FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

New, slightly updated #introduction:

Hello! I’m Clar Fon, a.k.a. Light Dark, a.k.a. ltdk, and I use they/them/their pronouns.

I’m an agender autist who has announced their intention to leave the tech industry for at least six years, and who might actually leave it without a choice. If you want to stop me in this endeavour, please take a look at my CV and share it with anyone who might be hiring.

I’ve accumulated all sorts of weird knowledge in maths and software and I try to share with others whenever I can. I’ve also got a love for lots of mostly indie video games and have some ideas of my own that I hope to make a reality some day.

Although I’ve accepted that I’ll never be a Conventional teacher, I’ve started pivoting to working on longer-form pieces that can help educate people on all this weird stuff I’ve got floating in my head.

My plan is to make more and more educational content with the hope that it can maybe become a full-time job. I also want to continue working on my game projects and pursue that avenue as well.

Basically, I’m a mess of works in progress that will hopefully become something great, but I’m confident I’ll get there on at least something.

For something a little less serious, I also host the account @ltht (“light heart”) where I post light-hearted one-off stuff, which is mostly just out-of-context quotes from the various things I'm into.

I just found out about https://feedle.world, a search engine that exclusively works on RSS feeds that have been submitted to it. Could be a good source for finding actual humans in a rapidly enshittifying internet.

If you have an RSS feed you should submit yours to it as well!

@sjmulder
History shows that machines that have fixed specification get noticeable better software as their commercial lives go on as programmers get to grips with the hardware and squeeze every last bit of performance out of them.
The games at the beginning of the original Playstations life vs. games a few years into its life is a good example. Plus all the home micros from the 80/90's were getting much superior software by the end of their commercial lives.

I commented "laptops don't get slow, software does" on a video on upgrading your laptop and WOW was I taken aback by some of the response.

People actually believe degrading thermal paste is to blame for a messenger app taking half a gig of RAM?

That the Epic games launcher takes ages to launch because it has so many features?

That a news website is downloading and interpreting a small operating system worth of code for-what-reason-exactly is the march of progress?

#performance #software

Layoff/redundancy articles should follow this format:

[Company], which had revenues of [amount] in the last four quarters, announced layoffs today. [CEO], who makes [salary], announced [count] would be laid off, approximately [percent] of [CEO's] annual benefit package.

The very best WAPS of 2024!

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valve were so real for this. as a woman i can confirm

Idea: give rendering techniques skate trick names

PSA to people shooting unboxing videos etc: the 2D barcodes on your packages that look like this tend to contain your address!

Bet he wasn’t expecting this response.

the western world only knowing about black pepper may be absurdly limiting, but on the other hand it's a good spice, so it's impossible to say if this is bad or not

fedi

#foxesInLove #comic

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Meanwhile in Mountain View: Google horrified to learn that a "mock interview" doesn't mean what they thought it did and they spent the last twenty years being complete assholes to candidates by mistake.

Condé Nast Union Members Launch 24-Hour Walkout Amid Layoff Talks

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/conde-nast-strike-union-walks-out-24-hours-1235803673/

From the other site:

Starting at midnight EST for 24 hours, DON’T CROSS OUR CLICK-IT LINE, that means no clicks, likes, reshares on:

GQ ❌
Vanity Fair ❌
Bon Appétit ❌
Architectural Digest ❌
Vogue ❌
Allure ❌
Glamour ❌
Epicurious ❌
Self ❌
Condé Nast Traveler ❌
Them ❌
Teen Vogue ❌

[Note that other Condé Nast-owned media sites like New Yorker, Wired, etc have their own unions so aren't part of this.]