FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

WEBSITE: enter password

ME: okay here ya go

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: na it's not, babes. check again.

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: hmmm maybe I mistyped something. I'll type it slower this time.

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: your mom's a incorrect password.

WEBSITE: maybe you forgot your password?

ME: idk maybe.

WEBSITE: do you want to reset it?

ME: ya ok fine whatever

WEBSITE: type new password

ME: here ya go

WEBSITE: new password cannot be the same as old password

ME: asdfhjkl what the fuck do you mean a second ago you said that password was incorrect

WEBSITE: it is

ME: so let me get this straight... the password I just gave you...

WEBSITE: yes?

ME: the new password, the one I'm trying to reset my old password to...

WEBSITE: uh huh?

ME: that password is being rejected because it's the same as the old password...

WEBSITE: mmhmm?

ME: which is incorrect because it's not my password.

WEBSITE: you got it!

ME: that makes negative sense.

WEBSITE: I don't know what to tell you man. just pick a different password?

ME: motherfucker

WEBSITE: password "motherfucker" accepted.

ME: you know what, I ain't even mad.

WEBSITE: now please prove that you are human by solving this fourier transform in 5-dimensional noneuclidian space.

ME: FUUUUUUUUUU—

I did a thing! Almost three years ago, I launched a co-operative newspaper in Leicester. Now, we're officially in print 🥳

The Leicester Gazette is our revolution against a broken industry.

#Media #News #Journalism #Cooperatives #Newspaper #Magazine #Nonprofit #Leicester

🐹 :loads the dishwasher, presses the wrong button:
🤖 *beep!*
☁️ Haha! You got yelled at!
🐹 It wasn't me! It was... the bird boys! I've seen them do it!
☁️ :sarcastically: Oh yes, magpies, famously always coming into our kitchen to mess with the dishwasher.
🐹 Yes! You've seen them too, right?

This.

It is literally impossible to explain ADHD task avoidance to people who don't experience it, I think.

It has to sound absolutely insane to just sit around, filled with dread and anxiety, not doing a small thing you "could do any time" that really needs to get done. And to just continue that way for hours, days, weeks, months, even fucking years.

Like, who lives that way? How can anyone live that way? (I live that way, but I don't know how I survive)

Some people, when confronted with a compiler problem, think
“I know, I'll use LLVM.” Now they have two problems.

#programminghumour

Remember: Gravity is your friend

Tilting your head to one side moves all the thinking to that side which helps you process better

If that doesn't work, tilt your head the other way

what's the last major tech empire to have fallen? i don't mean a company that balloons into empire and then keels over all within a decade. i'm talking about the ones that last a generation or more. i think about IBM, roughly 1985-1995, when they went from carved-in-granite forever-monopoly to sidelined usurped panicking giant, and the decade of more obvious decline that followed.
they're still around, of course. but the empire ended, so conclusively even shareholders had to admit it & move on.

for another half billion the communication you can perceive through this is, "fine! your current perfectly functional PC is now ewaste. we're willing to tank that incomprehensible environmental cost just to force/sell you [the thing half a billion other people actively don't want]. happy?"
(i think deep down they know how most people would answer that rhetorical)

https://www.theverge.com/news/831364/dell-windows-11-upgrade-numbers-earnings-call-q3-2025 no matter how badly you fuck up at your job you'll never fuck up so badly that half a billion people would choose to stick with the older, now-unsupported version of your product than take the free upgrade to the new version.
unless your job is being a product strategist, project manager, marketer, etc on Windows i guess.

Let's get this #nakeddiefriday started, people!

The guest of today is one TMS70C42A by TI. It is a 8-bit MCU carrying 4KB of ROM and 256B of RAM, with three timers and a UART.

This particular die was bit by gremlins, and a small part of it is missing; nothing crucial though. Let's have a walk around. 🧵

SiPron page: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ti:tms70c42a

#electronics #reverseengineering #microscopy

@rolf That looks so cool.
It reminded me of a similar statue where the angle of the sun made the rider’s shadow disappear.
(The statue is next to the cathedral in Aarhus and depicts Christian the 10th.)

When it snows in Scotland the snow turns the Bannockburn statue of Robert the Bruce into something magical.

📸Marisa Braithwaite

The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

- it’s not the firewall
- it can’t be the firewall
- it was the firewall

HRT will work regardless of age.

There are trans folks taking HRT and seeing results as old as SEVENTY and even EIGHTY.

If it's taking a while to see effects, that's not because of the HRT, that's just how your body works with the hormones.

I've been on T for ten years, and I'm only now seeing decent facial hair, and I'm still working on a happy trail. But that's just how it works for me.

Everyone is different, and genetics play a factor. It also won't have results if you can't be consistent or if you give up early.

What isn't a factor is age.

It's never too late to start HRT, stop letting bigots tell you otherwise.

When you mention in chat that you started T in your 30s and a youngun says "I thought HRT didn't work after a certain age???"

Folks. Please. Stop listening to terfs. They're LYING to you.