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1. rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 18:23:36 EDT rocky1138
   If you want to use Mastodon or GNU Social on the go, download the &AndStatus app. It's really good! http://andstatus.org/
2. rocky1138 started following daffodil-11.
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3. Focus on Fun Games (focusonfungames@kwat.chat)'s status on Thursday, 21-Mar-2019 15:47:17 EDT Focus on Fun Games
   Apparently MSDN just deleted their blog and comments. Apparently the posts getting deleted was a mistake but no word on the comments. A disaster if they lose those.
4. rocky1138 started following semibot.
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5. Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 (herrabre@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 06:36:40 EDT Bee Yarn Knee 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

   Hooray Google+ is shutting down!

   That's one less centralized surveillance capitalism "social network" siphoning up people's data. 🎉

   Since a big chunk of the traffic there was geeks who could totally have self-hosted a proper blog and should have known better, I'm not shedding any tears for the inconvenience caused.

   I do wonder if they'll keep the public content online though? Probably not?

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   • 𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕩 (rtwx@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2019 00:05:14 EDT 𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕩

     in reply to

     • rocky1138

     @rocky1138 ummm... I can't recall what this is in relation to?

   • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 12:43:57 EDT rocky1138

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     • 𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕩
     @rtwx you mentioned that Mastodon is a sort of replacement for Twitter. Sorry it's months old, I'm going through my feed for the first time in a long time.
   • 𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕩 (rtwx@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2019 14:12:01 EDT 𝕣𝕥𝕨𝕩

     in reply to

     • rocky1138

     @rocky1138 ahh that’s ok, my posts delete after 30days so I had no reference 😊

6. Daniel Glus (danielhglus@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 13:59:14 EDT Daniel Glus

   Anyone know if we fixed the privacy issues with PeerTube (i.e. broadcasting your IP address) yet, or if not, if fixing them is on the roadmap?

   • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:18:38 EDT rocky1138

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     @danielhglus What's wrong with people knowing your IP? That's how the internet works.
   • Daniel Glus (danielhglus@mastodon.technology)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:53:13 EDT Daniel Glus

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     • rocky1138

     @rocky1138 that part is fine, but I'd rather people not be able to make a log of which videos an IP has seen

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7. mike alex (miguel@kwat.chat)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2019 03:51:10 EDT mike alex
   :D
8. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 18:15:49 EDT Nate Cull

   When the Windows problem you are trying to diagnose in 2018 was reported back in 2011 and *crickets*

   https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/user32-shutdown/5b72dae6-a4ce-4306-b9d8-5535ae759da8

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 19:08:07 EDT Nate Cull

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     It is nice that there is still mystery in the world, I guess.

     Bigfoot and UFOs and Windows Shutdown Reason 0x800000ff.

     Sometimes things just... happen. The universe is stranger than we can imagine.

     https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2097824-server-2012-getting-restarted-at-00-13-two-days-once

   • Paul Cull (pdcull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 20:52:00 EDT Paul Cull

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     @natecull Since updating to 1809 I've lost access to the store, had two blue screens, lost all of my start menu icons three times, and had a remote Microsoft tech do a system restore for me (to no avail, for some reason Windows has been making daily restore points over the last few days).

     I thought that 1809 was the release version, not the year of technological equivalence...

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   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 21:03:22 EDT Nate Cull

     • Paul Cull

     @pdcull Yep, 1809's been a bad'un

     https://www.askwoody.com/2018/once-more-unto-the-breach-win10-1809-starts-rolling-out-again/

     https://www.askwoody.com/2018/patch-tuesday-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-and-the-hopeless/

     https://www.askwoody.com/2018/keizer-lab-rats-windows-10-and-the-importance-of-being-last/

9. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 23:23:19 EDT Nate Cull

   The fascinating world

   http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Commodore/C64%20Programmer's%20Reference%20Guide.pdf

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 17:05:46 EDT Nate Cull

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     • Alan Zimmerman
     • Algorev（アーゴレヴ）
     • bhtooefr (copper-doped zinc sulfide aspect)

     @bhtooefr @alanz @algorev

     Yikes I did not know that about Apple II using PEEK to trigger hardware events.

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 17:07:11 EDT Nate Cull

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     • Alan Zimmerman
     • Algorev（アーゴレヴ）
     • bhtooefr (copper-doped zinc sulfide aspect)

     @bhtooefr @alanz @algorev

     cos like I used to write

     FOR J = 0 TO 65535: PRINT PEEK(J);: NEXT

     all the time on Commodore and IBM PC.

     Terrifying to think what I could have done with a small FOR loop on an Apple.

   • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 17:12:10 EDT Nate Cull

     • Alan Zimmerman
     • Algorev（アーゴレヴ）
     • bhtooefr (copper-doped zinc sulfide aspect)

     @bhtooefr @alanz @algorev

     tfw your 8-bit computer simulation needs to have an entire quantum physics subsystem to correctly model the magnetic domains of the disk drive just so you can read the copy-protection / demoscene intro / quantum cryptography / hyperspace portal used by Super Retro Space Smashers III

10. Art (art@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Oct-2018 11:26:49 EDT Art

    I refuse to have a Google hub/Alexa in my home. I don't need spyware to turn on my lights.

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11. Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 19:09:49 EDT Eugen

    I guess I just don't have the energy to think about G+ shutting down and what if anything it means for Mastodon right now 😩

    • Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 19:12:21 EDT Eugen

      • Ellavescent

      @ellavescent See that's kinda mean. On Twitter I always hear people say things like "Mastodon, is anyone still using it? It lasted like two weeks". It would be hypocritical of me to laugh at G+ here. I'm sure there was a large community using it somewhere, it just wasn't anyone I knew.

    • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:27:18 EDT rocky1138

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      @gargron I am way behind in my feed but just found a few hours to catch up. Did you end up noticing any uptick due to Google plus closing?
12. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Oct-2018 23:49:23 EDT Nate Cull

    For one brief shining moment in the 1980s-1990s, it seemed like we the people would own and control our own computing infrastructure.

    That we wouldn't ever after need permission from opaque central authorities to process data, send messages, create devices, teach machines ideas. No corporations or governments could put themselves between us and the data bits in our machines. We would be free to think.

    That moment is rapidly slipping into a history that feels ridiculously over-optimistic.

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    • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 17:27:16 EDT Nate Cull

      • Ed H

      @edheil Yep! The 1980s culture of your personal computer being your *personal* computer. Air-gapped by default. An operating system in BIOS that would last the machines entire life, and could be instantly reset. If you wanted software, you made a deliberate choice to install it. If you didn't have a disk in the drive and the cover latched at boot, you knew you literally *could not get* a virus.

      I don't know how to recover that level of trust that we had back then. But we've lost something big.

    • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 17:29:27 EDT Nate Cull

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      • Ed H

      @edheil It was really the switch from dial-up to broadband Internet that did us in.

      With dial-up, you could always air-gap when required.

      Broadband and Wi-Fi? You can turn on 'Flight Mode' and.... something *might* get disabled, deep in the bowels of your OS and NIC and management CPU. You don't know, though.

      Pulling an RJ-45 cable out of the phone jack was a MUCH more verifiable solution to privacy.

13. Carl Muckenhoupt (carlmuckenhoupt@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 13:25:00 EDT Carl Muckenhoupt

    Serious question: Is there any historical precedent for a nation reaching the point that the US is currently at and pulling out of it without bloodshed?

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    • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:20:18 EDT rocky1138

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      @carlmuckenhoupt Just wait until Trump refuses to recognize the results of the next election and holds the office of the president hostage. The civil unrest from that would make a good excuse for extraordinary powers.
14. Christophe Vanlancker (carroarmato0@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 02:56:34 EDT Christophe Vanlancker

    True story: I once had an eco friendly CD made out of corn. Never have I ever been more concerned about bit rot after seeing the surface of the disc literally rotting away over time with my data.

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    • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:17:39 EDT rocky1138

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      @carroarmato0 pics?
15. Game Blaster 64 (gameblaster64@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2019 22:15:11 EDT Game Blaster 64
    VR has its first killer app: ‘Beat Saber’ Sells Over One Million Copies https://www.roadtovr.com/beat-saber-sells-one-million-copies/
16. rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Monday, 11-Mar-2019 21:11:05 EDT rocky1138
    I fucked up soldering an IC and broke a leg off of it. What's the best way to repair that kind of damage?
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19. Jim Harris (jimcoach@kwat.chat)'s status on Thursday, 21-Feb-2019 18:18:35 EST Jim Harris
    Hello, for everybody!
20. Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 01:47:28 EDT Nate Cull

    Spambots Try To Sell Me The Darndest Things

    (I have never lived in South Africa)

    << From: Johannesburg water Supply Chain <info@joburg-water.info.za> Subject: Invitation to Bid >>

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    • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 03:19:32 EDT Nate Cull

      • 𝖕𝖆𝖈𝖔 𝖍𝖔𝖕𝖊 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

      @paco Yes, if the local time bank were running their operation on a Linux box in their closet in my city in New Zealand, I'm fairly confident this wouldn't have happened.

      I mean South Africa wouldn't even have been in the loop, would it?

      Let's stop the rush to put lots of things into our loops which have no business belonging in our loops.

    • Nate Cull (natecull@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Oct-2018 03:22:20 EDT Nate Cull

      • 🍅 Craig 🍅

      @smallsees hmm, so maybe it wasn't the South African timebank website that sold my email?

      But I wonder why .za businesses would be interested in Australian and New Zealand addresses?

    • rocky1138 (rocky1138@kwat.chat)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Feb-2019 16:29:02 EST rocky1138

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      @natecull I own powerhouse.mx and I continually get contacts and other nonsense from people buying Honda ATVs in Mexico. There must be some URL close to mine that people get confused with.
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