FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day

president, a second noodle has hit the apartment

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

All tech is wearable tech if you have enough duct tape.

Mozilla right now.

#firefox #mozilla

sometimes people brag about their mint condition hardware, but consider the following

what if your computer had character?

OH:

m: what the fuck. arxiv is like a respected scientific entity
m: I thought. It was. Some kind of FFXIV plugin
m: Everyone I’ve ever seen talk about it is also an XIV player so for the longest time I just assumed it was some client mod or something

I had heard RAM prices were up, but checking it for myself is a gut punch. The 16GB stick I bought in November was €100. It's now €235 on Paradigit, €250 on CaseKing. The future sucks and I hope Sam Altman falls down a flight of stairs.

It's not like the "computer industry" did this, that industry was IBM and Siemens and Xerox and Cray. At the start it was all missile targeting systems and concentration camp organizers. A few upstarts happened to notice that miniaturization and cost reduction in industrial process was going to open up new target markets (small office / home office / individual use); the fact that this gave people new capabilities was (from a corporate perspective) an unfortunate, and temporary, side effect