FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Multiple Oracle cloud customers have reached out to me to say Oracle have now confirmed a breach of their services.

They are only doing so verbally, they will not write anything down, so they’re setting up meetings with large customers who query.

I tried to watch a video on how Doom works and before 45 seconds were up, they explained that:
1. Recursion is doing something over and over again
2. The C language doesn't have strings.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!  Stay loud and proud.

why is it so useful? i find myself commenting out arguments to a function to try a thing _all the time_

folks like to say programming languages are designed to be read not written. but code is meant to be futzed with.

Going back and forth between released and pre-release #swift compilers made me realize just how small but impactful an improvement this is to my workflow.

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

Big mood…

I’m not going to say there’s a lot of overlap between digital preservation librarianship and knitting, because this post says it more clearly than I ever could. https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521
Via @Researchbuzz

Found this beautiful unused keyboard in storage at work. Switches are all Cherry Brown and I really like the feel of them. Only gotcha: the interface may be an oddball.

“Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days.”

Der Hackerspace hat einen Pfannkuchendrucker! #hacksaar

@noracodes My friend’s three-year-old’s version: ‘This is easy, dad. You go “type, type, type,” and it goes “‘‘pute, ‘pute, ‘pute” ‘.

Es ist exakt so.

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

an ominous I-am-under-NDA-coded warning to immediately uninstall atop has been posted by a reputable tech blogger. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/25/atop/

@lizzy or a secret third thing: the compiler is doing something seriously fucky

#Signal #TheAtlantic