evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

EDIT March: Thank you everyone, I've found a new exciting job

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 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.

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.

#AI ? noooo... #PISS

#ShitIFind #religionispoison

So the government decided to restrict who can get free flu vaccines on the NHS, and now we have a monster flu season overwhelming the NHS and hospitals declaring critical incidents all over the place.

I believe that's what's known as #FAFO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgxg7kd6p4t

#PreventionIsBetterThanCure #PreventionIsCheaperThanCure #Flu #Influenza #Vaccines #FluVaccine #NHSCrisis #NHSWinterCrisis #FluCrisis

A very quick Myfanwy and Friend Special Edition for #NationalSnuggleAChickenDay

HT to @MaQuest and @art_history_animalia for the inspiration and source, responsibility as ever my own.

I feel like the snuggled chickens have a bit of attitude going on. There is definitely a backstory here.

#MyfanwyAndFriend #sillyScribbles #nonsense

I have fun new warning stickers that arrived and were placed today... The ones that say "Caution: Cursed technology inside" are on every one of my Windows laptops, including my work machine... *Especially* my work machine!!!
If you need some: unsafewarnings.etsy.com
(no relation to me)

Went for a walk. Found an icy bubble pond. It was a good pond.

#sillyScribbles #nonsense