evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Nipped out of a tedious team meeting to press the caps lock on all the unattended PCs. 11 people had their passwords reset by Tech Support

DSEG is a family of free (and open-source) fonts of 7- and 14- segment displays. These allow for designing gorgeous digital displays!

https://www.keshikan.net/fonts-e.html

#Font #GraphicDesign #Digital #Design #Inkscape

behold the "HTML bomb"

it's a defensive counterattack on AI web-scrapers that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

the bomb file *looks* like a tiny HTML page, but when scraped -- or even requested by a regular browser ...

... it unpacks into a huge-ass 10-gig HTML page ...

... which quickly crashes any browser or scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/

Keir Starmer: you are actually the leader of the Labour Party, so stop letting your every utterance and decision to be influenced by what Reform voters think. I don't give a fuck what Reform voters think. Deliver Labour policies, you fanny.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump is stuck on the roof of the White House. An aide attempted to assist the president, showing him the stairs. Trump angrily yelled that he came up those stairs and he needs down stairs, not up stairs.

When keygen goes too hard...🎵🦠👾 Download/stream responsibly: https://fanlink.tv/patch

@finn always look for the sticker

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

hacker: i am spying on you through your webcam

linux user: omg you got it working?

PS I might not respond immediately to any of the brilliant suggestions I'm expecting ❤️

This is because my mind and body can't agree on who's authorised to give the 'sudo sleep' command 🤣

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I need “something” inside my mothers house, actively/periodically checking the nearby devices and report them to the Google Find Network.

Currently latest report is often hours old and often sent by devices in the neighbourhood.

I’m thinking about:
- Obsolete android always-on-phone
- Raspberry pi with a bluetooth module

I could use some tips on how to achieve this with the little free time I have..

#Bluetooth #Android #RaspberryPi
#AskFedi #FediHelp

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