FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

”show” is such a fucked up swedish word… it's literally just a borrowing of the english word “show”, /ɔ͡ʊ/ dipthong and all, but… but the initial consonant becomes /ɧ/!!! uncomfortably english and undeniably swedish at the same time…

@autisticadvocacy personally I have an app called DeafNote. It's made for Deaf folks but is the only app like this I've found for android! You type on one side and the words appear upside down on the other. Great for ordering food/coffee/etc or communicating with someone standing in front of you. It has a text to speech function as well. Iphone version is called FlipWriter. Here's what mine looks like:

This paper starts out amazing and just keeps getting better

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06133

Holy shit I love this research paper

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v1

#anthropology #anthro #academia #academicresearch #longevity

Don't forget: today is Penguin Awareness Day. Make sure you know your penguins!

#PenguinAwarenessDay

You are only temporarily abled.

This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact.

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

#foxesInLove #comic

Source: https://foxes-in-love.tumblr.com/post/740032615748337664
Copyright: https://foxesinlove.net

touchHLE on iOS!

is it possible, technically? yes! look, ciciplusplus got it working :O

are we going to officially support it or provide builds? absolutely not. you need developer permissions and to launch the app with a debugger for the JIT to work at all…

https://twitter.com/ciciplusplus/status/1748720393110593640

strong believer in ineffective altruism. you can make someone's day with really very little money. i can't tell you my strategy due to goodhart's law though,

2024: "We have respirators that electrostatically capture viral particles, ventilation and filtration systems to clean indoor air, and UV lights to kill viruses."

1918: "That's incredible! What's it like living without all this illness?"

2024: "Oh, we don't actually use them."

Writing a reply: 10 seconds

Picking the blobfox emoji to most accurately represent my mental state at the moment of writing: 10 minutes

So, instead of Microsoft Solitaire, I’m now using this and I’m very happy with it.
(I still need to find some alternative to Wordament, bah.)

https://worldofsolitaire.com/

Got tired of having this conversation over and over again so I just spent way too long making this:

I sat off-screen and listened to a peer's #layoffs at a major #tech company last week. I didn't even work there, and even with that distance, I am astounded and disgusted at the state of this industry, and the spinelessness of the proceedings.

If you haven't experienced one yet, let me tell you the playbook.

Y'all execs are so particular about abolishing remote work because human connections and face to face interactions are so important to you, until it's time to tell someone they're about to pay for a mistake you made.

And that's not even touching the elephant in the room, that these companies are making massive profits in what may be the greatest wealth transfer in all of human history?