huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28

Fursuiter DJ, backend software engineer, occasional artist. Not the better-known producer. Core Contributor for @mixxx going on 15 years. Arts Co-lead for a regional Burning Man event.
#furry, #fursuiter, #dj
Somerville, MA

Icon by twitter.com/BearlyFeline

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Gabriele Sveltogabrielesvelto@mas.to
2025-07-18

If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.

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doctorlauradoctorlaura
2025-07-11

I'm tired of Big AI breaking all the "rules" and making the Internet worse for humans. I was really impressed reading about Anubis. I'm not a dev and I don't have a website, but I am tried of solving Captchas so I signed up as member on Patreon to support this work. Why hasn't someone thought of this before? 404media.co/the-open-source-so @cadey

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convelocityconvelocity
2025-07-09

You should wear that new face of yours like a badge of honour. (2022)

A dark staircase only illuminated by the dim light coming from a window and the viewers flashlight. A red deer can be seen climbing up the stairs, turning its head around to look at the viewer. The deer's head is shrouded in darkness with its eyes glowing white.
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False Kneesfalseknees
2025-07-08

In honour of my new baby and in honour of not supposed to be working, over the next few weeks I'm going to post this short story called 'Fledgling' I made for my patreon 2 years ago. This is part 1/14.

Sounds of laughter come from a oriole nest, hanging suspended from a branch. There are three chicks speaking to each other. "That is the PERFECT impression of mom!" says one chick to another. "Thanks, it's all about the anxiety" it replies. The third chick, let's call her Fledgling for the purposes of the alt text, says "Ok ok! Who am I? 'Hi kids! Here, have some warm bug mush'". One sibling responds "She just did mom" The other joins "Choose someone else". Fledgling looks lost and thinks to herself "but I don't know anyone else". To be continued! This is just part one of fourteen.
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Galinn πŸͺ - Commissions Closedgalinn.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-26

Updated design for my bird guy Jen ✨ #furryart

Drawing of an anthro secretary bird with goggles, shorts and a collared vest.
huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-24

@octothorpe as a kid I loved that episode! It's funny how it's now considered pretty much the worst one

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-23

@olivvybee could be interference from all of the devices close together? Could try separating the car fob from the rest of the bundle if you haven't

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-22

@windbliss ain't she though!

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-22

A blissful icon, by @krysiilys.bsky.social !

Laelia in soft colors and surrounded by monstera leaves of course
huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-20

An update on my #enshittification post: Slack has given CNCF a reprieve, at least for now. But who's to say if and when they decide it's not worth it to self-fund such a large instance? There are voices arguing for the open alternatives and I hope they get a fair hearing.

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-19

@rowanshielding @pluralistic they have done a lot of work on the ui for big communities. I hesitate to say it will probably be fine, functionally. My primary concern is their impending IPO and inevitable enshittification of their own afterwards

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-19

@foolishowl @pluralistic I've been hearing about mattermost, I need to check it out

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-19

@jstockdi zulip is a good one, we use it on the Mixxx project

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Jasper Fox :therian:Redfuchs@furries.club
2025-06-19
A good relationship is just two
people saying, "Hey, life is hard, but
I want to do it with you." That's it.
It's not a highlight reel. It's not
always romantic dinners or grand
gestures. Sometimes it's folding
laundry together and sending each
other memes when words feel like
too much. Love isn't always loud.
Sometimes it's just choosing each
other again and again.
huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-19

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-s

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

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Soatok Dreamseekersoatok@furry.engineer
2025-06-18

When I was in high school, Mythbusters was the only notable example I could point to of nerds being "cool".

(This was a time when you were made fun of for liking anime or being more into books than gossip.)

You can hear Adam hold back tears of joy at several moments in the video.

youtu.be/XEf_9evSux8

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-17

LB, props to my employer for putting up a pride post that goes hard

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2025-06-17

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ Pride began with the bravery to be seen. We honor the courage of those who stood up at Stonewallβ€”and stand with the LGBTQIA+ community today and every day.

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2025-06-17

Since I've left my last job, I've been thinking about the guy who used me as an alternative to ChatGPT whenever he hit a problem that he couldn't vibe code the answer out of at work.

He basically rotted his own brain by compulsively using ChatGPT in lieu of actually thinking with most any of the projects he was working on. Instead of taking the time to read through code in our framework, look up documentation, or do any sort of debugging, he instead just begged and pleaded with ChatGPT to try and get somewhere because "it was faster." Basically just really hammering his brain with the Programmer's Slot Machine. (@davidgerard wrote a really good article here about this specific gambling addiction angle here. I highly highly recommend reading/watching the corresponding YouTube video:
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/05/gen )

Back to the story; When that wasn't working, which was a significant portion of the time, he'd then just turn and use me as a "more informed alternative" to ChatGPT.

I worked fully remote and the majority of our interactions was via a Teams chat. which apparently crossed some wires in his monkey brain and made him start just... Basically verbally barraging me like he would with the company ChatGPT instance. No thoughts at all, just an immediate process of:

- Ask vague question
- Get guess for an answer with a request for more details
- Try applying the guess blindly without thinking if it's applicable at all
- Have it not work and just report back that it didn't work.
- No follow-up details, no further explanation of what was going on or what he's trying to do. Nothing added past the original vague situation
- If lucky, I might get a screenshot of part of the error, meticulously sliced before it gave something useful in the output because he stopped reading error output to things and made no attempt to understand it. (Why? ChatGPT can do that part!)
- Rinse and Repeat until I get fed up and get into a call with him
- Fix the thing in less than a minute, pointing out that he should have been able to tell what was wrong almost immediately if he actually dropped a break-point and debugged the code at *literally any point* along the way
- Fuck off immediately after getting his fix, no thank you or anything
- start the process anew the following day when he vibe coded himself into a corner all over again

I literally had to go to leadership and make them have a talk with him and get him to leave me the fuck alone at work, after repeated attempts to establish boundaries about it, due to how much time it sucked out of me being able to work on other projects. Effectively just doubling up my work and slamming me with burn out right at the start of the year for absolutely no reason other than his belligerent insistence to just Not Do His Job Without His Hand Being Held By A Chat Window.

It rapidly went from a "He sometimes asks informed questions that I can answer and help him with. I enjoy working with him" to "The dude isn't even trying in the slightest and is now basically offloading his work onto me because he broke his capacity to actually do work independently of an external chat window. I fucking hate him and I hope he gets in a car wreck so I can get a break from the bleakness of dealing with him every goddamn morning"

ChatGPT has basically just been an absolute blight for me since it's inception. Going from the team being generally pro-crypto to intensely pro-genAI/LLM because their favorite scammers (er.. I mean YouTubers) had them hooked on a fantasy of some day making it Big by jumping from one Hype cycle to the next. I sincerely was very close to just finding an entirely different career path altogether because of just how incredibly shitty it was working with that team on just about anything, but lacking the job experience on the resume to land someplace else.

Nobody wanted to be an actual expert, nobody really wanted to learn anything. They had their degree and ChatGPT, which means they learned all they ever will need. ...While working in an industry that tends to re-invent itself every half decade or so while half-assing solutions with an outsourced bullshit generator. 🫠

All in the name of "Well it got me from point A to point B faster." and leaving it at that, despite taking significantly longer than they should have from the get go over it.

I've seen and lived what an AI Fueled future looks like:
Mediocre men harassing their talented and likely autistic peers until their peers just up and fuckin leave to a different organization out of frustration and exhaustion.

I think down the road, we'll be able to measure the negative impact using LLMs has on people's cognitive faculties by comparing it to horse kicks to the head, and only be exaggerating it by a little bit.

huxley(fur) πŸ”œ Prowl Pride 6/28huxley@furry.engineer
2025-06-12

@julia I used to work there and god I wish I could read the post mortem for this one.

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