I feel like this decade is going to end more or less like the XKEYSCORE/Snowden scandal did: the level of encryption used on the internet increases further. Maybe to the point of "everything travels over VPNs"
Four windows. Four cute faces: Slyde, Scotch, Russec, and Kosten, each painted on their own acrylic canvas, all turning to look at one another, just like a certain TV introโฆ but fluffier.
Acrylics over canvases.
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There is a time-lapse I recorded working on these 4 pieces, you can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or there is even a longer version (36 minutes long) of the process of this project, exclusive for Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters, as well of other time-lapse videos, many pictures I haven't shared on my galleries yet, high resolutions and more. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/notifications Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco Thank you!
Official Art Channel ๐ฒ๐ฝ Clean cute artist. Full-Time Panda. Here to paint some smiles. https://linktr.ee/panda_paco Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pandapaco Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco/shop Stickers channel: @pacostickers
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Happy Spider-Man day! (Apparently? I used to have it in the calendar on my old phone, but that phone broke a few months ago and I'm still finding things I used to be forewarned about butโฆ am no longer.)
I might adopt that. I've never liked that "self" is a convention rather than a language definitive. Using "elf" would be more obviously arbitrary but still be close enough to convention to not throw off those who depend upon them.
I am an artist from Montreal currently working fulltime on furry art! I studied 3D animation for 3 years, and worked as a 3D modeller for about a year, ultimately realising that I didn't enjoy it as...
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."
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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
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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.)
@Darkhorse WinterWolf ๐ช๐บ It was a very nice surprise to get a thank you card after justโฆ going and having some fun! I didn't expect to be booked for next year quite so quick either. ๐
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.
Butโฆ
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.
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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 :)
![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.)
That's the way we became the furry bunch ๐ถ