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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 Stuffβ’ 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.
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
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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
am City, TinyCo and Nerdist present: RADIORAMA, a brand new double-length podcast e.pi.sode of Futurama! Created by the show's original creator and writers, ...YouTube
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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.
People from the North East don't go in the sea.YouTube
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.
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.
// totally valid swift
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#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
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.
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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.
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.
Iβd love to live in a place like this. And I think more places should be like this.
https://youtu.be/_F6xKd7AGKs?si=H5BnaVJCoIzagsoq
Taking lanes away from cars should make traffic worse. But when you combine a road diet with a roundabout, something magical happensβ for bikes and cars!Buy...YouTube
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.
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.
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."
*sigh* Well, I've successfully duplicated my nagios monitoring server, which has been hosted at Bytemark for over 16 years, and now have a clone successfully running on my own infrastructure. For the last day or two, notifications and statuses all seem to have been matching between the two so I think I can cross that off the list. (I would prefer to monitor from off-site but this will do for now.)
I have also duplicated my collectd statistics collection server too, but my next job will be to log into 85 separate servers one at a time and reconfigure each one of them to send their statistics to the new server. Then I can copy the rrd archive files over from the old box to the new one and, with any luck, end up with only a reasonably small gap in the graphs. (Then I'll need to log into each of the 85 servers again to stop them sending to the old statistics server!) (Yes, I know there are tools that automate changes like that, but I can't say I trust that kind of automation.)
Then I think the only other things on my Bytemark footprint are (1) several domains still using one of the VMs as a nameserver, and (2) just about everything still using one of the VMs as an NTP server. At least NTP is just a matter of changing DNS and then poking each machine's NTP daemon until it notices the change. The nameserver bit involves changing the notify/transfer topology and adjusting delegations to point to my little DNS CDN, but I think there are only a few dozen domains left to do, so it shouldn't take forever. (Yep, just checked, just 43 domains still secondarying to that server, shouldn't take too long.)
I have just over a week until the smoking remains of Bytemark turn off their VM hosting servers forever. No pressure, then. And they used to be so good.
Oh Fffffffff. Now my primary transit provider has done maintenance and knocked my network offline for (so far) 2Γ3 minutes and 2Γ1 minute. I'm absolutely certain the notification a few days ago said midnight-4am 30 January and I had set myself alarms for 29 January to shift traffic to the backup transit before the maintenance, but when I go back to their NOC site to check the notification it now magically says 23 January. WTF.
Oh well, this is the same transit provider that's shutting down their transit service at the end of February and I've been working on finding a replacement in between trying to move stuff away from Bytemark. Ugh. I'm just grateful that my datacentre provider relented about making me migrate everything out of one of my main rack cabinets by 31 December so they could put a cooling unit in its place (their plans changed and I got a temporary reprieve). But there's no way I'm going to get my tax return done on time this year. Just gonna have to pay the fine. Oh well.
It occurs to me, as a person that does some writing, that computers are actually a bad thing in a way. Here's a great example.
J.R.R. Tolkien. A number of books he's written were published after his death because his surviving family found more of his writings that he never published.
If he were a modern writer, anything he hadn't published might just have been lost completely when he died. Because it might have all been done online, or be stuck in some other digital hell.
Facing Worlds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCRibm4kOaE
One of my faves from the best fast paced shooter ever - Converted from UMX to IT using MPT - playback:shism tracker on osxYouTube
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What he doesnt' know yet is the water is freezing cold.
That doesn't take away from how much fun that day was for Arkady, the snep.
Done during MFF 2024's Artists Alley. For Arkady
Traditional. Color markers.
Itβs not just tech bros bending at the knee of #Trump, it seems the American judiciary is too.
In the UK we are familiar with the Divine Right of Kingsβ¦itβs been rubbished for several hundred years now, but the US seems to have dredged it up and created the Divine Right of Presidents. This is not progress.
Confusing phrases that turn out to make sense:
"Nearly unique": there are very few things like this, but not quite as few as 1.
"Nearly non-unique": there's nothing else _exactly_ like this, but there is something _almost_ exactly like it.
(The first of those seems reasonably intuitive, but I ran into the second today and had to scratch my head over it for ten minutes.)
Posing with a plush Gnash. He's not quite big enough to actually stay on my shoulders, so I'm having to hold his paws to keep him in place.
#FursuitFriday #Fursuit #Werewolf #Gnash
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.