FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

dunking values like freedom and liberty in the trash, wearing booty shorts that read RECIPROCAL OBLIGATION

We no longer live in the age of Lost Media. We live in the age of Active Erasure by corporations who have the means to preserve it but the financial impetus to destroy it. #LostMedia #ActiveErasure #HBOMax #wbdiscovery #wb #Max #Disney #DisneyPlus #Google

this video about putting (a game very similar to) Minecraft on (a modern variant of) the TI-84 is fantastic. the detail they went into on how they optimised the rendering is really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9CiMO66xk

My favourite kind of day!

word on the street is the instance that da share z0ne posted this from (which I boosted earlier today) took down this image.

are they scared of offending poor defenseless corprate interests?

Honestly can you blame me though

cursed schematic generator #pico8

@androcat Talked to a lady who worked for the tax authority here in Norway once. She told me straight away that welfare fraud is such a minor phenomenon that it has zero effect on the welfare budget. She followed that up by saying, "So we need to decide what kind of society we want - one where we're so afraid that someone might get some help they didn't qualify for, at the risk of depriving many others who need that help? Or one where we help folks through tough times and help them become tax payers again?"
A year or two later, I read a study that showed a significant amount of "welfare fraud" cases are folks who genuinely believed they qualified.
The more accessible benefits are, the better for everyone, ultimately.

iOS. the only operating system where many games accidentally remove the leading slash from absolute paths and still work.

I have lost weeks of my life to trying to debug this and crashes related to it.

if I don't do this, the apps use what would be valid absolute paths, but which have a missing leading slash. which surely indicates a bug somewhere. how could this possibly work on the real OS. surely—

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oh.

screams

why does touchHLE's app support improve when I return relative rather than absolute paths for the document directory and app bundle. why do apps seemingly rely on this. surely Foundation/CoreFoundation don't actually do this? I can't reproduce it on a real device. surely…

we have to imagine that all mountain goats songs are about goats

C++: homophobic
Java: homophobic
Fortran: homophobic
Ruby: bi
Python: homophobic
Perl: gay
Haskell: gay
Every ML: gay
Scala: homophobic (@palvaro : "Maybe the *most* homophobic")
Lisp: gayyyyyyy
Prolog: gay
Erlang: mind your own business
SQL: homophobic
XML: homophobic
XSLT: trans as hell (that's what the T stands for)
Forth: UNKNOWN???
Mathematica might be gay but the Wolfram language is homophobic
R: homophobic
CSS: gay
JS: homophobic
YAML: homophobic
JSON: gray ace
TLA+:

“A note to young folks: download the things you love”

https://birchtree.me/blog/a-note-to-young-folks-download-the-videos-you-love/