evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Companies are *already* quietly hiring people to come in and clean up the digital asbestos that is "AI" slop, or re-hiring the same folk (who did the actual work) that managers and CEOs ditched with surpassing cruelty.

Please, if you're a consultant or getting re-hired, MAKE THEM PAY.

Investigating the Mermaid of Zennor - https://jimmoon.substack.com/p/the-mermaid-of-zennor

#FolkloreThursday #mermaids

One of life’s pleasures. Out for a stroll in the countryside with a cup of tea.

Cloudflare Drop:

"Drop a folder. Or a zip.

Summon your site - HTML, CSS, JS. See it live instantly."

Cloudflare announced their new Exfiltration as a Service app today. Admins, be sure to lock this jackassery down ASAP. https://www.cloudflare.com/drop/

Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.

Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.

If anyone in Ireland is looking for a C++ position, I might know one #getfedihired

Don’t buy climbing walls on Temu
They are not to scale

Very pleasing to look out the window and see a sunset that matches the one I’ve coded into current project for these weather conditions

Today I found out (the hard way) you can only shoot old Sigmas wide open on newer Canons unless you chip them to translate the aperture command
Anyway, bugs!
#macrophotography

#TruthTuesday 👇
This bears repeating till governments do the work to corral unbridled #AI development: 👇

Y'all I'm so proud of my wife's pottery. Take a look at some of her recent work.

I feel this drawing could've been a lot worse...🤣

Happy aphelion day from the grumpy-looking barn swallows who are about to fledge

Cartoon by James McLeod.
#USpol

I had a hug based decision crisis yesterday with this, and finally decided the above was the destination, but as I've always been one to share my travels have the big loud hug on its own to kick start the week. This is where it started.

#sillyScribbles #hug

Didn’t stay up for the football but I’m a big fan of anything that temporarily harms productivity, there’s not enough slacking off nowadays