If you are using content warnings for current events in the US - thank you. /gen

🐲 Loot the Kobold! for @mainmandarin.bsky.social 🦆

#CrunchysArt #Kobold #FurryArt

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots

How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not.

And what I learned in the process.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

Imagine waking up and finding out that things have changed quite a bit...

A different piece compared to my usual art. I started it one year ago, but stopped because I wasn't quite up to it yet. Now I was. ​:wyvUwu:​

Full res: volpeon.ink/art/wyvern-pov/

#wyvern #vectorart #furryart #art #posttf

Carrion crow (Corvus corone, 🇩🇪 Rabenkrähe, 🇵🇱 czarnowron) - a #portrait

#birds #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #nature #naturephotography #vogelflausch #ptaki

[LLMs]

Goddamn it, on one of the Discord servers I am active in a guy that had his braincells deepfried by LLMs started talking and it is both deeply infuriating and extremely sad.

For fucks' sake, coping that AI bubble is not a bubble, treating every marketing message from the AI companies […]

Didn't do much today. Just some fine-tuning of this piece to prepare for the addition for a background. For instance, the wing in the background used to fade out, but that wouldn't make sense with a background unless there's really bad fog. ​:wyvWoozy:​

thinking about the things ipv6 could enable is weird. it's easy to forget that computers were meant to just be able to talk to eachother
both tmobile and my isp provide ipv6 so... i can just ssh into my phone? directly? with no tunnels, upnp, anything; start a server on the phone and it becomes […]

I feel I really shouldn't have bothered with Steam and just go freeware or even open source (but without being open to external code contribs)

I already pretty much gave up on marketing and promotion, I don't want to mail content creators and press because it feels horrible for me to do that […]

I have been hesitating to say this but the pattern is now so consistent I just have to share the observation: LLM users don't just behave like addicts, not even like gambling addicts. They specifically behave like kratom addicts. "Sure, it can be dangerous. Sure, it has risks. But I'm not like […]

a bigot crashing out thinking I am enby is new :floofWoozy:

how do people have so many interesting things to say while I can't even properly mantain a discussion with my friends cause I have nothing interesting left to say

like how

Item list :neofox_flag_trans:

Did less work on the game than I wanted this xmas break due to illness (cold/flu/who knows) but it was still plenty enough.

Wishlist and play the demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3962750/Towers_of_Scale/

#gamedev […]

[Original post on bark.lgbt]

[what]

sudoku is one of the horniest paper puzzles, in what other puzzle would you be looking for naked singles?

The new ✨ Volpeon design is complete!

volpeon.ink/art/2025-refsheet/

Migrated my account, so I guess it is a good time for a new #introduction post.

Hi, I'm Makiki, your friendly neighbourhood kobold. I deal with linux sysadmin stuff on a daily basis, I work on a magic tower game called Towers of Scale in my free time, and once in a blue moon I write a blogpost […]