FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

People are afraid of running unaudited `curl | sh`, but nobody bats an eye on 24707 lines of obfuscated garbage in `./configure`.

#xz

Let's stop using the term, "ai art," and start saying, "ai content."

They want us to call our work, "content," and they want us to call their junk, "art." No.
#aiart

A friend of mine was lucky enough to take this remarkable photo of the recent solar eclipse, in which a plane had left a contrail below the eclipse. She was wondering though why the portion of the contrail that was in the path of the eclipse appeared curved. My initial guess was that it was some sort of refractive effect, but why would the refractive index of the air be so much different inside the shadow of the eclipse than outside of it? With only a few minutes of eclipse I doubt that there would be a significant temperature change. Anyway, any theories would be welcome!

Whelp: GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-comments-abused-to-push-malware-via-microsoft-repo-urls/

I lied, i don't have netflix. Take off your shoes we're playing word rescue

I put some stickers in my work laptop

Trying out adding color in these lil scribbles cuz im not very good at color. do let me know what you think!

girl who uses "asexual" in exactly the same way and meaning as "agender"; to mean that traditional notions of sexuality do not apply, and the spectrum you might be imagining is irrelevant

can't find the post I made about this before or I'd just boost that

but it is kind of fuckin weird that our words for "man who is like a woman" (femboy) and "woman who is like a man" (tomboy) both center around the concept of "boy," which under normal circumstances means "child"

need the hrt that turns you into a girl who looks like a boy who looks like a girl who looks like...

Copied from Twitter, for lewd artists:

The real question isn’t whether people jerk off to your artwork.

The question is whether they use it to warm up, edge, or climax.

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO WIN A RIGHTEOUS BATTLE.

Some landscape renders made with Bryce 3D come by on Mastodon this week and it reminded me of the first landscape renderer I used: VistaPro.

It was was one of many DOS programs on the "Virtual Reality Madness" compilation disc from 1993. VistaPro also came out on Amiga and Mac OS, and later Windows.

VistaPro (v1.01) didn't give you much control but the results looked stunning then, if you allowed your computer to render the highest quality image for a few hours that is.

when you’re a kaiju at work and you dissociate for a sec

This afternoon, Columbia University brought in New York police arrest over a hundred students who were occupying the campus in solidarity with Palestinians. In response, a much bigger wave of student demonstrators has occupied the university. Tonight, the occupation continues, stronger than ever.

Students—you can do this, too, wherever you are.

The governments of the United States and Israel are not going to stop the genocide in Gaza unless we compel them to.