Michael Dwyer

mdwyer@mastodon.social

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".

Posts

Post #4089748
@Holberg@mstdn.social You boosted the extinct media museum in Tokyo. I know you have contacts in the Denver area. Next time you're there, see if you can get to the @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org on the CU Boulder campus. It seems to be pretty similar to that Tokyo museum, and certainly a lot closer. I was playing with flip phones and typewriters and all kinds of retro equipment. Fun place!
Post #3841169
Everyone knows that an SSH key needs to be very long to be secure. But what if ... no? Sadly, even an 8-bit key has a ton of protocol. I was really hoping to have keys that a human could memorize, but they still end up being more than forty characters long. -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- MB0CAQACAgFDAgEFAgIArQIBEwIBEQIBCwIBDQIBCQ== -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY----- -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY----- MBswDQYJKoZIhvcNAQEBBQADCgAwBwICAUMCAQU= -----END PUBLIC KEY-----
Post #3478875
A large wildfire is bearing down on my hometown, and the county office of emergency management's only information outlet is a Facebook page that requires a Facebook account to view. Let me say that another way: access to vital life safety information is gated on selling your PII to Meta.
Post #939427
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&#39;s Media Archaeology Lab! I feel confident betting they&#39;ve got an NES there... I wonder what other retrotech is hiding in their little basement lair... https://mediaarchaeologylab.com/ @mediaarchaeologylab #retrotech
Post #939426
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 &quot;sudo echo ... &gt; file&quot; construction, which doesn&#39;t write the file as root. I left them a note using the &quot;did this page help?&quot; comment at the bottom of the screen, and this actually worked!! Today, they replaced it with &quot;echo ... &gt; sudo tee file&...
Post #939425
So there&#39;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!
Post #856096
I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab I can&#39;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