FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

You can see the 'furrows' here as the vertical stripes. These are written by the erase heads.

This is an image of a floppy disk taken by a special magneto-optical microscope. I'd love to have one to play around with, but they're a few thousand dollars.

Cats are often entertained by simple things, such rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.

As a sophisticated ape, I require far more complex forms of entertainment such as watching a cat rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.

Do i know anyone who has access to a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) server who could help me provision some new firmware for an ATA191-K9?

#badtimeswithcisco

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online sales.

Then one seller came along and convinced them that switching to Shopify would be the key to growing even further. Apparently, their €130/month bare-metal redundant setup - which boasted a calculated uptime of 99.995% over 10 years - just wasn't cutting it anymore.

They’ve been on Shopify for about six months now, and every now and then, I still get the alerts. I left the monitoring active via Uptime Kuma and ran the numbers. Over the last six months, their uptime dropped below 98%.
In other words, in just six months, they’ve been down for almost as many hours as they were during the entire previous decade.

I contacted the client - not because I want to take over the hosting again, but just to understand what on earth happened (we're on excellent terms). Their response was: "We don't know, but if it happened on Shopify, it means it was bound to happen anyway."

As long as we keep swallowing the lie that "the cloud" and "tech giants" are always the right solution for us, we completely deserve the cloud and the tech giants.

#IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

Foreign Function Interface plaza!

Start your day off well.

#AlicePics #Crow #Photography

Q: "If cats could wear pants, how would they wear it?"

A:

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

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Or help our queer studio survive into the future by getting four of our games as a bundle for $17.99 on itch (https://itch.io/s/192877/summer-sale-2026) or $18.75 on Steam (https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15673/Kitsune_Games_Complete_Pack/)

Includes:
- Kitsune Tails and its prequel Kitsune Zero
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Presenting my new project, QRTUBER

Using constantly updating QRCodes for streamers to sync data to viewers!

Doesn't even have to be sex toys being controlled, could be lights or gamepad state or whatever, but I'm me so that's what we're starting with.

https://youtu.be/vGbTqno3HEY

Mastodon has automatic age verification built it, no scanning your face

✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit

@GossiTheDog

Q: How do you decompress a firearm's 3D model?

A: gunzip.

the root beer here is really salty and flat and the cups are too small

Today's Random Game Saturday is Zen-Nihon Joshi Pro Wrestling: Queen of Queens for the PC-FX! An FMV wrestling game across two-disks with actual footage of Japanese women pro wrestlers from 1995, just a few years before AJW started to collapse

a 100% realistic N64 emulator would emulate the "previous owner of this cartridge got stuck at the water temple" effect

my personal pet peeve is websites that have some badly coded javascript

I wrote an email!

Hopefully never have to do this again

There was once a computer expansion standard, popular in the '90s & featured mainly in laptops though used in some desktops as well, called PCMCIA.

PCMCIA is a computer acronym that, of course, stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms." :V

Someone needs to make & sell removable SSDs openly standardized as 3-inch (7-cm) square wafers, together with removable SSD receivers (internal & built-in on laptops and tablets!), that look & work just like floppy disks & drives from days gone by.

The convenience of USB thumbdrives, without the drawbacks of laptop dongles, tiny & easily lost media, & "Which one of these stupid things did I put the files on!?"-itis.

Pictured: 3-inch square wafers of the past as real-world disks & TV props.