Thomas Wodarek

Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions

We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.

This is genuinely fascinating

For anyone interested an alternative for VM hosting, you can now request an invite to gigabit.host

Head to portal.gigabit.host/invite/request and request an account.

The code powering the platform can be found over on GitHub: github.com/AndromedaInd...

Adding progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy improves breast growth for transgender people The addition of the hormone progesterone to gender-affirming hormone therapy leads to increased breast growth for transgender people following feminising hormone therapy.

a study showing the efficacy of progesterone for breast growth has finally come out perhaps some people can stop falsely accusing the rest of us of spreading medical misinformation just because they downplay the value of anecdotal evidence in the absence of such studies

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Chart showing average Atlantic hurricane and tropical storm activity from May to December based on data from 1944 to 2020. Activity increases sharply in August, peaking in mid-September. A marker indicates the current date as July 28, just before activity begins to rise.

On average, 86% of all named tropical systems in the Atlantic occur after August 2, and the first hurricane doesn't form until August 11.
We have a long season to go. Prepare now – Learn how at weather.gov/safety/hurricane

Gigabit.host is soft launched!

The goal is to use excess revenue to build missing resources

Like Community and Creative spaces that don’t have to focus on making money and can just exist to make the community better

Still needs work before fully launching, reach out if you’d like to join the beta

therapy

should

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luxury

U.K.’s Bankrupt Unbound Still Owes Millions to Creditors The U.K.-based crowdfunding publisher Unbound lost a fortune for its shareholders and owed an estimated $3.1 million to creditors, prior to its being sold in March for just $64,000.

Don't buy from @unboundsocials.bsky.social / Boundless Books and for god's sake don't consider being published by them. They owe ME money, and books I've never received, but more urgently, they owe their authors thousands and THOUSANDS of pounds. Cretinous, teeth-grindingly tedious conduct.

Platform engineering is about giving internal engineering teams the tools they need to provision, manage, understand, and operate the software they own.

If you're running it for them, you're an ops team.

If you're building tools, sans PM/designers, you're an infra team.

Being forced to upgrade Planned depreciation of hardware is annoying when you don't need a new device.

I can't decide if I should upgrade my iPad so naturally I blogged about it

cassidoo.co/post/forced-...

My partner and I are in this situation with phones. Her Pixel 3 is to the point that apps are failing, It's also the biggest phone that fits in her pocket, but all newer phones are bigger (and don't have a back fingerprint sensor)
My Pixel 5a still works great for me, but no more security updates...

Hello BlueSky! Not sure what all to post here, but we'll see what happens!