Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Sabrina Online~~
#art #furry #furryart #sabrinaonline

Sqrk and Roy!

Happy 5th suit birthday to Eventide!

5 years? Geeze, doesn't feel like it. Yeah, it's had to have only been 3 years 😁

This suit changed my life, and will continue to change my life. Will there be a v2? Probably! But you never forget your first.

✂ spiritpandasuit@Twitter.com
#FursuitFriday

need to start keeping a list of all the times some big supposed display of bleeding edge technology turns out to just be A Guy

Happy #FursuitFriday! Another friend Alva met while at FWA 2023.

Character: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/sergeanthax
🧵: https://twitter.com/C_F_Studios

Talking a bit about Babylon 5 elsewhere, I wanted to note how much I adore that The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5 is still online, and still mostly unchanged from when it was first created back in the 1990's. It's still a source of an astonishing amount of information and analysis about the show. If you like Babylon 5 and have no idea what I'm talking about, check it out! http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/
(Episode list since it seems something may be busted on the domain redirect: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/countries/us/eplist.html)

This whole blog post reads like Stockholm Syndrome with simp levels of brand loyalty

„I’d go slightly further and describe the DMA as anti-U.S.-big-business, because as far as I can tell, nothing in the DMA adversely affects or even annoys any European tech companies. There are aspects of it that seem written specifically for Spotify, in fact.“

It won't annoy European tech companies as much because the US tech giants have become so big that trying to go against them is financially unviable. US tech giants need to be reigned in to level this playing field. The EU as a body is uniquely positioned to do so, because US lawmakers sure as hell won’t and are dragging their feet because of some dumb ethos about individual freedoms or some shit. Yet a lot of Europeans depend on the services of these predatory tech giants with their vendor lock-ins. And Spotify can get fucked, they’re not better in the slightest

„I do not think the DMA is going to change much, if anything at all, for the better for iOS users in the E.U.“

It won't change much if Apple and other tech giants implement it with malicious compliance. Companies trying to undermine upcoming legislation is not an indication that the legislation is without merit. If anything, it just goes to show with how much pettiness big corporations will try to circumvent any law aimed at loosening their grip on controlling the entire market and extract value from people because they're making sure it's painful to leave

„Apple is proud, stubborn, arrogant, controlling, and convinced it has the best interests of its customers in mind.“

Stop humanizing a company. Their only priority is money drowned in a lot of nice sounding marketing babble to appear more benevolent than they really are, don't even lie to yourself

„Which side is smarter? My money has been on Apple. Yesterday’s announcements, I think, show why.“

Apple is only smart in as much as they try to circumvent regulation at all costs. They’ll always try to push the envelope within the legal framework they're dealing with, so they can say they're complying but actually shitting all over the intent of the legislation. Like Facebook did when they tried to use „small business owners“ in their smear campaign against Apple’s tracking protection dialogs. Nobody is a saint in this constellation

„Apple has also argued, consistently, that they seek to monetize third-party development for the iOS platform, and that being forced to change from their current system […] would greatly complicate how they monetize the platform. And now Apple has revealed a greatly complicated set of rules and policies for iPhone apps in the EU.“

Now this is just gaslighting at this point. Apple could've chosen to simply step out of the way and obviously chose not to do so because no good capitalist will leave precious money on the table. Instead they came up with rules specifically tailored to disincentivize developers to distribute their apps outside of Apple's own walled garden and make it financially ruinous to do so for smaller developers. Regardless of whether they operate in the US or the EU! They made sure to make it as painful as possible to leave, which is a common tactic among all of big tech, only this time they're doing it to third party developers, too.

The #EU’s #DigitalMarketsAct is an important piece of legislation. #Apple's malicious compliance is, if anything, an indicator how disdainful big tech has become to playing on a level playing field

https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/apples_plans_for_the_dma

Happy #SkyproSunday from Bedhead! 💙 Don't wait for the perfect moment. Seize every opportunity and make the most of it!💪🔥

#furry #furries #fursuit #fursuits

@x4nw @kiteless

Dunno if this is where @kiteless got theirs, but a quick search found:

https://retrofied.uk/products/windows-3-1-desktop-large-wall-clock

I THINK they had fun, maybe :v 

Colored sketch for https://furaffinity.net/user/Baarur

#furryart #baarur #protogen #seveliten #yarrb #coloredsketch #nerf

Just got fucking roasted by the "now trending" box on knowyourmeme dot com

OMG PLEASE MAKE ME THE TRANS FLAG DRAGON. I MEAN LOOK AT ME.

(Art by wawawa on FA)