Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Today in "modern Windows has absolutely no respect for its users": I have learned that the default settings will automatically send executables you run to Microsoft for a "cloud security scan"

How? It popped up a notification telling me that it was doing this, with no option to cancel or disable

I thought my HP Chromebook had kernel issues that didn't keep it in suspend, but now I think applying pressure (e.g. in a backpack) triggers keypresses with the lid closed...

This is a *fascinating* concept for games studies - "quotes" of a game that don't just show you a clip of gameplay, but actually let you take control and try it out. It trims the ROM down to only what's needed to run the quote, so this might even pass a fair dealing/fair use test in court if it came down to it - just like quoting a passage of text, or a clip of a movie.

https://tenmile.quote.games

ohhhhh sorry its too hard to release our game on linux, it uses advanced windows-only features such as "reading keyboard input" and "drawing to a graphics buffer"

Overheard 2 businessmen discussing corporate office changes so that employees "won't feel like just a cog in a machine."

They came up with these 'great' strategies:

- Rearrange the cubicles
- Art on the walls
- Seat managers closer to employees
- More team fun events

Notably not discussed:

- More pay
- Profit sharing
- More ownership of decisions & input
- Recognition of employee successes
- More PTO and/or work-life flexibility
- WFH options

Good luck guys! 😆

#business #management #HR

Here's your periodic reminder about how cursed Japanese wiring is.

This is an official, standard Apple power cable that shipped with a MacBook.

#Japan #ElectricalSafety #mb

I should get a tiny remote control forklift and use it to automate loading floppy disks into my computers.

y'know I don't know what PCMCIA stands for but I'll always remember it as People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms, which is to say I've had a toot calibre joke locked and loaded since I was five but the technology it referenced stopped mattering since I was fifteen

There are two types of conspiracy theories, antisemitism and things that the CIA has admitted to doing.

Den Haag has a dining tram!

The Professor of Spellcraft studied the parchment.
"Hmm. No, I have not seen this spell before. What does it do?"
"When you read it out, it creates a parchment with that spell written on it."
"That's all?"
"Isn't that neat?"
"But why?"
"To see if I could."
"Ah!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

PSA

If you currently identify as a cis man or cis woman, but:

• You have recurring thoughts of being a different gender.
• You would be a different gender, if given the choice.
• You wouldn't be fussed if you magically woke up one day as a different gender.

... you might be interested to know that this isn't a common thing for cis folks to do 😅

& you might find this website helpful:
https://genderdysphoria.fyi/

#cis #StillCisTho #gender #GenderIdentity #queer #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+

Anyway, there's this weird overlap in computing spaces between authoritarians masquerading as libertarians, libertarians, and people who actually care about other people.

I'm reading a book on how this came to be right now, and it is laying bare a lot of the inherent cognitive dissonance in computing that I've managed to avoid confronting this far in to my life, and helping me to see the contradictions in in my own circles.

Computers are a force multiplier.

Remember when the Raspberry Pi foundation made fun of people who criticized their decision to brag about hiring a former cop who used their products to spy on people?