FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

In 2016, everyone took it for granted that Brexit would lose and planned their protest votes accordingly.

Everyone now is taking it for granted that the Tories will lose and is planning their protest vote accordingly.

My friends, this is a category error. A vote is not a protest.

autotools be like

checking for number system base ... base 2
checking for signed integer system ... twos complement
checking for galaxy ... milky way
checking for laws of the universe ... standard model

Where the #ICQ „Uh-Oh“ sound really came from: Not Worms or Lemmings, as some are telling you. Instead Windows 3.0 MultiMedia Edition from 1991 contains the exact same sample as „ohoh.wav“. #retrocomputing #windows #1990s

Sorry, large numbers of what

I bet you do!

Dissecting a mitre. #dissection #mitre

it's funny how modern x64 linux distros that you can't install on 32-bit x86 machines still include i386 versions of everything in their package repositories because wine sort of still needs them (well, i can't think of a strong other reason to include them)

idk why but this is the funniest sequence of youtube titles/thumbnails to me

bruh moment

A single picture taken in the #Netherlands

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I feel like most in-house software is tacitly released under the Hot Potato Licence.

By the way, this survey from a few months ago says 66% of "experienced advertisers" run adblock, higher than the American average of 52%.

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/privacy-report-advertisers-and-adblockers

More and more websites have anti-adblock measures these days, some going so far as to tell you to uninstall your ad blocker altogether. I understand the impulse, but you are basically telling your users to meaningfully reduce their security for your benefit.

touchscreen this, ai that, where can i get a laptop with a real bell for \a (␇)