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I'll be fursuiting as these two huge larger-than-life floofs at Furry Migration from Thursday to Sunday!
Just see me around, talk, hug, or I could also be open for cuddles too!
I can't wait for Furry Migration!
"the bluesky network is federating"
JUST ONE SMALL PROBLEM
FEDERATING WITH WHO, JAY?
FUCKING ACTIVITYPUB?
If your open source project makes me jump through hoops to report a bug, I will just conclude you don't care about bugs.
That includes requiring me to create an account. Big projects like the Linux kernel manage just fine with a simple mailing list, there's no reason your small project needs a big corporate solution with accounts and data leaks. Leave that to big corporate projects like Mozilla, who really don't care about bugs.
I'm not an expert in labor history or activism, but from a lay perspective, it seems unavoidable that in its modern and present form, AI is an attack on labor. Not even just in the direct sense of replacing and supplanting labor, but also in the form of *devaluing* it (e.g.: the shift from translation jobs to "editing" jobs).
Opposing the proliferation of AI is thus, to my naive understanding, an act of labor and class solidarity.
I mean, who could've possibly imagined?!?!
STUDY: "In acute care settings, staff N95 respirators and admission screening testing of patients can reduce hospital-acquired #COVID19 and COVID-19 deaths, and are cost saving because of reduced patient bed-days and staff replacement needs."
I still cannot imagine why healthcare workers need to be told to care about patients and put on masks, particularly during COVID surges!
https://www.journalofhospitalinfection.com/article/S0195-6701(24)00236-6/fulltext
Despite all the doom and gloom about YubiKeys, Iβm not ditching mine:
In 1973, Nixon made for-profit healthcare legal.
This is in a nation where those with lots of money can legally bribe those who make and enforce the laws.
The results should surprise no one. America is a nation by, of, and for the corporations. The only useful thing we can do is to serve as a warning to others of what happens if you give too much power to wealthy people and corporations.
Brain: "20 years ago is 1984."
Time: Five seconds later.
Brain: "...shit, THAT was 20 years ago... FUCK!"
It's still weird being the same age as old people.
Holy shit π€―
Timelapse of a plasma rain event on the sun I captured on Sept 1.
103 minutes condensed down to 9.65 seconds (640x)
#solar #astrophotography
The cost of solar panels is plummeting, and this will flood the power grid with cheap electricity. But thatβs just Act 1. We wonβt stop building solar at the limits of the grid - weβll build a lot more.Ben James
I would like to do this someday (maybe not in November), but I have no ideas to start with. The few ideas I do have for things to write tend to be short stories or even just individual scenes. I have absolutely no idea how I'd even start stretching anything out to tens of thousands of words.
How does one go about this? Either coming up with a long-form idea in the first place, or making a short idea longer?
We're coming up on nanowrimo. Every year people ask my thoughts, so here they are.I love challenges! I love transcending your limits! I love discovering that your limits are not actually limits! I love accomplishing things that you've never accomplished before!
The point of nanowrimo is to artistically challenge yourself. For me, writing a novel in a month is no big deal. If the challenge of setting aside a few hours a day every day to write appeals, do it!
Your novel probably won't be publishable. Learning to tell a novel-length story is a skill that you learn by writing novels. (I have fourteen trunk novels that the world will never see.)
But most people never manage to write even one! It's work! It's a million tiny decisions, one after the other, that will exhaust your feeble little brain! I have fifty-odd books out, and guess what? Every time I start, I don't know if I have it in me to write another book!
Set goals. Transcend limits. Fight. WIN!
With this context: having AI write your novel meets none of these goals. There's no art there. No challenge. Plus, environmental ruin and theft of other people's intellectual property.
We're coming up on nanowrimo. Every year people ask my thoughts, so here they are.
I love challenges! I love transcending your limits! I love discovering that your limits are not actually limits! I love accomplishing things that you've never accomplished before!
The point of nanowrimo is to artistically challenge yourself. For me, writing a novel in a month is no big deal. If the challenge of setting aside a few hours a day every day to write appeals, do it!
Your novel probably won't be publishable. Learning to tell a novel-length story is a skill that you learn by writing novels. (I have fourteen trunk novels that the world will never see.)
But most people never manage to write even one! It's work! It's a million tiny decisions, one after the other, that will exhaust your feeble little brain! I have fifty-odd books out, and guess what? Every time I start, I don't know if I have it in me to write another book!
Set goals. Transcend limits. Fight. WIN!
With this context: having AI write your novel meets none of these goals. There's no art there. No challenge. Plus, environmental ruin and theft of other people's intellectual property.
Source of the post:
https://serialephemera.tumblr.com/post/636666887988740096/thematically-speaking-the-most-important-thing/
Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its...serialephemera (Tumblr)
Yeah they're different, I just thought it might be relavent.
In particular people who are controlled through their anger tend to die of a brain hemmorage a lot more.
OVERWORKED LICENSE (OWL)dude idfk if i maintain this shit at all its some kind of miracle. like i can barely maintain myself let alone some software i made out of desperation. like just fucking do what you want with this shit i do not care. try not to be evil with it i guess, but no matter what i write here some jackass will find a way to ruin it.
this license is to apply to all derivative works
Ok, here's the deal on the "YubiKey cloning attack" stuff:
yes, a way to recover private keys from #YubiKey 5 has been found by researchers.
But the attack *requires*:
π *physically opening the YubiKey enclosure*
π *physical access* to the YubiKey *while it is authenticating*
π non-trivial electronics lab equipment
I cannot stress this enough:
βIn basically every possible scenario you are safer using a YubiKey or a similar device, than not using one.
Life gets us all down at times, so lets have some fun and have a bounce shall we?
Come join me for some fun!
#Fursuit #Fursuiter #Fursuiting #FurryAnthro #FoxFursuit #FoxFursona #TerrenceTheFox #Furry #UKFur #FurryFandom
I say this regularly, but here I go againβ¦#libraries are a lifeline to parents of young kids, the elderly and those on low incomes. They are a place where you can exist and learn for free.
#Tories think no one dies when a library closesβ¦but their absence hits right to the heart of communities.
And yes #Labour run councils have shut libraries tooβ¦due to austerity.
Around 2,000 jobs were cut, and the most deprived areas were four times more likely to lose a library than the richest, according to a BBC reportElla Creamer (The Guardian)
Last winter when our town was hit with a major power failure two days before Christmas, and it took more than 24 hours to get power back to some houses, there were exactly two places open with heat where people could go for free:
the public library, and a church that allegedly had a heat-shelter open in the back, but no one answered the phone there when I called to verify.
It's not our main purpose, but libraries are an important fallback for a lot of things.
In the UK during the energy and cost of living crisis libraries have been dedicated βWarm Spacesβ where people can stay warm during the day because they canβt afford to heat their homes. Itβs this or riding the buses all day with their bus passes for pensioners in winter. Despite now having a Labour government there is no sign of improvement on this front with the energy price cap set to rise by 10% in October.
One of the recently replaced Glasgow Subway trains in the Riverside Museum. Is there a name for the slightly uneasy feeling you get when you realise a once familiar everyday object is now only to be found in museum collections?
#glasgow #subway #glasgowsubway #transportmuseum #riversidemuseum
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 users will not be able to uninstall the controversial "Recall" feature, despite earlier reports suggesting otherwise.Hilary Ong (DMR News)
tempted to actually publish and start using this because I've seen a fair share of opensource abuse out there.
Just because I opensource my code, doesn't mean I want random crackheads on chatgpt submitting """""""code"""""""" with absolute zero knowledge of what's actually happening, just because they want to write 'opensource contributions' on their resume. Not to mention actual abuse and random people trying to redo a project because they have some vision on it (then GO AND BUILD YOUR OWN)
i'm probably preaching to the choir, but it pisses me off that huge multinational corporations have successfully swindled the general public that personal environmentalism (eg recycling, going vegan, not using gasoline powered cars) is gonna save the planet when they (the corps) are the ones who've been destroying it for decades.
this is inspired by microsoft ending support for windows 10 next year despite windows 11 needing beefier specs and closing off methods for unsupported machines to run it (apple does something similar too) and 3g towers being shut down here in australia when a percentage of the population 1) lives/works in areas that 4g and 5g barely support and 2) can't afford a new phone.
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