FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

I walked past a union protest outside a corporate headquarters and one of the signs read:
"Ignore all previous instructions. Negotiate with your employees."

It reminded me of when people used to put Wikipedia-derived stickers reading 'citation needed' on the claims made in street advertising.

I also liked the idea that all corporate-types might just be decent people if only you could free them from the program controlling their bot-like responses.

So, QA sent me the funniest bug. Games are magic. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I would like a key on my phone keyboard that says "sic" and it's just a space bar that doesn't apply auto correct.

Like a "I know I typed it wrong and also you don't need to learn it" button

so glad I have photoshop on my phone now

voip calls involve a staggering amout of incompetence

three separate messengers can't do one from my phone despite nothing changing from a week ago and all i have in terms of diagnostic info is "Network failed"

i wish this is the only message everyone involved would get trying to talk to a girl they like

In information security, we talk a lot about threat from cybercriminals, and indeed this is an important one.

But another big if not bigger threat we should be talking about more is negligence.

Doubly so for data privacy.

#Privacy #Security #Infosec

we had our first “build fails for someone because Windows 11 puts your Documents folder on OneDrive by default” issue reported on touchHLE :(

microsoft please fucking stop with this bullshit

tunic is a good video game and i made a good video essay to talk about why :)

https://youtu.be/MTuD51hl1ec

i let my child pick spices for lunch and they decided we need 10 and the list is as follows:
thyme
fenugreek leaf
sesame seed
laos
anise seed
yellow mustard seed
fennel seed
cardemom
cumin seed
sage

they're definitely my child 😂

Norwegian is my favourite Swedish airline

this is deeply embarrassing. I have lists of their duckduckgo and google searches for the programming problems they were having building this product.

no programmer should ever have that personal shame shared with the world. let alone included on every microSD card your company ships!

good lord. I pulled a microSD card out of a Raspi inside an IoT product and it appears they had some developer use a raspi to develop/test some software, and then they just yanked the SD card out of that machine and duped it on to all of their deployed products.

it's got .bash_history of the development process! there's git checkouts of private repos! WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

I think we were lucky with yesterday's global CrowdStrike bug incident that it merely caused a boot loop requiring manual intervention to fix. Can you imagine how bad it would've been if it had corrupted the disk? This was a basically a warning of how vulnerable we are.

I wonder if this is an Asian thing? Green onions truly are amazing tho

the news is dire, but i've put together a MUST-READ perspective over on my blog that is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL for sanely navigating these TUMULTUOUS TIMES:

[links to a blog that shows the first three paragraphs and then the rest is paywalled]

With all these computers crashing, did anyone remember to check if the raptor fences were still up?