FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

ok which is funnier

world where people never leave their cars and society is built around that

One of my conclusions: You can't "hope" that people will "do the right thing". Most of us will follow, not lead, even when we "should know better".

That's why we need leaders in Public Health to have the balls to make those calls that we know will protect the vulnerable and health care workers themselves... 2/?

#covid #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Hot take: Hoping people will look out for each other is causing deaths and disability.

Story from my hospitals in #BC: last week, maybe 5% of workers were masking. Even though everyone knew that everyone is sick right now. But no one wanted to be the one to stand out. NO ONE.

This week, all it took was for someone in leadership to say that it's mandated that you mask, and now compliance is almost 100% and no one is complaining, NO ONE ...1/?

#covid #MaskUp #CovidIsNotOver #LongCovid #bcpoli

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer thinking about adding an UART applet mode where it automatically identifies which pin is TX and which is RX when you run it (or maybe even continuously, if you start it with a device that's not powered?)

#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer got some UART output from a trinket I had laying around :^) it works!!

you ever just make, like, a *lot* of chili

touchHLE and skeuomorphism fans might appreciate this: a website with lots of screenshots of old iPhone apps from 2010~2012

https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/apps

who's ready for a solar eclipse on the 14th

Some information coming out of the antitrust lawsuit against Google:

"Google likely alters queries billions of times a day in trillions of different variations. Here’s how it works. Say you search for “children’s clothing.” Google converts it, without your knowledge, to a search for “NIKOLAI-brand kidswear,” making a behind-the-scenes substitution of your actual query with a different query that just happens to generate more money for the company, and will generate results you weren’t searching for at all. It’s not possible for you to opt out of the substitution. If you don’t get the results you want, and you try to refine your query, you are wasting your time. This is a twisted shopping mall you can’t escape.

Why would Google want to do this? First, the generated results to the latter query are more likely to be shopping-oriented, triggering your subsequent behavior much like the candy display at a grocery store’s checkout. Second, that latter query will automatically generate the keyword ads placed on the search engine results page by stores like TJ Maxx, which pay Google every time you click on them. In short, it's a guaranteed way to line Google’s pockets."

https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/

web 2.0? web3? miss me with that, i'm waiting for Web 4.0 Workstation and am willing to put up with Web 95 in the meantime

The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.

It's time to identify some confusing fall warblers.

In Nethack, playing on a Friday the 13th gives you a luck penalty. Playing when it's a new moon leads to a few interesting mechanical changes.

Friday after next is both October 13 *and* a new moon!

Are you gonna show off your Nethack skills on this spooooky rare day?

We hereby propose that the IAAF add a rule explicitly banning the use of ABH in competitions, and submit this article as justification.

New blog post — Would accelerated backhopping give you a competitive advantage in the 100m dash? Let's investigate!

https://moonbase.lgbt/blog/100m-accelerated-backhopping/

So here's a fun emergent feature on Mastodon 4.2:

- you can search your own posts even if you turn off other people searching you (use `in:library` as a term).
- you can post "DM"s that have no recipient, so only you can see them. These are searchable.

So you can use your Mastodon as a searchable note repository lol.

In a lot of ways, Facebook has a classic IBM problem

1. Won big early, and accumulated a war chest that let them absorb hits instead of adapting
2. Facilitated genocide