evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Remember when the web used to be fun?

In the spirit of that age I made a little website that does a lot of fancy maths and thinking stuff to tell you if you're alive or not.

Enjoy!

https://amideadyet.me

The trans community officially made it 😻

#csdleipzig

New blog post: Transmitting data via ultrasound without any special equipment

Did you know your speakers can play (and your microphone can record) audio at frequencies beyond what most people can hear? They can! And you can use that fact to secretly transmit data!

edit: oops, that had something weird going on with the youtube embed. fixed.

https://halcy.de/blog/2025/06/27/transmitting-data-via-ultrasound-without-any-special-equipment/

I can't believe we're still having to say this in 2025, but would people *please* scroll back to the top of a website when they're finished reading, so it's ready for the next person. We've even got buttons at the bottom to do it all in one go, it's not 1994 any more.

And here we have the noble capybara - the guinea big, if you will - doing a quick under the chin buttercup check to find out if they like butter

7 /n

#photography #capybara #ChesterZooTrip

And take a deep breath... and relaaaaaaax

8 /n

#photography #capybara #ChesterZooTrip

Anyhow, the sunda gharial is a freshwater crocodilian and it is awesome.

10 /n

#photography #reptile #ChesterZooTrip

Ahh. Friday evening. Drinking gin. Sorting through photos. Trying to work out, in an increasingly exasperated manner, what kind of chameleon is looking at me very suspiciously, when they look different in EVERY SINGLE ONLINE PHOTO 🤷‍♀️

My information says it's possibly a Parson's Chameleon but if they had others it could be one of them. A funky creature, whatever. If you definitely know what type it is, please let us know in the replies.

12 /n

#photography #reptile #ChesterZooTrip

Everything in the reptile house was looking at me a little suspiciously. I have no idea why.

13 /n

#photography #reptile #ChesterZooTrip

Have I mentioned how great the orangutans were? I might have mentioned how great the orangutans were.

But still. ORANGUTAN! 🦧

15 /n

#photography #orangutan #ChesterZooTrip

ok someone please point me at the Opera people responsible for calling their stupid LLM chatbot "Aria", thus name colliding it with the incredibly important web accessibility standards system.

I have some choice words for them.

This seems to have upset some of the usual suspects.

#politics #UK #Reform #Satire #humor #humour

Afternoon!

#sillyScribbles #bee #flower #nonsense

I am now going to channel the serenity of this orangutan, think peaceful thoughts, and head off to sleep. Sweet dreams all 💤

6 /n (to be continued)

#photography #orangutan #ChesterZooTrip

The Zoo Trip Photo Thread

Although I'm sure I will get distracted with scribbling at points, I have a few photos from our trip to Chester Zoo that I just want to post to say LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY, so I am going to stick them together as I sort through 🧵

This is the first. A purple starling and, well, LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY!

1 /n

#photography #bird #ChesterZooTrip

A male maccoa duck. LOOK AT THIS BEAUTY!

2 /n

#photography #bird #ChesterZooTrip

The very serious and contemplative white-headed vulture, looking a little like it's wearing a very fetching black feather boa.

Also, don't want to be picky, but it really should be called a pink and blue headed vulture.

3 /n

#photography #bird #ChesterZooTrip