FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

You are legally obligated to appreciate me (a bat) and any other bats you know today uwu

happy bat appreciation day and wagoogus wednesday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lgL-YI43U

in my mind every one of these cows is a muppet. and they sing

"Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

oh the biggest change might be that there is no longer any requirement that the applicant “has experienced for a long time that he or she belongs to the other gender” or “has for some time been acting in accordance with this gender identity”. less justification to force delays

oh right also approval for surgery is completely separated from approval of legal gender change. previously they went through the same committee of a government agency. now there is no approval from that agency required for surgery.

with the new law, uhh…

• less medical involvement in legal gender change (but still some. law text itself is silent)
• non-binary people can legally change gender (but still only to male or female lol)
• 16-year-olds can legally change gender (with parental permission)

congratulations to sweden on approving a new gender recognition law that is very slightly better than the old one

will the media circus end now

aquarium in progress #picotron

discord just restarted in the middle of a call to give me an undismissable TOS window i need to agree to before being able to ever message anyone else in the platform again

Happy Tax Panic Day, USA!

The day we suddenly remember that we need to take numbers the state and federal governments gave us, work some simple arithmetic in complicated formulas for them for reasons involving tax prep industry lobbying, give those numbers back to them, and hope they get the same results when they do the same math.

Selfies

Drawing comics is enough for me thanks lmao.

I don't think I posted this before... A while ago I reverse-engineered the game Lode Runner (1982) for the Apple ][. The result is a literate document, which is a document you run through a filter one way to get compilable code, and another way to get a PDF explaining how it all works.

You can get the PDF and the rest here: https://github.com/RobertBaruch/lode_runner_reveng

#retrocomputing #retroarchaeology #appleii #LodeRunner #AssemblyLanguage

The recent attempted XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not be an isolated incident as evidenced by a similar credible takeover attempt intercepted by the OpenJS Foundation, home to JavaScript projects used by billions of websites worldwide. The Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations are calling all open source maintainers to be alert for social engineering takeover attempts, to recognize the early threat patterns emerging, and to take steps to protect their open source projects.

there are so many AI use cases!!
* spam
* bias laundering
* replacing employees with a machine that can't do the job
* abrogation of responsibility for failure to the machine
* spam

I need to switch between four different Teams organisations every day. When I’m in org #1, there’s a 1/3 chance that the org switcher will display org #4 twice. This does not happen in other orgs. How do you even do this.