evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

welcome to all new arrivals escaping the bird site
Some important points to remember
1. Choose your instance wisely, its your mandatory polycule. You should have an email with your rota and Google calender, please check your spam folder, no one wants a repeat of the alt 46 incident
2. Hosting duties for John Mastodon can be transferred but please please please fill in your exemption form
#twittermigration #feditips #welcome #twitter

Decisions, decisions

Before you are two doors, guarded by two search engines, both of which are convinced they are telling you the truth. You may ask them one question

That cleverclogs @eligrey has a font which encrypts text.

https://eligrey.com/blog/rot13-dejavu-fonts/

Yeah, OK, it is only ROT13. And any substitution cipher can probably be broken using frequency analysis.

It's possible to use font ligatures to obfuscate the text even more. See Bullshit Sans as an example - https://pixelambacht.nl/2015/sans-bullshit-sans/

So, there you have it. A way to *sort of* encrypt a statically served HTML file without using Javascript.

HAPPY SUNDAY!

You can say “beer me” and get a beer, but if you say “milk me” you get a very different result.

🎶 when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie 🎶
*serious voiceover*
You may have a claim

Ack Ack!

#MarsAttacks #Alien #SciFi

I love cheese.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

The stages of playing with GPT-3:

- OMG this can do anything
- There goes my job
- I should start a business around this
- Some of the responses aren’t too good
- Actually, some of these responses are just awful
- This isn’t really intelligence
- This is just spicy autocomplete

(as was forwarded to me w/no attribution)

On maps of Ikea, slime mould ‘found the exit, more efficiently than the scientists who set the task’

#LRB

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n10/francis-gooding/from-its-myriad-tips

🌈💀

I'm pretty sure Mastodon is the first social network I've been on that didn't immediately ask me to betray all of the people in my address book.

I am going to be stripping out my print store and trying a different approach. If you want any of the existing signed pictures, order them now. 20% off A4 and 8x6s. When those designs are gone they're gone. www.happytoast.co.uk

Oh god I redid the math on re-entries:

Each Starlink v2 sat weighs 1250kg. They plan to have 42,000 of them in orbit.

Each satellite has a planned lifetime of 5 years. That means they'll be de-orbiting and replacing ALL of them every 5 years.

That comes to 23 sats per day, which is 29 TONS OF SATELLITE every day.

It doesn't go away, it gets added to the upper atmosphere. Most of the mass is aluminum. What the hell is that going to do?

WHY THE FUCK IS THIS OK?!

Having fun on Twitter unpicking a curious thing that happened to me this morning. Someone reached me on Signal thinking I was ChatGPT. Turned out it had given them my number.

Twitter is down like a kid crossing the street in front of a Tesla

hieronymus bob