FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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Here's a really fucking radical idea:

What if we made a society that does not assume you have access to a cellphone at any time

video's up: https://youtu.be/cC8oECLUXzs

(it'll be in better bitrate in a couple of hours when youtube's finished ingesting my absurdly high-res upscale)

but one fascinating thing about Domination (1998) is that there's a "terminal" in the game, that you can walk up to. and it's an actual terminal! it looks like an Apple II, but it has cls, dir, help, system, ver, and some other stuff I forget, including: rex++, which is an honest-to-god fully-featured programming language??

let me remind you that this is a 3D shooty game. it's not even an action RPG!! what!!!!!

also DID THEY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER (Rex Blade) AFTER REXX?????

Windows, why do you need to "set up" the laptop keyboard I'm typing on to ask about this and is it seriously wired up as PS/2 on a device not even thick enough to support a PS/2 connector

"She attempted to fight the demand, attempting to buy the [brain] implant outright and remortgaging their house to do so. They were unsuccessful, and she was the last person to get the [device] removed."

"I wish I could’ve kept it. I would have done anything to keep it."

"it calls to mind a similar incident last year in which the manufacturer of a bionic eye decided the units were obsolete, leading patients who'd had them implanted to lose their vision again."

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https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent

🪦 Microsoft is discontinuing WordPad after almost 30 years. They recommend using Microsoft Word for rich text and Windows Notepad for plain text, but you can also explore our complete list of alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/9/microsoft-has-finally-announced-the-end-of-the-road-for-wordpad-a-windows-staple-since-1995/

The fuck you will.

There is literally no good reason for elon musk to have biometric, work history, and schooling data about the twitter user base, but there are a plethora or rather in fact an UNENDING NIGHTMARISH TIDE of bad ones. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/x-plans-to-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history

Once again: regardless of what country I live in, I should be able tell twitter or any other company to delete my data, and then it should be GONE, and someone should be able to CHECK.

a modest proposal: rename Burning Man to Soylent Dweeb

find -mtime 0
is a really good command if you have GNU findutils since it lists all files that were changed today

@BigJesusTrashcan @taco

Actually, no. AIUI, they basically galvanic skin response meters. (Like the little widgies they put on your fingers when you're taking a polygraph test.)

During one of those nerd-stories bull sessions at an SF convention years ago, I heard tell of a guy (some flavor of science grad student) who decided to go f*ck with the local Scientologists. So before he went to their recruiting session, he soaked his hands in a super-saturated salt solution for, like 2 hours. >

This whole Church of Scientology freaking out over how right to repair will force them to open up how their e-meters work thing is my favourite current side plot. 🍿

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When people say someone else is "like Switzerland" because they stay neutral in conflicts, I don't consider it a compliment.

Instead, I think of Elie Wiesel's quote:

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."