FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

Getting ahead of the market...

#uspol #HandsOff #Chicago #ilpol

Wow, had a lot of response to the mallard mother photo. I’m not a professional photographer and I don’t know how to sell anything. I just like birds and showing birds to people.

Idea: YouTube channel called "Will It Build" where I just check out various popular FLOSS projects and follow the build instructions.

Would probably attract 3 viewers and 17 strong opinions

I just made this silly but accurate thing. I'm silly too and i love it, but also i'm serious in my silliness.

@hannah

My sign kept blowing over in the wind so i went The Incredible Machine mode

Leaving this in the guest bedroom bedside drawers like it’s a Gideons’ Bible.

@kate you know some enterprising Italian is figuring out how to export directly from San Marino to the US

0% tariffs on San Marino. Come import…from beautiful San Marino. 🇸🇲

Old pinned picture from my old (now abandoned) twitter that I really wanted to keep here.

Tried my best to fit all the sayings and remarks in the alt text, but had to cut some of it to fit in 1500 characters.

Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?

Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?

And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?

Hot take: Full disk encryption should only be enabled on a computer with informed consent from its user and along with multiple very simple instructions on how to recover it in an emergency, and only allowed if mandatory automatic off-device backups are configured

The hours of my life I've spent explaining to confused and scared and intimidated elderly people how to retrieve their Bitlocker recovery key and then the time spent explaining to them why their family photos are irretrievably lost. Fuck Microsoft so hard, honestly

ooh, an interesting thing about having a midi guitar now is i can open up synthesia's free play mode and see how what i'm playing would be played on a piano keyboard, and also see what chord it thinks it is. also playing a piano sound with a guitar is really fun

How to Distribute Radical Shit:
*Don't Trust Your Printer*

Your printer is a snitch. It's a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline.

My post about what to do instead:
https://www.revoluciana.net/how-to-distribute-radical-stuff/

Multiple Oracle cloud customers have reached out to me to say Oracle have now confirmed a breach of their services.

They are only doing so verbally, they will not write anything down, so they’re setting up meetings with large customers who query.

I tried to watch a video on how Doom works and before 45 seconds were up, they explained that:
1. Recursion is doing something over and over again
2. The C language doesn't have strings.

Happy Trans Day of Visibility 2025!  Stay loud and proud.