FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@Texan_Reverend I'm seeing people boosting posts about instances muting or blocking the new BBC instance because of their transphobic reporting.

As a trans person I'd like to request that you *don't* do that.

They're generally a respected news source and having them throwing their weight into Mastodon would be a huge boon.

I'd also rather get my transphobic news stories from the source than second-hand posts linking to them.

I think the positives of their presence outweigh the negatives.

could you imagine explaining this to anyone

thanks to my partner, I got a new PC and now I'm playing only the hottest games on it

you like touching computers don't you

moar

"when a gem is made, it's for a reason. they burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be, and that's what they are. forever. but you? you're *supposed* to change. you're never the same, even moment to moment! you're allowed and expected to invent who you are. what an incredible power, the ability to grow up..."

A friend recommended unplugging everything from the wall, turning the power switch off entirely, pressing the power-on button a few times then plugging everything back in and turning it back on. It turned on, which is very good, but slightly scarier than if it were simply broken

"i think you have a serious problem with pizza."
"i don't have a problem with pizza!"
"I DUNNO KIKI. I THINK YOU DO."

the mods of /r/welding gradually ramped it up over a few years and the current logo is *really* unsubtle

"only showing the first 100 errors, of 50392 total"

good morning to you too, java.

anyway here's a song from the yamaha psr-350 recorded via my pc's stereo line-in. https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/2023-07-30-psr-350-song-009-Sometime.flac

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing

I felt this in my teeth.

The engineers who designed the #Voyager probes half a century ago even thought of the possibility that a wrong sequence of commands may point the antenna dish away from earth (like someone did a couple of days ago).

And they implemented a self-adjusting mechanism that a few times a year scans the positions of a few known stars to infer the position of the earth, and point back the antenna in the right direction.

50 years later, these wonderful machines are still working, tens of billions of km away from earth, with only 69 KB of RAM, and even a wrong sequence of commands won't put them out of use, while nowadays 4 GB of RAM aren't even enough to start VsCode or IntelliJ.

The more I understand how they were designed, the more I feel like an early Medieval engineer looking at the Pantheon or other marvels or Roman architecture. Some amazing skills, knowledge and attention to details have been lost from that generation to ours.