FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

The bathtub curve, but for tech literacy

is "just making things up" coming for your job?

our new "just making things up"-powered algorithm will revolutionize your workflow

browser extension that replaces AI with "just making things up"

I'm feeling raw today and just said to a friend:

I'm gonna nurture dah fuck outta myself today.

(shared in case anybody else needs to nurture dah fuck outta themselves today)

If you apply the Y2K update to Windows 95, will it become Windows 1995?

#retrocomputing

no one had the correct response, which is FOONE THIS THREAD IS SIX MONTHS OLD
WIKIPEDIA STILL HAS THE BAD FLAG
WIKIPEDIA STILL THINKS THE BAD FLAG IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
AND VGAPRIDE HASN'T BEEN UPDATED TO HAVE A BETTER FLAG YET

A discussion from Tumblr about my Brazilian Pride Flag Conflict re: VGAPride got reposted on reddit, and it's hilarious how different the reaction is.

So many people there are like "why are you having this problem? MS-DOS? just design the flag in inkscape or g*mp! why would you want to design a pride flag for DOS?"

It's real sad. They just don't understand why anyone would write software to display pride flags on DOS.

if the York Times is so good why isn't there a New York Times

Why is it exactly 0% surprising that Gamers are upset about god mode being implemented as an accessibility feature but not about actual god mode cheats 🤔

Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who

Brought a snowball to the Senate floor to "refute" climate change
Received an inhuman amount of money from Oil lobbyists
Fought against Covid relief measures during the pandemic

...has died from long Covid.

Bring that snowball to hell with you for a quick joke for all your new friends, Jimmy.

OMG ITS FINALLY TIME

I FINALLY HAVE 10 YEARS OF RUST PROGRAMMING EXPERIENCE

I CAN FINALLY APPLY FOR ENTRY-LEVEL RUST POSITIONS LETS GOOOO

please don't mistake this for me thinking gabe newell is cool

no we are all horrified he might retire because the only thing making pc gaming usable is the fact that steam isn't a publicly traded company and thus it doesn't have to cater to endless growth enshittification and can blow it's stupid amounts of money on projects like the steam deck

and as soon as it goes public we're all fucked lol

32 GB of RAM, 12th gen i7, 1 Gb/s internet connection, and Teams still takes ten seconds to get started. The software “industry” deserves a lot of awards for negating fourty years of hardware progress.

"Also electrons aren't really 'spinning' per se but they have angular momentum"

How is that different from spinning

"At that scale 'spinning' isn't really a meaningful concept anymore"

Got it. Does the universe actually make any sense then?

"Not really, it follows rules but the rules don't make any sense"

Cool, cool. Wanna play video games?

"Yeh"