FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Interesting notification from FB about their AI intentions. The piece that caught my eye is underlined.

Kommer vården drabbas av strejken? Ja! Är det dom strejkandes ansvar? Nej.

Det är regionernas och kommunernas ansvar att kunna erbjuda den vård som är lagstiftad ensligt lag. Då får de också betala det som de som ska utföra detta jobb kräver.

Utan kollektivavtal så finns det ingen arbetsfred.

How to gird your loins

I've found compiler bugs before, but this is the first compiler-compiler bug I've ever seen – incredible stuff:

https://issues.chromium.org/issues/336399264

Capital is dumping its resources into AI because it believes it will advance capital's interests of further accumulation of labour's products. It does not matter in the short term that capital is sorely mistaken. Much like a bad king, capital's misallocation reduces output available to labour too (by preferentially allocating resources to those who participate in the squander). We will suffer this for so long as we permit capital to make macro allocative decisions.

Horrible when those in charge make decisions that make your life much harder for purely selfish reasons without giving a crap about your situation, isn't it. Just awful.

noooooo not you too kde

FUN FACT:
if you build electronic devices which contain a raspberry pi in them, consider what will happen if one of them gets thrown out.
someone might open them up, stick the microSD card in them into a reader, and open up that tantalizing "apps.json" file which has YOUR GOD DAMN AWS KEYS? IN UNENCRYPTED PLAIN TEXT?

i'm finally opening up boxes of software from my archive that haven't seen the light of day in 15-20 years. today, i found a program that has never been archived or probably seen in over 40 years.

i absolutely adore this dungeon mastering program for the TRS-80 that was distributed in ziplock bags in 1982

i can find only one mention of it on the web - the august 1982 issue of TRS-80 Rainbow magazine that advertises it for $19.95 + S&H

happily, i found the cassette, which has never been archived anywhere AFAIK. i am scanning in the printed documentation, along with making a recording of the tape.

#gamePreservation #trs80 #tandy #retroComputing #retroGaming

something that struck me when playing a Star Wars game is how *weird* it feels to say “four-hundred year old computer”

like, to them that’s normal. and for most of the rest of history, it will also be normal

but to us specifically, we who live at the transitional era—it’s weird!

CompilerFax: Sending C source code via telefax to a compiler-as-a-service which then faxes you the output of your program; demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-25-pRhpY git: https://github.com/lexbailey/compilerfax intended for #emfcamp #retronetworking #whatagreathack

So there's always the debate between QWERTY and alphabetical keyboards, but everyone is missing the obvious way to solve this disagreement.

There's no reason the alphabet HAS to be in that order. It's arbitrary, and English would work almost completely the same if the alphabet was in a different order, you know?

So, let's just put the alphabet in QWERTY order!
It'd solve all our problems from Q to M.

Watching Microsoft shut down a bunch of game studios that they literally just acquired is giving me flashbacks to "embracing" and "extinguishing".

YOUR ENEMIES LAMENT YOUR VERY EXISTENCE. HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH WATER TODAY?

This too is the world I want to live in.

if you have a computer you no longer use, consider donating it to your local Linux Creature.

Linux Creatures must install linux on a new device every few months in order to survive, and you may end up getting a useful computer out of it to boot.

(if the Linux Creature decides to hand it back to you instead of keeping it for their silly little experiments)

my home is basically uninhabitable and my landlord is fucking me over and i basically have to move extremely soon. it's a great day to buy any of my recent games, like Forgotten Palaces, The Dashing Young Captain or The Hole in Your House!

https://w.itch.io/