FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I just found out about https://feedle.world, a search engine that exclusively works on RSS feeds that have been submitted to it. Could be a good source for finding actual humans in a rapidly enshittifying internet.

If you have an RSS feed you should submit yours to it as well!

@sjmulder
History shows that machines that have fixed specification get noticeable better software as their commercial lives go on as programmers get to grips with the hardware and squeeze every last bit of performance out of them.
The games at the beginning of the original Playstations life vs. games a few years into its life is a good example. Plus all the home micros from the 80/90's were getting much superior software by the end of their commercial lives.

I commented "laptops don't get slow, software does" on a video on upgrading your laptop and WOW was I taken aback by some of the response.

People actually believe degrading thermal paste is to blame for a messenger app taking half a gig of RAM?

That the Epic games launcher takes ages to launch because it has so many features?

That a news website is downloading and interpreting a small operating system worth of code for-what-reason-exactly is the march of progress?

#performance #software

Layoff/redundancy articles should follow this format:

[Company], which had revenues of [amount] in the last four quarters, announced layoffs today. [CEO], who makes [salary], announced [count] would be laid off, approximately [percent] of [CEO's] annual benefit package.

The very best WAPS of 2024!

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valve were so real for this. as a woman i can confirm

Idea: give rendering techniques skate trick names

PSA to people shooting unboxing videos etc: the 2D barcodes on your packages that look like this tend to contain your address!

Bet he wasn’t expecting this response.

the western world only knowing about black pepper may be absurdly limiting, but on the other hand it's a good spice, so it's impossible to say if this is bad or not

fedi

#foxesInLove #comic

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Meanwhile in Mountain View: Google horrified to learn that a "mock interview" doesn't mean what they thought it did and they spent the last twenty years being complete assholes to candidates by mistake.

Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-strike-union-walks-out-24-hours-1235803673/

From the other site:

Starting at midnight EST for 24 hours, DON’T CROSS OUR CLICK-IT LINE, that means no clicks, likes, reshares on:

GQ ❌
Vanity Fair ❌
Bon Appétit ❌
Architectural Digest ❌
Vogue ❌
Allure ❌
Glamour ❌
Epicurious ❌
Self ❌
Condé Nast Traveler ❌
Them ❌
Teen Vogue ❌

[Note that other Condé Nast-owned media sites like New Yorker, Wired, etc have their own unions so aren't part of this.]

Learn how QR codes work, and how to read them without a computer!

@piko and I just released the interactive explainer that we used in our workshop at #37c3!

✨ https://qr.blinry.org ✨