FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Corporations will, 99% of the time, take things you bought away from you if...

1. They are not making (enough) money on them any more
2. They can and get away with it

Simply because they want to clear the stage of all competition for their next offering, including old offerings you may be happy with so you don't want the new one.

The 1% that don't do this are orgs that either understand "Good will" and trust have value, or are somehow genuinely not shitheads. They will almost invariably in time be bought out by someone who will do this.

The release->maintain->extinguish cycle is, also, accelerating. So you're getting less time with things before corps try to take them away again.

This dog wants your 12 points (and he will lay on ALL your furniture and whine if you don't vote for him)

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#FursuitFriday #fursuit #furry #NFC2024

im sure im not the first person to make this joke but it came to me in a dream so i was compelled

the long search for a new phone is over!
i think i made the best decision in the end

Happy women's day to all girls, girlthings, and everyone who celebrates UwU

an exciting personal report from the world of "e-identification" (sweden)

in sweden, life revolves around the "mobile bankid". this is a service owned by major swedish banks that provides a smartphone app equivalent to a state id card, but which can be used to log into websites

I love semantic HTML. Each input field is so easy to describe in a sensible way. It can even be used by plugins and user-scripts.

007: Live Laugh and Let Die

sdb: detected capacity change from 2111864832 to 0

awww, my bytes are gone

for women's day you can help a woman (me) who is in a bad situation with immigration out by giving money to my ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko

i already didn't really have enough to last until kitsune tails release and now we have to deal with extra fees and fines that could total over 10,000 euros

the reason zip and unzip are seperate commands actually has to do with the proprietary origins of compression algorithms.

originally, a common scheme was that the decompression command would be free, but compressing files required buying a license.

so companies with deep pockets who want users to be able to download their software quickly can shell out the cash, while users don't have to pay for a seperate piece of software to access the file they just bought.

commands like tar never went through this weird licensing scheme, so don't have to deal with this odd split (and also, a physical tape archive would be a lot more annoying to deal with if you didn't have access to stuff like appending and deleting files)

I will never not repost this