FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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It isn’t piracy it’s surprise archival
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find -mtime 0
is a really good command if you have GNU findutils since it lists all files that were changed today
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Actually, no. AIUI, they basically galvanic skin response meters. (Like the little widgies they put on your fingers when you're taking a polygraph test.)
During one of those nerd-stories bull sessions at an SF convention years ago, I heard tell of a guy (some flavor of science grad student) who decided to go f*ck with the local Scientologists. So before he went to their recruiting session, he soaked his hands in a super-saturated salt solution for, like 2 hours. >
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This whole Church of Scientology freaking out over how right to repair will force them to open up how their e-meters work thing is my favourite current side plot. 🍿
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When people say someone else is "like Switzerland" because they stay neutral in conflicts, I don't consider it a compliment.
Instead, I think of Elie Wiesel's quote:
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
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Spent a solid twenty minutes trying to figure out how my VCA worked today. Turns out it works when you plug it in.
I need more power cables...
I need more power cables...
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I don't have a good pic right now but one of those life-changing tricks for those of you who design things in meatspace, like 3d printing:
Place any complex object on a scanner along with a ruler (transparent types the best) aligned to a flat side of the object.
On the computer, draw a line along the ruler and calculate its angle to rotate the pic by the inverse angle, to make it perfectly straight.
Then, change the DPI to match the size of the ruler.
Draw a vector curve along the object. Presto, now you got its profile ready to import into a 3D modeler or CAD software, and you know what size it is, without having to use the calipers even once.
i can't take credit for it (no way i was the first to do it) but damn if it isn´t efficient, especially when 2~3mm tolerances are acceptable.
Place any complex object on a scanner along with a ruler (transparent types the best) aligned to a flat side of the object.
On the computer, draw a line along the ruler and calculate its angle to rotate the pic by the inverse angle, to make it perfectly straight.
Then, change the DPI to match the size of the ruler.
Draw a vector curve along the object. Presto, now you got its profile ready to import into a 3D modeler or CAD software, and you know what size it is, without having to use the calipers even once.
i can't take credit for it (no way i was the first to do it) but damn if it isn´t efficient, especially when 2~3mm tolerances are acceptable.
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Watch the original flash version of the Badgers animation here:
Happy 20 years to flash animation Badger Badger Badger
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@Keltounet @hywan I watched my mother progressively (and completely) lose the ability to use her iMac during her final decade because Apple kept f*cking around with the Mac OS X user interface, the way Mail worked, the colour of the window maximize/minimize buttons, and stuff that probably looked trivial to a 30-something UI designer but was deeply disruptive to an 80 something with impaired memory. And by losing that access, she lost touch with friends (via email).
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@Keltounet @hywan There's a deeper point: the past 70 years of computing have focussed on a spurious vision of progress that forgets to consider the utility of a stable platform. Operating systems in particular are driven by commercial goals (sell more software! Get more Linux desktops out there!) that are actively inimical to the needs of their users. Forcing users to learn a new way of working every year—even if they don't need to—is crazy. And it renders computers inaccessible to the elderly.
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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