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Pippin friendica
I meant to get Kelsey out and about a bit for Halloween, or at least able to answer the door to trick-or-treaters, but nope, I'm just too exhausted and grumpy to do anything useful today. My dad apparently gave sweets to three kids in Halloween costumes who turned up at the door with their parents, so at least something happened. Weather's pretty horrible though.

Happened way too many times
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Takios mastodon (AP)
Exactly how it is...
Takiro 🎨 mastodon (AP)
Apparently it was my own fault for me to have a foreign name.

When I was a kid, I could just walk outside. There were no cameras, there was no smartphone betraying my every move, there was nothing but me, the breeze, and the quiet of the countryside as I walked.
Most of us will never know how that feels ever again. To be truly outside the reach of the constant surveillance state we now live in. I feel so bad for the people that will never experience real privacy, those who will never be able to truly "get away from it all". But we're already past that point for the majority of people, at least in the U.S., and increasingly in other countries.
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I was lamenting about this very thing to my wife last night. There is nowhere to go to really escape for a while. I wander around our yard and garden sometimes to distract myself, but it’s really only temporary.

I will not be able to unsee this the next time I see someone with a maned wolf character.

By Making-friendos on Tumblr.

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The only valid answer to "Don't you know who I AM?!" is "Oh no, have you forgotten? I'll call a doctor - you must have hit your head very hard!"
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I like watching protogen.

Taken at WPAFW 2024 (last year)

🐺: Yiv (@yivishta.bsky.social)
📷: @arcticwindphoto (twitter)

#FursuitFriday #WPAFW2024 #Protogen #Werewolf

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DarkRat mastodon (AP)
beep!
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Someone in another server has just pointed out that the whole 'AI' browser thing is yet another attempt to circumvent protection against bots and theft of IPR.

Site administrators might consider ensuring that browsers with the appropriate fingerprints are sent an HTTP 451 code and not permitted to proceed, to indicate that the site refuses to be complicit in the crime.

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/skMxq2S-NjM
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Dorey mk.2 is complete and on the way to their new home with me!!!! Oh my goodness oh my gosh.

Amazing work by epic fursuit maker @selkiesuits
#FursuitFriday

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This is one of the two cutest fursuits in existence and stars I love it!!!! You are gonna be so YOU in it!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵
@Bwee I am! It's so perfect and I can't wait to put that fur on and feel even more like myself than ever before. ^^

Just hanging around waiting for Halloween! 🦇 #FursuitFriday
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Don't mind me, just biting @/Foxyeen
📷: @/Anodim13
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Josh mastodon (AP)
omg amazing! 🌈

Happy Fursuit Friday, everybody.
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screw 64 bit, when we getting 69 bit
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Have any of you ever flown commercially in #latex ? I have been tempted, but have concerns re: overheating or setting off someone's allergy

I know that https://www.instagram.com/tight_connection/ does so frequently. Getting a custom catsuit for where you are flying? So neat

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Hype machine: The future of AI will bring massive advances in medicine!

The advance in medicine: Pay to renew your pacemaker subscription within 30 days to avoid a heart attack.

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Due to circumstances beyond our control your pacemaker subscription for the 2025/2026 financial year will rise from £18.99 to £39.99 per month.
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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
@Cal It's time to upgrade! We are ending support for your pacemaker. You need to upgrade by 30th or you (personally) will be turned off.
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Your pacemaker subscription has been upgraded Pacemaker Pro With Copilot! Now you can control your pacemaker with AI!
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The AI hallucinated instructions and you are in the middle of an overdose

  • Håvard
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Pippin friendica

It's nice when Microsoft has a huge huge HUGE outage and the only way it impacts me is that I can't play some minecraft when I decide to take a break. Looks like you can't even start the game to play in single-player when Azure's broken. Lovely.

(Maybe disconnecting the machine from the internet would let me start it in offline mode, but I have a whole bunch of SSH sessions open that I don't want to break… 🤷)

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CheRosach mastodon (AP)
From Private Eye
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xinit ☕ mastodon (AP)
'Swivel-eyed loons' is pure poetry.

Q ✨ 🔜 DHCP mastodon (AP)
happy azure down day for all those who celebrate
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Q ✨ 🔜 DHCP mastodon (AP)
@maya hash tag fedi block instance is hosted on Azure

I guess I'll keep it to myself
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Gauss :wlf: mastodon (AP)
:blobfoxdrakedislike: kinkshaming
:blobfoxdrakelike: kinkenabling
Felixilef mastodon (AP)
Yeah, happens to me quite regularly.

The corrosive nature of large language models on human knowledge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0
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I sent this to my daughter, I think it is a great light and friendly format to explain the decay of truth/facts/information online caused by AI.

also : AI PUKED IN YOUR FACE AGAIN


食 Shoku the MN Wolf mastodon (AP)
muzzle first eh?

When it's quiet

I can hear him

The monster in my head.

Quietly

inside of me

as I lie awake in bed.

"Let me out, let me out”

It's all he's ever said.

I fear for what will happen

on the day I wake up dead.

#justmonsterthings #halloweenmusings

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Today is a good day to go through the OS of your machines and any browsers you may use and turn off all that AI crap.
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Pippin friendica

– My brother's a spirit, and if it wasn't for him, I… I wouldn't be here.

– You have a brother up there? What happened to him?

– He was killed by a b— by a monster.

– What's your brother's name?

– Sitka.

– Thanks, Sitka. If it weren't for you, I would have never met Kenai. I always wanted a brother.

Me too, Koda. Me too…


– I have a story to tell you.

– Really? What's it about?

– Well, it's kind of about a man… and kind of about a bear. But mostly, it's about a monster.


"trick or treat" implies you can give the treat and still get the trick, as opposed to "trick xor treat"
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If this ain't a mood, I don't know what is.
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Drink with moderation
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Alopex mastodon (AP)

Heh. Now I want to go to a bar wearing a T-shirt that reads:

"Hi! My name's Moderation. Come drink with me."


Kofi has some great advice for #FursuitFriday - always hug the smol chee! ❤
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Pippin friendica

So dark so early. Hello, winter timezone.

"What must it be like to have nothing, not even memories to visit in the middle of the night?"

(But, on the other hand…

"Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw!"

and…

"Don't worry, is all part of plan. We are professionals! …Hey, get that out of your mouth!")

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Pippin friendica

For some reason my brain is today fixated on the Futurama news monster saying that everyone's "titty much protally fit-shased".

Oh Morbo.

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Furs For Life's charity marathon stream is Nov 15-16, for Extra Life and the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals!

✨Please help us spread the word, for the kids!✨

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ox9HTzpFA

Support at: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle

Follow our Twitch so you don't miss it: https://www.twitch.tv/FFLSeattle

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Content warning: gender politics

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Content warning: UK Politics

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Ysengrin (as Silvermane) back in 1999 posing with a Yautja.

#WerewolfWednesday #Werewolf #Fursuit #Yautja #Predator

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Windows 10 has now reached its official end of life and will not be updated further.

It still does not work properly, but the lack of updates does at least mean it will now remain broken in a consistent way with no prospect of another update breaking yet more of Windows.

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Fox mastodon (AP)

Yus, Windows 10 will keep on working just like any other older OS versions. Use a nice anti-virus [1], a decent firewall [2], a "no you cannot do this and/or that"- software [3] and do not visit websites you don't want your mother to know about. (yes, there are many more factors)

But broken? What is broken exactly? I am using my w10 install since forever and this machine is literally always on, up to 100 days at the time. It's working properly! Not an attack btw, just curious. :)

[1] No link, because AV choice is as fickle as an amphibian having to choose between duc(k)tape and frog tape
[2] https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall
[3] https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer/releases

#w10 #windows10

EDITS because it is super busy at work x3

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TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
@fox The whole list is quite long, but I can start with it cannot schedule for nuts. It's memory management sucks. Random boot failures that occur after the software has control of it. Its inability to schedule I/O so that the whole GUI does not hang because one device is not responding. Far too much runs in supervisor mode for no reason. Its ability to just forget it is on a network, while using that network. The deliberate breaking of agreed standards to try to force it to only interact with other versions of Windows. The Spyware, particularly when it brings down part of the OS. They way it just moves devices around at random. It determination not to process some interrupts. The need to constantly re-run sfc to get it back into a state where it will boot. It rewriting configuration files to be what it wants, not what the host machine needs. That's before I get into all the mindless and idiotic things it has done atw the user level.
@Fox
Fox mastodon (AP)
That's quite a bit! I have no knowledge of many of the stuff, but the boot issues - are you sure that's not a sneaky hardware issue?
TundraWolf mastodon (AP)
@fox Absolutely. Reproduced on 50+ machines from a mix of suppliers.
@Fox
Pippin friendica
Ooooh. So after I let it do one final update, that'll be it? I'll be free of having to have a calendar entry on my phone at all times to remind me when my laptop's current "update pause" is coming to an end and that I need to schedule a time to shut everything down to allow it to do updates and reboots before I put it on hold again and move the phone calendar entry another 6 weeks into the future and repeat the whole process again… Phew!

I'm personally quite happy with one stable release every two years, and
am of the opinion that trying to release more will mean we'll have to
rename the distro from "stable" to "wobbly".
-- Scott James Remnant on debian-devel, as quoted by /usr/games/fortune
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I drank too much at LondonFurs and forgot all the songs I knew so had to make it up on the spot lol

📸 @jamiethemagpie.bsky.social

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@pippin Impromptu accordion jam, that's something you don't see every day. ;)
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Got a call with Caller ID saying it's from my Credit Union.

They told me there was an account breach. In a very Indian accent.

I asked if it was a breach or an incident.

He told me it was a breach.

I asked what of my data had been exfiltrated.

He said third parties had access to all of my personal info and that they needed to verify some of my information before resuming with the disclosures.

I told him I would call my credit union back to make sure there was a legit problem.

"Sir, you must read the caller ID, we are from your credit union!"

Yeah, Caller ID can be spoofed. Both number and name. AAMOF, I have an app I've done it with as a prank.

<click>

Just remember, folks, Caller ID name and number CAN be spoofed. Always tell someone who claims to be from a financial institution that you'll call them back.

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oshy akkoma (AP)
Just a heads up to never even pick up these kinds of calls, even just picking up, they are getting you in on their scam because now they know your number is active and they sell active numbers to other scammers and phone botters
LeoBurr mastodon (AP)
@oshy The number was actually my credit union’s, and Caller ID stated it as such. You missed that part.
@oshy
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