FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

oh my god this localizes too early

so instead of just doing "if (current_room=='kitchen')", and showing different strings for "kitchen" depending on which language the user selected, it has to do:

if (current_room == "Kitchen" || current_room == "кухня" || current_room == "부엌" || current_room == "Cocina"){
...
}

It's my Birthday today 🎈
As a tradition I may request for sharing my work.
Thank you to everyone who supported me so far.
I'm looking forward to a brighter future. You can find more in my Bio.

#art #mastoart #landscapeart

No but for real:

MasterCard getting to determine what counts as "adult" content, including drawn images like figure studies?

Patreon handing your face data & ID information over to a 3rd party?

That 3rd party claiming a right to use that data to train their facial recognition "AI"?

All bad.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/88720290

$ ls -a
.gitkeep
.girlboss
_gaslight/

What I'm listening to today: "Buchla 200 at the Evergreen State College.", Giselle Garcia

Some drums-not-needed analog synth music on a vintage unit at a college in Olympia, Washington. Chill but with a distinctly sharp energy. What I used to think of as "Space Mountain Music".

There's a gap of about two minutes halfway through this video as the musician configures the unit for her second song so you may want to stop the video at 2:40, but I do like the closeout track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgl-UuwMUKs

an important skill to have as you get older is the ability to be taught something from someone younger than you

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?????