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Half a Century This Week, FCL 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Excellent.

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Thumper 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Had the good fortune of meeting a new bunny friend at FC! While I have plenty of experience being a spotter/translator for silent suits, it was a first for me to take that role while I was in fursuit myself! Much shenanigans ensued, much joy was had :)
🐰 Lea (@isograph.ist on bsky)
📷 @bluleggy.bsky.social

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TK Wolf 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

You heckin CUTIEEEESS!

Thumper 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@tkwolf They are a whole lot of CUTE to keep up with!!

🎥 @whiteyfawks.bsky.social

@TK Wolf

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Ret 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“Containers are just sparkling process namespaces, really”

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I cannot verify the source, but it seems valid.

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Pippin 7 months ago friendica

Home alone tonight, spendin' my time increasin' my learnin' about mascots.

(Yep, Red is one I'd happily steal away for lots of cuddles.)

The History Of The Red Robin Mascot

Here is the 12th & final installment of season 2 of my “History Of” series.In this video I go over the history of one of the more obscure & underrated resta...

^YouTube

Atari Scene News 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

RePAINT, new Linux program to paint images for vintage computers graphics modes https://github.com/xmessner/RePAINT #AtariST #Atari8bit #c64 #cpc #zx81 #oric

GitHub - xmessner/RePAINT: RePAINT! est un outil de dessins imitant certains ordinateurs 8/16 bits des années 70/80/90. Ecrit en Processing et encore en phase Alpha il permet dès à présent de dessiner, charger et exporter des dessins dans différents forma

RePAINT! est un outil de dessins imitant certains ordinateurs 8/16 bits des années 70/80/90. Ecrit en Processing et encore en phase Alpha il permet dès à présent de dessiner, charger et exporter de...

^GitHub

#c64 #zx81 #atarist #cpc #atari8bit #oric

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Avon DeRussate 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtu.be/3FZmhyKkFdU

Politicians claim countries must be run like households, and that’s completely wrong

Politicians claim countries must be run like households, and that’s completely wrong. In fact, most often the exact opposite is true. #uk #money #economy #po...

^YouTube

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Sharkie 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: fascist politics

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Avon DeRussate 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtu.be/4Vz8ydJJQtw

Musk Knew EXACTLY What He Was Doing (And It’s Only Gonna Get Worse)

The chaos starts from day one. As I noted in my previous video, this is their strategy now. Not so much a dog whistle but unleashing a pack of XL Bully’s. Fu...

^YouTube

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Also YUP.

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BronzTiger 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtu.be/qmwxCoqgKlU?si=e9-pDQd1woKtx7si

Keepy Uppy

Provided to YouTube by CrimsonKeepy Uppy · Bluey · Jonathan Bush · Jonathan Bush · Marly LuskeKeepy Uppy℗ 2021 - Ludo StudioReleased on: 2021-07-09Auto-gener...

^YouTube

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Paco Panda 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Selene and Melee walk paw in paw through Gas Works Park. In this moment, it feels like the world belongs only to them, just the sunset, that special place, and the connection they share. Everything else fades away.

Picture for Selene Yote and Melee Bandit
Traditional. Acrylics and colored pencils.

I recorded a time-lapse video on the phone, they are 4 videos merged together, this took me around 15 hours to complete. You can watch this video on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
And if you want to see the scanned version, download the video, see WIPs of my future works, see my artwork before I post it on my galleries... you can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco or Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

Get more from Paco Panda on Patreon

Creating Comics, Drawings and illustrations

^{Paco Panda (Patreon)}

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sirlan <( o brasil é soberano ) 7 months ago • sharkey (AP)

it's kinda funny to learn that plymouth - the program that all it does is display a fancy boot animation - not just has support for scripting boot animations, but that is uses its own bespoke domain specific scripting language

talk about over engineered

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taco, bird/cat :verified420: 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: despair, hope, uspol

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taco, bird/cat :verified420: 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: despair, hope, uspol

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taco, bird/cat :verified420: 7 months ago • Private message mastodon (AP)

Content warning: despair, hope, uspol

Kay Ohtie 7 months ago • Private message mastodon (AP)

Content warning: despair, hope, uspol

Mythic Beasts 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If you script identifying and firewalling #AI scrapers, you get graphs like these on your hosting servers.

#AI

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Lord 7 months ago • pleroma (AP)

How do you identify those scrapers ?

Mythic Beasts 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@lord it's a mix of techniques including networks, user agents, content requests and so on. We don't want to detail it exactly just in case #AI s read this toot and learn to adapt.

#AI @Lord

Thumper 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Had a truly wonderful time at #FC2025! Thank you to the hundreds of VOLUNTEER staff and leaders who gave so much of their time, energy and mental and emotional capacity to give all us attendees this gift.

📷 @colinbunny93.bsky.social

#fc2025

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Thumper 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The emphasis on Volunteer was very intentional. For those unfamiliar or new to the fandom, these cons for Furries are BY Furries. Con Chair to badge checker, all are Furries, just like you. Don't treat con staff like they owe you something. Show them your gratitude for doing their best for you.

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Pippin 7 months ago friendica

So Much Cute.

(And this reminds me I'm almost physically aching for a fursuit these days but I don't know when I'll have the chance to have one. A proper one that is, not the ancient broken-down old uncomfortable thing I got in the early 2000s which is still all I have, but despite all that, still love.)

The Oatmeal 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

“In 150 characters or less” by Nikita Gill

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sara 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Thanks so much for this ❤️

Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That is so touching & meaningful ❤️

Juggling With Eggs 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Support Clean Air Night on 22nd January 2025 by not burning wood

Support Clean Air Night EVERY day by NEVER burning wood

https://www.cleanairhub.org.uk/clean-air-night

Clean Air Night

Did you know that lighting fires in our homes is the largest source of harmful small particle air pollution in the UK? If you didn’t, you’re not alone! Wood burning harms our health and the environment – but most people in the UK are unaware that it …

^{Clean Air Hub}

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Half a Century This Week, FCL 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Send it to a friend who may need it...

https://thedailytism.com/the-autistic-guide-to-waving-exuberantly-without-accidentally-seig-heiling/

The autistic guide to waving exuberantly without accidentally Sieg Heiling

We’ve all done it. Who hasn’t been innocently hanging out at the inauguration of a man dubbed by people in his own party as the next Hitler and accidentally performed a Nazi salute that could only be more blatant if it was accompanied by a...

^{The Daily Tism}

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Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Something that might be a good idea for the future; collect email addresses from all your friends and add them to your address book and then make sure that's backed up regularly.
Also let your friends know if you change your email address.
I haven't done this in a long time but it's something I am going to start doing again.

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Pippin 7 months ago friendica

My email address is the same as my fediverse handle. :]

Tryst 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇮🇪 :ms_asexual_flag: :ms_cat_grin: 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Someone in the office has a Wi-Fi hotspot called "Martin Router King"

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The TenuousOrder 🇵🇸 :NDpride: 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

More respectful than the President

Victoria

Pippin 7 months ago friendica

I rather liked one I saw: "Pretty Fly For A WiFi".

GrumpSec Spottycat 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There should be an MTA called postfox that gnaws on your mail before delivering it

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Aatheus 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh no, a Maw in the Middle Attack

GrumpSec Spottycat 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It is the 1787th of March 2020: https://whatdayofmarch2020.com/

What day of March 2020 is it?

^{whatdayofmarch2020.com}

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Avon DeRussate 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

https://youtube.com/shorts/FwHGvfy4Pqo

“Find someone to cover your shift” #shorts #work #comedy

^YouTube

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CheRosach 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Does that description ring a bell?

Smaug's arrogance and intellect made him a whole new kind of dragon in the literary landscape of 1937, when The Hobbit was first published. Smaug exemplified a feature common to dragons in Middle-earth - the guarding and hoarding of wealth.

Poster “"Billionaire" isn't a qualification. It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes while other people are starving. It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.”

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RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Kinda giving dragons a bad name, which I think is undeserved. True some dragons are assholes, but that could also be said of elves and dwarves. Besides, Billionaires don’t need an allegory. They just need a #minisub.

#minisub

Keys 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

New song I've learned for Scotiacon c:

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sirlan <( o brasil é soberano ) 7 months ago • sharkey (AP)

Content warning: commenting on long running furry naming controversy thing

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GrumpSec Spottycat 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Your irl vision is like an nvidia video card, it inserts fake frames and makes shit up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade

short, quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of fixation in the same direction; random eye movement

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

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Briala 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Good article.

Our visual cortex does a *lot* of guessing and throwing away of stuff before our consciousness sees an "image". I like reminding people that optical illusions work because our visual cortex guesses wrong and can't correct itself.

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Chris Burgess 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

always look twice at intersections

Avon DeRussate 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I see Siddiq Khan is floating further tightening of the OSA's powers to censor "harmful content"* in order to fight the rising tide of fascism.

How about us progressives start doing our fucking job, and making people's lives less precarious and shit as a way to fight fascism? How about that?

* rather nebulous phrase isn't it? That's deliberate!

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Twig 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Me and @thumper today at FC!

@Thumper

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Wren 🐁 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

cuties!

LoranSkunky 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Forest Friends !

Zebra North 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#FursuitFriday with Cooper Tom, Prancer, myself, and Sparky in front of the Brandenburg Gate, #Berlin, #Eurofurence23 in 2017. 🇩🇪🦓 📷 @Dairishgoat

A cat, caribou, zebra, and dragon fursuiter standing in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.

#fursuitfriday #berlin #eurofurence23 @Dairishgoat

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Dairishgoat 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Me during ConFuzzled 2016.
Photo taken by Sacred the Bull.
#FursuitFriday

An orange & cream goat fursuit wearing a gothic style purple dress and with a shiny bell around her neck on an orange ribbon. There is a string of pearls around the upper part of her head. She is standing in a hotel lobby.

#fursuitfriday

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Cheetah Obscura 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Fluffy version of an for this #FursuitFriday !

Arts by @Pudgical

Photo of Obscura in fursuit partial and wearing an orange plaid skirt, purple/black stripey stockings, shear croptop, and orange collar

Art of Obscura wearing an orange plaid skirt, purple/black stripey stockings, shear croptop, and orange collar

#fursuitfriday @Pudge

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RawiWoof 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

One of the best things; when you can replicate art in reality

Cheetah Obscura 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@rawenwolf Is a lot of fun for sure! ❤

@RawiWoof

❤️ 🐾 Ember Darkpaw 🐾❤️ 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Text says: "Friar Tuck has punk credentials because he's the only Disney character to have been arrested for beating up a cop."

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TundraWolf 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Comedy violence

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Simon Tatham 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This afternoon I wanted to show someone the moiré pattern you get if you draw lines on a pixel grid from a single origin point to every point on a line some distance away. Those were a favourite toy program on 8-bit micros.

[Edit, the next day: I forgot to mention the *main* point! The lines are drawn in XOR mode, so that each line is drawn by inverting its pixels rather than just setting them all to black, creating an interference pattern.]

I could surely have figured out how to draw this kind of thing in a modern graphics system, but I _knew_ I could remember how to do it on a #ZXSpectrum, so I just fired up FUSE and did it the way I'd have done it in the 1980s.

… I guess this is worth tagging #Genuary, in a retro-nostalgia sort of way?

A program listing on the screen of a ZX Spectrum (in emulation):

5 OVER 1
10 FOR x=0 TO 255
20 PLOT 0,0
30 DRAW x,175
40 NEXT x

In the bottom left of the screen is the Spectrum's characteristic flashing-K cursor (indicating that the input driver is currently in keyword mode).

The arrow pointing at line 5 indicates that it was the last line edited, because the OVER 1 statement was added after first demonstrating what the program did without it.

The output of the same program. A line has been drawn from 0,0 in the bottom left corner to every point x,175 along the top row, in "OVER 1" mode which causes each line to be drawn by inverting its pixels instead of just setting them to black. As a result, what would have been a plain black triangle in OVER 0 mode has become filled with a pattern in which the black pixels are the ones used by an odd number of the lines.

On the status line at the bottom is the message "0 OK, 40:1", the Spectrum's cryptic way of telling you that all is well and that the last statement executed was the first one on line 40 of the program.

#GENUARY #zxspectrum

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Firesledge 🔥🛷 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Same with symmetry, Amstrad CPC basic.

A screenshot of an Amstrad CPC screen displaying some figures drawn with a simple BASIC code.

Screen displaying the BASIC code for the figure:
10 mode 1
20 print chr$(23)chr$(1)
30 for x%=0 to 510 step 2
40 plot 0,0
50 draw x%,350
60 plot 512,350
70 draw 512-x%,0
80 next

Simon Tatham 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Firesledge nice! I don't know the Amstrad CPC dialect, but a quick look on the web suggests that MODE 1 is a screen-resolution selection in a similar style to the BBC, so by process of elimination I guess the PRINT CHR$(23)CHR$(1) must be the magic that puts the drawing into XOR mode?

@Firesledge 🔥🛷

Ben Harris 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Here, have a Beeb version. I originally wrote it using jsbeeb but got annoyed while getting a screenshot and then remembered that I could just use the real thing.

A photo of a green-screen CRT displaying a program listing. It says:
3 MODE 0
5 GCOL 3,3
10 FOR X%=0 TO 512
20 MOVE 0,0
30 DRAW X%*2,1024
40 NEXT
50 PRINT TAB(8,30);

A triangular pattern displayed on a green-screen CRT. There are large-scale stripes indicative of a moiré pattern and lots of smaller-scale structure caused by the interaction of diagonal lines. The large-scale stripes are horizontal on the left part of the pattern and diagonal on the right.

Mira 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Speculative execution and AI are going to be the death of computer security, isn’t it https://infosec.exchange/@BleepingComputer/113907283558152621

BleepingComputer (@BleepingComputer@infosec.exchange)

A team of security researchers has disclosed new side-channel vulnerabilities in modern Apple processors that could steal sensitive information from web browsers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.

^{Infosec Exchange}

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Pippin 7 months ago friendica

Phew, finally. I've got to the point where I have been able to shut down the higher-level functions of all three of my Bytemark VMs, leaving them just running init, udev, syslog and sshd. All end-user services are off! I'm leaving them quiescent overnight to allow their final backup to happen, then it'll be time to fire off an email telling them I'm finished and they can shut them down and destroy the disk images. The web control panel doesn't seem to let me in any more so if I actually shut these VMs down entirely I wouldn't be able to fire them up again if I found I urgently needed to for some reason, which is why I'm doing it this way. But wow, having that one for 16 years meant there was a lot of integration into my other systems, which I've hopefully fully unpicked now.

Pippin 7 months ago friendica

Nearly two weeks later and I've had no response to my ticket and the supposedly-doomed-at-the-end-of-January VMs are still running. 🤷‍♂️

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Specs and bleps! 👓 👅

📷 @HarryHusky
✂️ @selkiesuits
👓 FursuitGlasses.com
🌍 SotonFurs Winter Party 2025
⌚ #FursuitFriday

Blue dragon fursuiter Doran vibing on a dance floor with a pair of tinted round glasses, lenses glowing bright green with florescence.

#fursuitfriday @Selkie Suits @Harry

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Developing Stacy :pico8: 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I really love the specs. Is it just luminous tint on them or are they actually lit up from inside somehow?

Doran Eirok ΘΔ 🫐🐾 7 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@The4thCircle the lenses are fluorescent, so when there's any kind of blue light they glow. ^^ and almost any dance floor will cycle regularly through blue light, so... They tend to be pretty bright!

@Developing Stacy :pico8: