FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

The extractive tech playbook:

1. Target an industry where people create actual value
2. Build an app that makes transactions marginally easier
3. Burn billions in capital to subsidize artificially cheap services & kill the competition
4. Bleed everyone dry

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-great-tech-heist-how-disruption-became-a-euphemism-for-theft/

I'm reading a 1987 Japanese magazine named Hacker and it's adorable. Besides talking about all kinds of bootlegs and erogames, it's got how-to instructions for how to defeat copy protection on PC-88 games. Like, here's how you format a disk and then run this BASIC code to copy the WIZARDRY game disk.

It's on the archive. There's some nudity in it, so beware:

https://archive.org/details/Hacker-No-7-March-4-1987/

oh you want MIDI guitar do you? I'LL GIVE YOU MIDI GUITAR!!!

man goes to windows error logs. says he can't delete file. lacks permission. life seems harsh and cruel.

windows says, "treatment is simple. windows administrator account is in town tonight. go and ask him to delete the file."

man bursts into tears. says "but doctor... i am the administrator"

Bless you, MapQuest.

https://gulfof.mapquest.com/

Skype is shutting down in May. I've been using it to speak with my grandmother, and I am looking for an alternative, with the following features:
* can do live subtitles (in French)
* works without a phone number/sim card
* can call your contacts and be dialed (i.e. not only invite by email/calendar/url…)
* simple UI/UX (with big buttons) is far more important than feature rich.

I know various things that do some of the above, but I'm not sure what (other than Skype) does all of it.

Any help?

awww so good from @commonroomph

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFr96h9zKrv/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

When asked about the benefits to society of Universal Basic Income, David Graeber mentioned this.

The #fediverse!

you wouldn't pirate a toot

the human body's internal sense of its own shape, weight, momentum, and ability to predict forces that will be acting on it is amazing. i had a dream just now where i was running around in some kind of strange spy thriller inspired thing. that was so cool

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

#news #labor #WorkersRights #FourDayWorkWeek #work #iceland