my great uncle was a military orchestra conductor and eventually ended up in tiraspol and settled there with his family. no one really had contact with that part of the family...until we got a letter in the early 90s. asking for a vhs recorder. because they had heard we made it to the west, and therefore, we owed them, and they wanted a vhs recorder. so obviously my mom got them a used vhs recorder, because not doing so would be kinda admitting that all that emigration gave her was depression, xenophobia and isolation.
there's just the small issue where tiraspol ended up being the capital of an internationally unrecognized splinter republic. sending a vhs there turned out to be an bureaucratic nightmare. after regular mail failed, she eventually paid a long-distance bus driver to take it to ukraine and hand it off to someone there.
we never heard anything back.
anyway, that's the shit i think about whenever i see an vhs recorder in the trash
As someone who conversion practices were attempted on, I urge you to sign this petition and get in to the finish line.
I was lucky enough to notice early ok what that “therapist” was trying to do and get out of there. These practices are cruel and dehumanizing.
Free texture websites for 3D artists. I replaced a link with a new one: **OnlyGFX**. I believe cc0-textures' security was compromised, not sure, but playing it safe for now.
#artresources #assets #2dassets #gamedev #indiedev #textures
http://texturer.com/
https://ambientcg.com/
https://duion.com/
https://polyhaven.com/
https://stocksnap.io/
https://texture.ninja/
https://texturelabs.org/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/
https://www.onlygfx.com/
https://www.sharetextures.com/
https://www.texturecan.com/
@joepie91 Om nog maar niet te spreken dat bedrijven miljoenen over de balk smijten om de meningen en het koopgedrag van de bevolking te beïnvloeden door middel van reclames 😬
We just launched Error 417 Expectation Failed an independent foundation supporting radically contemporary Internet art and net-based arts practices. (๑´>᎑<)~*
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The first call is out now:
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Boosting this again for a final push:
Most petitions don't have much impact, but if this European Citizens Initiative on banning conversion therapy reaches 1 million signatures by Saturday it will mean that it will be discussed at the European Parliament.
200,000 people have signed in the last 24 hours and it only needs 190,000 to reach the target.
Please sign and share. https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/
the other thing i will never get tired of is seeing cis straight boy streamers getting extremely confused about kiri's gender because she's soft butch
PSA: you're allowed to play and enjoy games on the easiest settings. This is your free time and you're not less of a gamer for playing games the way they are the most enjoyable for you.
Brought to you by me who has gotten back into Raft on the "peaceful" setting. I don't want to fight sharks, I just want to fish for resources and build. 🤷♀️ So that's what I'm doing.
The EU and honestly any other group of nations can fix the American IT hegemony problem, they can fund universally available FOSS tools that run as cloud services or locally for smaller orgs/businesses. It would not be that expensive, the work force to do it is global and very enthusiastic. Hosting is basically the same (though if you hosting was free your data was never yours) and many tools, already exist. We run infra on Next Cloud, and most of it works great (the email client is meh)
Octopus Energy posted me a 321 A4 page electricity bill printed out on paper as a physical 5cm thick package (on their "Agile tariff" the rate changes every half hour, so there are 48 line items per day). I enquired as to why they'd done that?
Apparently they tried to email it first, but the 15 MB email exceeded my email server's size limit, so they posted a hard copy instead.
Sure, #LetsEncrypt, you can say that using certificates with the ClientAuth UKE is a minor use case and that this functionality was never guaranteed to always be available and all of that. But the fact stays: you are removing a feature from your certificates that has been here for a very long time, just because Google demands this. Why Google wants this? I will ask them. But I am quite sure that this #oopsie side effect is not an oversight.
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Just at the time where all over the world discussions are happening to move mail servers back into organisations big and small instead of relying on the big email providers, due to risks associated with centralising email at (US) providers, you are willing to make life even more complicated for us postmasters. This is not what you should be doing. You should make it easier to use encryption instead of telling us postmasters find out ourselves where we can buy certificates in future.
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Dear #Letsencrypt, you helped secure millions and millions of servers, not just web servers. But your announcement at https://letsencrypt.org/2025/05/14/ending-tls-client-authentication/ about ending Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 because Google changes their requirements would result in your certificates becoming a possible risk for ensuring SMTP traffic. Please think again. Please.
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Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.