FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I'm always kinda surprised that Factorio is so popular with developers, given that it's basically "technical debt, the game!"

game: this factory is technical debt in visual form. every conveyor belt is placed in such a way that made sense hours ago but now is nothing but a blight on your dreams

techie gamers: why would I play this?

game: and you get to fix it without any meetings

techie gamers: THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE

Google's auto thumbnail gets the wrong end of the stick

I lost touch with many of my #mutualaid #diabetic friends when I left the bad site, so please boost for me.

My wife’s Opa passed away this week, leaving behind ~7 vials of #Humalog #insulin and a number of #Dexcom #G7 #CGM sensors (non-pump compatible). Everything is paid for and we don’t want it all to go to waste.

If you or someone you know could really use this stuff, please contact me at:
“mutualaid.abruptly295@ passmail.net”

Last Boost: I have been trying to get my coworkers to check API response codes for *checks calendar* fifteen years now, with little success. I am tired.

oh my god ios does not have an “open with…” option. even in the file manager app you can't escape the idea that files belong to apps rather than apps being tools for working with files. yeah i think i would be driven to madness if i had to actually use this os to do things

“Your periodic reminder that less ice at the Arctic is consistent with a weaker jet stream that allows cold air to drift down into the Great Plains.

The frigid temps you're experiencing happen BECAUSE of a warming planet, not in spite of it.” Via Dr Steve Campbell from the other place

He later references https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/understanding-arctic-polar-vortex

https://twitter.com/historian_steve/status/1745920780624711886?s=46&t=4TnCHrl_NkgPDLmdROH8hA

Second eruption near #Grindavík ongoing. The eruptive fissure is closer to the town than the first eruption and has now cut the lava barrier that was being constructed. Photos for the Icelandic Coast Guard and the Civil Protection.

"Looks like you're using an ad-blocker"

Looks like you're trying to install 52 trackers on my computer.

i'm not like, married, to the desktop metaphor, there's probably an alternative vision of computing that doesn't have it and still feels like computing to me, but the fact every post-ios os is trying to emulate the windows 3.1 program manager experience is so strange

oh fucking hell that's like actually the main reason windows 8 sucked. microsoft tried to copy apple in killing the desktop and made a mockery of themselves because apple have never tried to kill the desktop on their… desktop os, only their mobile os.

why did steve jobs want to kill the desktop metaphor. i must understand this.

the desktop metaphor was foundational to the appeal of the macintosh. the desktop metaphor was what made windows 95 such a monumental leap over windows 3.1. the desktop metaphor is what a computer is…

the sporus can't hurt you don't worry just let it stay in your room over night i promise it won't evolve further

*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