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  Haaa. Check out this entry I found by accident in the Vermont State University directory: Max the Cat #CatsOfMastodon

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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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  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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  I just saw a commercial for compression socks. The ad boasted their product is made of infra red blue fibers. 😕

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  Still wishing thee was an option to block all 'Automated' bot profiles. #Mastodon

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  @staff@mastodon.social Well damn. I found out about this the hard way. 🙁 https://mastodon.social/@DaveMasonDotMe/116015411664635183

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  Madame Squeakers, hanging out on the couch with Mom. #Caturday

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  CiCi wants in on Caturday. #CatsOfMasdon #Caturday

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  Joel Embiid is excellent at falling to the ground. #NBA

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  Damnit. ☘️ 😢

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  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. #Cloudflare #Bots

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  @SnyperWolf But who is Big NULL? And how much does NULL cost? 🤔

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  Periodic reminder: it's almost never about the children. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children #Privacy #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

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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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  @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.)

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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!

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  Do I know anyone that owns a PinePhone? Especially for those of you in the US, how has the experience been? https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-convergence-package/ #Linux #PinePhone

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  Headline: EFF is Leaving X Me: I would imagine a lot of you have seen this news. It's not clear from the article if EFF has 'paused' their activity, disabled their account, or deleted their account. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x #Twitter #Xitter #SocialMedia #EFF

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  Periodic Reminder: if you boldly announce you've stopped posting at the Nazi bar, you'll get luke-warm approval from me at best. If you want my respect, show me some real conviction and *delete* your account. #SocialMedia

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  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. #Twitter #Facebook #SocialMedia

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  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. 😬 #Celtics #NBA

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  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 #BMW #Cars

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  It sure is swell that Samsung created 'privacy display' for their cell phone screens. How about protecting users' privacy from Google? #Privacy

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  The forthcoming apocalypse has not deterred the robocallers. #Iran #US

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  Today seems like a good day to have access to the Local/Federated Feeds. #Mastodon #Iran

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  Darth Queta #Celtics

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  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.) #Linux

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  Headline: Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school' https://www.rawstory.com/date-announced-for-national-strike-aimed-at-crippling-trump-no-work-no-school/ #MayDay #Strike #NoKings

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  Ever notice how "tax the billionaires" would address most of society's problems?

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  A Few Good Hen #PoultryMoviesOrPlays #HashTagGames