evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

For sure the lately "trending" and super cheap Video Walkie Talkies are now also Doomed 🥳

Full video now on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/5aRQLHLls0k

Source code and Precompiled firmware is available here:
https://github.com/atc1441/TXW818_WalkieTalkie_Doom

When Multiplayer?😅

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The astronomy cloud computing system is down. Again.

(It is down a lot, but I don't use it that often lately. Otherwise I would complain a lot more)

Always makes me so sad that there's just buttloads of money being dumped into AI data centers so people can make awful slop no one wants, but the science computing infrastructure is held together with hope, duct tape, and someone's leftover grant money from 5 years ago.

506) Platespinningbot. For when you have to spin a lot of plates. That's not a metaphor: this robot actually performs the classic crockery-on-sticks variety act. #SmallRobotsRemastered

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

EDIT 2: Added alt text on request

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/