Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

I made a 3D printed Shakuhachi!

I play the Shakuhachi (not well) mostly cos its an extremely offline experience; just your breath and a carefully crafted piece of wood making pleasent sounds. So I quite like the idea of it as some part of the soundscape of a cyberpunk world for similar reasons.

But in an intensely industrial environment like that, the materials available, the process of printing, the density of the build, etc etc, would all contribute to altering the sound and feel, compared to traditional bamboo.
A Shakuhachi like this could be printed from cheap materials, even on very small low-end printers.

To play, it doesn't feel as "alive" as wood; It doesn't subtly flex and thrum under your fingers. But it picks up warmth from your body well and sounds much closer to a bone flute.

I might itterate on this design and see where it goes.

#cyberpunk #shakuhachi #3dprinting

DRM (digital rena mon ( ))

How to update a 30 year old pixel font for modern displays https://www.openttd.org/news/2024/02/17/openttd-truetype-fonts

#OpenTTD

Have some more VRChat screenshots from last night :3

... Yes, my love for photography does in fact transfer to the virtual space as well as the digital, who'd have guessed! x3

#VRChat #Screenshots #Furry #Novabeast

Midnight "Gosh I wanna be Wagon from ToQGer!!" toot toot

Someone on discord mentioned being a robot so once again I am thinking about how I'd really like to be Wagon from ToQger. <3

it might be a good idea to make a video series on broken monitors/TVs/VCRs. I have a few of those, but it'd be helpful to have recordings of how exactly they screw up when they're damaged.

That's something that's becoming increasingly obscure, and given the rise of analog horror, it's apparently knowledge that we need more than ever

Technology doesn't have to be a black box you can't repair.

My dad's stereo amplifier comes with a detailed paper schematic, showing you in detail what every part is and how they fit together.

Sealed, unrepairable technology is a choice manufacturers have made.

We're ending up with new generations thinking that "spend not mend" is the only way, because they've never been exposed to anything else.

wait no nevermind I want to be totally sensible with this

Something for https://www.furaffinity.net/user/jaiydawoof from my weekly streams!

bottoms up! 🍺🍐

📸 @videah

#fursuitfriday #fursuit

Only a few days to go until #nfc2024!
This ferocious kitty will roam the premises and demand belly rubs if you're not careful!
Hope to see you there! #Furry #FursuitFriday #Fursuit
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So, let us drag the french admins of wikipedia into the dirt, shall we? I have gathered stuff from the last couple days of the ongoing events, and taken time to translate them so that english-speaking can realize the depth of the nonsense going on over there. Because that community is the way it is, it's very obtuse and flowery french that's used in their discussions, peppered with acronyms from the community.

The context here is that very clearly biased poll which questions I dutifully translated for you. The central crux was trying to standardize the way we trans people are discussed, especially with respect to mentions of our deadname. Please appreciate the irony of mostly cis people asking mostly cis people if it's okay to deadname us and how exactly they should do it.

The poll wasn't really advertised, until a couple of posts here and there shared it and called for us and our allies to come and express our opinion, in the most tame and neutral tones possible.

The original criterion for votes to be accepted was 50 contributions on general pages (which excludes niche technical contributions). On top of being a vast amount of contributions, it was discussed:

• to maybe exclude accounts for which those last 50 were too far in the past: "For the record, tallying the last 50 contributions of all accounts (and only those from 2024), I created a list of eligible accounts for the poll. [...] One flagrant example is Nicky, whose last contribution is from 2007, and then one in 2024... yeah right [condescending]. Not sure my methodology is more exhaustive than that of Lebrouillard, but it exists."
• to raise it to 500: "Hello, I am making a dedicated section. Clearly, there is ongoing brigading. Therefore, please raise the threshold for acceptable ballots to 500 contributions." (which is ludicrous, that's more than one a day for more than a whole year)

Following this poll being suddenly widely talked about, and the opinions tipping, french editors opened a note on the admin bulletin, accusing trans contributors of being activists and biased: "Diversity of opinion in activist communities? Hilarious"

Administrators of french wikipedia have also gone out of their way to identify the wikipedia accounts of some of the people whose posts I linked above, calling for indefinite bans, bans over a defined period, as well as blanket bans on all pages related to the topic of being trans. In that particular link, the administrators consider the use of "transphobia" in a content warning, as a form of slander and harassment organized outside of the platform: "JohnNewton8(sysop): [...] Sinkra's message could moreover be interpreted as libelous (accusation of transphobia) [...] / Jules: I believe the use of "trigger warning: transphobia" on Sinkra's post to not be targeting individual contributors but warning Sinkra's audience which may be sensitive to some of the comments being shared on the poll."

The worst part about that last bit? Complains from the admins that they have to deal with similar "brigading" and "biased activist editing" by an organisation called "Les Sans Pages" (LSP, "Those without a Page"), which is dedicated to helping reduce the abysmal gender bias in biographical wikipedia pages. "It is not the first time that accounts, including old accounts, drag our principles into the mud. Regularly, activists from LSP create controversy [...]"

This is beyond horrendous behaviour from the french wikipedia editors, with the full support of their administrators, who are willing to enforce guidelines and the code of conduct against those calling for a biased poll to happen under somewhat fair circumstances. Shame on the admins, who should be removed from their position, and clearly let the mask slip. Shame on the editors, whose bias and bigotry they hide under the guide of encyclopedic guidelines and neutrality, while shifting the blame on us for trying to be heard.

(thanks however to @belore for gathering most of the links on here)

Welcome to Friday. Please enjoy your day.

Wow, this is the first order I am sending to Australia! I may be a bit biased with the green, but I think these are my finest pair I've made yet :3