Cranky Rabbit, DJ.

DJ Cranky Rabbit does things to music on a regular basis, which are often well received. On an equally regular basis, they volunteer at a local non-profit, and on a part-time basis is a Second Life rabbit. Hence the name.

[thevaultoftheatomicspaceage]

space 1999

[desperatefunproductions]

Saw one of my zines in the wild at Newtown Library. That makes me feel chuffed.

Of course, you don't care, and will not go to https://desperatefun.neocities.org to find out how to get a copy of your very own.

[ace-spadespoken]

Dangerous ad going around on Tumblr ⚠️

For those who are unaware, there's been ads for a/i chat/bots going around on Tumblr. Specifically for "shapes.inc".

Obviously this is immediately worrying as chat/bots prey on low mental wellbeing, loneliness and someone's desire to interact, to then make them dependant and use their services more.

However, the ads themselves have stopped being quiet about that aspect. Here's one of the most worrying ads (aside the one that legitimately encourages users to make chat/bots of their friends' OCs without their consent, while also trying to claim that its "ethically sourced" - not telling us WHAT'S even sourced here - and therefore "guilt free".)

This is disgusting, plain and simple.

Not only is it directly preying on loneliness outright - it's encouraging a user to make a bot out of someone real without their consent. Not even a friend, no - a MUTUAL. It's encouraging parasocial dependency - just LOOK at what the "OP" is saying here: "RESPOND" "DID YOU DIE?" "PLEASE" "I MISS YOU".

It's not just encouraging parasocial behaviours nor just dependency overall, but encouraging users to breach the others' privacy just so they can pretend they're speaking to them.

Ads like this should not be allowed anywhere. Tumblr needs to get rid of it outright before someone gets hurt.

Also, the censoring is to avoid search exploit spambots. Thank you.

[tmbgareok]

[garagerockpunk]

How To Own HiFi on Low Income and I Q

Mr Know It All - The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show from late 50s and 60s.

[garagerockpunk]

RAINBOW - The Band 1981

British hard rock band who got together in Hertford England in 1975 by guitarist Ritchie Blackmore after his first departure from Deep Purple.

[leebrontide]

Ok the US Attorney General says that she will remove ICE if MN drops all our sanctuary laws, complies with ICE, hands over all our SNAP, Medicaid and voter rolls. They demand control over our voter registration so they can "ensure free and fair elections".

They want to control our elections.

I am dead serious people call your representatives. Get volunteering. Get protesting. Get LOUD.

They released a letter full of straight up lies. Spread the truth. MAKE NOISE.

Source

[rederiswrites]

How interesting. How very interesting. They rejected my Blaze of this post.

Well, y'all. Make of this what you will, eh?

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Then I guess we'll just have to Blaze it the old fashioned way, eh?

[megpie71]

Boosting signal. AGAIN.

[annamalla]

Good news

The first Kakapo eggs for the 2026 year have been laid. It’s a rimu mast year so expect a lot more. There are currently 236 Kakapo so every egg is a fight against entropy (there were once under a hundred so 236 is an achievement).

[stroebe2]

I'm going to say it for the last time. Saint Nicolas is the real Santa and "Santa Claus" or Father Christmas was invented by the CIA to entrust American Christmas dominion worldwide in collaboration with Coca-Cola and McDonalds

[tmbgareok]

[nosimpincurly]

You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

[catherinebunnington]

Reblog to materialize $250,000 in prev's bank account

[homoidiotic]

“Black morph & leucistic pīwakawaka” (source)

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"save to onedrive" lol no

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"search web results with bing?" oh you wretched little tarpit i cannot overexpress how much that will not be happening

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

"make microsoft edge your default browser" buddy you're hitting so far out of your league it's insulting. did your drunken comrades cheer you on to walk over here and pester me? to bother me like a horsefly attempting to perturb the majesty of an elephant? i swat you with a flick of my tail. with a FLICK!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Microsoft is the drunken asshole who won't take a hint. Apple is the insanely controlling, love-bombing Ex you went through a grueling divorce to extricate yourself from (and they won all your mutual friends in the breakup). And now Google is the toxic partner you thought was The One, but then they enthusiastically got redpilled and have been escalating their manipulative behaviors. You finally break through the gaslighting enough to try to leave, only to find they're so entangled in your life you may need to take out a restraining order just to catch your breath. And meanwhile all your friends and family are talking about how great they are and how lucky you are to have them...

[hungrymilliek]

And! And. uBlock Origin.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the irony is uBlock Origin is my bestie, my childhood friend, my ride or die, my little monkey, the most devoted companion i have in all the world....and i so take for granted their constant presence by my side that i completely forgot there are people who aren't aware of them. uBlock Origin dance with me under the pale moonlight my beloved

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[ralfmaximus]

Some users report Firefox scoffing CPU power

: You guessed it: looks like it's a so-called AI

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[frogliftcertified]

While you're at it, disable browser.ml.enable and extensions.ml.enabled as well in addition to the option above, which will hopefully take care of most machine-learning ("AI") features.

[emptymanuscript]

Greeeaaat. Well, that possibly explains the weird performance issues I've been having lately :(

Could we just stop with the forcing llms EVERYWHERE?

Like, I'm not even against AI in principle. In principle, cool. I think there are absolutely ways that AI could be great for the world. At least in principle if we started over and had some fucking sense of ethics.

But the rubber is on the road. These aren't in principles. This is a very specific evolution that is just a goddamned clusterfuck.

This is every tiny-schmeckled techbro shoving their narcissistic philosophy of "move fast, break shit, fix it later, because the most important thing is to get to the top first and get our nut at everyone else's expense." down everyone else's throats.

They've done it without foresight, without knowing how the damn things work - ok, maybe a 12th of the techschmecks do actually know how LLM's actually work, at least in principle, but that is actually worse, considering - without permission, without warning, without easy switch options - either in or out but frankly it should ALL be opt in, without regard for the costs, without regard for the precedent, and without a fucking care in the goddamn world... actually, yeah: just without a goddamn care.

No one should HAVE to go into about:config to simply opt out of an entirely unnecessary addition to a functional program that might be problematic in an number of ways and absolutely is problematic in others because our implementation has been horrendous since the word go.

And, instead of slowing down, they're all, 'well, we can't do it any other way.' They could if their brains weren't smaller than their schmeckles. They would if their sense of morality went beyond dollar signs and memes.

Ugh. Just... just... I need a nap and more pills. Fuck these guys.

[mila2010]

source: https://ru.pinterest.com/pin/9710955441880658/

[vintage-tigre]