Furries need to spend less time going or trying to go or complaining about furry conventions they donโt like and moreโฆ just going out and meeting specific furries that they actually want to meet or hangout with (with the otherโs approval obviously).
Been kinda pushing for this for a long while (2013-15-ish? The beginning of the end of furry cons.) but itโs like pulling teeth. Donโt want to impose or weird folks out.
Gaz, Emejn and I went and fursuited at Stonehenge for the summer solstice. Gaz unfortunately had to leave early, which is why there are no photos of him enfoxed, only Emejn (otter) and me (husky).
Hmm, oh well, no Rambly Raccoon for me. After an 8 GB download, Indigo Park (which I only heard about a few hours ago but is free and looks fun) won't do anything but show a loading screen with a sketched raccoon popping up and down in the bottom left corner. It uses a lot of CPU time and spools up the fans in my laptop, but I've had Steam verify (and fix) the files, and left it on the loading screen for nearly 15 minutes without anything else happening. The support site link in Steam doesn't work, can't find anything much else, soโฆ oh well, it was worth a shot. Maybe I'll just find a let's play of it.
I think this *may* be enough info to get the point I was trying to make, though it unfortunately validated another point of concern I had with reachability I have with fedi. As cool as the platform(s) is, I just can't seem to get the reach on the things that actually matter, and I'd prefer to get the reach, instead it's always my shitposts that get the numbers. I don't really care much for numbers and interactions most of the time, but there are cases where I very much care about it, and getting data like this is very much one of them. I hope this changes, but unfortunately with the amount of people I see sticking with Shitter no matter how much Elon pile drives it into the ground, I honestly don't see that changing any time soon. Sorry for the mini rant, guess it just kinda stung a little.
PSA for artists still using X. Stop announcing shit exclusively on X.
And if you still announce things on x, always include the link in every post, because users without x accounts can't see any posts without direct links, or even browse your profile to find *litterally anything else about you*.
Nobody wants to use that platform anymore and the only thing keeping most people I know there are announcements from creators, that's it.
Visibility on the platform has gotten so garbage, whenever someone posts something from x that doesn't include a direct link to the thing its talking about; we have to send out search parties to dig up the links so the announcement is actually announcing something its possible to *find.*
The official video for โNever Gonna Give You Upโ by Rick Astley. The new album 'Are We There Yet?' is out now: Download here: https://RickAstley.lnk.to/AreWe...
Since people seem to be pissed off at me today about private messages for some reason, now is as good a time as any to repost my blog on how to test Faraday containers, which also, inexplicably, seems to infuriate a small set of people.
And speaking of things I've done that infuriated people, nothing prepared me for the absolutely unhinged fury this paper, published in the IEEE Security and Privacy journal, unleashed in the US locksmithing community. They don't, it turns out, appreciate it when irresponsible outsiders like me infringe on their turf or reveal weaknesses in their products.
It was utterly wild. A coven (I assuime that's the collective noun) of angry locksmiths doxed me ("let's see what kind of lock he has on HIS house"), and a trade publication called The National Locksmith ran monthly guest editorials about what a rotten guy I must be.
When I moved to U. Penn the following year, the in-house locksmith wrote regular letters to the dean warning about my bad character to try to get me fired.
I didn't react to this the way they hoped. Every time the locksmith guy complained about me, I'd give a talk to the undergraduates on the relationship between cryptography and physical security, using my master key attack as an example.
Which would, of course, further infuriate the locksmith.
Eventually I figured it was time to move on, and wrote a paper about how safecracking works and its relationship to security metrics. The locksmiths appreciated it every bit as much as I had hoped.
Back and still alive after yesterday's #BFD. I enjoyed myself and got to "move to the music" with old and new friends. And yes, I'll keep the flower chain.
The upside is that the burial will be cheap, as you just need to hand out shovels and Ukrainians will dig a hole so deep that they can hand him over to Satan in person.
I wish people would read more about Long COVID. People think it's rare; it's not. Or they think the healthy and the young can't get it; they can.
"I want people to know that I'm not lying, [long COVID] is real and can happen to anyone. I want people to know I'm not just trying to get out of doing school or sport โ I wish I could do sport โฆ I wish they understood I am just trying to save myself from being stuck in bed in pain for days afterwards."
They're losing their formative years to this debilitating disease. But for too many children with long COVID, finding help is a frustrating and traumatic process that leaves them feeling isolated and invisible.
TIL: Scalewaysโ instance metadata service requires your source port for the HTTP request be <1024 and
This is actually a big security improvement over everyone elseโs because now your instance metadata (potentially containing secrets or credentials) is only accessible by root on the VM and not by any random process, and
This is just about the only valid use of the root port restriction Iโve seen since 1990
Ursula Le Guin: โA child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skilful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well, - this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection and of sociality as a whole.โ
To other folks in the UK: What tactical gear do you recommend for tactical voting? Is it good enough if I show up at the polling station in camo or do I need more? ๐ค
Whenever I see analysis that says based on this growth chart, so and so product will have massive adoption and revenue in five years, I remember this tweet.
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![Screenshot of the tumblr post at https://www.tumblr.com/sailorbryant/149429272264/a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy-bad-news-our-boss.
OP by a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
Bad News: Our boss locked the keys inside the building.
Good News: We didn't have to wait around for a locksmith.
Bad News: My boss finds it very concerning that I know how to pick locks, and tried to unlock my Tragic Backstoryโข. I was too embarrassed to admit that the reason I learned was because, at thirteen, I figured that was the kind of skill that would impress cute girls.
Good News: A cute girl saw me do it.
Bad News: It was Maggie, and since she's already seen me fall out of several trees, cry because I saw a fawn that was just too damn small, and knows I can ride a unicycle, she'll never think I'm cool no matter what I do. It's too late. She knows.
[End OP]
Reblog reply by sailorbryant:
There are million dollar blockbuster movies that were less entertaining than the rollercoaster this post just took me on.](https://floof.org/photo/preview/640/503535 "Screenshot of the tumblr post at https://www.tumblr.com/sailorbryant/149429272264/a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy-bad-news-our-boss.
OP by a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy:
Bad News: Our boss locked the keys inside the building.
Good News: We didn't have to wait around for a locksmith.
Bad News: My boss finds it very concerning that I know how to pick locks, and tried to unlock my Tragic Backstoryโข. I was too embarrassed to admit that the reason I learned was because, at thirteen, I figured that was the kind of skill that would impress cute girls.
Good News: A cute girl saw me do it.
Bad News: It was Maggie, and since she's already seen me fall out of several trees, cry because I saw a fawn that was just too damn small, and knows I can ride a unicycle, she'll never think I'm cool no matter what I do. It's too late. She knows.
[End OP]
Reblog reply by sailorbryant:
There are million dollar blockbuster movies that were less entertaining than the rollercoaster this post just took me on.")
