evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Shared a copy of "My Heart Will Go On" on Napster in 2000 except it was not Celine Dion's version but me singing it badly without any instruments and also I changed all occurrences of "heart" to "fart".

That's right, it goes in the risk register.

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

so AI is going great

Right in the middle of a rainy moment, a tiny bird becomes the star of something truly magical—a perfect water droplet lands on its head, forming a crown-like splash that feels almost unreal. The timing is flawless, capturing a split second where nature turns playful.
The photo was taken by Lee Schofer and posted by his partner, Kate Weyer, on her Facebook.
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer
https://x.com/Sci_Nature0/status/2045886932463304729

If Zarah Sultana MP had not entered this into the public record by saying it in the House of Commons on 14 April 2026, today it would be illegal to print this in any UK media.

https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2026-04-14

#UK #Palestine

"My stance on LLMs is this: if you freeze a turd in liquid nitrogen, you can use it to hammer nails but this doesn't change the fact that your tool is a piece of shit." - mycomancy

So, today I learned about Mayberry, a distributed ebook sharing system using the OPDS catalogue/library functions.

I think it's kind of early days for the software behind it, but the creator is billing it as a hybrid of bittorrent (ie. it's distributed) and Anna's Archive.

I've already tried it and it works well with my Xteink X4, and the Readest app on iOS.

https://joinmayberry.com

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JennyList/116435937178882634

This comes on the back of another of my side jobs laying me off because one of their suits drank too deeply of the generative AI Kool-Aid.

It's not been a good week or two.

Should have said. Permie jobs, NL preferred.

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.

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#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.