Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

RE: https://digipres.club/@foone/116241346584343156

since starting this, I've gotten sued by a credit card company for being unable to pay, and had to pay 700$ due to a delivery fuckup.

Please, if you can donate, it'd really help.

If you're not in the know: Ray Blanchard is the originator of "autogynephilia," and Lisa Littman is known for using highly biased methods to try and validate "rapid onset gender dysphoria."

Don't respond to them. Tell your friends not to respond to them. Tell them to tell their friends.

https://masto.ai/@transworld/116251795958925187

my cool friend Ash achieved the impossible: ✨millennial homeownership!✨ plumbing passed inspection, and then failed, immediately and EXPENSIVELY. 🙃

she has no social media presence but she's always had my back, so i'd like to have hers. here's a link to her gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ashs-urgent-home-repairs-in-salem

and a charity bundle with a zine, wallpapers, discord emojis and printables i'm selling to help: https://ko-fi.com/s/1555f7d616

#crowdfund #gofundme #mutualaidrequest

Ofcom is undertaking a paid survey for people who work for companies in scope of the UK #OnlineSafetyAct. If any of y'all are running Mastodon/Akkoma/Pixelfed/etc servers and have some kind of legal entity for doing so, drop me a line and I'll make an introduction.

I'm gonna ask if that's *just* companies or if any community forum counts.

Just heard back from the #OnlineSafetyAct survey folks: they'd also like to hear from people who run informal/volunteer community sites. Anyone who runs a Mastodon instance, Pixelfed server, PHPBB forum, etc. and has any UK users.

If you'd like me to put you in touch with the survey group, feel free to DM me, or email aphyr@aphyr.com, with your name, email, and the site you run. I'll pass that on to Serrula Research, which is running the survey for Ofcom.

My cat almost did a somersault by accident the other day because she got so excited for pets.
Here is my interpretation:

This is everyone's friendly reminder that the CBC has a Lite version! It's designed for people in low-bandwidth areas, which has the delightful side effect of it not having ads (or pre-load ad auctions), trackers, or whatever new design choice the designers think will get clicks. It's very nice to just have text and a wee bit of CSS.

cbc.ca/lite

Anyone got experience of screen readers on fedi? I can't really see since to eye surgery I want to keep up with you all and have some mental stimulation.

So after 16 months of illness I'm back on my feet and applying to jobs, but I'm completely broke and the combination of car+power+storage for 6 people is due, with a lot of late fees added in.
I'm sorry to ask, but any amount would help. Thanks so much!

https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing/goal?g=54
#mutualaid

This seems to be the most comprehensive listing and discussion of pharmacological treatments for Long Covid and associated conditions. Just released by Patient Led Research Collaborative https://www.rthm.com/resources/blogs/long-covid-treatment-guide

#LongCovid

Wren fully fuzzed in her sleep. It's hard to tell in this picture, but she had a highly defined back ridge, all the more noticeable because she was otherwise fast asleep.

Joh cuddled her awake and she was *delighted*. I don't think she'd been having pleasant dreams!

#CatsOfMastodon

Four! Four beautiful moth orchid (𝘗𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘴 sp.) blossoms, ah ah ah... 🧛‍♀️

#BloomScrolling #orchid #HousePlants #Phalaenopsis

look what his perverted ass is looking at while being unsupervised

he is dead ass just staring at the lamp the whole time

Someone looking for a Black artist to commission "for a full color illustration of a face or bust of a character from one of their novels":

https://weirder.earth/@savagegoose/116230240103494176

So, I recently saw some quiet discussion about a paper where researchers reverse-engineered and disclosed some attacks against PhotoDNA, the very-super-duper-secret algorithm used by tech megacorps to scan for illegal images.

They didn't make any code public, and so... I did: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna

A _complete_ reverse-engineering and commented Python reimplementation of the algorithm from publicly-leaked binaries.

This means that studying the algorithm and any potential flaws is now much more accessible.

This took only about two days (once I knew that there even _was_ a leaked binary to compare against), which just goes to again show that security through obscurity never works.

🔁 encouraged

do NOT let your moths browse the internet unsupervised

he nearlly order lamps for 1.5k€ from ikea