FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

@hikari the uninvention of the computer upsets me so immensely
because not only are we living in a world designed around people not having a computer, we even live in a world where the computer computer user has their agency removed and gets forced to own a smartphone.
My bank does not offer authentication methods that work without an app anymore, forcing you to have at least one device with an arbitrarily "new" enough Android or iOS version to warrant having their authenticator app working

Bitcoin Tulips.

Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
https://jwz.org/b/ykdm

Update: I am IN THE AIR ON IN-FLIGHT WIFI and I am listening to AMIGA TRACKER JUNGLE MUSIC. I am going to STOP GIVING YOU UPDATES ON MY LOCATION/MUSIC STATUS NOW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhhBZjEvyUo

We took like FORTY-FIVE MINUTES TO BEGIN TAXIING. This is objectively not so long and probably would not have seemed like so long, but it had already taken me seven hours to get from where I was staying to the point of sitting on the plane, so it felt like a long time. I'm pretty certain I am not going to be sleeping for at least the next SEVENTEEN HOURS. I really hope there are seventeen hours of AMIGA TRACKER JUNGLE MUSIC on YouTube. I think there's about that much but I've not counted

i really like this one

PSA: If you're reading and parsing `/proc/cpuinfo` for anything, you should probably stop.

The CPU information you're probably looking for is available in structured form in `/sys/devices/system/cpu`, no horrible text parsing required. And unlike `/proc/cpuinfo`, the `/sys` hierarchy is standardized across architectures (as much as is practical). In particular, you will not find CPU topology info in /proc/cpuinfo on non-x86 architectures.

Signed, ARM64 users who keep seeing things like "1 cpu, 1 core, 8 threads" in software written by x86 users (I'm looking at you, GeekBench).

I'm currently unemployed, mostly bedridden, and trying to find a new doctor who* is actually interested in treating me. It's a whole thing.

If you could donate a couple dollars, that'd really help me. Thanks so much.

* Not that one. A time machine is not required, though I wouldn't say no to one.
https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing
#mutualaidreqest

you know, this feels like a fun time to remind those of you able bodied out there, ally or not, you will be disabled eventually, unless you die very young. it might take 40 years for your hips to give out, or you might have a lifechanging accident in the next 30 minutes, but don't think you're better than me just because i've been disabled since i was a teenager. you'll know what it's like eventually. maybe start advocating for us now while you have working legs and arms and eyes

My mother’s union just secured a 40% raise and 7 weeks parental leave for its workers after walking off the job (in an illegal strike no less).

Don’t let people tell you unions aren’t worth fighting for

hey gargron hire me for graphic design i can make mastodon branding way cooler

like here

I should post about something else. Here’s another corvid. This time a rook that lives near me.

gordon freeman skating game called half pipe

Distributed Disk Operating System (DDOS)

I don't recommend it

[simpler pixel art for today because I'm quite tired]

#MastoArt #FediArt #PixelArt #Art #Cats #Meme

Fritzi Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller
December 24,1936