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Am unexpected part of getting old is realizing you can get more computing power than your second or third desktop PC for 10$, next day shipping
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as a fan of ThinkPads, it's funny to me that the machines I have once cost thousands of dollars when brand new and we're only intended for business use. Now I'm using my (25 USD each) T42 and T420 as my main Win98SE and WinXP machines, respectively.
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Marie et Julien mastodon (AP)
and do nothing like the things you did with that desktop because nothing is optimized anymore 😥.

Should I be up in arms about having to not give a smeg about ChatGPT 5 when I'm so used to not giving a smeg about ChatGPT4o for so long?
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One of the things that pisses me off most about today's "AI" hype is that I grew up loving symbolic AI. That's the kind of AI that flourished before a big "AI Winter" killed off funding and research. It was based on the idea that you could fill a computer with facts, rules about how to operate on those facts, and build expert systems that could reason about things like a human would. It was promising! But all that's out the window now, LLMs sucked all the air out of the room.
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I want Star Trek computer. Instead, I got shitty bespoke auto complete.
Aatheus mastodon (AP)
@moonshine_fox Grand Theft Autocomplete
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Also since it's both #InternationalCatDay and #FursuitFriday, have a couple cuddly cats with a bonus housecat loaf on the side! 😺 @kieran
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Leo thought that, being in a separate painting, he’d be safe from Delph’s 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.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco

Thank you!

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TerrorBite 🦁 mastodon (AP)
@leonerd get squirted silly

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Anthropy mastodon (AP)
I don't think people appreciate enough how incredibly specific to this era of humanity this is
DeltaWye mastodon (AP)
oops sorry

Double the paws for #Pawgust! 🐾🐾 #FursuitFriday

Obscura and Rezz made by Roofur (https://www.roofur.com/)

Rezz photo by @Kishi

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Good lord, I think about Graaf every once in a great while. How's he doing these days?
@artair they're still active online, though they're not identifying as Graafen nowadays.

And I always end up picking the same one
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Having the time of my life at Anthro Irish this #FursuitFriday!

🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Cerridwen
#ItWasGrand

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Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)

There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!

https://putty.software/

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!

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I wonder what Simon means by weird agenda.

*goes to putty.org

Wow, ok... at least they say not affiliated with the software but... yeah that's something special all right.

Good luck with getting the news out about https://putty.software/

Simon Tatham mastodon (AP)
@smallsees huh, good point, perhaps I should take that comment down because Streisand Effect.

"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

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That one dragon(s) mastodon (AP)
I can see the power radiating from within you.
DeltaWye mastodon (AP)
@jacel JENCEN IS GOING CRITICAL
Jencen mastodon (AP)

I like the sound of "Barely Sub critical lump of Goo!"

Less the idea of that lump going prompt critical o.o

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Jencen mastodon (AP)

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 >.>


Avon DeRussate mastodon (AP)
@colinstu @fattykun Sounds like you're all having way more fun than I am
Colin mastodon (AP)
@fattykun it’s a bit too much to handle in public sometimes :p


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Tristan mastodon (AP)
Working in IT for 10 years, I love speculating on which of my coworkers are furries. Statistically its like half of them.
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More of a Dog5 than a cat5, really.
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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.

#WerewolfWednesday #Fursuit

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@artair All I can do is imagine - we'd moved out by then :)
And I'm glad you two are safe!

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 I’d 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:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

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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

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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 your…

http://soatok.blog/2025/08/09/improving-geographical-resilience-for-distributed-open-source-teams-with-freon/

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where do you think this should fall in say, a Linux distro’s release engineering system?
Soatok Dreamseeker mastodon (AP)
@kouhai Good question. I'll revisit this when I'm more awake.
Luna Lactea mastodon (AP)
This is really cool! You really can do just anything with math. Not needing every single secret key share, but still being able to sign & do it without even reconstructing the secret key is interesting.

I don't want to forget your voice
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Pippin friendica
That made a few tears come. 🫂

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.

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Mandrake 🐎 mastodon (AP)
I did some research into trustworthy VPNs with free plans and found two options: ProtonVPN has a free tier but you can't choose which out of the five servers it will automatically connect you to (USA, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Japan). TunnelBear offers 2GB of free data per month, but otherwise has no restrictions.
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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)
@Mandrake I can get behind both of these.

Pippin friendica
Ooh. New Debian today. I'm sure I'll take a look at it — and maybe even start using it — within the next year! Wow.
Mira mastodon (AP)
I’ll be doing a clean install on my laptop (8 year old MacBook Air). My other boxes/containers will be upgraded
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Pippin friendica
@Mira Good luck. I never seem to have the energy to do a clean anything! 😉
@Mira
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Finished my latest #art #furryart

This one is kinda personal.

Transphobes,
Racists,
Homophobes,
Antisemites,
Bigots of any stripe,
I will protect my people to the limits of my strength.
This far, no farther.

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why would I want a realistic Gaussian-splatted VR avatar of my actual body when I'm much better represented in VR as a large plushie giraffe? 🦒
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James Cunningham mastodon (AP)

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.


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Portrait of Repaki, the red pandox (wah/fox) posing in front of the Golden Gate bridge.
Based on a photo from the first time I visited San Francisco.

Picture for Repaki
Traditional. Acrylics

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See the time-lapse process video from this painting on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco

That's the short version of the whole video I recorded, if you want to see the full time-lapse video, it is on my Patreon and Ko-Fi, also at supporting me you can see many of my new art I haven't posted on my galleries yet, WIPs, all the process videos, scans, high resolutions and more.
Support me at:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

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Content warning: Politics Payment processor pushback

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Content warning: BBC

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I hear there's a new release of Avenue Q with a rousing new song - "The Internet's Not For Porn", sponsored by Ofcom.
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Ret mastodon (AP)
file this under “things that are weirdly now actually quite believable”
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Content warning: Tech nostalgia, discussion of scarcity vs. abundance in gaming/RL communities - A Burr Essay

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Xoa Gray mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Tech nostalgia, discussion of scarcity vs. abundance in gaming/RL communities - A Burr Essay

LeoBurr mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Tech nostalgia, discussion of scarcity vs. abundance in gaming/RL communities - A Burr Essay

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Content warning: Latex fursuit, tame

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Thumper mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Latex fursuit, tame

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‘The world is full of refugees
They're just like you and just like me
But as people we have a choice
To end the void with all its force’

The Everlasting, Manic Street Preachers

This verse hit so hard at yesterday’s gig at Audley End. James Dean Bradfield’s voice is still incredible. The words, imagery and power of the music when they work are just something else.

Why do the Stereophonics sell out bigger stadiums than these guys???

#Rock
#Gigs
#Indie

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: toilet humour

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Pippin friendica
(Ugh, unless it's appendicitis. I *think* the occasional ouch I'm getting near my right hip that started this morning is just muscle pain from building a set of shelves in the garage yesterday, but I probably ought to get it checked… :/)
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Jencen mastodon (AP)

Content warning: CW: medical

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: medical

Jencen mastodon (AP)

Content warning: CW: medical

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: medical

Thumper mastodon (AP)

Content warning: CW: medical

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GrumpSec Spottycat mastodon (AP)
Anthro Taurs: More friend per friend!
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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

I can’t help but wonder what Cesco’s thinking. That quiet smile, just enough to make it suspicious.

Painting for Cesco
Traditional. Acrylics over canvas.

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There is a time-lapse video, that despite my camera was out of focus during the half of the recording of it, I edited it to show it, you can see it on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
Or you can see the full video, among with others, and to see paintings I've done that I haven't shared on my galleries yet, exclusive for those who support me on Patreon and Ko-Fi, I would appreciate your help so I can keep doing this for living, I always try my best to give so many cool exclusive things there:
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
Thank you!

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