FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

find -mtime 0
is a really good command if you have GNU findutils since it lists all files that were changed today

@BigJesusTrashcan @taco

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. >

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."

diegetic watermark

i love the print and the interior details and construction techniques so much

labor-wise, the beautiful thing about management’s alienation from the work they manage, is that in most cases you can just cut them out and replace management *with* the union. they are a lipid layer sitting like an oil-slick upon the tides of our efforts, and they can be washed away.

The Adults in the Room (2019, Deadspin)

> An ever-growing number of media owners, meanwhile, are so exceedingly unwilling to reckon with the particulars of their own business that they refuse to accept our eagerness to help them make money.

https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584

How it's going …

These are not the pills you are looking for! #mrmcd23

@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).

@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.