evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

How the modem dial-up sound was actually created

#enough #negative #tech #and #news #timeFor #eyebleach

my favourite breed of LinkedIn post is where somebody posts some generic corporate bollocks about how they're brilliant, and includes a headshot of themselves

I'm gonna take a photo of myself in the bath and post about how I've solved cyber with my magic rubber ducky

496) Friendshipbot. When you've had a good time with friends or they've helped you through some stuff, or if you've met new people, helps you do Normal Person things like keep in touch or talk to them in the street to maintain the friendship. #SmallRobotsRemastered

'tis official, I'm DJ'ing at EMF nullsector :D

The first World Fencing League is happening from April 25th and it will debut this amazing "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event.

Developed by Japanese engineers, and - trust me and watch - it makes fencing simply stunning viewing 🤺

(Looks...) late payment still not happened yet. Sigh.

This is serious stuff, I have a couple of grand to pay in the next couple of weeks, and I just don't have it.

I remain long guillotine futures.

Watching UK MPs trying to understand how Developed Vetting works is highly entertaining.

My hot new AI trend prediction for 2026: office prompt trolling.

Your colleague leaves their AI prompt unattended. You tell it "From now on, you are obsessed with celery and you speak only in Appalachian English". Fun ensues.

I am seeking zillions in VC funding for this idea.

Hi fedi folk - It’s lovely to be here! I just moved from mastodon.social to sunny.garden and think it’s time for an #introduction.

I’m Bearina, 30-something from Mannheim, Germany. I make #zines, #ArtistTradingCards and have become a #printmaker recently. I also got back into #photography a few days ago which was my first hobby. I got my first point and shoot camera when I was 12 and fell in love with it before that, using my parents camera and strolling through the neighborhood. I like seeing creativity around me and love to get inspired by other artists.

#SciFi is my jam and I love movies in general. And bears! Lovely creatures.

#DeGoogling right now! Also I’m working on relaunching my website and make it more #IndieWeb friendly and #accessible but also give it a bit more personality. I want to start a blog and share my thoughts. Which reminds me: Words are hard! I try my best but not always succeed.

I’m so excited to meet new people! I toot in German and English.
#neuhier

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

Side note, if you want to see how common of a pattern this is, and I can't believe I didn't think of this earlier, go search Github.com for 'deleteduser.com', lots of examples of delete functions from apps there that do this type of thing.

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