FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

here's a good perspective on the general strikes in france and the eternal question "why don't we do this in the united states?"

my one gripe is that they fail to discuss the outsized role of police militarization in quashing dissent. people don't do shit like this in america because american cops are gun-covered fascists with tanks

https://youtu.be/6acROsgruQU

The Irony. ClearSpace-1 Couldn't Clean up Space Debris Because its Target Already Got hit by Space Debris, Creating Even More Space Debris.

The European Space Agency's ClearSpace-1 satellite was zeroing in on the spent payload adaptor from a 2013 rocket launch. Its task would be to extend arms, grab the chunk of debris, hug it tightly, and then pull it back into the Earth's atmosphere, de-orbiting and removing it from low-Earth orbit. On August 10th, mission controllers detected multiple pieces of space debris near its target - debris that was probably dislodged from it in the recent past. They're now scrutinizing the situation to plan their next step in the mission.

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Objects_detected_in_the_vicinity_of_ClearSpace-1_debris_removal_mission_target

My son and I made a quick run to the Puget Sound seaside to take advantage of the 20 meter band this morning. Sitting here in Seattle we made a contact in the Czech Republic using less power than you'd use to light a lightbulb. #hamradio #amateurradio #ft8

One of the great things about doing ham radio in a park like this is the endless stream of kids that come up to ask you what you are doing.

"ARE YOU MAKING A TIKTOK?"

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO INTERNET"

"HOW IS THIS TALKING TO JAPAN"

Invariably the parents are as interested, but it's always the kids that are uninhibited enough to ask.

#hamradio #amateurradio #ft8

Shared: The ideal viewport doesn’t exist https://viewports.fyi/.

#html #css #web

looking at some malicious code that’s been obfuscated with nonsense variable names, like a normal utf-8 string bundled in a struct with “length”, “width” and “depth” properties. hot dang they’re out here inventing three-dimensional unicode

hi fedi! i'm looking to exchange my time and skills for money

i do software development, primarily in the back end, with rust, python, or whatever the project calls for
i enjoy designing&building electronics hardware, and i dabble in ops-adjacent stuff (run my own server for example)

being able to work remotely is critical to me

i live in germany, and to reduce headaches having the company located in the EU (ideally germany) would help

#GetFediHired

this is definitely the most perverted, obscene thing i've ever done with a compiler. to my friends who work at Apple, have worked at Apple, or are possessed of such a shining divine Purpose that they have accumulated more Apple knowledge than any Apple employee could possibly know… you're allowed to kill me for this. well not really but

I am now cross-compiling to 32-bit iOS using upstream LLVM and no Apple headers, on Windows!

fear me

https://github.com/hikari-no-yume/touchHLE/actions/runs/5937842048

Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.

Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

There once was a corgi named Tab
Who thought she'd give lim'ricks a stab
But then she got stuck
And decided "Well fuck,
I might as well end with a crab 🦀"

its kind of wild to me that there's been so few new features in browsers

i mean like, i just found myself disliking the size of an image, so i wanted to scale it up. ok fine i can zoom the page in

but why can't i just zoom the picture???? that's the only thing that was too small to read

@irenes @beka_valentine Okay. At a fundamental level, the web is and always has been about hypertext -- documents that link together. It did that well from day one, so it was natural that they'd keep adding features. Inline images, fonts, things like that are no big deal. It all more or less worked.

And then webmail came along, and it started training users to expect more from their browser -- they expected not a browser for linked documents with images and such, but a whole (shitty) OS that they use inside another (usually shitty) OS -- and training them to think that's normal.

The way it's supposed to work is that an email application on OS Y and one on OS Z speak the same protocol, so it doesn't matter that they might look different because they're both native to their platforms -- but instead, now everyone gets an equally shitty experience, and nothing is as fast or maintainable as it could be.

browsers are fossils now. instead of being hypermedia browsers with ever improving features for how you can interact with and utilize that hypermedia, they're vehicles for web apps that define and constrain behavior

i hate it

Boy it's hard to get around the modern internet without anything like a scroll wheel. Everything's designed around just being a quick swipe. Scroll bars are too narrow to grab, arrow keys are often interpreted as "next/prev item", pgup/pgdn go...well, an entire page at once.

welcome to the future:
where even your CAD program is actually chrome

CPU emulation begins now.
hello, world
thread 'main' panicked at 'Attempted null-page access at 0x0 (0x4 bytes)', src/mem.rs:287:9

YES

YESSSSSSSS

I AM BECOME GOD