knightly
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- Comment on What if you floated upwards 1 ft every second? 1 day ago:
If all the local sources of graity are balanced out, then you’d probably start moving away from the center of the galaxy.
- Comment on bold words 4 days ago:
My egg cracked at 11, but enbys were almost entirely unknown in Texas back then so I masked so hard that I was basically living in denial. My 18yo self wouldn’t need gender validation, it’ll find kindred spirits for that in college, but “Colorado, not California” might push up my transition date by a decade, 'cuz my first attempt to escape Texas didn’t go well.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 1 week ago:
Oh hey, that’s almost exactly the kind of cyberpunk dystopia that I grew up reading fiction about:
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
XD
I’ve seen furries put the squeakers from dog toys in the soft fabric noses of their fursuits =3
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I mean, the Flipper Zero is just a computer with a few radios built-in.
I think the only one they share with most smart glasses is Bluetooth which might potentially have some vulnerabilities which could be exploited, but there are also expansion cards for the Flipper Zero that add everything from wifi and ethernet ports to high-powered IR blasters, so the real question is how vulnerable smart glasses are.
And the truth is, they’re vulnerable by default because they rely on corpo servers to operate like any other “smart” device. Any flaw in the security of the glasses themselves barely holds a candle to the fact that they forward everything to Facebook or some other big tech brand name with a financial interest in monetizing your data.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
I get so many compliments on my fancy moustache, but nobody notices my tits unless I wear a push-up bra. XD
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
I’m probably missing some context here as well. Camera boops feel like a meme from a short-form video site like Vine or TikTok.
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
That feels like part of the joke to me, I’ve never heard of someone’s nose getting damaged by a camera boop. XD
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
Definitely do look into this, and check out some of the work folks are already doing with combining fabrics and 3d printing. =D
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
I love it too, especially with how quickly the community evolves. New techniques catch on and spread like wildfire, and we make a great indicator species for the health of online spaces.
(Can confirm about the parties too =3)
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
Dang, no comments view?
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
That sort of wardrobe malfunction is not terribly uncommon since fursuit-making is still mostly a cottage industry where each piece is a one-off custom, but most reputable fursuit-makers offer a limited-time warranty to cover minor alterations and repairs.
Furry conventions also usually have someone offering repair services (sometimes even for free) in the dealer’s den in addition to the tables selling everything from parts and accessories to entire pre-made fullsuits.
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
XD
I have an approximate knowledge of many things and a fascination with new tech, but I’ve only been posting on Lemmy recently. Guess I oughta get started on a real newsletter. XD
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
Lol, I don’t have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there’s that. =3
- Comment on Is thus true? 1 week ago:
More or less, yeah.
Fabrics and polyurethane foam used to be the only options for fursuits, but this started shifting over the last 10 years or so. Some enterprising furries started molding components like teeth, claws, and noses from soft rubber materials, which experienced a brief renaissance before 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.
At the time when this was posted, hard plastic noses had become common for new fursuits, but now that 3d printers can use TPU and other flexible materials, they’ve become the new standard. Many fursuit makers actually use this technique to print the whole frame of the fursuit head, making them more durable while also improving airflow over the old-style carved polyurethane foam head bases;
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the hype is really leaning on that singularitarian angle and the investor class is massively overextended.
I’m glad that the general public is finally getting on down the hype cycle, this peak of inflated expectations has lasted way too long, but it should have been obvious three years ago.
Like, I get that I’m supposedly brighter and better educated than most folks, but I really don’t feel like you need college level coursework in futures studies to be able to avoid obvious scams like cryptocurrency and “AI”.
I feel like it has to be deliberate, a product of marketing effects, because some of the most interesting new technologies have languished in obscurity for years because their potential is disintermediative and wouldn’t offer a path to further expanding the corporate dominion over computing.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 2 weeks ago:
Folks don’t seem to realize what LLMs are, if they did then they wouldn’t be wasting trillions trying to stuff them in everything.
Like, yes, it is a minor technological miracle that we can build these massively-multidimensional maps of human language use and use them to chart human-like vectors through language space that remain coherent for tens of thousands of tokens, but there’s no way you can chain these stochastic parrots together to get around the fact that a computer cannot be held responsible, algorithms have no agency no matter how much you call them “agents”, and the people who let chatbots make decisions must ultimately be culpable for them.
It’s not “AI”, it’s a n-th dimensional globe and the ruler we use to draw lines on that globe. Like all globes, it is at best a useful fiction representing a limited perspective on a much wider world.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
Can confirm, letting the girls free after a long day is a special kind of relief that doesn’t really have an equivalent for guys.
Imagine, stripping out of a suit where the slacks are tight enough to flatten your junk and the tie makes it hard to breathe, then bump up the feeling of relief by 20% or so for a well-fitting sports bra, a full 50% for a push-up with underwire, and straight-up triple it to compare to a corset.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
That does sound amazing, I’m envious. =3
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just that though, the relief from compression is an added bonus on top.
The truth is that breasts are just more enjoyably sensitive than ballsacks. Even when I shave them smooth, the feeling of a soft fabric against them is still less than half as enjoyable as on my tits.
Granted, there are ways in which balls are more sensitive, but I’d rather get kicked in the chest than in the crotch.
Hard agree on the stigma aainst free titties, though. I’m lucky enough to live in a state where bare chests are legal and I’m looking forward to going hiking topless this spring.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
I’m an enby, so I can confirm that sleeping with a bare chest is better when you have tits than without them.
For the nut-havers out there, sleeping bare-tittied is like your balls shaved hairless and tucked into a perfectly-fitted silk bag before bed. It really does feel that much nicer.
- Comment on my bf says sleeping with your balls out is the male equivalent 2 weeks ago:
Enby here with the rare perspective which can confirm that men will never understand this peak.
Sorry guys, but as awesome as it feels to go free-balling, that satisfaction really doesn’t compare to having a warm, soft blanket tucked up around your bare tits (especially after they’ve been bound up in a bra all day).
Sleeping in clothing is weird to begin with, but if I had to wear one article of underwear to bed then I’d take boxers or even nut-hugging boyshorts before I picked anything tighter around the chest than a loose nightgown.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 3 weeks ago:
Holy Shit, making it from the nearest hotel across the canal turns a 1-mile walk into a 6-mile hike =U
That has to be deliberate, there’s no other excuse for it.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 3 weeks ago:
Save everything you want to keep
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 3 weeks ago:
Now that “Anti-woke” ideology has been revealed as a psyop by the Epstein files, I’m very curious to see if Trey Stone and Matt Parker will choose to reckon with their own contributions or if they’ll double-down.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 3 weeks ago:
The long arc of the South Park plot follows Trey and Parker’s political development from bitter, unknown California Republicans with sarcastic, nihilist tendencies to disillusioned Big Hollywood Conservatives with sarcastic, nihilistic tendencies being forced to reckon with the fact that their past attempts at satire have either had no impact or have actually reinforced the perceived social ills they originally set out to mock.
Al Gore’s reappearance in S22E06 “Time to get Cereal” exemplifies this, even after he is proven to have been right about ManBearPig all along, this later appearance shows him as still being a huge weenie that cares more about being acknowledged as having been right than wanting to actually solve the problem. Having belatedly acknowledged the existential threat, Trey and Parker still can’t bring themselves to issue a call to action, and everything goes back to normal after they kick the can a little further down the road.
The smug, sanctimonious tone has been a constant throughout, as if they still imagine that the greatest sin is caring about things. They’re so heavy-handed about it that they lampoon this aspect of their own show in Kyle’s “Don’t you see,” and “Y’know, I’ve learned something today” closing monologues. Even when he’s telling a real political truth, like in the banned S16E06 where the text of the monologue is an admission that terrorism works and the subtext is a refusal to acknowledge their own contributions to post-9/11 anti-muslim discrimination, their only advice to the gingers that act as a stand-in representing all minority groups facing irrational discrimination is that they just need to get as violent as the most aggressive extremists so that people will respect them. Which is itself a smug, sanctimonious way of suggesting that they can never be respected as people, only either seen as lesser or feared as an enemy.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 4 weeks ago:
And not just the resources, those orbits are going to be cluttered with slowly-deorbiting junk too. Until we get around to making something that can clean them up, we won’t be able to put anything else there.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 5 weeks ago:
I think the opposite of harassment isn’t so much celebrating the targets as defending them directly. In that case, the opposite of kiwifarms is community defense. Everything from infiltrators watching kf from the inside to give the targets an early warning to the folks who provide safehouses for people that can’t stay at home or publish personal infosec guides to help reduce one’s target profile. Every little bit can help when you’re the target of a harassment campaign.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 month ago:
Move to Washington D.C. or Cheyenne Wyoming, if you’re inside the blast radius then you won’t have to live to see the world end.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 2 months ago:
As an enby who’s best described as “the polar opposite of an agender person”, I experience gender both intrinsically and extrinsically. Dysphoria is a good example of the former; I used to have a deep and profoundly uncomfortable sense of “wrongness” about my body, like the feeling of wearing your shoes on the wrong feet but for skin texture, body odor, the shape of one’s hands, vocal pitch, etc etc etc.
Extrinsically, I’m mostly seen as a guy, which can be irritating when it results in getting called “Sir”, or a pleasant experience when someone recognizes that I’m not one of the guys.
