FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

fun fact with these magnetic USB charging cables:
if you have two of them, they will naturally attach to each other, creating a forbidden USB A-A cable, but better yet: they actually cross-connect because MAGNETS, so ground is wired to +5 and vice versa!

@Texan_Reverend I'm seeing people boosting posts about instances muting or blocking the new BBC instance because of their transphobic reporting.

As a trans person I'd like to request that you *don't* do that.

They're generally a respected news source and having them throwing their weight into Mastodon would be a huge boon.

I'd also rather get my transphobic news stories from the source than second-hand posts linking to them.

I think the positives of their presence outweigh the negatives.

could you imagine explaining this to anyone

thanks to my partner, I got a new PC and now I'm playing only the hottest games on it

you like touching computers don't you

moar

"when a gem is made, it's for a reason. they burst out of the ground already knowing what they're supposed to be, and that's what they are. forever. but you? you're *supposed* to change. you're never the same, even moment to moment! you're allowed and expected to invent who you are. what an incredible power, the ability to grow up..."

A friend recommended unplugging everything from the wall, turning the power switch off entirely, pressing the power-on button a few times then plugging everything back in and turning it back on. It turned on, which is very good, but slightly scarier than if it were simply broken

"i think you have a serious problem with pizza."
"i don't have a problem with pizza!"
"I DUNNO KIKI. I THINK YOU DO."

the mods of /r/welding gradually ramped it up over a few years and the current logo is *really* unsubtle

"only showing the first 100 errors, of 50392 total"

good morning to you too, java.

anyway here's a song from the yamaha psr-350 recorded via my pc's stereo line-in. https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/2023-07-30-psr-350-song-009-Sometime.flac

Back in Feb, when Grammarly said they were going to think about incorporating AI, I immediately canceled my account and uninstalled. And now they've actually done it.

I'm sharing because with everything going on, writers might not realize this is happening.

#AI #writing