KoboldCoterie

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Well, it's better than putting them in boxes, I suppose!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

True equality!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (7 children)

At some point, he'll piss off enough people that the world at large will just look the other way when it happens.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago

The term is connected to misogyny. If someone just wants to give up dating and that's the end of it, there's no reason for anyone to be ticked off by that idea. It's the doomer attitude surrounding it and the effects of it that cause problems. You used the term 'black pill', which has specific connotations - it's not simply choosing to give up dating.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

The term black pill, first popularized in the 2010s on the incel blog Omega Virgin Revolt, refers to accepting the futility of fighting against a feminist system. Blackpilled incels are encouraged to either commit suicide or “go ER”/be a “hERo,” referencing Elliot Rodger’s 2014 Isla Vista murder spree that has been called an act of misogynistic terrorism.

(Source: Britannica)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Great - that's what we were trying to go for, but the inability to load multiple templates simultaneously makes it difficult to confirm!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Group Name: Furries of the Fediverse

Template: https://canvas.fediverse.events/#tu=https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.catbox.moe%2F7boa4j.png&tw=157&tx=0&ty=356&ts=ONE_TO_ONE&x=78.5&y=434.5&zoom=1

Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#Fedi_Canvas-Furry-2025:nope.chat

(Not So) Fun Fact: 5.8 million dogs and cats were put up for adoption in 2024, and in the same year, there were only 4.2 million adoptions. Consider a shelter animal rather than a breeder for your next pet, and consider donating to your local animal rescue.

Anyone else making furry or generally animal themed art is more than welcome to drop their own art in / around these. If you've got something you're planning to draw, and want to pop into the above linked Matrix chat, we'll try to integrate it and update the template.

@[email protected]: I don't believe we're intersecting your tree, but if we are, we'll go behind it, not over it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

https://12ft.io/ works great to bypass stupid bullshit like that, as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm all for using Matrix. Re: the design, we could potentially put together something akin to the paw from last year that we start with (something that clearly says 'There's furries working on this' as a sort of rallying flag to anyone else who wanted to join in), then coordinate satellite drawings via Matrix. If we post the initial design in the coordination thread, with a link to the matrix chat, we could potentially get some other folks to help, too (and contribute their own smaller things).

Having a "furry corner" was nice last year, but given that our designs aren't really integrated into one thing that has to be kept together, it probably makes sense to take this approach.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's the intent, yeah - whatever we decide on, we just work on it as a group, via the template we'll set up.

Definitely feel free to make any adjustments you want!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I kind of hate how restrictive the color palette is with regards to actual colors. Things with an excess of browns and greys are very easy to make work, but anything with an abundance of color ends up looking very basic. For example, this guy looks fine when converted to the palette, but trying to do it with a green (for example) character just looks like a mess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Okay, new proposal: We trim some elements and omit others, leaving us with this:

We put it at (0,390), with the understanding that we're going behind (rather than over) the tree that's going up right beside us; that will also help box it in.

In the event that the canvas gets extended twice instead of only once (which will result in another 500 px below the initial square), we extend the two cut off pieces down into the new area, if we have time.

Total area here is 176x110, which is still ambitious, but plausible.

The other option is we design something that fits on the right edge of the canvas and plan to continue into the expanded area the first time it expands (which will probably happen, the second one is less likely.)

(It's not really about being able to place all of the pixels over the course of the event so much as it is being able to command presence of our area. If we're working slowly and filling things in a little at a time, other art will move into the area we'd planned to draw in, but we can take advantage of the expanding canvas to solve for this.)

The alternative is that we take all of the individual elements and place them around the canvas, and build them separately. We really do just have a collection of small things, so we could fit them in around other artworks rather than trying to capture an entire corner / area.

 

Canvas is a yearly Fediverse event similar to Reddit's Place - it's a collaborative art project where any Fediverse user can place colored pixels on a shared canvas over a period of a few days. It has a dedicated community at [email protected] - the canvas itself is here.

This will be its third year; the first time, there were some minor furry drawings, and last year, we were a bit more organized, with a bit of collaboration between Pawb and Yiffit. The full canvas from last year can be seen here - we had a small spot carved out in the lower left corner, as well as a few scattered things all around.

I'd be great to actually start organized this year, and create something substantial together.

Anyone else interested in participating? Any thoughts on what we might make? Anyone with artistic skill want to sketch something out? If we can get a few ideas, maybe we vote on them prior to the event itself?

Edit: Template Here

 

Just wanted you to know, @[email protected], that your personal carrying of this community with daily bat pics was both noticed, and appreciated!

 
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Furule (pawb.social)
 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Kind of falls under the 'Too Afraid to Ask' category, I guess, but I've been curious about this for a while. Did something actually happen at some point, or was this just a procedural thing that wasn't ever followed up on?

It's mildly annoying given how large they are.

Edit: It's possible that this isn't a federation problem at all (as discussion is bringing to light) but something else entirely. Regardless, though, something is going on.

It's also possible that the site I link below is out of date, so maybe don't take that as gospel. I bookmarked it a year ago and just hit it up to check on this a few minutes before posting, so I haven't been keeping up with it.

Doing a little more digging in light of the above, it's possible this is related to this issue, and there's just an extremely long delay before we get content from lemmy.world. Weirdly, though, it doesn't seem to be the case with other instances - maybe because of their size? Either way, looking at the same posts on our instance and 3 or 4 others, we seem to be the only ones not getting the replies. So something's fucked, maybe.

If you're on lemmy.world and happen to see this, drop a reply in here, maybe - I'd be curious to see how long it takes for us to see it (or if we can at all).

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm sure there's a really simple answer to this, but it's a surprisingly difficult problem to search for.

I've got a RichTextBox control and I'm trying to write text that includes the letters "ff", but they don't show up. This is the specific code in question:

for entry in suffix:
  desc += "[color=darkgray]Suffix (Tier: %s, Quality: %s%%) 'of %s'\n[color=royalblue]" % [entry.tier, entry.quality, entry.mod.name]

This is what it ends up printing:

If I change one or both of the Fs to capitals, they both display fine; it's specifically two lowercase Fs that're problematic. They also display fine elsewhere in the same textbox; it's just this line specifically that's problematic. Even tried escaping it but it didn't like that, either.

Most of the settings on the RichTextBox are default; the font has a lowercase 'f' character; I haven't done anything weird with the font size, or style, or anything else.

I'm tearing my hair out here. Please tell me this is just some stupid bbcode tag or some such.

Edit: For anyone finding this later:

It's a ligature (ffi) that the font is missing a glyph for. To solve the problem: On the Import tab, choose the font you're using, click Advanced, and under Metadata Overrides, expand OpenType Features, click Add Feature -> Ligatures, add whichever option is appropriate (discretionary or standard ligatures), then disable the option. Reimport the font, and the issue is fixed!

 

Let's get some furry shit up in there. We can create / share a template so we're all working on something cohesive. Any interest / anyone have any suggestions for something to draw?

Community Link

 

The hacktivists, which describe themselves as made up of "gay furry hackers," usually target government orgs whose policies they disagrees with, and have a flare for political publicity stunts, also posted a link to the purported stolen files on their Telegram channel.

"The astonishing siegedsec hackers have struck NATO once more!!1!!!," the crew wrote, bragging: "NATO: 0. Siegedsec: 2."

The team is referring to its earlier NATO intrusion in July, during which it claimed it swiped information belonging to 31 nations and leaked 845MB of data from the alliance's the Communities of Interest (COI) Cooperation Portal.

 

"Some game developers are turning to artificial intelligence to make the creative process faster and easier—and cheaper, too. At Google Cloud Next in San Francisco, startup Hiber announced the integration of Google’s generative AI technology in its Hiber3D development platform, which aims to simplify the process of creating in-game content.

Hiber said the goal of adding AI is to help creators build more expansive online worlds, which are often referred to as metaverse platforms. Hiber3D is the tech that powers the company's own HiberWorld virtual platform, which it claims already contains over 5 million user-created worlds using its no-code-needed platform.

By typing in prompts via its new generative AI tool, Hiber CEO Michael Yngfors says creators can employ natural language to tell the Hiber3D generator what kind of worlds they want to create, and can even generate worlds based on their mood or to match the vibe of a film. [...]"

Once this is refined, this could be very neat! It's only environments right now, not characters and whatnot, too, but maybe eventually we'd be able to dynamically generate some anthro-populated worlds to explore.

 

Performance on Pawb.Social specifically has been degrading significantly; it often times takes a very long time (10+ seconds) to load a post, for example, with a noticeable number of time-outs occurring. Opening the same post via its home instance in these cases typically works much faster, leading me to believe the problem is here, not with the host instance.

This is the case even with local communities.

Hoping to hear from other folks - are you also experiencing this? Is it a temporary issue, or indicative of a growing server-side problem?

 

There was discussion on the lemmy fork thread about replacing the default 'Donate' link with a server-specific one, but given that's not available yet, is there somewhere we can contribute funds towards hosting costs?

Really, maybe such a link should be on the sidebar, at least - if there is one somewhere already, I wasn't able to find it, and as such I suspect other folks who would potentially be looking for one wouldn't find it, either.

 
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