FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

And to think someone woke up one morning and thought, "This would be better if everything was flatter and more grey."

Why We Can't Have Nice Software
https://andrewkelley.me/post/why-we-cant-have-nice-software.html

Yeah vision pro is neat but the future is smart glasses you charge with a comedy nose called Mister Power

shakira but one of her hips lies but the other tells the truth

It's a touch button. You cannot read the Braille without activating it.
#PublicTransit #PublicTransport

umm……… when we said this is a pianos-only space we didn't mean you :/ okay you're an “upright piano” but your sound is kinda harpischord-coded and it's making some of us uncomfortable :/ this space is only for afab pianos (assigned flügel at birth)

‪ahhh the magic of practice. i spent all that time yesterday getting the chords/melody/hand movements right, but it was a real struggle to get a full recording without mistakes in it and my timing was awful. one night of sleep later, now it's easy!‬

do you think the united states military ever regrets what it did

"Let me repeat that: the people who created the first Super Mario Bros. game are still at Nintendo 38 years later." https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

Photo by Todd Trappani
Source: Pexels

#photo #photography #nature #trees #winter #landscape

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: it increases your modulus of elasticity but lowers your strain at yield, reducing the area under the stress-strain curve so you are less tough and more brittle

Old blogpost bamp:

#BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
https://rys.io/en/167.html

> BlueSky’s decentralization is a similar kind as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node, but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.

> “Neutrality” and “speech” and “voice” and “protection from bans” is mentioned right there, front and center, in BlueSky’s overview and FAQ. At the same time moderation and anti-harassment features are, at best, an afterthought.