FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"In order to access this webpage, please cast a fireball".

I'm tired of all these mage verifications.

@lynnesbian @ireneista

I made it into a meme

(Meme image and alt text found at https://mastodon.social/@elgringomexicano/116529735970246557)

sounds like the web is about to get a lot more annoying to use for #grapheneos users and others using #android devices with """compromised integrity""", people without smartphones, people using smartphones with other operating systems, etc.: https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652

google's new "mobile reCAPTCHA verification" will require you to scan a QR code from either an iOS device with the reCAPTCHA app or an android device with up-to-date google play services.

Booking train tickets for a moderately complex 3-legged journey. Using the trainline app for the second leg and it gives me two options, one arriving at 1.30 in the morning the next day, and one at 5.30 in the morning.

I go "of course not, book earlier" and it says there is nothing available. WTF?

I break the journey myself into two chunks and of course it's all available and I can arrive where I need to be at a sensible 5.30pm. The same day.

Stupid bloody app.

One of the great things about getting the print version of TheOnion is the ads. Full page mock ads that are just… ouch.

hahaa! Successfully removed all IR and UV filters from my old Canon EOS 600D, I can do full spectrum, UV and IR photography now!

All of the following photos have been taken with a ~550nm+ lpf, meaning cutting everything under 550nm (blue, purple and uv) off. I love the vibrant pink foliage and dramatic turquoise skies #photography

"Revolutionary action is not a form of self-sacrifice, a grim dedication to doing whatever it takes to achieve a future world of freedom. It is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free."

– David Graeber

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

This is a broken Sony Digital Mavica MVC-FD87. This has a rare 4X speed floppy drive, so I thought I'd open it up and see if I could remove it and use it elsewhere.

(This is going to be a very abbreviated thread because most of my images are blurry, since I no longer have an office for reverse engineering teardowns)

This one is from 2001 and can take photos up to 1280×960 pixels, at which resolution you'll barely manage to fit four images on a 1.44mb floppy disk.

I love prediction markets. sure why not. 24:1 odds Christ returns. sign me the fuck up. I'm gonna find a pliable journalist to bribe to say it happened and laugh all the way to the bank

Argh, accidentally read another "stop anonymity/pseudonymity to stop abuse" article. And, to maximize cringe, also most of the replies, "one account per person, real names everywhere" (meaning "legal name", which is not the same thing; would you really feel safer if I used my wallet name here, which none of you except the one who I happen to be married to have ever heard, instead of the name everybody knows me by?). Shouldn't torture myself like that.

I'll have to switch to one of my many other USB floppy drives.

@89q12

oh WAIT we just figured something out about circular buffers. we've implemented these before, it just never clicked for us...

Workin' on s'more EGA-ish forest art! https://www.twitch.tv/deivore

the 555 timer is 55 years old, so if we celebrate on the 5th of May it can be the 555's 55th on 5/5.