FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

You ever think about how Google de-spined - destroyed - literal tonnes of books donated by university libraries, with the intention of scanning them into a digital free library, and how none of that ever materialized?

Those books are just gone now, instead.

“a music format filed for bankruptcy, so now we can't listen to it”

https://www.whathifi.com/features/mqa-has-gone-into-administration-what-does-this-mean-for-tidal-and-supported-products

hi i need money would you like to buy some hand crafted pixels #commissions #pixelart https://maple.pet/commissions bring your face, bring a picture, bring a pet, that's right, we'll draw your pet

LB: I have commissioned mavica and been gifted art by it and they are among my favourite things to have as my avatar. This is my Macintosh System 7 monochrome portrait as done by @mavica_again. It’s current my Zoom profile pic at work, and it’s probably the best likeness of any art I’ve received. For real, commission it!

it's been a few weeks since my twitter main was unceremoniously suspended. for the most part, i don't miss it. i'm oblivious to discourse! no more chuds harassing me! that part's great

what's less great is that i've lost access to my DMs. i can't even *see* them anymore. that's years of conversations gone even as a passive reference.

my numerous curated lists? my bookmarked posts? all gone.

i'm no free speech warrior but something about this does feel kind of wrong, on a systemic level

it's a thorny and difficult subject that is impossible to simply Solve, but platform control is increasingly becoming a major issue in everybody's lives. this is infrastructure that multiple generations rely on for socializing, networking, and promotion, that capricious ignorant CEOs can change on a whim without approval or oversight. nothing can remain stable, because investors are illiterate infant-priests serving an insane blood god, and they demand shiny new distractions at all times Or Else

Friend: No this makes sense, it's a chain of dependencies. Every teams channel is a SharePoint folder

I think god is dead for sure

*Suddenly hit with the perfect Inspiration Particle but 25 years too late* Oh man a really good name for a LAN party would be "LANarchy"

For months I've been dealing with this terrifying problem where my computer will reboot or shut off for no reason. Eventually I concluded the problem was my apartment and therefore I needed backup power. So one week ago today I got a *super* expensive UPS and hoped my problem was solved.

Today I woke up to discover my computer had rebooted in the night D:

So terrified I pull open Event Viewer and… oh, thank goodness! My computer isn't dying! It's just Microsoft doesn't respect me as a person

*Through happy tears* I wonder what new surveillance tech they installed in the update

Cory Doctorow: "Mastodon is far from perfect. But I only have so many hours in the day, and only so many days left in my life. I would much rather spend those precious hours making a open service better than using a temporarily superior closed one. I have seen that movie. I know how it ends"
https://doctorow.medium.com/fool-me-twice-we-dont-get-fooled-again-20074e311f1f

terrible idea: GPS-based mouse.
It has no optical sensor, just a GPS locator.
You move the mouse around, and it transmits that movement back to the PC, over a built in 5G modem.
You may have to move it a lot to click on anything

me: *opens datasheet*
me: *takes 5000 psychic damage*
me: *closes datasheet*
me: "neat!"

if you want to stream yourself using a #gameboycamera but you don't have all the hardware to do it legit, check out this post on how to use #webgbcam in OBS!

https://maple.pet/blog/using-webgbcam-in-obs

Tory MPs cheering the Online Safety Bill banning children from reading Wikipedia (2023, colourised)

someone's been scraping Reddit for years and the results from 2005-06 to 2023-02 are torrentable <https://academictorrents.com/browse.php?search=pushshift> with the last dataset for 2023-03 (and some earlier ones) at <https://archive.org/search?query=subject:%22pushshift%22>. might be a good thing to grab if you're worried about loss of knowledge.

#Reddit #PushShift

for those playing at home, this was all in https://github.com/VyrCossont/mastodon/pull/8, you know, the thing everyone gets mad at Universeodon for having. chrono sorting. filters. default-AND instead of default-OR. etc. YOU'RE FUCKING WELCOME.

hey, the upside is that we all get search and someone who isn't me gets to maintain it! hooray!

#Mastodon #FullTextSearch