FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

it's a good thing we got rid of public arts & education-communication funding because i'd really hate it i had to watch experts talk about their expertise in a professional manner instead of youtube influencers regurgitating half a wikipedia article while shilling for nordvpn. i thank God every single day we don't have to worry about the emergence of a new carl sagan

i actually fucking hate right now specifically is the thing

imagine Carl Sagan being like "The journey of this lone spacecraft across the vast emptiness of space, into horizons as yet only dreamed of by centuries of philosophers, astronomers, stargazers, and artists, reflects humanity's own journey from ignorance to enlightenment. As Cassini turns its gaze backwards on our humble little world, we must reflect upon the mysteries of our own existence as well. That's why I've partnered with StarBox, a custom astronomy-themed loot crate curated by Nerd Corp,

"Don't forget: while there may be billions and billions of stars in the universe, around which may orbit untold habitable earthlike-worlds, only one harbors a world with a species intellectually advanced enough to be able to remember to like, subscribe, and comment on this video."

apparently, one possible giveaway for ai-generated art is the presence of what look like jpeg artifacts, but not present systematically, because (this person's conjecture) jpegs were part of the training data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBUHDvY60l0

“‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman”

https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-from-the-inside-out-ig-nobel-winner-saul-justin-newman-239023

> Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst records.

I'm surprised. This is my surprised face.

@hikari Hello, I find your model here useful, but as the diagrams are from 2016, I decided to augment them with a third diagram, showing today's state of the art technology, "AI".

As this is a derivative work, I note the license, © 2016 hikari_no_yume, CC BY 4.0 (International) , still applies.

in this house we reject the mind–body dualism

oh, the reason a head or brain transplant is just not viable is that the brain isn't really an isolated organ, the spinal chord is an extension of it, or equivalently, the brain is an extension of the spinal chord. they're even made of the same stuff? i had no idea

me when i'm programming:

$ git commit -a

me when i'm writing music:

2024-09-09-cool-chords.mid
2024-09-09-cool-chords-added-a-flute-now.mid
2024-09-09-cool-chords-added-a-flute-now-and-unfucked-harmony.mid
2024-09-09-cool-chords-added-a-flute-now-and-unfucked-harmony-2.mid

i hate how you can almost viscerally feel the end of the zirp with how every website has gotten more aggressive with trying to upsell you on its premium version. youtube no longer avoids showing ads where it would feel like it's too much; soundcloud is now deliberately annoying

Peach, Redrawn

everyone's doing redraws of that Peach sprite, so I thought I'd come back from my break to try and do my take on it!

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Fanart #SuperMario

‪maybe the cultural problem with c and c++ is a lack of humility. people have staked their egos on being Smart Enough To Write Correct C. but nobody is immune from error. no amount of skill can completely save you from eventually cutting yourself if you work with sharp knives‬

(quoting https://twitter.com/seanbax/status/1834407788891525304:)

I wrote a proposal for memory safety in C++. It's in this month's WG21 mailing.

https://safecpp.org/draft.html

🔥🔥🔥 Sean is doing amazing work here, i hope this gets the reception it deserves. maybe there's hope for c++!

did you know? there will be no eMMC devices made after 2025. This is a scientific fact

Look at this extremely important detail I put in Dungeon Gals

#dungeongals #gamedev #indiegame

Mozilla, reading the room extremely well, seemingly just recently flipped the switch to enable-by-default sponsored weather results from AccuWeather in every new Firefox tab you open. Clicking "Learn more" takes you here, with zero information on if your location is sent to AccuWeather every time you open a new tab: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customize-items-on-firefox-new-tab-page

Probably only noticed because I normally have a blank new tab page but this showed up after updating Firefox!