FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

So I got this thing at ewaste.

It's a Richtech Automated "AI" Temperature Screening System.

Time to open it up.

shoutouts to potatoes. don't know where I'd be without them

Reminded of the "XY problem" again, which must be the most uselessly nondescript name anyone could have picked.

Programmers: We don’t need sanitization and bounds checking

Hackers:

Its cats all the way down…

‪5¾. wasn't sure if free ATMs actually existed in germany but i decided to seek out an ATM run by a like actual bank and Berliner Sparkasse had my back it seems, no charge. thank you Berliner Sparkasse‬

5. oh nooo, touristy parts of this city are littered with those fucking scam ATMs by e*ronet. i'm lucky i once watched a youtube video by some czech guys who wanted to warn tourists, and yet i still almost got scammed; i tapped through too quick (but i got my PIN wrong lmao)

3. queer people exist? has anyone heard of this. couldn't be me

random berlin observations thread

“Amazon has launched a new ‘one-click to quit the union’ tool, and they’re relentlessly pushing it to every worker in their Coventry warehouse. […] If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership.”

A legal challenge to some gnarly union-busting tactics that Amazon’s deployed in one of its UK warehouses, on the cusp of a union vote: https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2024/05/02/legal-challenge-to-amazon-uks-new-one-click-to-quit-the-union-tool/

Starting HRT, I like to imagine my body as a general contractor who is frustrated with my last minute changes to the construction plans.

"The fuck is this? Look, we already finished most of the work. I won't be able to do most of this. Alright, you don't want the carpet anymore, I can get my guys back in here to tear it out. I can probably do the electrical, but I can't do shit about the plumbing. You're just gonna have to live with it."

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #trans #transgender #hrt #nonbinary

No Face from Spirited Away, drawn with CSS and a single HTML element.
https://codepen.io/alvaromontoro/pen/ZERzGWY

#webdevelopment #css #cssArt #divtober #throwBackThursday #tbt

If you're looking for an explanation of what's happening at Google with the current layoffs, just watch this video. Steve Jobs' reflections about what happened at Apple provide the best explanation. It's something you'll encounter in all corporate companies.
#google #stevejobs #layoffs

if nobody got me I know Guitar pick used by Nine Inch Nails on the Downward Spiral Tour got me

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