evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

If you do this, I just learned something about you and that something is "do not trust this person with anything"

Too cold for them

#Trump #GOP

i was editing sculpture photos earlier, and i was wondering why. why i was bothering. the world is burning, people and animals and trees are dying, we're all trying not to drown in despair. why am i making sculptures and bothering to make sure their photos are accurate and why do i care?

and then i realised that it's the caring that makes us human. it's the creating and the trying to make the world better and more beautiful that will save what's left, if anything will. and they're what will save us too.

so to all of you, i just want to say please keep doing what you're doing. please keep making things and trying and putting whatever it is that makes you you into the world. we all need it. and we all need you.

"There’s the phrase, “Keep your eye on the doughnut and not the hole.” Worrying about where “up” is — that’s the hole and not the doughnut. The thing is, if you get an idea that you love and you want to realize it, then the trip of realizing it should be joyful and the result should be joyful. Happiness is not a new car; it’s the doing of the work. If you like the doing, the result will be a joy."

#davidlynch

Sooo, my employer decided to move all engineering to Taiwan, and laid off my entire team among everyone else affected. 😬

If you or someone you know is looking for a senior engineer, tech lead, or similar, and your requirements tick some of these boxes, please feel free to send me a message or DM!

- Rust since 2017, professionally since 2021
- USB, WinAPI, C interop, kernel-mode drivers
- Long-running, async applications
- Reverse engineering (finished FlareOn 2022 and 2023), legacy systems
- Embedded (RP2040 projects)
- napi/node integration
- wgpu, WGSL
- living in Germany, remote preferred
- mentoring Rust newcomers

Boosts appreciated, thank you!

#rust #rustlang #fedihire #getfedihired

I keep uninstalling Microsoft Copilot on my home Windows PC and it keeps reappearing every month

I got bored of the "traditional" way of eating, so I've been experimenting with alternatives

Bristol

Ironically, I guess that this makes me a model :)

(Yes, I should have bought XL not L...)

Cool project: "Nepenthes" is a tarpit to catch (AI) web crawlers.

"It works by generating an endless sequences of pages, each of which with dozens of links, that simply go back into a the tarpit. Pages are randomly generated, but in a deterministic way, causing them to appear to be flat files that never change. Intentional delay is added to prevent crawlers from bogging down your server, in addition to wasting their time. Lastly, optional Markov-babble can be added to the pages, to give the crawlers something to scrape up and train their LLMs on, hopefully accelerating model collapse."

https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

Finished my first One Block Wonder quilt this weekend, using a frog panel. It's a gift for my partner, who loves frogs and wanted a lap quilt with a cuddle fleece backing. This one turned out much neater than my previous fleece-backed quilt, and doing the repeating hexagons was really fun.

2032: UK unveils AI super computer from Capita after going £7bn over budget.

Telling your suitcase there's no more vacations this year can be tough. Emotional baggage is the worst

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

Please help me escape the fascist U.S.A.

If you or anyone you know is hiring for: IT support, Technical writing, or Psychiatric care in the Toronto area please contact me for a resume and portfolio of my writing or forward this message along.

Email relay for business contact:
2y3ujkeh7@mozmail.com

If nothing else please spread this around. Thank you.

#jobs #it #mutualaid #trans #FediHire

Edit: I have been contacted by a few people who I am working with directly. Thank all of you so much for reblogging. I'm going to take the day to finally relax.

@lowqualityfacts You should wrap it in tinfoil first too, right?

Our paid work experience programme is getting another cohort and the job ad has just gone up!

It is mostly Web-based work, but we've also helped out on a mobile app, and another AR/VR app to help learn sign language.

Not sure how many #JuniorDevelopers near the North East we have on the Fediverse but, if you know anyone it'd be a fit for, please share it around.

https://softwarecity.recruitee.com/o/junior-software-developer

Edit: There's no requirement for #NorthEastEngland, but it is hybrid in #Sunderland.

#GetFediHired #Hiring

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

I do love that amber CRT, not gonna lie... xD

Lord, grant me the serenity to endure this bullshit. The strength to change the things I can, and some type of sonic weapon to destroy the things I cannot.