FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

she's so proud of herself

📹 “The process of making fake food. A 71-year-old craftsman who has been making fake food for 53 years.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ

“inline pictures (which might be big)”

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0188.html

thirty years ago, they were discussing a new HTML tag: <img>

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

THAT FACE WHEN YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

Modern 64-bit versions of Windows can’t run 16-bit software anymore.

Or can they?

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2022/12/16-bit-support-in-64-bit-windows/

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #dosgaming #emulation

the lesbian flag is so pretty

Now that's form and function!

"I always love it when people ask me for slightly mad things, this high vis vest corset is being delivered to its new owner tomorrow!" - Wyte Phantom

This story about what happened when PayPal first tried to switch to an x-of-y encryption key scheme is Peak Computer https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing

i regret to announce that i've accidentally double-booked myself, reserving the same 30-minute time slot for "being upset about the state of public transit in Greater Glasgow" and "vegetating in bed"

i will try to do better scheduling in the future

i think about this meme a lot

I was having a pretty chill day but now I think I might be dead from laughter

Don't run high current through a coiled extension cable. The cornering forces the electrons to the outside of the curve, where they rub on the inside of the copper, generating heat.

I know the cost of living is steadily going up, but Tim Hortons charging 2^99 for a small cappuccino is an absolute joke

the average working-class Scot cannot spend 633 octillion pounds on a small latte

someone on twitter said the peril is misc.c