Local moth fairy loves lämp, more at 11 @elfi@pixie.town

It's March 10-- Mar10-- and you know what that means; it's Great Giana Sisters day! Break out the C64s (Amigas, Ataris ST, etc. are acceptable as well)

If I open my wardrobe for the briefest of moments, it suddenly gets filled with cats

#CatsOfMastodon

I really want people to frame these conversations as reasons to do a thing rather than not.

People in the fedi are exceptionally good at identifying challenges, but always frame it as reason to give up.

If we can see the problems, we know what to fix.

Do not let corporate methodology define the future. The internet began as a weird little project bolstered by people who became obsessed with a small thing.

Let Mozilla die if they want to walk off a cliff. https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114082823521695617

If you dislike the state of Firefox, please recognize that part of the way it got there was by becoming dependent on the gravy train from Google.

It will still be years before it’s usable, but one thing you could consider is to help fund https://servo.org — it’s a fully independent rendering engine with some really great next-generation tech that is going to make the web a more secure, and a very large % of its contributor base comes from a worker cooperative’s members who happen to be some of the finest minds in browser technology.

The project is flourishing, and you can help it continue to chug along and even accelerate. There’s no telling if it’ll definitely become a full alternative to the current triad of chrome/safari/firefox, but we won’t find out if we don’t try. The future is what we make it.

From: @are0h
https://h-i.social/@are0h/114084845340789932

The main street of Bowmanville, Ontario is going to be blocked off all week because of a fire. The businesses are open, but no cars can drive through. If you live nearby, this might be a good time to do some local shopping! The mayor has announced temporary free parking.

https://www.cp24.com/local/durham/2025/03/06/investigation-underway-following-significant-fire-in-downtown-bowmanville/

#Bowmanville #ontario #shoplocal

Local cheesecake place is donating all of their proceeds to Ukraine today, and that means it's time to eat way too much cheesecake

You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU! 🔥We've just released a full microcode toolchain, with source code and tutorials. https://bughunters.google.com/blog/5424842357473280/zen-and-the-art-of-microcode-hacking

Crowdfunding for a Palestinian videogame: https://www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/palestine_skating_game__grind_shoot_paint__do_graffiti_to_arabic_electronic_music

You skate, shoot paint and do graffiti while listening to Arabic electronic music and liberating your land from settlers scum.

What else would you want?

#FreePalestine #FromTheRiverToTheSea #Crowdfunding

Just had some non-fun following up on Niels' post ( https://bsd.network/@niels/114106538216130985 ) about weird requests after upgrading to #Nextcloud 31.0.0.

TLDR: NC 31.0.0 seems to share user data by unclear-maybe-default for federated sharing (public access?). May include sensitive PII (Phone, Email, Address) based on settings.

To prevent this, set Admin Settings > Sharing > Federated Cloud Sharing > Allow people to publish their data to a global and public address book to off

Write-up: https://doing-stupid-things.as59645.net/nextcloud/self-hosting/dataleak/2025/03/08/es-ist-alles-in-der-next-cloud.html

I know the moment in Enigma Heart y'all are really waiting for.

My dragon was upset about a game that treated kobolds poorly, so I made this <3

You don't know Jennifer Herman's name, but you should. She became the lead power subsystem engineer for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. Her tireless work for months on end is, more than anything else, the reason why our twin girls survived the deadly 2007 Martian dust storms.

And now she's the lead power subsystem engineer for Voyager. In the same quiet, dedicated way, she's the one making the tough calls that'll help keep *them* alive for years to come.

https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shuts-off-voyager-science-instrument-more-power-cuts-ahead-to-keep-both-probes-going-2000572202 #space

Saw my mutual use this meme as a showcase of her model's expressions. I loved that idea so I did it as well!

Here's three of my models and how they look angy vs sweet!

#vtuber #envtuber #blender3d #3dmodels

It's not explicit in our Code of Conduct, but in case there was any dispute:
Stanning Elon Musk is a bannable offense; that's Nazi Apologism.

Use that report button folks

update: Brother deny locking down printers

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/

oh no. now Brother are doing it too

"Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates"

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals