Michael Dwyer

@mdwyer
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Maker, breaker, geek. Just off a decade workin' for the bookstore and the coffee shop in Seattle. I'm now back home in Colorado.

Dwyer's Corollary to Scalzi's Law:

The failure mode of friendly is "creepy".

So there's this product, right? And it is perfect. It works everywhere on everything. It does what it is supposed to do, nothing more, and nothing less.

I love this product. And I want you to use and enjoy this product, too. And I want to tell you all about it.

However, it only exists through blatant disregard of intellectual property rights and /will/ get shut down the very second the rights-holders get wind of it.

So anyway... please visit $URL and join me for a game of $PRODUCT!

I miss the old days when you could just email people.

#plex changed their repositories and require people to make changes to their linux boxes. However, their instructions included the "sudo echo ... > file" construction, which doesn't write the file as root.

I left them a note using the "did this page help?" comment at the bottom of the screen, and this actually worked!!

Today, they replaced it with "echo ... > sudo tee file" which... writes to a file named 'sudo'. Oops.

I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab

I can't get the words together to say how amazing the experience was. Their collection is broad, deep, and varied. Yes, I got my obligatory game of Super Mario Brothers, but I also played with a collection of cell phones, old typewriters, all generations of Apple devices, a PDP/8, and so much else.

Colorado, did you even know this collection was in your own backyard??

#retrotech

Hey, today is MAR10... You know, like the Italian plumber of Nintendo fame? I just happen to be in the shadows of the Flatirons without a set plan for the day.

Seems like the perfect day to try dropping in on Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab!

I feel confident betting they've got an NES there... I wonder what other retrotech is hiding in their little basement lair...

https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/

@mediaarchaeologylab

#retrotech

The Media Archaeology Lab

The Media Archaeology Lab is a hands-on space housing working media technologies spanning 12 decades.

Thoughts and prayers to the EPA :(

"Why don't you use our map app?"

Well, this experience sums it up neatly.

abadidea (@[email protected])

COOKIE'S BUSTLE IS SAVED THE WORLD'S WEIRDEST COPYRIGHT TROLL IS DEFEATED https://gamehistory.org/cookies-bustle/ #cookiefreed

Infosec Exchange

how it started / how it's going

https://arcade.pirillo.com/space-needle.html

Ugh... a found a restaurant that is cheap and tasty and convenient, but I can't stand going there.

Their building is strangely impervious to wireless network signals If I can't read fedi while feeding my face, then I'm gonna be sad.

When half the sign burned out, a local Popeyes restaurant appeared as [POPE yes].

I wonder if that was intentional? It pleases me a bit more than breaking at the obvious syllable break [POP eyes] would have.