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Lynn Grant

@lynngrant

Security & database software engineer, game developer. Former mainframe guy. Big fan of modern Fortran, XQuery and all things XML, and dogs. (Cats are pretty cool, too.) Also interested in precision time (IRIG, IEEE-1588, White Rabbit) and typography.

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09.03.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 1296 πŸ” 484 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 13

love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region

09.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 19259 πŸ” 4823 πŸ’¬ 231 πŸ“Œ 141

Between 500,000 and 700,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon.

No other country would be allowed to do this. Yes, Israel has the right to exist.

But the long-term damage to our world from such behavior is being dangerously underestimated.

There are no second-class world citizens. We are equal

09.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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07.03.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Once I found out that the Proton CEO was a big DJT supporter, and then they rolled out their AI assistant that requires you to send your email to them in the clear (undoing their β€œWe cannot read your messages when they are on our server” promise), I switched to Tuta Mail.

08.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My experience with six cats echos yours.

06.03.2026 18:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you really want to know, and aren’t just trying to get a rise out of us, I would ask Lesley Carhart (a.k.a. Hacks4Pancakes) at tisiphone.net.

06.03.2026 05:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's never ending

The evil
The monsters are who we have become...
Do not trust or believe ANYTHING THE FASCIST REGIME TELLS YOU

THE KURDS GOT THE MESSAGE STRAIGHT, ALREADY!!!

05.03.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.

05.03.2026 23:19 πŸ‘ 12923 πŸ” 3349 πŸ’¬ 2105 πŸ“Œ 571

This sounds like what we used to hear about the Soviet Union, where the central committee would tell farmers how much grain they had to produce, even if it was more than the farm was capable off. Any balking was met with "Are you not a loyal Soviet citizen?"

04.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump and Hegseth have everything figured out. We got strategic geniuses running this operation.

04.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 4536 πŸ” 1400 πŸ’¬ 198 πŸ“Œ 50

And it doesn’t just apply to Black folks. I was at a mall one time, and there was a Russian guy yelling into his cellphone. I said to my wife β€œHe must be really mad.” She said β€œNo, look, he is smiling. That’s just how Russians talk to each other.”

03.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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02.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 115 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 9

As a proud Iranian born, Canadian, I do not want any help from the US and Israel for a regime change!

The government will be toppled when people are ready.

The same should happen in the US, and this criminal regime needs to go to prison.

#FuckYourWar

28.02.2026 15:51 πŸ‘ 2864 πŸ” 511 πŸ’¬ 132 πŸ“Œ 15
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Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells

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Ms. Lacks’s cells were the first to reproduce in a laboratory, outside the human body, and have been used in groundbreaking research, including to develop vaccines for polio and Covid-19 and treatments for cancer, Parkinson’s and the flu.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...?

28.02.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "If there was ever a time for Republicans to find their spines, it's now, when the Commander in Chief readily admits that he is choosing to put our troops' lives at risk without a legitimate imminent threat to our homeland or our citizens."

28.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 2974 πŸ” 939 πŸ’¬ 96 πŸ“Œ 25

Perhaps the goal is to get their oil, sell it, and put the funds in his Qatar bank account, just like with Venezuela.

28.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): β€œI went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism”

28.02.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 7204 πŸ” 2181 πŸ’¬ 109 πŸ“Œ 60

"Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks."
β€” Stephen Hawking

28.02.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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27.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amen to that!

25.02.2026 19:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The IBM 407 Accounting Machine

But the computer sure had style. The designer said that he patterned it after the old IBM accounting machines, like the IBM 407 (www.columbia.edu/cu/computing...), which were a lot curvier than later IBM computers.

25.02.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wargames remake 2028: "The only way to win is to use ALL THE NUKES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE"

25.02.2026 13:47 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Keep in mind that the stories in β€œI, Robot” were all about edge cases where the three rules did not work so well”. Still, they were trying to keep the robots in check. I don’t think anyone is even trying with today’s AIs.

25.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I remember them well.

25.02.2026 02:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. β€œI consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

24.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 11751 πŸ” 5043 πŸ’¬ 150 πŸ“Œ 275

β€œHe doesn’t represent our views and doesn’t represent the best version of the pro-Israel position,” said another one of the people, a State Department official....

Then why is he in a position where he represents the views of the U.S. Government?

24.02.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There is also a tradition of authoritarian rulers applying their authoritarianism to the Church. In the past, some of the Orthodox churches have had this problem.

So DJT is carrying on an old, bad tradition.

23.02.2026 23:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"...Bibles are not supposed to be tampered with, especially when it comes to ... removing pages."

Actually, there is a great tradition of removing pages. That's why we have the Hebrew Bible, the Douay-Rheims bible, the King James, etc., but it is usually done by religious authorities.

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23.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

There is a YouTube channel that collects movies scenes where women are kicking alpha male asses. It is refreshing to watch sometimes, but we need more women doing this, not just young babes in leather bodysuits.

23.02.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0