Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I've said this before, but I may as well say it again: more people should be doing 8- and 16-bit homebrewing, Even in assembly language, these have dozens of the friendliest tutorials ever, and the hardest part is just getting a toolchain together that will turn your source code into binaries that *run* on the consoles or in emulators.

I've been putting together quick build-and-run tutorials to close that gap, for a great many systems. Check it out.

https://bumbershootsoft.wordpress.com/platform-guides/

#retrocomputing

Pixel Art (made on Smartphone with Clip Studio)
#furry #furryart #pixelart

Noodleboros :3

A drawing of Noodle I made a good while back!
#furry #furryart #drackyn

Stream results from tonight~

https://www.furaffinity.net/user/tofubread
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/poikspirit/
https://bsky.app/profile/snowrora.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/epsiloneridani.bsky.social

#mermay #flatcolor #fish #furryart

Listen to me.

Install Firefox from this link: https://www.firefox.com/en-CA/

Install the uBlock Origin addon from this link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

That's it. There's more you can do, but spend a few days with a proper web browser and a real ad blocker and you'll get it.

> At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push

Once again overwhelmed with What's The Fucking Point? energy

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

> No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually.

That is the true definition of malware.

My fashion game is incredibly poor, but that's okay because Pinecone has whipped together a bunch of cool and cute fits for every shade of my gender spectrum! Thank you Pine!!!

🎨PineconePaladin@FA

it's 5:55am and 55 seconds, on 5/5, and I'm wishing a happy 55th birthday to the 555 timer.

a reminder to all on the Left - part of Mayor Mamdani's success is he is leading with visible joy - participating, being inclusive, and leading with what at least appears to be real genuine joy and pleasure in the success of others as well as in what he is getting to do - for example being the first sitting mayor to participate in the Five Boro bike tour in NYC today (clips are easily found - he's clearly enjoying himself)

It is not easy - there is much to be angry about - but celebrate also

A great line of defense against AI slop: crediting artists.

Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!

#computers #SocialMedia #passwords

@tholindeth And when wolfram alpha made mistakes, they were fun, and still usually technically correct!

There are two dragons inside you.

One wants a Diet Coke.

The other wants a Mentos.

DO NOT LISTEN TO THEM.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@da_667/116518148479614779

The safest day on the internet in recent memories was when cloudflare shat itself and all the phishing sites were down.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116518022621367937

Cloudflare doing shit like this is the perfect analogy for why cybersecurity is such a shitshow. They even offered their DDoS mitigation services to canonical. They could just like. take down the stresser service, but that doesn't result in money. I'm so sick of this "its acceptable to be on both sides because we like money." travesty we're forced to deal with on a daily basis.

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/332

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.