Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Just in time for #WerewolfWednesday, here's the raffle prize I did of capsaicincoffee.bsky.social's character, Alexis!

You all know how much I love drawing a lovely, snarly werewolf gal. 😊

#werewolf #WerewolfWoman #WerewolfWomen #monsterArt #wolf #anthroWolf #fangs #teeth

If you're in the UK and run a #Misskey/#Sharkey/&c instance, you may want to disable the "global timeline" (and probably "bubble timeline" too) in the default role, and enable it again in a role conditionally applied to local users.
This will prevent your instance from serving random notes you don't control to non-logged-in users, which may increase your risks under the Online Safety Act
(IANAL, this is not legal advice, consult your lawyers)

if you're responsible for a FOSS project, it's now time to consider how you can run your project without relying on the US.

like, using GitHub is fine. Continue using it - I do, too, and there's a lot of value of having projects centralized in one place.

but you **need** to make sure you have a contingency plan. is your repo with all branches and metadata backed up somewhere else? do you own your project's website, discussion forums, or something else that allows you to point your users and contributors to a new place if you need to?

can you continue work on your project if US-big-tech decides your very existence is no longer allowed?

now is the time to take inventory and build backups.

End results aren't as sharp/focused as I would have liked, but still kinda clear. :)

Taken on a Canon Rebel T3i/600D with a 200mm lens, f16, ISO400, 1/400 on the left and 1/16 on the right.

Sonic is very protecting of his little guys, even in werehog form

The biggest problem I have with GenAI is that it has totally taken away many people’s ability to evaluate what they can and cannot do.

I can tell when a skilled programmer didn’t write some code.

I can tell when a person without good writing skills wrote some text.

Never be ashamed. There is absolutely no shame at all in not being able to do something. I respect a “that’s beyond my capabilities” more than an attempt to pull the wool over my eyes with LLM garbage.

Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 06 - "Fruits"

A stupid thing I drew while trying to get Windows 95 working on my Virtual Machine.. #furry

A few people asked if I have a list of providers, outside the United States.

YES, I have a list of Domain Registers, Web Hosting, Privacy Focused E-mail, Managed DNS, Public DNS, CDN, and VPN providers that I have confirmed as not based out of the USA or owned by a USA company.

I am interested in expanding this list, so if anyone has any suggestions, please speak up.

https://misskey.de/notes/a3rcto65dn

Good luck this week, everyone.

We found a copy of Critter Costuming by Adam Riggs while helping a friend move! Copyright year is 2004. Friend says there are no archived scans of it available; we're going to get one done after all the chaos of his move is done.

#furry #fursuit

Every time I log into Fedi, I see another post with a guide called something like "Activist's Guide to Smartphones" or "Phone Security Guide for Protesters," and every single one of these assumes that the threat model is the kind of police force that exists under liberal democracy where legal protections will afford significant protections. The world is changing, and these guides not only fail to address the threat of an actively hostile fascistic anti-democratic occupying force (I refer here to the police), but such guides generally are limited to "what" and "how" but not miss the more critical "why."

If you believe that you are facing fascism (or even something close to it), can I please please please convince you to read something written by anarchists who have faced serious repression and are trying to convey just how much phones can lead to the imprisonment of you and your friends for even things that are allegedly "legal."

https://opsec.riotmedicine.net/downloads#mobile-phone-security