FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

Watching Microsoft shut down a bunch of game studios that they literally just acquired is giving me flashbacks to "embracing" and "extinguishing".

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

This too is the world I want to live in.

if you have a computer you no longer use, consider donating it to your local Linux Creature.

Linux Creatures must install linux on a new device every few months in order to survive, and you may end up getting a useful computer out of it to boot.

(if the Linux Creature decides to hand it back to you instead of keeping it for their silly little experiments)

my home is basically uninhabitable and my landlord is fucking me over and i basically have to move extremely soon. it's a great day to buy any of my recent games, like Forgotten Palaces, The Dashing Young Captain or The Hole in Your House!

https://w.itch.io/

A new gold standard review of 100 studies finds:

- masks are effective in reducing transmission of respiratory diseases

- N95 respirators are significantly more effective than medical or cloth masks

- mask mandates are effective in reducing community transmission

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/cmr.00124-23

ew ew ew

Microsoft is going all in on this AI stuff. They should make a Twitter account powered by an AI!

@RussellsBarbershopQuartet This is the most Microsoft thing I've ever seen, lmao 💀​

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I normally steer very far clear of doctor who content on youtube but this video essay by @sarahzedig is predictably fucking excellent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6hmBlQiwZ0

Three years from now, when vendors are ripping their hugely expensive and utterly failed AI bullshit out of their products, their Product Owners will be laughing and shaking their heads and saying “what WERE they thinking?” And then rushing to implement the next digital panic to dogshit their products because they can’t let their competitors get a lead on the brand new dogshit.

I find it equally fascinating that in order to get anywhere near an integrated computing experience in 2024 we apparently need constant recording and transformer models.

No structured file systems, no permission models, no shared stores, no capabilities - just firehose the display output and hope for the best.