evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Hahaha, just remembered another photo from there. Fun with interesting rocks!

https://things.uk/@eclectech/111804930132099826

Still giggling about HÖNKHALT 😂

I think it's a combination of being trans in 2025 and having done the job I do for a long time now, but I am feeling my well of words running dry.

It's not quite burnout, but I feel kinda spent.

I've received 5 VC offers "to chat" regarding Pixelfed in the past few days.

Not for sale.

Pixelfed belongs to the people.

I'd rather be broke and true to my beliefs, than sell out.

That's why I'm organizing a Kickstarter to fund the ethical development of Pixelfed, Loops and more.

It's time that someone stood up to them, instead of joining them.

Are you with me?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

If you do this, I just learned something about you and that something is "do not trust this person with anything"

Too cold for them

#Trump #GOP

i was editing sculpture photos earlier, and i was wondering why. why i was bothering. the world is burning, people and animals and trees are dying, we're all trying not to drown in despair. why am i making sculptures and bothering to make sure their photos are accurate and why do i care?

and then i realised that it's the caring that makes us human. it's the creating and the trying to make the world better and more beautiful that will save what's left, if anything will. and they're what will save us too.

so to all of you, i just want to say please keep doing what you're doing. please keep making things and trying and putting whatever it is that makes you you into the world. we all need it. and we all need you.

"There’s the phrase, “Keep your eye on the doughnut and not the hole.” Worrying about where “up” is — that’s the hole and not the doughnut. The thing is, if you get an idea that you love and you want to realize it, then the trip of realizing it should be joyful and the result should be joyful. Happiness is not a new car; it’s the doing of the work. If you like the doing, the result will be a joy."

#davidlynch

Sooo, my employer decided to move all engineering to Taiwan, and laid off my entire team among everyone else affected. 😬

If you or someone you know is looking for a senior engineer, tech lead, or similar, and your requirements tick some of these boxes, please feel free to send me a message or DM!

- Rust since 2017, professionally since 2021
- USB, WinAPI, C interop, kernel-mode drivers
- Long-running, async applications
- Reverse engineering (finished FlareOn 2022 and 2023), legacy systems
- Embedded (RP2040 projects)
- napi/node integration
- wgpu, WGSL
- living in Germany, remote preferred
- mentoring Rust newcomers

Boosts appreciated, thank you!

#rust #rustlang #fedihire #getfedihired

I keep uninstalling Microsoft Copilot on my home Windows PC and it keeps reappearing every month

I got bored of the "traditional" way of eating, so I've been experimenting with alternatives

Bristol

Ironically, I guess that this makes me a model :)

(Yes, I should have bought XL not L...)

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Finished my first One Block Wonder quilt this weekend, using a frog panel. It's a gift for my partner, who loves frogs and wanted a lap quilt with a cuddle fleece backing. This one turned out much neater than my previous fleece-backed quilt, and doing the repeating hexagons was really fun.

2032: UK unveils AI super computer from Capita after going £7bn over budget.

Telling your suitcase there's no more vacations this year can be tough. Emotional baggage is the worst