Hey so is there a #furry bot that posts dragons other than @Feral Art Bot ?

@ulveon.net (on derg.social) Absolutely. There was a short period where I couldn't tell the difference, but now the clean, soulless look just absolutely revolts me. And most others I know refuse to engage with it, too. Which is saying a lot, cuz furries will jork it to anything.

@Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 That is some actually good news!

@Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 I don't even know if the problem is generative AI. The problem might be the people who are so uncultured that they think that what generative AI creates is good, let alone 'better'.

@Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 I don't even know if the problem is generative AI. The problem might be the people who are so uncultured that they think that what generative AI creates is good, let alone 'better'.

@Reg It's big business for a country who can't make many transactions legally because of international sanctions, yeah.

Honestly, I think it's kind of based. The DPRK doing the world a favour by making Axi Infinity implode a few years back.

Comrade Ferret wrote the following post Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:51:48 -0600

• So we all know that dragons are big scaly quadrupeds, basically giant long lizards with wings.
• Dragons may or may not breathe fire or acid or ice or other things(?)
• Dragons may also have just two legs. Wyverns are dragons, too. After all...
• Dragons can also be long snake-things with two or four or six or eight legs, that fly around without wings.
• Dragons can be actually just giant snakes. ("Wyrms.")
• Dragons thusfar have only ever been big, but there are also tiny dragons.
• Dragons thusfar have all had scales, but there are maned dragons, and feathered dragons, and fluffy dragons.
• Felkins are literally just furry, unwinged quadrupeds. Verdict? Dragons.
• Kirin have hooves, ox tails, no wings. Dragons.
• Sometimes dragons literally just look like people? Still dragons?

In conclusion, this paper posits that dragon-hood cannot be defined by anatomy, and must be, at best, an intersection between the physical, mental, social, and spiritual. Literally anything and anyone can be ­— and, indeed, is — a dragon. If you are reading this, congratulations: You are a #dragon. 🐉

Being a #dragon is like being #trans. You may or may not fit into a gender binary. You may or may not have body dysmorphia. You may or may not identify with any or all or none of the gender roles or norms of your assigned or identified gender. The only thing that makes you trans, really, is that you say you are.

Modern research is showing that #autism is kind of the same way. Not really one common through-line, can't call it a concise disorder, and calling it a spectrum is probably even pushing it.

Therefore, all trans people and #neurodiverse people are dragons

QED

@Miakoda :neurodiversity: I do recommend Garuda to new users. CachyOS, too. Both are extremely newb-friendly. But they have a little more than the average "I just wanna use the email" person needs.

@Veronica Explains As an Arch user, I agree with this. Everyone who comes to me to make the switch, I put them on Mint with Cinnamon.

@StillIRise1963 Dogs are in concentration camps. I think white people just don't care about anything. I think people in general just don't care about anything. Not enough to do anything about it. Not enough to even talk about it. Or hear about it.

Was hired kind of on the side by a friend to set up a Nextcloud instance on this old server. He had Windows Server on it. I did offer to install Debian instead, but he wanted to keep Windows, to which I said, fine, I know Powershell, I know how to use Windows, it's whatever.

It wasn't whatever.

Installing Docker alone was hellish. Tried to install via the command line. It didn't work, and it turns out dependencies vary, and also, when you install Docker as admin, and then try to run it as admin, it tells you that you have insufficient privileges(???) I remembered that everything in Windows is done with the GUI anyway, so did that. It didn't work. Why? Missing DLL. Where do I get that DLL? From installing Hyper-V. Why do I need Hyper-V? Who knows. But it required me to also enable the hypervisor in the BIOS. Was I actually using Hyper-V for Docker for some reason? No, of course not. But it needs that DLL. Oh, and it needs WLS. So, four long-ass restarts of the computer later, and a half-gigabyte download on a SIM's internet connection, and another half gig for WLS, and Docker is finally installed.

Installed Nextcloud, realized I forgot an environment variable, reinstalled Nextcloud. Shit just would not work. TLS authentication through Cloudflare Tunnel (cuz yeah his only choice was to use that) was failing. After finally giving up on Tunnel and deciding to show him how to get it set up back at his place without it, I learned that it was probably failing because port 443 was occupied. What was it occupied with? Why, another Nextcloud container. Yeah, while I was using the CLI to remove the containers I first had going before correcting the environment variables, the GUI that remained in the background was nevertheless starting them back up.

After all this struggle, totaling almost six hours, it turns out that the stupid SIM router he bought requires you to restart the router to apply new port forwarding settings (which it calls "Virtual Server" for some ungodly reason). And then when you restart the router, it also resets all your settings anyway. So it just doesn't work.

Oh, also, the domain name that he had was, for whatever reason, registered under Cloudflare, but not the Cloudflare account he was using. He doesn't know how that happened, but it meant his DNS were all wrong and, because Cloudflare is jank as fuck, would remain wrong. So that was a whole absolutely befuddling ordeal.

And I simply do not understand why anyone would ever use Windows Server for anything. It's just worse in every imaginable way. I've set up and taken down fully functional Nextcloud instances in under half an hour, and if it weren't for his insistence on keeping this Windows Server 2022 install for some reason, maybe this instance would actually be functioning for him now, and I wouldn't be absolutely swimming in impostor syndrome.

@clever boi Well, I dunno if they did, unless hacking involves routing your audio sinks and no one told me.

@clever boi is that qpwgraph on the right screen?

@××××× I've yet to meet anyone irl who even knows what the fediverse is