FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Exploiting mansplaining as tradecraft during WW II:

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.”

From Elyse Graham's “Book and Dagger”, describing a training school for the SOE.

That sounds stressful.

being fired from my job at the weighted blanket factory for suggesting the new super weighted blanket should use depleted uranium pellets

it turns out it's a lot easier to get to localhost when you don't accidentally spell it "localhoast"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
🎄
#DOSGaming

So many of you would rather appreciate a dragon girl than go to therapy and it shows. #meme #vtuber #dragongirl

#BlueSky hasn’t ruled out ads, which means it hasn’t ruled out **tolerance for the insidious incentives** that ads bring. Namely, tolerance for hate and abuse in the name of eyeballs and growing the audience. Just like Twitter did.

This is probably also a good time to bring up BlueSky’s deep entanglement with bitcoin scams, considering it was founded and is heavily funded by bitcoin grifters.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-reshaping-social-media-but-advertising-isnt-off-the-table/

first they came for the trans people, but I know the poem and there's like five or six groups before they get to me, so I'm just not gonna risk anything until I no longer have a choice, and besides, I'm sure there's lots of other people who care, so someone will probably fix it anyway no matter what I do

2024-12-12 is a cool number

Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled
http://www.techmeme.com/241212/p41#a241212p41

#music #jazz

[extremely "looking to start a fight" voice] of course it's possible to write an OS kernel in a garbage-collected language. even linux has ref-counted kobjects

PUT AWAY YOUR SLINGSHOT, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

https://mastodon.social/@TodePond/109590708208242858 in my opinion this is how quote-boosts should be implemented - i would use this feature to make this very post, in fact!
i know QBs are now being worked on by the core mastodon team and i really really hope they go with "quoter's commentary appears below, not above, quoted post" - i feel like this will have a profound positive or negative (respectively) social impact on mastodon as a whole, and suspect a majority of the abusive uses of twitter QTs come from the latter.

This feels like the best of both worlds!? 🐘🐦

Boosting + replying to a post now looks like this in @elk

Let's see...
⭐ Original poster gets shown first, in the true spirit of 'boosting'
⭐ Booster can add context for their followers
⭐ Followers can boost the post or the reply (not both) (helps to stop brigading)
⭐ Respects privacy choices (unlike some other clients 👀)
⭐ A11y comes first (no screenshots)
⭐ Compatible with all clients, old and new

It's not a #QuoteToot... I call it a #QuoteBoost!

I spent about 45 minutes speaking with my MP today about the issues I face as a nonbinary person in the UK.

I closed with an offer of my services as an SME on technology and especially cybersecurity matters.

While it's difficult to know for sure, I think the meeting went very well.