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Anthropy
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"old school #hacker", Googler, owner of derg.nz and dragonhive.net.

#IT person and #tech nerd of all kinds professionally; #carmodding and #hardware #tinkerer […]

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[(non vegan) food (fish n rice etc)]

extremely simple dish I came up with as I'm too sick for elaborate cooking

- prepare some rice in the microwave
- add to bowl, add raw salmon, microwave for another 1-3 minutes until outside of salmon is pink
- add […]

[Original post on mastodon.derg.nz]
December 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
December 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
@whitequark the cooling towers are made to recycle the water over and over and have the least amount of 'drift' and such, trying to simply get rid of the heat without losing too much water. See below for a picture of an average cooling tower, if you're […]

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December 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
@whitequark the evap cooling does use a significant amount of water, I wasn't sure if I could give the number but based on the public report the one I work at uses about 60-80 million liters a month (see picture below).

AFAIK, most of this water comes from […]

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December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
looks like Synergy had a security oopsy-daisy

at least seems like there was no data leaked. They say they have checked the audit logs to verify this.

I do appreciate how forward they are about this though, even though they seem to believe nothing was […]

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December 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
looks like Synergy had a security oopsy-daisy

at least seems like there was no data leaked (although unsure how they made sure of that, they're just saying the database server itself wasn't compromised but that doesn't mean it wasn't accessed).

I do […]

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December 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
welp, guess that other stick of gskill died. I think I should file for warranty because I didn't have them for that long (like 2-3 years?)

also funny, I did a 24h memtest like a month ago and it was all fine, now suddenly it has issues?

at least I got the […]

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December 6, 2025 at 5:04 PM
[physical health]

okay, time for some updates here I guess.
I'm still waiting for results from my internist visit of yesterday but:

- the gal bladder is fine according to the radiologist; it's not swollen or infected looking, just small and empty for some […]

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December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
next year wrapped
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
never thought I'd get to this point but my 10-15 year old daily use PBT keycaps of my desktop's keyboard are actually starting to fall apart, they're wobbling on top of the switches and at least some of them have a fractured base that secures them to the […]

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December 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
December 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A friend brought up an interesting point about how 'installing things on linux is hard', which I agree with.. if you're very Windows minded.

There's a deep, ancient difference between Windows, Mac and Linux that people rarely seem to name, which also […]

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December 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
hadn't seen this version around here yet, source unfortunately unknown, got it from a groupchat
December 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
going to piss off so many people with this

(also just to note the meme format is kind of mean and I'm not someone to really care about IQ but since it's a meme I hope you understand it's joking and not meant to be serious)

(also, feel free to replace […]

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December 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
'carefully hold birb/dragon like hamburger'

carefully hold bat like whatever this amounts to

#bats #furries
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
[AI, Github]

posting this here because I kinda wanted a CW and add some comment but I wasn't allowed to quote-boost it.

I honestly love this. If there's anything that silicon valley needs to learn is that consent is *not* optional.

Nobody cares how good […]

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December 1, 2025 at 10:17 PM
[physical health]

they said they can't do much right now, but i should keep a close eye on it, and if my breathing gets really heavy again, i should just call 112 directly.

also, while on the phone i measured my blood pressure to show them, and it was […]

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November 29, 2025 at 9:08 PM
someone had to do it
November 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I did it. I sent an email to the Danish ministry of justice, hoping to reach the guy that came up with Chat Control.

Incredibly far out shot, but at this point I know I'd hate myself 5 years down the line if I didn't at least try this.
November 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
[food, non-vegan (but lots of veggie)]

some simple foods are so good
this is basically a microwave meal, just needs microwave rice, raw washed endive, and some chicken saté
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
my Interrupting Power Supply finally popped, can't find the source but it crackled and jittered on/off when I poked it, so I suspect maybe the main transformer is bust (I also tried replugging the cable and such but that made no difference)
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I accidentally dropped my work phone (pixel 8a) flat on its face, but rather than the screen breaking, one of the cameras broke, in a really weird way; the outside is fine and nothing is visible there, but clearly the actual lens internally broke

look at this funky stuff
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
birb spray ⛫💨

(source unknown, someone sent it to me in a DM)
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
[physical health]

omg, i suggested to them maybe it's mycoplasma, because that doesn't raise CRP and doesn't respond to the antibiotics I had, because it's a bacteria without cell walls, and as such it is treated completely differently

and now i finally […]

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November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM