evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you.

lot of that going around

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email

This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀

#FediTest #littleFedi #OwnYourData #NetBSD

Regular reminder that the volunteers at the food bank are not judging you. We just want everyone to have enough to eat. We're doing our best to help.

If you are in a shaky spot and you can either get food or pay for another need, you are welcome at the food bank.

Even if you only need us once.

Even if you need us every week for 50 years.

Even if you have a good job and the month just got longer than the paycheck this time.

Even if you aren't completely out of food but you still need help rounding out your week.

Even if you usually volunteer at the food bank.

We just want to make sure you're not hungry.

I had an idea for a blog post I wanted to put together after my wife sent me a facebook vid of some journalist talking about fakecaptcha/clickfix.

Here's the premise: Don't you find it interesting that, so many websites these days claim that captcha tech is around to keep you safe, when in fact that any company that runs a captcha is doing so to build better bots and/or directly assist in building a surveillance state?

#neverslop #mobilek #goose

I've baffled people with this one in the past. Explanation in the alt text, for those who'd like it.

You shouldn't have to know that the nazis will come for you at some point to not support nazis in the first place. You should just not support them coming for anyone.

I'm tired, boss. Can we go back to when computers were cool and the overwhelming majority of good things were born out of someone's irrational amount of care about a problem?

Everything lately has been trying to minmax some weird "productivity" metric that is ill defined, the same way people praise "growth" as a metric for something's value. Nonsense.

Seeing this bullshit ethos hit FOSS and generally hacker communities as a whole has been painful, in a way I didn't expect.

I’ve scrolled too deep into amazon and it has started trying to sell me VESA mount cat beds 🤔

Red Squirrel.

BOING!

#redsquirrel #highlands #photography

LFG #MapQuest

New dinosaur just dropped. Introducing the cucumbersaurus. Oh aye.

Right, back to the chores that this discovery thoroughly distracted me from. smh.

#sillyScribbles #nonsense

#neverslop [lawsuit edition]

#noai #ai #slop #antislop #hellokitty #art #comic #llm

A lot of trans Brits are very worried about the abrupt suspension of Welsh gender related surgeries.

For those who are wondering whether it's time to leave, I hope How To Get Out will help you get it right.

https://transrescue.org/how-to-get-out

guys help why is my demon core doing this

An engineering blessing:

"May you never be the reason for a new safety sign"

stay cyber out there everybody