FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

it's out of touch thursdays!

🚨 Another EU mass surveillance attempt. Will kill privacy on web. Must not pass. 🚨

“[A]ll web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments.

These changes radically expand the capability of EU governments to surveil their citizens by ensuring cryptographic keys under government control can be used to intercept encrypted web traffic across the EU.”

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org

#eu #privacy #surveillance #eidas

just woke up and i've already seen a "releasing games on linux is too hard" take, a "why bother making my website work in firefox" take, and a story about someone filing a CVE that was hallucinated by an LLM.

i'm not really enjoying computers lately

En tråd om Israel-Palestinakonflikten.

Det är svårt att inte få ett slags mental whiplashskada av att följa både rapporter från Gaza och vad som sägs av Israeliska politiker, och hur saker debatteras i västerländsk media. Varje dag ser jag folk prata om "Israels rätt att försvara sig", och varje dag ser jag videor av barn med sina namn skrivna på armar och ben för att de ska gå att identifiera om de dödas av Israel. Tänk dig en situation där du själv behöver göra det.

A discussion at work about shades of pink inspired me to make this ^^
#lesbian

A discussion at work about HTTP status codes reminded me of this gem.

https://twitter.com/thecrunsher/status/1111258419087007745

Hello, users~! A little while back, I played a tabletop RPG called Princess Wing with my friend and partners. It's a game designed to feel like an episode of Sailor Moon or PreCure.

And the video of the game is now up on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukTrR1604oc

It took a while to get up since I wanted to be way more thorough than usual in my editing. There's not a lot of information about this game in English, so I figured having a session of the game up in video form would be useful for people!

wait uh, hm

reads Apple press release

HELP. WHAT YEAR IS IT

We wanted to share some demographics around these layoffs so our supporters are able to follow along. These numbers include the whole staff at Bandcamp (including non-union eligible workers), but are important to keep in mind as we continue to negotiate severance with Epic Games.

Be free my tiny minions!

(The good photography by @electrocutie)

"Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don’t suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3" -- Randall Koutnik

STOP DOING OFFICES

Spotted in SE Portland last week #nightinthewoods

The progress bar GUI widget was created so that a program could show its progress to users in a nice, linear, and moderately predictable way.

But now the progress bar is used primarily to show a complete lack of progress, moving back and forth in the progress tray like the light on a Cylon's face, as reassurance to the user that, no, the program hasn't frozen, only that the company behind it couldn't care less about its users.

i love that my server literally runs out of disk space on a regular basis because the fediverse instance software it's running can't regulate the size of its media cache. i love disappearing from the internet for hours at a time. i