evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Blah blah cyber attack.

Maybe we should just stop centralising and interconnecting absolutely everything to absolutely everything else.

These days you can’t even visit a website without it pulling the fonts, styles, images from a bazillion different sources rather than the site itself. Never mind ads and all the other cruft.

Now think about how we do that with entire IT systems and consider how trivial it is to break one thing that impacts a bazillion other things in an instant.

Made this sea glass puppy recently

From the country that brought you Boaty McBoatface comes Network Rail's leaf-removal train:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/19/train-named-ctrl-alt-deleaf-leaves-uk-tracks-network-rail

THIS IS THE RIGHT KIND OF CANCEL CULTURE.
So Disney is offering massive discounts for 6 months if you try to cancel your subscription. For those who weren’t cancelling bc their young kids, it’s worth at least trying to cancel and take the discount they offer to keep you. Then cancel before the promotion period ends.

They are also spending a fortune on ads to get people back. The boycott is working. Soooo many people are fighting back.
#Disney #boycott

Things I DON'T want in my tech

• Spying
• AI
• "AI"
• Lies
• The thinnest touchscreen
• The largest touchscreen
• An app that is 15 apps
• An app that does things I don't know about
• A popup asking "Now?" or "Later?" without a "Never!" option
• An update that makes it all worse
• Exploding batteries

Things I DO want in my tech

• Privacy 🔒
• Security 🛡️
• Repairability 🛠️
• Pretty interfaces
• Buttons

#Tech #Enshittification

I continue to fail to do anything useful. Off to change that now. Definitely.

#sillyScribbles #boop #bird

computers were a mistake [remembers that I met my husband online] all computers not directly serving the purpose of socially interconnecting the world's weirdest 1% of people were a mistake

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SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

If your upgrade to mastodon 4.4.4 failes with:
Couldn't find a script named "vite"
then try:
yarn add vite
before retrying the asset compilation

#mastodon

"Redmond also advised admins to notify their organizations' helpdesk teams and users before the app is forcibly installed on their devices 'to reduce confusion and support requests."

Supply chain attack gooooooooo

:P

I told my twins that if I die they should Weekend at Bernie's me on a ferry to the Isle of Wight and push me off, to save on a funeral. They shared this in a primary school class on animal lifecycles. Cue concerned WhatsApp voice note from their teacher.