evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

I do technical journalism, writing and editing in English to a very high standard, I have a background working for a dictionary, and I'm an electronic engineer. I am told I am unique in this CV.

I can do your tech company or project's PR, documentation, and many other things.

#fedihire

🌟 Project Release Announcement Time! 🎉

I wrote a WebUSB extension for Firefox.

This lets web pages access USB devices (with your permission). This has long been supported by Chrome, but Mozilla has not wanted it, at least by default. Fortunately, because add-ons are a thing (for now. make sure to keep fighting for this!), it's possible to change that!

Common reasons for wanting this include programming microcontrollers, 3d-printers, smartphone bootloaders, and similar "physical computing" projects.

This works on Windows, Linux, and macOS

You can get the source code here: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/awawausb

In order to make this work, you will need to install a small program on your computer. This is explained in the README. You can then install the .xpi file (on the GitHub Releases page) into your browser (which was _just_ auto-approved while I was typing this announcement up).

Please boost (if you want), test, report bugs, etc. etc. (although do keep in mind that this code is entirely written by a single catgirl)

i think this is the perfect type of project to drop late on a sunday / very early on a monday?

Four feet up, face smashed into a pillow, gently snoring. Living the dream, Fennel. #CatsOfMastodon

@evilstevie @gsuberland
So it's with a hard-K, if localized here?
https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirahvi
"kif" sure would funnier than gif.

Presented without comment

#silentSunday #bloomScrolling #architecture

Apropos, Cushing's #DoctorWho. I recently stumbled across this original press-release photo for Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.! in a Swiss secondhand shop.

The Epstein files are probably not an outlier. They're just the ones we've heard about because the perpetrators were useless at infosec.

#Vim

PSA:

Direct all screams to The Void.
Do not, I repeat, DO NOT, under any circumstances, scream into a colander.
You'll strain your voice if you do that.

So printers still suck, huh?

I’m going to update mastodon across the infosec, ioc, and convo instances today. There shouldn’t be any downtime but there are user interface changes and for that I will apologize in advance to everyone who doesn’t like their cheese moved. There isn’t an option to keep it like it was. And yes, this will probably continue the trend of breakage on old devices with browsers that can’t handle newer functionality. I’m sorry for that too.

At the shop.
A: Should we get some flowers for the balcony?
Me: I'm not that fussed.
A: What about that one?
Me: Meh
A: What about that blue one?
Me: Meh
A: That yellow one is nice.
Me: Meh. I'm just not that interested in flowers.
A: What about the one that looks like Bagpuss?
Me: Let's get four!

One of the saddest things about the social media era is finding out that the musicians, actors and comedians you liked are rotten cunts.