FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

celeste's OST is still a banger

https://blog.paavo.me/cities-skylines-2-performance/ is a very interesting technical deep-dive into why Cities: Skylines 2 performs so badly, and pretty funny at times. if you're a graphics person and curious about this disaster, check it out!

quantum mechanics 101

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency research testing of do-it-yourself ‘Corsi-Rosenthal Box’ indoor air filters shows they are 99% effective in removing airborne virus. #CorsiRosenthal #COVID https://today.uconn.edu/2023/10/epa-testing-shows-the-power-of-d-i-y-air-filters-to-trap-viruses/

You know that "parents rights" is a dogwhistle, right?

Anytime someone is pushing parents rights, it's part of the fascist agenda. "Parents rights" means "control over children's autonomy." Autonomy is the one thing we must never try to control if we want to raise healthy children.

Remember this, and try to reframe every conversation about parenting into these terms. Parents do not have rights. They have obligations. Children have rights, and parents have the power to deny them, and that's horrifying. Parents who do not honor their children's autonomy are failing in their obligation.

I finally received a parcel from Russia with the Soviet PDP-11-on-a-chip clone K1801VM1A. This box of chips was manufactured in March 1991 and stayed undisturbed until September 2023. After that, it spent one month in Moscow's Sheremetyevo and two months in London's Heathrow customs. I don't know whether any of those still work, but I think they should. Does anyone want one? I have 10, happy to share.

Okay, the big announcement, here we go!

A studio I've founded, Roseum, has a comic called "Motherly Vibes". A story about a transgender girl who daydreams about becoming a mother. The day she meets her old high school friend and her daughter changes her life.

Please check it out, and then get back? https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/motherly-vibes/list?title_no=910534

I've been the producer of the comic when we started making it in 2021, but the war between Russia and Ukraine has stopped the project. We've never planned to make money on it, but now we needed money to just keep it going. A year later, we've found a sponsor who helped us to restart the comic and make it look as good as it deserves. But not long after, the circumstances have changed, and she couldn't sponsor the art anymore. Production costs of a single episode is about $700. Who has that much pocket money in this economy?

So, to keep this project up and running, we need some sort of a Patreon, and lots of Patrons. How do I do that? Please send help T_T

@fraying @hbuchel The best way I've seen it described is Corporate Facebook where people cosplay in their business fursonas >_<

the trolley problem

oh my fucking god they “solved” TF2 server crashes. shounic made a server that “never” crashes. this is just beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-RJ0AQsRTw

the EU is trying to mandate that all browsers distributed there trust certificate authorities controlled by their member governments.

if not stopped, this will give EU member states unchecked power to surveil the traffic of any EU citizen.

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

git gud? nah, i'd much rather...

It's November 5th, which is Gay Fox day! So if you know a fox, be sure to-

*presses finger to earpiece* Ohhh, Guy Fawkes. Pfft, who'd remember that?

There's this thing about group work which is really interesting and somewhat hard to quantify, but it's something I've been spending a lot of effort fixing in my team lately.

It's the fact that there's this curious thing that happens to a teams output when they get too overloaded: it goes to zero.

You might think they could continue to make *some* progress, but no, it really does go to zero if the overload is bad enough.