FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@yonabee 20 years ago Sony produced CDs with music and owned the rights, marked them as copyrighted and do-not-copy, produced CD copying software that ignored those bits, produced CD writers and CD recordables that would perfectly handle copying those CDs.

Large enough companies do not know what they are doing.

🕷 What would you do if I as a spider grabbed a sniper rifle with each hand and then used my 8 eyes and managed to achieve massive DPS?

28 DAYS

until Kitsune Tails splashes onto Steam and itch.io!

wishlist via https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

"no politics zone"

generally speaking,

winds up meaning "no politics the dominant group dislikes zone"

and in some cases,

the dominant group in question considers whole-assed identities to be "politics" for whatever bullshit reason.

it's fine to have places to decompress from the onslaught of dire headlines. just be sure that's what you're doing, and not that other thing I just described.

⚠️ you are entering a GEMA-free zone ⚠️
⚠️ all my homies reject the GEMA-presumption ⚠️

When I was growing up, I was promised, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that if I followed the rules that the authorities told me to follow, the system would grant me a comfortable life.

What I discovered was that the rules are arbitrary and variable and impossible to follow perfectly, the authorities are arbitrary and variable and impossible to understand perfectly, and the promises were lies they told to prompt my compliance with the system.

Stolen to add #alt

so in summary: INSM made an agitprop installation about how bureaucracy wastes your time, with the clear theme that bureaucracy is a government thing, but in order to enjoy it, you are subject to federal-government-tier bureaucratic inefficiency from the private sector!

booking an appointment with the fucking meldebehörde in berlin was a much less bureaucratic process by comparison lol

this innovative, efficient private-sector experience brought to you by eventbrite, which i will immediately abolish if you give me the power

it has free entry, and there weren't many people there, so you'd think i could just walk up at the desk with my gf and ask to go in? or get a ticket at the desk?

ahaha, no.

i had to scan a qr code to get to a website where i could book a ticket…

… for which i had no mobile connection because i was indoors at the museum, so i had to walk outside first. then i had to fill in my legal name and email address… twice, with copy-and-paste disabled…

but then it'd just give me the ticket, right? no :)

… i get an Email. telling me i have ordered a ticket. and i wait a minute or so to get a second email telling me i have now actually received it. but then it's attached to the email, right?

no! i must now log into the account i just created!

which is just a tap, right?

…nope. i have to go to the website. and then enter my email again. and then choose the option to log in without a password, which i never created. and then confirm i want to do that. then i must open my email to get the third email, providing a link that lets me log in…

…at which point, I just have a ticket? no. i must now explicitly accept the terms and conditions of the service i have apparently been forced to just sign up to.

and then, finally, my ticket is right there… inside a pdf, which i must download

lmfao

oh and that's forgetting to mention the worst part! you can't book tickets for two people at once! my gf had to go through the same excruciating process herself, repeating every single step! a true bureaucratic experience

so today i visited https://www.insm.de/ 's neoliberal agitprop project, the “bureaucracy museum”. it has no actual exhibits, it's all… anti-government vibes expressed through cheaply produced art. no surprises there.

what's hilarious though was the bureaucracy they put me through to get inside!

These are the new Draconian laws to enter a #library in #Idaho. Apparently libraries are extremely dangerous to the status quo.

@KeithDJohnson @glyph it’s… pretty much as bad as it sounds, though it’s the library doing what they can to work in a hostile environment

seems Idaho decided that if a minor checks out a book their parent doesn’t like, the library can be held legally liable, so the unrestricted card is the library making the parent say “I consent to my child checking out anything they want”

(some more info, because it’s even worse than I made it sound: https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/)

On google was meaning to search for "hydrocarbon" but accidentally typed "hydrocabron" and now I'm wondering what that would be. A guy who's at the lake with a jetski and he's bullying all the swimmers? Like just driving way too close and splashing them with the wake and the swimmers are all like tu puta madre! and he's like jajajaja

I haven't printed labels yet so the keys are not properly labeled but it's mostly together now

fun thing about this keyboard: I designed it on my laptop, which is currently stuck at work unpowered. I never shared the files anywhere, so I'm currently at home and can't program the keyboard because I have no idea which pins are which... unless I REVERSE ENGINEER MY OWN KEYBOARD!

For anyone on the Contacts team at Apple…

FB14170572: Add "Date Deceased" field to Contact records