Since it’s Aquarius season, there’s no better start to our monthly updates than with a feature of our resident wet beast, the Aquis!

Aquis are agile, enigmatic companions, most often found splashing through the rivers and rainforests of Paragon. Their most striking features are their absorbent coats and delicate head tendrils, which retain moisture and help regulate their temperature—traits that once led travelers to mistake them for wandering river spirits. Able to breathe both above and below water, an Aquis will never pass up the opportunity for a swim. The Aquis share a bond with Paragon’s waters. While they are happy to travel or settle elsewhere, they must periodically revitalize themselves with water drawn from the city’s rivers or wells. Without this, an Aquis will grow sluggish and their dewy coat may dull. Naturally gifted gardeners, Aquis have a knack for coaxing life from even the most unlikely places, with aquatic plants being their specialty. Much like the rivers they hail from, Aquis are serene, strong, and inevitably just a little damp.

☾ Aquis revamp art by queijac and species description by berry ☽

Aquis are one of the many adoptable pet species you'll be able to meet and play alongside on Kaylune. Are you a fan? Let us know which color you like the most! ✨

Monthly updates will be posted on the 5th of every month, barring complications. However, we will be posting things other than monthly updates in-between on a more sporadic basis, so keep an eye out! 👀

in the first minutes i was getting attacks. several ips trying to ssh as root. luckily my provider recommended passwordless ssh, which was the right call, and i havent had a breach (yet).

after doing some hardening and changing the default port for ssh, the amount of attempts decreased drastically. but i'm still getting port scanned every day.

set up fail2ban today, we'll see if that calms them down a bit. might look into port knocking as a final solution to the incessant scanning if f2b doesn't work.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., responding to a journalist's questions about Dr. King's thoughts on then-Vice President Richard Nixon, letter to Earl Mazo, September 2, 1958.

Scans of the world from Pokemon Go and Ingress are the backbone of Niantic’s AI model, which aims to navigate the world like ChatGPT spits out text.