evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!

#computers #SocialMedia #passwords

The good news is this party is not very well organised in vetting its people and they do not tend to stick about or are watched like a hawk. If you are now in one of their councils hold them to an account, they cannot handle pressure.
I give it 6 months before most of them quit.

#UKPOL

It happened. Microsoft brought GitHub to #ZeroNines.

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/

#Microslop #AISlop #EmpireInDecline

I have a box sitting in my basement with 190GB of ram on it, hosting a minecraft server and like two debian VMs.

now I will definitely not bonk the USB stick

Bit of perspective for those struggling today 😊

Something I wrote during some dark times earlier in 2025, and it helped define the way I want to live my life... spreading happiness and light! Hope this makes you smile!

#poem #hope #positivity

Let's Encrypt just stopped the issuance of certificates after an (so far not publicly disclosed) incident:

https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/incident/55957a99e800baa4470002da/69fe2d6698ca07050eb4b1b3

If anyone encounters issues today with failed certificate renewals: It's probably not your setup.

Update: Let's Encrypt has resumed issuance.

#letsencrypt #itsec #devops #linux #security #tls

@Viss can't push, AWS is down

uh oh https://letsencrypt.status.io/

Happy "Internet is on fire" day

@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/

https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/08/aws-warns-of-ec2-impairment-as-power-loss-hits-notorious-us-east-1-region/5235509

a tiny violin for all the super pro-cloud folks who continue to maintain going to the cloud was a better idea than self hosting, and specifically citing all the different regions, the only using us-east-1

(dot dot slash)
(dot dot slash)
(dot dot slash)

Buddy, you're a dir, make a big noise
Relative or leet, gonna be a big path someday
You got dots in the place, you big deep fake
Trigger the WAF all over the place, singin'
We will, we will block you

If you believe that #Reform is a solution to, well, anything, I have a splinter from the true cross I'd like to sell you.
I hope you won't think this presumptuous of me, but have you ever considered attending a course that teaches rudimentary reasoning skills, you gullible fucking lack-wit?

I need to replace my departed side gig.

This time with somewhere that's not swallowed the generative AI Kool-aid.

People panicking about hantavirus like they're not walking around with their 9th case of covid and still not wearing a fucking mask.

#covid #covid19 #GetVaccinated #hantavirus