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The view gets better with every step. Riff leads the way, steady and sure, while Procyon takes a moment to pause on a nearby rock, looking back for a second the path they've already walked.
The scenery of this piece is inspired by a real hike, through a place that already felt a bit like a painting, nearby Snowdon, in Wales, UK
Picture for Riff and Procyon
Digital. Procreate
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You can watch a short version of the time-lapse process video, shared on the first comment of this submission on my Telegram art channel: https://t.me/panda_paco
But there is a longer version exclusive for my Patreon and Ko-Fi supporters, as well as the high resolution of this piece, with other pictures I haven't shared online yet, WIPs of upcoming pieces and more.
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/pandapaco
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/panda_paco
if your programming language doesn't have a power metal theme song, I'm not using it
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=yup8gIXxWDU
Live album "XX Years Of Steel" out this Friday! Order here: https://lnk.to/NoS-XX-YearsOfSteel Mixed by Christian Ice at Temple of Noise Studios Video by L...YouTube Music
really? Seems like hand oils would still eventually pose a problem.
Depends on what's being handled / storage etc though.
Anthro dog characters wearing pup hoods will never stop being cutely funny.
That's it. That's the toot.
People really do seem to think that if they just make it "illegal enough" that we'll all go back in the fucking closet.
HELL no.
The hottest thing in local Seattle politics is the city's war on Saint Rat / Hot Rat Summer, a mosaic that someone put up (without permission) on the old pumphouse in Cal Anderson Park last year. Recently, city workers have been painting over the mosaic, and good citizens have been cleaning off the mosaic to restore it when they do so. It is a fierce battle, and one I hope the citizens win. We must fight for Hot Rat Summer.
EDIT: IMPORTANT UPDATE NEWS FLASH JUST IN! https://bsky.app/profile/councilmember-amr.bsky.social/post/3lu27fhkj3k2d
Gary Stevenson left his lucrative finance job at 27 as a multimillionaire. Now, he’s campaigning for a fairer economy, arguing that the only way to fix the c...YouTube
More drawings from FWA I was missing to share
Keita! Character from Kaos, part of an art trade
Russec and Scotch, those super cute bunnies!
Moving a few papers in my office, I came across a print of this image from a long, long time ago. I dug it up on one of my computers — the file is timestamped January 2003!
The second image is the file I originally downloaded (but a reverse image search comes up with nothing so I have no idea where it's from any more), and the first is what I printed out to put on my wall after I edited the stripes a bit.
I've had this up on the wall for literally decades but only really noticed it again after taking it all down to move house. It's sitting in a pile of other prints, waiting for me to get round to finding some way to display them all again.
Of course I came across another few nice zebrataurs while trying to find the origin of this one!
https://www.deviantart.com/drjavi/art/Zebrataur-913619568
https://www.deviantart.com/valkenkuart/art/Cyberpunk-Zebrataur-Commission-1073199466
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/22812918/
https://www.deviantart.com/larkitrope/art/Zebra-Centaur-663372093
Just one day before heading to Anthrocon I got to do this painting to give it there in person as a surprise.
It was a small way to say thank you for something that meant a lot to me. My best way I can express myself is through paint and a smiling character.
So here's this yote boy, saying hi on my behalf, with all the warmth I couldn’t quite put into words.
For Oatyote.
Traditional. Acrylics
"AI" is not only bad for people that use it, it's bad for people that don't, and the neighborhoods around the huge data centers that it takes to power it. Whatever tiny amount of good some people are able to squeeze out of this trash is nothing compared to the harm and waste its existence mandates.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7rEzhCwPhqc?si=6xeAlVgh-8QMylgl
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-data-center-development-true-cost-environmental-impact-2025-6?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign...YouTube
Attached: 1 image Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍 Linux 🐧 is more private, by default Own and control your data! Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers …FLOSS.social
General reminder:
The domain name putty.org is *NOT* run by the #PuTTY developers. It is run by somebody not associated with us, who uses the domain to interpose advertising for their unrelated commercial products. We do not endorse those products in any way, and we have never given any kind of agreement for PuTTY's name to be used in promoting them.
Please do not perpetuate the claim that putty.org is the PuTTY website. If anyone is linking to it on that basis, please change the link. The PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and it always has been.
You can check this by downloading the source code, which cites that URL in many places (the README, the documentation, some strings in the actual code), or by using the "Visit Web Site" menu options in the official Windows binaries (the ones signed with my personal Authenticode certificate). The true PuTTY website is the one that PuTTY itself says it is.
Many search engines list putty.org above chiark. I don't know if this is due to active SEO on the part of the domain owner, or a heuristic in the rankings. Either way, don't believe them. It's not our site.
If you want another reason to not use "Smart home" devices. We Mo is shutting down next year, and all We Mo devices will stop working soon after.
Our future is full of "Smart" devices that will become useless when the maker decides to stop supporting the software.
This is the dumbest timeline.
@AmarettoBear Yup. The most difficult part is actually installing physical light/fan switches and finding which ones you want, and thinking about sensors, time/days, proximity (your app), etc. as inputs, and switches/smart bulbs, etc. as outputs and how you want the automations to work.
Home Assistant can easily be installed in an older HP Mini system (think Gen 7-8 Intel) with 4-8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD and an Aeotec Z-Stick 7 for ZWave and/or a Sonoff Zigbee 3.0 USB Dongle Plus for Zigbee devices.
Though I personally recommend starting out with a hubitat for local devices, and playing with a Home Assistant later. It works with just about everything - Zigbee, ZWave, Matter, etc.
There are communities out there with a wealth of knowledge.
I've done things like integrate with the third party Litter Robot API so that when @hypoidbear 's kitties poop, it reads the status change, and then turns on his laundry room vent for about 5 minutes after the litter robot timer goes off so it's less stinky in there. That's a cloud-enabled smart device's status change enabling the changing of a local device's status for X time.
Here's a cat.
Just being a cat.
Doesn't even care.
📷 @DuskPanda
#FursuitFriday #fursuit #furry #furryfandom
METR: "We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.
The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."
Bluesky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post/3ltn3t3amms2x
"Good morning! I represent the Nicobar and Andaman division of the Indian census bureaux! I am here to conduct this decade's count if you could please direct me to your tribal leader so we can start the formalities. Oh COME now there is no need to stab me like that!"
https://slguardian.org/india-faces-census-challenge-with-remote-and-isolated-tribes/
As India prepares for its first census in over a decade — and its first in the era of drone technology — officials face one of the most daunting challenges...slguardian.org
Please please sign and re-share. Let's get it to 100K.
I know, I know. Why bother, right? It'll only be a round table of stupidity, again.
Force them to do it. Force them to see this won't go away.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/704793
Introduce a law to legally protect the right of those aged 18 and over to transition using NHS services.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
The UK government is going to test its emergency notification system again in September.
If you have a hidden or secret phone for your safety, make sure you keep it hidden and that it is switched off when this test takes place. Your phone will make siren sounds and vibrate even if it set to silent or Do Not Disturb is turned on.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4ge9xk8wj0o
A test message will be sent to smartphones on 7 September, after a previous test revealed technical issues.Aleks Phillips (BBC News)
I turned this off completely for 2 reasons:
Content warning: CW: Nostalgia
That's a very distinct, vibrant visual!
I don't have many memories of what was going outside the car on family road trips: my nose was usually in a book or magazine, and we traveled mostly during the day.
But sometimes we did late road trips to Grandma's house in Iowa, 8 hours away, and if it was at night, our old Chevy Suburban had a seat you could flip down to make a flat space big enough to roll out sleeping bags for the kids in the back.
Seat belts? Bah!
Content warning: CW: Nostalgia
@Alopex I've been trying to write stories lately and it's been getting hard to continue writing anything after a break. I wanted to just get something down in one go, and this came to mind.
Yeah, I think I mostly read, too. (Sometimes I couldn't, or I got carsick and needed to stop reading and look outside, and that's when the above came in.) Got through quite a few books back then, at least, more than I've read in the last 30 years, probably! Quite a bit of Issac Asimov, and Douglas Adams, and the Fighting Fantasy series. Plus I regularly pored over a bunch of Atari magazines, particularly ANALOG, Page 6, and Monitor. Terry Pratchett's stuff was a bit later on in my early life, before I pretty much stopped reading books as everything went online in the late 90s/early 2000s.