FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

OMG DYING 🤣

#LGBT #homophobia

Steam is a service where anyone can say "hello Gabe Newell I think I can sell this game" and Gabe Newell goes "wanna bet?"

@futurebird eternally relevant.

Listen. I wasn't born yesterday. I know that fungi aren't plants: they don't have chloroplasts to photosynthesize. They don't use cellulose for their cell walls like plants.

But what *do* they use then? Chitin! Like a bug! This is what the exoskeletons of insects (such as ants) are made of!

The implications of this are marvelous. Consider Prototaxites, the tree-size fungi of the Silurian. They stood tall using chitin. And to me? THAT says that giant ants may be more possible than we think!

infosec advice: don't use computers

I'm formally stepping down as a nouveau kernel maintainer.

I want to stress out this is only for the kernel side of things and has and will not have any impact on my involvement in mesa.

Don't really want to add too much here, just that things need to change. Recent events (tm) is just another example of the deep disagreement.

I won't be able to convince people I made up my mind on my own here, so I won't bother with it anyway.

Full upstream and public statement here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/nouveau/2025-February/046677.html

job listings in 2025 are weird.
I never would have guessed a car wash even needed an on-site kubernetes cluster

new in the shop! a bunch of pendants https://nora.jewelry/

With a heavy heart, we announce the resignation of Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin. Our project is continuing with new collective governance. Our statement is on our project blog.

https://asahilinux.org/2025/02/passing-the-torch/

Trust me, I'm an engineer

#FurryArt #MastoArt #FediArt

bad idea:
a firefox extension that lets you set the Gulf of Mexico to anything you want.
Dinosaur Lake. Gulf of Foone. etc.

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

NASA's switch to Linux in space was driven by reliability, flexibility, and security concerns. The International Space Station (ISS) originally relied on Windows, but astronauts frequently encountered crashes and instability. In 2013, NASA announced that all laptops on the ISS would transition to Debian, a Linux-based operating system, to improve stability and control over software.

This change wasn’t just about reliability. Windows was much more vulnerable to malware, and in 2007, a worm named W32.Gammima.AG spread to the ISS. With Linux, NASA gained the ability to modify and customize the system for mission-critical applications without depending on proprietary software. Today, Linux powers much of NASA’s space infrastructure, from ISS systems to Mars rovers and beyond.

#Linux #NASA #Debian #OpenSource #SpaceTech #TechHistory

bring back forums

you aren't supposed to have a single identity online

communities shouldn't demand you let a vc-funded company have your mobile phone number

you don't have to pay $100/yr [or whatever it is] for features that every forum had for years, or if it didn't it's for a reason