FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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I was curious about how rows of pixels map to diamond subpixel arrangements (like on the iPhone). So, after some research with my macro lens, I made a simulator!

https://rickyromero.com/tmp/diamond.html

You can use your mouse to draw on the left side and it will translate it to subpixels on the right. Use R, G, B, etc. on your keyboard to change colors. Or drag a 40x40 image onto the page!

Eepy girls should be allowed to cuddle with other eepy girls instead of working

I enjoy writing research papers with absolutely no snark.

ah, i'm so tempted to make a deliberately “bad” machine translator between germanic languages that understands compound word formation patterns and has a huge dictionary of cognates

@hikari 1) machine translate to chinese 2) dictionary lookup of each individual character’s most literal meaning 3) compound in target language

The fediverse is de-centralised, but it still needs to be hosted behind something, in this post I investigate where the most of the instances are, and working around caching proxies to get a better idea of how resilient to hosting disasters the ecosystem is.

https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/who-hosts-the-fediverse-instances

Some avian alien expressions. Their ears can tell you a lot about how they're feeling.

what i'm saying is: download the things you love. download even the things you like, that you find any significance in at all. hoard data. disk space scarcity is more or less no longer real if you have even a small amount of money to spend. anything that is not saved will be lost

the invention of print let us mass-produce works, creating so many copies of them that they had a fighting chance of surviving against entropy and enduring for the next generation.

the internet is the death of this, because now we can “travel” too easily

https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01HKWK0RHA1MY2KC0C8DP940P9

the internet makes knowledge so easily accessible that it can simply be forgotten. works get put online and no copies are produced, because why produce copies of something when you can get one instantly at any time? until of course the site goes down. the great forgetting machine

there's something uncomfortable in how the internet is such a centralising force despite being decentralised.

the clearest example of this to me is how one specific website, https://web.archive.org/, is as important as the whole of the rest of the web put together

Neopronouns are made up.
Pronouns are made up.
Nouns are made up.
Words are made up.
Language is made up.

Words are hard.

there wasn't even any burn and explode!

I'm sure it's fine

disappointing. I completely disassembled this phone, photographed all the chips, then put it back together.

it all went together without issue, no screws left over, nothing broke, and I turned it on and everything works. it's almost boring

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:

There is an increase of account takeovers due to insiders at telco firms simply giving control to people paying them. Do a check on systems where this single factor would permit an account compromise. And change the configuration. These are opportunistic trawling attacks. This is becoming more common as attackers replicate the success.

The attacker uses other channels (like people search websites) to enumerate and guess the phone number attached to an online account and then checks against the telco they have control over.

The insider only briefly temporarily forwards the victim number to a 3rd party then switches it back to normal once they’re in. This is how they stay quiet since most victims will not have leverage or telemetry to understand how they got hacked.

It was their cell phone provider.

Make it so account recovery systems require multiple factors and remove telephony-based recovery for VIP accounts entirely.
Go check your systems now. Go try to access all your stuff like you forgot your password.

I am very serious.

Bar for time travelers. A programmer from the 21st century is complaining about bugs caused by time zones. A programmer from the 31st century scoffs and starts talking about bugs caused by relativistic time dilation. Next to them, the guy who writes the firmware for the time machines is grinding his teeth