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keirFox

@keirFox@furry.engineer

Red fox with gray fur that tinkers with broken projects sometimes. Oregon Trail generation. Still watches cartoons.

http://sneakykitsune.com/keir/

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keirFox, to random
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Furries: "UGH we're such horrible people we ruin everything there was a fire at FWA and obviously furries set it and that means we're just as bad as Rainfurrest and no one will ever want us again!"

1 - the fire was a grease fire that burned through the kitchen wall of the Sear hotel restaurant.

2 - that everyone references "the one bad convention" that happened nearly TEN YEARS AGO when there is a furry convention happening pretty much EVERY WEEKEND somewhere in the world means we have a pretty damn good track record.

keirFox,
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@tilton Speaking of which... what is up with ANW? Founders an offshoot of Burned Furs or something?

keirFox, to random
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God damn you are going hard — the lobby is pounding with bass and the entire place feels like a Saturday night at this con five years ago.

Except it is a Thursday afternoon. Holy shit this weekend is going to be insane.

keirFox, to random
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Well, I got fuck-all amount of sleep last night. FWA - here I come. (Although I might not be able to cognitively function upon arrival!)

keirFox, to random
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I fail to see the problem.

https://futurism.com/catholics-defrock-ai-priest-hallucinations

keirFox, to random
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Yesss... good. Good.

keirFox, to random
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Storage is cheap. Please, make your app log stuff beyond "we're getting a null object reference so that probably means the firewall is blocking us. Or the secret doesn't exist. Or the password is wrong. Or the name of the vault is wrong. Or DNS resolution is failing. Or..."

keirFox, to random
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Simpler times. Simpler times, man.

keirFox,
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Ah yes, contact by "bbs".

keirFox, to random
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“Furry conventions must be nothing but really weird panels about sex and—“

Oh, you have no idea. Really.

Screenshot of an event from Furry Weekend Atlanta detailing a panel on nuclear engineering detailing out a talk on physics and the future of nuclear energy.

keirFox, to random
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Three weeks. THREE WEEKS! Who all will I see at FWA?

keirFox,
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For anyone out there: nudge me if you're gonna be at FWA and want to hang out with an old person and drink beer. I talk tech stuff (IT/DevOps war stories), nerd stuff, dumb hobby stuff (Arduino, 3D printing, puzzles), and fox stuff.

keirFox, to random
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Apple Time Machine: "Your backup is complete!"

iCloud Drive in Finder: "Oh, are you sure about that?"

As someone paranoid about data loss I so hate this.

keirFox, to random
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There's a great solution for garbage inkjets out there

keirFox,
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Seriously. Get a cheap Brother laser. They eat any toner you feed them and will fire up and print flawlessly with even a few microns of toner left even after they sit for a full year with no activity at all.

keirFox, to random
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Thoughts on self hosting from a Raspberry Pi at home? This seems like such an immense amount of upkeep and security mess I don’t have the time for but I am growing tired of the limitations of stuff like Dreamhost.

zachleat, to random
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Banning TikTok shows the myopic vision of our lawmakers. The US needs comprehensive data privacy legislation that applies to all social networks and protects our data—and we needed it 15–20 years ago.

keirFox,
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@zachleat "China can't have this data -- that's ours!"

keirFox, to random
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Okay, this might be completely useless but let’s see if I can figure something out. I would like to see if I can at least hear other nodes out there.

keirFox, to random
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That weird thing tech workers from CA do upon meeting you. In the first five minutes you will learn:

  • What they do for a living (okay)
  • How much money they make
  • How much they pay on their rent/mortgage which is presented as anguished pain/suffering
  • How much money they spent on drinks for a group/an expensive meal the night before

I encounter this at my work but...oh it sucks because I run across it frequently at cons. You haven't even told me something important yet - like what kind of beer you enjoy - so I probably don't need to know how much your home value has increased in the past three years? Why is this even presented as introductory information?

keirFox, to random
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Both Glaze and Nightshade are now available to artists. You can now not only protect your work from AI but you can also poison models!

https://venturebeat.com/ai/nightshade-the-free-tool-that-poisons-ai-models-is-now-available-for-artists-to-use/

keirFox, to random
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"I have outgrown the furry fandom and I want to be around normal people now. I don't like the drama and gatekeeping." Okay, first: bye. Second: If you're experiencing drama in the fandom you're hanging out with the wrong people. If you find drama everywhere...that's you. Third: the fandom - along with nearly everything else in this world - is what you make of it. And the fandom has a very special quality which is that it is not defined. If you feel you don't belong but still like what the fandom does, you have the opportunity to make your own space and I promise you if you do that you will get like-minded people who will join you.

Establishing that space for yourself - whatever it may consist of - is what makes the community so wonderful. Go be a nerd with a niche interest: you'll find others like you and maybe even start something amazing!

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🦊

keirFox,
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@paul When social media displays a blatant and obvious good sign.

keirFox,
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@connie @paul And they dominate the good ones. Furries are the canary in the mine -- if you look around in a tech space and don't see furries there being open, it's a red flag.

keirFox,
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@Azure @paul It isn't. It can be, but it doesn't have to be. Furries are just very open about it. Humans are -- most of them -- sexual creatures. Because of the nature of furries having an alternate version of themselves they can experiment with in terms of expressing themselves without fear of social repercussions they tend to be very open about those facets of their lives.

When I go to furry cons I love to speak to hotel management about what hosting furries is like, how the staff is treated, etc. Every one I've spoken to loves furries because they tend to be the most kind to the staff and bring in a ton of money. The most common answer for what group is the most raucous? Conventions that are held for the medical community, apparently.

keirFox, to random
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It bothers me so much that most used fonts have no easily visible differences between "I" and "l" -- there's quite a difference between "Weird Al" and "Weird AI" as only one gets permission for and pays to reuse the work from a talented artist.

keirFox,
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@windbliss I once worked for a place that set service account passwords in a DB and their website for getting them used a sans serif font. The bonus was that they disabled text copy and people complained they couldn't get passwords correct that sometimes contained combinations of "I" and "l". And of course the team that owned the application refused to make any changes, telling people to just deal with it and make guesses.

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