evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I've got a nerd #AskFedi question, expectations are high since we are on the Fediverse 😘

Situation: I’ve tagged mothers keys with bluetooth trackers. I hate this stuff, but she’s suffering from dementia and I also need some sleep. I'm using android trackers, e.g. the Google Find Hub. I hate this too.
#Caregiving #Alzheimers #Dementia

Question: How can I improve the bloody “home tracking abilities” of these #%#@! trackers on Google Find network?
#Bluetooth #Android #RaspberryPi #FediHelp

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#silentSunday #sunrise #Scotland #photography

RIP Roger Burton, costume designer for Hackers. He kindly lent us Angelia’s biker jacket and Jonny’s gilet for EMF last year. He really wanted to be there too. The costumes were inspired by 1990s NYC Gay Pride. A man ahead of his time.

WiFi should be banned from planes. They should be a refuge from work and all forms of contact. Enjoy the few hours not doing anything. The email can wait.

I no longer identify as Nigerian, Badenoch says.
Well I no longer identify as my previous gender but according to your party you can't just not identify.

#trans #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #uk #ukpol

Today’s colorful little harvest. 🍅

#gardening #harvest #food #Colorado

"It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections."

"The law allowed people to change name and legal gender marker by filling in a form with the national registry (no medical diagnosis required), non-binary people were legally recognised and can get ID accordingly, and health care for young people was enshrined in law."

Planet earth calling UK, are you there ...?

Thread 🧵 here -
https://bsky.app/profile/uglastefania.bsky.social/post/3lslht7bhck22

#Trans #Transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Hackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"

Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! 💪"

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

The UK gov look like complete digitally illiterate idiots. The disaster of huge VPN uptake as a consequence of ill thought out simplistic age verification policy in the UK is stupid beyond credibility. We ARE led by donkeys. I said a while back that AI policy (in HE, and at national level) is being made by ppl who don't even know what a VPN is to indicate level of naïve ignorance. Now we know just how true that is.

#ukpol #ageverification #digitalliteracy #academia #academicchatter

Please report to the nearest darkened alley

Need my GB driver's license details For Reasons, can't find the card, remember it's saved in my Hertz profile, go there, page shows me most the the number ***d out, check developer tools, API is returning the full number and just obfuscating it client side, hurrah

Update: Canal and Riverboat Trust have helped me out. Thanks all.

I need some Internet magic. I have to get in touch with a man called Rob Small, who lives on a houseboat called Rosetta. And that's all I've got. Somewhere in the UK, possibly south west, but don't know where. Don't know anything else. Have an important message to pass on to him.

we've gone back to the dial-up days when you'd wait for the page to finish loading, only now it also mocks you with the capability it has to load anything fast, just not anything you want to see or that's useful to you

Well that was a bit "and now draw the rest of the owl" but I have a mostly-finished shirt! Would have been closer to done but I messed up on the collar interfacing, had to unpick a couple of things. Collars are tough but satisfying to complete, a bit like quilt binding.

Time to fix up a personal VPN service.

Zapheap! Scrapheap Challenge was a must see programme for me, looking forward to Colin furze and Robert Llewellyn getting it back on screens 😎