FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

did you really save bandwidtch converting my animated 180x180 pixel art that originally measured less than 8kB into an mp4 with the wrong frame lengths? did you? bitch

the internet social media trend of turning every animated soft g gif into a fucking mp4 really makes me want to punch someone

hey autodesk how do I move this component?

autodesk: well the component knows where it is at all times. it knows this because it knows where it isn't. by subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation.

thanks, great, really helps

@sarahzedig every couple years some government somewhere does a pilot program which shows universal benefits are cheaper, more effective at reducing poverty, and do not lead to the mass quitting the "nobody wants to work anymore!!!" crybabies assure us is inevitable. Everyone makes positive murmurs about it for a couple months, the articles get published, and then it's never brought up by the government ever again.

work requirements for food stamps are evil

the recertification process is insulting

the whole means-testing apparatus is a vile and disgusting affront to basic human integrity

@Bwee

today i have been writing a program that reads a midi file. as is typical for me, i decided to write my own parser.

so i've been consulting the “standard midi files specification” and “midi 1.0 detailed specification”, neither of which i had ever read before. it's been pretty fun! they're written in a refreshingly informal and thoughtful style that makes the purpose and form of everything clear. the protocol and file format are remarkably well-designed… very efficient encodings for example

Second article from me for @thespacebar: why you should NOT use Brave Browser. I've been meaning to write this for a long time but never got around to it. https://www.spacebar.news/p/stop-using-brave-browser

i present:

high street betting shop carpet and wall segment
(2018, light on ccd)
https://mastodon.social/media/i4eh5Od_aonlG17CVVo

What other Microsoft certifications do you wish you had stickers for?

Meanwhile somewhere in India 😂

A broken clock fixed by taping a working clock over it is a metaphor for every codebase you’ll encounter in your professional career as a software developer.

"One of the most real scenes in modern television. Representation is so so important. We need to see the realities of living with disabilities and we need to see disabled actors featured as complex characters." - Brains and Spoons

My flight at gate 404 is delayed because... the plane isn't there.

I am not making this up.

Lifehack:

Instead of wondering if something is normal, ask if it's harmful.

Dressing up as an anthropomorphic animal character isn't normal, but it makes a lot of people smile.

Being exceptionally talented isn't normal, but it sure offers a way to enrich your life as well as the people you care for.

To hell with normal. To hell with being afraid of being called weird. Furries figured this out decades ago. Many anime fans and gamers, too.

Yet, I hear people ask things like, "Is it normal to feel the way I do?"

I dunno.

Does it make your life harder? Then you might want to do something about it. Does it cause harm to others? Definitely do something to correct it.

But to cry when you watch movies? Or to want to cuddle so much that you lose any interest in actually having sex? Or to hate the world we inherited so much that it hurts, and so you channel it into helping others suffer a little less?

Who gives a shit about normal. That's human.

"SMASH THE ORBS" is an incredible rallying cry

There is a certain company that, whenever I used its service, would constantly nag me through the entire experience to purchase a subscription. (It charged for the service, of course, but only when I used it; subscriptions incurred charges on a regular basis.) At one point I thought about it, decided that it would actually be worth the money.

Now that I am paying for a subscription, the advertising emails it sends me are different, and every time I use the service it constantly nags me to upgrade my subscription.

The corporations can never extract enough wealth from you to be satisfied. They will always want more. Never forget that.