FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

windows 11 also gives me this feeling whenever i catch a glimpse of it. its very odd. it looks like a linux distro from the 2010s. the kind people would recommend because it "works just like Windows" and i would take one look at it and be like "no it doesn't? that doesnt look anything like Windows? i cant, in good conscience, recommend this to my grandma can i? she's going to be really perturbed by it" etc. but now it seems that microsoft themselves want to perturb my grandma

This was designed 20 years ago.

Mojang takes a step forward to make Minecraft Java Edition even easier to mod by committing to release the game with no obfuscation of its code. There will be a transition period for modding toolsets to prepare for the upcoming change.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/removing-obfuscation-in-java-edition

#Minecraft #Modding #MinecraftMods

A parallel universe where the concept of a "key board", be it a piano or a typewriter keyboard, never got popular. Most people are using fretted lute / guitar input with their computers; people who mastered chords can type faster than those who cannot. Some countries prefer violin/shamisen style of input, and thus in the 40 years of computerisation their spoken languages have changed to incorporate legatos and pitch changes. The biggest coder flame war of all times is not vim vs emacs but plectrum vs bow. A few historians uncover a long-forgotten prototype of a computer controlled by percussion.

listen, I think we need to hear this guy out

Inside you are two wolves

One is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to go home

The other is overstimulated by the fireworks and wants to become a firework

You have combined autism and adhd

#foxesInLove #comic

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MFW the website I run on a raspberry pi sitting in my living room has better uptime than two of the planet's largest cloud providers

randomly reminded of the time xscreensaver's Pac-Man module gave me Pac-Man's Existential Nightmare

cc @jwz

The shit I pull in OpenSCAD.

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I just got a call from a doctor's office and their AI voice warning me to let them know if there was any chance I might have recently contracted COVID Minus Nineteen

It used to be common for people in their late thirties to forties to acquire “project car”, which was often a high school dream car purchased at the end of its life with the goal of restoring.

In the 2010s the retro computing scene emerged in the same age group.

In this essay I will

Oh no! Carmen Sandiego stole a third of the Internet!

If I genuinely believed I was 18 months away from superintelligence that could solve cancer, I would probably not be pivoting to horny chatbots, but that's just me (a person with priorities)

TIL xeyes in Debian trixie supports `-biblicallyAccurate` mode (thanks @turnipGod )