FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@JamesWidman DoD routinely violates software licenses, open source and proprietary

you cannot solve the problem of imperialism by calling cops on cops, this is not how imperialism works

hi please hire me to make you pixels i'm broke and unemployed and i need the money https://maple.pet/commissons #mutualaid #commissons #pixelart #art #mastoart thanks for having boosted this post already i know you won't have failed me 💜

I just learned that my husband has possibly the most cursed WFH technique I've ever heard of:

1. He sets an alarm to go off every 30 minutes.

2. When the alarm goes off he checks his work email, makes calls, fills out forms etc

3. When he has finished whatever task he is doing he IMMEDIATELY falls asleep

4. The next time the alarm goes off he wakes up and repeats this process

It's like pomodoro technique for snorlax

the shit unity's pulling right now is horrible, of course, but if a lot of people switch to godot because of it, that's a great silver lining. imo it's a lot better designed overall, it's friendlier to beginners, and it is of course open source

Oh gooood, this whole #Unity3D blowout?

It literally happened because of that shitty Iron Source buy-out that everyone was pissed about. The call to add this fee literally came from the Iron Source side of the business, and it only exists to "kill AppLovin" (a rival ad provider that is better). https://mobilegamer.biz/unity-is-offering-a-runtime-fee-waiver-if-you-switch-to-levelplay-as-it-tries-to-kill-applovin/

Oh my god, I've finally caught it live while #hiking today in #switzerland

THE MYTHICAL COW HELICOPTER LIFT

Since I've seen a lot of chatter about people switching to #Firefox as Google ramps up the enshitification of #Chrome, let me tell you about a killer feature for people who (a) need multiple accounts on the same websites (eg. devs) or specifically (b) have to use multiple Google accounts.

Firefox has an official addon called Multi Account Containers that lets you trivially set up color coded tabs that have separate sets of cookies. Log into your dev account in one, and your test account in another. Log into your personal #gmail in one and have another tab next to it with your work Gmail. I'm actually not signed in to any Google accounts in most my tabs, I just have containers for the specific tasks I do on Google products.

It'll take you 30 seconds to set up.

Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Mozilla's explanation: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

you like kissing girlthings don't you

Tired: elaborate remote code execution exploits
Hired: calling her a good girl if she runs the ransomware executable

who’s the “bisects until correct pants size” and who’s the “holds clothes outside fitting room” girl in *your* lesbiab relationship

We got a new microwave! The manual of this one seemingly decided, fuck it, teach the fundamentals and the rest shall follow? A+

Last year, a police tech company shared a plan to make Taser drones for schools. It said they’d “save lives” in the case of a shooting.

Nearly the whole ethics board resigned in response.

But the company seems to be making the tech anyway. NEW w/ WIRED: https://mrkup.org/YJaOO

Texas' government just spent $31.7M in the middle of a heat wave and energy shortage.

No, not to provide fresh shelter to the homeless. Neither to install booths with free fresh water. Neither to increase the number of public spaces (outside of shopping malls) where people can gather, instead of burning energy to keep their homes cool 24/7. Neither to boost its investments in renewables and pivot away from the oil that it keeps digging.

No, the government just gave that money away to Bitcoin miners to convince them to turn off their energy-hungry machines, so everybody else can also use energy to keep themselves cool.

Let that sink in. Even a life-threatening heatwave can't get miners to behave cooperatively and turn off their machines, whose only purpose is as pointless as randomly guessing a number whose SHA256 hash satisfies a certain arbitrary numeric constraint - and they skim some profits out of these pointless puzzles just because someone decided that putting up a system with such perverse financial incentives was a good idea. In order to get them to behave as someone who's not a complete selfish sociopath and evolutionary failure, the government had to compensate them for the losses that they would make by turning off their computers.

I guess that today's capitalism is that system where it's actually ok for the government to spend public money - as long as that money goes to those who need it the least.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bitcoin-mining-cryptocurrency-riot-texas-power-grid/

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

like genuinely there are times walking around the city when i feel like 2023 seattle is a freaky mirror image of 1970s new york. boarded up windows, steel bars, anticapitalist graffiti everywhere, asshole cops, rude drivers, a not-always-dependable public transit system.

during smoke season it's like, hold on, let me check my information rectangle for local terror fog readings. yup, the terror fog that will kill you if you breathe too much of it is really bad today. better close the windows

the two genders