FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I've seen useless notifications before, but this one is probably the winner.

you have to imagine Sisyphus horny

Y'ever notice that FEMA says you ought to have backup medication supplies in case of a disaster,

but insurers will never pay for you to have and maintain such a supply because it's "excess",

and doctors insist that the desire to have continuity of medication is addictive, "drug-seeking behavior"?

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/

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.