FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

game of the year

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bike helmet

#London #Transport #advertisement from 1980:
"If it takes one man one gallon of petrol to get to work. How many gallons will it take 68 men?" - London Transport - the fuelsavers
#Urbanism #Buses #Travel #fuel #oil

But the pseudo #AI evangelists managed to destroy that too, didn't they?
#XKCD https://xkcd.com/810/

@cwebber helpful coordinate system alignment chart (by @acegikmo)

the #moon - how it really happened #truestory 🌝

So true

#meme #Mastodon #Fediverse

I'd go a step further: if something has no commercial value, preventing people from using, sharing, modifying, or expressing it should be illegal.

Not just copyrighted things. Also any DRM protecting something no longer for sale or that doesn't receive updates or support.

Locked bootloader on a ten year old phone? Illegal. Locked down jtag pins and bootrom on an always-online device after the services are turned down? Illegal. Class action suits up the wazoo.

It should be illegal to withhold from the commons.

Change in Guidance on Committing Lockfiles | Rust Blog

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/29/committing-lockfiles.html

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/08/29/committing-lockfiles.html

#programming #rustlang

In the latest installment of "Tech bros won't save us, but they will kill some of us": https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-bias-self-driving-software.html
"Autonomous vehicle software used to detect pedestrians is unable to correctly identify dark-skinned individuals as often as those who are light-skinned […]
tested eight AI-based pedestrian detectors utilized by self-driving car manufacturers. They found a 7.5% disparity in accuracy between lighter and darker subjects."
Study: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.02935
#AI #autonomousCars #blackMastodon

some people who make programming easier

(who am I missing?)

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

It’s not even 8 AM and I’ve already been subjected to psychic violence (code reviews):

$optionIds = array_values(explode(',', str_replace(['"', '[', ']'], '', $option)));

#php

@split when I was in high school, several math websites were blocked for "prohibited educational content" and if that doesn't perfectly describe the US education system ​

i still think this is the funniest block reason my school has ever set