evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

A few people have asked whether books will be available at these shows - and the answer is yes, for each show there will be a local bookseller and I’ll sign books at the end of the night (should you want me to, that is).

Tickets here: https://brianbilston.com/events/

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/

#pervertglasses

countdown to cloudflare going out of business?

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/anthropic-reveals-rogue-ai-agents-hate-captchas-just-like-you/

Sickened by the blackshirted "patriots" targetting the RNLI, an organisation of volunteers who risk their own safety to save the lives of anyone in need on the seas, prompted me to donate to the RNLI
https://rnli.org/support-us/give-money/donate

Some spread hatred and division, others see no distinction by ethnicity, just lives to be saved. I know what side I back. Also, fuck the fascists.

#RNLI

Today’s offering is an attempt to write a poem in real time while on a train journey.

597) Bobbot. Floating round pal. For looking after boats, maybe rescuing people? But mostly for going bob bob bob up and down. #SmallRobotsRemastered

I don't know, man, "embrace neo-nazism to appease twenty-seven posh assholes" seems a worse option than just prosecuting the shit out of them until it is no longer an issue.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/09/silicon-valley-democrats-lost-california/

ICYMI, yesterday I launched a very silly game that’s actually rather topical (the real-life world championships are on the 19th in Egremont) https://vole.wtf/gurning/

@GrimmReality

It shouldn't be surprising that one of the fellows at a pro torment nexus thinktank has a pro torment nexus take, but knowing that still didn't make the article any easier to read

There's no way to embrace this new round of "innovation" because it's all inherently and irredeemably bad.

Reminds me of this viral bluesky post:

the most difficult problem in computer science is finding a job that doesn't tolerate chatbot-generated code

Any Linux users able to help me out with setting up Pokemon TCG Live through Heroic Games Launcher on Linux Mint?

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Heroic Version 2.22.1

I'm following this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGL/comments/1q05iny/guide_how_to_install_and_login_to_pokemon_tcg

Stuck on step 23 about opening Winetricks GUI, which I don't have the option for anywhere. This is all that comes up.

#linux #pokemon #heroicgameslauncher

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

as always with any claims around LLMs, what you need to ask is: where is it?

and I’m not talking about confident LLM output or a flood of confident CVEs or a confident changelog or a confident gist or even some code you’re very confident is correct because the LLM said so

is the software you’re using right now materially better or worse, in your lived experience?

if we’re going to get left behind without LLMs, shouldn’t it have gotten incredibly good ridiculously quickly? why didn’t it? why is it worse now than it was before?

why do all these companies that are all-in on these frontier models keep having incredibly embarrassing security incidents? shouldn’t the frontier models fix that?

#penguins #linux #humor