FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

All tech is wearable tech if you have enough duct tape.

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

sometimes people brag about their mint condition hardware, but consider the following

what if your computer had character?

OH:

m: what the fuck. arxiv is like a respected scientific entity
m: I thought. It was. Some kind of FFXIV plugin
m: Everyone I’ve ever seen talk about it is also an XIV player so for the longest time I just assumed it was some client mod or something

I had heard RAM prices were up, but checking it for myself is a gut punch. The 16GB stick I bought in November was €100. It's now €235 on Paradigit, €250 on CaseKing. The future sucks and I hope Sam Altman falls down a flight of stairs.

It's not like the "computer industry" did this, that industry was IBM and Siemens and Xerox and Cray. At the start it was all missile targeting systems and concentration camp organizers. A few upstarts happened to notice that miniaturization and cost reduction in industrial process was going to open up new target markets (small office / home office / individual use); the fact that this gave people new capabilities was (from a corporate perspective) an unfortunate, and temporary, side effect

I'm trying to shift my perspective from "there was a glorious computer revolution that empowered the user and disrupted authority and we have fallen from the heights of its transcendental grace" and towards the more accurate "my formative years just happened to coincide with a period where a few technical innovations briefly conferred a small amount of power on individuals and labor, and capital has been efficiently reversing that small disruption ever since" but it sure doesn't *feel* like that

but seriously:

$ systemd-run --user --scope -p MemoryMax=4G cargo nextest run woops

is preetty cool. I thought I'd have to mess with docker or something.

expectation: I will use SHM (shared memory) for my plugin system, so that communication is fast despite code living in completely separate binaries

reality: my test suite will suddenly start consuming all available memory, I will have to hard-shutdown my MacBook 3 times then learn about systemd-run

would you still love me if i was a binary blob

WEBSITE: enter password

ME: okay here ya go

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: na it's not, babes. check again.

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: hmmm maybe I mistyped something. I'll type it slower this time.

WEBSITE: incorrect password

ME: your mom's a incorrect password.

WEBSITE: maybe you forgot your password?

ME: idk maybe.

WEBSITE: do you want to reset it?

ME: ya ok fine whatever

WEBSITE: type new password

ME: here ya go

WEBSITE: new password cannot be the same as old password

ME: asdfhjkl what the fuck do you mean a second ago you said that password was incorrect

WEBSITE: it is

ME: so let me get this straight... the password I just gave you...

WEBSITE: yes?

ME: the new password, the one I'm trying to reset my old password to...

WEBSITE: uh huh?

ME: that password is being rejected because it's the same as the old password...

WEBSITE: mmhmm?

ME: which is incorrect because it's not my password.

WEBSITE: you got it!

ME: that makes negative sense.

WEBSITE: I don't know what to tell you man. just pick a different password?

ME: motherfucker

WEBSITE: password "motherfucker" accepted.

ME: you know what, I ain't even mad.

WEBSITE: now please prove that you are human by solving this fourier transform in 5-dimensional noneuclidian space.

ME: FUUUUUUUUUU—

I did a thing! Almost three years ago, I launched a co-operative newspaper in Leicester. Now, we're officially in print 🥳

The Leicester Gazette is our revolution against a broken industry.

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🐹 :loads the dishwasher, presses the wrong button:
🤖 *beep!*
☁️ Haha! You got yelled at!
🐹 It wasn't me! It was... the bird boys! I've seen them do it!
☁️ :sarcastically: Oh yes, magpies, famously always coming into our kitchen to mess with the dishwasher.
🐹 Yes! You've seen them too, right?

This.