Quick! Take his paw! Don't ask questions, nothing bad will happen, I promise!

Thank you Crys_the_Hybrid for the lovely photos!
You can also follow @tazrir on Bluesky (https://buff.ly/45U30EP)

If you apply the Y2K update to Windows 95, will it become Windows 1995?

#retrocomputing

grumpy engineer collie // artfight attack for buklinfur (my uni fella!!)

#art #furry #FurryArt #anthro #MastoArt #digitalart #ArtFight2024 #artfight

For the love of god, stop making every tutorial for a piece of software a goddamn video.

It makes it impossible for people to tell if the tutorial even addresses their question at a glance.

can't get over how cute this screenshot i got is

flower :)

I go into my kitchen and I look at my fridge, whose job is to move heat outside of itself into the room. Centimetres to the right of it is the oven, whose job is to make heat, and we don't like using it in the summer because its whole thing is making heat. Further right is the AC vent, which is connected to a furnace downstairs, which is connected to a big fan outside which blows my heat into the neighbourhood for a few minutes each morning to dry out the air and make it tolerable with a fan. Right next to the furnace, within a metre of it, is the hot water tank, which is another inside-out fridge that takes heat from the basement and puts it into my shower water.

None of these machines are connected together in any way at all

Like, what are we doing here. What are we doing as a species.

Some time ago I came to the conclusion that fursuiting is performance art. But not in the common sense of acting, I do believe it can be considered fine art. But I'm struggling to put my finger on why and how, exactly. I've been trying to marinate my thoughts a bit, and so far I've come up with this:
Through putting the costume on and existing as this being ultimately, far down the line, rooted in the real natural world that we exist in, the self is temporarily reshaped both in the visual sense as well as in psyche into something alien yet completely human in nature. We become our interpretation of reality. How does that affect our relation to it? I don't believe this experience can be crossed out as "just escapism". Especially now that I've kind of tried it myself, I do think there is something more profound about it.
Through fursuiting we allow ourselves the possibility of disjointing our self from our regular human body. How does that affect our perception of it? How does it feel to become inorganic, if even only for a moment?

Does this hold any water? Does anybody have any thoughts on this?

Who wore it better?

🐼 @panda_paco
#AC2024 #Fursuit #FursuitFriday #Fursuiting

I'll tell you something that I'd like to see #Starmer's new government do, and which would go some way to convincing me that they are actually working for our benefit:

taking #covid19 seriously again.

Can we please bring back proper data collection? Free test kits? Encouraging people to stay at home if they test positive? Proper ventilation for schools and other public enclosed spaces? Mask mandates in healthcare facilities?

These things would collectively make a huge difference.

An American government agency holds a unique historical record of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Hopper. But releasing it is complicated, from both a technical and an administrative point of view.

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/jul/10/grace-hopper-lost-lecture-found-nsa

#retrocomputing #computinghistory

Admiral Grace Hopper’s landmark lecture is found, but the NSA won’t release it

In a vault at the National Security Agency lies a historical treasure: two AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes containing a landmark lecture by Admiral Grace Hopper, a giant in the field of computer science.

^{MuckRock Foundation}

Google Chrome now sends telemetry back to Google about CPU, GPU and memory usage via a browser extension that is hidden in the list of extensions.

https://x.com/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018 [$]

https://nitter.poast.org/lcasdev/status/1810696257137959018

#GoogleChrome
#Chrome
#Google

Ysengrin posing in front of a brick wall, taken at AnthrOhio 2024.

#WerewolfWednesday #AnthrOhio #werewolf #fursuit

The year is 2042. AI "employees" are widely used in business and they are compensated better than their human counterparts because management has convinced themselves that AI employees produce higher quality work and are more productive.

An out-of-work writer gets a job by pretending to be an AI. Her work is better than what the other AIs are producing. Management is elated, thinking she's a revolutionary new model. They assign her increasingly high profile projects.

She finds it harder and harder to keep up the ruse, especially because she's fallen in love with one of her co-workers, something an AI doesn't do.

One of the most widely used network protocols is vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that can allow adversaries to gain control over a range of environments, including industrial controllers, telecommunications services, ISPs, and all manner of enterprise networks.

Short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, RADIUS harkens back to the days of dial-in Internet and network access through public switched telephone networks. It has remained the de facto standard for lightweight authentication ever since and is supported in virtually all switches, routers, access points, and VPN concentrators shipped in the past two decades. Despite its early origins, RADIUS remains an essential staple for managing client-server interactions.

Since 1994, RADIUS has relied on an improvised, home-grown use of the MD5 hash function. The result is “Blast RADIUS,” a complex attack that allows an attacker with an active adversary-in-the-middle position to gain administrator access to devices that use RADIUS to authenticate themselves to a server.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/07/new-blast-radius-attack-breaks-30-year-old-protocol-used-in-networks-everywhere/

New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

Ubiquitous RADIUS scheme uses homegrown authentication based on MD5. Yup, you heard right.

^{Ars Technica}

I'm getting out the popcorn for this one. Capitalism made right: if we suffer from heat, then let's get the guys who are responsible for it to pay...

Even though I think the bad guys here have too much money and will throw so many lawyers at the problem that the courts will not be able to hold them all...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/oregon-county-seeks-to-hold-fossil-fuel-companies-accountable-for-extreme-heat/

#heat #climatecrisis #justice

Oregon county seeks to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for extreme heat

Multnomah County's heat dome conditions killed 69 people in 2021.

^{Ars Technica}

Kindness is a virtue. Kindness is punk. Be kind to those who deserve it, especially (but not only) those close to you.

Pass it on.