FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Seeing how google is apparently going the apple route and locking down their ecosystem more and more, the need for an alternative is becoming more and more apparent.
But actually, I don't need an open-source phone. I need a device that can run the apps for my bank, my health insurance, and my carsharing provider.
You know what would fix this problem altogether? If companies stopped developing android and ios apps and went back to making websites
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Incredible how just in a few years, the smartphone went from
"a device that's nice to have and allows you to contact people, access your calendar, play games and look up bus schedules on the go"
to
"a device you're absolutely required to own and have access to at all times because if you don't, you don't get a bank account, health insurance, public transit, or basically any online service required for enrollment in a school or an employment contract"
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If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?
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To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.
If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.
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candlepower per bar of gold pressed latinum
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Sammy (BC, Canada) is quite a fan of the new potted plants. He likes to jump up and paw at them, to make sure they are still all in good order.
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wait i wanna see what the mastodon author attribution on links looks like
(also go read my lastest blog post)
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On the fediverse, posts rarely go viral. But at times, they will go "fungal", like mycelium quietly working its way through the substrate, popping up again like mushrooms every few months to make another quick round before going dormant again.
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It doesn't matter whether C is good or not. It matters that if I write code in two languages that aren't C, and I want it to all be part of the same process, I need to care about C. C pervades all. You cannot escape it. C will outlive all of us. The language will die and the ABI will persist. The far future will involve students learning about C just to explain their present day. Our robot overlords will use null terminated strings. C will outlive fungi.
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https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand th actual point being made
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i finally found this picture again. it has infected me memetically a long time ago
Never touch the terminals. Please don't. Cause of failure.
This may be the cause.
It is not possible to use multiple computers at the same time. It is not possible.
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In unrelated news, Microsoft is asking Microsoft Windows users to uninstall a recent Microsoft Windows update, issued and published by Microsoft, because said update is breaking Microsoft Windows.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/microsoft-urges-uninstalling-the-update-kb5074109-after-bug-reports-on-windows-11-heres-how
Every single piece about this should be mentioning how Satya Nadella bragged how 30% of new Microslop code is AI-generated:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html
Not providing this context is journalistic malpractice.
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NEW VIDEO: things that didn't suck in 2025!
an hour & ten minutes of rapid-fire hot takes and recommendations, a light and breezy palette cleanser from a year that just plain sucked.
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i‘m a blåhaj girl, in a blåhaj world
I'd be so funny if any company ever admitted that some or even most people were not interested in some of their new features, lol
Imagine if an app popped up a dialog saying "Have a look at this wonderful new feature" and the options are "No thanks!" and "Maybe later"
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fellas, if your savior:
- can turn water into wine
- can make bread
- is risen
that's not your savior. that's a colony of fermenting microorganisms
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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