evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

WiFi should be banned from planes. They should be a refuge from work and all forms of contact. Enjoy the few hours not doing anything. The email can wait.

I no longer identify as Nigerian, Badenoch says.
Well I no longer identify as my previous gender but according to your party you can't just not identify.

#trans #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #uk #ukpol

Today’s colorful little harvest. 🍅

#gardening #harvest #food #Colorado

"It has been six years since the Gender Autonomy Act was passed in Iceland. In those six years, none of the usual fears that anti-trans advocates warn against have manifested - and trans people, non-binary people and intersex people have enjoyed increased rights and protections."

"The law allowed people to change name and legal gender marker by filling in a form with the national registry (no medical diagnosis required), non-binary people were legally recognised and can get ID accordingly, and health care for young people was enshrined in law."

Planet earth calling UK, are you there ...?

Thread 🧵 here -
https://bsky.app/profile/uglastefania.bsky.social/post/3lslht7bhck22

#Trans #Transrights #TransRightsAreHumanRights

Hackers in 2003: "Hey look, I hooked up my fridge to the internet!"

Hackers in 2025: "phew, finally got my fridge off the internet! 💪"

So this is how Newgrounds is apparently handling age verification RE: UK's Online Safety Act.

Their ultimate solution is... unique.

The UK gov look like complete digitally illiterate idiots. The disaster of huge VPN uptake as a consequence of ill thought out simplistic age verification policy in the UK is stupid beyond credibility. We ARE led by donkeys. I said a while back that AI policy (in HE, and at national level) is being made by ppl who don't even know what a VPN is to indicate level of naïve ignorance. Now we know just how true that is.

#ukpol #ageverification #digitalliteracy #academia #academicchatter

Please report to the nearest darkened alley

Need my GB driver's license details For Reasons, can't find the card, remember it's saved in my Hertz profile, go there, page shows me most the the number ***d out, check developer tools, API is returning the full number and just obfuscating it client side, hurrah

Update: Canal and Riverboat Trust have helped me out. Thanks all.

I need some Internet magic. I have to get in touch with a man called Rob Small, who lives on a houseboat called Rosetta. And that's all I've got. Somewhere in the UK, possibly south west, but don't know where. Don't know anything else. Have an important message to pass on to him.

we've gone back to the dial-up days when you'd wait for the page to finish loading, only now it also mocks you with the capability it has to load anything fast, just not anything you want to see or that's useful to you

Well that was a bit "and now draw the rest of the owl" but I have a mostly-finished shirt! Would have been closer to done but I messed up on the collar interfacing, had to unpick a couple of things. Collars are tough but satisfying to complete, a bit like quilt binding.

Time to fix up a personal VPN service.

Zapheap! Scrapheap Challenge was a must see programme for me, looking forward to Colin furze and Robert Llewellyn getting it back on screens 😎

The existence of doughnuts implies the existence of doughbolts.

I am now being required by my day job to use an AI assistant to write code. I have also been informed that my usage of AI assistants will be monitored and decisions about my career will be based on those metrics.

I gave it an honest shot today, using it as responsibly as I know how: only use it for stuff I already know how to do, so that I can easily verify its output. That part went ok, though I found it much harder to context switch between thinking about code structure and trying to herd a bullshit generator into writing correct code.

One thing I didn't expect, though, is how fucking disruptive it's suggestion feature would be. It's like trying to compose a symphony while someone is relentlessly playing a kazoo in your ear. It flustered me really quickly, to the point where I wasn't able to figure out how to turn that "feature" off. I'm noticing physical symptoms of an anxiety attack as a result.

I stopped work early when I noticed I was completely spent. I don't know if I wrote more code today than I would have normally. I don't think I wrote better code, as the vigilance required is extremely hard for my particular brand of neurospicy to maintain.

As far as the "write this function for me" aspect, I've noticed that I tend to use the mental downtime of typing out a function I've designed to let my brain percolate on the solution and internalize it so I have it in my working memory. This doesn't happen when I'm simply reviewing code written by something else. Reviewing code and writing it are completely separate activities for me. But there's nothing to keep my fingers and thoughts busy while I'm coming up with what to write next.

I didn't think we were meant to live like this.

More #PunkVeg lurking in the poly tunnel @eclectech and friends!!