FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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"how will i explain trans people to my kids" you see johnny, some people are just intrinsically sick as fuck and cool as hell, so they dress how they want and name themselves how they want and sometimes hack their own bodies to look how they want instead of letting other people tell them what to do
Search through a container in c++ to see if it contains a value without having to use iterators making the code look all ugly challenge level impossible
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i think we should start calling AI what it is: "Corporate Piracy".
para$$$ites have paid data hoarders to scrape whole websites, digital libraries and archives filled to the brim with copyrighted work; so they can repackage all that knowledge as if it were the serendipitous labor of sentient ghostly robots.
it's bullshit.
if unpaid sampling is copyright infringement; then scraping our social media and blogs, and passing it as their own knowledge, has to be as well.
bitch better have my money
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This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.
If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.
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doctor: the great clown pagliacci is in town. go to see him, it will make you feel better. tickets start at £10.
patient: wow, thanks doctor, i will go and do that. (leaves)
pagliacci: (taking off doctor costume) hehe another sale
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Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154umm2/im_so_excited_they_finally_introduced_glorbo/
It worked.
This is why real journalism matters.
That feeling when trying to add tests to code that mixes file reads/writes together with all the logic
Starting to realize that I simultaneously spend too much time on social media and is too inactive on social media
I also end up playing games before I work on hobby projects if I have any free time, cause idk, I wanna play games too
So many hobby projects I want to do, so little time to do them
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#introductions We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.
This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.
We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (http://webtv.zone/) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it *just works* with no modification needed on your part!
I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.
ACAB
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Why does every project have the trajectory of:
“oh yay, I got it working!”
“Hmm but I could polish it just a little…”
“Why in the hell do I have to write my own parser for text in the clipboard from scratch? What the fuck kind of plaintext standard removes the line breaks?! I need those, you bastards! Every single person on the W3C is now on my list, may god have mercy on them BECAUSE I WILL NOT.”
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> Coming up with a new riff
> Ask the brain if the riff is original or plagiarism
> It doesn't understand
> Pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is original and what is plagiarism
> It laughs and says "it's a good riff, ma'am"
> Listen to the riff
> It's plagiarism
> Ask the brain if the riff is original or plagiarism
> It doesn't understand
> Pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is original and what is plagiarism
> It laughs and says "it's a good riff, ma'am"
> Listen to the riff
> It's plagiarism
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YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM!, a game where you actually get to play those fake game from the world's most obnoxious mobile ads
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
