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mjgardner

@mjgardner@social.sdf.org

Just another desperate #Objectivist #Perl hacker. Lately into #cosplay and #dance, sometimes simultaneously.

Sorry libertarians, you can’t have #AynRand:
https://courses.AynRand.org/lexicon/libertarians

If you block me because you don’t like what I say, I win.

Other interests: #music, #Commodore #RetroComputing, #DoctorWho, #drag

No reposts: https://JustMyToots.com/@mjgardner@social.sdf.org

Bangers: https://www.TopMastodonPosts.com/by/@mjgardner@social.sdf.org

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mjgardner, to random
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I’m often surprised when people take descriptions of my activity as prescriptions for theirs.

It might work for you. I don’t know your situation as well as you do, mostly because I try to associate with people who think more independently than that. 😜

protonprivacy, to random
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Unless you want every password and financial transaction stored as a local screenshot, you'll need to exclude specific apps and websites from Microsoft Recall. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc

mjgardner,
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@protonprivacy I have a little bit of hope that this is part of a larger strategy to embrace, extend, and then finally extinguish

evan, (edited ) to random
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What level do you play games at?

mjgardner,
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@tradjincal @evan Hurt me plenty

Doom guy is watching you

xan, to random
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The big difference in experiences between Twitter and the Fediverse that sticks out most prominently to me right now is the lack of people discussing severe weather. Like, for the past few evenings, people's lives have been upended by powerful tornadoes and other types of severe weather, and it's happening right now. This sort of communication NEEDS to be in the commons.

mjgardner,
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@xan I guess you missed my post: https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112486623257272909

mjgardner, to random
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Tres Leches? En esta economía?

mjgardner,
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@pixel The cornflake breakfast cereal in https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112507928282619190 is supposed to taste like «tres leches», a Latin American dessert sponge cake soaked in a mixture of three different types of milk: evaporated, condensed, and heavy cream.

tres: three 3️⃣
leches: milks 🥛

Get it? 🙄

mjgardner,
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@pixel I did say “supposed to taste like.”

News flash: sugary kids’ cereals are not always made with the same ingredients as the flavors they intend to evoke.

Silly Eric, Trix cereal isn’t made from real fruit either

mjgardner,
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@pixel Clever boy, read the GIF’s alt text in https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112510477659625353

nixCraft, to random
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Is coding at night > coding at morning? 🤔

mjgardner,
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@mountdiscovery @nixCraft So how does that explain devs’ preference for dark mode?

mjgardner,
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@mountdiscovery @nixCraft I thought bugs were attracted to light

moth cosplayers flailing against the lit glass elevators at Dragon Con 2023

mjgardner, to AppleMusic
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I’m collecting an playlist of Sergei ’s works presented in / . Anything to add?

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/rachmaninov-in-spatial-audio/pl.u-6AXZKFZDop7

mjgardner, to retrocomputing
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Happy 5.25 day to those who celebrate

memorex floppy disk GIF

mjgardner, to Introvert
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You either die an , or you live long enough to see yourself become the you always hated 🤐

18+ mjgardner, to geopolitics
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Sound like anywhere you know?

“The only principle of a mixed —which, necessarily, has to remain unnamed and unacknowledged—is that no one’s interests are safe, everyone’s interests are on a public auction block, and anything goes for anyone who can get away with it.”

—, “The New : Rule by Consensus”

Listen to the original 1965 talk: https://courses.AynRand.org/works/the-new-fascism-rule-by-consensus/

Read this and other essays in “: The Unknown Ideal”: https://a.co/42CEAzu

mjgardner,
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@Cirdan Did you really believe that you would be the one to finally amuse me with that quote?

Bye.

problematicfacts, to random
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A man once let loose three hippos at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, causing mass panic and the evacuation of Terminal 1.

𝘑𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺:
https://www.patreon.com/ProblematicFacts

mjgardner,
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@problematicfacts No, but if you hum a few bars I’ll be flying: https://songwhip.com/rush/yyz

atomicpoet, to random
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In the 90s, movies still featured people speaking with Transatlantic accents.

It’s funny, though. I’ve never met anyone who, in real life, who spoke with one. Not even rich people.

mjgardner,
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@atomicpoet It was literally invented by public speaking instructors as an idealized American accent that no one actually adopted unless taught. Then stage and screen acting teachers got a hold of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent#Theatrical_and_cinematic_use

mjgardner, to tv
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August 11, 1967 marked the first of three appearances by and on The with .

(Other guests that night were actress Florence Henderson and Motown hitmakers the Temptations—quite an eclectic lineup!)

Here’s a clip of Rand answering Johnny about the and unearned from accepting the wrong moral standards: https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxl2W3zhtVKCq2qdQFb0UljG-Yovi1Tmef

mjgardner, to emacs
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This is what I hear in my head if I switch back to or .

source: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112372770022713839

mjgardner,
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@ambihelical I am sorry to hear that, and I understand completely. I just don’t have enough fingers and mental capacity.

mjgardner, to random
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🦖 Sharon and 🦖 me, still Cretaceous after all these years

My wife and I dancing in inflatable Tyrannosaurus Rex costumes to Frank Sinatra’s “You Make Me Feel So Young” at Arthur Murray Cypress dance studio’s dinosaur party two years ago. The lyrics appear over the video; caption underneath reads: “We are such majestic creatures”

NanoRaptor, to random
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mjgardner,
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@NanoRaptor One of those things is not Elite

mjgardner, to random
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I can’t reply to this confused as they’ve already blocked me (good!): https://mas.to/@CatDad/112491941454860749

via customer subscriptions has been funding @protonprivacy from the start.

I was one of the 10,000 backers mentioned in https://youtu.be/gFZ1peR9SiY and have since personified sunk cost with a >6 TB Visionary plan. But if dilutes that vision, I will be ahead of you in the line to migrate and unsubscribe.

I trust them to listen.

mjgardner, to random
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Don’t be a desiccant, be a desiCAN

mjgardner, to Houston
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Last week, I and millions of residents experienced a violent up-close demonstration of the damaging winds of a (pronounced “deh-REY-cho.”)

https://mastodon.social/@spacecityweather/112485385204551860

Luckily, my condominium unit did not sustain any direct damage. However, my wife and I along with our immediate neighbors were trapped until the next morning due to fallen tree limbs blocking our immediate entrance. (See attached photos.) We were also without electrical power until yesterday.

tripleo, to random
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All you nutcases still using , what's actually wrong with it?

aka What are the sharp edges?

mjgardner,
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@tripleo Like I said in https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112476483573909633, the only feature built in to for untrusted data is taint mode.

You might have heard of it or used it 25 years ago with simple scripts (and that still works!) but as I said in https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/112481166820565063, it breaks a lot of modern code.

It’s also no silver bullet: a taint failure is a fatal exception and it’s up to the developer to handle that gracefully.

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