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Mad9Scientist
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I’m really fucking hate Microsoft right now. Windows 11 couldn’t understand my request for a Windows Update Restart on Sept 28, so it restarted today instead.
Thus, losing an entire three weeks of research work I had opened.
Thanks, Microsoft!
#tech
September 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Do you think I may have too many tabs open?
Windows 11 Task Manager window, with the process for Firefox highlighted to point out Firefox is using 21.2 GB
September 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Neat quiz about acceptable email addresses, according to the different RFCs.
Check it out - e-mail.wtf
Email is Easy
Everyone knows what an email address is, right?
e-mail.wtf
August 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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I'm backing up an Email Messages from one of the top three major mail providers. I'm finding some of the messages are corrupted or unreadable.
This account has over 80K messages from over 15+ years of use. But it seems like the storage backing account may had issues...
Anyone else seen this? #backup
August 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I think my Raspberry Pi is a little confused.... #uptime
Screenshot from a Terminal that states: "Since: Wed 1969-12-31 18:00:04 CST; 55 years 6 months ago" for system uptime from systemd.
July 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I was reviewing some old code that I wrote (checks date) - 10 years ago, today!! (Nearly down to the hour, about 30 minutes from before the commit time)

I found this funny comment. How time has changed since.
View of SCSS File with a code comment of, "// F****** INTERNET EXPLORER!!!!". Follow by an import declaration for a SCSS file named IE6 with the comment "// I Hate You MOST OF ALL!!!" Other SCSS imports are listed but not important to illustrate the point.
July 5, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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All cleaned up and ready to build. More updates later
Antec NSK6500 cleaned up with slide panels and front cover lending on the case. Along with an AMD Ryzen Processor retail box next to a AMD Athlon 64 X2 case badge
May 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Refurbishing my old Antec NSK6500 case for a new build. Cases aren’t built like this anymore, case alone weights as much as my new computer #it #pcbuilds
May 27, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Hardest thing in IT (Computer Science), naming things and caching.
[project delayed by first one 🤦]
May 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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It’s ironically that a technologist says you need to live life, not through a screen.
Get outside and see something different.
May 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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“We’ve arranged a society on science and technology in which nobody understands anything about science and technology, and this combustible mixture of ignorance and power sooner or later is going to blow up in our faces. I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don’t know anything about it? Science is more than a body of knowledge, it’s a way of thinking. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we’re up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who comes ambling along. It’s a thing that Jefferson lay great stress on. It wasn’t enough, he said, to enshrine some rights in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the people had to be educated and they have to practice their skepticism and their education. Otherwise, we don’t run the government, the government runs us.” —Carl Sagan
May 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Mad9Scientist
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On the heels of autism awareness month, one last reminder that vaccines DO NOT cause autism.

Vaccines SAVE countless lives & protect infants, elderly & immunocompromised.

Those of us w/ access to life-saving vaccines are the privileged.

This demo nails the benefits of vaccination-
Watch 👀
May 1, 2025 at 2:03 PM
mad9scientist.bsky.social
So it has started
www.adweek.com/brand-market...
via Morning Brew #Idiocracy #advertising #ItsWhatPlantsCrave
From Morning Brew, Headline "Amazon, YouTube, and Meta were among the first-ever corporate sponsors of the White House Easter Egg Roll."
April 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
mad9scientist.bsky.social
So StarLink is photo bombing Google Maps Now

See it in Google Maps: www.google.com/maps/place/3...
Sourced from: www.pcmag.com/news/a-starl...
Image Source: PC Mag Image of StarLink satellite in Google Maps in infrared, Red, Blue, Green, and Combined Colors, with five ghost images of the satellite chasing the combined colors image of the satellite.
April 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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I really wish Amazon had a dark mode... (App and Website)
April 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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WTAFH!
104% Tariff!?
If this happens the tech industry is dead, except for the top players. 🤦
April 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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There's a big difference between:
`journalctl --vacuum-time=3m`
`journalctl --vacuum-time=3months`
🤦*Screams internally*
April 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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As more time passes since that “idiot” brought twitter, more it breaks.
Maybe laying off 2/3 of the company was a mistake.
March 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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TIL that Apple Music has a collection of Minecraft Music. That was unexpected.
March 25, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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So, 23andMe declared Bankruptcy. Now all their PII (Personal ID Info) and genetic data will probably be sold to the highest bidder.
Do I hear health insurance companies beating down that door?
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
March 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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When do you think someone’s last request will change from “Delete my browser/search history”, to “Delete my AI Chat history”?
March 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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🤣 LMAO
HP released a firmware update that breaks compatibility with there own genuine cartridges.
Being anti-consumer has came back and bit them - LOL

Src: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
March 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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So Twitter is down today, will anyone miss it?
A cartoon styled Dumpster that is on fire floating down a River - GIF
March 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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It's so much fun when you don't remember how something you automated months ago works and now it's broken.
February 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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"Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy." - Tim O'Reilly
February 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM