FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Masks keep you safe.

Vaccines work.

Never Again means Never Again, no matter who does it.

Global Warming is real.

Billionaires are an existential threat to society.

could i draw your attention to this delightful graffiti in norwich (originally from https://www.tumblr.com/notsowittywriter/657715642899857408/new-graffiti-in-norwich)

yoooo i finally found an Android camera app with no UI, which happens to be what i need to use my phone as a camera for live-streaming with scrcpy (my phone doesn't have a new enough Android version to use the direct camera mode) https://www.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/k5vkhz/comment/geicenh/

Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*

People are returning Humane AI Pins faster than Humane can sell them, report says

Returned devices are currently e-waste that can't be reassigned, per The Verge.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/people-are-returning-humane-ai-pins-faster-than-humane-can-sell-them-report-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#Signal was warranted again, and as always they gave the only data they could give: time of registration in Unix miliseconds, and time of last connection in Unix miliseconds.

yet another reminder that you can't give away data you don't have in the first place.

https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/

Since I'm seeing a lot of "I have covid" posts, reminder that the WHO actually published a protocol for recovery after the illness to reduce the odds of Long Covid.

https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/344472

comedy video games should go like this:

1. intro sequence
2. player is given control of character
3. literally the only option is to do something ridiculous
4. player does something ridiculous
5. title sequence

I downloaded a program for macOS. The OS absolutely refuses to let me run it, falsely claiming that it's "damaged." It is not damaged, Apple just cares more about extracting profit from developer licenses and collecting data through App Store downloads.

There's a dark pattern where you can right click and select "Open," which behaves differently than double-clicking the same thing. This does not work for this program.

I had to run: `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/ProgramName.app` to make it work.

Despicable, hostile, anti-user, anti-competitive behavior from Apple.

#buglog

You can only pick two:

STOP USING FILES
Data chunks were not meant to be given names
YEARS OF INDEXING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for inodes
Wanted to know where your chunk of data starts anyway? We had a tool for that, it's called A TAPE COUNTER
"Yes, please fragment my information and scatter it randomly about the surface of a spinning platter" - statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

The advent of LLMs masquerading as artificial intelligence has made the notion of an absurdly powerful computer, constructed at great expense, and given unseemly resources to answer a meaningful question, only to return the answer “42”, feel more and more prophetic.

~ AND NOW FOR SOME NEWS ~

I started a podcast with James, I’m stable on antidepressants, I’m giving a P99 CONF about my Rust/io_uring/HTTP work, I’m trying on “they/them” as pronouns, I’m open-sourcing merde_json, rubicon and others, I got a divorce in 2023, I found a new business model.

extry extry read all about it 🗞️:

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/state-of-the-fasterthanlime-2024

A thing that I realized a bit after this is nothing is stopping you from putting ASCII art of robots dancing into your robots.txt

As long as the first character of each line is a # it will even be parsed properly by scrapers

OH my God y'all my wife (she is a self-taught coder who now teaches biology students to code) only just found out about rubber ducking this morning and she's so excited about it 🥹 she's buying 100 little rubber ducks to give to her students 🥹 she's like "Knowing that this is what REAL DEVELOPERS do will be so good for them" 🥹

i love that on fedi DMs are just regular posts with limited visibility. like i can turn a thread into a DM at any point. we can change the visibility of a thread as its topic/details become more private. i don't need to like "let's move this to DMs" or "let's move this to a different channel". or to ping them from a different channel. i can just. Make The Post Private. and it doesn't interrupt the flow of the conversation in the slightest.