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stickers & zines:

[Slonelover42 @SlonesBlondeBoy]

Stuff I use for drawing that I think are super useful:

•angleref . com - ENDLESS angled face refs
•Sketchfab - 3D models of characters (to check every little detail, rotate em) OR 3D dioramas for bgs
•Justsketchme - poses! (Yes I also trace em to get perfect anatomy) --

[“paula” @paularambles]

unsurprisingly the website this is from is literally

cookingforengineers dot com

[motif of harmful sensation @Ink_the_artist_]

"i hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child & fell asleep on the couch during a family party. i hope you can hear the laughter from the next room"

[y @loomdoop]

I was called to the jury pool for this, and had to excused the first day because they said it would be 2-3 months of unpaid full time labor, and I would end up homeless if I did that.

The only people who can serve on juries have non-essential corporate jobs or are retirees.

[Puck! @puck_psx]

I just released an all-in-one tool that lets you extract textures from any perspective, turn them into seamless textures, and use them on your 3D models.

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevtools #itchio #indiegame

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Most people who care about privacy focus on their operating system. Linux over Windows. open source over proprietary.

That's good. it's also not enough.

Here's what's running below your OS on almost every Intel computer made since 2006:

The Intel Management Engine is a separate processor inside your chipset running its own closed-source operating system called Minix 3. It has direct access to your RAM, storage, network, and peripherals. it runs at Ring -3 below your kernel, below your hypervisor, below everything your OS can see or control. it stays active even when your computer is powered off as long as it's plugged in.

You cannot audit it. you cannot disable it through normal means. You cannot detect what it's doing from inside your OS.

The EFF called it a security hazard in 2017. The Libreboot project said it has complete access to and control over your PC, including the ability to track keystrokes, capture screen images, and examine all running applications.

Intel confirmed multiple vulnerabilities in ME in 2017 affecting 6th through 8th generation Core processors, Xeon, and Atom chips. Researchers demonstrated it could be used to inject rootkits remotely via the network interface.

The only known method to fully disable it was discovered by Positive Technologies. They found a hidden bit in the firmware labeled 'HAP enable' part of an NSA program called High Assurance Platform.

The NSA has a switch to disable Intel ME.

you don't.

if you want hardware that doesn't include ME: AMD processors do not have the same implementation. Purism builds laptops with ME neutralized. The Libreboot project has a list of hardware that can run without proprietary firmware.

Your threat model determines how far down this rabbit hole you need to go.

But you should know the rabbit hole exists.

[Noah Verrier @NoahVerrier]

My oil painting of an Uncrustable

[mia 🕸️🪽 @autumnstigmata]

Seattle is on the verge of declaring a state of civil emergency in response to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of trans people throughout the United States. If you’re coming from a red state, we’ve prepared a resource just for you. please share around. 👇

[ສະຫາຍ ສຸວິ 🇱🇦🇵🇸‧₊˚ ✮⋆˙ @Souvie]

Almost 2,000 people were just completely disappeared here, but it feels like everything about it has been purged from collective memory

[Santi Torres @SantiTorAI]

"Pagas 11,99€ al mes para alquilar música que no te pertenece."

Alguien acaba de hacer eso obsoleto.

Un desarrollador publicó en open source una herramienta llamada Spooty. Le das la URL de una playlist de Spotify y descarga cada canción en tu máquina. En MP3. Con los metadatos completos, las portadas, todo.

Sin algoritmo que elimine una canción sin avisarte. Sin "este contenido no está disponible en tu región". Sin suscripción mensual para seguir accediendo a lo que llevas años escuchando.

Lo que hace en concreto:

> Se conecta a la API oficial de Spotify para leer tus playlists.
> Descarga cada canción en alta calidad.
> Etiqueta todo automáticamente: título, artista, álbum, portada.
> Funciona completamente en tu máquina, tus credenciales nunca salen de tu dispositivo.

Es Python. Tres pasos para instalarlo. Clonas el repo, instalas las dependencias, conectas tus claves API de Spotify.

Una biblioteca permanente por 0€, frente a 11,99€ al mes por alquilar exactamente lo mismo.

100% open source.

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

Why are they only doing 8-hr shifts if they're robots? Why did that robot touch his head?

-...It's Indians pretending to be robots again isn't it?

[Fredda @PunishedFredda]

This is posted as an offical editorial board opinion, which means that if one were to operate on the precedent set by the example of Streicher and Der Stürmer at the Nuremberg trials, the NY Post editorial board is apparently to be hanged.

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Mississippi River LiDAR

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

On May 7th, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York's Fiscal Year 2027 budget will become the first law in the United States to mandate surveillance software inside every 3D printer sold within the state.

It will make it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. Every printer sold in New York must ship with print-blocking algorithms that scan each job in real time and refuse to execute anything the algorithm flags.

The sales pitch is "ghost guns." The mechanism is a permission gate inside a machine you paid for.

Pilot tests of the proposed algorithm by an open-firmware team triggered the block on 17% of non-weapon prints. Brackets that resemble triggers. Cylinders that resemble barrels. A model train coupling. A bottle opener. The algorithm cannot tell. It will refuse the print and log the attempt to whatever server the manufacturer is required to maintain.

The same arithmetic the printing-press licensors used in 1660. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used to brand a printer's son for distributing tracts the Crown had not approved. The same arithmetic the early DRM crowd used to make a DVD ripper a federal criminal in 1998.

A tool you bought, in a room you own, with electricity you paid for, becomes a deputy of the state at the moment of purchase and remains one for the lifetime of the device.

Anything that takes a digital design file and outputs a physical object is now within the reach of a state that has declared it owns the question of which physical objects you are permitted to bring into existence inside your own house.

The fence has spent forty years moving inward. Around the song first. Around the page. Around the cipher. Around the camera roll. Now, finally, around the workbench. The state has run out of digital territory to enclose and has started enclosing the atoms.

The maker who prints a bracket for a broken washing machine tonight commits the same act, technically, that the law is written to stop. The algorithm will not know the difference. It is not designed to know the difference. It is designed to fail closed, to refuse first and let the human appeal upward through whatever bureaucratic channel the manufacturer designs, if any, on whatever timeline the manufacturer chooses, with whatever paper trail attaches to the request. Permission to print, denied. Submit a ticket. Wait.

Unfortunately for New York, and fortunately for us, the firmware on every consumer 3D printer is open or near-open. All of them forkable, all of them flashable, all of them already installed on millions of machines outside the reach of any future New York compliance certificate.

The CAD files at issue are mathematical descriptions of geometry that will be mirrored on a thousand drives in a thousand jurisdictions before the ink on the bill is dry. The state cannot bind geometry. It can only bind the people who agree to be bound.

Forty years from now nobody will remember the ghost gun argument. They will remember the year a state government decided that the physical output of a private machine was the state's business at the point of manufacture.

[Police The Police 2.0 @PoliceThePolic1]

A San Francisco woman went out drinking with a group of cop friends. She blacked out and woke up in a hotel room naked and drugged with four cops. The rape kit tested positive for all of their DNA but the D.A refuses to bring any charges.

https://t.co/qEs0ApOcyk

[ParaPower Mapping @KlonnyPin_Gosch]

DSA: Former union leader who was beaten by IDF should be waterboarded in solitary confinement in perpetuity for not giving AOCIA a media coup freebie

Also DSA: we endorse this billionaire who invested $90 million in private prisons for governor. Here, have a “class traitor” too

[Jermzilla @RevolverJerm]

“Socialist” org endorsing a billionaire who got rich off private prisons. In the same section, they talk shit about the two Black men who are actually leftist candidates in the third parties. Crazy stuff.

[The Anarchist Turtle 🏴Ⓐ🔆🏳️‍⚧️ @anarchoboognish]

Me getting executed in 2027 for using a VPN after ProtonMail hands over a legal data request of information about a french teen climate activist 5 years ago even though they're supposed to not do that

[saibapunku 〇 @autythm]

this is a screenshot from a point and click adventure game from 1994 that came on seven floppy disks