FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

But haven't you heard? Rust is fast and safe!!! You don't need to think applicability to your specific task and compare the tradeoffs, not when Rust is fast and safe!!!11!!!!!1!1!1! Nothing else is safe, certainly not basically every language other than C and C++; and nothing else has ever been fast either, it's not like even Java is fast enough to run on 2003-era microcontrollers embedded in tiny SIM cards!

something that always gets me when doing crosstalk analysis:

when looking at plots of bad crosstalk situations, I have this *visceral* urge to adjust the filtering of the scope frontend to make the waves all nice again

A short write-up on making a handwritten font with FontForge.

https://kokorobot.ca/site/making_a_font.html

Saw this kid speedcubing on the bus… they were like 8 or 9. They were pretty good actually

Generation Z wants to cube as fast as possible

I think most millennials don't realize that there have been significant advancements in cube technology since you were a kid. Cubes look different now. And it's specifically to make speedcubing easier

You all know snow owls, but have you ever seen snow bats? 😍

©Yana Fedorova

is there anyone out there willing to collab/help someone with developing a RealTek audio driver for FreeDOS? it's a great idea and this person → https://twitter.com/fluddsskark/status/1728817419349807589 ← would like help with it, and i don't have enough interest/time/energy/etc to help. please contact them instead of me, but you can repost this to raise awareness or w/e

where am i going with this? where i am going, is to convey to you, the following:

THIS WORLD IS BEAUTIFUL, AND WE MUST PROTECT IT

DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAMS

EMBRACE THE SPARK OF LIGHT WITHIN YOU, KINDLE IT, LET IT TURN INTO A ROARING FLAME

GO OUT, CREATE AND SAVE WONDERS

[S] Donna: Descend

actually I think the worst thing about the current hype cycle for AI toys is that it's debasing some legitimately interesting and actually practical uses for AI, like compression and data mining.

me putting "shh" instead of "ssh": be very quiet, I'm trying to hack

AMIGAAAAAAAAAAAAA

#amiga #commodore #tracker #music #chiptune https://soundcloud.com/svetlana/trash-stmod

heres an oscilloscope view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdr0fiLiyfo

@matt our "the seagulls don't work for us" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by our sign.

Hey, if anyone ever worried about the safe zones of a Mastodon banner image, I got you covered. Pink areas are obscured by the mobile website, blue are obscured by the desktop website. The second one is a transparent PNG that you can just paste in as a new layer in Photoshop, Krita, CSP, etc, at the maximum 1500x500 pixels.