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another wolf in the crowd (he/him) systems, design, infosec, toolchains, furry, bdsm searchable, CC-BY-4.0 Portland, Oregon, USA 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@gray17, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

read a couple dozen of the ~1000 CVEs in the latest debian kernel security release. most of them are driver bugs, not surprising. some are trivial null pointer dereference that would

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[uspol, irresponsible wish-casting] In 2027 Mamdani convinces Trump that he can cement his legacy as the greatest president ever, by signing Medicare for All, rebranded as Trumpcare and commemorated with the Triumphal Trumpcare Arch. Future generations are simultaneously grateful and appalled

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

hollywood depictions of computer hacking are silly, I wish they were more realistic. *monkey paw* everyone's facebook account gets an LLM that can respond to messages from strangers by running arbitrary code in a VM that has access to the internet.

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good Boy (2025) is an attempt at telling a suspense/horror story from the POV of a dog. The dog is amazing, moody and expressive. Every scene with him is great. Too bad the story is kinda meh. But the movie did well enough I'm sure he'll get an agent who can find him a better script for his next […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Pixar's Hoppers is fun, but in the end I felt it was... conventional animation of a wild story, and I was kinda wondering what Sony Animation would have done with it instead (Spiderverse, Mitchells vs Machines, Kpop Demon Hunters)

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

in my bubble, I've seen several anti-LLM fork of pro-LLM projects. most of these are small efforts, the viability is questionable, but it's not obviously doomed. what about the opposite? are there pro-LLM forks of anti-LLM projects?

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

dreamed a guy came to me with an existential crisis. he had a revelation that iteration is fake, reality is fundamentally recursive. this unsettled him, and he wanted me to talk him off the ledge as we cuddled (his idea not mine)

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Typesafe AI's Jev is interesting, and it might be better (and cheaper) than rawdogging LLMs, but it's still a magic blackbox language model. Their cookbook examples are all "attach some ceremonial gems to a natural language question, and Jev will point at the gems that answer the question […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

... what if we gave AO3 agentic capabilities, so that whenever someone adds a new fanfic, the text of the fanfic can take actions like "find an available slot in Kirk, Spock, and McCoy's calendar and book a room at the Union Square Hilton" or "create another off-shore tax shelter for Sherlock's […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

this book starts with a woman who survived a psychotically jealous bf who threatened her with a shotgun and ended up shooting himself while she was locked in a closet, leading to months of hospitalization for her and ongoing claustrophobia, panic attacks and probably an unknown alter […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. A cougar eats about 48 deer a year, nowhere near enough to account for it, so researchers have concluded that the deer are […]

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𝔹𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 🔜 Furpoc DD E37 @brushfeather.art · 08/09/2026

Pride phoenix flags are in stock, on sale, and available world wide! Mortgage is overdue and I have $36, shares are very appreciated. 🙏🏼❤️ 🛒 bit.ly/TCDRTBFlag --- #bird #fantasy #pride #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #2Slgbtqia #Phoenix #avian #bsnm #furSale #artShop #art

A 2' x 3' flag mock-up: Digital painting: A spray paint-like, street art-inspired Phoenix rising in flames that compose the pattern of the intersex inclusive pride progress flag. The Phoenix itself forms the trans and poc banner on the flag with a stylized yellow and purple head patch echoing the intersex portion behind it. The colors of the bird are banded in stylized stripes and swirls, reminiscent of the vibrant swirl-styled fire.

A 3' x 5' translucent flag hanging off a porch: A spray paint-like, street art-inspired Phoenix rising in flames that compose the pattern of the intersex inclusive pride progress flag. The Phoenix itself forms the trans and poc banner on the flag with a stylized yellow and purple head patch echoing the intersex portion behind it. The colors of the bird are banded in stylized stripes and swirls, reminiscent of the vibrant swirl-styled fire.

A 12" x 18" garden flag mock-up: A spray paint-like, street art-inspired Phoenix rising in flames that compose the pattern of the intersex inclusive pride progress flag. The Phoenix itself forms the trans and poc banner on the flag with a stylized yellow and purple head patch echoing the intersex portion behind it. The colors of the bird are banded in stylized stripes and swirls, reminiscent of the vibrant swirl-styled fire.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

currently: vids of an Expie char mod for Dead as Disco. Expie is absolutely the right PC for this game. the normal human is boring, other furry mods are ok, but the Expie is something special. all games should have a playable Expie

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

I kinda wanna spew about how 401ks and IRAs are fundamentally antisocial "innovations", but I don't really have enough econ background to be credible about it, and someone has to have done this analysis already, right? researching this goes on the maybe-someday list

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

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novel - Slow Gods (2025) - by Claire North

Slow Gods is a story of the struggles and deaths that occur after a superintelligent entity sends a message to all the human and alien civilizations within 80 light-years of a binary star, telling them that in 100 years the binary will collapse into a black hole, and all of you people are in the fatal blast radius. 500 words - 2.5 minutes

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

choosing an open-source dependency in the era of supply-chain attacks: - popular package: attracts more attacks - unpopular package: less likely for attack to be noticed quickly - single maintainer: single point of failure - many maintainers: multiple points of failure current optimal strategy […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

dreamed we were getting ready to leave Disney Planet, and I was having trouble finding my suitcase because of some complicated shuffle of rooms we had done at the request of management. while going from room to room, I took a wrong turn and got stuck in Department Store World, an endless space […]

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! thinks the revolution is possible, but also pretty funny aftermath.site/future-no-than...

Future? No Thanks: An old man with a white beard in a neon track suit stands on the street of a city, surrounded by shops with names like "Veganomics" and "Bicyclical Crisis"

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

any "hardening" approach to anti-bot is ultimately going to fail. you're relying on there being softer targets, but nobody wants to be a soft target, everyone will adopt the same hardening if they can. once there aren't enough softer targets, the bot-deployers will look at your hardening and […]

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🦜 Decoy @decoy.fluffy.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

obsessed with this song obsessed with this music video that is all www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvz-ZOzM7U

An image of the music video for flatroom!! - EVERY SECOND COUNTS with a dark, saturated image of many people, some in fursuits, dancing.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've kinda lost interest in journaling. this isn't unusual, I go through phases. but this feels a little different. I'm kinda deliberately avoiding verbalization of thoughts, until the point where I want to communicate something. I might be reacting against LLM thought chains. my thinking has […]

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David on Formosa @davidonformosa.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Mobile network slowdown drills conducted during Taiwan's Urban Resilience Exercise may have been the first of their type ever conducted internationally. The exercise differed significantly from drills conducted in South Korea and Japan "By simulating an extreme situation in which bandwidth […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

today's repeat forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux33aZrwo24…

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Ok, that mystery/thriller book which is metadataed as #1 in the $protag series, ends with $protag dying. There are no other books in the series, and not really any room for any prequels. This is the type of story device that's impossible to use as a topic of conversation because mentioning any […]

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jobless eevee behavior @asonix.dog · 14/08/2026

PogPaws from @basedOtt running firmware I wrote :veripawed2:

A small USB device with ten buttons in the shape of two paws

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mendel (he/him) @mendel.mendellee.com · 13/08/2026

i was reminded earlier today that i made this on a random whim www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFe3... which was inspired by Adam O'Dell's video that did this with the "Friends" theme

Clapping Music - MCU edition

YouTube video by mendel lee

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

[drawing of sex, wordle rule34]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I have discovered a truly marvelous shitpost for this discourse, which this toot is too small to contain

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𝔹𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕙𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 🔜 Furpoc DD E37 @brushfeather.art · 11/08/2026

Thanks for the love y'all! The flags are available in the shop and ready to ship! www.brushfeather.art/c/products/p...

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Phoenix Pride Progress Flag - Brushfeather Creations | Birds, Beasts and Beyond

These colors don't run, they BURN! Order your unique pride progress flag for your house, wall or garden here.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

the game Super Hexagon is mentioned in a essay about Leverage Research (an Effective-Altruism-adjacent cult-like), so I installed SH again. it's been years, but it's still familiar; my skill has degraded, but not as much as I expected the Leveragers apparently believed that their psychological […]

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🐯🎶Sena @senacello.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

TEETH!

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

King of the Hill season 14 (premiered last year on Hulu) is... ok. Some of it is very funny. All of it feels... dated. It's tales from the before times, which I guess is ok for a nostalgia revival It's set 8 years after season 13, which aired in 2010, so this is a world before COVID, and early […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

then - including the same library code in every executable is wasteful -> let's build systems with shared libraries now - shipping executables that work with every system's shared libraries is too hard -> let's bundle the correct shared libraries in a container future - having every executable […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

... idly wondering if any Epic Free Games contain supply-chain attacks, and if I use this to acquire french impressionist paintings

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a fresh pup of coffee :bowie: @david.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

The link-in-bio app for the furry fandom that I've been working on, #PawPals, is now public! The goal is to replace things like linktree and carrd for furries, as you can search for profiles and make new connections. Please give it a try! pawpals.place

PawPals: Connecting every corner of the furry fandom

Gather all your online spaces in one place. Profiles, business pages, events, and more. Built for furries, by furries.

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Light rail in Portland normally moves at a sedate, friendly pace downtown, but when it heads east, it enters a 3 mile tunnel where it can go full throttle, and I feel like they should play the speech that Gene Wilder gives in the tunnel ride in Willy Wonka. There's no earthly way of knowing […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

stakeholder meeting is when you get together to finally kill the brainchild that turned out to be an ancient horror that's draining the life of your community, right?

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

today is a Survive Said the Prophet day. the lead singer Yosh can't consistently hit all the notes in live performance, but he goes all out anyway, it's great www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJ8CJVVgl8

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

new plan for global warming: deploy a billion solar panels to capture the sun's energy and use that to power a giant laser that will send our excess heat to the moon. (the giant space laser attracts funding; the solar panels mysteriously disappear from the asset inventory when the project collapses)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

RE: tech.lgbt/@gray26/116914668063157616 started a separate mastodon a week ago as an experiment in mundane dev chatter and haven't deleted it yet

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Waiting for the Portland Pride parade to start. Two young women walk by, one has a shirt "I ❤️ to finger paint" guess what the other shirt says

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

ok where gen-AI falls flat for images is it lacks intentionality. beyond what's prompted, everything is random and "average" in ways no person would do. AI coding gets around this by having the agent first write out detailed intention-shaped documents that are basically different types of […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

gen-AI outputs tend to be locally plausible but globally incoherent, because there's no intention, no viewpoint that motivates the assembly of the parts. with a little practice, people can get pretty good at sensing "the vibes are wrong", and from there pick out specific details that are […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

Today is a very special episode of "dog with separation anxiety". Rigby howls, James *never* leaves the house this early. Something nefarious must be happening. Yeah, Rigby. You're not that special. James has another dog family out west that plays fetch like you never do, and they're going on a […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

lately been playing "liked music" on shuffle and thinking, yeah I've heard that enough, time to remove it. just dropped a string of 90s hits of course I need to add new liked music to keep the warp drive from imploding, so I alternate with yt music's "discover mix", which ~20% of the time finds […]

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(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Nviek5 is an amazing animator. here's a process video for the closing ceremony animation at UTFG 2026 (Unfurgettable Taiwan Furry Gathering) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XWmUXwMuds

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Chaos @chaosthief.mastoart.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Another one, this time for toyhou.se/hatoCAFE #artfight #artfight2026 #b3d #3dart #mastoart #werwolf #teamcomedy #animation

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

new plan for global warming: deploy a billion solar panels to capture the sun's energy and use that to power a giant laser that will send our excess heat to the moon. (the giant space laser attracts funding; the solar panels mysteriously disappear from the asset inventory when the project collapses)

(felix) grayscale 🐺 @gray17.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

music video of the day www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCQwLLV60lI

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