fox

matt, 1 month ago to random

We need to make it socially acceptable for adults to wear sneakers with flashing lights in.

fox, 1 month ago to random

Time to watch: The World's Best Sellers: The fine art of seperating people from their money.

"In this unique film, Dennis Hopper sends Hermann Vaske on a mission around the world to find out about the crossover between creative disciplines, and how this is changing the creative and commercial arts."

kaia, 3 months ago to random

how do I purchase a mouse pad that does not reek of chemicals for several months?

fox, 3 months ago to random

Why I am not ordering anything from the UK any more:

Sticker: GBP 2,50
Shipping to NL: GBP 3,00

Eh fine, I am happy to support an artist. So the sticker was sent to NL.

Then customs decided to take their share of 21%. So Converted back to euro this is 21% of € 5,43 which is € 1,14.

Are we there yet? Nooo, the postal agency wants their share too for handling all this terrible paperwork and is charging me another € 6 for it.

So, i got me a sticker for € 12,57. Super. So yeah, Thank #brexit for this and everyone who voted for it. I'm not ordering anything any more from the UK. :(

fox, 5 months ago to husky

Support your local businesses.

#comic #husky #huskies #anthropomorphic #local #business #support

volpeon, 5 months ago to random

Warning: this post is protected against theft ​:drgn_nom_blobcat:​

fox, 5 months ago to random

Most accurate subtitle ever.

fox, 5 months ago to random

While waiting for a work process to finish, I felt the need to enter "A woolly mammoth, eating a bowl of noodles." in the command prompt of an AI picture generator.

#mammoth #noodles

An AI generated image, produced with the prompt "A wooly mammoth, eating a bowl of noodles."
An AI generated image, produced with the prompt "A wooly mammoth, eating a bowl of noodles."
An AI generated image, produced with the prompt "A wooly mammoth, eating a bowl of noodles."

stux, 6 months ago to random

Funny when you bring up Trump, some people right away start with: "yesss but Biden this and Biden that"

Yoo! I'm not talking about Biden "this" or Biden "that". Stop trying to direct the attention away from the real problem

People who do this are part of the problem

Free_Press, 7 months ago to Ukraine

Meanwhile on the Russian side of their invasion...

Charging MLRS Grad, Russian army style.

Second army in the world, they said...
#AureFreePress #Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey

video/mp4

fox, 7 months ago to random

How to save yourself while choking on something:

https://video.3xn.nl/watch?v=LQUKhyZ9j7s

j9t, 7 months ago to web

robots.txt 1994–2023:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

robots.txt 2023–?:

User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: Omgilibot
Disallow: /

#web #ai #robotstxt

lowqualityfacts, 7 months ago to random

This happened to my uncle once.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

fox, 8 months ago to random

Don’t forget to have one too every so often.

#selfcare #croissant #pillow #blanket

kaia, 8 months ago to random

Don't just write one sentence and if you don't know the English terms plötzlich auf deutsch weiterzumachen. Das ist ein massiver brainfuck and it's impolite to people who don't read both languages :angry_cirno:

dgar, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

G’day. I’m Jon.

In 1975 I was born in Gosford, NSW, Australia. My father moved to follow the work. He was a surveyor. My earliest memories are of Darwin, in the Northern Territory. I was in preschool at the time. Grade 1 was in The Blue Mountains near Sydney. Central Queensland saw me doing Correspondence School in Grade 5. Outback Queensland in Grade 7 to the mining town of Blackwater. Started high school in Tropical Cairns and finished high school in the port city of Gladstone back in Central Queensland.

Since school I've worked as a computer technician, cotton chipper in Emerald, karaoke host, Harvey Norman salesman, stringer (news cameraman), voice-overs, air-conditioner installer, tradesman's assistant working on QR coal-hauling locomotives, graphic artist, and pizza delivery driver. I've been a singer/guitarist/songwriter in at least four different bands that never went anywhere. I have probably enough material I've written myself to fill an album, but at this rate I'll probably never get around to recording it. I spent a few years making wedding videos in my own business which I closed down when I got bored of making wedding videos. I worked at a printshop making all kinds of things from business cards to shopfront signage for a long time. Now I’m doing social media posts for an IT business.

I love computer games and all things tech. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX80 that I got in 1981. Second was a Commodore64 followed by a Macintosh II (I say “my” computers, but they were really my fathers, particularly the Mac which he used for CAD work.) After that I got into Windows PC's (or DOS PC's as they were back then) and all the games they offered. Windows 3.11, Windows95, 98, 2000, XP... Then Vista burned me and I now use a Mac.

I've been married since 2000 and have a little block of land with a humble little house on it. We have a cat and no kids.

I didn’t have any interest in politics most of my life. Beyond being able to name the Prime Minister and the Premier of my state, I didn't really care.

When Tony Abbott and the LNP got in, I joined a political party. 90% of my social media became political. I was talking politics with strangers online. I dove headfirst into everything politics and learned everything about how our government is supposed to work and why it didn’t seem to be working as I would have expected. After eight or nine years, I burned myself out on it.

All that time I could have been learning about robotics or playing computer games or recording music.

If politicians did their job and acted in the interests of the people they represent instead of representing the interests of lobby groups that fund their political campaigns, then a huge portion of the world could go back to doing what we do best. Creating, inventing and innovating a diverse multicultural society.

So that’s me!

Now, to become the artist that made it big on Mastodon. 😁

#introduction

fox, 9 months ago to security

@stonehead Hi! I'm glad you asked because I'm sure there are many more people wondering about the same thing! :)

Yes, there is always a risk when you download something from open sources. However, you really cannot trust official sources as well. A good example is Sony's rootkit scandal. [1][2]

Doing basic internet "hygiene" will prevent you from most viruses, though. Having a decent virus scanner will do wonders [3], and the rest comes down to common sense. Be very careful with executables, keep your software (like PDF readers) up to date, look for settings to turn off scripts and perhaps consider sanitizing your PDFs before opening them. [4][5]

An interesting point on the aforementioned website is the following:

"With budgets getting tighter, we understand the appeal of free antivirus software. While there have been great changes in free subscriptions, the most notable being they now offer real-time malware protection, they are still minimal compared to a full antivirus security suite.

There are some exceptions, but most free antivirus programs don't offer web protections. This means they won't stop malware from downloading if you accidentally click on a malicious link. They will snatch it before it has a chance to infract your computer, but we feel better than a threatening file doesn't get that far into the process."

I hope this helped you on your way, and if not, do let me know! :)

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[1] https://www.theregister.com/2005/11/01/sony_rootkit_drm
[2] https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/10/autorunning_away/
[3] https://www.techradar.com/best/best-free-antivirus (go to the product's websites manually to avoid tracking through links)
[4] https://github.com/Kerbalnut/Sanitize-PDF
[5] https://www.webpdf.de/en/pdf-redact-and-sanitize

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#pdf #security #virus #script #macro #worm #epub #software #antivirus #rootkit #sanitize

fox, 9 months ago to random

Definitely do not go to these websites to get free study books. Also, don't go to https://12ft.io/ to unlock paywalls.

libgen.is, pk1lib.org, ethos.bl.uk, sabaq.pk, sci-hub.se, archive.org, lej4learning.com.pk, pdfdrive.com, unpaywall.org

Avoid them as much as possible, the links go: libgen.is pk1lib.org ethos.bl.uk sabaq.pk sci-hub.se archive.org lej4learning.com.pk pdfdrive.com
You also definitely don't want to be installing the unpaywall.org chrome extension. After all, who needs a super handy #openaccess tool that allows you, with a click of a button, to access any closed article?
i also HATE this website archive.org, i do not recommend!! Definitely don't use email generators to “borrow” books from there To clarify...because each email is linked to a set number of books, do NOT use guerrillamail.com to generate unlimited emails for unlimited books?

dgar, 9 months ago to random

I call my horse Mayo.

Sometimes Mayo neighs.

LMAO

fox, 9 months ago to random

Ah. Wipkingen in Zürich. Such good fun we've had there! ^^

https://goo.gl/maps/rWmjcpgFpNCSYei36

#wipkingen #zurich #june #2019

fox, 10 months ago to random

I really, REALLY need to resume digitizing EPs and LPs again and publish them, but I do not have the energy for that currently x.o

It will resume again though, soon.