FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I should probably write a blog post about Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth: where it came from, how it compares (unfavourably) to basically any hardware synth, why it sounds bad, how it could sound better if you use it right…

Perhaps the best remote I have ever seen.

Bumblebees learn by observing other bees. Bumblebees, like ants, may even teach each other. In a University of London experiment a bee watched a "fake bee" (a fuzzy yellow & black orb on a stick) pushing a yellow ball into a circle for a sugar water reward. The bee copied this action.

When a nest mate was introduced, they learned by watching the bee trained in the previous experiment. I find the idea of a "fake bee" adorable.
https://www.popsci.com/brainy-bumblebees-can-push-balls-into-goal/

The research was fundamentally flawed and should not be used as evidence that one group is better than the other. It does, however, highlight the problem of biased research that stigmatises everything about us.

There has been a lot of research about autistics over the years, but this one really took the cake! 🍰

Find out what happened when researchers attempted to compare the moral compass of autistic and non-autistic people... (1/2)

#actuallyautistic #autism #neurodivergence #comic #art #MastoArt

A cishet guy in my FB timeline lost a bet and has to spend all day wearing the jersey of a sportsball team he hates.

At first I didn't understand why it was such a big deal. It's just sportsball. It's just clothes... oh.

This must be like the cishet guy version of dysphoria.

I'm coining this as 'Sportsball Dysphoria'.

my talk "Why can't you multiply vectors?" is now live on youtube!! 🎉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htYh-Tq7ZBI

Tired: A WORD is 16 bits
Wired: A chomp is 16 bits

Apparently mathematicians think I should use the term "large positive integers" and not "big naturals"

Transitioning manually is too hard. I need a stray bolt of magical energy to transform me into a girl.

*talking to a straight couple*
So like... which one of you is the handler, and which one of you is the mech pilot?

remember kids: the point of the html "class" attribute is to list out the explicit formatting of every element on your webpage.

CSS was supposed to split formatting from HTML! and it did.

now instead of horrible HTML like <font size="7" color="red">, we have CSS!
So our HTML can instead look like:
<div class="size-7 color-red">

note: you'll need to include a few hundred KB of CSS libraries to make this work properly, but that's the price we have to pay for elegance

my games are on sale for the @itchio halloween sale! get em here: https://eniko.itch.io/

all sales at this point are basically funneled straight into #KitsuneTails development

What happens when #Android manufacturers prefer battery life over proper functionality 😮

This is from the android issue tracker about OEMs stopping background workers unexpectedly ✋

https://dontkillmyapp.com