Elfi, known bug enjoyer @elfi@pixie.town

It’s November. I need to make sure I can at least get through the last grueling months of the year. I have a decent buffer to hold me at least for a week or two but bills still need to get paid and I still need to eat.

That’s pretty much it, unless something pops up.

The links are below, you can help me or boost to folks who can. just help a disabled boy get by 🫩

(I’m gonna have to change my stuff soon, as my move has been put on hold for about a year bc of landlord hand wringing)

Wishlists

Throne: https://throne.com/sparklejinx/

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/19TE8UE2TYCM4

Give Directly
https://cash.me/$melaninpony
https://paypal.me/melaninpony

@mutualaid

#TransCrowdFund #BlackMutualAid
#DisabilityCrowdfund #MutualAid #BlackMastodon #MovingFund
#MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris
#MastodonForKamala

I am (un)happy to report the system is fekkin useless, 6 different orgs, 0 boots on the ground help, 0 financial support.🙄
And yet I persist..
Need $600 for last of moving costs.
And need ~$500/mo to cover hired help so I stop floundering and have free spoons to put my life back together, and build https://turtlebower.org/ to stabilize #housing for myself and other #spoonies
Every lil bit helps. 💞
https://ko-fi.com/valerie7173
Or DM for etrans.

I know compassion fatigue is high & wallets are low, but my twin & I are disabled Black parents just trying to get by. We're scraping the bottom of the barrel & need food, meds, & transit fare. I know it's a lot.

Me: 185/500 cashapp/vmo SingsongRaptor

Sis: 160/500 cashapp/vmo squiddcandy

We also have mutual aid on our throne #wishlist

Mine: https://throne.com/SingsongRaptor
Hers: https://throne.com/bayonetbunny

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid   #MutualAidRequest #DisabledCrowdfund #BlackMastodon
#MABoost

doctor says "treatment is simple. great website protector Cloudflare is in town. go see them and they'll surely get you up and running smoothly again."

"but doctor" says website,

Newgrounds guide to spotting AI audio

this is fucking great and completely accurate in my experience. you do not need to hear much Suno output to pick all of this shit. https://www.newgrounds.com/wiki/help-information/site-moderation/how-to-detect-ai-audio

Rebecca Heineman is a goddamn legend among women. She did SO much great stuff, from getting Another World to run on 16-bit consoles not in the least bit designed to handle it, to making sure that the Kinect works when you're wearing a skirt, to tirelessly keeping the mac gaming scene alive, to making the worst version of DOOM kinda glorious in its own way.

And she did so much to boost trans visibility. By being so unapolagetically loud and proud as herself there's absolutely no goddamn way of counting how many of us she helped clear a path for.

She will be missed so goddamn hard!

DO NOT GET YOUR HORMONES FROM THESE EXPLOITATIVE SERVICE-SLOPPIFYING VULTURES.

This has been a public service announcement from Dot Maetrix

The last toast from the legend herself:

Valhalla really really reeked of beer, but Jennell seems happy

The other angels are tired of me saying “fight for the other users” while throwing my halo around

I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass

- Becky

various

Alright I learned that Bitwarden allows LLM generated code and KeePassXC does the same now, can you give me any alternatives, I'm not too into having my passwords protected by an infected codebase.

if you use keepassxc, do not update past the current latest update (2.7.10) as future updates will include LLM generated code, which is a utterly horrible idea for an application that manages people's passwords

the maintainers approve of this and don't see the horrible security implications in allowing it

I added a new deep freezer to my sister's #ThroneWishlist because we're now worried about putting food in it. That freezer is twenty years old anyway, so it was working up to its lifespan anyway.

Sister's food goal: 160/500

Her cashapp and Venmo: squiddcandy

Her Throne #Wishlist (with mutual aid options too)
https://throne.com/bayonetbunny

#MutualAid #BlackMutualAid  #TransCrowdFund #MutualAidRequest #TransMutualAid #DisabledCrowdfund #BlackMastodon
#MABoost #HelpFolksLive2025 #usgovtshutdown

HEADS UP:
Steam allows returns of COD7 because of the non-disclosed AI slop. So if you bought it and is disappointed, please return it for a refund!!

https://frvr.com/blog/call-of-duty-black-ops-7-is-littered-with-ai-art-slop-because-your-70-means-nothing-anymore/

#Gaming #Steam #COD7 #AI #Tech #Enshitification #ConsumerRights

Hey, Seattle retro tech folks! If you see someone offloading a bunch of CPS2/Naomi/Neo Geo PCBs, please reach out to Gamecenter down in Kent - they just had their truck hijacked and a bunch of boards, original marquees, and other parts stolen from them https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/game-over-25k-tech-stolen-kent-arcade/FIVDROI4QZDBTE6FSZWAG3EWXU/

Does anyone have any recommendations for a Mastodon app on iOS?

I've tried the official app but I'm having scroll issues among other UX quirks that aggravate me.

Bonus points if I can post without paying an IAP.

I did a thing.

I’ve had a long-standing love of stickers on laptops. I know a lot of you do too! So I built a site to highlight them. At Hope next week I’ll take as many pics (with permission) of the best stickered laptops I can find and post them.

It’s always sad when a laptop gets upgraded, the old one tossed, and that sticker canvas is lost. I’m trying to preserve it.

Please submit pics of your laptops so I can “seed the tip jar,” as it were.

https://stickertop.art

I'm looking for a new job in game development. I'm a software developer with experience working with artists and musicians. I can design and build systems, and can also do simple 3D+animations and music.
Any leads would be appreciated.

#AskFedi: Long shot, but: anyone have an old Trust Soundforce1200 speaker set? The ~2000 era beige boxes with the wooden subwoofer. It doesn't need to function perfectly or even necessarily be complete. I need replacement parts for mine...

(Yes I know it's old, no I haven't found any speaker set that can replace it to my standards, no anything Logitech isn't an option. If you know this specific speaker set and the unique sound it produces, and have a recommendation for a suitable modern replacement, it would be very welcome though! But no generic purchasing recommendations please.)