FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

@Nifflas My favourite is probably False, which is probably the start of the trend, which was also actually usable to write real programs in, and the compiler was 1k. Brainfuck was a response to it, trying to make a smaller compiler while sacrificing all usefulness, which it achieved by having a compiler under 256 bytes.

I was gonna finish this much earlier but the power came for like 30 mins and went out. I had to finish this with generator power. halp.

there are rumors about 2fa possibly involving other things, like authentication apps or biometrics or "you bee keys", whatever those are, but there's no evidence of that ever being real.

it's just a password and a 6 digit number you get texted

why is it called 2 factor? well, there's two factors:
1. your username/password
2. a 6-digit number you get texted

"2 factor authentication" is an english word meaning "we'll text you a 6 digit number"

Dublin right now #solarflare #aurora

ANATOMY OF A RESURRECTION: how they saved Doctor Who (again)

a new video essay about creative bankruptcy in corporate media and how to do an IP revival right

https://youtu.be/F6hmBlQiwZ0?si=WybH-xkQkng_FEij

Sufficiently Advanced Bodging™ is indistinguishable from having used the correct pinout.

In Europe, flying is cheaper than taking the train.

It's an embarrassment, and a major problem: we have to stop flying for silly short distances. Realise that the overheads of flying (reaching the airport, awaiting 2 hours, the flight, the unloading, reaching the destination) largely cancel out any time gains of flying. And the carbon costs are utterly untenable. Not to speak of the modern, dire conditions of the whole flying "experience".

Another embarrassment is that train connections can't be guaranteed when across countries or companies. They aren't even coordinated. As if those who commission and set the schedules didn't travel by train themselves, at least not internationally. In considering how tiny most European countries are, it's frankly bizarre.

There are so many destinations one could travel by train to, yet in practice, it's not sensible. A disgrace.

The upside is that it can be fixed.

#trains #EuroRail

The patron saint of gifted children

one of the world's great mysteries is how swedish and german can both be perfectly normal germanic languages with very reasonable spelling and pronunciation, while in between sweden and germany there is somehow denmark

you know, sweden is very lucky that its capital happens to be named in a way that native english speakers will pronounce correctly without help

pokemon idea: chupacapybara

What tech bros see vs. what I see

#AI

@Impossible_PhD

‪live music is so cool i wish musicians were real‬

in reality, pulling everything into the computer does empower people to some extent, but the reason corporations want to do it has always been so that they can impose their own new constraints in the new context. the goal is not for humanity to solve its problems, but for corporate entities to be in charge of the problems and profiting by them.