Rivaclaw 🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Ok, the prototype case is coming together, and doing what it should; highlighting the bits that need altering. This is gooood.
But there's the back of the machine I'm still undecided about. I'm planning to make a c9ver for it all, but I really kinda like the look of the fan of cards out the back XD

Concerned about Microsoft Windows 11 Recall? You should be.

Recall allows Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot+ devices to screenshot every action a person takes on their PC.

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#Linux #Computer #Windows #DOS #OPSEC #InfoSec #Privacy #Surveillance

Back to my normal bullshit! I've had a very productive weekend

Just a couple of points:

1) For clarification (because I wasn't as clear as I could have been ^^;) "Riva" is pronounced like "River"

2) Please do call me Riverclaw! 💜🐺🌕

(I'm not changing any usernames for continuity/discoverability, but I'd really prefer it if you do call me Riverclaw over Renby. Renby is a character I play and get art of, and Rivaclaw is who I am. 💜)

Woo! My cyberdeck case design has hit 400 downloads!!!
Kind of an arbitary number but whatever, It's nice to see :D
makes me wonder how many of those have actually gone on to be printer or worked up in to a new design/build in some way. I know of a few, and a few more that have been inspired by my design. Which is so awesome!
It's been about 2 years since I posted the designs and I think the coolest thing to come from it is seeing it having had some influence in maker circles; It's now not uncommon to see the bike grip handle and picatini rails on cyberdecks. The other day, i even had someone mansplain the design to me with direct reference to my write-up; which, as a woman in technical arena, is a sign that your work at least is widely well regarded XD

Seriously, though, it really does bring me joy seeing people build and remix my design, and echo aspects of it in their own. It's nice to see I've put something good out there in the world :D

Shameless plug: https://medium.com/@garrwolfdog/building-a-cyberdeck-799a3412557a

Hey everyone! I'm relaunching my Twitch channel!

I'll be playing retro games, wrestling games, and chill games and chatting as a PNGTuber.

This will ALSO be a debut of a new design for me! Wanna see my new look?

Stop by twitch.tv/jouva March 5th at 8PM EST (6th March 0100 UTC). See you there!

@davidgerard Yahoo Mail recently replaced email subjects with AI summaries. Caused total chaos at my startup which runs online sneaker launches. I got paged over the weekend when thousands of people were told they'd "won" a sneaker raffle connected to NBA All Start Weekend.

Awful to think how it could affect people getting emails about medical test , job applications, etc.

I wrote up the story of how we figured out what was happening here: https://eql.com/media/sneaker-bot-ai-error

Fellow nonhumans and otherkin as well as therians on fedi who have not art of a oc but rather yourself (how you truly am)

Do you get uncomfortable when you are getting art of yourself and the artist refers to you as a character

(Asking because of representation through a poll)

#otherkin #otherkinthoughts #therian #therians

Time to be batty ^w^
#NFC2025

PSA for anyone with an #Amazon #Kindle or even just any #kindlebooks , they are about to permanently remove the ability to download books to your computer. Your last day to use this functionality is February 26, 2025, so you have about a week. There are no easy ways to grab it all at once, but it's worth it to me to be able to access my 500+ #ebooks so I'm clicking on them one by one anyway. Amazon has been very quiet about it, so spread the word.

Upcoming stream!
Thursday, 9pm-10pm (London, UK, time)!

Iiiiiit's Thursday! Probably a nice chill sesssion this week. A nice glass of wine and focussing on the fundimentals :)

https://www.twitch.tv/garrwolfdog

#Furry #VTuber #Stream #FurryVTuber #furrystreamer #streaming #streamer

Happy Transmasc awareness day!

This one is for all y'all trans men out there, who are doing kick-ass stuff, and being cool as hell

So I looked at the top 100 best rated games released on Steam during 2024, and I saw some interesting trends.

First, only two games were AAA titles. They were Black Myth: Wukong and SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS. And even then, I’m being a little bit charitable by calling the latter title an AAA game.

As for everything else? Budget title indies. Most titles were priced under $30. And 22 of them were free – not “free with in-app purchases”, but simply free.

The other trend is that few of these games got press attention even though, in a lot of cases, they had a large playerbase.

Case in point: the highest rated game on Steam is MiSide which has a 97% positive rating based on 87,019 reviews. I checked news archives and MiSide hardly got any mentions from the gaming press. No mentions on GameSpot, IGN, or PC Gamer. How did gaming journalists miss out on the highest rated game of 2024?

But the most surprising trend is that the bulk of the 100 highest rated games on Steam are PC exclusives. As much as people say we are living in a post-platform world this is simply not the case. For instance, only 2 of the top 10 Steam games of 2024 got a multi-platform release – Balatro and Black Myth: Wukong.

You would think a beloved game like Satisfactory would already arrive on PS5 or Xbox Series X|S, but after six years of development, it is still PC-only. Now to be fair, Satisfactory is supposed to arrive on consoles. But that game has been on Early Access for PC since 2019 – and there’s no firm release date for console versions.

There are three takeaways here is simple: price does not indicate quality, don’t believe the hype, and exclusives still matter.

https://steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/2024/?displayOnly=Game&sort=rating_desc

>me as a kid thinking they were an animal and climbing up stairs on all fours and walking on the pads of their feet and constantly growling and biting things/people

>me as an adult, just now, thinking back on it

Sushi for the blue dragons! Sharing a big nigiri with vauvenal
📷 mondsikel
🌐 #nfc2025
#furry #convention #fursuit