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Had another exhausting week, so here's a pic of the neighbors' nugget getting his scratchies from his favorite (?) scratchie provider.

#catcontent

Photo of a super relaxed cat on my lap and me looking a bit derpy but cool thanks to the shades I'm wearing.

@ponysmasher As a professional colorist I also urge everyone to record properly exposed footage. Makes my job much easier and we can experiment with looks, not wrestle on the noise floor 😅

In #StrangerThings S4E4, at 42:12, there’s this sign in the background. The font used on it clearly is a slightly stretched version of Comic Sans.

Since the show is set in 1986 but the font came out in 1994, I’ve come to suspect the show was, in fact, NOT shot in 1986!

#font #comicsans

Screenshot of the show showing a still of a man counting money with the play controls enabled showing the episode title and time bar. In the shot, there’s a sign on the wall in the background, slightly out of focus reading "Yuri’s Fish n' Fly"

Screenshot of a crop-in of just the sign.

The same crop-in but with the word "Yuri’s" set in Comic Sans overlaid twice in white. The bottom one is the un-stretched version of the font for reference; perfectly overlaid on top of the sign is a slightly stretched version.

Screenshot of the Wikipedia page on Comic Sans with a font specimen. Highlighted is "October 1994" under "Date created"

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It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.

The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know

Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

Signatures collected online

787,747 / 1,000,000

End of the collection period

17-May-2025

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🇬🇧 If you are an EU citizen and have not signed or promoted this petition to ban conversion therapy within the EU, please do so today! (Due date to reach the quorum is today, last chance.)

🇩🇪 Wenn du EU Bürger_in bist und diese Petition für ein EU-weites Verbot von Konversionstherapien noch nicht gezeichnet und geteilt hast, tue es bitte heute noch! (Fristende zum Erreichen des Quorums ist heute, letzte Chance.)

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

#Petition #ConversionTherapy :progress_pride: :BoostOK:

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The goal of the companies who run AIs is to

1. get us all to use AI until the point where

2. we're dependent on AI, then

3. remove all access to AI and

4. grant the privilege of use only to those who pay a monthly fee,

5. which will periodically rise

6. while the service becomes worse and worse.

It'll be enshittification of enshittification.

enshittiception

@Exaltia Yes, that's how I understand it. The "Pro" plan let me jist upload more at a higher quality and I could monetize some tracks but I never saw any money back for the 100 bucks a year I paid. Instead, I will try Mirlo for my music and direct my subscription-budget to support a worker-owned outlet such as 404 Media or Aftermath ☺️

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If you’re in the EU and you opted out of Meta training generative AI on your Facebook, Threads and Instagram posts and pictures, Meta are requiring you to opt out *again* or they will continue training on your data.

Users have until May 27 2025 to opt out again or forever lose the right. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/meta-is-making-users-who-opted-out-of-ai-training-opt-out-again-watchdog-says/

This is the random ass opt out URL, which isn’t advertised in their apps: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

Instagram opt out: https://help.instagram.com/contact/233964459562201

Manually deleted all my tracks there for good measure before closing my account there. Follow me on #bandcamp instead.

🎧https://sephcarissa.bandcamp.com

Screenshot of Soundcloud's backend telling me that I successfully deleted my account.

Cancelling my #Soundcloud

Screenshot of SoundCloud's Artist Pro plan that I am cancelling. The form asks "Can you explain why you are canceling your Artist Pro account in your own words? " to which I reply: "I don't want my tracks used for A.I. training. Seriously, fuck you."

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The European Vulnerability Database (EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/

#security #infosec

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‪Drew Magary‬
‪@drewmagary.bsky.social‬

“And so the Greeks send me this horse, we’re talking about one of the most beautiful horses you’ve ever seen. So big. So strong. Normally they keep this kind of horse for themselves but they were such big fans they said sir, please take our big wonderful horse we’ll even bring it to your house”

@RetroGamer_offiziell Heute im Postfach eingetrudelt! 🥰

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I got a #gamedev #sdl question. Specifically for #SDL_gfx.

Does anybody know of a proper sample for the MMX image filters functions?

I know the tests exists, but these seem to only to affect small custom-made arrays.

But, I think that you should be definitely be applying these to surface pixel data, right?

I've been trying to make a sample in vala but keeps crashing. I plan to make it work in C to truly understand it. But wanted to ask if anybody knows about a sample before doing that.

@konstantinosd Yes!! I still hum the title song by heart on occasion and I haven't heard it in decades 😅

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