FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

hi there.

on 2016-11-07 i was inspired to create this pair of diagrams, and posted them to my then twitter account. the tweet is long gone, but they must have struck a chord with some people, because the diagrams have long outlived it! i guess they're as relevant today as they were then.

so let me repost them here, in never-before-published high resolution.

if you care about copyright, you can attribute these with:

© 2016 hikari_no_yume, CC BY 4.0 (International)

and ideally, please link to this post's canonical url (begins with social.noyu.me), but i don't care that much

A man discovers through a DNA test he is actually the son of a famous #DOOM mapper known as Dr. Sleep who had sadly already passed away by the time he found out. What follows is his discovery of Doom and the vibrant mapping scene that has continued to this day so he builds his first Doom map to better understand the father he never knew:

https://www.doomworld.com/forum/topic/137638-octate-my-first-map-dedicated-to-my-father-john-w-anderson-aka-dr-sleep/

more concisely, by @rcombs, who is better at Posting

aw fuck google's trying to make DRM for websites

https://social.treehouse.systems/@rcombs/110739963243629400

this should not exist. period. in my humble opinion, the use cases for “this browser is unmodified” do not outweigh the risk to user freedoms, i.e. adblockers, userscripts and other accessibility tools, etc

the problems this tries to solve is hard! unfortunately, some things simply should not be built, regardless of how much easier it makes things for Google

and consider this: Google maintains one of the world’s biggest web scrapers. because Google is dominant in search, people will allowlist the Google scraper attestation (if it exists) no matter what. guess what individual users won’t be able to do?

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

This kind of brilliantly stupid shit is what I miss from the early days of the internet

are there things humans need to eat other than beans. i'm not convinced

So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

@sieri @slothrop I saw this on fedi a few days ago, I don't remember who posted it originally, but this... yes...

GET /affection
Accept: gay/cuddles, gay/kisses
Host: my.bed
Connection: keep-alive
X-Please: uwu

🔄

opengl graphics folks… have you ever needed to read the state tables section in the specs, and struggled against the vertical, rotated, heavily abbreviated pdf? perhaps you wished it were machine readable?

well, do i have a gift for you!

https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/gl-state-tables.html 😘

It's frustrating because open source end-user software is of persistently lower quality than commercial, but in the long run —only open
source software exists—.

Every closed source program (and some corporate OSS) is on an invisible timer for either the company to get bored and shut it down* or one of the increasingly small number of Big Companies to buy that thing you rely on and set it on fire**.

* Why oh why did I trust BitBucket?
** Microsoft has already discontinued SwiftKey for iPhone.

i pull up in my 1993 nissan sunny

the number plate says ORG4SM

i roll down the window by hand (no electric windows)

hey kid, do you know the way to the nearest mcodanals? i need hash browns

sir the mcdonals stops serving hash browns at 11, it is quarter to beans

i wake up. my toots are crossing into my dreams. is it time to log off? no, i must post harder and live the dream

share if you dont think

the problem with having several thinkpads is not knowing which one to put a particular sticker on

#rust how are people testing rust code? do you use mocks?

Computer security would be about 80% solved if we just deprecated every technology shown in this graphic.