mausmalone

Old school jack-of-all-trades webmaster, but I mostly talk about old video games and computing.

pronouns: he/him
website: https://mattpierce.info

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2026-03-21 17:05:04 UTC

Holy heck - I never thought the day would come. Roman from Regular Car Reviews is getting Orange Pilled.
Well, not quite all the way there. But this is still an amazing swing for a YouTube channel specifically about cars.
cc @npub1z7x…q5jf
https://youtu.be/iKMcs9eYvq4

2026-02-05 22:26:37 UTC

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His real name is Jimmy Cymry

2026-02-03 23:32:00 UTC

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On your VPS plan do you pay a premium for CPU usage? Or is it just a simple cap?

2026-01-20 00:09:01 UTC

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I'll cop to not knowing what the "I made you do" could possibly mean, but now I do have Taylor Swift's "Look What You Made Me Do" stuck in my head so that's ... a thing.

2026-01-15 21:48:46 UTC

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Alternate solution, maybe: get 3 printers, print a bunch of tiny yellow dots randomly on two of them, then the actual document on the third.
Assuming the printers put the data in the same place every time, that should corrupt it, I'd imagine.

2026-01-14 03:09:09 UTC

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heeeeyyy - that's my union.
I should probably reach out and say good job.

2025-11-23 03:48:06 UTC

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Is it possible that, like the N64, it requires the controllers to be plugged in at startup/initialization?
The N64 doesn't support hot-swapping controllers, and conversely IDK if the controllers support being hot swapped.

2025-11-08 22:55:23 UTC

When I got into cycling this summer there was a point when I figured I should set goals. There's lots of options to choose from - from max power or FTP or VO2Max or max speed or max distance.
My goal was more modest: I want to get up the hill.
Today I made it up the hill.
I even mostly made it up the hill from the Little Red Lighthouse. I didn't walk any part of it, but I had to put my foot down thanks to slipping on some wet leaves.
#cycling
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2025-11-07 03:33:34 UTC

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I just want to "yes, and" the INSANITY of Forester claiming that bicycle infrastructure should be aimed at people going 30 mph on a bike.
The venerable Bike Calculator (http://www.bikecalculator.com/) is a tool you can use to figure out how much power you need to move a given weight at a given speed up a given incline.
On a flat surface for an average weight rider, to sustain 30 mph you're looking at OVER 600 WATTS. That's a ludicrous amount of sustained power.

2025-11-07 02:30:26 UTC

An hour thirty @npub1z7x…q5jf on John Forester, the father of Effective Cycling? Sign me up.
I'm curious how people identify themselves in the Netherlands if they do both utility and sport cycling. That's where I'm at - I enjoy fast riding, but it's just not the right bike for grocery runs. (I have an upright beach cruiser with panniers for that with big fat tires and a cushy, springy seat.)
https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america

2025-11-02 15:18:36 UTC

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I sure hope this succeeds. The university where I work consistently gets dinged in the ratings for low "exclusivity." But we're a public institution - our /mission/ is to give as many people access to an education as possible.
Exclusivity is essentially a measure of supply and demand - but using it in a ranking of quality is nuts. It's like saying that a designer handbag is higher quality BECAUSE it's harder to get. It's totally backward.

2025-09-11 13:12:59 UTC

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Out of curiosity - when they gave you the big SUV at the car rental place, did they say it was an "upgrade?"
That always rubs me the wrong way because, obviously, not getting the compact or mid-size sedan you actually wanted and reserved is by all metrics a downgrade. But also because it shoves in your face that popular notion that bigger cars are necessarily better.

2025-09-07 21:48:21 UTC

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I'm sure this is 100% something Riker has said in TNG for real, and it makes me sad that nobody's done a Star Trek equivalent to https://frinkiac.com/ or https://morbotron.com/

2025-08-24 22:30:15 UTC

A symbolic victory but an important one for me. 2 weeks aver having been hit by a car I got out there and did the same route.
Unfortunately I had to do it with my old department-store bike which is FAR less efficient than the gravel bike I lost in the accident so my legs are screaming with exhaustion.
#cycling
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2025-04-14 15:01:58 UTC

Hey @npub198c…jf98 - I'm going through the Windows installation instructions for a framework 13 and in there is a caution to update the WD Black SSD firmware since some of the SN850s have issues.
Do you know if there's a way to update the SSD firmware in Linux? Or if the SN850 issues are even present in Linux?

2025-03-18 13:41:01 UTC

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Can I ask a very tangential question?
What happens in, for example, apt when a package name changes? Is there a mechanism that will automatically move users over? Or will they need to remove/install manually?
(I'm not asking to play devil's advocate, I really just have no idea how package managers handle this situation.)

2025-01-31 13:11:39 UTC

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Though it's an outsider opinion, my hope is that your news coverage is giving ample light to the "foretold" part of the story and giving credit to the people who were right. The news media here in the US, at least, does a very bad job at that.

2024-12-29 16:10:55 UTC

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That's also very telling - that the other guest imagines that a lack of a theocracy would be anarchy. They just absolutely cannot imagine people having morals independent of religion - that atheists could even theoretically be good people with ethics.

2024-12-17 20:38:20 UTC

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I work on web dev and I personally have never considered HTML a programming language and I never understood what the debate was all about or why it was contentious. I'm glad now that I've never bothered to argue about it, because I wholeheartedly believe that web professionals and web work are undervalued.

2024-11-30 06:41:33 UTC

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accurate, IMO
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2024-11-14 21:40:35 UTC

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I had a really nice Samsung color laser printer and I think the fuser went bad and when I brought it in for repairs the part cost twice what the printer cost at retail and you'd still have to have a professional install it.

2024-09-04 23:13:41 UTC

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An office floor or a computer lab full of desktop PCs with massive droning fans.

2024-08-08 02:46:13 UTC

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this thread just makes me think of all the people who bought into this notion of a "time traveling hipster" who was just, you know, a young man in 1941 in and among adults who probably thought he was under-dressed.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/924/098/166/532/083/original/43cd6d9cf8550765.jpg

2024-07-31 22:40:02 UTC

Hot #mastodon tip - if you see someone put up a post saying that they're looking for their people (like anybody trying to grow #blackmastodon, for example) and you're not who they're looking for - why not give a boost?
Maybe if enough people do it you can six-degrees-of-separation connect them to the community they're seeking.

2024-07-31 22:31:23 UTC

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a sincere question that maybe could be video worthy: how?
Like, I currently am using the Backups app in Ubuntu (which is apparently just deja dup rebranded) and the only way I can think of to test it is to format my PC's SSD and try to restore it. But that seems like a REALLY RISKY way to test a backup.
So how would, say, an experienced sysadmin such as yourself test a backup without creating an actual emergency scenario?