FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

PSA: if you're in infosec red teaming an evil maid attack and you are not wearing a maid outfit while doing so, you may not be in full compliance with security standards and best practices

do remember that some industry regulators additionally require testing with cat ears for full certification. some organisations opt to further demonstrate protection against against the ‘moe moe kyun~’ blessing of a machine to auditors, but this is not currently mandatory under any scheme

Trump tells his supporters this is the last time they will have to go through the inconvenience of voting.

https://youtu.be/-0_xhkBAADk?si=WJY9pkucOFd4AH86

re-upping this one again

so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/109768393609628133

“What makes biking dangerous is all the cars. What makes the bus so slow is all the cars. What makes driving a car so slow is all the cars. What makes everything too far away to walk is all the space we have to reserve for the cars.” 🚗 🚙 🚗 🚙 #biketooter

NO WARRIOR CAN FIGHT ALONE. ASK FOR HELP IF YOU NEED IT.

One of our cargo pods broke up in the planet’s atmosphere, strewn over sparsely-populated prairie. Fortunately the humans think it was one of their own launch vehicles.

We’ve been driving one of their “you haul” land carriers to collect fragments from a farmer. We wear our human shapesuits, practising their strange language: “Ja, we are from SpaceSex.” We know no other phrases.

It goes well, but we almost blow our cover when one of the locals offers us indigestible snack food. We hurry away.

On the way, we pass the real human pickup party, their impossibly angular truck bogged beside the road. We wave.

#MicroFiction

from the archives: art is everywhere

I'm sure this is obvious to many, but here's something I'd have told myself a few months ago:

When your game has white-colored text, "FFFFFF" may seem like a sensible, easy hex value for the color white, but it's usually too hard on people's eyes when they have to look at it all the time. Try "DFDFDF" or so for still-white-but-not-super-radiant white.

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Trans MMR

maybe someday ill be a diamond trans or smth like that lul

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you've heard of sine and cosine

now get ready for uh squine and cosquare

normal people: W comes before X, Y, Z

graphics programmers: ... that doesn't sound correct, W comes after, right? 🙀

@NanoRaptor i'm really glad i got to learn this today, thank you!

i guess i 🤷‍♂️just assumed🤷‍♂️ everyone did this, and never thought about it.

turns out, maybe it's either easy or i messed up my roll for superpowers at character creation 😸

i wonder if it's related / analogous to recognizing words largely by the shape of their perimeters or being able to recognize fastener sizes, thread pitches, &c at a distance.

Your context-free comic book panel of the day.

A steam curator named "Woke Ccontent Detector" said the following about our game Kitsune Tails:

"Contains overtly pro-LGBT+ messaging. Features multiple lesbian characters, including the player character. Features lesbian romance."

It's great when a person really understands what we're going for and I thought it was a lovely review and wish more people could read it, even if they did not recommend the game! :wink:

It was an interesting little adventure. The whole of the operating environment is controlled through a single software interrupt vector, INT 0xEF. Once I got a document explaining what data needed to be present in which registers when firing the interrupt, it was (sorta) smooth sailing.

Code can be found here. It's 16-bit real mode C, so mind your head!

This would not have been possible without the following sources:

https://www.seasip.info/Gem/aes.html

http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-8664.htm

just going to leave this here

[DEI=diversity, equity, inclusion]

Internal Microsoft Email Shows DEI Leader Blasting Layoffs - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-layoffs-dei-leader-email-2024-7?op=1