FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Oh no 😭

instead of "AI veganism" say "AI picket line" imo

Unless you were largely cognisant during the late 90s, it's very hard to get across to you just _how_ bristling with positive energy computing was back then, just **look** at this opening screen, it screams "ARE YOU READY TO LEARN MOTHERF*CKER?!".

It has dolphins, in the clouds. How many smartphone apps welcome you with dolphins in clouds?

#encarta #90s #retrocomputing

its glass

Hey look, it's the first comic we ever made! My apologies if you speak Celsius.

ANOTHER! 📚

#bookmemes #getnotified #bookstodon

I am very satisfied to report the 2013 game Michael Brough and I made, "BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS", has now been re-released on Itch with modern OS compatibility.

Originally made for the Ludum Dare game jam, GREAT ARTIST is an unhelpful art program, offering a large number of art production tools none of which work as you expect. Think of it as immersion training in glitch art, or a toy for babies producing colorful lights and sounds. Anyway, it's fun.

https://mermaidindustries.itch.io/become-a-great-artist-in-just-10-seconds

#Trans people: "Hormones have made me finally feel good about and at home in my body for the first time ever in my life"

Cis people: "But aren't you worried that might be irreversible?"

#Transjoy

You can see the 'furrows' here as the vertical stripes. These are written by the erase heads.

This is an image of a floppy disk taken by a special magneto-optical microscope. I'd love to have one to play around with, but they're a few thousand dollars.

Cats are often entertained by simple things, such rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.

As a sophisticated ape, I require far more complex forms of entertainment such as watching a cat rolling a small ball underneath furniture and then trying to get it out.

Do i know anyone who has access to a Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager) server who could help me provision some new firmware for an ATA191-K9?

#badtimeswithcisco

I managed an e-commerce server for about ten years. It grew from a small local shop into a major national business, even handling international orders. They expanded to the point where they reduced their local brick-and-mortar store hours because the bulk of their revenue was coming from online sales.

Then one seller came along and convinced them that switching to Shopify would be the key to growing even further. Apparently, their €130/month bare-metal redundant setup - which boasted a calculated uptime of 99.995% over 10 years - just wasn't cutting it anymore.

They’ve been on Shopify for about six months now, and every now and then, I still get the alerts. I left the monitoring active via Uptime Kuma and ran the numbers. Over the last six months, their uptime dropped below 98%.
In other words, in just six months, they’ve been down for almost as many hours as they were during the entire previous decade.

I contacted the client - not because I want to take over the hosting again, but just to understand what on earth happened (we're on excellent terms). Their response was: "We don't know, but if it happened on Shopify, it means it was bound to happen anyway."

As long as we keep swallowing the lie that "the cloud" and "tech giants" are always the right solution for us, we completely deserve the cloud and the tech giants.

#IT #SysAdmin #OwnYourData

Foreign Function Interface plaza!

Start your day off well.

#AlicePics #Crow #Photography

Q: "If cats could wear pants, how would they wear it?"

A:

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

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- Kitsune Tails and its prequel Kitsune Zero
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