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Mark Gardner
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I post #philosophy ( #Objectivism ), #writing, #Perl, and the occasional nonsense.

About #AynRand: https://aynrand.org/novels/the-ayn-rand-reader/ (_The Ayn […]

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/@mjg, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
January 12, 2026 at 11:43 PM
[-uspol]

Reposting Ben Bayer from another network:

What are the odds that half of the people in America are basically deluded and vicious, while the other half are basically well-informed and well-intentioned? Add to that: what are the odds that the good ones just happen to be on the side you […]
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January 12, 2026 at 4:56 AM
Classic #joke:

A man walks into a bank in Manhattan and asks to speak with the loan officer. The officer comes out right away and asks, “How can I help you, sir?”

The man explains, “I’m going out of town on business for two weeks and I need to borrow $5,000.”

The loan officer nods and replies […]
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January 12, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Hanging out at the in-laws; my mother-in-law is home from hospital and rehab.

I’m updating her ninth-generation iPad to iPadOS 26.2. She had thought that it could not be updated and was having trouble with recent apps.

So we’re sitting watching the Eagles-Niners game while I wait to download […]
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January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
My anaconda don't want none unless you've got substantial discuss-ion.
January 11, 2026 at 3:18 PM
@MonaApp Hi there! You've probably received this feature request in the past, but would it be possible to honor the maximum characters reported for an instance's posts?

Mine is set to 3,000:

```
% curl --silent https://mastodon.phoenixtrap.com/api/v1/instance | jq '.configuration.statuses […]
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January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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January 10, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Just migrated this #mastodon server's #dockercompose setup from #dockerdesktop to #colima. (Also migrated #calibreweb.) On an 8 GB RAM M2 #mac mini with 8 cores, you need all the memory and CPU savings you can get.

https://PhoenixTrap.com #blog post to come, because I ran into #database file […]
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January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Reposted by Mark Gardner
> delphitools is a collection of small, focused utilities that respect your privacy and work entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine, no accounts required, no tracking. Just tools that do what they say.

https://tools.rmv.fyi/
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December 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
#linkedin is offering to pay professionals to annotate their expertise so companies can train #ai systems.

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a9306168

Lawyers explaining legal reasoning. Doctors annotating diagnostic decisions. Analysts explaining financial models. This is asking […]
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January 9, 2026 at 9:08 PM
mastodon.social
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Dear #mastodon users and #mastoadmin: Why am unable to follow @devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com from my personal instance (from which I am posting this)?

Entering my instance name in the other instance’s Follow dialog results in this link, which gives me a generic Mastodon error page […]
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January 6, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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January 6, 2026 at 7:22 PM
[vulgar language]

Fuck ageism
January 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Chicago style pizza implies the existence of AP style pizza
January 6, 2026 at 2:11 AM
When we throw down on #nye, we throw down a mad jigsaw #puzzle party

#happynewyear #newyear #newyearseve
January 1, 2026 at 3:50 AM
This is your reminder that planet Earth is a dense molten core encased in a layer of solids and is therefore, culinarily speaking, a ravioli.
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
New in the #Übersicht widget gallery: https://tracesof.net/uebersicht-widgets/

My #icalbuddy widget that puts your #macos calendars in a two-column display on your desktop. Also available direct from my @Codeberg repo […]

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December 30, 2025 at 1:00 AM
[-uspol, death]

#ice murders in 2025. Say their names.

⁃ Genry Donaldo Ruiz-Guillen
⁃ Serawit Gezahegn Dejene
⁃ Maksym Chernyak
⁃ Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez
⁃ Brayan Rayo-Garzon
⁃ Nhon Ngoc Nguyen
⁃ Marie Ange Blaise
⁃ Abelardo Avelleneda-Delgado
⁃ Jesus Molina-Veya
⁃ Johnny Noviello
⁃ Isidro […]
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December 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
They used to laugh and call him names.

*Used* to.
December 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I guess you don’t have to read the room when your job is to kick people out of the room.

#ice releases #ai Santa deportation video amid pressure to create viral content: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/ice-releases-ai-santa-deportat-WISvfwJ7TsGReeWuTbwfag

Merry #christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Keep secrets out of your images: mount them at /run/secrets and use a tiny wrapper to export them as env vars—secure, simple, and app-friendly. Read the full guide on my blog.

#docker #dockercompose #devops #infosec #cloudsecurity #secretsmanagement […]
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December 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#homelab status: #selfhosted #mastodon and #calibreweb services each running as separate #docker Compose stacks on my 8GB M2 #mac mini that also serves a household wallboard display and networked #timemachine backup host.

Anything else useful I should wedge onto it?

#selfhosting #devops #macos
December 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM