FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

so fedex apparently takes a sequence of timestamps for a sequence of shipment scan events taking place in different locations and:
- groups them by local date
- sorts the dates
- sorts the events within each date by UTC time

this is, somehow, the most batshit insane approach I can possibly imagine

I just had a "fun" realization that despite collecting old computers, I hate all the companies who made them.

I guess what I'm into is what they brought to society. I'm interested in all the contributions people made to the world of computers. The fun we had on them. The usefulness they still potentially have. The long nights programmers spent writing code for to make a program that people used for a little while, then sadly discarded.

That is why I hunt for old programs.

Get in loser, we're going to your mom's house to eat Hot Pockets and play Nintendo 64.

We discussed if “schema” was a word in common usage at work, so I decided to do the “giraffe test” (that I just made up), and hoo boy! Look at that glorious XML peak in the early 2000s! 📈

For the record, I have never required students to irradiate themselves with a malfunctioning radiotherapy machine in any class I have taught.

Back in 2007, I talked one of my grad school friends into writing a Therac-25 UI simulator so that we could release a fake April Fools' assignment asking the students to do some hands-on experiments with a real Therac-25. ("Bring a partner and a signed liability release form. How many rads did you receive while doing this assignment?")

I am delighted to discover that, for the last five years, the Wikipedia article has featured a screenshot of that simulator... and for much of that time suggested it was a screenshot of a real Therac.

TL;DR when EU law references a harmonised standard, that standard MUST be made available to every citizen of the EU. For free. As it is considered to be part of the law. And thus public interest is a given.

I CANNOT OVERSTATE HOW BIG THIS DECISION OF EUCJ IS!

Press release:
https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240041en.pdf

Decision text:
https://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document_print.jsf?mode=req&pageIndex=0&docid=283443&part=1&doclang=EN&text=&dir=&occ=first&cid=6475952

#whataweekhuh

For the last time:

Abyss = for staring into
Void = for screaming into

Please stop screaming into the abyss we’re not insured for that

If the web browser was invented today, Apple wouldn't let it on the app store

do you support general midi? any extensions to it? — i support general mibi and his space adventures https://bandcamp.mynameiser.in/album/the-space-adventures-of-general-mibi https://retrospring.net/@maple_syrup/a/112045176939174929

💭 witch’s catgirl