something to consider

Ada Luchthonn

Portrait of Machete

2025

Trying to get back to my roots of portrait painting, I still zhink zhe contrast is off but it will serve for now

#ShitIFind #GreekMythology

Happy #FursuitFriday all!!! We had an impromptu purple group photo at #londonfurs last week!

It is the best colour after all, this we can all agree on!

#fursuit #furry #purple

Holy shit, there are hundreds of people at this trans rights demo outside the EHRC in Glasgow. On a Friday lunchtime!

Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/

#opensource #Linux #cybersecurity

apparently there is a “rave collective” in toronto that has offered to be on-call for any reports of right-wing protests to bring a portable sound system and drown them out with 200bpm hardcore acid techno

i am so fucking here for this

The claw has materialized!! Wooo it's better than I expected!

"microtransit" solutions are always fascinating because they're clearly made by people who don't ride public transit and don't care about public transit

people who ride transit want reliable stuff that shows up at the same times every day and follows a consistent route you can plan around

people who don't ride transit think everyone wants their own personal taxi

Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.

Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.

Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.

Please don’t get them mixed up.

#hackers #hacking #techbros