FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

“They’re coming for trans kids because they don’t want us to grow up into trans adults. They are coming for trans kids because we are growing up through the cracks in the broken structures and we are surviving. And that survival is an inherent threat to those systems.”

“I believe that we can do so much better and we have earned so much more than just, like, introducing legislation. We will do so much more than just take back basic rights. I think we can build a world that’s better than any of us can imagine right now, without these systems in the first place. And, like, I’m filled with confidence that we can don something amazing here. Thank you.”

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. HAVE YOU TAKEN YOUR MEDICATIONS?

@jnl I get the sense that these days Meta views Facebook-the-app the way a mining company views a played-out mine -- something to be wrung out on a shoestring until the last drop of value has been extracted

math youtuber: the Torment Nexus has gotten a lot of hype recently. But did you know there's some interesting math about how the nexus torments? In this video, we're going to show how the rendering of flesh is actually carried out by really cool applications of algebraic topology

Today's prize for on-brand academic behaviour goes to the School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Glasgow, for disguising their building as a chalkboard.

(I'm informed that the elements were collected from working chalkboards in staff offices.)

I propose: pw;dr to mean “paywall, didn’t read”

Server has a strange log on it... 🪵🤔

Wow, pretty sure I've never seen this feature in any other language...

@leeb The IBM 1401 computer had optional support for math with pounds/shillings/pence in hardware, back when there were 12 pence in a shilling and 20 shillings in a pound. Of course there were two incompatible standards, so the computer had a knob on the front panel to select the standard.

Wireshark 4.4 dropped. Limits of new display filter features.

https://blog.wireshark.org/2024/08/whats-new-in-wireshark-4-4/

#infosec #networking

@dalias @rabbit That is an important aspect of a sustainable social media model. Scale must be understood as a mixed blessing that has costs which some communities have no capacity or desire to bear. Small is not a bad thing, as long as it suits the people who choose it. A federated system (which can include diverse platforms) lets sites choose to stay small or to try to manage getting big.

Is anyone tracking the Brazilian Twitter exodus?

Brazil is such a unique country for social media usage. That's where Orkut had >70% of Brazilian Internet users when the rest of the world had abandoned the site.

It'd be fun if Orkut.com became a Mastodon instance!

I call it handle-jiggling, when a noob can't just bring down your source and run it, but has to do fifteen other things to get there.

"To get the toilet to stop flushing, you have to jiggle the handle."

When I see it, I fight it.

Why? Cuz handle-jiggling takes thought and time. I want the people who experience my project -- our project -- to just instantly be able to start working with it.

i could make a fork of f-droid that rips out all the "anti-features" classifications

Dear website I've never visited before. Slow down. Don't try to enable notifications or subscribe me to your newsletter before I've even seen your content. Wait until we get to know each other better.

I get that I have peers who disagree with me on this but I have no interest in playing games with GenAI NPCs/dialogue/quests/whatever. If it didn't deserve the author's time then why would it deserve mine? I don't see why I should choose this

An SQL injection bug that lets you bypass airport security and even JUMP SEAT. Sure. This is great. I’m not having a heart attack or anything. TSA response is definitely also chef’s-kiss. *breathes into a paper bag* https://ian.sh/tsa

Microsoft heard Google had stolen the crown for naming products terribly and just dropped the nuke of terrible product naming decisions to get the crown back.