evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

It's Friday! Woohoo!

The dancers have a parental unit visiting this weekend so decided, almost unanimously, to do a quick reprise of the star clap dance while on a nice sunny walk, rather than learning a new step.

As ever, have a good weekend if you possibly can

#sillyScribbles #FridaySparklyDancers

Was quietly asked if someone was bad news, leading to further enquiries - the results of which have spontaneously combusted my eyebrows

Most people are generally good. But this also means there are a few people who are *extremely* bad.

Never underestimate the damage one bad actor can do to a community. If you let a bad person hang around several good people will quietly leave, and more bad people will join - then the cycle repeats.

Eventually you will only be left with people who are willing to tolerate or even agree with the bad behaviour.

505) Pouffebot. Helps you put your feet up after a hard day, literally. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.

BACK IN MY DAY, AI STOOD FOR ADOBE ILLUSTRSTOR, AND WE HATED THAT TOO

Drew a tribute to the song Me & Gorgon by Tiff & Gabe

Fuck it

TransMac

EDIT: Yo so this blew up. If folks want their own "Pride Finder" I made a post about how to get one

https://social.restless.systems/@CursedSilicon/116616566177255169

CARMACK: *makes a game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

CARMACK: *makes another game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

CARMACK: *makes ANOTHER game with well-meaning scientists whose work gets used by an evil company to open a portal to hell*

REAL LIFE HELL PORTAL COMPANY: Carmack, please come work for us

CARMACK: this is probably fine

Computers are dumb now.

504) Fishbowlbot. Looks after your fish for you. Includes all the modern technology required to sustain healthy, happy aquatic life, despite looking like an old-fashioned fish bowl (it's in the little castle). #SmallRobotsRemastered

fun trick: if someone gives a hosted LLM a skill that lets it fetch web pages (directly, not through some third party scraper service) and it's hosted on AWS, you can often trick it into fetching data from the AWS instance metadata server (IMDS) at 169.254.169.254 / [fd00:ec2::254]. the higher end models tend to refuse if you give the IP, but you can just spin up a domain with A/AAAA records pointing at that IP and request that instead. if IMDSv1 isn't disabled you can get secrets out of it.

Today, Amazon effectively kills support for older Kindles. Not because the screens stopped working. Not because the batteries all died. Because Amazon decided perfectly usable e-readers should be cut off from the services that made them useful. That is not innovation. That is forced obsolescence with a checkout button. Sign PIRG’s petition and tell Amazon to stop bricking working Kindles.

PIRG Petition: https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-amazon-dont-junk-older-kindle-models/

No more JavaScript, it's clear y'all can't be trusted with it. I'm turning it off.

there is a pdf of this image available here, if you are kind enough to pass it to someone who you think may benefit:

https://phobos.io/airlock.pdf

Phobos Group has a new offering!
Airlock:
a practical container architecture for teams using claude code, codex, and other tui-based, npm-heavy toolsets for agentic development, workflows and pipelines.

It's an incus-based security architecture and design created to directly address the ceaseless supply chain attacks which have been ramping up since mid 2024 or so.

If you can think of someone who would find this useful, please send them my way!
#phobosgroup #airlock

Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.

https://virtualosmuseum.org/

Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.

Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.

#retrocomputing

Take 6d8 email damage

502) Flouncebot. Helps you to affect a dramatic exit with its swishy cape and haughty attitude. #SmallRobotsRemastered