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JamesMDonohoe

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I am a father, grandfather, husband, and geek living in the SF Bay Area.

Am a #cancersurvivor currently navigating the joy of active disease, early detection saves lives. #fuckcancer

Spent a few years being all I could be and am a proud combat #disabled #veteran, Rangers Lead the Way.

Enjoy #hiking, #wine, and a new (to me), #miata.

Avatar alt-text: dog and I sitting on swing, dog in foreground smiling
Banner alt-text: dog with the sun rising over Mount Diablo in background

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@BobHorowitz@sfba.social avatar BobHorowitz , to random

September 29th, 2013.

And yes, he's a Nikon shooter. You can tell by the horns 😏

A photo of a very distinguished man in a bright red cassock, seated in a mobility chair on Folsom Street in San Francisco. He is posed for a portrait, with his hands crossed in front of him, looking directly at the camera. Behind him and to the sides, people stand and stroll - it is a street fair - but all focus in this picture is on the man in the cassock who has a Nikon camera strapped around his neck and horns protruding from his head.
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@BobHorowitz Is this the old-as-time battle between Canon and Nikon?

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@Tilai

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Uhhhh...is this a camera geek thing?

@scottmiller42@mstdn.social avatar scottmiller42 , to random

My random thought of the day: do folks who do have a plan for getting those hard-to-see areas checked for suspicious moles?

On a related note, are there any on Fediverse? I’ve got a great idea for you.

A heavily cropped photo of a man and woman that are perineum sunning. The photo is taken outdoors on a sunny day. Both people have their legs spread apart and pointed upwards toward the sub, exposing their perineum. I heavily cropped the photo so that all you see is from their knees to their feet.
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@scottmiller42 I think someone was using their "out loud" voice when they should have been using their "quiet voice."

@evacide@hachyderm.io avatar evacide , to random

Anonymously threatening a security researcher seems like a shooting-yourself-in-the-dick level bad decision. Kudos to Allison Nixon for not taking any shit.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher

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@evacide Paywalled unless you disable JavaScript unfortunately.

@BobHorowitz@sfba.social avatar BobHorowitz , (edited ) to random

Hey remember a couple of weeks ago when I said my favorite exercise at the gym was the shoulder shrug? I was shrugging 240 lbs. Well last week I added another 90 lbs to the machine. Now I'm shrugging like a bodybuilder.

Still bothered by things though. This month in particular. Everything is fucked. The Democrats caved, Secretary Brainworm is destroying the CDC, Trump is under the spell of Putin, and now he's chopping down the trees, digging up the ground, and turning the White House into Isengard.

An overexposed, black and white picture of the trapezoid machine at the gym, with a ton of glare falling on the ground in the middle of the machine. Six 45 lb weights are mounted on the bars. Another two 45s will be added in a moment.
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@BobHorowitz But those shoulders - my god man, they will be amazing!

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@BobHorowitz
Arrangements are being made as I type this!

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@BobHorowitz Damn you, making me expand my vocabulary - had to look up what "palanquin" was..

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@BobHorowitz "Bob's Negotiation Tips For Dummies" written by...well...Bob!

This is all I could think of - something we passed around at work years ago when someone asked for anything and was told nope.

Head and shoulders picture of little girl, blond hair bob cut, purple stripped shirt, crying, wiping her right eye with her right hand. Caption across the top reads "No, you can't have a pony." In lower left corner is a picture of a pony eating grass by the water with a caption reading "Not yours."
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    • @briankrebs@infosec.exchange avatar briankrebs , to random

    Until this morning's walk, I'd never seen a coyote up close. Neither had our German Shepherd, apparently, who clearly could have caught the coyote if she wanted to. Instead she seemed to nip at its heels between barks for nearly half a mile before it ducked into a hole between a huge rock formation. When I finally caught up w/ her, I was relieved to find she hadn't tried to go in but was just barking her head off outside. Also relieved there were no other coyotes around to even the fight.

    I haven't been that scared since we encountered a huge black bear and she chased it straight up a tree.

    JamesMDonohoe ,
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    @briankrebs My experience in SF Bay area - A single coyote is not a big deal, they will avoid medium size (50+ lbs), dog with owner, too risky. The problem is coyotes often run in small packs of 2-4 and one coyote lures the dog out and the other coyotes surround the dog and kill it. Has happened quite a few times here. Many of my fellow hikers have lost dogs or made trips to the vet as a result.

    Small dogs are snacks and will be eaten and should not be off leash and even the backyard is a risk. Neighbor's smaller dog was killed last year when a coyote jumped the fence.

    Now your bear encounter - that is scary.

    @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green avatar gerrymcgovern , to random

    "New study reveals that when used to summarize scientific research, generative AI is nearly five times LESS accurate than humans. Many haven't realized, but Gen AI's accuracy problem is worse than initially thought."

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.241776

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    @gerrymcgovern
    My favorite(?) line:
    "Notably, newer models exhibited significantly greater inaccuracies in generalization than earlier versions"

    My translation - this crap is getting crappier. So much for "Give us more data and AI will get better!"

    @Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar Daojoan , to random

    can the Twitter economists who earned their MBA in the comments section please explain how America is gonna conjure a billion-dollar iphone factory out of topsoil and masculine vibes. Is the plan to just yell “made in USA” at a cornfield until Tim Cook appears

    JamesMDonohoe ,
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    @Daojoan
    Tim Cook!
    Tim Cook!
    Tim Cook!

    My apologies to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice