FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

a veritable buffet of choice peridot faces this episode

Spent the last week debugging rotations, translations, and ultimately, transformation matrices, to get this to FINALLY work. Per request of @sjpalmer1994

SunOS 4.1.4 says it can't possibly be the year 2023: "WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"

sorry SunOS, there's nothing i can do to fix 2023.

Here are some random photos from my archives, this time from late 2016

(Fun fact: The tapas sign is from a restaurant in Malaga which had multiple signs bearing very, very long rants about how they are the best restaurant and every other restaurant's paella sucks)

I feel like someone must have done this terrible #linguistics joke before, but I've never actually seen it.

this is what people mean when they ask “can it run doom” right,

i'm living the dream with the yamaha portatone psr-350 🎹💾🎶

No fake news

#archeology #colonialism #decolonize! #art

How to understand hardware implementation details in your machine.
1980s: Read a manual called Principles of Operation.
2020s: Solve a jigsaw puzzle by putting various sources of information together, like marketing materials, PC hardware review articles, programming blogs, mailing list and source code, microbenchmark results, research papers, and sometimes a tweet from the chip's chief architect.

A passenger airline client is developing the complicated scheduling tools to ensure that pregnant employees can minimize working in states with actively dangerous restrictions on reproductive healthcare. Pilots also need to rethink where to divert if a passenger has a prenatal medical emergency.
The nearest airports are not necessarily places where care can be provided. This is a major safety, moral, and reputational risk, and it's damned shameful that we have medical "dead zones" in America

life has its moments

fun fact with these magnetic USB charging cables:
if you have two of them, they will naturally attach to each other, creating a forbidden USB A-A cable, but better yet: they actually cross-connect because MAGNETS, so ground is wired to +5 and vice versa!

@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