FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

conspiracy theory: the unexpected shutdown of nordstream 1 on 2022-08-31 was created artificially by time travellers who did not want to stop the explosions from 26 days later but needed to somehow prevent the collapse of the european energy market that happened in their timeline

American physicist and chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett was born #OTD in 1898.

She was the inventor of a technique for making non-reflecting "invisible" glass, a material used in virtually all camera lenses & many other optical devices. She was also responsible for developing an instrument that can measure film thicknesses to within a few angstroms. She did research on methods of removing ice from airplane wings. She is also credited with the development of a new type of smoke screen.

#science

holy shit, a C/C++ compiler for Vulkan that supports graphics features and doesn't disallow function pointers

it's extremely cool. i feel that kind of envy about it that comes from familiarity with the problem domain and wishing i'd had the ambition

https://xol.io/blah/introducing-vcc/

fuck i love this website

2. This did not begin with Musk. I would date attempts to transform Twitter into a tool exclusively for the far right to Gamergate ten years ago (and the earlier racist harassment ops by the same actors that lead up to it). Online harassment is a form of censorship, harassment is a free speech issue, and the far right tried various methods for deplatforming their enemies in online community spaces for years before the idea of simply buying the websites occurred to them.

#Furry #Shitposting

I just realized that I think you can break my hardware-in-the-loop test by setting up too many WIFI routers near our testing lab.

that's probably something I should fix

Smoking a cigarette as I bring developers into my office to administer the Complexity Voight-Kampff test. My inflection is flat as I as start to speak. “You’re in Slack. You see a team architecting a new app around Kubernetes. An engineer proposes simple tools to manage the process instead. They want to convince them, but they can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that, Leon?” They shoot me dead from under the table every time.

hire me

it's been one day back in the classroom and i've already had to explain to multiple students that they shouldn't come to class if they are covid positive. when i die please don't blame my students, blame my employer for absolutely failing to foster an environment of covid safety in any way

Hi! If you're finding me, this is a stress test of the ActivityPub ecosystem's IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support.

It isn't great! The software works fine, but mentioning this account on Pleroma/Akkoma right now is impossible with Markdown, unless you change the TLD to Hiragana (minna in romaji)

Other software seems to handle it alright, switching between without effort.

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IDNs are rare; you likely will never see this in the wild! The whole "xn--" prefix is by design, this is how the internet "ASCII"-ifies domains that aren't plain ASCII.

I am not breaking your instance. Your client is fine. It's doing its best. Even if it adds an emoji.

Love you~

The world's first ablative CPU cooler

"technology is real when americans announce making it" vs "technology is real when you can get it off alibaba at all price ranges"

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“the side fell off” catching up on recent alaska airlines flights on tiktok

haven’t told anyone to “just fucking google it” in a while

i haven’t suddenly become a better person, it’s just google doesn’t really work any more

this is a distribution map of honeybees, I find the fuck-no hole in the middle hilarious