The knight victoriously held the holy sword aloft, blade glowing with a dazzling white light. Suddenly, an ethereal voice echoed inside his head.
"Hello, Arthur Pendragon."
"Who... who goes there?"
"Registering user, one moment please..."
"How dost thou know my name?"
"User registration complete."
"What--"
"Welcome to the Excalibur Automated Combat System, powered by Microsoft Windows. I'm Cortana, and I'm here to help. To get started, please say your command."
Thank you so much Ellysiumn and DeviantArt for giving Speedpainting 02062020 a Daily Deviation Award. 💙https://deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-02062020-844341686
#art #speedpainting #mastoart
The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.
A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violen
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/
#/etc/ #html5 #web #weeknotes #work
Warrning to Telegram users: both Google and Apple are respectively being sued in the US for hosting their apps
https://www.cnet.com/news/former-ambassador-sues-apple-and-alphabet-to-drop-telegram-from-app-stores/
you might want to consider moving to F-Droid’s Telegram FOSS, as well as preparing to use a different chat app
In a 23-1 vote, Google vetoes Web Privacy Proposals at the W3C
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/google-blocking-web-privacy-proposals-at-w3c/
cc @aral
i got a thing!! done up by @extinct !!!
featuring @toydragon and my many legged wolf fursona
aaaaa i love this so much
More people need to make fursonas.
Seriously.
I recognise people by their avatars, such that if I associate someone with... say, using an avatar of Madeline from Celeste, when I see someone else with the same avatar, I briefly think it's the same person.
Make your own fursonas. Get commissions. Use them as avatars. Be you, not just an ambiguous manifestation with an arbitrary name and face.
Furry on main. I mostly make dumb jokes, bark at squirrels, and gripe about tech. NSFW is tagged, but 18+ followers only please. If you post very frequently I'm less likely to follow you, no offense.