Haaa. Check out this entry I found by accident in the Vermont State University directory: Max the Cat
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Dave Mason
@DaveMasonDotMe@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06👨💻 Senior Machine Architect, Rube Goldberg Division
✍ Comments his code
🦸♂️ Optimizes slow SQL Queries
🖥️ Linux convert/disgusted longtime Windows user
📷 Aspiring mediocre photographer
🧠 Atheist
🔠 Defines his acronyms
Topics I post frequently:
🔘 #SQLServer
🔘 #Celtics/#NBA (Nat'l Basketball Assoc)
🔘 #UCF (Univ of Central Florida)
🔘 #Bucs/#NFL (Nat'l Football League)
🔘 #RStats (R programming language)
🔘 #EV (Electric Vehicles)
🔘 #Photography
🔘 #Privacy
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Y'all, it's been two years since I ditched Windows for Linux.
10/10
Would recommend.
#Linux
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@Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange
Can I take a moment to praise Mastodon and the Fediverse?
I switched to Linux two years ago. The times I couldn't find my own answers, I often asked questions on Mastodon. The community was welcoming, gentle, and helpful.
#Mastodon
#Linux
Ever notice how "tax the billionaires" would address most of society's problems?
Groundbreaking study finds a natural way to fight climate change
Madame Squeakers, hanging out on the couch with Mom.
Periodic reminder: it's almost never about the children.
Still wishing thee was an option to block all 'Automated' bot profiles.
The incessant barrage of notifications from Windows is disruptive and annoying AF.
Sure, I could turn them off. But what's the point? My changes to security/privacy/annoyance settings always get magically reverted.
Well done, Microsoft. 🖕🖕
#Microsoft
#Windows
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social
If anyone found that perspective confusing, I'll assume one of two things about you:
1️⃣ You don't take privacy as seriously as you should.
2️⃣ Most of the people you associate with do take privacy seriously, and think you are as normal as they are.
CiCi wants in on Caturday.
I just saw a commercial for compression socks.
The ad boasted their product is made of infra red blue fibers. 😕
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social
For the rest of you that do understand, ugh... I'm sorry.
I'm the tinfoil hat wearer in many of my circles too. It's exhausting.
#Privacy
Infinity War Alternate Plot: the Avengers hide the stones behind Cloudflare. Thanos can't prove he's not a bot, and he's defeated soon after the opening credits.
It sure is swell that Samsung created 'privacy display' for their cell phone screens.
How about protecting users' privacy from Google?
Headline: BMW Says Cars Are Now Defined by Software, Not Engines
Me: What an obtuse flex by BMW. Do they really want their industry to be regarded in a similar way to how we regard the industry that led to the phrase "enshittification"?
https://www.autoblog.com/news/bmw-says-cars-are-now-defined-by-software-not-engines
I only watched the 2nd half of Celtics/Knicks tonight. Small sample size, but when Tatum was on the court vs off, it appeared we fared better when he was on the bench.
The box score appears to support my observation: Tatum's ± was -16pts. Ouch. 😬
Headline: Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'
Folks that boast they've stopped posting on Twitter or Facebook without actually deleting their account remind me of those that advocate for embryos.
They both get to feel the sanctimonious high of self-righteousness without taking any real principled action.
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@federicomena@mstdn.mx
I've owned two EVs since 2017.
I replaced wiper blades on the first and nothing else. (The tires were bald when I sold it, though.)
I replaced wiper blades in the second vehicle and one set of tires. That's it.
Small sample size, of course. Your mileage may vary.
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@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social
I guess I could have just zoomed in to see the chrome SVO badge. 🤦
Joel Embiid is excellent at falling to the ground.
Darth Queta
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@cwoodruff
"A complex distributed system does not just cost more to build. It costs geometrically more to maintain, debug, and evolve."
Amen!
Damnit. ☘️ 😢
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@bflipp
Heh. I think I'm also in the minority with regards to DS9. In the end, I wasn't a fan.
I got fatigued with the ongoing race war vs the Cardassians and gave up at some point well before the series finale.
(It wasn't all bad, though. There were many great characters I liked, for example.)
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@overeducatedredneck@bitbang.social @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Haaa. I was thinking the same thing.
Mustang, for sure. But those wheels didn't look like the wheels I remember from GT/LX V8s. And they're too fancy to be on a lesser 'stang.
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@bruno_j_navarro@mastodon.social
I bet there's a lot of folks here in the Fediverse that learned to type on an IBM Selectric.
(I'm one of them.)
Headline: The Celtics overachieved all season, but their collapse against the 76ers raises big long-term questions
Me: Let the Celtics post-mortems, trade rumors, and doom & gloom commence. 🙁☘️
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/celtics-overachieved-questions-giannis-antetokounmpo-trade/
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
Major Brian Bosworth vibes...
A brief history lesson from the 1980s for those who may not know or remember.
https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2017/07/06/nfl-brian-bosworth-broncos-prank-ban-the-boz-shirt/81897119007/
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@Danpiker@mathstodon.xyz
How interesting.
On my cell phone, every dot I focus on 'turns purple'.
On my laptop, no purple dot(s). Nada.
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I suspect they have not deleted their account--that's that tack most folks seem to take.
If that's the path EFF has chosen, it's disheartening. Especially considering the reasoning in their announcement. It's almost as if they're saying "No one is paying attention to us any more in the Nazi bar!" But are they keeping a seat? Or leaving for good?
Hey Linux gurus. I'm a new-ish Debian user. What are some options for safely sharing sensitive files with Windows users?
(In my Windows days, I'd use 7-Zip to create a password-protected *.zip file. I would have preferred to use the *.7z file format/extension, which I had read was more secure. But most folks weren't technical enough to accommodate that type of file.)
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@bflipp
I'm more of a casual Trekkie/Trekker. So I don't know if my take is accurate or not. But...I have always gotten the sense that Voyager was not as well liked as the other series in the franchise.
If that's true, I guess I'm in the minority. I liked it a lot. I think the thing that was appealing to me is that it was a story that had a known ending--getting back to the Delta Quadrant/Earth.
(There were two characters I notably disliked, but c'est la vie.)