FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

*hands you a torus made from a single quad strip*

i recovered some old files

„The best Defence is a good offense“

Me, defending my thesis: let me start off by saying fuck you

i made this a while ago following a fairly specific conversation/mocking of what a metaverse is. i'm still proud of it

The absolute gall of this question. A required question, mind you.

I will likely not be getting called in for an interview, but it was totally worth it.

#jobsearch #jobhunt #capitalism

ex-Twitter isn't ALL bad

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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