evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

The seven deadly sins of tech (as a service)
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rubendominguezibar_tech-didnt-kill-the-seven-deadly-sins-activity-7357674090750447616-6GT_/

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250807-us-to-rewrite-its-past-national-climate-reports

Edit: have candidates thx

I'm looking for an artist who can turn details from photos of about 10-15 paintings and sculptures into clear B&W line drawings for printing in a book. Artist should be proficient in Gothic art and familiar with late medieval/renaissance material culture eg. from a background in living history or the SCA or costuming. My budget is not huge but I can pay. Not sure what hashtags to use. Examples of an original and a redrawing below. #boostsAppreciated #ArtistWanted

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.