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Today's first task at work, diagnose a Dell Workstation that refused to boot. Colleague tells me the LED sequence at boot means a bad cpu. I try a few things like unplugging the pci cards, etc, but no it won't boot. Wanting to know what sort of "Cpu problem" it was, and if I could fix it, I check the Dell website.
Me: Did you say your orange and seven white flashes was a cpu failure.
Them: That's what ChatGPT said.
Me: Hmm. Because the Dell manual for this exact model says that means "The lid is open".
Yeah, I put the side on the case and it booted fine.
Red Panda full suit by Spainimation / SophieCapbra up for auction.
https://www.thedealersden.com/listing/red-panda-full-suit-by-spainimation-sophiecapbra/329872
Red Panda full costume by Spainimation / SophieCapbrawww.thedealersden.com
Tiger back up for auction.
https://www.thedealersden.com/listing/toony-tiger-costume-media/328704
They lost
The Wikimedia Foundation has lost its legal challenge against the Online Safety Act's categorization regulations, depriving it of immediate legal protections it wanted.Paul Hill (Neowin)
Zero, the mathematician snep, carrying classic light reading for knowledge under one arm, today itโs a volume on the Theory of Dimensions, Finite and Infinite.
Painting for Zero, the snow leopard.
Traditional. Acrylics.
I recorded a process video but I didn't notice the app run out of memory and it stopped recording at some point, so the video sadly is not complete, but it has most of the process of the painting, so I edited and shared it anyway. You can watch it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And you can find a slightly longer video as exclusive on Patreon and Ko-Fi for supporters, same as full resolution versions and more drawings that I haven't posted yet. You can check them out at supporting me on:
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Thank you!
I had a lot of fun at MAGWest! Bay area furs are sleeping on this con.
I had lots of positive interactions in suit, people brought great energy in general, and there was lots of impromptu live music, stage shows, and a huge game room!
๐ฑ: @yuzucat.com
๐ฆ: @ssbmteo.bsky.social
(Idk Demyx's handle!)
Someday I'm going to make a film and instead of actual sound effects, I'm going to use clips of the Foley artist speaking the intros on the SFX tapes.
Like, you'll see a guy wading in a river and getting attacked by an alligator, and he'll open his mouth, but instead of a scream you'll hear a guy saying "Man getting bit by an alligator and he screams."
โHot homes are dangerous for health; cardiovascular and respiratory issues, sleep disturbance, mental health problems and heat exhaustion all correlate with high temperatures in the home.
Health risks spike when temperatures inside are above 25C, and there is a link between overheating homes and the risk of death, particularly for elderly people.โ
Exclusive: Homes are heating up as summers get hotter but least well-off are shouldering greatest risk, study findsHelena Horton (The Guardian)
Absolutely this. UK is on the back foot on building for climate change and retrofit has been slowly gaining pace after the industry was decimated by the Tories when Cameron started spouting nonsense like โcut the green crapโ to appease his austerity loving chancellor Osborne.
Would argue that climatewise south coast and East Anglia in the UK are not that dissimilar to northern France, but approaches to shade for properties very different.
Leo thought that, being in a separate painting, heโd be safe from Delphโs usual nonsense. He was wrong. Very wrong.
Painting for Delph and Leo
Traditional. Acrylics
If you want to watch the video of the recording process ot this piece, it is on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And if you want to watch the full version of this video, with high resolution versions of this and all my pictures, and to see more paintings, drawings and WIPs I haven't shared publicly yet, you can see all this at supporting me monthly on Patreon or Ko-Fi, that helps me a lot to keep living out of this, I truly appreciate all the support.
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Thank you!
Double the paws for #Pawgust! ๐พ๐พ #FursuitFriday
Obscura and Rezz made by Roofur (https://www.roofur.com/)
Rezz photo by @Kishi
Creator of custom fursuits and accessories for everyone!www.roofur.com
Having the time of my life at Anthro Irish this #FursuitFriday!
๐ชก @selkiesuits
๐ท Cerridwen
#ItWasGrand
There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
Free software SSH client for Windows and also Unix, including an xterm-style terminal emulator.putty.software
@chrisgj198 it's not down from here. Are you able to test with a 'traceroute' or equivalent?
There has been _some_ kind of a problem with routing to chiark recently. Several people have reported it, and I've noticed it myself, depending on where I'm connecting from. But the problem doesn't seem to be chiark itself. Rather, some router a few hops away from chiark has been suffering 80% packet loss. And not _everyone's_ routes to chiark go through that router. So some people get bad connectivity or none at all, and for others, it's fine. In particular, connecting from my home, I reliably have no trouble.
I don't know what I can do about that. @Diziet is chiark's actual sysadmin, and has a contract with the ISP hosting chiark, but as far as I know that ISP is not also responsible for the failing router โ it's elsewhere in the network.
"I put on my robe and wizard hat!"
Pic 1) Hey Even Wizards need a break now and then!
Pic 2) IT FUCKING BRIGHT!!!!
#FursuitFriday
I like the sound of "Barely Sub critical lump of Goo!"
Less the idea of that lump going prompt critical o.o
I think this is also one of the only times you get to see the definition in his fur >.>
Black fursuits are a bitch to photograph......
It only took like.... 10 Kw of stage follow spots to get >.>
Never forget. #furriesmaketheinternetgo #furry #fursuit #wolf
Source: https://x.com/layzwolf/status/1459247692681412609
HALF A MILLION!
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
DarkFang and Ysengrin back in 2008; this was the image on the Solstice card we sent out that year. Boulder Creek, California - this house narrowly missed burning down in a forest fire some years later.
There was a time when portraits were reserved for nobility, a way to be remembered, to say "this is who I was"
Now, we paint fursonas. Not out of vanity, but as a quiet declaration:
"This is how I feel inside. This is the version of me that Iโd like to be remembered"
Maybe! But anyway I've been enjoying a lot painting portraits with acrylics, I would like to try oil painting once again.
A small portrait of Samar the Bun.
Traditional. Acrylics
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There is a short time-lapse process video you can see on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And there is a longer version of this and most of the paintings and drawings I've been doing lately, available to download for those who support me on Patreon or Ko-Fi, you can also get to see pictures many days before I post them, on high resolution, and to be seeing the WIPs of my future works. This and more at:
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Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!
Getting super close to half a million signatures. Help it get over the line. Spread the word far and wide and educate people as best you can.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903
We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
Improving Geographical Resilience For Distributed Open Source Teams with FREON
In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevant. Where jurisdiction does come into play, unfortunately, is where your software is developed and whether or not the local government will employ rubber-hose cryptanalysis to backdoor yourโฆ
In a recent blog post, I laid out the argument that, if you have securely implemented end-to-end encryption in your software, then the jurisdiction where your ciphertext is stored is almost irrelevโฆDhole Moments
Something important to remember for folks that are living in areas effected by the new age verification laws in the UK, and are turning to VPN's to get around them.
Many free VPN's collect and sell data on their users. This is how they sustain their operation.
Be very careful which VPN's you use. Do your research. And remember if you're not paying for it with money, you're probably paying for it with your personal data. And that basically defeats the purpose of a VPN in the first place.
Honestly, you could have stopped with "why would I want a realistic Gaussian-splatted VR avatar of my actual body" I know I wouldn't want one of mine, and don't think I know anyone who'd want theirs either. VR is a playground so why wouldn't I play in it?
*Business Meeting in VR*
Hello yes I am a cat-headed monkey with a toolbelt-bandolier. It's called "business casual", and also business meetings in VR only exist in Mark Zuckerberg's head.
