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What a fantastic view. 🌄
📷 @ShadowRK9 & me
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Is there anything better than spending a hot summer day in Fursuit? A clear and decisive NO 😜
(Although Vulpy already looks a bit finished) 😋
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#FursuitFriday #KarlovarskýOuting #Fursuiter
Want to meet a fluffy boi at the upcoming EAST Convention to get a free hug? If you're not there, I can send you virtual hugs too.
🐺🦊 #FurryCommunity #FursuitFriday
🧵@Areksim (VinoStudios)
I've had countless conversations with sane, kind techy guys, and there's a pattern that goes like this:
Me: Here is something interesting I just learned about electronics.
Them: oh yeah! I learned that when I was (anywhere from 8-15) years old! It was so hard and I messed it up a lot! But I eventually learned it.
In. My. And. Other. Generations. White. Cis. Men. Learned. Tech. As. Children.
Other people, particularly women, did NOT.
WE ARE NOT LESS ABLE. WE WERE ROBBED OF TIME TO LEARN.
I keep trying to teach cis feminists: trans women are as close of an "A/B test" of sexism as you can get in society. We can give countless real world examples of sexism effects of THE EXACT SAME PERSON who has even more years of experience getting treated differently just because their public gender changed. You can't dismiss it as we're just "not as skilled" as our men colleagues or "not as assertive about getting raises and promotions" or any of those other excuses people will trot out.
The. Exact. Same. Person.
And so many of us see our careers stall. Our raises shrink. Getting talked over and ignored in meetings. Just because of our gender presentation.
#Subtoot
It's very telling that the UK government refuses to acknowledge the very obvious fact that huge counter protests are what brought peace back to our streets, not a few ludicrously light sentences for fascist rioters and a very tame police response.
They really don't want you aware of your own power.
Clutch left handle, gears on left foot.
Duck to go faster.
@alphasixtyfive @revk limit on what the grid will permit you to export - you have a statutory right to go up to ~3.6kW, but if your local infrastructure can handle it they'll let you go higher.
In our case, the local engineer glanced at the cable running into our local transformer and laughed, so...
(I mean strictly, it's also limited by the inverter but you normally overspec that anyway)
Used 61.4kWh so far today (Friend is visiting his car needed charging, then I put mine on charge)
Electric bill so far is at -0.50
I doubt it will be negative by end of day once we get back into peak rate electricity but yep good day to use a lot of power.
Sorting through things.
That time my dad saved a lost pilots life. Guy had no electronics bar radio. Light was rapidly fading. Dad was in the area and got the pilot to follow and led him to a safe landing.
No thoughts of "what if" or "what will the company do to me" just instant action and offer to help.
Look at all those cuties! But gah, look at those two fluffdragons, being all lovey and kissy when people are trying to take a group photo. So distractable...
⌚️ #FursuitFriday
🌍 Tails in Wales
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The nice thing about working in older programming languages:
needs more crinkled-up tape.
https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/112926387304810607
Attached: 1 image Boost if you've done this, or remember ...LGBTQIA+ and Tech
I never had to use a pencil for that; we had a windy-windy!
(pronounced "wine-dee-wine-dee")
That's what we called our cassette hand winder.
ooooh. Good look!
Also.... Gives me an idea on how to hide the gap between my paws and arms on my suit! >.>
#Signal was warranted again, and as always they gave the only data they could give: time of registration in Unix miliseconds, and time of last connection in Unix miliseconds.
yet another reminder that you can't give away data you don't have in the first place.
https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/
Because everything in Signal is end-to-end encrypted by default, the broad set of personal information that is typically easy to retrieve in other apps simply doesn’t exist on Signal’s servers.Signal Messenger
Sorry, this cat is still exhausted from all the catting on International Cat Day. Please come back later, preferably with a snack.
@Ghost The new house has very non-smart meters, presumably unchanged since the place was built in 1989. They are "digital" only in the sense that they have digits displayed on the front…
I found images of, I think, the same models of meter. If not they are *very* close.
Hmm, I think the risk from remote-off is probably negligible (unless someone was motivated enough to hack the things and turn it off maliciously, but that also seems very unlikely, unless they did so in bulk, indiscriminately). I'd guess the benefit of a slightly under-reading meter is probably offset by the benefit of being able to see your usage in real time, have time-of-day-variable tariffs, and things like that.
yeah that’s an old school mechanical meter, and I tend to agree the risks are negligible as even malicious attacks would need to sign the command with 2 TLS certificates for the meter to acknowledge it (not that I entirely trust the opsec to keep the private keys secure).
I generally agree the advantages of a variable tariff are worth it over the under reading, but everyone’s mileage may vary there
me too! Was just chatting about this with other folks recently and it’s impact (or lack of impact) on artistic ability. Putting my artistic/design process into words was a really interesting exercise.
In any case, RAT! squeee!
People with aphantasia can't make mental images. This condition could be the key to understanding consciousness in the brain. Dr. Hakwan Lau explains how aph...YouTube
Ending the streak of record monthly warmth, July 2024 was in fact the 2nd hottest July on record globally. Some of the largest temperature anomalies, in terms of magnitude, were found over Antarctica.
Summary of the conditions: https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-july-2024
Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.
https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/344472
Turkish version published by Turkish Society of Physical Medicine and RehabilitationWorld Health Organization. Regional Office for Europe
@Kishi I've updated the post with a mirror.
https://www.helsenorge.no/4944f5/globalassets/bilder/selvmestring-etter-covid-19-eng.pdf
Oh, even better, thank you! 💙
And WOW, that thing is well produced. I was expecting ... well, good, but not THIS good.
You not sure how capitalism works?
Have you noticed a bunch of "whole body deo" ads, from quite a few brands recently?
Tell me, just how often have you thought "My god, that person's [body part that isn't arm pits] stinks!"
Probably rarely. Bathing usually does the job.
Capitalism made up the problem, makes you self conscious everyone can smell your ass and cooche with ads, and was right there with a solution for you! For a fee, of course.
Anubis is texting...
Should I be worried what the god of death and judgement had to stop and text for?
Or should I be more worried about who Anubis would want to text?
Look at the sign. Is Anubis at the wrong meeting of the gods?
So many questions...
I think centralized social media is the reason we fucked up a lot of decentralized social media.
I was thinking earlier about Lemmy, and how when Reddit did their API changes everyone tried to rush to Lemmy. Which would be fine, except everyone tried to just recreate reddit. Everyone tried to make Everything servers. Do we need ten thousand Technology subs? Not really. But people just tried to all make large general purpose instances with all the generic subs. Because they feel like they have to recreate reddit--ALL of them.
Nobody needs to run a Whole Reddit. Something like Lemmy would have been better if 99% of instances were single or limited topic. Keep the scale small, keep the moderation focused and knowledgeable.
I remember checking out Revolt, which is a discord alternative, and I think it has the same scale problem. Discord has three basic levels: channels, servers, and Discord itself which is a collection of servers. Revolt assumes that you don't want to self host a server, you want to self host a Discord. You want to self host All Of Discord. I don't think that's the case for most people! They want to run their one server!
Decentralized social media can't take a centralized approach, you can't try to recreate these horrible giant bloated behemoths but now with less budget and less moderation. You have to relearn to think at a smaller scale, the beauty of decentralization is that we can link all these smaller scale projects together.
I know this is a hot take for some people, but work devices are owned by your employer. You have no expectation of privacy on them. You do not own them, nor the data that is on them. Your employer (in the US) is generally free to inspect anything that goes on on that device and, depending on whatever third party certifications your employer obtains, they're *required* to inspect everything. It astounds me that so many colleagues are shocked and dismayed to discover that their traffic is being inspected.
For this reason, you should never use a work computer for personal use. Gaming, chatting, use of cloud services, email... Those should be on a personal device outside of the reach of your employer.
U.S. Folks: There are websites trying to trick people into thinking they've registered to vote without actually doing it. There are also efforts underway to throw out people's registrations
If you want to vote in this election, the best thing you can do is go to https://vote.gov/
It's the official site of the U.S. federal government
Registration is done by the state you live in. Vote.gov has the official links for each state to check your registration status and register if you need to
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.Vote.gov
“If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled, or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.” — Pete Seeger
#Quotes #Recycle #Enviornmentalism #progressive #RightToRepair
Dear "concerned liberals," a word if I may - as you're watching the overwhelming public response to defend English communities from fascist rioters, please pay close attention:
When a metric fuckton of antifascists and antiracists show up, and the fash don't? The end result is hugs and a street party.
When violent fascist mobs show up, and community defenders don't, the end result is fear, violence, and arson.
Please consider this the next time you insist "both sides" are to blame.
