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Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦

@jdarnold@indieweb.social

mastodon 4.7.3

I am a liberal computer geek, hockey nut (and goalie), web 2.0 fanatic, dad of two, and husband of one. I am also a veteran (i.e., old) software developer and computer hacker.

I've been a Mastodonian since Sept 2017, originally as @jdarnold@mastodon.sdf.org @ sdf.org

Medford MA USA

Profile picture is the face of a geeky-looking white guy with graying hair and glasses.

Header is by @alipunk@thecanadian.social

#nobot

My posts are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/)

1707 Followers

1953 Following

28 Posts

Joined January 30, 2025

Pronouns:

He / Him / His

Me online:

https://anaze.net

Linux:

Siduction / Arch / WSL Ubuntu

Programming:

C++, Julia, Python, Go

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 2mo ago

It is that time of year again. My daughter is a third-grade #teacher at a suburban school north of #Boston. 80% of her students are ESL (English as a second language) students. She's not allowed to advertise on the Book of Face, probably because it's too embarrassing. Every year my Mastodon family comes through magnificently, picking great stuff from her Amazon #wishlist. I'm hoping this year is no exception! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/ISNKBF6JKUH4?ref_=wl_share Please boost! I'll get her to do a non-Amazon list too.

amazon.com

Check out my list on Amazon

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@0xabad1dea how it started / how it's going #dog #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #DogsOfFedi

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Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @hypebot@goingdark.social

The corruption is staggering. And breathtaking. And astoundingly brazen. Thanks @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io for the tireless reporting. She deserves hazardous duty pay. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-104/#crypto #scam

Citation Needed

Issue 104 – World Tyranny Financial

As the Trump family’s crypto dealings raise more alarms, crypto enforcement is falling to new lows

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 3mo ago

I'm not feeling very patriotic these days, but this drink was pretty good. It's still unbearably hot out, with a feels-like temp upwards of 110°F / 43.3°C. It's 9:30pm, and it's still 87°F / 30.5°C. of course, folks in warmer climes probably laugh at us, but days over 100 are still very rare. Our room AC didn't really keep up! #boston #scorcha

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

My cup runneth over with furry love this morning.

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #dogs #DogsOfMastodon

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Indieweb.Social

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 10mo ago

Haley is the newest foster #cat here for a few days. She is just a cuddle monster and wants to get scritches and give head butts. Of course, she punctuates those with the occasional hiss and the little nip, too. She got dumped off at the vets in a bag. No idea who or why. It’s so tragic. But we will get her calmed down and adopted in no time. Isn’t she beautiful?

If you’re in the #Boston area, we’re looking for a foster and or an Adopter for her! You won’t regret it 😺

#cats #CatsOfMastodon

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Indieweb.Social

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Cheers everyone! Things everywhere are pretty terrible, so just for #today, we're going to hunker down and have a fancy Bloody Mary. We cleaned house, and now I'm going to settle in front of the TV, watch some #RedSox baseball, and dream of warmer days ahead. Right? RIGHT?

#cocktails

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Indieweb.Social

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Drives me crazy watching people type without using shortcuts!

#GeekHumor #geek

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Indieweb.Social

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@misty one of my 4 Guys Co-op group couldn't play for 2 weeks because Borderlands kept crashing his Windows 11 machine, decked out with a fancy new video card. While at the same time, another guy, with the same fancy card, played along just fine on his Linux box.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

Be safe. Wash your hands. Watch your distance. Wear your N95 mask. Vaccinate! Boost! “Everything you can imagine is real.” ―Pablo Picasso

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Alice that is one of the most real stories I have ever read on social media

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@gregly @malcircuit I think both Ground News and 1440 allow browsing without an account: https://ground.news https://join1440.com

ground.news

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@justine so it never ends does it? I had to deliver my 26-year-old her gym clothes yesterday because she forgot them at home.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

I keep thinking about that cartoon that says my desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane. It is all just so damned overwhelming. We keep having to listen to the Orange Turd, even though he hasn’t made sense in 20 years, maybe ever. The news organizations have to pretend, I guess, that he isn’t spouting nonsense. I have seen plenty of montages of him promising things in two weeks. Oh, the celebrations when he’s finally out of our lives for good.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@heidilifeldman Thanks! You deserve a hazardous duty bonus

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@catsalad@infosec.exchange That was more of a landslide than I would have thought!

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 7mo ago

Replying to

@rupl It's our lunch!

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 8mo ago

Replying to

@FrazzledBrynn And a hearty hello to a fellow Aquarian! ♥️

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

Replying to

On Monday evening, we watched movie number 24 on the New York Times top 100 list, Joaquin Phoenix in Her. I wish I liked it more. I couldn’t stop thinking about the technology. And the weird reactions to falling in love with an OS. I’m sure director Spike Jonze had some deep ideas he wanted to get across about what it means to be a person, to be in love, and to be part of the human race, but they just passed me by. It was some great cinematography anyway. 3.5 stars out of five. #movies

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 6mo ago

The Daily Show's

Stellar group of nominees in the category of "Outstanding Real Story That Is Definitely Not Made Up"

https://xcancel.com/thedailyshow/status/2039492216436019596?s=46&t=V7VfS2X8f7Tb8bB5srchIg

xcancel.com

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@Akshay@eupolicy.social non paywalled link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260508182340/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cevevg98125o

From primates to climates - ten of David Attenborough

web.archive.org

From primates to climates - ten of David Attenborough

From hanging out with primates to early climate warnings, here

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nanook @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io Ah, but that's the thing - it is a Ponzi scheme. But some people make money on Ponzi schemes - the first ones in (and out). And the bastards in power use their influence to sucker others into the scheme, then get out with real dollars before it all collapses.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 10mo ago

Replying to

@donkko@mastodon.gamedev.place me too!

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@buffaloseven@mstdn.ca I only have Forests, but I really enjoy it. It gets a little much for me sometimes, playing 2 characters, but I can't wait to get it back to the table.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@tante@tldr.nettime.org I forced myself to figure out a couple gnarly jq commands precisely because of that. I could have easily asked Claude, but I need all the challenges I can get these days.

Jonathan Arnold 🇺🇦 @jdarnold@indieweb.social

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@amyedge@toad.social I'll have to warn my wife!