FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Haven't we seen similar research previously on voice assistants such as amazon alexa and google-something?

@campuscodi https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116601728369038587

LLMs that work with audio data are apparently vulnerable to attacks using human inaudible commands because nobody who put together that LLM thought to impose a limit to the human audible audio frequency spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/voice-ai-audio-attacks

@bloor Never let anyone try to talk you out of a quick weekend software project. Those six months will be the best ten years of your life.

Never let anyone try to talk you out of a quick half hour DIY project. Those three hours will be the best six days of your life.

See you later

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

#zig #ziglang #CodeOfConduct #rust #rustlang #isThisNuancedEnough

"A dad who lost his sense of taste and smell for years after catching Covid says both have been restored thanks to a specially developed chewing gum trial at the University of Nottingham in the UK."

A 12-week study found that using super-strength flavored chewing gums (spicy, minty, sour, and sweet) helps rebuild brain connections linked to taste and smell. Following the trial, 67% of participants reported improved smell and 83% saw improvements in taste.

Source: https://discover.swns.com/2026/05/chewing-gum-restores-dads-taste-and-smell-years-after-covid/

Hoard

Who let me have a thermal printer?

so, umm, this is a 16 bytes intro

16 bytes

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvycyU-kLjg

#demoscene #intro

Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

«
Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
»

the four canonical bool values are, of course:

tNo,
tYes,
tMaybe,
tLim

this code uses a datatype with the questionable name of "tribool", but when I looked into it to make fun of it I discovered something terrible:

It's an enum with 4 possible values. It's a goddamn quadbool

oh sweet jesus, they handle displaying the splashscreen by busy-looping the CPU for 4 seconds.

I KNOW PROGRAMMERS WHO CARE ABOUT MULTITASKING AND THEY'RE ALL COWARDS

IT'S CRASHING ON BOOT BECAUSE THE BOOLEANS ARE TOO SMALL

some punk 31 years ago was tired of dealing with "correctly matching const char* vs char*" so they just did

#define CONST

and now it's my problem

there should be a word for that specific experience where you need to do a computer task you've done a couple times before, but it turns out they've made it way more annoying since the last time you did it

going to my vm host, bowl in hand, going "please ma'am, can I have some more cores?"