FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Gay dog comic.

On the discord server I hang out on there was a bit of an art challenge to draw the goose using the template on the left. My entry is the one on the right. Nailed it.

Boiling it down, every single request stemming from "age assurance" / "age verification" / "identity verification" is part of the slow but persistent fight against general purpose computing (itself but one front in the never ending struggle for human freedom)

The idea that you should be able to do anything without seeking permission from someone else is so abhorrent to some people they demand reality twist itself into absurdities to satisfy their need for authority.

proposed Slay the Spire character: The Joker

starts with a bunch of Skills that “gain 5 chips until the end of your turn,” some Attacks that “gain 0.1 mult until end of turn,” and a Power that is “at the end of your turn deal (chips x mult) damage”

Start Menu icons! For the Control Panel, anyway. I think there's something missing in WINE's shell icons handling to make icons for shortcuts show up. Also, for some reason MENUITEMINFO bitmaps don't have an associated mask, so there's no transparency on the icons.

LLMs do not "democratize programming". A 4-year-old can learn to program. LLMs throw up stupid barriers by convincing you that you can't learn to program and you have to rely on whatever shit the bobot spits out. Every asshole that says that AI "democratizes" fucking anything is trying to scam you.

🌳 The New York Times is a meme at this point.

But also, congratulations, Mexico!

keeping an eye on a freezer that's defrosting is such a sensory experience… the water droplets falling, the icicles clinking, the tiny splashes that hit you like light rain, it's so good

Pride crowfren! 🌈🐦‍⬛

get in fedi, we're going tooting

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@cmconseils lamps in video games still use real electricity!

"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."

I get the snark, but "page has to load on device in expensive city"... where is the human? The main audience of a website isn't a phone.

I know I've said this a lot, but I think about the NHS digital design standards all the time, about that presentation where their lead designer talked about finding agent strings for devices like the Playstation Vita and Opera for the Nintendo DS in their logs. About how the NHS site had to work for those people too, no matter what.

https://wandering.shop/@fugueish/116695409129543894

Shonks! 📈

The Lagrange Mobile app is once again available in the Apple iOS App Store. It's the best way for a beginner to get started using geminispace.

What's geminispace? It's an "alternate internet" that runs parallel to the World Wide Web, and doesn't have any corporations or the anti-features that plague modern websites. You can use a gemini browser like Lagrange to view gemini capsules (the equivalent of websites).

The key differences between geminispace and the web are:

* Geminispace is mostly text. While there are some capsules with non-text content, the protocol is designed to encourage sharing and reading text.

* The author of a gemini capsule decides the content, but not the appearance. Your browser or browser settings determine the font, color themes, and layout of capsules you visit. If you've used reader mode in Firefox, you can think of it as if all gemini capsules automatically use reader mode by default.

* Resistant to anti-features: Much like the fediverse, the community of people using geminispace generally dislike ads and trackers, but geminispace goes further by making it technically very hard to implement such things.

* Easy to implement: It's feasible for one developer working in their free time to create a fully working gemini browser from scratch, which is capable of rendering all gemini capsules. The aim is to prevent a situation where a single browser engine (like Chromium) dominates.

* All connections are secured with TLS. This also sets geminispace apart from gopher (which doesn't have any encryption).

* Non-extensibility: Geminispace is designed to be hard to extend with new (anti-)features. This is due to a fear that making it extensible would, as with the web, eventually lead to enabling trackers or ads, or make it too complicated to create a new browser.

If you're looking to escape from the big-tech-dominated web, geminispace is a great place to go for respite.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and if you're not on iOS Lagrange is available for other platforms too. There is an Android version, but it is not in Google Play. There's also a desktop version for Windows, MacOS, and Linux (and there are a lot more gemini browsers for desktop to choose from).

"You can't put the genie back in the bottle."

Why the fuck not? Have you tried before dispensing this timeless wisdom? How do you know that the genie is bottle-proof.

Or hell, perhaps we can't put it back, in which case, perhaps there's a less carceral approach we can try instead of... you know... giving the fuck up.

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