FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

i think maybe a lot of people out there believe that something has to be Important to be worth saving. but the only reason we know much of anything about history and culture is that so many decidedly unimportant things managed to stick around, or people actively decided to save them despite there being no obvious benefit.
i think humanity loses something absolutely essential, the world becomes so much bleaker and our spirits poorer, if we don't do this.

rips your journal of fate in two

girl who has memorised the general midi level 1 percussion map note assignments' corresponding positions on a guitar fretboard and plays drums with a midi guitar set to channel 10

i think the reason that creative types tend to feel such a deep disgust towards ai is that taste is such a fundamental part of creative expression, and ai systems produce a perfectly average, tasteless result by default, by design. knowledge and skill are no substitute for taste

i should clarify that i'm talking about two things at once:

• that in anime, the animation is done first, and the voice is dubbed over second to match the animation timing
• that western animation likes making mouth shapes match pronunciation, not just (vaguely) timing

was remarking to my gf that it's been years since i consciously thought about the fact that part of what makes anime anime is that it doesn't have lip-sync, that speech is dubbed over and is subservient to the animation, not vice-versa; the original japanese is also a “dub”

Woke-on-LAN

society if there was a good programming language

troll tip #647: rewrite a rust app in ANSI C just to make everyone mad

You can tell Monopoly is an old game.

There's a luxury tax and rich people can go to jail.

I forgot who originally said this but doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the definition of practicing

‪check https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_H.264_MPEG-4_AVC_expired_yet%3F for the nuances, there may be stragglers in some jurisdictions‬

i will Always simp for the good enough 20-years-old video or audio format that Just Works and man is h.264 that

we don't need anything else we will just have h.264 + aac .mp4s for everything, the world shall heal

HOLY SHIT THE h.264 PATENTS EXPIRE THIS YEAR LETS FUCKIN GOOOOO

you ever just have competing desires for what to do in your brain and so you wind up doing none of them

haha yeah me either that would be weird right

what value is a democracy that commits genocide? what deference is owed to an electorate that avows the worst atrocities of settler colonialism? if i let a hundred pillagers decide what to do about my house, how is it different than if a pillager autocrat had directly sanctioned their cruelty? what value is a democracy of genocidaires?

follow-up: where do you fall on the matrix of these two questions:

1. do you find debuggers at least occasionally useful?
2. do you primarily work on application, library, or daemon software, running in userspace, on a normal operating system, on normal x86 hardware—and/or web applications?

software developers: is using a debugger like GDB an actual part of your routine development workflow?