FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@whitequark javascript is a workground that occasionally has a language in it

apparently the only way to get the JavaScript engine to run memcmp() on two typed arrays is...
...
...
to use IndexedDB. which provides a comparison operator. for typed arrays. in the Indexed-fucking-DB namespace. `indexedDB.cmp`. 🤡
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21553528/how-to-test-for-equality-in-arraybuffer-dataview-and-typedarray

time for my favourite european new year's tradition: it's time to watch „der 90. geburtstag“ aka ”grevinnan och betjänten” aka “dinner for one” as it's variously called

Knives are cutlery, forks are stabblery, spoons are scooplery

In 2009, I join Twitter.
I make friends there.
I can see their posts.

Twitter has a Nazi problem.
I pre-emptively join Mastodon.
But I don’t really use it yet.

Elon Musk buys Twitter.
My friends start leaving.
I no longer see their posts.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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I find my friends again on Mastodon.
Now I have two apps to keep track of.
But I can see my friends’ posts again.

My instance admins get in a fight.
Friends’ instances defederate from mine.
I can no longer follow them, nor they me.
I am told about this by a friend who noticed.
There is no indication given by the software.
I am not notified of the connections I’ve lost.

I want to see my friends’ posts.

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A friend invites me to their instance.
I accept, and migrate my profile across.
I re-follow missing friends I can remember.
And I can see my friends’ posts again.

A friend posts photos on her instance.
But those photos are not visible on mine.
Her profile appears, to me, devoid of images.
My new instance seemingly media-blocks hers.
There is no indication given by the software.

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I just want to see my friends’ posts.

Am I wrong to want that?

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https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/i-want-to-see-my-friends-posts/

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

‪i'm calling it: let's make 2024 the year of unironically enjoying things.‬

‪in 2024, let's make a less cynical world, together.‬

in 2024 let's shine together
chase dreams and find joy
be the selves we need to be
make the world we want to see

wait so… do eu citizens moving to germany just show up at their local registration office and register themselves almost exactly like if they'd moved house within germany? it's not even a different form? they don't need special evidence of the basis of your right of residence???

started the journey of learn about german bureaucracy and already fascinated by the ways it differs from sweden's

does local government in germany just not even attempt to serve non-german speakers? is that why some have a hard time with it? (rip to them but i'm different)

Holy crap. I'm waiting to verify the details, but it looks like the parking app used in Brisbane and elsewhere in Australia (as far as I can tell, "CelloPark") had an enormous billing clusterfuck, and anyone who's used the app since December 18th has been billed to at least one particular credit card.

My oldest friend (~40 years!) got a call from his today bank asking why they'd maxed out their $15k credit card on parking.

Perhaps something of interest @stilgherrian and @daedalus (and all you other nerds).

New Blobhaj, New Blobhaj!!

Kyra has commissioned a dancey blobhaj for all to share!

https://heatherhorns.com/emoji

@gvwilson I think a lot about this underappreciated 2009 blog post, "5 Time Management Tricks I Learned From Years Of Hating Tim Ferriss", and similar posts from people who noticed that a lot of these "10x productivity hacks" boil down to "define 90% of your obligations as not-work, and when you can't, just get somebody else to do them."

https://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/01/08/5-time-management-tricks-i-learned-from-years-of-hating-tim-ferriss/