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LiquidParasyte

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Unstable shapeshifter, semi-liquid state of matter
Quite fond of furries, fursuits, fursuiters and otherwise
Will like and repost lewd things (almost always content flagged though). Viewer discretion is advised.

Things that may be useful to look through:
#LiquidLearnsLinux

🔞 Minors DNI

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , to random

Microsoft announces a new marketing strategy for the Year of the Linux Desktop 😉 Thank you for doing this. 😂 Nobody asked for this kind of product that breaks all privacy and safety standards. So choose wisely

A screenshot of post on Twitter by Pavan Davuluri (Microsoft employee) stating that "Windows is evolving into an agentic OS, connecting devices, cloud, and AI to unlock intelligent productivity and secure work anywhere. Join us at #MSIgnite to see how frontier firms are transforming with Windows and what's next for the platform. We can't wait to show you!"
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@nixCraft I'd rather ignite Microsoft's entire software stack

@soatok@furry.engineer avatar soatok , to random

I've never looked into Nostr, but this sounds like a mess.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45304646

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@soatok from the details in the thread it seems like they've transitioned to a newer, less awful cryptography based on ChaCha20

But woof not great that it started out that way

@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar aral , to random

Look, Jeff Atwood, it is difficult to take you seriously when you write authoritatively on a subject you clearly don’t understand.

GDPR doesn’t mandate cookie notices.

Cookie notices are malicious compliance by the surveillance-driven adtech industry.

If you’re not tracking people, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re only using first-party cookies for functional reasons, you do not need a cookie notice, period.

If you’re using third-party cookies to track people – i.e., if you’re sharing their data with others – then you must have their consent to do so. Because, otherwise, you are violating their privacy. Even then, the law doesn’t mandate a cookie notice.

How would you conform to EU law without a cookie notice if your aim wasn’t malicious compliance?

You would not track people by default and you would make it so they have to go your site’s settings to turn on third-party tracking if, for some inexplicable reason, they wanted that “feature”.

Boom!

No cookie notice necessary.

What’s that?

But that would destroy your business because your business is founded on the fundamental mechanic of violating people’s privacy?

Good.

Your business doesn’t deserve to exist.

Because the real bullshit here isn’t EU legislation that protects the human right to privacy, it’s the toxic Silicon Valley/Big Tech business model of farming people for data that violates everyone’s privacy and opens the door to technofascism.

https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/115120175033311443

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@aral "Yes, you can naively argue that every website should encrypt all their traffic all the time, but to me that's a "boil the sea' solution."

Talk about takes that didn't age well

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange avatar 0xabad1dea , to random

It's totally reasonable to be more cautious these days, but don't let that drive you to have opsec panic attacks that aren't founded in common sense. For example... it makes no sense to be worried someone might figure out you're queer or a leftist if you're too open about your politics while posting... on fediverse, the queer leftist social media platform. They already know, chief.

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@soatok @0xabad1dea I completely forgot you were quoted by the goddamn NIST

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux Hazardous Effects intensifies

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu avatar EUCommission , (edited ) to random

What if the next big AI breakthrough came from Europe? đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș

We’ve got a plan to make this happen:

🏭 13 AI Factories to bring together top talent, high-quality data, and powerful computing.

🚀 AI Gigafactories with 100,000 state-of-the-art AI chips.

📊 Data Labs to curate large, high-quality data volumes.

🎯 An Apply AI Strategy to boost industrial use in EU sectors.

đŸ’Ș Attracting global talent.

Safe, transparent, sustainable AI.

Let's get it there.

â„č https://europa.eu/!xPDyVf

A map of Europe titled "AI Factories" displays the locations of EU-supported Artificial Intelligence Factories (AIFs), marked with AI icons and labelled by name and city. Countries are colour-coded: light blue for AIF Hosting Countries, dark blue for AIF Partner Countries, and yellow for remaining EuroHPC Participating States. The AIFs shown are: LUMI AIF in Kajaani, Finland; MIMER at the University of Linköping, Sweden; PIAST AIF in PoznaƄ, Poland; JAIF in JĂŒlich, Germany; HammerHAI at the University of Stuttgart, Germany; AI2F in BruyĂšres-le-ChĂątel, France; Meluxina-AI at LuxProvide in Bissen, Luxembourg; AIF Austria in Vienna, Austria; SLAIF in Maribor, Slovenia; BSC AIF at the Supercomputing Centre in Barcelona, Spain; IT4LIA at CINECA, Tecnopolo di Bologna, Italy; PHAROS at GRNET in Athens, Greece; and BRAIN++ in Sofia, Bulgaria. Switzerland is marked with an asterisk, noting its participation is contingent upon ratification of its accession to Horizon Europe. An EU flag appears in the top-right corner. The map is created by Eurostat (03/2025).
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@EUCommission ❀ No

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases
Google says this change will simplify things for developers and OEMs.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/google-makes-android-development-private-will-continue-open-source-releases/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica I hope the DoJ rends Android and Chrome from Google bastard hide, MAGA motivations be damned.

@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar tante , to random

Seriously Mozilla.ai: The fuck? The whole project is a bit of a mess but this meme is so tone deaf, such a slap in the face. In a time where people feel corporations abusing all data they can find it is a special kind of brain worm to claim: "Yeah, we also believe that."

Screenshot of a Mozilla blog post about their use of Open street map Data to train ML systems with an embedded meme of the two astronauts claiming that everything is just content for training computer vision systems
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@tante your screenshot also implies that they will be using that accumulated dataset to make generative content and then add that content (read: slop) to the original database

I hate Mozilla.

@kde@floss.social avatar kde , to KDE

This Week in Plasma brings file transfer progress graphs, per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, improved KRunner search result ordering, and much more to your favourite desktop.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/03/15/this-week-in-plasma-file-transfer-progress-graphs/

kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE

A screenshot of KRunner showing the first common sense result of a search.
Panel orientation representation is now synced with the actual panel orientation.

Panel orientation representation is now synced with the actual panel orientation.
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@nictakiego @kde kde@lemmy.kde.social icon KDE +++++ yes yes

I would like more apps and KDE functions to not let the system sleep in the middle of things before they're done

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@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux I had thought that Humble Games had more or less closed last year... so I guess that's not happening then?

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

I'm now 4chan famous apparently. This was on a post titled "It failed" with just the Bluesky logo.

(I got sent it, I don't read 4chan)

The post has a screenshot of my X/Twitter profile.

It's news to me that Bluesky failed 🙃

My X/Twitter profile saying I've moved to Bluesky, with a photo of Musk being a Nazi

My X/Twitter profile saying I've moved to Bluesky, with a photo of Musk being a Nazi
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@gamingonlinux it wasn't too long ago that Chuds on that image board would mock anyone who used the bird site, now they're mad people are leaving it lmao

bro fell off into the abyss

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@gamingonlinux reporting from my side, the link affiliate you used for humble seems to getting denied by my browser or just straight up errors on my end

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar davidrevoy , to random

An email I received left me speechless. Obviously, they don't respect my creative choices. I will not 'fix' this panel under any circumstances.

Screenshot of an email I received this morning (sender/signature hidden): " Object: Request for Minor Adjustment to Episode 36 (Page 10) of Pepper & Carrot Dear Mr. David Revoy, I hope this message finds you well. I'm an avid reader of your wonderful work Pepper & Carrot and would love to share it with children in my family. However, I noticed something in Episode 36 (Page 10) that might concern some parents: the scene where Torreya and Shichimi kiss, followed by Pepper explicitly stating they're a couple. While I deeply respect your creative choices, many conservative parents worldwide prefer to avoid exposing children to romantic relationships between same-sex characters. To make your masterpiece more accessible to families across different cultures, could I kindly suggest modifying this scene? Perhaps replacing the kiss with a friendly cheek kiss, and describing Torreya and Shichimi as "close friends" rather than romantic partners? This subtle approach would allow readers to interpret their relationship naturally while maintaining the story's charm. Your consideration of this small adjustment would help families like mine introduce your beautiful artwork to younger audiences without hesitation. Thank you for your understanding and for continuing to inspire us with Pepper's magical world. Warm regards, February 18, 2025 "
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@davidrevoy "allow readers to interpret their relationship naturally" as if lesbian relationships aren't natural?

Let the door hit them on the way out.

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux the wider game leaker circle are entirely unfamiliar with how Linux or Valve works, it seems

@404mediaco@mastodon.social avatar 404mediaco , to random

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/

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@404mediaco hmmm, I wonder if it's because you have a very low trust environment/you have endless opposition and your employees give zero fucks about keeping it under wraps đŸ€”

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux pop, I forgot they split up from SEGA

@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random
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@gamingonlinux spooky OS fir a spooky game đŸ€Ș

@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar Vivaldi , to random

We make good use of Mastodon’s interoperability with WordPress. When we recently moved our Vivaldi Tips (@tips) blog from vivaldi.net to vivaldi.com to start translating the tips, we noticed that things were a little off on the Mastodon side. Luckily we have the amazing @thomasp in our team, who ironed out every single issue we found.

One of the problems we had was the ActivityPub plugin not detecting the language tags our translation plugin (WPML) added to the posts on WordPress. Language tags allow people on Mastodon to subscribe to posts only in the languages they can read and use the translation feature, so this was an important issue for us to solve. Read about the solution Thomas came up with in his blog: https://thomasp.vivaldi.net/2025/01/14/combining-wpml-activitypub/.

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@Vivaldi @thomasp @tips TIL that's a thing. Huh

@arstechnica@mastodon.social avatar arstechnica , to random

As it buries Windows 10, Microsoft declares 2025 “year of the Windows 11 PC refresh”
The carrot of "new features" and the stick of "no more updates for your old PC."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/as-it-buries-windows-10-microsoft-declares-2025-year-of-the-windows-11-pc-refresh/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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@arstechnica I think it's the year of the Linux desktop refresh, actually

@jonah@neat.computer avatar jonah , to random

Hugely disappointing to see Andy Yen (Proton CEO) tout the Republican Party as the ones “standing up for the little guys” đŸ€ą

Great pick by @realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin
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@protonprivacy @jonah I hope you do know that a significant chunk of your userbase in this network values both privacy and resisting authoritarian powers and your stances here are severely lacking on the latter.

@dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

Loops + Web

A proper webUI is coming soon!

Loops webUI
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@dansup mmmm... Needs more yellow 🟡

@dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

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    @dansup I'd be interested to see what type of video driven platforms could/are being built with those protocols first, since their flagship implementations aren't particularly focused on it

    By the way, have you been keeping up with Nostr? Last I knew it was pretty lousy with crunchy crypto guys and had weird things about moderation

    @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

    I've ticked the "automated" box to signify clearly on the profile that this account is likely not being monitored now.

    Posts will continue, as I hooked up article posting via the Mastodon API, but the account will rarely be monitored.

    Much love, ciao.

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    @gamingonlinux welp, see ya round :/

    @fedora@fosstodon.org avatar fedora , to random

    The Fedora Project is looking for a new git forge to move to, and right now the preference is toward @forgejo over GitLab. We're looking for feedback one more time from the community before the Fedora Council has a vote on it!

    Learn more: https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-moves-towards-forgejo-a-unified-decision/

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    @dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

    I have two big announcements:

    1. Pixelfed is no longer pursuing ATProto/BSky support*

    2. ActivityPub Starter Kits will be delayed by one more day until I can resolve safety concerns from other fedi developers

    I'm not going to risk safety just to ship Starter Kits now, even though it's tempting, I won't put people at risk.

    I hope you understand, and know that your voice is heard and is highly valued here at PixelfedHQ ❀

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    @dansup interesting discussion in there

    Glad that you are taking cues and listening to the feedback, though I do think the current challenges are more technical than political

    @dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

    don't mind me, I'm over here celebrating and wondering how loops accomplished:

    • 9k users in its first week (a fediverse record)
    • multiple 3rd party clients within hours of the APK release
    • tons of press coverage before anyone seen the app

    There were some hiccups and I'm still working on the much anticipated 8th build, but we did it!

    We made fediverse history together.

    I'm so proud ❀

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    @dansup do you have links to those 3rd party clients in development?

    @dansup@mastodon.social avatar dansup , to random

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    @dansup The World's Simultaneously Most Hated and Missed Stories Implementation ??? đŸ€”

    @Gargron@mastodon.social avatar Gargron , to random

    I think it's going to be more important than ever that and the are not centrally operated out of the US unlike almost every other social media platform out there.

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    @Gargron please, please, please work with your peers in the Fediverse software space to prioritize nomadic identity migration and instance/domain migration

    Being able to move to a new instance while retaining the post history is going to be crucial in the coming times.

    @hr_bananabird@mastodon.art avatar hr_bananabird , to random

    Impala with glasses

    Traditional pen art of an anthro impala man with square glasses, a yellow scarf and a black coat. He has a pair of long horns with a few gold accessories on it.
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    @hr_bananabird they seem rather....tame

    ducks

    @lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social avatar lowqualityfacts , to random

    Friends, I need your help. I know that Instagram isn't the most popular platform on here, but I recently discovered that I need 10,000 Instagram followers before Meta will start paying me to post all the silly stuff I post on Threads. I am currently 1,787 followers away from that goal.

    So to be blunt, if you have an Instagram account and are willing to follow me on there, it would mean the world to me. Here is a link that I hope you will find to be most clickable:
    https://www.instagram.com/lowqualityfacts

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    @lowqualityfacts you can monetize your Threads posting but you have to juice your Instagram first? Wack

    @godotengine@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar godotengine , to random

    In a collaborative effort with we are happy to announce: the Godot Editor is now available in on the Meta Horizon store!

    This means you can develop games right on your headset without the need for an external computer đŸ„œ

    https://godotengine.org/article/godot-editor-horizon-store-early-access-release/

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    @godotengine I'm begging every foss enthusiast to please fucking read before you slag on

    It's a game engine that can do VR, and they made their engine work on the biggest standalone VR platform

    They aren't firing up 20 billion datacenters to crunch your kids and pets into LLM mush, they're just porting their engine to Quest. God

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    so confused by people who say things like "the unwritten rules of fedi say you can't link to a youtube video/link to a page belonging to a corporation/say good things about something that's earning a profit because if you do someone will reply to tear you a new one"

    i do those literally all the time. i shill my own stuff, for profit, literally all the time. i have shilled my own youtube videos

    i don't know if our instance mods are just so amazing or if i'm just that shameless nobody even bothers trying to tell me off anymore or what but i totally do not have this experience whatsoever

    and i'm not saying other people are lying, i just don't understand why their experience is so radically different from mine when i so shamelessly and constantly do the things you're supposedly not allowed to do here

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    @eniko It seems, like a lot of problems fedi has to people not Locked In, your experience varies massively depending on your instance, and if you have a moderation team that does a Good Job, you won't be noticing the abuse coming from shitty people on instances Not doing a Great Job at keeping them out.

    I just read the other half of what this was referencing, and it sucks to see them deal with that, someone who has tried to come out to bat for Mastodon a lot more than most content creators.

    I really wonder how we're going to fix this problem.

    @hr_bananabird@mastodon.art avatar hr_bananabird , to random

    Took some nice photogenic pics of my merch this morning.

    👇Shop👇
    https://ko-fi.com/hr_bananabird/shop/physicalmerch

    Photo of three acrylic charms with a light blue background and fake leaves. Printed on the colorful acrylics are animal skulls, a crow, a wolf and a goat.
    Photo of an acrylic charm with a pink background and fake leaves. Printed on the acrylic is an anthro bird sitting on a huge pink ice cream cone.
    Photo of an acrylic charm with a light blue background and fake leaves. The acrylic is shaped as a popsicle with a wooden stick, and printed is an anthro bird floating on the water with several fruits.

    Photo of an acrylic charm with a light blue background and fake leaves. The acrylic is shaped as a popsicle with a wooden stick, and printed is an anthro bird floating on the water with several fruits.
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    @hr_bananabird I could just drink them up~

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    @vkc what the hell man that's not cool of them

    I used Ventoy to build my recovery stick I use to manage boot images, and it worked great for that. I prefer it over flashing drives now, actually.

    I have no idea that there were so many rabid fans of it that they attack people who just didn't mention it. That sucks.

    @hr_bananabird@mastodon.art avatar hr_bananabird , to random

    Made a bit of a self indulgent purchase today...

    Photo of a white and blue shark plushy from IKEA.
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    @hr_bananabird :Blobhaj_Hug_TinyBla:

    @pixelfed@mastodon.social avatar pixelfed , to random

    We're not just an Instagram alternative!

    Collections allow you to group posts together, like a recent trip, or a bunch of recipes (like Pinterest)

    Portfolios highlight a curated list of your posts with a unique URL and customization (like DeviantArt)

    Groups are a way to explore communities based on shared interests/topics (like Flickr)

    We continue to develop features for artists, photographers and everyone in between! ✹

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    @pixelfed the new app certain feels cleaner and more refined. Few kinks to work out still:

    • After scrolling through Home for a while the app starts stuttering, and starts juttering upwards shakily, as if it's trying to force me to stay out while it loads.
    • I don't see a way to boost/repost photos on mobile, nor a way to view bookmarks.
    • It would be nice if we could put bookmarks we want organized into these new Collections (that sounds like what you're aiming for, but I'm not sure)
    @pixelfed@mastodon.social avatar pixelfed , to random

    Imagine a world where you can give your trusted friends the ability to help manage your comment sections and relationships.

    Pixelfed Trusted Mutuals will allow you to delegate some actions like comment deletion and account blocks to those trusted friends!

    You will be notified upon each action and this will federate ✹

    Pixelfed Comments section with Pixelfed Trusted Mutuals active
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    @pixelfed pixelfed has comment log moderation? :blobfoxeyes:

    @LiquidParasyte@pawb.fun avatar LiquidParasyte , to internet funeral
    @harriorrihar@mas.to avatar harriorrihar , (edited ) to random Spanish

    is a rare bird, a shooting star. I was lucky enough to see it inside, work on it. Now it's re-released, let's keep this anomaly shining.


    Not

    #ScavengersReign may 31 #Netflix
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    @harriorrihar yoooo you got commissioned on a project like Scavengers Reign!? Sick

    @gamingonlinux@mastodon.social avatar gamingonlinux , to random

    What do you think is the best thing to happen to in the last few years?

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    @gamingonlinux there's a lot of good answers, but I'm going to break rank and say: Vulcan.

    This graphics API (and every subsequent project to translate other graphics stacks to it) has enabled performance and cross compatibility that we have not seen in a long time (A mobile phone ARM chip running full desktop x86 games? Liberating thousands of Windows games to run on MacOS? Nvidia GPUs actually having good open source drivers on Linux? Unthinkable until now).

    Thank you Kronos Group, CodeWeavers, and Valve 🙏