Elfififififififi... @elfi@pixie.town

The Analogue Pocket is a somewhat interesting emulation device (if anything, just because it's a pocketable multi-system emulator console not made by sketchy Chinese companies with no support and the worst UI ever), but I refuse to even entertain the idea of getting one because I hate the company so much.

They clearly consider software emulator developers inferior and their work not worth *any* respect, as evidenced by the incessant disparaging and literally objectively incorrect statements they make at every opportunity about any “competing” software emulators; them at least once attempting to hire independent emulator devs to fix issues in their emulators (and also coincidentally wanting them to halt work on their existing software emulator that could be construed as “competing”) while paying them well under the value of their skills (at least in the one publicly mentioned case, the dev was smart enough not to sign a questionable contract or do any work https://endrift.com/2021/12/13/analogue-pocket-hate-story/); and them using all the research and reverse-engineering work of the community but not contribute their own research back because those damn commie FOSS emulators might make use of it.

The worst AI scraper that doesn't even identify itself as such is still this user agent:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:72.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/72.0

It's not even listed on darkvisitors(.)com

I see 5120 requests in the last 24 hrs alone, all for JPEG & WEBP files. I don't want to know how much bandwidth & energy it consumes, globally.

Easy to block via Cloudflare or .htaccess: Firefox/72 is ages old and no human visitor would use it.

Spread the word.

#AI #Webmaster

How are mice just so good?! @Purriwinkle

Reminder: all Libreboot machines are currently on a heavy discount, on Minifree:

https://minifree.org/

I'm the founder and lead developer of the Libreboot project. Sales fund Libreboot. Libreboot (preinstalled) is free/opensource firmware replacing proprietary BIOS/UEFI on supported hardware. I did a release recently, namely Libreboot 20241008.

Your choice of Debian Linux, other distro or a BSD.

I'm raising money for some planned work in November, hence price cut going for increased sales.

A couple of little Pascal pride stickers based on Jensen & Wirth's book cover and the screenshot in the below thread from @symbo1ics.bsky.social, which had much cuter lettering.

https://bsky.app/profile/symbo1ics.bsky.social/post/3l6infgkfra2n

Yeah, sex is good, but have you ever put your hand on the control rig of your mech and softly whispered a thank you, and your mech's eyes lit up for just a second?

*stands to salute vehicle*

Friend: What are you doing?

Me: a lesbian has gone to a better place

Friend: that's a UHAUL

Me: Yes and she's leaving Indianapolis for somewhere better

You remember these glasses from your last trip to #France, I guess. Here’s the interesting story: Duralex, the manufacturer, was heading for liquidation. Investors that wanted to buy it existed, but they wanted to fire a lot of employees. So the court agreed to a different solution: create a cooperative, make Duralex workers owned. Now give them a hand and buy their glasses instead of the typical IKEA stuff, ok? :) https://eu.duralex.com/en-eu/collections/all-our-products

#Duralex #cooperative #WorkersUnited

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/764129251571236865
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

A gift art for my partner, Altertine.

hello, i am an unemployed trans woman and i need help to pay bills and afford medication and groceries for myself and my partner. anything helps. i hate to do this but i have no other options.

https://ko-fi.com/diddgery

#mutualaid #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #mutualaidrequest

professional computer tamer 💚

I'm in this photo and don't like it.

Furry commissions are open!

Avatar: $40
Conbadge: $60

Single Character, full body, flat color: $80

Add a detailed background: $80
Add shading: $30

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#TTRPG stuff bleeding into real life:

I'm a forever GM. Years ago, I was in a union negotiation with one of my players backing me up as co-rep.

I scored the biggest victory of my life as a union rep. I don't think they ever fully understood either, which made it even better.

Outside ACAS, my player says, "did they just fuck themselves?"

Me: "Maybe. Why would you think that?"

Him: "because you started using your DM-when-we're-about-to-do-something-really-stupid voice"