FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

feels very weird to see someone repost an artist's entire-ass comic complete with name and link to their comic website, and call it a "meme"

work laptop has gained another level in untitled

I've gone through 3 million manuals in the Internet Archive's collections and produced a "Manuals Showcase", a few dozen manuals that are sure to catch your eye here and there. Readable online, downloadable, and ad-free.

https://archive.org/details/manuals_showcase

@sarahzedig dont ya just *love* it when there’s bipartisan consensus to commit social murder! /s

it's so cool that the biden admin is presiding over the casual disenrollment of more than 5 million people from medicaid and no one's talking about it

If women are so great why isn’t there a—HELL FUCKIN YEAH

Power against the fuckery.
Create for you.

Great news: Free KN95 masks are now available from public health vending machines in NYC.

This is amazing work! Not everyone can afford to buy high quality masks regularly. If we want more people to wear masks, high quality masks should be available for free everywhere. Having them in public health vending machines in NYC is a great first step!

Reading the wikipedia entry on Machiavelli and… wait… what

But what if I really want to know?

#LGBT

the experience of being linus torvalds has gotta be so crazy. just think one day “i need some system to manage software versions” and then code something so good (and, tbh, free) that it just becomes the industry standard

Skimming through random midi files from years old downloads and found this one that has... lyrics.

it's an instrumental song from a video game.

In 1975, Icelandic women earned 40% less than men; today it is only 10%. A "Women's Day Off" strike was held in 1975; 90% of women refused to work. It shut down the country. In response Iceland passed a Gender Equality Act & elected a female president.
https://www.vox.com/videos/23842984/iceland-womens-day-off-strike-kvennafri

Reading Wikipedia

Protip: unless you're using Firefox (or one of its derivatives), you're using Chrome.

Don't tell people, "Stop using Chrome," because they'll inevitably end up with Vivaldi, Opera GX, Brave, or MS Edge (or god knows what else). All of these are Chrome.

Instead, tell them, "Switch to Firefox." Give them an idea in their head on what to switch to.

Yes I know I'm concealing the semantics. It's actually "based on Chromium" or whatever the fuck. Considering that Google is the largest contributor to Chromium, and pretty much has the sole responsibility in updating Chromium, and inserts all kinds of Google-specific shit into Chromium, the semantics are irrelevant. Chromium/Edge might as well be Chrome except blue, just like Opera/Vivaldi is Chrome except red, or Brave is Chrome except orange (with a side of homophobia, transphobia, and crypto scam), etc.

Here, look. No in-school infections in a primary school in Australia during the height of omicron. You know what they used to achieve this miraculous feat?

A smoke machine, CO2 detectors, and portable hepa filtration units that you just plug into an outlet and turn on. It's not even fucking hard! They weren't even aerosol engineers or infectious disease experts, they were teachers and parents! Lay people!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/brisbane-school-no-covid-omicron-outbreaks-term-1/100956850

It has come to my attention that some of you are very concerned about data brokers collecting your data, but are not familiar with the work of @yaelwrites and the Big-Ass Data Broker Opt Out List. Please enjoy:

https://github.com/yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List

Anybody confused why people still listen to turntables or CD players forget that they never:

- stop working because they can't connect to WiFi
- stop working because they need a firmware update
- stop working because the manufacturer dropped support
- say "if you like Bach you might like Taylor Swift"
- play ads
- recommend "turntable premium"

WinRAR 0-day that uses poisoned JPG and TXT files under exploit since April

Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/winrar-0-day-that-uses-poisoned-jpg-and-txt-files-under-exploit-since-april/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social