FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
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fun fact with these magnetic USB charging cables:
if you have two of them, they will naturally attach to each other, creating a forbidden USB A-A cable, but better yet: they actually cross-connect because MAGNETS, so ground is wired to +5 and vice versa!
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@Texan_Reverend I'm seeing people boosting posts about instances muting or blocking the new BBC instance because of their transphobic reporting.
As a trans person I'd like to request that you *don't* do that.
They're generally a respected news source and having them throwing their weight into Mastodon would be a huge boon.
I'd also rather get my transphobic news stories from the source than second-hand posts linking to them.
I think the positives of their presence outweigh the negatives.
Today I worked some more on my blog generator
I had to replace characters with html escape sequences, and then I had to escape that again to be able to put that string as a replacement in a sed substitution command
That took a while and in the end it's like two lines of code but it's two important lines
I feel like I've learned a lot about sed
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thanks to my partner, I got a new PC and now I'm playing only the hottest games on it
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girl who's extremely fox
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you like touching computers don't you
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@rysiek poast got hacked a while back, somebody looked up all the emails and matched them to their linkedin accounts: https://maia.crimew.gay/posts/meet-the-shitpoasters/
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"when a gem is made, it's for a reason. they burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be, and that's what they are. forever. but you? you're *supposed* to change. you're never the same, even moment to moment! you're allowed and expected to invent who you are. what an incredible power, the ability to grow up..."
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A friend recommended unplugging everything from the wall, turning the power switch off entirely, pressing the power-on button a few times then plugging everything back in and turning it back on. It turned on, which is very good, but slightly scarier than if it were simply broken
@retr0id agree and also stop turning any numbers into phone number link
I had to write a date with commas instead of dashes to stop todoist from turning it into a phone number (used iso date format 2023-07-31)
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web apps stop turning domain-shaped strings into clickable links challenge 2023 [HARD]
If I wanted a link I'd have prefixed with http[s]://
If I wanted a link I'd have prefixed with http[s]://
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"i think you have a serious problem with pizza."
"i don't have a problem with pizza!"
"I DUNNO KIKI. I THINK YOU DO."
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the mods of /r/welding gradually ramped it up over a few years and the current logo is *really* unsubtle
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Went to a radar museum today and frankly, more systems should have dedicated buttons called "pigeons"
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"only showing the first 100 errors, of 50392 total"
good morning to you too, java.
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fuck it
birb time
@hikari That's the only kind of computer I have, and while I have been thinking about getting a laptop it's just not the same
I used to play a PS5 game online with a friend and route the game sound through HDMI to the screen and then 3.5 mm audio cable to my PC so I could have discord and game sound together in my headphones, (and discord and game side by side on my monitors), I was so happy when I figured out that setup
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
