evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Going through a lil cyberdeck era

Life Hacks, 2025 edition:

-If Peter Thiel's involved, avoid it
-If it’s “opt-in,” It'll be mandatory
-If AI is involved, it’s profiling you
-If Big Tech says it's for safety, it's not
-If it demands a facial scan, walk away
-If it’s “for your safety,” it’s for their control

via Jason Bassler

In other depressing IoT news, iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuums, files for bankruptcy and sells itself to Chinese company. Hello cameras and mics in bajillions of homes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irobot-bankruptcy-irbt-roomba-app-continue-to-operate/

THC Release 💥: The world’s largest IP<>Domain database: https://ip.thc.org

All forward and reverse IPs, all CNAMES and all subdomains of every domain. For free.

Updated monthly.

Try: curl https://ip.thc.org/1.1.1.1

Raw data: https://ip.thc.org/docs/bulk-data-access

(The fine work of messede 👌)

What does everyone think? Need feedback before release tomorrow :)

"What could this be?" [shake, shake]

"Maybe a gift card?" It could go either way, really...

This dragged in for twelve, fifteen minutes

TBH, by this time I was feeling pretty poorly—too many people, too much noise, my stomach had been sick all day

Finally, the person opened the box

And was bewildered—"what... what is this? Axolotls? Pole dancing‽"

It was the best/worst gift of the day, and it was raucous in the room

Y'all, no one—no one—would fess up to bringing it in!

A mouse pad (see below) and several coasters featuring this lovely axolotl, pole dancing 😂

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement #science #radio #bbc

TIL car tyre sizes (eg, 225/55R17) manage to combine metric (225mm width), a percentage for an aspect ratio (55%), and imperial (17 inch diameter). I think that’s just marvellous. Well done everyone.

Someone just ordered 6 copies of DOCTYPE 🎉
(every order genuinely makes a difference in terms of what I can afford to do on the site next year)

HTML is for life, not just for Christmas. This year, give the gift of Open Web.

https://vole.wtf/doctype/

Jeez, I'm getting adverts for AI based tools to help me make prompts for the AI I don't use. This thing really has disappeared up its own arse, hasn't it.

My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones

🚀 Still not too late to order DOCTYPE before Christmas but it’s getting tight for some parts of the world
Don’t disappoint the nerds in your life (including yourself)
https://vole.wtf/doctype/

Hey so remember how I gave a talk inspired by The Rasmus where I experimented creating a gamified karaoke in the browser?

Anyway, I got the band to sign the landyard of one of the many places I spoke at. 🧡 @heypresents

Be a fan and a dork about things you love and care about.

My first toot… a picture of me nestled in the hooman’s arms #catsofmastodon

Please boost so my little server joins the Fedi and I can meow at lots of cats