evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

Going through a lil cyberdeck era

Life Hacks, 2025 edition:

-If Peter Thiel's involved, avoid it
-If it’s “opt-in,” It'll be mandatory
-If AI is involved, it’s profiling you
-If Big Tech says it's for safety, it's not
-If it demands a facial scan, walk away
-If it’s “for your safety,” it’s for their control

via Jason Bassler

In other depressing IoT news, iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuums, files for bankruptcy and sells itself to Chinese company. Hello cameras and mics in bajillions of homes.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/irobot-bankruptcy-irbt-roomba-app-continue-to-operate/

THC Release 💥: The world’s largest IP<>Domain database: https://ip.thc.org

All forward and reverse IPs, all CNAMES and all subdomains of every domain. For free.

Updated monthly.

Try: curl https://ip.thc.org/1.1.1.1

Raw data: https://ip.thc.org/docs/bulk-data-access

(The fine work of messede 👌)

What does everyone think? Need feedback before release tomorrow :)

"What could this be?" [shake, shake]

"Maybe a gift card?" It could go either way, really...

This dragged in for twelve, fifteen minutes

TBH, by this time I was feeling pretty poorly—too many people, too much noise, my stomach had been sick all day

Finally, the person opened the box

And was bewildered—"what... what is this? Axolotls? Pole dancing‽"

It was the best/worst gift of the day, and it was raucous in the room

Y'all, no one—no one—would fess up to bringing it in!

A mouse pad (see below) and several coasters featuring this lovely axolotl, pole dancing 😂

Last night on stage , I announced my resignation from the Infinite Monkey Cage - here is my statement #science #radio #bbc

TIL car tyre sizes (eg, 225/55R17) manage to combine metric (225mm width), a percentage for an aspect ratio (55%), and imperial (17 inch diameter). I think that’s just marvellous. Well done everyone.

Someone just ordered 6 copies of DOCTYPE 🎉
(every order genuinely makes a difference in terms of what I can afford to do on the site next year)

HTML is for life, not just for Christmas. This year, give the gift of Open Web.

https://vole.wtf/doctype/

Jeez, I'm getting adverts for AI based tools to help me make prompts for the AI I don't use. This thing really has disappeared up its own arse, hasn't it.

My age: I get this joke 🤣
#humor #phones

🚀 Still not too late to order DOCTYPE before Christmas but it’s getting tight for some parts of the world
Don’t disappoint the nerds in your life (including yourself)
https://vole.wtf/doctype/

Hey so remember how I gave a talk inspired by The Rasmus where I experimented creating a gamified karaoke in the browser?

Anyway, I got the band to sign the landyard of one of the many places I spoke at. 🧡 @heypresents

Be a fan and a dork about things you love and care about.

My first toot… a picture of me nestled in the hooman’s arms #catsofmastodon

Please boost so my little server joins the Fedi and I can meow at lots of cats

Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.

He prayed and read the Bible every day.

He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.

He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.

He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.

While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.

He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.

Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.

Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.

No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.

We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.

He never asked us to be Christian with him.

He only asked us to be his neighbor.

So...

If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.

It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.

It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.

It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".

Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.

-- Patchie Dee

Maybe it’s just me, but I’d much rather have an entire Somali immigrant family with two happy trans kids living right next door to me than a white supremacist or a racist MAGA lunatic any day of the week.

The memory supply/pricing problem is an opportunity for retrocomputing and for actually making *efficient* use of resources.

This was a nice post to spot today https://bsd.network/@mk/115660959082583150