Alex

@guinnessduck@mstdn.social
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Just a little beer drinking water fowl. Homebrewer. Former brewer at the now defunct Stout Hearted Brewing. Dabbles at the writing of sci-if and fantasy. Father of a youth hockey goalie.

Avatar: a picture of my face with sunglasses and my Australian hat on. Behind me is red rock and blue sky. Photo taken at Arches National Park.

Header: a picture of several Cornelius (Corny) kegs that have recently been washed in preparation for being filled with home brewed beer.

Writing Monthguinnessduck
Nobody is smart enough to invent an AI that can take over the world, but there are plenty of people who are dumb enough to invent an AI and give it control of the world.

RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/12/19/implementing-encrypted-messaging-over-activitypub/

Big news for the #Fediverse! End-to-end encryption is coming to #ActivityPub.

@swf with support from @sovtechfund is coordinating two interoperable implementations.

Bonfire is proud to be one of these first two projects, alongside #Emissary by @benpate

We think #E2EE should simply be the default for any private communications, and we’re especially thrilled to bring private, trusted collaboration to the fediverse.

#JustBetweenUs #Privacy #Encryption #SocialWeb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@retroist/115743198161017194

I think I just died a little inside.

Soon it will be time to make the Fruit Cocktail Eggnog Pie.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jamesthomson/115743268704666181

Apple: can you believe Japan and the EU want to FORCE people to use UNSAFE third-party app stores whereas ours is SAFE & CLEAN & SLICK??? 😠😠😠

Also Apple: btw we’re adding more ads to our app store

We let our Amazon Prime membership lapse before (USA) Thanksgiving. I’m happy to report since then our house hold has spent exactly $0 at Amazon. I deleted the app from my phone. I haven’t been to their site so long that just a moment ago when a link directed me to a product on an Amazon page, it had been long enough that my account was no longer signed in.

I know that it’s not feasible for everyone to do (we all have our own life situations - no judgement), but for this household it felt good.

For folks still in doubt - next they will come for gay people, then the disabled of all ages & all forms of disabilities, but watch for kids w/Down's syndrome, then adults who have outlived their usefulness. It won't stop there because they're already putting homeless in work camps. They've already made noise about institutionalizing autistic kids & adults. No one in the US will be safe from persecution excpt conservative white males with avg or above intelligence

#USPOL #Fascism #Resist #Nazis

Da Red Gobbo rides upon his friendly and not at all dangerous Tinboy friend. Those are party confetti poppers, not grenades, right? Right?

Happy Holidays!

#warhammerCommunity #miniatures #miniaturePainting #paintingMiniatures #art #painting #warhammer40k #goblins

I watch Jeopardy most days, and it’s become clear to me that my knowledge of African geography is abysmal. So I made myself a tiny web app with a blank map to help me practice remembering where all the different countries are on the continent.

Test your own knowledge!

https://schrag.ca/toys/LearnAfrica/

(No ads, no tracking, no cookies… I’m retired, not selling anything here.)

Africa Study Map

These are the seven Democrats who voted with MAGA Republicans to perform invasive body cavity searches on migrant children.

We need to primary each of these pro child abuse politicians out of government.