FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I've always read that global variables are bad.

Theme gives meaning to mechanics; mechanics give weight to theme

so good.

When I was 15 years old, a gay man named Matthew Shepard was brutally tortured and murdered. That was 25 years ago, today, October 6, 1998.

This was not called a hate crime at the time, and it was another 10 years before gender, sexual orientation, and disability were included in federal hate crime legislation.

I'd like to say that the world has changed. In some ways, it has. (Hi! I'm gay! — and I'm an engineering manager at a major global corporation, which I couldn't have imagine would be possible in my lifetime.)

But in many ways, the world hasn't changed. The same intensity and depth of stigma is still there in many parts of the world. We've created little channels of tolerance here and there, but bias and the stigma that powers is are still swirling around us, like an airborne virus barely held back by positive pressure.

Keep it up, and don't let your guard down. I can't.
#MatthewShepard

VDSL over bannana apparently tester got 53680/12658 kbps connection speed on a short run from in-house exchange/DSLAM, through banana, to VDSL2 modem. way better than what i got at home...

“Human emotions still collided one against another until the sharp edges were sanded away and there was nothing left to hold onto and halt their Brownian motion.”

Feeling Boo-tee-full. Endearing and wonderful art from Nick Maskell.

if you are human, answer me this

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