Dave Mason

@DaveMasonDotMe
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πŸ‘¨β€πŸ’» Senior Machine Architect, Rube Goldberg Division
✍ Comments his code
πŸ¦Έβ€β™‚οΈ Optimizes slow SQL Queries
πŸ–₯️ Linux convert/disgusted longtime Windows user
πŸ“· Aspiring mediocre photographer
🧠 Atheist
πŸ”  Defines his acronyms

Topics I post frequently:
πŸ”˜ #SQLServer
πŸ”˜ #Celtics/#NBA (Nat'l Basketball Assoc)
πŸ”˜ #UCF (Univ of Central Florida)
πŸ”˜ #Bucs/#NFL (Nat'l Football League)
πŸ”˜ #RStats (R programming language)
πŸ”˜ #EV (Electric Vehicles)
πŸ”˜ #Photography
πŸ”˜ #Privacy

Bloghttps://www.davemason.me
Codeberghttps://codeberg.org/DaveMasonDotMe
πŸ“Upstairs at Eric's
SignalAvailable upon request
You just know nothing good is going to come from a conversation when you answer the phone and are immediately aware it's a robo-call because of the significant pause after you say "Hello".

Tuesday is World Backup Day! Probably good to backup very frequently.

#WorldBackupDay

https://www.worldbackupday.com/en/

World Backup Day

Be prepared against data loss and data theft. March 31st is the day to backup and better protect your data.

World Backup Day

While you were waffling on deleting a free social media account numerous innocent people were shot, beaten and sent to concentration camps.

I managed to leave a whole damn country by losing half my income and most of my belongings. FFS. -This- is the threshold to DELETE A HANDLE?

Headline: Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

https://www.rawstory.com/date-announced-for-national-strike-aimed-at-crippling-trump-no-work-no-school/

#MayDay
#Strike
#NoKings

Date announced for national strike aimed at crippling Trump: 'No work, no school'

Ezra Levin, co-founder of Indivisible, said on Saturday that a nationwide general strike is being planned for May 1 that will be modeled on the day of action residents of Minnesota organized in January against the brutality carried out by federal immigration enforcement officials.Appearing at the fl...

Raw Story

Did somebody say #DEI?

#GOPRacism #GOP #Racists

USA, March 2026.

Photo by Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as Lady Liberty in chains during the β€œNo Kings” national day of protest in Los Angeles on March 28, 2026.

#USpol #Liberty #Photography #NoKings

Video Record-breaking turnout at 'No Kings' rallies across US
https://abcnews.com/video/131517591/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News @news-abc

Video Record-breaking turnout at 'No Kings' rallies across US

Millions across the country took to the streets on Saturday's "No Kings Day," a protest voicing opposition to President Donald Trump and his administration.

ABC News

Who is dumb enough to install the White House App on their phone?

https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app

#infosec #whitehouse #maga #trump

I Decompiled the White House's New App

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Thereallo

Microservices consume 20% more CPU and 44% more energy than a monolith doing the same work.

IT is projected to consume 21% of all global energy by 2030. The internet already produces more carbon than commercial aviation.

The $44.5B in cloud waste is not just wasted money. It is wasted electricity.

The architecture tax is environmental, not just financial.

Simplification is climate action.

https://simplicity-first.dev