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Ray McCarthy

raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

<p>I usually won&#39;t follow accounts that mostly just boost posts.<br />A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland.<br />Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.</p>

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    @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Amazon should never have been allowed to buy Goodreads and IMDB. Conflict of interest. Also moderation and UI of Goodreads is rubbish. Reviews for books that aren&#39;t written

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    @infobeautiful@vis.social @ourworldindata@vis.social So: Eat too much. Don&#39;t exercise enough. Too much ultra processed food, chemicals and pesticides. What are the causes of the 7.8% Accidents? How much on the road, power tools, weapons or other?

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    @grickle@mstdn.social What! Not cuddling Sheep of Mastodon!

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    @gsuberland@chaos.social But don&#39;t keep it with your phone/tablet/laptop. Make a secured backup. Invaluable to heirs / office if you have a stroke or fatal accident. Makes using long unique passwords easy. Can use a local password manager for all non-financial/non critical. Never use duplicates or short ones. Other bad advice in the past was regular changing of passwords. Not writing them down was always bad. It was a password on a postit at the screen that was stupid.

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    @kostyn@niagara.social Save it on an HDD and post / courier it to new hosting company?

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    @scalzi &quot;Mallaby does praise OpenAI&#39;s CEO Sam Altman&#39;s dollar-attracting gravitational field that raised $40 billion in investment, an amount bigger than any other private funding round in history&quot; So he&#39;s more adept that Charles Ponzi. The sums don&#39;t come out and the products don&#39;t &quot;work&quot;. Bubble will burst this year or next. Still, there are people daft enough to speculate with Crypto-coins (none are currencies) and NFTs (pointless compared to notarised...

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    Should we avoid ultra processed and USA ingredients or food products? https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/18/gross-ingredients-16-favourite-foods-cockroach-coffee

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@rvps2001/116357288139614008 Of course not.

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    Option surveys on the Internet have always been inaccurate, long before AI or survey farming. A second problem is the methodology and design of the questions. Sometimes deliberate (See Mozilla, Ofcom &amp;amp; Comreg surveys or any post purchase survey of goods or services). https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/28/how-fraudulent-church-data-revealed-ais-threat-to-polling

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    I suspect the sending of school kids to Gaeltachta damaged them. The promotion of Irish since 1922 seems to be largely not just a failure, but damaged it. Irish wasn&amp;#39;t blocked in the 6 counties till Unionists took control. It&amp;#39;s a myth that the British suppressed Irish. We did it ourselves before the end of the 19th C. in the belief English speaking was more important. I have some school books from the 1910 to 1913 era. One has a preface about the importance of resurgence of Irish...