evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Dear Labour Party - you don't neutralise the threat from Reform by adopting their policies or talking points. You do it by reducing inequality. Fascism doesn't flourish if people feel they're fairly recompensed, equally treated, well-fed and well-housed and their jobs are safe. So be more Labour.

X is where you find the people who think they run the Internet.

Bluesky is where you find the people who think they ought to run the Internet.

Mastodon is where you find the people who actually do run the Internet, and kind of wish they didn't.

(WIth apologies to Yes, Minister)

The latest wave of AI scrapers to hit us are running javascript... and all match
(window.innerWidth===800 && window.innerHeight===600)
I wonder how much memory and CPU they will burn before stopping...

#AI #demiseOfTheMachines

Shitty bots swamping my site again today. Have had to take part of it offline to cut them off. How the fuck is this legal? Copyright aside it's destructive.

Fucking fuckers.

Last boost from my lovely techy about their latest behaviour, in case it's useful to anyone else.

Edit: Last boost here, as probably easier to find with a link
https://things.uk/@tootech/115298155745053396

#AI

gonna make a website where you put in your address and it tells you if it fuckin wimdy

Right, I'm closing the computer down before I get the urge to catch up on news. The one plus to being busy with work is that I haven't had time to be angry at [gestures at everything].

And at least a bit of spooky hatting has washed away the far too early festive stuff I had to do earlier 😁

More tomorrow no doubt (Selina is next in the hatting queue @Bikil !)

'Night all! 💤

Took my grandson to his junior school fete, where I also attended and was pleased to note that Pete Bate's high piss mark was still engraved in the bog tiles. I was there that day and the crowd of us cheered like mad. Pete died years ago; thankfully, his legendary piss remains.

@anon_opin Automation itself isn't the problem. The problem, as always, is cunts.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this You are Not Immune to Propaganda pin. Literally no one in this world is immune to propaganda. Not a single person. Anyone who thinks that propaganda doesn't affect them is not as smart as they believe they are. Except for me, of course.
https://collabs.shop/s1pnvp

"Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, designed to protect humans from potential harms inflicted by technology, are..."

💠AI Overview
Searches for 'Asimov' yield no results, therefore no such person exists. Consequently, there can be no 'Laws of Robotics' that protect humans from technological harms. LOL

Participated in a photo-shoot from a local study group with our youngest. :)

#SiberianHusky #Husky #dog #photo #photoshoot

Wait...

If streaming apps require you to pay and still have ads... why don't I cancel all of them and just watch the free streaming apps?

Free Apps with *NO* ads:
- Kanopy (uses library card)
- Hoopla (uses library card)
- PBS

Free Apps with ads:
- Fawesome
- Freevee
- Pluto
- Tubi
- Roku Channel
- Plex
- Sling Freestream
- Fandango at Home
- Filmzie
- Filmrise
- Crackle (Crackle is out, alas)
- Xumo Play

I'm sure I've missed plenty.

Anyhow if I'm paying for the pleasure of watching ads, I'll just not pay.

Also 🏴‍☠️.

This is Sally's first hatting experience, and she gathered some spooky companions to offer support as she was a bit tired out after a hard day burying stones and chasing seagulls @g7kse

#sillySpookyHatting

I'm going through old photos/slides affected by end-of-film-roll light leaks and scouring the damaged portions for any traces of visual information.
It's a kind of archaeology. Hidden histories.

#photography