evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

It's worth asking again who would benefit from taking CVE offline? Surely not the United States government, nor its private companies. Not its allies (such as they are now) in Europe. But it almost certainly would help our adversaries, like China and Russia, because confusion and uncertainty works to their advantage always.

#3076 - The Roads Both Taken

- So, still sorting through the 360 photos?
- Aye.
- Managing to avoid getting distracted?
- Getting through them, aye.
- That's not what I asked.
- ...

#sillyScribbles #googlyEyes #360degree

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

FWIW I think my favourite 360 view of the year remains the Skye bridge & lighthouse.
https://things.uk/@eclectech/112903940000971937

Right. Back to it.

I miss the olden days of photo albums, so each year I make a book of family, friend & travel photos. Currently sorting out 2024. Love the 360 camera but it does add time on to this process. Also I get distracted playing. In related news here's Eilean Donan castle in the Scottish Highlands.

#photography #Scotland #360degree #castle

The Talk

*neurosurgeon performing deep brain stimulation* "you put the wires in the coconut"

photography is just amateur radio for the 500nm band

Not sure when tech flipped from ✋ to 👉 but I don't like it

Been musing on the power of humour after wandering by a group of picnicking people absolutely LOSING IT in joyful, uncontrolled, shared laughter. It was lovely & infectious (in a good way).

Found a lichen that apparently found it all very funny too, so that was nice.

#sillyScribbles #lichenSubscribe

We has some younger guests last night, so with an archeological theme, came Sausage Henge (Quorn, mashed potato and peas, an onion gravy ditch added later).

Remarkably it was popular

#StandingStoneSunday #Cooking #Veggie

By the way, I still think this paragraph I wrote is a pretty good paragraph.

Of all the sci-fi franchises, the most scientifically likely features a slow, resource-hungry, capitalism-driven expansion of humanity, leaving mundane mess in its wake, into a galaxy that features no aliens at all - Red Dwarf.

The cold, hard truth is that AI doesn't make anything easier. It makes everything harder, because AI is fucking everywhere, which means you are constantly having to take extra steps to correct its bullshit mistakes, or turn it off if you are able. Extra steps = time wasted.

Look: I, a US citizen, born and raised in the United States, holder of a valid state ID and federal passport, with no criminal record, am not confident I could pass through a US border checkpoint right now without being harassed or even detained. (I have been critical of Donald Trump in public, and that seems to be all it takes.)

If *I* am not confident about that, imagine how anyone without those credentials must feel.

If you are organizing conferences, meetings, etc. that require people to pass through those checkpoints to attend, you need to grapple with this. You are asking attendees to take a serious personal risk.

Looks like Reddit has discovered Low Quality Facts.

Lmao. Exploits of mom 2025 edition