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Michael Dwyer

@mdwyer@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.6.0-nightly.2026-04-17

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".

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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".

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Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Mar 23, 2026
@CursedSilicon Is it off base to skim the Wikipedia article on CNVi and immediately get chills? I'm thinking, "Oh god... WinModems are coming for wireless..."
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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".

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Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Mar 17, 2026

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!

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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".

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Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Mar 13, 2026

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.

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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".

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Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

I spent MAR10-day celebrating with the @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org

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

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media archaeology lab (@mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org) - post.lurk.org

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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".

mastodon.social
Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

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@post.lurk.org

#retrotech

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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".

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Michael Dwyer
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".

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@mdwyer@mastodon.social · Oct 01, 2025
@TechConnectify I expect you already know this, but Google isn't showing me your video unless I go search for it in my subscriptions. The only reason I know this is because you post here on the fediverse. I'm glad you're here, despite how vociferously you say you hate it here.
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