FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Now that's form and function!

"I always love it when people ask me for slightly mad things, this high vis vest corset is being delivered to its new owner tomorrow!" - Wyte Phantom

This story about what happened when PayPal first tried to switch to an x-of-y encryption key scheme is Peak Computer https://max.levch.in/post/724289457144070144/shamir-secret-sharing

i regret to announce that i've accidentally double-booked myself, reserving the same 30-minute time slot for "being upset about the state of public transit in Greater Glasgow" and "vegetating in bed"

i will try to do better scheduling in the future

i think about this meme a lot

I was having a pretty chill day but now I think I might be dead from laughter

Don't run high current through a coiled extension cable. The cornering forces the electrons to the outside of the curve, where they rub on the inside of the copper, generating heat.

I know the cost of living is steadily going up, but Tim Hortons charging 2^99 for a small cappuccino is an absolute joke

the average working-class Scot cannot spend 633 octillion pounds on a small latte

someone on twitter said the peril is misc.c

I've received my first sample of Glasgow Interface Explorer https://glasgow-embedded.org for evaluation

it is *beyond excellent*. it exceeds any standard I could possibly have for it. the team (1bitSquared and everyone else who collaborated) working on it deserves the highest praise

#bird

Sounds about right for modern printer companies these days... xD

[Splatoon 1 / Mario Kart 8]

Online services for these games will resume on Aug 3 at 1 am UTC.

A software update will be required.

Nintendo notes that online play permanently shut down in the future if it continues to be difficult to keep the services running.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/support/information/2023/0802.html

@xenophora random reminder that “amateur” comes from “amator (lover)”, and it’s original sense was someone who loved a pursuit intensely despite no formal training. And it was used as an insult only later, and then only by the aristocracy sneering at class.

So be an amateur! Fuck the gatekeepers and lords!

In particular, I wonder whether it would make sense for Mastodon servers to allow you to subscribe directly to RSS feeds or boost/bookmark posts from RSS feeds. AP and RSS aren't the same, and two way comms like replies couldn't work, but probably there's some way to do a mapping that makes sense.

I'm not on the RSS train in general, I've never managed to make it a useful part of my life, but established news sources seem much more willing to set up a passive RSS feed than join the Fediverse.

Maybe RSS could finally be something useful to me if I could access it "inside" Mastodon.

In general, it seems like long term the Fediverse would benefit from a standard way of talking about, addressing, or embedding in AP feeds (for example as boosts) "external" resources, not just RSS but things like Bluesky posts or exotics like Scuttlebutt. I know ActivityPub has many capabilities Mastodon doesn't support so maybe a version of this is already in the spec.

type of girl whose favourite genre of music is MIDI synthesiser demos

“please, before you kill me, I gotta know — what’s with all the aquatic puns?”

the mafia boss takes a long draw from a cigar

“you axolotl questions”

the audio cd is a beautiful standard because it is something truly rare in the field of technology: it is complete. it set out to solve the problem of distributing audio, and it solved it so completely that it will never be obsolete, because it delivers quality far surpassing what the human ear can make out. for the last four decades, audio has simply been a solved problem, thanks to the cd.