Pinned post
Pinned post

social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button

Show thread

i wish people would stop spreading FUD misinformation about Firefox being more memory intensive than competitors, Quantum was released 9 years ago, it's time to get over it

if you use Google Chrome by choice you're doing something wrong with your life

Listen to me.

Install Firefox from this link: firefox.com/en-CA/

Install the uBlock Origin addon from this link: addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firef

That's it. There's more you can do, but spend a few days with a proper web browser and a real ad blocker and you'll get it.

Show thread

> At Chrome's scale, the climate bill for one model push, paid in atmospheric CO2 by the entire planet, is between six thousand and sixty thousand tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions, depending on how many devices receive the push

Once again overwhelmed with What's The Fucking Point? energy

thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome

RE: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/1165

In case none of the other dozens upon dozens of reasons to quit Chrome and quit Google before were enough.

i'm toying with the idea of integrating some sort of games database API to make a web tool which gives you a more visible and focused approach to finding new games. kinda like browsing the video rental store on a Friday night

Show thread

i can't articulate why but it feels like it was way easier to find games (not necessarily meaning where to download them, but rather discovery) for emulation or flashcarts years ago before the trend of "just download a full dump pack". i was finding a new game to put on my DS every week or so, now i just have a faceless list of names and decision paralysis

The coreutils Rust rewrite story is pretty funny.

Coreutils are tools like rm, mv, mkdir, etc. Unlike binutils, this isn't a fertile ground for memory safety bugs. But, the rewrite was completed, and in the spirit of progress, Canonical decided to switch.

But do you know what coreutils are a fertile ground for? Race conditions around file creation, deletion, permission setting, and so on. The original code accounted for decades of hard-learned lessons in that space. The Rust rewrite did not:

seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q2/3

PS. I'm not dunking on Rust. It's just that... starting over from scratch has its hidden costs.

There is no Notepad++ for any Mac, but a vibe-coded port and its sloperator "author" want you to believe otherwise.

Ars Technica, "'Notepad++ for Mac' release is disavowed by the creator of the original": arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/0

Ah, the #copyfail clickbait posts are coming. Here’s my contribution. On your Linux machine add

initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init

to your kernel boot commandline (typically in grub). Reboot. You are now safe until the updated kernel packages become available. For distributions with the `grubby` command this is done as root with

# grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="initcall_blacklist=algif_aead_init"

This mitigation comes courtesy of Red Hat. Our engineers keep you safe :)

1/4

i'm too autistic to be ok with terms that already have meaning get used for different meanings

Show thread

i don't like that we're calling any small full-featured computer "thin clients" now. that's not what it means

Show older
Computer Fairies

Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!