evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

@anon_opin
You voted Leave? Idiot.
You think 33% should have a veto over 66%? Idiot.

In case you missed this - it's wonderful to be featured in the Border Telegraph article yesterday. Scotland's bookshops play a vital community and cultural role - now, maybe, more than ever, but these are challenging times...

https://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/25609723.stow-newtown-st-boswells-bookshops-featured-report/

I know we all love to criticize older generations, but in the 20th century if someone did a Nazi salute you could almost guarantee that a WW2 veteran would punch them in the head, and I think there was a great societal benefit to that.

The media: Nvidia being profitable is proof there's not an AI bubble.

How Nvidia are profitable:

Crowvember offering 12: "The crow, being a tool user, knows how to fix his cassette."

#crowvember #cassette #boombox #crow #sketchbook

Fun fact, if you google booter services (DDoS services), almost every major one is a Cloudflare customer. So currently, by anti-DDoS provider Cloudflare being offline, the world is a safer place.

With music, I usually commission something from https://tomkincaid.co.uk so I know it’ll be great AND all work together (sometimes I’ll also ask for sfx with matching timbre)
There’s loads of great library music out there, but if you’re not careful you can waste days trawling for just the right things

https://www.computerworld.com/article/1353141/companies-aim-to-build-security-awareness.html

Sorry everyone, Cloudflare’s down because too many people were stacking pigs on the vole site

Down detector is down. Truly the end of times

Ooooh, actually, here's some cloud based viewing that is a *perfect* alternative for when your required website isn't loading.

Available on both Mastodon:
https://things.uk/@eclectech/112574841854012410

Or my website:
https://eclectech.co.uk/nonsense/2024-05-31rainbowdancersvideo-scrub

Cloud based dancing to the rescue!

Lots of cloudfare / sites down chat in my feed today.

If you would like to see some clouds that *aren't* down you can see some here.

https://eclectech.co.uk/imagesTag?o=0&tag=CloudCreatures#main

No ads. No tracking. No cookies. No AI. No sense.

/small web creator marketing opportunity 😆

We have updated this software.

Pray we do not update it further.

Thank you to the global cloudflare outage for reminding me of my custom error page I made in 2014

Two other related points:
- It’s not actually that expensive to hire artists if you have a clear brief, are OK to deal with, pay instantly, etc
- Your project gets a boost, not only from not looking like AI slop, but from having a real named human involved (who will probably help promote it)

https://bsky.app/profile/jamiesmart.bsky.social/post/3m5vc4b2ajs2x

horseplay