FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I am in the France

A really startling number of the informational/advertisement stanchion screens at Charles De Gaulle are showing the Windows 10 login screen

That same desktop image of the cave. You know the one

Advice for life:
- be nice
- tip well
- stay on the good side of the twig witch
- gossip with owls under a blanket of stars
- become moss and become immortal

After some conversations with friends NOT on the fediverse I've arrived at calling it "independent social media."

This is better than "open source" or other titles, it better conveys the central difference.

Need to add bovine incursion to my list of apology reasons

new anime idea: protagonist IS the isekai truck conductor. every episode he gets a call for help from another universe and chooses a young teen to become their hero and runs em over, while evading the police afterwards

@lashman Reminds me of SimCity getting rid of parking lots.
https://archive.is/20230122163435/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-philosophy-of-simcity-an-interview-with-the-games-lead-designer/275724/

lol, lmao even

this is ART

tired: “i make musical instruments”
inspired: “i work in the timbre industry”

what kids these days dont understand is that in the y2k era, companies would just imply that their products were drugs in a good way

if you're working on "parental controls" in any kind of capacity i hope you get long covid

What repeated #COVID19 infections are doing to us:

On the left is data from the UK showing the number of people economically inactive due to long-term sickness. It fell for two decades and has exploded to record levels since the pandemic.

On the right is the US civilian labor force with a disability. It stayed steady for two decades and has exploded to record levels since the pandemic.

Both are at their record highs, and both still trend up. We're done with COVID, but it's not done with us.

what's your favorite raspberry pi? please respond by saying "my favorite raspberry pi is..." and then suggest another single board computer that isn't a raspberry pi. im trying to genericize the trademark, you see

Buying DevBoards is not the same hobby as using DevBoards.

Bad idea: since there's a mechanical limit to how much you can cool down a CPU, design a motherboard with a rotary barrel.

While one CPU is used, the other five can be cooling down!

I learned that SpaceX is only going to pay the farmer $5,000 for the space junk that could have killed him. I'm glad they're paying, but that's piddly for a megacorporation owned by an awful billionaire that dumped hazardous garbage on his property.

He said he passed along SpaceX's contact info to others nearby who he thinks may have also found pieces of junk (he hinted that someone nearby may possibly have found an even bigger piece than his).

Barry had his neighbour bring over the terrifyingly huge piece he found for a great photo op for all the journalists. That particular piece was 9 feet long, weighed 80 pounds, and was shaped like a freaking spear. It is shocking to think about that falling at terminal velocity.

I am grinning like an idiot because I was REALLY excited.

Lynn Conway, computer hardware pioneer (and genius) has passed away. None of her obits do justice to her accomplishments, so here's wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Conway

She pioneered asyncronous execution, VLSI circuit design, and practically the whole modern field of chip design.

She was also a trans woman who -- having been unfairly terminated by IBM -- never stopped fighting for the rights of trans people.

Rest in power, Lynn.