FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Imagine watching Facebook do the metaverse and rename themselves to Meta, Musk renaming Twitter to X, and Microsoft renaming Office to 365 Copilot (it apparently skips leap year days) and thinking these people aren't the most clueless chucklefucks who ever walked the earth

archival-quality laserdisc capture involves like 7 steps, all of which are slow and take too long

we can be pitifully terrible at everything else and it won't matter so long as we can Chord Progression but we must be able to chord progression

Three years ago I started meticulously mapping south Silent Hill 2 of how it would appear in Google Maps. Maybe I should finish it this year 😅

#silenthill #digitalart

For decades, Canadians eagerly rushed onto US tech platforms and services. But now the drawbacks of that dependence are on full display.

For the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, I explain the economic and political consequences of a US-dominated internet — and why digital sovereignty is imperative.

https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/every-data-centre-is-a-u-s-military-base/

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #cdntech #digitalsovereignty #politics

How my students taught me that Github’s monopoly is hurting the Open Source ecosystem even more than I thought.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-05-unteaching_github.html

#github #floss

hoooo boy. this shit should be illegal. posting the screen shots for when it gets taken down. https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

evergreen

🎆🎇WINNER🎇🎆
2025 HEADLINE OF THE YEAR

Jazz will be replaced by Buzz

People will read old newspaper clippings

Q: how long have we been watching tom scott videos
A: we walked by some kids playing a certain rihanna song and could only hear it as “we flew a kite in a public place”

Anyway: Right now, today, if you leave a non-five-alarm-turbonerd alone with a Linux .ISO, you are telling them to burn their house down and then move to a new town with nothing, and saying how much better and great and empowering that's going to be. All our installers are irrevocably destructive and have been for thirty years, they will pave your drive flat and rebuild a strange house on top of that, and your job is to never do that to anyone.

Help people. Start with backups and listening.

Listen, nerds - if you're going to pick This Year to help people switch to Linux, I am begging you to do one thing: _Make sure your friend or parent or grandparent or whoever has backups_. Before you do _anything else_.

Make sure they have all their passwords and accounts somewhere. If you have the means to do so, take a drive image.

Be as sure as you can that they don't lose anything. Even if that's "where the icons are" and "my desktop background pic".

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

touchHLE v0.2.3 is out https://github.com/touchHLE/touchHLE/releases/tag/v0.2.3

win32 is the stable linux abi etc

I'm actually okay with reasonable amounts of government fraud. Because government programs that serve all the people must operate from a default accept, not a default deny if they're to cover all people with benefits. Sure, do audits and penalties if fraud is found, but even still. I would FAR rather a daycare that's not following the rules get government funding than the 99% of daycares who are legitimately serving families be stuck without support. I would FAR rather some folks get social disability payments support who weren't supposed to than disabled people stuck for months or years with no help because they had "insufficient documentation".

Governments aren't supposed to be a business. They're meant to ensure everyone is covered equally, even the ones who are difficult and "unprofitable". Because that's what governments are designed to do.

the railfans are FOIAing again,

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.