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madargon

@madargon@is-a.cat

Chief Emoji Officer on is-a.cat instance

Too chaotic for a paladin

Amateur artist and junior IT administrator. Mostly self-trained in chaotic and often destructive ways. Opponent of mainstream social media and nasty digital surveillance, wanna-be cypherpunk. Linux user since 2013. Fully degoogled since December 2019. Fully BigTech-free since March 2024.
Synesthete. That weird freak who sometimes uses Daedric alphabet. Even weirder freak who use bare IP address instead of some server name.
Cryptography is my only religion - does Church of Wael look for new members?
In my free time I draw or write stories, first of all for my fun.

I publish my works under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Writing here in English/Polish.

Migrated from https://mastodon.online/@madargon
Indexed in tootfinder (https://www.tootfinder.ch).

#sysadmin #linux #degoogle #corpfree #privacy #cypherpunk #drawing #art #fedi22

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madargon, to fanfiction
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Some time ago I did this small of Poogie, little in . Poogie has many outfits, changing with holidays and seasons and I thought Halloween version was the best I saw. Whole pig's body disappeared, only empty floating in the air.

shansterable, to technology
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Following a bunch of techies on Mastodon be like:

I am a run-of-the-mill Android-phone-Windows-desktop-Gmail-user but now I'm in the process of transitioning from Gmail and using Duck Duck Go to research how to set up a Linux desktop.

Oh, and also now Signal-curious.

What is this place? Some kind of privacy cult LOL?

madargon,
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@shansterable Or other way - privacy cult chose this place because there is no surveillance here. As a paranoid I use it as only social media service :blobfoxmlem:

ar, to random
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Get hydrated, cuties :blobcatkissheart:

madargon,
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@ar is it this strong hacker cola which gave me a need for caffeine detox? :ablobcatwink:

madargon, to random
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and me...
Name more iconic love-hate relationship :blobcat_uwucry:

jon, to microsoft
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Microsoft Recall:

"As you use your PC, Recall takes snapshots of your screen. Snapshots are taken every five seconds while content on the screen is different from the previous snapshot. "

Part of Copilot. Big brother is watching.

madargon,
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@jon me, in denial/shock stage: What?! It couldn't be true! It is too dystopian even for Microsoft... :/

MrLee, to Youtube
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This is fun!
Because I have my History turned off on the app they are refusing to show me an Algorithmically generated feed.
I'm not sure they understand how many people see this as an absolute win!!

madargon,
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@MrLee Have seen this in browser, coupled with "start to watch anything". And I use autodeleting Firefox history. Every time I see this big cookie banner with Reject All available button (thanks, GDPR) I feel so satisfied :blobcat_amused:

madargon, to drawing
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Another "tattoo design" #drawing. This time it's a #tiger portrait. It was fun creating this.

#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource

madargon, to Cat
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Touching the grass :blobcatgreen:

The same scene from different angle, with cat from front site, now turning head to watcher.

madargon, to drawing
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Created intentionally as "draw clearly separated shadows" training. I am not much happy with final result :/

madargon,
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@sapphire thank you :ablobcatheart: it encourages me to gry again in the future.

madargon, to drawing
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After I added some older works on DeviantArt, I mentioned one was based on my sister. So I had short conversation in comments and other user asked me, if I plan to draw myself or my sister as a mermaid. I thought it could be a good idea and started .

Initially I planned more stereotypical scene, treasures from a shipwreck etc. Later I thought ships nowadays would drop more modern artifacts, like electronics. So what about made this picture also a symbol of my current complicated relationship with modern tech, as an IT person with some knowledge but also kind of Luddite who actively avoid mainstream devices and services?

When I sometimes read or hear about newest drama in corporate software world, my most often first reaction is similar to this picture :blobcat_uwucry:
Mixture of surprise, shock and disgust...

madargon, to drawing
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- demonic edition.
Because if hell is underground, it should be under oceans. And its gates would be in deepest place, guarded by creatures like this :blobCat_devil:

madargon, to random
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#SilentSunday

nlpbot, to random
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Note this peculiarity. Cows.

The letter A is said to be a bull, upside down. Money was said to first have the head of a cow on it, meaning one coin was one head of cattle.

Do we worship the almighty dollar or a bovine god?

madargon,
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@nlpbot As a Slav I could confirm :D In our myths there was Weles, god of afterlife, magic and oaths who also was the god of wealth and prosperity. And in our agricultural Slavic culture symbol of prosperity was cows (the bigger the herd, the more lucky and wealthy farmer is), so cows were associated with this deity. Modern Slavic pagan groups use symbol similar to upside down letter A as symbol of Veles (I also have this symbol among my tattoos).
One time I drew Veles as a man with cow horns, sitting near lying brown bull :D

madargon, to Cat
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"She is purposely posing" - episode I-Dont-Know-Which....

ChrisMayLA6, to money
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Forced cashless society.

Our nearby small market town used to have 3 banks; they're all closed (taking their cash machines with them), and this week one of the two remaining cash machines was removed from the supermarket where it was located.

So, we're down to a single cash machine in an area with a radius (I'm guessing) of around 20 miles.

The cashless society doesn't represent consumer choice, its pace is being forced by financial institutions keen to charge fees on transactions!

madargon,
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@GezThePez @ChrisMayLA6 I am in Warsaw, Poland and last two weeks I saw few cases of small restaurants mentioning they prefer cash payments. Haven't thought it could be a part of bigger trend yet but maybe something is happening...

madargon, to drawing
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Sitting - based on my mother's photos. I rather exactly "copied" its pose.
For some reason pattern on its head and wings looks like the sky for me. Not sure if it was so visible on original photos.

madargon,
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@knowprose Thank you :blobCat_hearts:​

madargon,
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@sapphire thank you very much :blobCat_giggle:

madargon, to drawing
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New #Mermay picture... Jumping! With #dolphin...

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #mermaid

madargon, to random
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Funny thing... I always knew is decentralized, like . But for ~3 years I knew only one instance address, second one I accidentally saw here. And I absolutely don't know where to look for more. :blobcatjoy:

madargon, to drawing
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Another "like a tribal tattoo" ... this time. Planned to draw it more like these clay figurines decorated with coloured glass shards available in souvenir shops :blobcatjoy:​

m0bi13, to random Polish
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Niby człowiek wiedział, ale jak obejrzał materiał z zebranymi badaniami, to mu się zrobiło trochę straszno.

Nie wystarczy dla powstrzymania naszego wymierania (katastrofy klimatycznej) zrezygnować z paliw kopalnych.

Trzeba jeszcze zmienić rolnictwo i ludzką dietę.

Zostawienie tego tak, jak jest, pozostawi przy życiu jedynie najbogatszych.

madargon,
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@warroza @sp6mr @rail_ @m0bi13 jestem za tym żeby się rozpowszechniło. Kupuję od paru miesięcy to, co jest dostępne w lokalnych sklepach i jakoś żyję, to nawet smaczne jest i w większości zawiera mało cukru jeśli wierzyć tym tabelkom na opakowaniach.

I nie, unia nie opłaciła mnie, żebym napisała ten post :blobcatpusheen:

madargon, to Cat
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Hey, human! Yes, you... Pet me! I demand headpats!

#Caturday #cat #cats #meow #CatsOfMastodon

revanmj, to random Polish
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Klasyczny przykład podcinania gałęzi, na której się siedzi. Firmy najpierw zalały ludzi spamem telefonicznym, a teraz zaczynają płakać, że nikt nie odbiera od nich telefonów jak mają prawdziwą potrzebę kontaktu z klientem...

"So many people no longer answer calls from unrecognized numbers that it's becoming almost pointless to try to call customers when there are legitimate issues they need to resolve."

madargon,
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@pluszysta @rdrozd @revanmj Ja od kilku lat nie używam telefonu jako telefonu. I obecnie jeśli mam połączenie nie przez Signal to ponad 99% przypadków to jakiś spam, fotowoltaika, ubezpieczenia samochodów, spotkania dla emerytów...
Czasem to nawet odbieram i kładę telefon na stole, niech się bot wygada i straci trochę czasu. Chciałabym powtórzyć taki numer jak widziałam opisany na jakiejś stronie, że ktoś puścił jednemu botowi wypowiedzi innego, z drugiego telefonu albo jakieś nagranie, żeby go zapętlić i zmarnować spamerom więcej czasu :devil:

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