FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Junk mail with an envelope that says "please recycle". Maybe you could please stop wasting paper instead?

When playing Mario Kart 8, I was confused why my mental model of how I would drift was so different from how my bike actually drifted... But then I decided to play a little 200 cc offline just to try it out, and *that* had drifting just like how I was expecting! I didn't know it was so different between speed classes

it's one of those fun issues where you google it and get a stackoverflow where there's 20 replies, all with 0 points, and all give different answers, none of which work

Bad news

#Google finally released more info about their new #GooglePlayPolicies:

Personal accounts must give Google legal name, legal address, email and phone number.

Google will publish legal name, country and email for developers.

Organization accounts must give the above info and a D-U-N-S number.

Google will publish legal name, address, email and phone number for organization accounts.

Google is effectively going to dox every single trans dev on #GooglePlay.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13628312

she's so proud of herself

📹 “The process of making fake food. A 71-year-old craftsman who has been making fake food for 53 years.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9E77WZGCpQ

“inline pictures (which might be big)”

http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0188.html

thirty years ago, they were discussing a new HTML tag: <img>

Regular reminder: if your site or app doesn’t work in Firefox, it’s broken.

I lived through the “this site requires and/or is best in IE” era, and I’d rather burn it all down than return to that.

Pro-tip: Firefox does most things better anyway. Give it a spin and enjoy a less-tracked web.

THAT FACE WHEN YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES

Modern 64-bit versions of Windows can’t run 16-bit software anymore.

Or can they?

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2022/12/16-bit-support-in-64-bit-windows/

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #dosgaming #emulation

the lesbian flag is so pretty

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