FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

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.

why is it so useful? i find myself commenting out arguments to a function to try a thing _all the time_

folks like to say programming languages are designed to be read not written. but code is meant to be futzed with.

Going back and forth between released and pre-release #swift compilers made me realize just how small but impactful an improvement this is to my workflow.

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.

the horrors of a podcast with no web presence except "join our discord for updates"

I cannot stress this enough, maaaaaaake a website 🫠🫠🫠

“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