FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

update: my friend's girlfriend's sister's girlfriend who definitely works at google wanted to clarify that chrome is just another component of android now

my friend's girlfriend's sister's girlfriend who definitely works at google and is real just sent me this. as you can see we're fucked

my website runs on Grav and I just discovered that the admin panel gets upset if you try to save a page that's over 65,536 characters long

the github issue for this, of course, has been ignored for 11 months

but thankfully they point to the code that added this limit so i can easily hack it out

Q: What do you call a AVX2 instruction that can be exploited in a side-channel attack to leak information?

A: An attack vector.

Adding a pronoun picker to a game with no player character just so that the wrong people won't play it

Do not trust AI to tell you which mushrooms to pick.

By extension, you can no longer trust Amazon results for that, or Google results either.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/01/mushroom-pickers-urged-to-avoid-foraging-books-on-amazon-that-appear-to-be-written-by-ai

@eff is totally wrong with this take about KiwiFarms and HE: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

Every customer of HE signs a contract, which states that they will abide by the TOS/AUP or their service may be interrupted.

There is no world where KiwiFarms abides by their TOS/AUP. By design the entire purpose of the website is an egregious violation of multiple points of the HE AUP.

HE has the right to enforce their TOS/AUP by not routing traffic to Joshua Moon.

EFF should retract this article immediately.

ah yes, one of the losers from that vile website sent me a comment i didn’t bother reading.

although that vile website has caused substantive harm to several friends and colleagues over the years, my objection to the EFF publishing this irresponsible take is that they are attempting to erode the right of network operators to enforce their policies, which will result in a much less secure internet.

as somebody who was a CTO of a reasonably sized NSP, this is not the outcome we want as a society. if every single takedown had to be adjudicated, illegal activities such as spam operations, malware distribution and CSAM distribution would take considerably longer to shut down than they already do, while tangible harms from these operations would continue for much longer.

did EFF blast Microsoft for shutting down various botnet control infrastructure? no.

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Here's a really fucking radical idea:

What if we made a society that does not assume you have access to a cellphone at any time

video's up: https://youtu.be/cC8oECLUXzs

(it'll be in better bitrate in a couple of hours when youtube's finished ingesting my absurdly high-res upscale)

but one fascinating thing about Domination (1998) is that there's a "terminal" in the game, that you can walk up to. and it's an actual terminal! it looks like an Apple II, but it has cls, dir, help, system, ver, and some other stuff I forget, including: rex++, which is an honest-to-god fully-featured programming language??

let me remind you that this is a 3D shooty game. it's not even an action RPG!! what!!!!!

also DID THEY NAME THE MAIN CHARACTER (Rex Blade) AFTER REXX?????

Windows, why do you need to "set up" the laptop keyboard I'm typing on to ask about this and is it seriously wired up as PS/2 on a device not even thick enough to support a PS/2 connector

"She attempted to fight the demand, attempting to buy the [brain] implant outright and remortgaging their house to do so. They were unsuccessful, and she was the last person to get the [device] removed."

"I wish I could’ve kept it. I would have done anything to keep it."

"it calls to mind a similar incident last year in which the manufacturer of a bionic eye decided the units were obsolete, leading patients who'd had them implanted to lose their vision again."

😦😡

https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-implant-removed-consent

🪦 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