stevelord

stevelord, 7 days ago to vmware

Scenes from #broadcom's revenue team at the end of the first quarter of new #VMWare renewal pricing

video/mp4

stevelord, 11 days ago to random

New blog post from me about making active decisions about what's important to me around the software I use: What I Want From Technology

https://thedorkweb.bearblog.dev/what-i-want-from-technology/

stevelord, 13 days ago to random

Hi @mollyim i recently switched from signal to molly amd noticed the same donation request with the "not now" dark pattern. Could you change this to a no or integrate the option to stop it coming back? I dont mind a donation request and i dont mind donating. I just dont like it ignoring my decision nor to donate while i'm trying to use the app.

stevelord, 14 days ago to random

"Educational tool". "Charity". "Open source". If you still think this isnt anything but a corp in charitable clothing youre naive or yoir job depends on promoting it https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/sony-plans-dedicated-raspberry-pi-5-line-ahead-of-ipo/

stevelord, 15 days ago to random

Home alone for a week and lots of local people kept asking if I was OK cooking, as thoughi cant. Made bread earlier and spaghetti aglio I olio for dinner with fresh garden parsley. Nobody died, although I'd understand if Italians were upset with my creation.

stevelord, 17 days ago to random

The future we could've had without big tech.

stevelord, 17 days ago to thinkpad

The #thinkpad t42 SSD arrived, so I installed it, got dos 6.22 working and now win3.11. Office 4.3 is blazing fast. Only issue is no power management so the fan is on full pelt.

stevelord, 24 days ago to ai

#Slack are feeding your chats into #ai behind your back. Opt-out details in the link, but you're better off moving away if you have the option: https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

stevelord, 25 days ago to random

Ayyyy

stevelord, 25 days ago to random

Today in man-made horrors beyond human comprehension: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/16/dead-satellite-space-earth-magnetic-field

stevelord, 26 days ago to RaspberryPi

Today in #enshittification the charitable #raspberrypi foundation is taking it's for-profit company to IPO: https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/market-news/expected-intention-to-float/16470316

stevelord, 1 month ago to esp32

This looks really cool, an ad-blocking DNS server for #ESP32: https://github.com/openesper/esper

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

I love everything about this: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240503-why-you-should-let-insects-eat-your-plants

Our forest garden isn't just for us, it's for all the animals and insects, and plants that live there. We use sacrificial plants and trap crops, not even using organic weedkilling techniques like nematodes or soap sprays.

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

Looks like a new #nix fork is about to drop at https://aux.computer/. They're still figuring whether to migrate away from github. Hope it works out either way but freeing themselves from the grapple of Github, even if it's using folders would be better than staying there IMHO (which doesn't mean much tbf)

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

Some really cool things about hacker ethics, programming and loss in this talk transcript, Programming is Forgetting by Allison Parrish: http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/programming-forgetting-new-hacker-ethic/

stevelord, 1 month ago to food

Today we harvested three-cornered leeks from a hedge. They're an invasive species tasting like garlic. After harvesting I chopped the bulbs and we made a pickling solution with freshly chopped ginger, celery and mustard seeds and white wine vinegar. Then we blitzed the rest, mixing in cashews and pine nuts to make a pesto before adding table salt to make a brine and transferring to jars to ferment for a few days. We'll use the left over pesto mix tonight. #food #foraging #pickling

3 cornered leek bulbs in a jar filled with a pickling solution
3 cornered leek pesto fermenting in a jar
A bowl filled with finely chopped 3 cornered leeks, cashews and pine nuts.

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

My god, did someone swap the guy's microdosing for macrodosing. The dude's unhinged: https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

Every time a techbro tells me I need to change to some boneheaded security solution like DoH or shit like that it ends up with shitty consequences. Today it's Passkeys being used to lock customers into platforms. Other than anyone who looked at who was involved, who could've possibly predicted this might happen?

https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

stevelord, 1 month ago to random

Fvwm95ing around on #OpenBSD

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Got bumped to an earlier flight but its still gci so it'll be a bit late taking off. Next stop is LGW.

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Princeton Uni have created their own AI SWE agent to fix code: "On the full SWE-bench test set, SWE-agent resolves 12.29% of issues, achieving the state-of-the-art performance on the full test set."
This isn't a breakthrough. It's a datacentre-sized kettle boiling drinking water for no damned reason. Don't accept any association of these kinds of numbers as success. Demand better, or that this shit fucks off into the sea.

https://github.com/princeton-nlp/SWE-agent

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Restored an old computer from the attic with Lubuntu for class 1 (3-5 yo) at the local school. Cut everything back, made everything big, put desktop icons up for tuxmath, tuxpaint, gcompris and extreme tuxracer and added a little thing so the computer speaks and asks the kids if they'd like to play a game on startup. The head was blown away that all this was free. Hopefully on staff meeting day the other teachers will get to have a play and we can see about rescuing more attic gear this summer.

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Today's energy after working all weekend and having to work today.

A small unresponsive white dog being dragged across a hallway floor on a lead because it absolutely does not want to go on a walk

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Very much the energy I'm bringing to today.

A person wearing a red santa hat sits at a desk partly facing the camera. They tap something on their phone and a robot arm on the table springs into action. It moves around before clamping onto it's own power cable and unplugging it.

stevelord, 2 months ago to random

Achievement unlocked. Under 4 minutes to clear the turtle on Solitaire Mahjong on Haiku.