evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

IT'S FRIDAY! WHOOP WHOOP!!!

I'm not back properly online until next week, but wanted to get a quick Friday dance out. This week we're cheering on all those continuing to protest & fight for something better. All power to you, stay safe, & have a good weekend if you possibly can

#sillyScribbles #FridaySparklyDancers #noKings #protest #PortlandFrog

The fact that Reeves & Mortimer's entire televisual output isn't readily streamable is a national disgrace, and should be subject to a Parliamentary discussion.

Why in the fuck does my notepad and paint applications have Copilot now? What could I possibly want Copilot for in those?

$ Enter password
>password
$ Password is incorrect
>incorrect
$ Try again
>again
$ Please try again later
>again later

@GossiTheDog I worked tech support long enough to have an idea of what people DO say to their PCs already...

Hopefully the poor LLM doesn't take it personally, but some folks are going to have a heck of a context window issue. 😆

I wrote about what it was like to go online for the first time 30 years ago. How hard and complicated it seemed, and then how amazing this entirely new world was. Including some extracts from my 1995 diary.
https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/

The female gaze petrify the patriarchy #childfree #friendlyreminder

Give me liberty or give me root.

My dream job is to run a cozy little bookshop, but without worrying about having to succeed as a small business. So basically a money laundering front where I get to read

I remember the first time I saw the internet on a Windows 95 machine. Back when text was in Times New Roman and everything was in HTML tables.

I asked, “Who checks that this information is correct?”—meaning, who fact-checks this stuff? The answer was: no one. Anyone could publish anything.

It felt like somewhat of a weakness and I thought that it would likely be exploited by bad actors. And reader, I was correct.

If you are about to reply saying ‘no Kevin, AI is the future, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle’… that was a great talking point in 2022, which wasn’t true then either.

Generative AI is a group wank of dying men onto soggy tweets. There’s no genie and no bottle, eventually people are going to go ‘…oh, this isn’t really a game changer is it?’. No, it’s just people trying to monetise copyright theft.

Productivity increases from AI are like teenage sex. Everybody is talking about it. Not that many are experiencing it.

Mastodon welcome to the family Wash and Mal. They join my other two, Inara and Kaylee, in December. Yes I'm collecting the entire crew of Serenity.#catsofmastodon #mainecoon #kitten

In public treat axis nationals or quislings coldly.

Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month by destroying anything with a computer chip in it and running off to live in the woods

Quick pop in to say - LOOK - A MUSICAL MUSHROOM 🍄‍🟫 🎶

"This is a mushroom playing in the wild in some woods near Glossop in Manchester. The attached sensors measure bio-electrical fluctuations in the mushroom. The fluctuations are converted into signals that control the robotic arms. The keyboard playing a synth in Ableton Live. "

Big thanks to @glide for pointing me at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbP2DgDp890

#mushtodon #music

@catsalad

An under appreciated contributor to obnoxious phone behaviour in public is the combination of the removal of an audio jack from most phone models and the cost of wireless headphones. Who is going to give a 10 year old £250 blue tooth headphones for the school run?