So, maybe you already heard about it, botsin.space will shut down somewhere next year. Around December, it will go into Read-Only and probably finally shut down around March next year...

https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/

At the moment I don't know any alternatives to botsin.space and since we are posting images almost every day it's probably not wanted everywhere?

So question to all of you, does anyone know alternative bot instances?

Please add @Kuraiko if you answer 🙂

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In 2000, John Donovan, vice president of a Silicon Valley research firm, was quoted saying "The hard-drive market is out of whack, and manufacturers are killing themselves economically. They're producing massive drives most people will never be able to fill, and removable drives are aggressively competing for their business."

His concern? The first 80GB drives.

Could you get by with 80GB today? Most people have more than that on their phone.

I saved the quote specifically to recall it someday because it was blatantly short-sighted, and he got paid for being an expert, making me very jealous. ;)

Are you still around, John? :) Just a friendly ribbing.

My partner, the ever wonderful @Kyu , has a delightful print of a picture of a cat who is smoking a pipe with a smugly manic expression. Somehow it has become lore that this cat was a 'great innovator' in computing during the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's. Working for Groupe Vache, they were instrumental in the ill-fated Système/Chat line of mini and mainframe computers.

Amongst the many innovative features that were present in some of the Système/Chat range were things like:

The three quarter adder, which had sum, carry and ask again later outputs.
The arithmetic and illogic unit, to produce perverse results from perfectly sound and sanitised data sets. It was particularly popular with governments.
Drape storage, which ran several turns of a magnetic tape around a drum and wrote data across the resulting 'drum' in parallel. The idea was to give the convenience of parallel storage but the price of tape. Data was read by random chance.
Book fault, an exception generated by the main processor to conveniently bind several page faults into a single exception, for faster handling.
BOC, or branch on chance, 50% of the time it branches every time.
AWDATTS, a processor instruction that could be issued by anyone with system manager rights to ask what the system was doing and tell it to stop it immediately.
Spin unlocking. All resources were locked by default and threads needed to spin until the supervisor felt they really genuinely did need access and could be bothered to unlock it.
Subvisor, like the supervisor, but clandestine and hard to find and interrogate. (c.f. Windows)
Mechanical key encryption, a system where by in order to encrypt or decrypt anything, the user had to insert 4096 individual keys into 4096 lock barrels and then turn them left or right to indicate whether the binary of the encryption key had a zero or one in that position.

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Reading a lot of #ScienceFiction, it's easy to be disappointed by the real world. But I've always felt that it's not the big things, like having no FTL drives or time machines. The little things are where it's at.

Fridges should be stasis chambers, so you can keep hot things in them too. Kitchen utensils should be forcefields, so you turn them off instead of washing them.

And today's thought: tables should use antigravity, so they're just a hovering tabletop, with no legs to bash your knee on!

‘Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime. On average, they take 184 private jet flights in a single year, spending 425 hours in the air.’

#WealthInequality
#RichPolluters
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam

Carbon emissions of richest 1% increase hunger, poverty and deaths, says Oxfam

Consumption of the world’s wealthiest people also making it increasingly difficult to limit global heating to 1.5C

^{Jonathan Watts (The Guardian)}

You know, really thinking about it I've realized why so many people can't be bothered to do anything about reclaiming their privacy. It's because doing so means not using Chrome, ChromeOS, Microsoft Windows, Android, Amazon, Facebook, Xitter, iOS, Macs, etc...

The apathy has existed so long, and the problem is now so endemic to all things tech, that giving it up basically means giving up the tools and services the vast majority of people use every day.

Random fursuit photo from the archives.

8 Pretty Maids in a Row.

A femme fursuit photoshoot during ConFuzzled 2013.

...I was not expecting new Wallace and Gromit... ever.

Amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQqrBzJ5wIc

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl | Official Teaser | Netflix

The world's best boss - Feathers McGraw is back with a vengeance. A brand new epic Wallace & Gromit family adventure, the first full length feature film in 1...

^YouTube

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Furs For Life chartiy stream planning!

Schedule ✅
Incentives ✅
Tech setup ✅
Supplies ✅
Promo and video material 🔥🔥🔥AAAAAAFEKHECKSHIDHECK!!!

It'll be an awesome time packed with good vibes, fun games, and fuzzy animals!

Nov 2-3!
https://www.extra-life.org/participant/FFLSeattle

What's this fox going to get up to this #fursuitFriday? 🦊

#furry #fursuit

#FursuitFriday comin' at you all like...

🪡 @selkiesuits
📷 Nauta Sinneau
🌍 Tails in Wales April 2023 (there's another meet this Saturday and I'll be there!)

If you're one of those people that doesn't care about privacy because “you’ve got nothing to hide, you never do anything wrong."

Just remember one thing.

Until the overturn of Roe Vs Wade, there were millions of women in this country that never did anything wrong either. But since the abortion laws changed, their smartphones and the data they collect are now being used against them in court.

You don't have to be doing something wrong to care about privacy.

#privacy

Things are getting witchy with @BigPurpleSentri for Halloween! 🎃 #FursuitFriday

Photo by @kurrikage

Alrighty so… who does fursuit bodysuits? Any recommendations with makers that are open right now?

Preferably makers that can do stand up curly tails too but if necessary I can use my own current existing one 👀

#furry #fursuit

If I was going to sit in your car with you while you drove around, write down everywhere you go, how you drove while you were going there, what time it was, who was in the car with you, and then came with you into the places where you were going, would you be alright with that?

I hope you wouldn't. I hope you'd tell me to fuck all the way off.

So now is the time, to tell that to the insurance companies that want to do just that with their apps.

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/privacy-concerns-grow-as-insurance-companies-track-drivers-on-smartphones/2043396/

Privacy Concerns Grow as Insurance Companies Track Drivers on Smartphones

To save on auto insurance, some customers opt in to programs to have their driving habits tracked. In the past, customers were tracked through devices that plug…

^{Harry Hairston, Katie Suiters, Charlie Wellock (NBC 10 Philadelphia)}

Ysengrin relaxing after the WPAFW fursuit photo.

#WerewolfWednesday #Fursuit #WPAFW2024

this is the ethical gaslighting we need in the world

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/1g7w3pg/is_it_true_that_fortnite_stops_working_after/

#meme #reddit #fortnite #bedtime