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Administrator of mcnamarii.town Mastodon instance. Every day I try to build up those around me, instead of just tearing everyone down.

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Joined July 05, 2017

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st That is light, you are correct. I've had real influenza three times; all three times were *weeks* of sickness and required hospital stays (and I have no existing conditions). I don't think we'll *ever* get people to stop using the term "the flu", but we *can* start using the term "influenza" when we mean, you know, influenza. "The flu," like has been said, sounds potentially mild. I have noticed a different reaction out of people when I use the full term "influenza."

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 7mo ago

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@lproven Simple personality check for the Internet: If you got upset about this post instead of chuckling about it like you were supposed to, maybe go meditate

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@wdormann@infosec.exchange Do you think companies that start installing LLMs directly on users' machines may have an edge in this war? Considering they're offloading the price of energy onto the end user? https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — That Privacy Guy!

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@xkcd The "YYYY/MM/DD" of countdowns

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 6mo ago

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@ajroach42 @djsundog @alyx @vfrmedia @rey this is like watching people fall in love on discord, but more usefully to humanity

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@MichaelWhelan@mastodon.art It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize that this wasn't a fan art, and you are the original creator of that cover. :) Amazing work from one of my favorite books. One of those covers that stands out amongst the rest of my SF collection.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 3mo ago

@thegibson@masto.hackers.town

Thou shalt not:

Connect an iteration of a device that didn't need Internet before 1999 to the Internet.

This includes: televisions, stoves, dishwashers, and car stereos.

So sayeth we all. In solitudine confidimus.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 2mo ago

@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com I just wanted to chime in here to say boy oh boy, do I love bronze.

That is all.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 14mo ago

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@JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip In 2023 I took a trip to Canada from the US via car -- at the Canadian border, a nice guy asked me two questions and they waived me through. No guards, no guns, no dogs.

Coming back into the American border? Militarized checkpoint. Black-clothed rifle-carrying agents marching up and down through lines of cars, with dogs. A car next to me with a family inside being stripped down for a search.

Most Americans don't travel out of country, and thus don't see this stuff.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 7mo ago

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@cstross Uh oh, I did 6 muhym, I hope I'll be okay

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 3mo ago

@davesdogmaggie@mstdn.social @newsguyusa@flipboard.social Yawn. The ship is doing fine. Cassidy's only doing this because he has no skin left in the game (he lost his primary).

When this is done by a sitting Senator with years left in their term, *then* its news.

Judgment Dave of the Dead (@davesdogmaggie@mstdn.social) - Mastodon 🐘

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 7mo ago

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@Daojoan@mastodon.social Is this really that surprising? I've heard studies that show for most people, "losing a job" in on the same level as "getting a terminal diagnosis" in how it makes one feel. It's either cope with that publicly like on LinkedIn, or sometimes get a Michael Douglas _Falling Down_ situation, or worse, a Lee Byung-hun _No Other Choice_ situation.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 9mo ago

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@tychotithonus@infosec.exchange This is why, even if I use a passkey with a site, I always keep the backup option of a password.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 7mo ago

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@brianbilston@mastodon.online "I am a bowl, chipped at the rim Never to be filled up with cereal again by him No more will I be filled up with Captain Crunch all the time, He really should grow up and pick a different kind"

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 9mo ago

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@Aprazeth @scalzi Came here to suggest this same thing. :) Since I learned about winget, I haven't even had to open up Edge in quite some time. (winget is installed by default on Windows now.)

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

@signalstation@raggedfeathers.com every. damn. time.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@Remittancegirl Goddamn, did you just put in words the thoughts I have been trying to formulate for years. Thank you. It's also why the Democrats in the US, by trotting out Bill Clinton to continue speaking at events for years, could not attack Trump from this angle.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@cstross @graydon @david_chisnall @linuxgnome @ChrisMayLA6 "your computing inside a particle accelerator and everything is radioactive and on fire" This is what I imagine the inside of quantum computers are like. If not, they should be.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 8mo ago

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@oisin @cstross Oh my goodness, that's a good way to phrase that.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 27mo ago

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@mekkaokereke JD Vance and his wife met in 2013 in a Yale discussion group about the "decline of white america", and this fact just confuses the hell out of me.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 9mo ago

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@divestspd@social.seattle.wa.us ...which home are they going to get by using B-2 bombers (the outline seen in the sky) -- those are offensive, long-range weapons. ...wait, is this the US Administration saying the Whites are returning to Europe???

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 6mo ago

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@SteveRudolfi@mastodon.social AMP on steroids Thanks, I hate it

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 8mo ago

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@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk I am agog at a US newspaper running this two years *after* Bloody Sunday: https://www.history.com/articles/selma-bloody-sunday-attack-civil-rights-movement

How Selma's 'Bloody Sunday' Became a Turning Point in the Civil Rights Movement | HISTORY

The assault on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama helped lead to the Voting Rights Act.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 25mo ago

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@darkuncle@infosec.exchange @b0rk@social.jvns.ca I've been teaching people about "set -e" for years, but these others are new, and I will be using them from now on!

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 45mo ago

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@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social ...*slow clap*

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 35mo ago

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@Daojoan The traffic/followers on Birdsite has been a lot of bots for some time. It probably got *worse* under Elon.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 1mo ago

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange what the hell even is this account anymore

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@greenpeace The Mole People beg to differ

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 2mo ago

@petrosyan@mstdn.io The original meme image *is* funny, but this is a very crucial point.

(Also, while I'm not familiar with heavy farm equipment, the top speed of the scooter might even be higher?)

marcellfan888 (@petrosyan@mstdn.io) - Mastodon

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 44mo ago

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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io Has anyone credited the Ryan Murphy show, "The People vs OJ Simpson?" I'll admit it -- the show changed my mind on the matter.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 4mo ago

as of this year

The PS3

is (almost) as old as the NES was

When the PS3 was launched

20 years have given us

slightly more grass

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@zwol@masto.hackers.town @flamecat@bark.lgbt @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net According to Robin Miller's site, this document was created *after* they designed the game, so the twist was always planned, and they even hid in this document. "After designing Myst, we tried to explain the game as best we could in this short document in order to make the pitch to potential investors."

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@aral What even is this? "Year of the Linux Laptop?" I bought a Dell Studio with Ubuntu from the factory almost 20 years ago. It was great.

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 5mo ago

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@packetcat@tenforward.social "You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villian"

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 6mo ago

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@greenpeace@mastodon.social Can't blow up a sun? Someone's never heard of a Type 1a Supernova. The star doesn't even need to be very big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_Ia_supernova (Paging @evilscientistca@mstdn.ca in case he wants to correct my math.)

en.wikipedia.org

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 6mo ago

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@evilscientistca@mstdn.ca Oh (and forgive any novice questions), does it have to be a white dwarf only? Can a star have ~1.4 solar masses and not be a white dwarf?

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Administrator @mdm@mcnamarii.town

· 4mo ago

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@mWare@ottawa.place 20 demerits

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