FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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one goose, many geese
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No one responsible for Marcellus Williams' death will lose a wink of sleep tonight. Not the governor and not six six justices
But many of us who called, faxed, implored, and begged for a stay will toss and turn wondering what more, if anything, we could have done
The distribution of shame in this country is almost as imbalanced and unfair as the distribution of wealth
Cory Doctorow is on fire in this video, We can disenshittify the internet, also join a union
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmstuO0Em8
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Completely Useless Legislation, Exhibit A:
Hungary has a new law that students have to surrender their phones at school. The phones have to be locked up, hauled around in safety boxes by teachers etc. Students get them back at the end of the day.
A friend of mine teaches high school. He noticed that when students get their phones back, they don't even turn them on, just toss them in their bag.
Decoy phones.
Seriously, no one thought about this?...
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maintaining an open-source game emulator has really perverse incentives. users do not care whether your code is good or clean or properly tested. if a horrible hack gets a popular game running, they will plagiarise your WIP patch, make their own build of it, and distribute both…
…at which point it becomes very tempting to just move to a completely closed development model, where we only publish code that is complete enough to land on trunk. and already we are like half of the way there with touchHLE, but it's tempting to go all in. perverse incentives!
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i would like to introduce my new GenAI, The Linguini Board
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it is a truth universally acknowledged that a japanese composer writing an upbeat song must be in want of a female vocalist to sing “pa-paya”
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idk. the tech job market is generally pretty fucked rn. where are the jobs that benefit normal people. my friend who works on a farm doesn't need to battle with the idea of his field funding mass surveillance. he goes out, picks vegetables all summer, and sells them to the local farm. everyone around here benefits from his work in a pretty direct way.
my options as someone versed in tech feel super limited in this sense. if i want to actively harm the world, i can work for a military contractor or in surveillance. or both. if i want to at least keep the status quo, which isn't really much better, i can sell my soul to insurance companies, banks, or someone in a financial sector. but those people aren't helping anyone in local communities.
what do i do. where are the jobs that benefit society. why did we as a society decide that technology should be used as a tool to do widespread harm. i don't want to do that.
my options as someone versed in tech feel super limited in this sense. if i want to actively harm the world, i can work for a military contractor or in surveillance. or both. if i want to at least keep the status quo, which isn't really much better, i can sell my soul to insurance companies, banks, or someone in a financial sector. but those people aren't helping anyone in local communities.
what do i do. where are the jobs that benefit society. why did we as a society decide that technology should be used as a tool to do widespread harm. i don't want to do that.
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computer jobs are grunt work for the ultra wealthy. why did i specialize in this field.
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2988. Maslow's Pyramid
title text: The local police, building inspector, and fire marshal are all contesting my 'safety' assertion, or would be if they could reach me past all the traps.
(https://xkcd.com/2988)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2988)
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It's strange how power-only USB cables seem to be prone to spontaneously developing cuts in them
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going back in time to the original USB committee meetings. I'm gonna appear out of a portal, wearing an eyepatch and a dozen scars, and yell at them to explicitly forbid power-only USB cables before collapsing into a heap of dust on the floor
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90 minutes 'til go time:
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"Trains are like crabs. "
submitted by u/PaSe_Sam
https://redd.it/1flcau6
#fuckcars
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The abstract seems pretty clearly “fine, here’s something you can CITE that yes, autistic humans also have emotions” so I imagine that the authors are just as annoyed by this headline as I am
(abstract without ridiculous headline: https://research.aota.org/ajot/article-abstract/78/4/7804205070/25222/Affective-Contact-in-Autism-A-Phenomenological )
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The current government likes to say that the new budget's reduced income tax will start to compensate for households' cost of living increases from the past few years
As expected, the greatest benefit will be to those who have high salaries. But what's worse is now it turns out that the amount of money you receive if you're on disability will be *reduced* compared to the previous budget!
"Det ska löna sig att arbeta" aka "if you can't work, your life needs to be made miserable"
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
