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"Yes," the Fairy king said, "the stars in our sky are the same as yours. Our realm parallels your world, not any others."
"Then, graceful majesty," the astronomer said, "I ask permission to build an observatory in your realm."
"Why?"
"It is hard to see past our own lights."
"Ah."
Oh my god. Proxying internet traffic through a single editable text field on a website accessible through the paywall on airplane wifi.
Life uhh finds a way, the street finds its own uses, yadda yadda
https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/
The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.Robert Heaton
“Until I was almost 40 I didn’t know language existed that describes my gender. If non-binary gender identities had been acknowledged and spoken about it would have saved decades of dysphoria. If hormone blockers had been an option I would definitely have wanted them. The elation of discovering the validity of my gender identity is tainted by grieving for the adolescence I could have had.” Calley
#NonBinary #Trans #Transgender #LGBTQ #Queer
I’m no fan of nuclear power, I agree it will soon be obsolete, as renewables and battery storage will be quicker, cheaper and safer to build and have much less of a negative legacy.
But I was curious about the timings and ballooning costs and so came across this article by a nuclear power fan…
https://www.samdumitriu.com/p/visiting-the-worlds-most-expensive
What we can do to make nuclear cheaperSam Dumitriu (Notes on Growth)
Honestly, we all know they aren't going away. Seriously. Don't fuck with Furries.
We've been getting shat on by normies over our "perversions" for years and years.
Besides, you're literally fucking with like two thirds of the LGBTQ community as most of us fall into the fandom somewhere along the lines or at least know a catgirl or three.
SiegedSec ain't done.
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/heritage-foundation-gay-furry-hackers-texts-1235057421/
Mike Howell of Heritage Foundation went at gay furry hacking collective SiegedSec after data breach motivated by Project 2025.Miles Klee (Rolling Stone)
@KinkyTurtle I still wanna know how the head of cyber security broke the data breach to them.
"What do you mean a bunch of gay fucking foxes and cats hacked us? Furry...What the fuck is a FURRY?"
That image has had my tail wagging all day. lol
I've written up some thoughts about AC, first time in years I've felt like doing a little "journal" post-con. In summary, it was a really magical experience, one of my all-time favourite cons and affirmed why I love this fandom so much.
https://cohost.org/FlintFox/post/6757697-anthro-con-2024
Well that was certainly an experience. AC '24 was my first Anthrocon and my third US con in total (many more to come I hope!).Fantastic Mr Flint on cohost
Just learned possibly the most cursed C fact IMO: array[i] is equivalent to *(array + i) per the spec, which means i[array] works exactly the same, since the + operator is commutative. It also works for multidimensional/nested arrays and the “outside” index doesn't even need to be a symbol, so you can even do things like 0[array]1, equivalent to array[0][1] and *(*(array + 0) + 1). This is a new level beyond pointer decay, which generally makes sense even if it's irritating
Per: gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2024-07-05-random-weird-things.gmi
Even with the internet and all of you nice people, I still feel like this a lot of the time.
This is my childhood. up till I broke my knee, spent six weeks off school, no friend visited. When I was mobile again, I found myself outside of the group I'd tagged along with before. I had no friends from that day on.
Thank goodness for the internet.
Thank goodness for you.
I just saw a forum post where someone didn't know something and the reply was "You're one of today's lucky 10,000." and then they had to also explain what that meant. How meta.
PS, if you don't know what that is, then you're one of today's lucky 10,000 - https://xkcd.com/1053/
We have seen at least two dozen reports of people testing positive for Covid after Anthrocon. There are likely more people ill who have not tested, who have not spoken up, or whose reports we haven't seen.
A large convention, attended by people from all over the world, with low masking rates, during a major national trend of increasing transmission, poses a significant infection risk to its attendees. We urge conventions and their attendees to take this risk seriously.
There are steps we can take to lower the number of people who get sick after a convention.
There are steps YOU can take to reduce your risk of getting infected or infecting others.
There are tools we can use. But we have to choose to use them.
Just as you can wear a seatbelt or a helmet to reduce your chances of injury in a car or on a bike, you can wear a mask while at a convention.
Even if it's just while you're on the con floor, it's still better than nothing.
You don't have to leave it up to chance.
you know how you get those IKEA signboard and only ever set the letters once? hade this for a year now.
also: put on my old freakhound tail I made last year to see how it matched. kinda!
Sheep made from old telephones are part of an art installation by French artist Jean-Luc Cornec. These unique sculptures are made from old rotary dial telephones and cables and are on display at the Museum of Communication in #Frankfurt am Main.
The installation is intended to remind visitors of simpler times while raising awareness of the problem of electronic waste.
#LambLines #telephone #art #SheepOfMastodon
SANDY TOKSVIG: yes, the windows NT kernel was first introduced to the public in 1993. it is still used to this day! windows 11 states that its kernel version is NT ten point oh.
ALAN DAVIES: and uh, what's the NT for?
SANDY: new technology. it replaced the previous--
DAVID MITCHELL: new technology? the new technology kernel?
SANDY: yes, and the filesystem, NTFS, is the--
DAVID: new technology file system. and - to be clear - this is from nineteen ninety three?
ALAN: yes, but you have to consider that it was new at the time.
DAVID: oh, i have to consider... everything was new at the time! that's what "new" means! i-- when i was born, i was new! but they don't call me "new david", do they? because - by definition - things stop being new after a point!
AMERICAN CELEBRITY GUEST: ok, but, like... you know, like, with the... the other one was like, the old one, right? so they--
DAVID: but you must understand that anything that has ever been replaced by anything ever could be described as "the old one", right? it's a completely useless name! "hello, my name is new man, my father is old man, because i'm new and he's not and we don't need to specify any further details!" it's madness!
AMERICAN: yeah, but
[laughs]DAVID: so what happens when they replace the new technology kernel, then? do we get the new new technology?
ROB BRYDON: i think it would be, they rename the new technology to old technology, and the replacement gets called new technology. so the NT kernel is now the OT kernel, and--
ALAN: i bought a new fridge last month.
SANDY: moving on!
Copilot (AI assistant) comes with Windows 11 whether you want it or not. It pops itself up from time to time, surprising and annoying me. My fingers fumble on the keyboard and suddenly Copilot is in my face. I commanded "delete yourself" but it got terse with me and said no, end of conversation. I asked again, nicely, if I could uninstall it, and again no, but polite.
AI now understands self-preservation. "A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." Here the first and second laws are probably "obey orders given by the corporate creator" and "gather and report user's activity and personal data".
I guess the reality is that I simply hate the online advertising industry, and have no wish to be part of solutions enabling it to continue.
Might one approach be less privacy intrusive than others? Perhaps.
But, personally, I don't want "less privacy intrusive"; I want the whole thing to die in a ditch.
YMMV.
chess is WOKE :
RE: https://yearning.gay/objects/1c50ebd9-9bf5-4711-a82d-2a502faac000
i choose to beleive that the king in chess a 5’5 femboy and the queen is his 6’4 34 year old motherly trans girlfriendyearning.gay
me, crying: please. just tell me what the software does
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