FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how busy you were
- how many hours you worked

people will remember:
- when you stepped up to help strangers
- the times you destroyed power plants
- your giant sword

I can't describe the feeling of being abroad and watching Israeli airstrikes hit your city over and over again and you're checking on the group chats with people reacting seconds later while also trying to understand what's happening because explaining it is part of your job. #Beirut #Lebanon

Amen.

"just roll with it" genuinely the best advice

https://ompuco.itch.io/truss

Some cats just love any and all attention

Another photo from the archive: it felt great to get GenBank DNA sequences out on the table with a bit more room to breathe.

ALL THESE YEARS HEARING ABOUT AUTOMATTIC AND MATT MULLENWEG AND I NEVER REALISED HE WAS VAIN ENOUGH TO NAME THE COMPANY AFTER HIMSELF!!! 😭

(watching a video about wordpress drama centring on the guy who runs the project, who's called matt) wait hold up hold on a fucking second is the company called autoMATTic because of this aaaaaaa

If the Kubernetes material was honest about "your team will need recurrent annual training to remain current with this tool," adoption would crater overnight.

That's not unique to Kubernetes, though it is fun to pick on them for it. _Nearly every_ significant infrastructure tool has this shape. Organizations that adopt these tools are unable to receive their value until their staff know how to use them, and that knowledge is deeply not self-sustaining.

Yeah I use an IDE setup for programming

internal GPU
deticated GPU
external GPU

OH: "brekkie is like Beckie but with a hard R"

weirdest gdpr error ive gotten so far

this latest edition of "Android team posting nothing but Ws for adopting Rust" is super important because it identifies that:

*you don't have to actually rewrite all your old unsafe C/C++ code to get the benefits of adopting safe languages, in terms of reducing vulnerabilites*

because they identify that most bugs are in new/changed code (with exponential decay!), so if you preferentially write new code in a safe language, your vulnerabilities crater even though most of your code is still unsafe!

https://security.googleblog.com/2024/09/eliminating-memory-safety-vulnerabilities-Android.html

silicon valley is fucking cooked man. they have absolutely nothing left. they don't even have straws to grasp at anymore.