FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Some people, when confronted with a compiler problem, think
“I know, I'll use LLVM.” Now they have two problems.

#programminghumour

Remember: Gravity is your friend

Tilting your head to one side moves all the thinking to that side which helps you process better

If that doesn't work, tilt your head the other way

what's the last major tech empire to have fallen? i don't mean a company that balloons into empire and then keels over all within a decade. i'm talking about the ones that last a generation or more. i think about IBM, roughly 1985-1995, when they went from carved-in-granite forever-monopoly to sidelined usurped panicking giant, and the decade of more obvious decline that followed.
they're still around, of course. but the empire ended, so conclusively even shareholders had to admit it & move on.

for another half billion the communication you can perceive through this is, "fine! your current perfectly functional PC is now ewaste. we're willing to tank that incomprehensible environmental cost just to force/sell you [the thing half a billion other people actively don't want]. happy?"
(i think deep down they know how most people would answer that rhetorical)

https://www.theverge.com/news/831364/dell-windows-11-upgrade-numbers-earnings-call-q3-2025 no matter how badly you fuck up at your job you'll never fuck up so badly that half a billion people would choose to stick with the older, now-unsupported version of your product than take the free upgrade to the new version.
unless your job is being a product strategist, project manager, marketer, etc on Windows i guess.

Let's get this #nakeddiefriday started, people!

The guest of today is one TMS70C42A by TI. It is a 8-bit MCU carrying 4KB of ROM and 256B of RAM, with three timers and a UART.

This particular die was bit by gremlins, and a small part of it is missing; nothing crucial though. Let's have a walk around. 🧵

SiPron page: https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:ti:tms70c42a

#electronics #reverseengineering #microscopy

@rolf That looks so cool.
It reminded me of a similar statue where the angle of the sun made the rider’s shadow disappear.
(The statue is next to the cathedral in Aarhus and depicts Christian the 10th.)

When it snows in Scotland the snow turns the Bannockburn statue of Robert the Bruce into something magical.

📸Marisa Braithwaite

The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

- it’s not the firewall
- it can’t be the firewall
- it was the firewall

HRT will work regardless of age.

There are trans folks taking HRT and seeing results as old as SEVENTY and even EIGHTY.

If it's taking a while to see effects, that's not because of the HRT, that's just how your body works with the hormones.

I've been on T for ten years, and I'm only now seeing decent facial hair, and I'm still working on a happy trail. But that's just how it works for me.

Everyone is different, and genetics play a factor. It also won't have results if you can't be consistent or if you give up early.

What isn't a factor is age.

It's never too late to start HRT, stop letting bigots tell you otherwise.

When you mention in chat that you started T in your 30s and a youngun says "I thought HRT didn't work after a certain age???"

Folks. Please. Stop listening to terfs. They're LYING to you.

I tried a machine learning model to determine of a picture of a keyboard was SFW
it said no, because it detected the escape key as a nipple

did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/

I made a proper version of https://wetdry.world/@mudkip/113793607230321821 #xenia #y2k38

London workers should be given unlimited ride oyster cards by their job.

"two birds in one stone"
​​ Awful image about violence against animals

"two cops in one brick"
​​ omg!