR mode?
Ben Harris mastodon (AP)
Here, have a Beeb version. I originally wrote it using jsbeeb but got annoyed while getting a screenshot and then remembered that I could just use the real thing.

Mira mastodon (AP)
Speculative execution and AI are going to be the death of computer security, isnโ€™t it https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/113907283558152621
1 1

Pippin friendica
Phew, finally. I've got to the point where I have been able to shut down the higher-level functions of all three of my Bytemark VMs, leaving them just running init, udev, syslog and sshd. All end-user services are off! I'm leaving them quiescent overnight to allow their final backup to happen, then it'll be time to fire off an email telling them I'm finished and they can shut them down and destroy the disk images. The web control panel doesn't seem to let me in any more so if I actually shut these VMs down entirely I wouldn't be able to fire them up again if I found I urgently needed to for some reason, which is why I'm doing it this way. But wow, having that one for 16 years meant there was a lot of integration into my other systems, which I've hopefully fully unpicked now.
1
Pippin friendica
Nearly two weeks later and I've had no response to my ticket and the supposedly-doomed-at-the-end-of-January VMs are still running. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Specs and bleps! ๐Ÿ‘“ ๐Ÿ‘…

๐Ÿ“ท @HarryHusky
โœ‚๏ธ @selkiesuits
๐Ÿ‘“ FursuitGlasses.com
๐ŸŒ SotonFurs Winter Party 2025
โŒš #FursuitFriday

1 1
I really love the specs. Is it just luminous tint on them or are they actually lit up from inside somehow?
@The4thCircle the lenses are fluorescent, so when there's any kind of blue light they glow. ^^ and almost any dance floor will cycle regularly through blue light, so... They tend to be pretty bright!

RAWR! A dragon to appreciate! ๐Ÿ’œ
1 4

Pippin friendica

An instance where no news is good news.


The Debian Publicity Team will no longer post on X/Twitter. We took this decision since we feel X doesn't reflect Debian shared values as stated in our social contract, code of conduct and diversity statement. X evolved into a place where people we care about don't feel safe. You are very much invited to follow us on https://bits.debian.org , on https://micronews.debian.org/ , or any media as listed on https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicity/otherSN #debian


Pippin friendica
I probably shouldn't be surprised that collectd's memory cache takes quite a long time to drain to disk after turning off the aggregate 1Mbps of statistics streams which have been pouring into it for many years now. It must be coming up to half an hour now since I turned off the last incoming stream and disk usage still hasn't slacked off. Kind of impressive how well the caching works to consolidate updates to any given rrd file (which therefore must reduce SSD wear quite a lot), but it does mean restarting the collectd daemon managing a centralised repository can take a *long* time and cause quite a big gap in the records.

(actual conversation I've had)

"I don't care about data collection, I'm not a criminal.โ€

Nothing to hide, okay. What kind of underwear are you wearing?

"What?โ€

Who was the last person you had sex with?

"That's none of your business!"

What's your credit card number? Driver's license? Banking info?

โ€œFuck off!โ€

Do you see why privacy matters now? None of those things are criminal, but you don't want them made public right?

"..."

Take all the time you need. I'll be here.

1 2

"What's your address?"

"what I-..."

"nvm I'll just check with a data broker"


Pippin friendica

I find it interesting how, when I (e.g.) yawn while listening to music, I get a kind of pitch-bend effect. Reminds me how ears and nervous systems and things work, and that they really don't present reality to your consciousness the way you might expect if you're used to computers and other human-designed technology, but do a lot of preprocessing and, well, Weird Stuffโ„ข to give your brain something that natural selection thinks will be the best interpretation of reality to keep you alive and reproducing.

Having grown up with tape as the main method of audio storage and reproduction it feels weird to have the pitch change without the speed changing too, but it reminds me that it's actually all about the little hairs inside the cochlear, and how vibrations propagate through the fluid and which hairs each incoming sound frequency ends up stimulating. Squish things around by yawning and the link between specific frequencies and specific hairs changes.

It reminds me of other things that show just how weird bodies and minds are, such as the stopped clock illusion. Your brain literally makes up stuff to keep you from realising how bad your senses are at their job. It's all so astonishingly messed up.

1

1 1
Zelus von Lila mastodon (AP)

OMG.

So much this. Dealing with this kind of thing right now. At the time we need one the most to help out, they're doing the absolute bare minimum or less, when everyone else is bending over backwards.

Those actions do not go unnoticed.


The weight of our thoughts feels lighter when we let them drift with the clouds. In that quiet moment, we find ourselves caught between reflection and introspection, looking at everything and nothing all at once.

Painting for Daisuke

Traditional. Acrylics

If you want to see the full scanned version + WIPs of my works + drawings before I post them on my galleries or social networks, support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
That would help me a lot to keep creating more art. Thank you!

1 1
TK Wolf mastodon (AP)
This is gorgeous! ;~; โค๏ธ

Content warning: Suggestive fursuit photo

This entry was edited (8 months ago)
1 1

I'll be at FC soon! If you see either of my boys around, come by and say hi!
Also I'm still a smash bros gremlin, and will have my controller, so like... Fight me?
1 2

Out in the snow, 2017.

(one way to tell if it's an older photo or not are the gloves - those have been retired)

#WerewolfWednesday #Werewolf #Fursuit #Snow

1 2
There's more snow on the ground here right now than there was in that photo, and more is forecast in the next few days.

Pippin friendica
I found out about Radiorama, the podcast/radio episode of Futurama, and now you have to too.

Content warning: Politics

1 2
Colin mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics

1 1
Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Politics

1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6-zR7OK8nw
1 1

1 1

I love how you can subtly pick up on Terry's morals and ethics, and the lessons he wants to teach us, through his books. But they aren't overt. They're not usually strict speeches, but the important lesson of the book that the villain breaks. Over the series, you can really piece together who he is.

The heroes he writes are clearly flawed, but they're usually the ones who treat others like humans, or just generally want to be left alone by the villain xD

@inkblitz That can be a bit dangerous though, as authors don't always write to their own morality. For instance, I have questions as to how strongly Heinlein believed in the apparent morals of "Starship Troopers", and it's unlikely that GRRM is a big believer of the 'morals' of ASOIAF.

Well-written heroes should always have flaws. Flawless heroes are boring.


1 1

1 1
Mafalda mastodon (AP)

@gilesgoat

Awww. โค๏ธ


Corporate America...corporate ANYWHERE really will "go" wherever the most money is. To combat corporate excess you ALWAYS have to target and redistribute the money. Interestingly this is how you defeat fascism too.
1 1
Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
@fatedfox thats what I meant. Amoralism built-in

Pippin friendica

I've been meaning to make these photos for a solid month, and last night I finally got round to it. Far too many days I've meant to suit up and take the pic, but then suddenly it's evening and I'm too tired and I never get round to it. Well, last night it was 3am+ and could have gone the same way, but I decided it would happen and I finally got there!

This was one of my Christmas presents from my family and I'm finding it weird how much I like it. I mean, it's just a mug and I have too many mugs already.

4
Skintight Chee mastodon (AP)
A most excellent mug and a most excellent Spidey! โค
1
Pippin friendica
@Skintight Chee Thank you, most excellent cheetah! ๐Ÿค—
1

Here's the mischievous Beeton pulling off the heist of the year! Well, from past year.

Drawing for @Beeton_Nukicoon in his sketchbook (Oh I love when, at conventions, they give me their own sketchbooks to draw on!), at MFF 2024's Artists Alley.

Traditional. Color markers.

1 1

My photos from FNNY 2025 are now available here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/finbarzapek/albums/72177720323147585
As ever, if you spot yourself in the gallery then feel entirely free to reuse.
1 1

only today I learned that swift allows unicode as identifiers, so...
// totally valid swift
struct ๐Ÿชบ {
    let โ„น๏ธ: String ; let ๐Ÿ—’๏ธ: String
    var ๐Ÿ’ฌ: () { print("\(self.โ„น๏ธ) <(\(self.๐Ÿ—’๏ธ))") }
}

let ๐Ÿ‰ = ๐Ÿชบ(โ„น๏ธ: "๐Ÿ‰", ๐Ÿ—’๏ธ: "rawrr")
๐Ÿ‰.๐Ÿ’ฌ
common swift w
1 1


While I tend to downplay it, I'm sure it's obvious to my friends the joy I get from performing as a DJ. It really is a special honor for me to share this with you. To all of you who have been a part of this journey for me in so many different ways, thank you.

๐Ÿ“ท @sheriffraccoon

1 1

I just saw a post in another place that read 'And the truth is: I pretend to be a cynic but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something I may never get.'

That hit too hard and too close to home. That was upsetting.

1 1
Pippin friendica
I regularly want things I may never get. Probably will never get. I'm 50 and still living with parents (although technically they are living in my house now rather than me living in theirsโ€ฆ) I'll probably be single forever. I'll probably never get round to making a lot of costumey stuff I've had in mind for literal decades now. Same for web services I want to build. I'm mostly resigned to it now, though. Maybe I'll get to some of these things someday. I don't know.

When I say I really want cities where drivers and pedestrians, cyclists, people into other modes of transportation can get along. This is a great example of that.

Iโ€™d love to live in a place like this. And I think more places should be like this.

https://youtu.be/_F6xKd7AGKs?si=H5BnaVJCoIzagsoq

1 1

Reminder to always boost jobseeking (both employers and candidates) posts on here.

Boosts are free and you never know - you could be the boost that makes the match happen.

This entry was edited (8 months ago)
1 1

Pippin friendica

Oh jeez. I don't suppose anyone here has experience with EAP certificates for RADIUS servers handling Wifi APs? I generated a root key+certificate and a server certificate for FreeRADIUS a couple of years ago and apparently I generated a new cert last year, but I cannot for the life of me figure out where I put the root cert key or how I generated last year's cert. I thought I was using gnomint (and there's a gnomint database right there) but it doesn't seem to have the right root cert and I can't seem to figure out how to generate a new cert in it this year anyway.

So my question is: are there many common Wifi clients that actually need (or benefit from) the CA public key being imported and cert verification turned on for connecting to that AP? If not, maybe it's unlikely any of the users will have turned on verification, in which case I might well be able to get away with just generating a new root key and cert and starting over. If it's common to import the cert and turn on verification I probably ought to keep searching all my computers and servers to see if I can find the flippin root CA key.

Have I mentioned I hate computers? :( I basically hate my chosen line of work, it seems.

B4ckBOne mastodon (AP)
Not realy an answer, but habe you tried Dalradius or packetfence and maybe smallstep-ca? Could be abit more convenient.
Pippin friendica
@B4ckBOne No, haven't heard of any of them before and am not planning to change, but thanks. This was all sorted out a month ago and the client isn't complaining any more so I'm not planning to touch it again until next certificate renewal time. Thanks anyway.

Aatheus mastodon (AP)

For the person currently calling themselves the US President, I pray for them. The specific prayer is Psalm 109:8.

"Let his days be few; and let another take his office."

1 1
Later posts Earlier posts