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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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    @brad @psneeze @ccferrie State owned rail, bus and road freight (CIE) wasn&#39;t a bad idea, but having them in one org was bad, and badly done. Rail puts on services at times no-one wants and then cancels due to lack of demand. Foynes line to be reopened, but closed because it was freight only and freight was terribly organised. Ghastly road routes. No rail to Shannon. No rail in North-West. No food, no drink &amp; not enough seats on early morning Limerick-Dublin.

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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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    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