The Arctic blast is approaching.

First digital piece of the year, for @okwendy.bsky.social

The clock has now struck 12 o' clock for me, dude. Happy New Year 🥳

Now that 2025: Year of the serpent (Or should I say, year of the serpent people) is beginning to conclude in the USA, I feel it's time for me to give my closing thoughts for this year. This year ABSOLUTELY BLEW CHUNKS. There, I said it.

Merry Christmas everybody

On another note, I might be sick rn. 😐

So I was drinking tea and ended up choking and spitting the tea all over the floor. What an experience. 🙃

The Internet Archive is back on again. 🙂

The Internet Archive went down again. 🙃

Anyways, regarding the issues I was facing with my computer after powering on, the problem was indeed the CMOS battery. After replacing it with one of the fresh CMOS batteries my dad had on hand, my computer behaved normally ever since.

This, ladies and gentlemen, perfectly demonstrates why you should NEVER EVER do server side product authentication. Doing so pretty much puts the fate of your ownership of a product at the mercy of the manufacturer who could in fact terminate it at any time for any reason they feel like.

Currently conducting an experiment on my PC to try and figure out what's causing this to happen. My current test involves removing the CMOS battery, and without it, this screen now shows up without fail after the power supply is turned off for a certain period of time.

Ah, tech issues, the perfect way to start my day. 🫠

Only 30 days til' Christmas, let's go!

So I recently watched Louis Rossmann's videos about Flock and LiveView AI Surveillance and... It's not just that it LOOKS very bad, it is INDEED very bad, because It's already been demonstrated to be subject to absolutely insane levels of systematic abuse. I'm terrified, dude.

Just finished watching the long overdue collab between @blucoolknux.bsky.social , @retiu.me , Dant876 (Doesn't seem to be on Bluesky, sadly), and I where we watch Retiu send the Sega CD's US 1.1.0 BIOS to Hell and back for the sake of our amusement. Ah, good memories.

See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy (and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)

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I've been fixated on Mine Yoshizaki's art for the past 2 years now, so I figured I'd do an art study and write down what I learn (and/or presume) from his styles throughout time as I go along. Starting with the eyes as that's the part I've gained the most confidence in drawing as of now.

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Moon Mountain Pass from #starfoxadventures remastered with high quality samples from the original source audio. This was my second attempt posting this, as the audio was lost in the trimming process for my first attempt, whoops. All just to get the video below 3 minutes. Anyways, Happy Halloween.

So VST3 is now open source, which is neat. github.com/steinbergmed...

I just opened a new tab in Firefox and I kid you not, literally 5 of the first 6 'Thought-provoking stories' (disregarding sponsored posts) are related to Politics. I'm a little uneasy, I'll admit.

TIL, 'lagomorph' is a word that exists and is a synonym for bunny.

Note to self: change that to 4:30 in the morning at most.

Oh baby, a double! Nice! 😎

Nice, for the third time. 😎

This reccomendation situation gives off a "Be careful about who you make fun of in high school" sort of vibe.

Sora 2 creeps me out, that and/or the timeline we've ended up in.

DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY. DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY. DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY. DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY. DON'T LET 1984 BECOME REALITY.

Caught sight of a bird (pretty sure it's a blue jay) casually eating (?) a cat's food.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO PROSPER TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO LOVE TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE TO MAKE MISTAKES AND BE FORGIVEN TRANS PEOPLE DESERVE EQUALITY JUST SAYING THEY SHOULD EXIST IS WEAK IN 2025. THEY DESERVE TO HAVE THE FULL SPECTRUM THAT LIFE OFFERS PASS IT THE HELL ON!!! 🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵 🩵🩵🩷🩷🤍🤍🩷🩷🩵🩵

Autism isn’t a disease to be cured or even eradicated. It’s a neurotype that results in many of the most beautiful and creative brains to have existed. Autists need systemic support to thrive in a world built for allistics, not the blame and shame that make our lives harder than they need to be.

After almost 7 months, I finally drew @masae.bsky.social 's Vtuber model #Art #Sketch #Sketchart #Drawsae

On a more positive note, Bluesky has their equivalent to Twitter's bookmarks now. I can finally rejoice knowing that Twitter's UX has been fully replaced. (At least for me, that is)

github.com/futo-org/gra... Well well well, YouTube's back at it again crusading against the usage of third party clients that provide an actually solid experience for cheaper than what YouTube themselves negotiate. Yeah, totally don't see this backfiring on them at all... /s

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I’m quoted in today’s issue of Forbes.

#Sketch #Sketchart #Vocaloid #VocaloidArt #MikuArt #MikuFanart #MikuBirthday

Sure, why not.

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

Social media should be safe for trans people. Therefore, social media should be unsafe for transphobes. Pass it on.

Breaking gimmick as I urge everyone to please sign this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act. TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets! Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!

Note to self: Never stay in a voice call until 5 in the morning again.

Looked through Microsoft Office 2010's files with Resource Hacker last night and found some bizarre stuff. Once, I saw the message "HI MoM" embedded in one of the image resources. That's odd, yet even more odd and frankly disturbing is an illustration depicting Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Why?

Your pfp is your therapist ... Something ain't right, and I'm probably undiagnosed.

Why does my back feel... off all of a sudden?

It's now officially two years ago to the day, man does time fly.