FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

A parallel universe where the concept of a "key board", be it a piano or a typewriter keyboard, never got popular. Most people are using fretted lute / guitar input with their computers; people who mastered chords can type faster than those who cannot. Some countries prefer violin/shamisen style of input, and thus in the 40 years of computerisation their spoken languages have changed to incorporate legatos and pitch changes. The biggest coder flame war of all times is not vim vs emacs but plectrum vs bow. A few historians uncover a long-forgotten prototype of a computer controlled by percussion.

listen, I think we need to hear this guy out

Inside you are two wolves

One is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to go home

The other is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to become a firework

You have combined autism and adhd

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/798745832488927232
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

MFW the website I run on a raspberry pi sitting in my living room has better uptime than two of the planet's largest cloud providers

randomly reminded of the time xscreensaver's Pac-Man module gave me Pac-Man's Existential Nightmare

cc @jwz

The shit I pull in OpenSCAD.

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I just got a call from a doctor's office and their AI voice warning me to let them know if there was any chance I might have recently contracted COVID Minus Nineteen

It used to be common for people in their late thirties to forties to acquire “project car”, which was often a high school dream car purchased at the end of its life with the goal of restoring.

In the 2010s the retro computing scene emerged in the same age group.

In this essay I will

Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

TIL xeyes in Debian trixie supports `-biblicallyAccurate` mode (thanks @turnipGod )

what the fuck, modern macOS (Monterey, but allegedly also macOS 26) still has the ability to sync IPA files to iOS devices, sneakily hidden? if you open an iOS device in the Finder and drop an IPA file onto the “General” page, it actually installs?! i can't fucking believe this

I'm bored of these regular expressions. Where can I get premium expressions?

"I asked chatGPT" "I asked Grok" yeah well I rolled a d20 and it was a nat go fuck yourself

i'm reading this new wired interview with a bunch of cybertruck owners and i'm losing my mind. two separate people are like "oh yeah i keep toys in the back to give out to kids because they love the cybertruck so much."

(each screenshot is from a different person)

https://www.wired.com/story/owning-a-cybertruck/

”Ramlösa” water review:

• It is very carbonated.
• So much so that we could not open the bottle.
• The internal pressure was too high.
• In the end, we had to use our teeth to grip the cap, left with no other options.
• It is perfectly adequate for making elderflower soda.