evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I just had a discussion with a friend, that the last years each felt exhausting like a complete decade.

Then I remembered this quote:

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.”
― Terry Pratchett

And we both felt as Terry has been looking at us when he wrote it.

#terrypratchett

Year progress: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ 100.0%

Today is the last day you can use this.

[jabba the hut voice] ho ho ho
https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/new-california-laws-2026/3952860/

if you want to view paradise, simply cow around and tool it

Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.

I had to. Sorry / you're welcome.

#Meme #Humour

duck around and find out

Make sure vim terminate itself after 300 seconds. truly evil 😈
```
alias vim='timeout 300 vim'
```

The timeout command is a simple way to let a command run for a given amount of time. https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-run-a-command-with-a-time-limit/

So geht #39c3

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My 75-year old aunt today in her lovely Scottish lilt: “I don’t see why people can’t just leave trans people alone. If they’re happy what business is it of anyone else’s?” 👍

Eh, pls #boost my request to #getfedihired, if you could spare two clicks? 🥺

I've been humming and hawing about posting this, it feels strange, something about generational guilt & working class shame & ... but it's either this or start putting my CV through LLMs to include every buzzword on the listing I'm applying to. I haven't been able to stomach that, even though I presume that's a lot of my competition.

I simply can't get to an interview. Historically, I've done three interviews and got the job each time, because I'm a real human being who is friendly and chatty and presents himself sincerely (or, that's my guess, anyway).

#Christmas miracles appreciated!

In #Ireland with my partner, but we've lived in different places and would move happily. I've a year experience doing an IT support role the last year, but have transitioned to this stuff later than usual.

Before I've done: bartender; bicycle courier for Deliveroo in #Berlin for two years (best job ever); private tutor for five years in #Lyon (mostly piano but also maths, Irish, English, flute, tin whistle); bookies clerk for a short period; a few other odd bits - one highlight was writing reviews for a theatre company.

Oh, very comfortably fluent in #French, pretty fluent in #Irish (my first love), and intermediate #German (which I would love to have a chance to go back speaking and learning).

Tech-wise, it's been mostly on the #Linux / #Emacs / #Lisp side of things. I would happily work on anything that is one or more of challenging, interesting, useful, or moral.

Money doesn't rule me. I want to live with a humane level of comfort, that's all.

CVs and references available, DMs open. Thanks so much for any and all help!

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

Good news you might have missed: Researchers in South Korea have developed a new eco-friendly recycling process that recovers more than 95 percent of nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries with almost perfect purity. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/recycling-nickel-cobalt-ev-batteries