evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

could be a fairly long shot, but why not? Fedi please boost this for reach <3

anyone in (or in touch with someone who is) in Aotearoa New Zealand, and has any old braille notetaker devices they don't want or can't use?

we're particularly interested in anything from what we consider the golden age (1990s to early 2010s), especially the early Humanware Braille/VoiceNote series. but we'll happily take anything, even if it's broken. we live on very little income so we might not be able to pay you much for it, but will absolutely pay shipping and would love to talk barter of some kind. or we can work out a payment plan, up to you.

we're based in the Waitaha/Canterbury region and can pick up anywhere in the Ōtautahi/Christchurch Metro, or can collect from the BLVNZ office on Bristol Street.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy

One of the all-time greatest photos of me and my cat.

"No matter how bad it got, at least I never idolized a billionaire"

Poster spotted in Melbourne

Book contract signed with Princeton University Press. It's official!

Now I just have to finish writing a whole book from all my rants about satellite pollution in the next few months! No big deal...

I know exactly one coelacanth song and one axolotl song.

This is not enough. Share your coelacanth and axolotl songs.

With these self driving vehicles, it's only a matter of time before there's a country song about how even your truck left you.

I stand corrected. IPv6 is actually useful for something.

My father's barn.
Sweden, Uppland.
#NaturePhotography #photography #sverige #flower #flowerphotography #blomma #naturelovers #nature #bokeh

Kudos to whoever this photographer was* for capturing one of the most stark juxtapositions I’ve seen in a good long while.

(*Edit: the photographer is Maximilien Lamy, otherwise known as shadowsandthecity on Instagram)

"Is this repo manually coded? If it's manually coded you're being left behind."

Ma'am, that is a twenty five thousand LoC slab of C++ code. It targets a console designed twenty two years ago and discontinued twelve years ago. It is an amalgamation of the work of several developers, forked, patched, reformatted, strained, and ultimately inexorably joined in an unholy Make ruleset. Market economics had no hand in the creation of this abhorrence. The fact that this project exists proves that God is either impotent to alter His universe or ignorant to the horrors taking place in his kingdom. This prism of code is more than a story point. It is a physical declaration of mankind's contempt for entropy. It is hubris manifest.

We also have an SDL3 port if you would prefer that.

🙏 New Blog Post

The Pope's official prayer app has an IDOR that lets anyone pull user data for all 719,517 accounts. One GET request per user. No auth check.

What's exposed:

Email addresses
Names
Country
Date of birth (they call it "borned_date" lol)
Account role (it's "PRAYER" for everyone, obviously)

Also found:

Signup endpoint returns the email verification token in the response body, so you can verify accounts without accessing the inbox
Their verification emails fail their own domain's authentication requirements

Reported January 3rd. Emailed 9 people. A journalist also contacted them. Zero responses. Still live six months later. Vow of silence I guess.

Full writeup: https://bobdahacker.com/blog/click-to-pray

#InfoSec #BugBounty #ResponsibleDisclosure #IDOR #Security #CyberSecurity #Privacy #DataExposure #ClickToPray #Vatican #APISecurity

Since a few people asked, here's the setlist for my closing DJ set on Sunday at #EMFCamp #Nullsector.

I had an absolute blast doing this one. In the months running up to EMF I put a shortlist of tunes I wanted to play together, but as soon as I got up there I was like "screw it, I'm just gonna run with whatever feels good" and didn't even look at the list.

Thanks to everyone who came and listened - y'all had so much energy and I can't stop grinning when I think back to it. Amazing experience.

#sillyScribbles

awkward (adj): situated or directed towards the AWK programming language

It's funny, I can't really think of a specific moment that radicalized me against LLMs. More of a progressive and iterative process of learning about one harm after another, and of seeing more and more from the labor perspective.