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SloanTheServal Sloan the Serval @pawb.social

Just a serval who gets into all sorts of furry shenanigans.

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It Looks Like Sonic Team & Shun Nakamura Are Keen To Remake Sonic 06
  • Because the original game isn't bad on a conceptual level, it's just dragged down but being buggy as shit.

  • Giant catapult defies gravity by launching satellites into orbit without the need of rocket fuel
  • Just by the headline alone I can tell that whoever came up with this has zero understanding of orbital mechanics. Even if you manage to break atmo you still need reaction mass to circularize your orbit.

  • Can we have a Pixelfed instance?

    Just... can we have a Pixelfed instance? I think it'd be a good way for users here to organize art and photos.

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    Court Rules Against Photographer Who Sued AI Dataset for Copyright Theft
  • If this is the kind of shit we're to expect, I'm going to need to start using Nightshade on my 3D renders.

  • Hmmmm???
  • Because I would never be able to pull off the look with my body shape.

    But I might be able to pull off a voluptuous tavern wench with the help some shapewear and forms.

  • YouTube is giving you one more reason to go Premium
  • 18 people don't understand sarcasm or didn't read the post before downvoting.

  • Why is ChatGPT so bad at math?
  • LLMs (I refuse to call them AI, as there's no intelligence to be found) are simply random word sequence generators based on a trained probability model. Of course they're going to suck at math, because they're not actually calculating anything, they're just dumping what their algorithm "thinks" is the most likely response to user input.

    "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent" - Qui-Gon Jin

  • Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges | Hackaday
  • It's worse than that. Companies are legally required to follow shareholder interests. That's not that big of an issue with unlisted companies since their shareholders are most likely directly involved with the company or at least share a similar vision to those that are, but any publicly traded company is going to be solely focused on "line go up lol" whether they want to or not.

  • WTF is up with awful.systems?
  • awful.systems sounds a LOT like it's probably involved with SomethingAwful...

  • Problem staying logged in?
  • Well, that's the thing... I probably should have mentioned this in my first post but I'm using Vivaldi, which is a Chromium fork. So it's not just a Firefox issue.

  • Problem staying logged in?
  • I haven't had any issues staying logged in on the same tab, but I have to log in again every time I open anything on this instance on another tab.

  • Dragoneer has died...
  • Knowing how important the site is to the fandom, I'd be surprised if anyone lets it go under.

    That being said, as a precaution, a PixelFed instance attached to pawb.fun and pawb.social might be nice to have.

  • Major US city unveils record-breaking train that could be the future of transportation — and you can ride it this year
  • The one way a company can avoid that is to not go publicly traded in the first place. Problem is there's a huge a mount of incentive to go publicly traded - specifically, it's a huge boost to cash-on-hand, which can be crucial for expanding a business - so most corporations will basically do so without batting an eyelash at it. It's a lot slower to build a company solely from net profits and private investors. But the cost of faster growth is a loss of control of the company.

  • Major US city unveils record-breaking train that could be the future of transportation — and you can ride it this year
  • From a technological point, yes. That being said, there are some complications. The US runs double-stacked intermodal freight so clearance is a concern, first of all. It's doable, in fact India has many electrified lines that allow for double-stacked intermodal freight, but it does add a little to the cost and effort. The second issue is, unfortunately, cost, but not because it's outright "too expensive". Rather, it would eat too much into the short-term quarterlies of the various publicly traded rail companies that own a vast majority of the US's rail lines during the installation. And as publicly traded companies, even if one of the major rail companies wanted to spend the money to electrify, they would get sued by their shareholders for doing so because there's no immediate return on profits. And the final issue? NIMBYs already hate rail as-is, they'd hate the overhead lines even more.

    So, yeah, a lot of challenges to electrification unique to the US, almost all of them political in nature. It would be really nice to put in electrified rail again (late PRR and New Haven were almost fully electrified but most of that was ripped out after the Penn Central merger. Seriously, everyone likes to rag on New Haven for screwing that up but honestly the evidence all points to the New York Central's management team being the real culprits).

  • i am the real steve from minecraft
  • Posts a lie to the lies community.

    Gets downvoted anyway.

    For a moment there I thought we were back on Reddit...

  • The Google era is officially over - The Verge
  • Oh good. An AI search bot replaces... an AI search bot. 😒

    Well, at least SearchGPT is open source. And the fact that it's operated by a nonprofit org rather than a big corporate entity could be the kicker here, there's no incentive to favor business partners or advertising clients. So I guess we might actually see an improvement here.

  • Fake CrowdStrike fixes target companies with malware, data wipers
  • They're tightly controlled corporate environments, but the people controlling them aren't always smart.

  • Mysterious 'Dark Oxygen' Discovered at Bottom of Ocean Stuns Scientists : ScienceAlert
  • This is really interesting, as it also has implications for life elsewhere in the solar system. Scientists have been debating back and forth whether life could exist in Europa's oceans below its icy surface. Things had been leaning towards "unlikely" due to the reduced light being that far out from the sun, but if non-photosynthetic biological oxygen production is possible on Earth, it could also be possible on Europa.

  • Fat Furs @pawb.social Sloan the Serval @pawb.social

    Anyone here like Sumo?

    This is a comic I made a while ago of one of my secondary fursonas, Tofu the Kitsune, during her 3-tailed days as an Onnazumo Rikishi, going through most of the various start of match rituals for sumo.

    So, does anyone else here like Sumo?

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    A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why.
  • Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.

  • Fursuit Pictures & Creation @pawb.social Sloan the Serval @pawb.social

    A wild Serval With A Car appeared!

    Decided to share a photo of my partial. Honestly this is probably the best pic I have, the others are either a bit dark or just not quite as scenic.

    Suit by Jing of FursuitParade

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    Furry @pawb.social Sloan the Serval @pawb.social

    Chubby serval nerd

    It me.

    I mainly make DAZ renders using highly morphed and geografted figures. Sloan's model is a Sakura 8 with Catgirl Megapack assets, using morphs from the G8F Shapeshift morph pack and RawArt's Sphinx to turn the default figure into a male anthro serval.

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