Originally shelved by Colin Porch’s then-employer Ocean software in 1989, 37 years later Atari game Head Over Heels receives sequel called Return to Blacktoo...
Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?
- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics) - Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby - C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust - ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86 - Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.
Keysight Technologies has a significant product dev group in Leeds; I don't know if the teams there are hiring, but nearly everything you list sounds broadly relevant to what they do.
They also have quite decent HR policies on diversity and equity, Pride, gender recognition, &c.
If you do apply there, it may help to reference your experience/knowledge in areas like RF and protocol analysis, and possibly to quickly brush up on C#/Mono.
Your profile sounds a lot like what Vaillaint Group was looking for when I was there. Unfortunately, they don't offer anything suitable in the UK at the moment.
LLMs rely on the same brain quirks that “psychic” cold reading and newspaper horoscopes do. People interact with a statistically likely text generator trained on all human output and are like “wow this knows me so well” and it makes my heart die every time I hear it.
Walking through a convention with the people you care about, hearing the noise around you, spotting familiar faces in the crowd, and suddenly realizing: “Yup… this is exactly where I want to be!” One of those moments that might seem small from the outside, but years later become the memories you miss the most.
Traditional drawing featuring Sakai and Tybaric. Also thanks to Braxy to help them get the slot. Color markers and pencils.
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The Night in the Woods soundtrack came up and I'm listening to it and… Feeling Things again, despite remembering little of the story. I should try playing through it again someday.
Azro and Rylo, freshly married on May 4th and celebrating it the way true Star Wars nerds would: turning the galaxy into their own little alternate timeline, where Han Solo fell in love with the other Skywalker twin instead.
Created during FWA’s Artists Alley for Azro and Rylo. Congrats guys!!
Traditional. Color markers and pencils over toned tan mix media paper.
#Confuzzled2026 taught me something about creativity. Many panels form some kind of creative outlet. Shows and talks provide a channel for the panellists' creativity: they perform for a mostly passive audience. Particpation events like karaoke are popular because they provide a channel for the audience's creativity. People don't really go to karaoke to listen, they go to sing - or at least to imagine that they might. Dance shows are an in-between example: dancing is a creative act, but it's still mostly a channel for the creativity of the DJ.
What I noticed this time is that the dealers' den shows the same split. Most stalls are selling the artist's creativity: a picture you can look at, a T-shirt you can wear - but here and there you see people selling the means to express your own creativity: a programmable badge, printing services, parts for making your own fursuit.
Mass-manufactured merch is relatively unpopular as a den stall not just because you can get it anywhere, but because it only expresses the creativity of people who aren't participants at all. It's the same reason you don't see many film showings and everybody complains about piped music in the bar: it takes over a space that's for showing off and enabling creativity among the participants, and replaces it with consuming the creativity of other people and teams.
Most of the "enabling" is ultimately about lowering the barrier to entry. It's easier to make a fursuit head if you can start with a pre-made base. The skill floor for singing karaoke is much less than prepping and performing your own set.
One might say, "It's important to keep the con balanced between the two kinds of events, and the den balanced between the two kinds of goods," but I don't think events leads or dealers' den leads are thinking about cons in these terms, and the cons seem to be doing alright, so the balance probably isn't that important. What do you think this dichotomy tells us about furries or conventions?
Had a bit of an emotional rollercoaster at Confuzzled but definitely some great times. Now dealing with that post-con re-entry into normal life, augh... where's my coffee...
@B22_SSS That's a bit vague for me to be able to really answer... mostly I would just say that it's a very big and very busy convention, with all the positives and negatives this brings. There are a lot of events, a lot of diversity, some big dances and a greater likelihood of knowing someone attending, but it can also get very overwhelming and crowded.
Just to show that I was indeed at AnthrOhio 2026, a photo of me and Big Blue, taken by Chris B. Critter. I was absolutely dead tired at this point, but ran into them on the way back to the room in the wee hours of Sunday morning.
In _The Incandescent_ by Emily Tesh there is a department photocopier that is possessed. The bulletin board behind it has a notice: DO NOT EXORCISE THE PHOTOCOPIER. The demon in the copier is small, weak, and stupid, and if it is cast out something larger and more troublesome may take up residence.
There is a very brief and delightful scene at the beginning in which the protagonist needs something copied and must negotiate with the demon. It demands biscuits!
Con retro: Had an absolute blast this Confuzzled. Managed to spend time with great friends, went to some fantastic panels (Furtography!) and some absolutely brilliant game-show events (Spelling Beeps and Would I Lie to You, gosh, brilliant!).
Better food options. Despite the intense heat and not suiting as much as I have previous years, we got through it. Very little negative to say outside the multiple fire alarm incidents during (and after) the con.
There’s something I really like about characters that feel simple in the best way possible. This was a drawing for M1KH4, who stops by at my artists alley table to ask me about art, opinions, advices and so, I really like talking about those topics so whenever you see me at my table feel free to do it! This was worked on during FWA’s Artists Alley. Traditional. Color pencils and color markers (Ohuhu)
A quick doodle of Paco made with a cheap ballpoint pen and colored pencils (Blanca Nieves brand) inside a school notebook.
This piece means a lot to me because it represents the origin of everything. Back when drawing wasn’t about making masterpieces, building a career, or worrying about whether something was “good enough”, or even thinking if robots were going to replace us. It was simply about the joy of filling pages with the way we saw ourselves. When we’re kids, the future feels far away, the past barely exists yet, and all that really matters is the present moment.
Made during my online panel “Like in 1998,” while staying at my parents’ house, a fact that also adds a lot of meaning to this piece.
The original with its frame (which I consider it is also part of the piece) will be on display at Anthrocon's Art Show, if you get to be there check it out!
Things are winding down a little, had a really nice closing ceremony watch-a-long in the room with friends and packing a few bits away.
Light will be out in her cool (as in style, definitely not in temperature!) outfit again for the dead dog later. Wish me luck and wish us room in the fursuit lounge, as it’s gonna be one long and extremely warm party! Can’t wait! #cfz #confuzzled #cfz2026 #Furry #fursuit #unicorn
@Dairishgoat This is a whole new head from scratch by Seabunny Studios. I also now have proper arm sleeves so I can wear short sleeved clothes easier with her.
The original Essorille suit is still active, around and will be out and about at some events and such too. This is another more furry take on Light and is built in a different way (more like a traditional suit head).
friendly reminder than friendica is more feature complete, has more correct protocol support, has been around longer than, and will be around longer than your fediverse software. and it's a dedicated LAMP application.
every other project will be imploding because of politics or bad design or burnout while friendica will be having another release where they patch the livejournal connector and get 1 step closer to supporting databases other than mysql
i'm now finding out that friendica is developed primarily by a Guy with a selfie pfp from austria and someone with rainbow dash as a pfp this project will never die it's got the fucking perfect committer combo
Extro loved books so much that eventually he ended up inside one himself.
An acrylic painting made directly over a softcover book for Extro. Inspired by an older piece I painted years ago featuring a red panda.
I never showed on my galleries how it looked that other book framed, but it was a very cool display designed by a local framing shop, I had to ask them to frame this one as well with same technique.
You can see the final frame display, as well as a short video where I show how it was the painting process of this piece, on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
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For the first time in my life, the tech industry has tried to push something that most people look at and say “nah, I’m good” and they are FREAKING OUT about it. In their heads, they are gods, they know what’s right, their work is inevitable and righteous, and they don’t know how to process people saying no. Keep saying no.
What I find most surprising is just how many businesses are willing to hand over the keys. Everyone is dumping everything proprietary into corporations with proven track records not to have a problem with data theft.
You hire people and you can control them. You hire a model and you control nothing. They don't know if this will cost more than people in a year. They don't know how safe it is.
When everyone speculates there is no other possible outcome than a crash.
@odoben Not any one specific thing (except maybe the recent couple of commencement addresses where the graduating students loudly booed the speaker for mentioning AI…) More of a pattern I’m seeing with surveys saying how much young people hate AI, Microsoft backpedaling on Copilot, general hostility over all, and yet companies keep pushing it harder and harder.
We need a new "Left Behind" book series where AI fans have all uploaded their brains to a computer to achieve the next level of consciousness, and the rest of us get to rebuild the world without them.
@patterfloof I was contemplating whether you could incrementally slow down the processor speed until the system process maybe 1 thought every 1000 years. Much more efficient use of energy while we clean the rest of the world up!
@laveur @atkelar We need to somehow encourage VCs to be more human-centered in their support of tech projects, to invest in humans rather than machines (especially plagiarism machines).
@laveur The "C" in VC is probably preventing that. You can't get to the top of the financial world if you still have anything left that resembles empathy.
@atkelar Yes! Companies always downsize because human capital is the most expensive thing on a balance sheet. Well usually it is. There have been reports that human capital is cheaper than the amount of tokens that are needed...
@laveur @atkelar The "C" doesn't require you to strive to be the top of the financial world. That's just the current, unsustainable focus. Capitalism kind of requires a healthy consumer base for long-term sustainability, and replacing everyone with AI is not exactly conducive to that.
A lot of business decisions are currently focused on just making the next quarterly report look good and not the long term. I don't know how you change that attitude.
Not hiring sociopaths for CEOs would be a good starter, but why are they getting placed in these positions in the first place?
For those not at CFz, say hello to new Light suit! Made by the awesome Seabunny Studios!
She’s been out and about at the con a bit, so feel free to say hello! She’ll be complementing and not replacing the existing Light! 💙 #cfz #confuzzled #cfz2026 #Furry #fursuit #unicorn
Every time I see a software licence agreement containing the heading "Term and Termination", I wonder if Jane Austen might have had a day job as a corporate lawyer.
A family portrait from the early days of a country still trying to become itself. A coyote family that left behind the only home they knew, carrying their entire lives in a wooden wagon with the hope that somewhere farther ahead there could be something better waiting for them. I liked the idea that this image could have been found many generations later, after their journey had already become part of the family’s history. A moment preserved before they even knew if they would succeed.
This piece was drawn entirely in pencil and framed inside an old thrift shop frame that somehow already felt like it belonged to them, I think this gives part history to the piece.
Created for the display on the Furlandia's conbook, which theme is “Wild Wild Furry West.” The convention is held in Portland, Oregon (it will be my first time in Oregon). You may get to see the original one at the Anthrocon's Art Show.
I also recorded the process on video. You can go and watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And there is a full version of that video that you can watch on a post that is exclusive for monthly supporters on Patreon or Ko-Fi, as same as full resolutions of all my drawings and the chance to see my drawings before I post them on my galleries. You are also contributing to keep my dream of living out of creating art. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco Thank you!
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This is great! I love the B&W. It fits the time period.
It's fascinating that their clothing looks new and they're all smiling. It's obviously at the very start of their journey, and nobody had died of dysentery yet.
¡La campaña para llevar #TADC a la televisión está en marcha! ¿Y qué mejor manera de mostrarle a los directivos que lo queremos hacer realidad que dándole amor a esta publicación? ¡Vamos a darle todo nuestro apoyo!
The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.
No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.
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just use docker bro bro, just use the docker just do docker run my-server bro just run this docker compose bro bro, is super easy, just run dis dockerfile bro just use this container that bundles in caddy and traefik bro using a database is easy bro, just run the postgres docker bro just one more container bro just pull this one other container bro bro
for the love of god give me a single binary or tarball that I can ./server --port 8080, if your 'simple' service needs a whole os in my os to work is not really simple
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