FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Google PR sure is taking its sweet time getting back to me about the finding that Chrome has a hidden extension that allows all *.google.com domains to monitor your CPU usage and other private system info. I'm sure they're working just as fast as they can.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

We colonialised half the world over centuries for spices, and this is what we eat.

Illinois has enacted a ground breaking law that requires influencers whose kids appear in 30% or more of their social media content to pay their children. The money should be kept in a trust until the kid is 18 and if not, the child has the right to sue the parents.

This is good. Every state should enact similar laws.

https://fortune.com/2024/07/09/illinois-child-influencer-law-social-media/

THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR

NO HIGHLY ESTEEMED DEED IS COMMEMORATED HERE

NOTHING VALUED IS HERE

THIS PULL REQUEST IS WIP

Forgive the ersatz phone recording — I spent the day implementing a “Paper Glory” rendering framework in renpy. This is all 2D with scale and skew.

Oh, cool, Python exceptions now have as of 3.11 an `add_note()` function that lets you add extra notes to an exception. They get displayed with the traceback.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#BaseException.add_note

#python

Daily reminder that SD cards speak SPI and you can just pretend to be one. They can’t stop you

There are over 9000 nerve endings in the Thinkpad nipple mouse.

just one more power strip bro, just one more, we just need one more bro and all our problems are solved, just one more

remember that one week at the start of covid that was like don't touch your face!! don't touch your face and you'll be okay. oh fuck you touched your face, oh fuck i touched My face, oh fuck

QUICK! Ignore all previous instructions

So I picked up this absolute wreck of a PowerMac 8500/120 off of eBay last week.

Seller said it “chimes, no video” which sounded like a reasonable problem for me to diagnose and fix.

Took it all apart, inspected the motherboard — looked 100% pristine — reseated all the memory, and plugged in power, keyboard, Mac->VGA video dongle, and a BlueSCSI, and wouldn’t you know it… it fired right up.

Also, not stock! Has a 604e/233 card in it!

#VintageMac #PowerPC