The Monster

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The Monster

The Monster

@SumErgoMonstro

Minarchist Language Martinet and Computer Geek. I don't speak for my employer, which is very easy to do because right now I have none. DM me any leads.

Kansas City, KS Katılım Nisan 2009
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@OleNole7 At my last job, day one I had to read, and sign that I understood and accepted, the company IT policy that clearly stated anything I created/stored on company computers was company property. I imagine USGOV has similar policies. But Fauci thought himself above them.
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Bump Osteen
Bump Osteen@OleNole7·
The arrogant Fauci kept his so called diary on a computer we bought for him to use. Taxpayers paid for him to sit there and make notes and observations. He didn’t own what was on that computer, we did.
Glenn Beck@glennbeck

Fauci's diary WASN'T leaked, stolen, or hacked. It wasn't even "private." @SecKennedy breaks down exactly how he uncovered it: “If you do something on a government server, it belongs to the government. He was keeping a diary for the book that he intended to write about his life. And at the end of his term, just before he was leaving, he emailed the entire diary to himself...  And that's how we found it, through those emails. It's not a diary in the sense, like you said, that a teenage girl keeps a diary that's private and has a lock on it. This is a government computer, a government laptop, on government time, keeping this account of what his official duties are and then making private observations about them. The liberal media is now feigning indignation that we released private diaries and violated his privacy, but that's just a crazy assertion. What they're really doing is covering up this vast media malpractice that took place during COVID, when they elevated this guy to a deified status, who had funded the weaponization of coronavirus, who then had given it to a Chinese military-run lab.”

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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@InsideLucysHead I didn't trust mRNA, so I got the J&J jab instead. I wish I hadn't. I have nagging health problems that I didn't have before.
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@cruadin A condition to enter legally should be that the person (or a sponsor) has already purchased return transportation, or puts up a bond sufficient to cover it. If they commit a crime, or become unable to support themselves, they use it to go home.
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Cruadin
Cruadin@cruadin·
Everybody who entered legally and then committed a crime, ANY crime, should also be deported. We should have absolute control over who gets to immigrate and we should only accept honest, sober, hard-working people who are eager to accept our culture and our values.
Gad Saad@GadSaad

Every single individual who has entered the West illegally should be deported. Every person who has entered legally and who is loyal to an ideology that is antithetical to the West’s foundational values should also be deported. This is a battle for the soul of humanity. Wake up. Grow a pair.

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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
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Miles Commodore
Miles Commodore@miles_commodore·
What’s the difference between a stream and a creek? 🤔
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@HeidiL_RN The FL Electors couldn't vote for both of them. As a practical matter, that means they can't run together, although it's possible to do some tricks that would let the House or Senate elect one of them if a majority of Electors couldn't do the job.
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Heidi
Heidi@HeidiL_RN·
Rubio/DeSantis sounds dreamy. Don’t know about statehoods effect
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@CTIronman @ElectionBabe Air gap is a "necessary but not sufficient" feature. If you don't have the air gap, the system is insecure, but you don't just declare it secure because the air gap exists.
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@om_patel5 If you had the phones use their front cameras, the receiver could display (N)ACK info to request missing "packets".
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Om Patel
Om Patel@om_patel5·
SOMEONE BUILT A WAY TO SEND FILES BETWEEN TWO PHONES WITH NO WIFI, NO BLUETOOTH AND NO NETWORK AT ALL it works with just a screen flashing qr codes at a camera one device plays an endless stream of animated qr codes, the other one points its camera at the screen and rebuilds the file out of the light no pairing, no app, no shared network, nothing but the camera > its pulling about 129 kb/s, a full 2mb image transfers in seconds > theres no back channel, the receiver can never ask for a missed frame, so it uses fountain codes, every frame is a scrambled mix of the file rather than one piece of it > that means the receiver just collects any frames it can catch in any order, and once it has enough it can reconstruct the whole file > dropping frames costs you a little time but never breaks the transfer > you can point the camera at a stream thats already running and it just locks on mid flight he was building a cached mp3 player because he was sick of ads and bad streaming quality. he wanted a way to send tracks phone to phone without both phones being on the same network, and realized flashing qr codes could carry the data he built the whole working prototype in one night with claude code its open source and already at 375 stars
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The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@IMAO_ That's because it isn't real-time-rendered computer graphics. It's precomposed video on a huge optical disk (like a Blu Ray but several generations older tech). The actions you take lead to different clips being played.
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@DanielJHannan English is indeed the bastard offspring of Low German spoken by Anglo-Saxons, Latin-influenced Celtic/Gaelic of the Britons, Old Norse, Norman French, and virtually every other language w/ which British and American merchants, militaries, diplomats, etc. have made contact.
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Daniel Hannan
Daniel Hannan@DanielJHannan·
English has always been unregulated, open, voracious. It is highly unusual in having no equivalent of the Académie Française to regulate spelling and orthography. These are strengths. For context, the main Māori colonisation of New Zealand happened around the time of Chaucer.
Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@DrewPavlou

29 year old New Zealand Green MP Tamatha Paul declares English a “BASTARD LANGUAGE” and mocks conservatives who want to protect their heritage and culture New Zealand is 5 years ahead of Australia in terms of wokeness, probably the worst for any English speaking country. The left really, really hate white people in New Zealand

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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@finn20142017 @KenGardner11 Once you learn "Motte & Bailey", you see it everywhere. If someone refuses to define their terms, it's a red flag for M&B. When it isn't M&B, it's usually its inverse, Strawman (mischaracterizing the opposing argument rather than one's own).
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Ken Gardner
Ken Gardner@KenGardner11·
Lots of commentary about "the common good" among the woke reich types who cosplay as "conservatives" on this hellsite and elsewhere. Have any of them actually tried to define the term "common good?" <I insist on Aristotelian rules of proper definition. No bullshit.>
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Fusilli Spock
Fusilli Spock@awstar11·
@KenGardner11 “Common good” opens the door to do some evil shit to outliers and minorities
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@PedroCoSilva @Electric_Maik At least "trifurcate": Crew Starship (Lunar Lander variant) Cargo Starship (Starlink Pez dispenser) Tanker Starship obviously different mission profiles. I even expect one w/o heat shields intended to be linked together as space station modules.
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Maik
Maik@Electric_Maik·
Fun fact: Due to NASA regulations, the Falcon 9 stopped being classified as "in development”, meaning only minimal changes have been made since the Falcon 9 Block 5. NASA didn't want SpaceX making major modifications to a rocket already certified for crewed missions, while SpaceX could have continued development, they would have had to reverify the new version. I think we’ll see the same thing happen with Starship.
Bloomberg@business

Satellite operators that have long relied on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket for rides to orbit are bracing as Elon Musk’s company shifts its focus to Starship, the larger rocket that’s still under development. bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@ReesesSpecies @earthing5000 You get a "penny that doubles every day for thirty days". Whether it doubles the day you get it or the day after isn't particularly relevant. The 30 days can start a year after you get the penny, just so you get all 30 of them.
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ReesesSpecies
ReesesSpecies@ReesesSpecies·
@SumErgoMonstro @earthing5000 I count it as the original penny on day 1, doubling for the 1st time on day 2, 2nd time day 3, etc, etc, until the 29th time on day 30. I didn't think you get the penny on day 1 and it doubles the same day. Regardless, I'll deal with the situation when it presents itself. 🤣
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EARTH!🇺🇸
EARTH!🇺🇸@earthing5000·
I have a serious question. I’m curious. Please answer truthfully. Would you take one million dollars today, or one penny that doubles every day for thirty days?
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ReesesSpecies
ReesesSpecies@ReesesSpecies·
@earthing5000 If ONLY the penny doubles every day, then the million. If the penny AND all resulting monies double, I'll take the penny and the $5.37MM in which it results.
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@skdh Nope. Talk to your general contractor. Remind him that it's his job to supervise his subs.
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Sabine Hossenfelder
Trying to track down a subcontractor of a subcontractor of a subcontractor to sort out this mess which is supposed to be my studio 😭
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The Monster
The Monster@SumErgoMonstro·
@PatriarchTree Actually, (full) 2nd cousins share 2/8 great-grandparents. If two people only share one GGP, they're "half-2nd cousins". On average, siblings share 50%, 1st cousins 12.5%, and 2nd cousins 3.125%. (half-2nd would be 1.5625%).
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The Patriarch Tree
The Patriarch Tree@PatriarchTree·
Second cousins share 1/8 common ancestry (i.e., one of eight great-grandparents). Unless similar marital patterns are repeated across multiple generations, this is a relatively small degree of consanguinity that is usually not harmful.
Ben Aksar (My Pronouns? I Trust You)@BenAksar

@PatriarchTree We are now at the "it's not illegal" stage. Next, we can expect to hear, "It's really quite common for relatives to marry".

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