FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

package managers:

nyapt-get
pacnyan
snyap

dpkg (debinyan package)
rpm (redhat package manyager)
xbps (x binyary package system)

apk-tools
flatpak
guix
nix

rating all technology by how easy it is to work catgirl noises into its name

why isnt the internet archive full of source code from abandonware

why isnt this a legal requirement yet

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Nightcrawler: They say you can imitate anybody. Why not stay in disguise all the time? You know, look like everyone else.

Mystique: Because we shouldn't have to.

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this was funny in my head so i made it

(also lust is a bit spicy compared to what i usually draw but eh, hope its fine lol)

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TOMORROW YOU WILL GRAB THE SUN WITH BOTH HANDS AND DEVOUR IT. FOR NOW DO YOU HAVE SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO?

HANG UP YOUR QUARTERSTAFF, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE HUNGER. AND YOU WILL WIN.

the kind of personalized medicine based on using the patient's own cells to design a vaccine for one person isn't something you'll see widely used

even if it was vastly superior in outcomes to other options, under capitalism it will cost a huge amount of money and either be generally not very available or the patent owner won't even produce/license it due to a lack of demand (this has happened in the past)

reminds me of watching some video essay about how some countries started using bacteriophages instead of antibiotics before

bacteriophages aren't as specialized as the vaccine I'm subposting, but they do typically only target one species of bacteria, which honestly is vastly superior to broad-spectrum antibiotics if you don't want to fuck up your body's microbiome

it also gets around the whole issue of creating "superbacteria" that are resistant to a lot of antibiotics

alas, because they cannot be mass-produced as easily and evolve continuously, they fit neither the standard drug-approval process nor the incentives of pharmaceutical companies

then again researching new broad-spectrum antibiotics isn't profitable for pharma companies either because when there's a new antibiotic available, doctors want to use it as little as possible to avoid creating new resistant bacteria

in conclusion there's a lot of systemic issues, mainly related to capitalism, that prevent some great advancements in medicine

I can't stress enough how important it is to have a central API for coordinate transformations.

Tile grid coords, pixel coords, internal buffer pixel, screen pixel, viewport, world, zoomed/unzoomed, you never want to just transform these in-line anywhere. Take the time to write functions for going between them all especially if you're making a something like a map editor.

I also use typedefs to help document what function signatures expect and return.

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how to seal a leaky bucket

***** A few words about Google's future *****

At Google I/O today, the firm is publicizing an array of new projects. Some of them seem flashy and relatively useless, others seem like they could be very worthwhile. How many of either category will still exist five years from now is of course a crucial question given Google's history.

But Google I/O is merely the gloss, in many respects what has become the so-called "lipstick on the pig". Because Google executives have permitted their race for the golden and in many respects false prize of "Artificial Intelligence" to cloud their vision, and to permit an increasing number of basic services that billions of Google users depend on every day to, in effect, rot away.

The collapse of Google Search, once a global technological wonder, has been profound. Often incorrect or even inane generative AI responses now often supersede links to the very sites from which Google is obtaining the raw material for their AI systems (usually without any form of compensation, while driving down user click-throughs).

A similar decline is obvious in various other core Google services.

Of enormous continuing concern to me is the very foundation of how virtually all Google users access most Google services -- Google accounts themselves. I continue to be flooded by persons who have problems with their Google accounts through no fault of their own, including lockouts and permanently lost crucial personal data, with Google's automated systems providing them with no resolutions, only horrific frustration. Google's frankly poorly conceived and rushed implementation of passkeys -- and the pushing of users to them who typically do not understand them and have more problems as a result -- is making matters even worse. What good are fancy new services when your Google account needed to use them may lock you out at any time with effectively no genuine ability to appeal?

Some groups of Google users -- such as seniors and other users with special needs who may not be technologically sophisticated -- are especially affected by these sorts of problems and suffer mightily as a result. I don't think Google actually "hates" these users -- I think Google simply does not want to make the minimal efforts required to help them, basically treating them with much the same disdain as you might flick a bug off your shirt.

There is so much that would be relatively simple for Google to do that would vastly improve the user experience for these users and others -- but Google seems to only care about the majority, and if you're in the minority, well, if you swing slowly in the wind locked out of your account, too bad for you. Google's got other fish to fry to keep the profit centers humming.

I could go on, but you get the gist. I don't hate Google. I still have enormous respect for the firm and especially for Googlers (Google employees) in general. But I am enormously
disappointed with the direction executives are now taking the firm, and this seems to be getting worse at an accelerating rate.

And that's very, very sad to see. -L

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Who called it “code review” instead of “objection-oriented programming”