Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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Joined Aug 2017
Bsky link, mild description of morbid art references behind links
To be fair, nearly every artist friend I know would have also been interested in this: https://bsky.app/profile/tkingfisher.bsky.social/post/3ktaxabeqr22k
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Sierra On-Line accidentally included the source code to their AGI adventure game engine on some copies of Space Quest II. Its presence is not obvious but with enough sector sleuthing it is possible to recover about 70% of it. The recovered source code is peppered with illuminating comments regarding its history and authors. It can be examined in a GitHub repo linked in the article.
"The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder"
https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html
Non-critical Vent (Fanfiction, Pokemon, Isekai)
@Quest Are spaces like AO3 limited here on general "become creature" isekai or mostly "Pokémon-adjacent" fic?
Because in the former, I'm aware of some pretty good transhumanist fics/isekais. But I imagine the latter might be more limited because it's tied to ideas surrounding/about an existing IP, and the infuriatingly limited pool of official material to build from there.
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short rant on malicious tech
Anyway, any time this kind of scheme comes up, the questions start with "how is this better than what already exists"? Usually it isn't.
Instead, ask "how can this be used to steal shitloads of money or user data". And you'll arrive very quickly at how it's probably going to get used.
short rant on malicious tech
When you get down to it, the reason tech keeps investing in blockchain or AI or whatever it is next week is they're all efficient money laundering engines.
They have no long term technical merit, or had it stripped away, to steal at scale. And the reason companies all go for it is they're getting a cut of the money.
We really, really need to tax the rich, until their lives stop being contests using these as table stakes to see who can enrich themselves the fastest.
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Oh, so that's what a Seveliten says. Good to know. Thanks, Lily. [Thlily].
Sevelitens are a species created by @FelisRandomis, who also drew this picture. Have to admit, it's a good look for Lily. But then, I'm biased.
@CoyoteTraveller Congrats!!
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sfw, pokemon, eevee, zorua
made a short backstory for my (former human) eevee and zorua couple :3
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hey everyone should see this rad art Hallowraith did
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56424644/
Nintendo's At It Again, copyright
@Aether My suspicion, as is usually a source of these kinds of snowballing policy changes, is that TotK leaking early caused overly litigious factions within Nintendo to win favor with higher ups inside the org, and that that's represented in a change to their org chart.
If so, look for reported people changes or leaks to substantiate this over the next few months, perhaps from the ousted parties.
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Veilkiria possesses attributes of several different elements. Her ability to harness the magic of each one means she can alter their properties to change her appearance.
Prints Available:
#Digitalart #Digitalpainting #Furryart #Fantasyart #Dragonart #Creatureart #Illustration #characterart
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Feels like the right day to repost this quilt
(In case you didn’t hear yet, #NASA fixed the broken #Voyager I — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth)
@Metaph Not just GB cables either. Ti calculator cables were also a thing when we played multiplayer games in school while we were all bored kids in class.
One teacher I had in science class would walk down the aisle and just politely pull folks' cables while giving lesson, without saying a word about it, just to keep them on task. And yes, I'd be on one of the cables that got pulled.
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Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
