FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

"Let me repeat that: the people who created the first Super Mario Bros. game are still at Nintendo 38 years later." https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology/

Photo by Todd Trappani
Source: Pexels

#photo #photography #nature #trees #winter #landscape

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: it increases your modulus of elasticity but lowers your strain at yield, reducing the area under the stress-strain curve so you are less tough and more brittle

Old blogpost bamp:

#BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
https://rys.io/en/167.html

> BlueSky’s decentralization is a similar kind as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node, but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.

> “Neutrality” and “speech” and “voice” and “protection from bans” is mentioned right there, front and center, in BlueSky’s overview and FAQ. At the same time moderation and anti-harassment features are, at best, an afterthought.

the 16 genders

#UIGore courtesy of https://tdeecalculator.org/

ok i am still extremely bad at playing the keyboard but with something like two hours of practice i did eventually manage to play the first twelve bars of that song you were hoping for without any wrong notes

girls open mastodon only to boost everything they see, then close it

a lot of people are trying to tell me that every reply I make is put on the Home timeline of every person who follows, but that seems obviously untrue (just from what I observe from the posts I see on my Home timeline, I only see replies if they're between 2 people who I follow). But I can't find that behaviour documented anywhere and I'm confused about some of the details.

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this is only indirectly related, but the general sentiment “programmers!” reminded me of this, which I drew ten years ago

why is it called godot with C# support and not godotnet

It me

The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

is there a word like "acquaintance" but for being a fan

like I recognize that a person exists and makes good media but I also don't follow them

retro web revival is going to become such a niche that once people start funding it we'll see a renaissance of the dot com bubble