FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

the great philosophers of our time

tumblr posts that live in my head rent free

"Nobody uses Mastodon"

robot girl with the "this machine kills fascists" sticker

I'm disappointed in how hacking works in real life. I'd played enough video games to have an idea how it would go, but I've been hacking games and hardware for like a decade now and not even once have I had to solve a pipe maze puzzle

oh there's a video! https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xsqtg2yRl8M

‪you can actually like… make a nice palette with this? just “draw” some colours and “smudge” (mix) them together, like you would on a physical palette, instead of using a colour picker?‬

i tried out the demo painting app and it's… magical

i've not actually played with paints in years but i remember how mixing paints irl behaves and have seen videos of it, and this actually recreates that effect, it's so good. somehow i never considered how weird it is that the smudge tool in image editors produces dull results

https://scrtwpns.com/mixbox/painter/

my friend made a cool twitter thread about mixbox, which is this incredible colour-mixing algorithm that behaves like real-life paint https://twitter.com/cirkelnio/status/1793970960196055141

i've always wondered, if you take a gprs/3g/lte/5g router or modem and put a normal mobile phone sim in it, does it just work? and is there a little screen in the web interface where you can see all the sms your mobile network sends you?

turns out it's a yes to both :3

the milky way is transbian

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/the-milky-way-galaxy-31212

tracker aerobics

we're providing our mental model of the structural factors underlying that change, so that people who have ideas about what they'd like to see can make informed decisions about how to navigate towards that world

anyway, the internet is a very mutable thing. it can be whatever we want it to be and work towards. we've seen it change many times in our time here.

WHERE AND HOW people talk to each other has changed a lot over the years - until pretty recently Reddit was one of the better sources of information, for this same reason

people talking to each other has always been, and will always be, the most useful source of information on the internet, both to people and to machines

anyway this is why you see things like the one that's going around today, where Google's ML search tool is allegedly providing helpful urine "facts" sourced from Cohost

(we can't verify it ourselves because the tool is not available in Canada, which we understand to be due to Canadian privacy law)

Cohost is full of a lot of people who are, with varying degrees of deliberation and intentionality, rejecting that profit motive wholesale