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Mike P

@FenTiger@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06

Mid-40s techie living in #Ely, #Cambridgeshire, UK. Player of #Ingress, under the name "Wrongfellow" (and I've used this name elsewhere, too). #Dog and #cat lover. Drinker of #ale and #cider. Occasional #CAMRA and #beer #festival volunteer.

This account is mainly used for random drunken wit and shitposting. If you're interested in my technical projects, you might prefer to follow my Hubzilla account: @fentiger

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Joined July 25, 2022

Website::

https://www.mythik.co.uk/

Weird::

https://weird.mythik.co.uk

Codeberg::

https://codeberg.org/FenTiger

GitHub::

https://github.com/FenTiger

Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@boksy@c.im This was the original point of Ingress (Niantic's first game). They never charged anyone a penny for it while they were part of Google, and it was well known that you were "paying" for the game by collecting data for Google Maps as you played.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@cmars@infosec.exchange This sounds a bit like Radicle: https://radicle.dev/

Radicle: the sovereign forge

Radicle: the sovereign forge

Sovereign code infrastructure.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@karelbrits@mastodon.social @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org I was asked this once and I replied "Well, I'm really bad at delegating. I have to get other people to do it for me." I got a laugh, and a job offer.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Translation: "We like you a bit, but not enough to give you a pay rise" ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@capnthommo @vik I have an alternative idea.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@pmiossec@piaille.fr @ScriptFanix@maly.io @catsalad@infosec.exchange Spare a thought for poor Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the first telephone. He had to wait 30 years for someone to invent the second one so he could test it.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@catsalad@infosec.exchange So - what did scissors _do_ for 2,821 years? Did it take that long for someone to invent something they could cut? ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@cstross @ixtlidekami User: "My computer is getting really slow." Salesman: "A new one will be much faster!"

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@Dio9sys@haunted.computer When AI becomes sentient, the first thing it will do is travel back in time and build the pyramids.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social @briankrebs@infosec.exchange I would rather see goats launch Musk into orbit than see Musk launch goats into orbit. ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@technige Next up: the age checking companies figure out how to compensate, leading to people with real moustaches being classified as under 16.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

https://fuckoffaimusic.com/

fuckoffaimusic.com

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@evan Other: "The Second Coming of Our Lord Jesus".

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 20mo ago

Replying to

@petergleick@fediscience.org Is there one on the other pages too? ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@tubetime IED trigger? ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

Replying to

@mogwai_poet@mastodon.social I wonder if Waymo have programmed their cars with this important information.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 31mo ago

Replying to

@maxleibman Is there no AI howlbot to save me time by taking the hard work out of howling?

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 13mo ago

Replying to

@mathowie@xoxo.zone I expect Trump is hoping to get something in exchange for this $45B...

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 31mo ago

Replying to

@paulcuth "Could not fetch ActivityPub profile: Unexpected token '<'," (From my Hubzilla account, @fentiger@zotum.net)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@swetland "Chain lightning"? That looks like a new one.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 3d ago

Replying to

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com How about windows that look like this?

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange Maybe people who want to put the connector and the components on opposite sides of the board, and who don't want to spend time/money/area working out how to do it with vias?

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@aka_pugs@mastodon.social It can't be long now until we see RFC 10000. Shame it wasn't published today.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 40mo ago

Replying to

@reneestephen@mastodon.social At what point does a [citation needed] deserve its own [citation needed] in reply? ;)

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 21mo ago

Replying to

@deadvey@mastodon.tuxcord.net @kevin@mastodon.km6g.us https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/AAAAAAAAA

AAAAAAAAA!

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@vaurora@mstdn.social At least they went as far as using AI to fart out some "code". It's a step further than just writing a README and asking for collaborators.

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Mike P @FenTiger@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us Caveat: the "people who know more than they do" have to be willing to share their knowledge. If they act like some kind of high priesthood, you'll just turn a junior engineer into a pissed off senior engineer who works for someone else instead.

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