FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

In the 15+ years people have been promoting blockchains, this flowchart remains undefeated.

Big mood…

I’m not going to say there’s a lot of overlap between digital preservation librarianship and knitting, because this post says it more clearly than I ever could. https://digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-through-digital-decay-a-collection-of-digital-preservation-jumpers-no-one-asked-for-but-478c48009521
Via @Researchbuzz

Found this beautiful unused keyboard in storage at work. Switches are all Cherry Brown and I really like the feel of them. Only gotcha: the interface may be an oddball.

“Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world, the disarray. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days.”

Der Hackerspace hat einen Pfannkuchendrucker! #hacksaar

@noracodes My friend’s three-year-old’s version: ‘This is easy, dad. You go “type, type, type,” and it goes “‘‘pute, ‘pute, ‘pute” ‘.

Es ist exakt so.

“The sky was the color of television tuned to a dead channel”

80s meaning: grey
90s meaning: blue
Today: full of ads from the smart tv vendor

an ominous I-am-under-NDA-coded warning to immediately uninstall atop has been posted by a reputable tech blogger. https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/25/atop/

@lizzy or a secret third thing: the compiler is doing something seriously fucky

#Signal #TheAtlantic

HANG UP YOUR SHORTSWORD, TODAY YOU WILL BATTLE DARK THOUGHTS. AND YOU WILL WIN.

"The game's in our heads. We can do what we want."

as I once memorably said off the cuff while DMming.

I actually wasn't nearly that freeform at the time, though I've since grown into the perspective.

#meme #NationalSecurityFuckUps

I had not thought that Rust had the OCaml Nature of "if the code typechecks, it's probably accurate" but I'm having to reconsider my position

@mcc I had a fun one with Swift recently where the type system happily checked and compiled my code into an unintended infinite tail recursion that the optimizer turned into the arm64 equivalent of 10 GOTO 10 and inlined all over the place. The app simply spun rather than stack overflow, and I’d break in the debugger and be bewildered why a branch to the branch instruction’s own address was inserted in my function. So much for the type system fixing so my issues.