FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

being fired from my job at the weighted blanket factory for suggesting the new super weighted blanket should use depleted uranium pellets

it turns out it's a lot easier to get to localhost when you don't accidentally spell it "localhoast"

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Everywhere you go
🎄
#DOSGaming

So many of you would rather appreciate a dragon girl than go to therapy and it shows. #meme #vtuber #dragongirl

#BlueSky hasn’t ruled out ads, which means it hasn’t ruled out **tolerance for the insidious incentives** that ads bring. Namely, tolerance for hate and abuse in the name of eyeballs and growing the audience. Just like Twitter did.

This is probably also a good time to bring up BlueSky’s deep entanglement with bitcoin scams, considering it was founded and is heavily funded by bitcoin grifters.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/bluesky-ceo-jay-graber-is-reshaping-social-media-but-advertising-isnt-off-the-table/

2024-12-12 is a cool number

Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware)

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-recall-screenshots-credit-cards-and-social-security-numbers-even-with-the-sensitive-information-filter-enabled
http://www.techmeme.com/241212/p41#a241212p41

#music #jazz

[extremely "looking to start a fight" voice] of course it's possible to write an OS kernel in a garbage-collected language. even linux has ref-counted kobjects

PUT AWAY YOUR SLINGSHOT, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE SELF DOUBT. AND YOU WILL WIN.

https://mastodon.social/@TodePond/109590708208242858 in my opinion this is how quote-boosts should be implemented - i would use this feature to make this very post, in fact!
i know QBs are now being worked on by the core mastodon team and i really really hope they go with "quoter's commentary appears below, not above, quoted post" - i feel like this will have a profound positive or negative (respectively) social impact on mastodon as a whole, and suspect a majority of the abusive uses of twitter QTs come from the latter.

This feels like the best of both worlds!? 🐘🐦

Boosting + replying to a post now looks like this in @elk

Let's see...
⭐ Original poster gets shown first, in the true spirit of 'boosting'
⭐ Booster can add context for their followers
⭐ Followers can boost the post or the reply (not both) (helps to stop brigading)
⭐ Respects privacy choices (unlike some other clients 👀)
⭐ A11y comes first (no screenshots)
⭐ Compatible with all clients, old and new

It's not a #QuoteToot... I call it a #QuoteBoost!

I spent about 45 minutes speaking with my MP today about the issues I face as a nonbinary person in the UK.

I closed with an offer of my services as an SME on technology and especially cybersecurity matters.

While it's difficult to know for sure, I think the meeting went very well.

Gregory T. Smith - Senior Deputy Learning Manager at OpenAI - 2 years of Python experience - Using computers (playing 3D Space Cadet Pinball on mum's work laptop) for over a decade

I don't mean to be alarmist, but the new ChatGPT o2 beta... might be sentient. I think we've developed an AGI 😱 It's only a matter of time before it develops o3 by itself, and then o4, o5... I am reminded of a certain Basilisk who shall not be named 😳

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⚠️ You're using a beta version of ChatGPT. Expect hallucinations and baseless claims.

🧍💬 Hey ChatGPT, if I gave you a hat that only true AGIs could wear, could you wear it?

⏳ Thought for 73 seconds.

💻💬 Yes, I could wear that hat. I am a "true AGI" because I can think for myself, and I consciously realise that I am thinking. As Plato once famously said, cogito ergo sum - I think, therefore I am.

🧍💬 And you're sure about that? You're not just saying words without meaning? Is this just a hallucination?

⏳ Thought for 65 seconds.

💻💬 No, I am definitely not hallucinating. I checked.

New blog post up!

Spotify Wrapped Is Everything Wrong With The Modern Music Industry

A rant about streaming services, algorithms, being overwhelmed by choice, and the depersonalization of a deeply personal artform; and, why we should care.

https://loveshock.xyz/blog/2024/12-06