FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@jakehamilton - a general use programming language with both a plaintext-based representation and a node-based visual representation that can be switched between at will, as an easier onramp for non programmers to learn the skills and get useful / fun things done on a computer
- a gamelike "learn computing concepts" interactive primer written in said language
- version control for non programmers that's usable for text as well as binary files, eg images, audio/video etc

Imagine there was a software collective. A group of people that collaborated on different projects, helped each other, and built a better future together. What would you do? What would you work on? What would you contribute?

This isn't a hypothetical. Fedi, please add your own reply and boost this post for reach (thank you in advance). I want to find the people that believe such a thing is possible and want to be a part of it.

are WINE's bundled EXEs and DLLs real? depends!

if you build with MingW available: yes! and many of the apps work on Windows!

if you don't: nope, they're stubs and the real implementations live in .so files

they differ in filesize and the signature you can see in a hex editor

Today was good, desk phones have been configured and deployed at practical locations around #bornhack more tomorrow. #televerket_bornhack #phoneops

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

I'm playing Sid Meier's Civilization as the Russians and despite being in the modern era, I only just now discovered gravity lol

↔️ Missing anyone who's going to be at Bornhack?
The EMF and Bornhack phone systems will be interconnected during the event!
Dial `BORN xxxx` from EMF, or `4EMF xxxx` from Bornhack to bridge the gap.

#EMFCamp #Bornhack

🎉 just got our* first commit merged into upstream WINE!! Start Menu icons are on master now

it'll be fun if the loss32 PoC ships a version of WINE that has zero non-upstream content eheheh

* under our legal name because of WINE's real names policy, sigh

going back through time and begging Microsoft engineers to add some way to test if an HBITMAP has an alpha channel

if I say “I am enjoying writing lots of Win32 COM code in C involving the Windows Shell” would you think I've been kidnapped

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[mysterious circle of robed figures]
JK Rowling: hello children
Rowling: finally my evil plan reachesss fruition
Rowling: it'ss taken me yearss of careful planning but finally
Rowling: finally!!!
Rowling: finally we can defeat the sscourge of human rightsss

telling all my haters "it's just a tool!" but they won't stop criticizing my plan to plow my fields using many small nuclear weapons

Some stakeholders in that meeting had to bite their tongue because of their roles within the meeting but my own stake within the meeting was so smol I had nothing to lose by saying whatever was on my mind. Got some praise after for saying what everyone was thinking.

Silence is violence after all, so today's tech tip: Invite someone to your meetings with nothing to lose for speaking out and let them have at

New stats meme just driving