FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
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apropos of nothing, irregular reminder to replace fonts.google.com or fonts.googleapis.com with fonts.bunny.net anywhere that you use it
it's a drop-in replacement that is privacy-respecting and isn't fucking google
i generally prefer to embed my own fonts and trim them down to just characters i need, but this is markedly better than staying on google and requires basically no effort
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every now and then someone makes a post like "fedi culture is getting 8 boosts and 20 likes and going 'ohh this is doing numbers' lol lmao. numbers tiny" and like i get it but also if 20 people came up to me and said "i liked it when you said that, well done" and 8 of those people were like "can i get some copies of this so i can show it to all my friends?" id be stoked
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The longer the WGA and Sag AFTRA strikes last, the more movie studios are going to turn to video game news outlets to promote their struck works for them.
That "controller that smells like a food product" news story this week is the kind of story they'll use to get promo.
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A friend attending #ICML just sent me a photo of this front runner for best poster award.
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POV: When Worldcoin starts advertising their dystopian bullshit in your neighborhood.
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The washington post interviewed me and ray lalonde about the jeopardy champ strike?? https://archive.ph/AAYgY
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So, uh, if you see an orb in public, DO NOT PONDER IT, because it's going to steal your biometrics and give them to the worst people in silicon valley:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/worldcoin-orb-ai-2341500
I've come to the conclusion that clothes are a liquid, they fill out any container you put them in and they readily drip into the floor forming little puddles
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I once said something about it being risky to have the art on the fediverse disproportionately controlled by a single instance. Artist's reach and livelihoods end up being at the mercy of a few instance admins.
Being an artist on social media is terrible on all platforms now. Both on the Fediverse and on corporate social media. This is why I just put all my stuff on my website. At least I don't have to deal with all this drama and instability.
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Important PSA!
The movie "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" (NOT the book) depicts bomb-making in a way that, if emulated, could seriously harm an activist. The consultant on bomb-making was a high-ranking US counter-terrorism official, according to the directors.
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"How do I name the function that rounds to an integer closest to a given float?"
Most languages: "I think `round` is a good name for this"
C, distractedly, tangled in red yarn and wearing a tinfoil hat: "lrint. Definitely lrint"
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One of the bad signs is that I'm writing my static site generator in shell script.
One of the good signs this time around is that I'm actually interested in writing blog posts, and not just making a half-baked attempt at a static site generator before realizing that I don't have anything to write about.
Working on a making a blog, which means this is the third time I try to make a static site generator
You see, I have this affliction that means I just can't use existing blog software, I have to make my own. I hope I finish before my motivation runs out like every other time or I may be doomed to do this again and again like Sisyphus.
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Found a map that contains a smaller version of itself, recursively, two levels deep 😍
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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Joined May 2019
