FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I feel like the technology industry's lack of diversity led to it becoming a monoculture where solidarity between workers was replaced by solidarity with the company itself.

A lot of the things that modern workers take for granted are the result of the labour rights movement, where people gave their lives to fight for breaks, lunches, sick days, and humanity.

Without that, we'd all still be serfs. Now, modern capitalism is pulling us back in time, and...

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OK, help me settle a debate.

Is ASN.1 Turing complete?

(Accidentally Turing Complete counts. Proofs of concept are welcome.)

this is count binface's moment. actually unreal scenes in UK politics right now.

for those not in the know:

- fascist party leader Nigel Farage of the fascist party Reform is currently undergoing investigations for receiving large large money gifts and not declaring it (this is yet another scandal on top of an already huge mountain of scandals coming from the tosser)

- to distract from the investigations and potentially avoid them, Farage resigned. when you resign as an MP (member of parliament), it triggers a by-election. Farage is standing in the by-election(!). So did he really resign? Well, this practice is sometimes used to re-affirm support after scandals. But in this case, Farage already knows he had good support there, and we all know that, and also.... the investigations haven't concluded yet!! so this is a way of escaping + avoiding + hiding + distracting from them

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Allow yourself a moment of peace.

Don't worry about the world for two minutes. Just take this opportunity to pause, relax, and think about how loved you are.

Be chill, like a capybara with a little friend, and remember you're doing so much better than you fear you are.

I'm so proud of you.

Do your best to have a great day, okay? I'm cheering for you!!

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Y'all I'm so proud of my wife's pottery. Take a look at some of her recent work.

Julian: Don’t worry. I’ve still got a few forks up my sleeve
Kira: You mean cards?
Julian: I do not

🚗 TIL: Before GPS was fully operational, Honda built a car navigation system that used zero satellites.

In 1981, the Honda Electro Gyrocator debuted as a dealer option on the Accord. You placed a transparent plastic map over a small CRT screen and marked your starting point.

As you drove, a helium gas-rate gyroscope detected turns: helium flow shifted between two heated wires, creating a temperature difference the computer read as direction. A transmission sensor tracked distance. A 16-bit computer combined both to move a dot across the map showing your position.

Not perfect. Wheel spin and drift compounded, so you could pull over and manually realign. The IEEE designated it a Milestone in 2017 as the world's first map-based car navigation system, 14 years before GPS.

The catch: it cost about $2,746 (nearly a quarter of the car's price). It only lasted one year.

Read more:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/first-mapbased-car-navigation-system-debuted-14-years-before-gps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Gyrocator
https://global.honda/en/heritage/episodes/1981navigationsystem.html

#TIL #Honda #engineering #history

How to know an anime stars a trans woman, in their creator's synopsis:

ministry of silly walks sleeps

i'm not picking who in the triad gets left out of legal marriage, i'm picking the one most likely to enjoy introducing herself as "the concubine" at parties

"Win32 is the stable Linux ABI", or so the shitposting goes

ever wanted to take that idea and run with it?

here are some demonstrations of the mechanisms by which a process running in Wine can access native Linux code, in case it's ever useful for performance or for something which Wine doesn't emulate (well)

https://arcanenibble.com/how-to-call-linux-code-from-a-wine-process.html

https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/wine-linux-calls

only a mild amount of coding crimes were committed in the making of this post

Varför ökar elnätavgifterna så mycket?

Jo för att den statliga myndigheten Energimarknadsinspektionen tillåter att monopolföretagen använder "nuanskaffningsmetoden". Detta innebär att de får ta betalt som om alla ledningar var nya. Som exempelvis den här: