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CalypsoDerg ΘΔ& :verified_dragon:
@TeensyTinyKobold

rimworld

beeg noodly guy :dragneyes:
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rimworld screenshot of a lindwurm wandering into my village
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@TeensyTinyKobold

rimworld

my first few weeks in my medieval run so far :dragnowo:

its still kind of a mess but im slowly working on fixing it up and improving defenses..although i need to wait for the river to stop flooding before i can wall it off completely
When people say things like "just run your own Mastodon server!"
sirlan <( o brasil é soberano )
@sirlan
stop relying on third parties with your data and start self hosting everything yourself! it's simple and easy and cheap with no downsides

you just need:

- one spare computer with around 100 GB of ram and at least 16 physical cores that you're not using, or about a dozen raspberry pis, to run all the services
- 2+ TB of storage, preferably ssds for media you'll access often
- a battery backup power supply if where you live doesn't have all year round stable electricity
- a business grade internet plan if you want to consistently access any of those services outside your home network
- be constantly looking out for security updates for your home server and dozen services you run
- if you're self hosting your totally legal movie backups then also buying and ripping blurays for every single movie or show you want to see

you know, things that everyone has easy access to, there simply is no reason to not self host every service you use
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stop relying on third parties with your data and start self hosting everything yourself! it's simple and easy and cheap with no downsides

you just need:

- one spare computer with around 100 GB of ram and at least 16 physical cores that you're not using, or about a dozen raspberry pis, to run all the services
- 2+ TB of storage, preferably ssds for media you'll access often
- a battery backup power supply if where you live doesn't have all year round stable electricity
- a business grade internet plan if you want to consistently access any of those services outside your home network
- be constantly looking out for security updates for your home server and dozen services you run
- if you're self hosting your totally legal movie backups then also buying and ripping blurays for every single movie or show you want to see

you know, things that everyone has easy access to, there simply is no reason to not self host every service you use
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@Drayson@dragonchat.org
Dragonchat
The texture of dragon scales must feel absolutely amazing to snuggle up to
Cerulean
@Cerulean@dragon.style

game tinkering

Because my focus has to be increasingly pointless so I don't bait myself into hoping the things I do with my time will mean anything to anyone, I have been going through the image files in Balatro and enhancing them pixel by pixel.

Noting that there are "1x" and "2x" folders of the same assets, I thought, well, does it use them both? Surely it can't be cross-referencing them every time it renders a card. So I used the full resolution of the 2x images to make clearer and easier to read cards, and was very pleased with the results in game. It's like having new glasses. So I've since been working my way through the jokers and tarot as well, adapting the original pixel art faithfully for the most part but taking creative liberties with the lettering for variety.

There are many jokers to go. I suppose I'll make the mod available somewhere when I'm done. It turns out that the game draws only from the 1x files for Soul, all of the celestials, and most of the spectrals. A mysterious process, but I am content to leave those be.
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@fen@yiff.life
Yiff.Life - It's not what you think...
hi, dr. fen here! i officially defended my thesis and i am now a doctor of computer science :)
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@fen@yiff.life
Yiff.Life - It's not what you think...
hi, dr. fen here! i officially defended my thesis and i am now a doctor of computer science :)
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@mildsunrise@tech.lgbt
LGBTQIA+ and Tech
apparently someone at NVIDIA googled "Rust logo" and
youtube video from "NVIDIA Developer" titled "What is CUDA Tile?" where they show a compilation pipeline. the upper stage, "Domain Specific Language", includes logos for three languages (Python, C++ and Rust) but for Rust they used the wrong one (the game)
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@stokememommy@ni.hil.ist
ni.hil.ist
My sis is still recovering from an eviction while being homeless and somehow managing a full time cna job, but has little to get her back on her feet. She does so much to support my girlies and itd mean a lot if ya could share this around so she can get her needs covered.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-a-rubbergirl-cna-in-getting-some-working-wheels?attribution_id=sl:3c248933-ebd8-46ac-84e1-cb9808941149&lang=en_US&ts=1765119772
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org
Mastodon @ SDF
Well, you can't say you weren't warned.

#cat
A cardboard box reads, “WARNING: If left empty and unattended this box will contain a cat.” The pictured box does indeed contain a cat.
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@gothodile@furs.social
Furs.Social
hi friends. I really don’t like to have to be among the many asking for help, with so many needing help lately. but my unemployment has run out, and my jobhunt continues to be just a series of rejections, if I hear back at all. needing to rely on others is just part of the trans experience it seems, if you don’t have the luck to be wearing programmer socks for a living.

if you can spare some money for a nonbinary transfemme disaster, I have a Ko-Fi over at:

https://ko-fi.com/gothodile

if you can’t, boosts are very much appreciated.

if by chance you work for a company looking for an experienced helpdesk technician, I’ve done PC breakfix for a decade and I can handle junior admin tasks on Windows and Linux servers.

in the meantime, I’m pushing myself to stream and write to entertain people. you can catch me working on my retro backlog at:

https://picarto.tv/Gothodile

when I manage to finish some of my creative writing, I’ll post an update both here on the fediverse and on Ko-Fi. I’m writing some aesop stories where the animal people are gay and the messaging leans heavily toward self-actualization and building socialism though community.

thank you so much for whatever you can do to help me out in these trying trans-hostile times.
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I've watched fnaf 2 and I'm so happy about it, it's full of references and it hitted my nostalgia (fnaf was one of my biggest fixations when I was younger lol) :ablobfoxbongo:
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@arcanicanis@were.social
were.social
It’s so grating how the lesson of #fediblock and such still hasn’t been learned/intuited by a majority of furry fandom yet. Everyone’s so quick to jump on the soapbox and complain about ineffectiveness of applying broad-sweeping blocklists when they’re negatively impacted by it, and try to speak in a noble manner of morals and principles. Yet, typically in barely a few posts/days later, are still defending much of it as a necessity to ‘solve the Nazi problem’, when it does absolutely nothing of the sort. Blocking “Nazis” (whereas that term is used in such a broad spectrum from: actual non-sockpuppet neo-Nazis, to ‘people I disagree with’, that it makes it meaningless) does not make them disappear, it’s no more than the logic of a child hiding under their bedsheets hoping for the imagined monster to go away.

If you look back into history of the fediverse, even back before ActivityPub became a thing (back in OStatus days): it’s a pattern where a lot of the heavily blocked instances ended up continuing to live on, while the over-moderated instances killed themselves off by crippling their user’s ability to intercommunicate per overprotective moderation. In fact, in the present day it’s where a lot of the ‘most active’ fediverse instances are the most blocked, and yet fediblock puts very little of any dent in it. You know what happens when you list an instance in a fediblock list? You irrevocably start to put them in the “banned” side of the fediverse, the space where people don’t have to walk on eggshells nor try to soften their words to appease the sensitivities of the more overmoderated instances.

On the “banned” side, there’s no point to try to cater to the fediblock crowd anymore, because that’s already been irrevocably severed. If you’re listed once, it’s just blindly recirculated to other lists, and never resolvable. So instead of “keeping the Nazis out”, whereas the practices of fediblock–you’re actually pushing more people to ‘that side’ of the internet, and causing the opposite of whatever ‘social justice’ endeavor you’re on. I’ve actually made far more genuine and authentic friends from fedi than I have from Discord and Telegram by far, majority of friends which are on the ‘banned’ side, versus being around the people that’ll ditch out from you at the moment of getting any ‘cancel culture’ labeling.

I almost feel bad for these people that wrap themselves so deep into such fleeting, fickle online associations (usually also chasing after parasocial relationships too). Always so quick to startle, offend, or whatever. The ever-moving ‘chase’ of jumping from Twitter, to fedi, to Bluesky just to ‘not literally be in a Nazi bar’, like some neverending Scooby-Doo monster chase scene. What is so staggering and harmful in witnessing word choices you disagree with? You can just shrug it off, ignore, and move about your day. It’s no surprise that anxiety disorders are so profoundly ubiquitous in the present, if people can’t de-condition themselves from going panic mode in stumbling across something they weren’t expecting. But yet people believe it’s a responsibility to hide any level of provoking content, as if it’s “protecting” them, instead of realizing it grows their phobias.

A fediverse server is not a private Discord guild, it is not a Telegram group, it’s to be handled as internet infrastructure like an email server, a backbone router, etc–you don’t interfere with legitimate traffic just because you disagree with differing viewpoints or lexicon, otherwise you greatly reduce the effectiveness of the network and just push people back to centralized services. If you want a moderated community then start a centralized forum, a chat server, or any other variety of closed-space communities.

If you routinely have problems being a center of negative attention, then: stop virtue signaling, stop acting as ‘internet tough guy’, stop doing ‘callout’ posts to provoke drama, stop openly virtuing every block you make, stop trying to make anything mundane to be political, and you will start to be virtually invisible to these people. This isn’t even just exclusive to posting online, some of it applies to in-person interaction as well. Generally only the miserable prefer to be around the miserable, and usually it’s the most miserable people that exhibit most of the aforementioned behaviors. Stop trying to act as some different personality online, and instead talk how you genuinely would in-person.

Self-reflect. Sometimes you may have character flaws that you can improve on; don’t fall into the bait of “feel good” content, or the narcissistic “you’re absolutely perfect the way you are, don’t change a thing”, else you stunt yourself from self-improvement.
Was #pondering, if we just stopped selling ultra-processed foods, we wouldn't need so many allergy warnings. Food you buy would contain what you'd expect it to
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CalypsoDerg ΘΔ& :verified_dragon:
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, venty

how do neruotypical people even do this and not want to fucking maul somebody
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, venty

just had some phone calls with a local place and mightve figured out why unemployment is denying me,,apparently i was supposed to verify my identity earlier this year and i forgot to actually do that process before going back into unemployment recently..so i feel a bit better knowing a way forward now instead of just getting stuck on hold
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CalypsoDerg ΘΔ& :verified_dragon:
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request

heya,,i really hate having to go back to this..but a couple of weeks ago i lost my job because depression and burnout was starting to take a toll on me.,,im currently trying to figure out what unemployment needs from me so i could stop getting denied,,christmas is coming up when both my mom and i are broke to get any presents for my siblings,,.plus trying to figure out how to cover for bills and pet food next month is really stressing us out.. december is always a really hard month for us..plus its not easy finding a job during the winter,..

we were able to get the auction called off of the house and are currently working to pay back our family from the gofundme money from my last mutual aid.,,but if anyone would have enough to donate so we could have a less stressful holidays,,i would really really appreciate it

boosts would also be really appreciated so this gets out to more beings,,also i have a ko-fi set up now if youd prefer donating from there..thank you :dragnheart:

$50/100

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SmolKobold

https://ko-fi.com/calypsodragon
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@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, -mh

welp i just got immediately denied for unemployment for this week,,i have no idea what info im supposed to provide for them and all of their phone services are fucked or taking hours to be on hold for rn,.,

i hate living here so much,,
my unemployment benefits for the last 2 weeks getting denied..some text is censored to prevent doxing
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@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request

heya,,i really hate having to go back to this..but a couple of weeks ago i lost my job because depression and burnout was starting to take a toll on me.,,im currently trying to figure out what unemployment needs from me so i could stop getting denied,,christmas is coming up when both my mom and i are broke to get any presents for my siblings,,.plus trying to figure out how to cover for bills and pet food next month is really stressing us out.. december is always a really hard month for us..plus its not easy finding a job during the winter,..

we were able to get the auction called off of the house and are currently working to pay back our family from the gofundme money from my last mutual aid.,,but if anyone would have enough to donate so we could have a less stressful holidays,,i would really really appreciate it

boosts would also be really appreciated so this gets out to more beings,,also i have a ko-fi set up now if youd prefer donating from there..thank you :dragnheart:

$50/100

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SmolKobold

https://ko-fi.com/calypsodragon
CalypsoDerg ΘΔ& :verified_dragon:
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, -mh

welp i just got immediately denied for unemployment for this week,,i have no idea what info im supposed to provide for them and all of their phone services are fucked or taking hours to be on hold for rn,.,

i hate living here so much,,
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my unemployment benefits for the last 2 weeks getting denied..some text is censored to prevent doxing
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@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, venty

how do neruotypical people even do this and not want to fucking maul somebody
CalypsoDerg ΘΔ& :verified_dragon:
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request

heya,,i really hate having to go back to this..but a couple of weeks ago i lost my job because depression and burnout was starting to take a toll on me.,,im currently trying to figure out what unemployment needs from me so i could stop getting denied,,christmas is coming up when both my mom and i are broke to get any presents for my siblings,,.plus trying to figure out how to cover for bills and pet food next month is really stressing us out.. december is always a really hard month for us..plus its not easy finding a job during the winter,..

we were able to get the auction called off of the house and are currently working to pay back our family from the gofundme money from my last mutual aid.,,but if anyone would have enough to donate so we could have a less stressful holidays,,i would really really appreciate it

boosts would also be really appreciated so this gets out to more beings,,also i have a ko-fi set up now if youd prefer donating from there..thank you :dragnheart:

$50/100

https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SmolKobold

https://ko-fi.com/calypsodragon
@TeensyTinyKobold

mutual aid request, -mh

welp i just got immediately denied for unemployment for this week,,i have no idea what info im supposed to provide for them and all of their phone services are fucked or taking hours to be on hold for rn,.,

i hate living here so much,,
my unemployment benefits for the last 2 weeks getting denied..some text is censored to prevent doxing
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I made my blog, ulveon.net, so I could share my ideas in an honest and uncensored manner, but somehow I feel like I am still not able to escape harassers.

One of the most powerful lessons of 2025 is that the only people who never get in trouble are those that think nothing, say nothing, and are generally extremely careful about sharing their ideas or standing up in any way. For, no matter what you think, there apparently will always be someone who wishes your death. I think that is pretty crazy.
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12/13/2025, 10:53:03 PM
Elon Musk must be executed. He is a threat to literally everyone, and especially those who believe their lies. I am tired of pretending like we can find a middle ground with Elon Musk. We cannot. He is a rich psychopath who does not care about anyone or anything other than his own wealth growing exponentially.

Elon Musk must be executed. Immediately.
arcanicanis
@arcanicanis@were.social
But the long-term plays out a whole lot differently than you expect from the short-term you envision.

Even if say such an incident happened, how do you hold with such certainty that no force is going to sweep in, use the 'opportunity' as an excuse for something even more of an 'authoritarian' powergrab, 'fascism', or some of the like?

There are plenty of examples in just the few recent decades of how an incident can be weaponized into something else.

I don't know. I don't have any single person I could name that warrants any sort of termination, and usually it feels like a warning sign of someone not seeing the broader sociology of things, or being constantly fed an extremely tilted worldview, especially when they're gauging someone solely by public appearances, of the snippets they see. Even in partisan politics, there's still nobody on "the other side of the fence" that I'd be cheering for the fatal demise of.

I hold a great disdain for mainstream media, and their capacity to grossly distort, mischaracterize, and even flip public perception on situations (e.g. like "the repeat felon that curb-stomped babies is actually the real victim here" kind of crap). Even in my most dark psychopathic fantasies, I still cannot logically see any situation where some 'politically-motivated assassination' turns out to a net-positive, because there's all that capacity to turn it into a weapon that can be used back against you with even far greater force.