FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Last night before I went to bed I saw a post where someone had made a refutable point. I wanted to reply to this but instead fell asleep. In the morning, I was unable to find the post. So I guess today there's just someone in the world who's going to be going around doing their stuff the whole time not even realizing they're wrong

Rollerpunk 2077 🛼

It occurs to me that I and many many others grew up being told in school to "try to hold it in until after class" when we needed to take a piss, and yet every single medical professional I've spoken to in this kidney transplantation process has told me that doing so is bad for your kidneys, even for healthy people.

Same story for toilets in public spaces. Often simply not available (whether non-existent or too expensive or too dirty) and the response to criticism about this is to "just hold it in until you get home".

Why exactly are we teaching people to "hold it in" if we *know* that doing so is bad for you?

bro are you okay your inner monologue is all harsh vocals

Sim 3 laptop (for reference)

I really thought this was a @NanoRaptor image, but nope! Acer really made a Sim 3 style laptop that swaps the location of the keyboard and the trackpad.

Behold, the Acer Aspire R7...

What strikes me as particularly ironic is GNOME’s own Human Interface Guidelines, which proudly state, “People are at the heart of GNOME design.” With all due respect, if that’s the case, maybe I’m not considered “people.”

GNOME with Yet Another Controversial Decision - https://linuxiac.com/gnome-with-yet-another-controversial-decision/

for adults with cat ears

Feel that? Yeah

‪every one of us is a traveller from a far off land, with tales of a place that none can ever visit again‬

‪much as we shall never conquer the stars, we will never conquer the past. we will only experience an infinitesimally small fraction of all that there is to be experienced, and what remains can only be dreamed of, but we know that it is there, and that it is beautiful‬

the past is such a beautifully distant place

Sooo, my employer decided to move all engineering to Taiwan, and laid off my entire team among everyone else affected. 😬

If you or someone you know is looking for a senior engineer, tech lead, or similar, and your requirements tick some of these boxes, please feel free to send me a message or DM!

- Rust since 2017, professionally since 2021
- USB, WinAPI, C interop, kernel-mode drivers
- Long-running, async applications
- Reverse engineering, legacy systems
- Embedded (RP2040 projects)
- napi/node integration
- wgpu, WGSL
- living in Germany, remote preferred
- mentoring Rust newcomers

Boosts appreciated, thank you!

#rust #rustlang

T-shirt courtesy of @heydon has arrived

@hertog the software:

char* a = malloc(1);
for(;;) {
    printf(“%d\n”, a);
    a += 1;
}

[POTION SELLER PUBLIC LICENSE

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

THIS SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG FOR YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY SOFTWARE. IT'S TOO STRONG FOR YOU. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL YOU, USER. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. YOU'D BETTER GO TO A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE. YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ASK, USER. MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE WOULD KILL A SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER, LET ALONE A MAN. YOU NEED A DEVELOPER WHO WRITES WEAKER SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY SOFTWARE IS TOO STRONG. YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE. NO ONE CAN. I CAN'T GIVE YOU MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE, BECAUSE MY STRONGEST SOFTWARE IS ONLY FOR THE STRONGEST BEINGS, AND YOU ARE OF THE WEAKEST.

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.](https://cohost.org/xenofem/post/4509123-div-style-color-v)

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