FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Software has standardized on dependency isolation. This means that every programming language / tech tool now is designed to download multiple gigabytes of standalone utilities each with their own copies of the libraries, and they install all of them into my home directory, and I'm sitting here weeping as my boot drive keeps dipping below 10GB free and throwing up error dialogs, while meanwhile the D: drive has like 500GB free

Ursula K. Le Guin: “If it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. . . You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

Last night before I went to bed I saw a post where someone had made a refutable point. I wanted to reply to this but instead fell asleep. In the morning, I was unable to find the post. So I guess today there's just someone in the world who's going to be going around doing their stuff the whole time not even realizing they're wrong

Rollerpunk 2077 🛼

bro are you okay your inner monologue is all harsh vocals

Sim 3 laptop (for reference)

I really thought this was a @NanoRaptor image, but nope! Acer really made a Sim 3 style laptop that swaps the location of the keyboard and the trackpad.

Behold, the Acer Aspire R7...

What strikes me as particularly ironic is GNOME’s own Human Interface Guidelines, which proudly state, “People are at the heart of GNOME design.” With all due respect, if that’s the case, maybe I’m not considered “people.”

GNOME with Yet Another Controversial Decision - https://linuxiac.com/gnome-with-yet-another-controversial-decision/

for adults with cat ears

Feel that? Yeah

‪every one of us is a traveller from a far off land, with tales of a place that none can ever visit again‬

‪much as we shall never conquer the stars, we will never conquer the past. we will only experience an infinitesimally small fraction of all that there is to be experienced, and what remains can only be dreamed of, but we know that it is there, and that it is beautiful‬

the past is such a beautifully distant place

Sooo, my employer decided to move all engineering to Taiwan, and laid off my entire team among everyone else affected. 😬

If you or someone you know is looking for a senior engineer, tech lead, or similar, and your requirements tick some of these boxes, please feel free to send me a message or DM!

- Rust since 2017, professionally since 2021
- USB, WinAPI, C interop, kernel-mode drivers
- Long-running, async applications
- Reverse engineering, legacy systems
- Embedded (RP2040 projects)
- napi/node integration
- wgpu, WGSL
- living in Germany, remote preferred
- mentoring Rust newcomers

Boosts appreciated, thank you!

#rust #rustlang

T-shirt courtesy of @heydon has arrived