FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

🪦 Microsoft is discontinuing WordPad after almost 30 years. They recommend using Microsoft Word for rich text and Windows Notepad for plain text, but you can also explore our complete list of alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/9/microsoft-has-finally-announced-the-end-of-the-road-for-wordpad-a-windows-staple-since-1995/

The fuck you will.

There is literally no good reason for elon musk to have biometric, work history, and schooling data about the twitter user base, but there are a plethora or rather in fact an UNENDING NIGHTMARISH TIDE of bad ones. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-31/x-plans-to-collect-user-biometric-data-job-and-education-history

Once again: regardless of what country I live in, I should be able tell twitter or any other company to delete my data, and then it should be GONE, and someone should be able to CHECK.

a modest proposal: rename Burning Man to Soylent Dweeb

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