FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

nominative determinism must be fake, i bet martin luther invented protestantism because he couldn't play the guitar

Isn't it beautiful how life always finds a way to persevere 🙏

PSA for anyone with an #Amazon #Kindle or even just any #kindlebooks , they are about to permanently remove the ability to download books to your computer. Your last day to use this functionality is February 26, 2025, so you have about a week. There are no easy ways to grab it all at once, but it's worth it to me to be able to access my 500+ #ebooks so I'm clicking on them one by one anyway. Amazon has been very quiet about it, so spread the word.

gen alpha kid listens only to modern pitch-corrected music, plays portal: “i don't get it, glados is supposed to sound robotic?”

Attackers have time and budgetary constraints too.

my knowledge of japanese is in my opinion pretty awful, but my girlfriend keeps having to remind me that i am doing the xkcd 2501 thing whenever i think the average weeb merely knows hiragana, katakana, the most common ten or so particles, ko/so/a/do, common forms of aru and iru,

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood

Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

#StarTrek

found the perfect stackoverflow question:

https://serverfault.com/questions/62316/how-do-i-list-loaded-linux-module-parameter-values

this question was asked fifteen years ago, has 127 upvotes, is two sentences long, and has seven answers, every single one of which has completely ignored half of the question.

A straight white guy friend was complaining about not being able to find any gaming groups for WoW that weren't full of MAGA assholes. He said he keeps joining guilds with older (60+) casual gamers like himself because he can't keep up with the kids, and he'll start to make friends, but then they will reveal themselves to be Trump-lovers. He asked, "What am I doing wrong?"

I said, "First of all, your screen name is Russian. Leftys are gonna be wary of that, and the Alt-right loves it.
Second, you should put some social signals in your bio, like pronouns."

"Okay, but how do I tell people I'm cool, but I'm not gay or trans?"
I explained to him what "cis" and "ally" mean. He had never heard of this before, which showed me what kind of online spaces he was landing in.

Next, I said, "Look for the furries."
"But, I'm not a furry?"
"Yes, but the presence of furries are like lichen. They are a sign of a healthy ecosystem."

This was about 3 months ago. Now, he tells me he joined a guild labeled as LGBTQ-friendly and has made several new cool friends. He says, "I thought they would be talking about sex all the time but it's just a regular group." He mentioned that there are many women and PoC in the group too, and "Everyone's so nice on dungeon runs, telling people they did a good job and being supportive, sharing loot."

I didn't tell him that this is what the whole world would be like without patriarchal toxic masculinity, because I think he figured it out himself.

Based on replies in this thread, here is an alternate proposed "three laws of robotics".

1. A machine must never show an advertisement to a human, or through inaction allow an advertisement to be shown to a human.

2. A machine shall never use more power to perform a job than would be used by an equivalent human.

3. A machine must never present or refer to itself as though it were human, or through inaction allow a human to mistake it for one.

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godot tip: keep waiting, he'll arrive soon

current art deco levels are 84%

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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.