FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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Are you veripink? Do you like klingklang? Would you like to be an underhusker?

Commissioned an IKEA ref sheet from the wonderful @moon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4psPeNDqg

Currently reading Less is More by Jason Hickel, but Mr. Watterson said it best:

hey that movie was awesome actually

https://letterboxd.com/hmsnofun/film/monkey-man/

dude this movie is SEETHING with rage at state-sanctioned violence against trans people

watching Monkey Man. damn i wish a transgender shaman would give *me* hallucinogenics to sharpen my trauma into a weapon of divine vengeance

a USB/BT keyboard can be reused! Clean it up and even keyboards that are 25 years old will work fine.

an RF wireless keyboard has inevitably lost the dongle and is now just taking up space in a landfill as they're no use to anyone.

As someone who spends a surprising amount of time at ewaste/junk shops:

non-bluetooth wireless keyboards should be banned for environmental reasons.

I've been using the Chromium browser for certain websites, and that's about to end.

Google's greed-fueled moves -- this time to disable vital extensions that provide better privacy and security -- are unacceptable to me.

The stakes here are quite high. If Google succeeds what it's attempting to do -- forcing users to use only Google-approved privacy and security choices -- we're in trouble.

Firefox looks like the best way forward at this point.

The whole idea of putting the most significant bits first is a conspiracy brought forward by Big Endian.

@FurryBeta

Piece of Meat

This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.

Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women