FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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ugh I hate how many times this pattern happens:
1. clone repo
2. make a small change
3. try to run code, fails
4. what did I do wrong? time to back out my changes one by one
5. I back them all out
6. this code never worked in the first place

In the office, in Bristol.

Just popped out to stretch my legs, and I was approached by a young lady who had just exited the train station.

With *the* most comprehensively French accent I have *ever* heard, she said, “excuse me. Could you please direct me to the abyss?”

Excuse me?

“The abyss. Could you direct me please?”

Umm?..

“Sorry, my English is not too good. I’m looking for the abyss, could you help me?”

Your English is excellent. But you’re looking for the abyss?

“Oui. The abyss. The abyss hotel. It should be nearby”.

The abyss hotel?..
Whoah, hang on! You mean the IBIS hotel!?

“Oui. Oui. The abyss hotel. Oui!”

Oh, right, yeah. Just straight down here, across that footbridge and you’ll see it straight in front of you 😊

🤦‍♂️🤣

ah, the incompetent AI scraper plague finally came for us…

I was wondering why the PHP sites on our VPS were responding so slowly, and then I discovered there's an endless series of timing out requests for slow MediaWiki query endpoints (RecentChanges w/ date span), that'd do it

"Carbon capture" is clearly nonsense. Solar is clearly not.

@Stem Also, re. the tool argument: https://humancode.us/2026/09/24/ai-is-not-a-tool

Had an interesting online exchange with an event organizer who asked me to repost their AI-generated car event flyer. I declined, and they asked why because AI is the latest and greatest thing. They were really polite and curious about it, so I linked my site https://whynoai.info and thanked them for being curious.

A day later they came back to me and said that they now understood why I took my position and that they respected it.

I like to think that I helped shine some light on this topic for one more person.

#goodNews #ai

@hikari doesn't look like anything I can find for DOS, Apple, or UNIX, and the "Insert disk and type ENTER" part didn't return anything either. all of the standalone word processor devices I could find pictures of have very different displays to this.

interestingly it does have almost the exact list of menu items from page 374 of this 1998 paper on UX comprehension. https://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Kintsch%20-%201998%20-%20Comprehension.pdf

“Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” (1991) is a Columbo episode where everyone is using this same word processor for what is presumably DOS. Does anyone recognise it?

Turns out you can in fact run `gdb gdb` to find out where gdb is crashing. Not that I have the time to look into the gdb crash

Welp, I just made gdb crash when trying to debug my program crashing. That's a new one

Intel's stock imploded and the CEO started posting bible verses about fear and death on social media. 🎈📌

@earthshine

"this is my litmus test: I pretend I am the original Earl of Sandwich. I have asked for non-bread foods to be brought to me inside bread, *that I might more easily consume them one-handed while gambling*. This does not enable my wretched regency habits. This is not what I asked for. I do not deign to grace it with the name of my house."

EA. Get in the Nasir.

ok which one of you owns this fine vehicle

modern society is "hey let's print out a QR code to various nutrition facts and cooking instructions instead of putting them on the label like we have been doing for decades"

QR code that just says "Fuck you" how about that?

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/117535740628165125

friends dont let friends bug bounty