My egg cracked at 11, but enbys were almost entirely unknown in Texas back then so I masked so hard that I was basically living in denial. My 18yo self wouldn’t need gender validation, it’ll find kindred spirits for that in college, but “Colorado, not California” might push up my transition date by a decade, 'cuz my first attempt to escape Texas didn’t go well.

Oh hey, that’s almost exactly the kind of cyberpunk dystopia that I grew up reading fiction about:

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1

XD

I’ve seen furries put the squeakers from dog toys in the soft fabric noses of their fursuits =3

I mean, the Flipper Zero is just a computer with a few radios built-in.

I think the only one they share with most smart glasses is Bluetooth which might potentially have some vulnerabilities which could be exploited, but there are also expansion cards for the Flipper Zero that add everything from wifi and ethernet ports to high-powered IR blasters, so the real question is how vulnerable smart glasses are.

And the truth is, they’re vulnerable by default because they rely on corpo servers to operate like any other “smart” device. Any flaw in the security of the glasses themselves barely holds a candle to the fact that they forward everything to Facebook or some other big tech brand name with a financial interest in monetizing your data.

I get so many compliments on my fancy moustache, but nobody notices my tits unless I wear a push-up bra. XD

I’m probably missing some context here as well. Camera boops feel like a meme from a short-form video site like Vine or TikTok, which I don’t have any direct experience with.

That feels like part of the joke to me, I’ve never heard of someone’s nose getting damaged by a camera boop. XD

Definitely do look into this, and check out some of the work folks are already doing with combining fabrics and 3d printing. =D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ8Gg0dPx0g

I love it too, especially with how quickly the community evolves. New techniques catch on and spread like wildfire, and we make a great indicator species for the health of online spaces.

(Can confirm about the parties too =3)

Dang, no comments view?

It’s true!

https://knowyourmeme.com/sensitive/memes/events/tonytigergate

That sort of wardrobe malfunction is not terribly uncommon since fursuit-making is still mostly a cottage industry where each piece is a one-off custom, but most reputable fursuit-makers offer a limited-time warranty to cover minor alterations and repairs.

Furry conventions also usually have someone offering repair services (sometimes even for free) in the dealer’s den in addition to the tables selling everything from parts and accessories to entire pre-made fullsuits.

And the people behind those corporate fursonas hate it. Horny furries drove cereal mascot Tony the Tiger off of Twitter. XD

XD

I have an approximate knowledge of many things and a fascination with new tech, but I’ve only been posting on Lemmy recently. Guess I oughta get started on a real newsletter. XD

Lol, I don’t have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there’s that. =3

Lol, I don’t have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there’s that. =3

Lol, I don’t have one, but I post on Lemmy a lot, so there’s that. =3

More or less, yeah.

Fabrics and polyurethane foam used to be the only options for fursuits, but this started shifting over the last 10 years or so. Some enterprising furries started molding components like teeth, claws, and noses from soft rubber materials, which experienced a brief renaissance before hard plastic 3d-printed parts started supplanting the more labor-intensive custom molded pieces.

At the time when this was posted, hard plastic parts had become common for new fursuits, but now that 3d printers can use TPU and other flexible materials, they’ve become the new standard. Many fursuit makers actually use this technique to print the whole frame of the fursuit head, making them more durable while also improving airflow over the old-style carved polyurethane foam head bases;

A pic of an old-style carved polyurethane foam head base.

A pic of a new-style 3d printed TPU head base.

Because the company knows it can settle to avoid the Discovery process.

Yeah, the hype is really leaning on that singularitarian angle and the investor class is massively overextended.

I’m glad that the general public is finally getting on down the hype cycle, this peak of inflated expectations has lasted way too long, but it should have been obvious three years ago.

Like, I get that I’m supposedly brighter and better educated than most folks, but I really don’t feel like you need college level coursework in futures studies to be able to avoid obvious scams like cryptocurrency and “AI”.

I feel like it has to be deliberate, a product of marketing effects, because some of the most interesting new technologies have languished in obscurity for years because their potential is disintermediative and wouldn’t offer a path to further expanding the corporate dominion over computing.