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keirFox mastodon (AP)

Content warning: Intergenerational stuff

Content warning: re: Intergenerational stuff

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"I warn you," the man said, "he's cunning and fast."

"Don't worry," said the monster hunter. "Ain't no monster alive I can't track down and corner. I'll be back with its head-"

"No! You must not harm him!"

"No?"

"Just give him this envelope."

"What's in it?"

"Divorce papers."

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

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Binks mastodon (AP)
"have you considered just sending them in the post and bringing a motion for substituted service?"
Arnim Sommer 🇪🇺 mastodon (AP)
Next scene:
The monster covering in a corner, the monster hunter towering menacingly over it.
"You have been served."

Pippin friendica
Oh, huh, this may be useful… Where to find a motherboard's embedded Windows product key via Linux, e.g. to activate Windows running in a VM with Linux underneath.
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Vivi Nella Verita mostr (AP)

no need for that

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Pippin friendica
@verita84 Well, there's more than one way to eat a cookie. And that way probably works too! Ta.
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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: spoiler for Robot Dreams (it's behind a spoiler tag but I don't know if that will survive federation)


In case you didn't know.
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Sometimes animals know better than humans.
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DrGecko mastodon (AP)
only sometimes? 🦎

Most anatids (duck, goose family) regularly form homosexual pairings. I had a couple gay geese once.

Funny story. A woman down the road from the farm I lived at years ago bred and sold exotic fowl. A Christian woman bought a bunch of unsexed ducklings (i.e. the sex had not been determined, since it's invasive to do so in baby ducks), but later brought two gay male mallards back once they had grown up and their sex became clear because her religiousness couldn't countenance watching all that hot bareback drake-on-drake action in broad daylight. I mean, understandable. It says it right in the Bible.

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Zebra North mastodon (AP)
I had fun at HexLatex's #vrchat #kobold party! Avatar is by Cinnamon Vector, photo by Starshine Bomber.
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Arakin mastodon (AP)
loving the glowing stripes! 😁

Now that there's snow on the ground and it's colder outside it's just really nice and cozy to have fuzzy fox legs :3 🦊🐾
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Rina Volpina 🦊🔞 mastodon (AP)
Waaaaa~~~ cute cute cute! 😻
Raccoon Girl mastodon (AP)

Honestly, this reawakens my #otherkin wish to have such a fluffy legs... :blobfox_w:

Cute fursuit legs by the way :blobfox:


sirlan <( rawr ) sharkey (AP)

always fun remembering how capitalism has "not helping people" as its main feature

doesn't matter how much people talk about charity or whatever

at the end of the day the main people who have the resources to do many things for others without risking their own life stability are the ones who already have lots of money to spare, which of course got there by not being interested in doing any of that

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sirlan <( rawr ) sharkey (AP)

even shit like economy of scale

if you want to be a fairphone or framework and make devices that are not made to be exploitative

well, you're a small company with a limited production, and making devices to be actually good costs, so you have to sell them at higher prices for less people

and the only way to have the economies of scale and be able to make devices that are accessible is by being a big company that makes exploitative devices and/or can tank selling things at a loss without going under

the system itself punishes good deeds for the masses, you either make something good and have it only be accessible to a few people who can pay up, or you are exploitative and have the capacity to make things accessible for more people

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a stinky ox 🐂 mastodon (AP)
I find the very idea of "pair programming" to be horrifying. I would no more ask someone to share the act of coding than I would ask someone to share the act of taking a shit.
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Johns mastodon (AP)

I worked as a debugger for a small company years ago; every programmer had the developer instance where they would do their bits and fixes and I was the one whose work was ensuring that their code behaved well with each other, I'll just say that I haven't worked as a programmer since then.

Local support life is far more rewarding and relaxing.

Rob Caporetto mastodon (AP)

When I first encountered it during Uni, there was something about it which made me feel that it was about creating replaceable coding cogs.

Having been forced to do it at jobs in the past - I'm certainly no fan, I find I learnt less from it than puzzling out a solution on my own.

Which is no surprise as a mere coding mortal!


CheRosach mastodon (AP)
Eight billion of us live here. We should look after it. Mars is not an alternative, Elon
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Tufty Indigo 🪗 mastodon (AP)
Firefox just asked me if I really want to run this executable file, because executable files can contain viruses that might harm my computer, and I just said "Thanks Firefox" in the same tone of voice you might say "thanks mum" after finding an "I love you ❤️" note in the sandwiches she packed you for a trip, when you're 40.
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recaptcha: pick all of the bridges
me: i can do that, here you go
recaptcha: i don't fucking think so
me: fuck you
recaptcha: fuck you too, here are more fucking pictures of bridges
me: here are more fucking bridges
recaptcha: fine! i'll let you in now
me: fine!
recaptcha: fine!
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genstar.service mastodon (AP)
You can do that????
Fanfalla :fennec_fox: mastodon (AP)
This is the most accurate captcha experience description I have ever seen.

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Bit of a #FursuitFriday flashback and highlight for any new arrivals - a set of wonderful photos taken by Nitro G Beans of @azakir and myself at Confuzzled 2023. Some of my very favourite fursuit photos!

🪡 @selkiesuits

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Furo mastodon (AP)
With my fellow Justice enjoyer @louislegris 🎵
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sirlan <( rawr ) sharkey (AP)
cats will infer velocity from incomplete sources and correct acceleration with precision down to the millisecond, just so they can calculate the perfect time to run across the house and between my legs right when I'm trying to walk somewhere
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Obscura, Cheetah mastodon (AP)

Loungin' chee! #FursuitFriday

Photo by @VarekMorro

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Obscura, Cheetah mastodon (AP)
@Halipuppeh Gotta be comfy! ❤
@Hali
Hali mastodon (AP)
darn right!

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Garret Polk (masked) mastodon (AP)
Chekhov's eyeball
Elvis Van mastodon (AP)
that ending took me right down xD

It’s #FursuitFriday and Yotto now has a new curlier curly tail courtesy of pocketwolffursuits.
📸 - @juke
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#fursuit #fursuiter #fursuiting #mascot #furry #furries #furryfandom #fursuitphotography #foxfursuit #costume #cosplay
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I think the best and worst thing about fursuit heads is the resulting lack of any facial expressions. There are...advantages...to others not being able to see your face, sometimes, but it creates a layer of potential obfuscation, and moreso when you are interacting with another and can't see theirs.
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Atari Scene News mastodon (AP)
Faster, brand new #AtariSTe racing game, will be presented in two weeks at Silly Venture 2024 Winter Edition party and released for free afterwards http://youtu.be/T6nQeMhw2Es #atari #AtariST #retrogames #retrogaming
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Paco Panda mastodon (AP)

Badger!!
During a dinner time at a Denny's restaurant, seeing those tempting crayons in the waiting area, ready to be taken and brought to the table, where I know a paper tablecloth awaits me with a blank canvas. Despite the limited colors, they put entertainment on the table while we wait for our food.

Why a badger? Because they're cute and I rarely get to draw one.

I will surely be displaying this (very valuable) piece at the MFF art show

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Noble :frostbite: iceshrimp (AP)
waking up to someone saying "good moorning puppy!!!" with the early morning sun flooding the room would instantly cure me of all afflictions and apply health boost III for 30 minutes
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ROllerozxa mastodon (AP)

I wonder if Valve will do anything interesting for the original Portal's 20 year anniversary in 2027.

I played the original Portal in autumn of last year and it was a really great game. @fleckenstein then insisted on buying me Portal 2 (don't ask me how I obtained the original), which was also really good. I really should replay them sometime and check out the full game mods people have made for the sequel. Because I don't think I can wait until 2027 for some more Portal.

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ROllerozxa mastodon (AP)
@hamatti Yeah that was one of the full game mods I was thinking about. I've heard that it is really well made, but I haven't tried it yet. I really should!
Juhis mastodon (AP)
I haven't tried any others so I can only recommend this one. If you find other good ones as you test them out, I'd love to hear your experiences!

Pippin friendica
"Take me back to the black hills, the black hills of Krazoa." #MisheardLyrics

sirlan <( rawr ) sharkey (AP)
did you really customize your os if you didn't change the boot screen to your sona?
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Odoben mastodon (AP)

How does one change the UEFI logo? :blobfoxbreadpeek:

My laptop's called Eugenes so I guess I could set it to be birb

Kay Ohtie mastodon (AP)
using a uEFI tool that allows editing, and a computer that'll accept unsigned firmware >.>

Pippin friendica

A question for people: is Exascale any good, as a transit provider? I expect I know a few people who may have come across them and/or been a customer, so I may ask well ask!

My current main transit provider has provided me with notice that they are going to stop providing transit in a few months, and apparently they've given Exascale their customer list, because they phoned me a few days ago to offer their services. The prices seem reasonable (actually far lower than I was expecting, probably because I keep paying the same for year upon year without poking regularly for discounts, so I probably have way out of date pricing at the moment) and they seem to offer much higher CDRs for not much more money than I've been paying so far. The only downside is that they don't have <10Gbps ports in their network, so I'll probably have to have a router with an SFP+ socket in it at last!

I hesitate to just say "yes" without doing at least some kind of due diligence first, though, so: have you come across them before, and would you recommend? I probably ought to get at least one other quote too, so is there anyone else you'd recommend for (tier 2, for some reason I'm not keen on connecting directly with a tier 1) transit? Thanks :)


Yag Fox mastodon (AP)
Yes, you can travel to #londonfilmandcomiccon in costume! 🦊
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Pippin friendica
Well, I guess I can start to see why people don't like Netgear. I've never had any problem with them before, but then I've never really used their managed stuff. These "smart" switches are (a) tedious to configure through a pointy-clicky web interface (I've just sat here for ages adding all the vlans on my network, then clicking through every vlan in turn and individually adding each to all the trunk ports, urgh) and (b) stupid, in the sense that they point-blank refuse to have their management address in VLAN 2 even though I've turned off their "voice VLAN" feature and my network has run fine for 15 years with VLAN 2 as the management VLAN. I got these 48-port switches cheap and cheerful off ebay (£15 each, I think it was) and didn't think there was any way they could fail to be okay for standard RSTP, a bunch of VLANs, access ports and trunk ports, and pretty much no other requirements. Oh well. Nearly done setting up a fresh VLAN with a fresh set of firewalling specially for managing these stupid switches.

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Not telling them it's not okay is telling them it is okay.
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@SallyStrange @jeridansky I'd question your use of the term "choice", since you have no insight into my thought process, but neither of us know each other and I don't have the bandwidth or desire to get into a confrontation with a stranger.
Sally Strange mastodon (AP)
@jeridansky Then I'd advise against needlessly confronting me over my replies to your post. Regardless of your intentions, the lack of descriptive text excludes low-vision/vision-impaired folks. Such exclusion is far too common to be called "weird," but it is an action whose results are eugenicist. These are facts. Please try not to take them personally.

Pippin friendica
Wow. I just sat down and got 1500 words done on my Indigo Park fanfic. That never happens!
Pippin friendica
@TundraWolf I know, amazing! :]
Pippin friendica
And apparently that was it for a fortnight. No more progress, haven't even thought about it since. Probably not surprising as I've been incredibly busy and worrying about the future existence of my business and all that kind of stuff. I keep wanting to write stuff here about what's been going on but I never get round to it. The worst bit, maybe, is how I spend time minecrafting or reading my timeline even though I have too much other stuff to do, just because I can't handle how much stuff I've got to do any more, and/or I'm too tired to really get on with anything because I spend time late at night playing or trying to catch up on my timeline and make myself too tired to do work the next day, which then leads to more time spent on junk the next night and so on. And also spending too much time doing housework-type work or parent-looking-after work instead of work-type work. -.-

The 14th of October is World Standards Day... except in North America where it is the 12th of October, the 14th of November, or varies year to year

This amuses me greatly

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Dan KB6NU 🇺🇦 mastodon (AP)
As they say, the nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them.

Pippin friendica

Happy Starting Your Advent Calendar Day to those who celebrate.

I haven't done an Advent calendar for a long time, but I have just opened the Christmas Marmalade (someone's gift from last year). Orange, cranberry, ginger and spices, apparently.


Furo mastodon (AP)

The bois ✨

(With NoxTheF0x, ThatFrenchPanda, Lino_draw)

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Pippin friendica

Content warning: CW: funeral

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Pippin friendica
About a week ago I managed to get up to the loft to try to see if I'd be able to drop a network cable down to the ground floor next to where the stack pipe goes, but it's so darn difficult to move around up there I didn't manage to get to where I was trying to go. At least I've learned for sure that that loft is *not* suitable for casual access and I'd be better to add boards to the ceiling in the garage when I need more storage rather than trying to use the loft space!
Pippin friendica

And the the day after that I finally got on my motorbike and did that trip to the south coast I've been threatening to do for weeks now. Finally made it, stopping at Littlehampton and getting a few pics on the beach, albeit after dark. *sigh* Oh well, at least I made it. Went back to the old house afterwards, sorted a few network things out and brought some routers I needed back to the new house.

(6 pics below; if you can't see them all, look on the origin instance.)


Obscura, Cheetah mastodon (AP)

The album cover photo! The question is, what's the band called? :3 #FursuitFriday with Oppiz, Blackstar, and Beta Monkey

Photo by Lilshark

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Duke Hyena mastodon (AP)

I don't know your style of music, but just from the photo thought of a few

Prowlers by the Stream
Velvet Howl
Riverclaw Rebellion
Fur and Feathers

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