FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

some people who make programming easier

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I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

It’s not even 8 AM and I’ve already been subjected to psychic violence (code reviews):

$optionIds = array_values(explode(',', str_replace(['"', '[', ']'], '', $option)));

#php

@split when I was in high school, several math websites were blocked for "prohibited educational content" and if that doesn't perfectly describe the US education system ​

i still think this is the funniest block reason my school has ever set

Old web aficionados, do I have a website for you:
http://logiclrd.cx/

This one from Logic Lord (copyright 1997) has all the hallmarks of the old web but the important thing is this astounding paragraph on the front page:

"This homepage used to be hosted on my own WWW server called mIRC-WWW. The server is programmed entirely in mIRC code, supports binary files, and partially supports CGIs. A screenshot is available here. The script makes use of the advanced features of mIRC v5.8, which adds, starting with version 5.3, over the previous version with picture windows, custom sockets, millisecond timers, and much more. Version 5.5 also adds support for user dialogs, so now you can create forms like you can with Visual Basic or VC++'s resource editor."

A whole-ass web server written in an #IRC client. There's even a screenshot of it in action. Just incredible stuff. I'm so glad this is still online.

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…