Mason Wheeler

Hey, I actually made a bio. Halo/Overwatch fan, iPhone and PC nerd, mostly centrist. I'll add a profile pic at some point.

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@MarcHiltbrunner And you still can’t reply to a single valid argument I’ve made, coward 😂

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@MarcHiltbrunner @UNHumanRights @UN Do you have a functioning brain that can respond? Or are you this hollow of a person @MarcHiltbrunner

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@MarcHiltbrunner @UNHumanRights @UN Oh the irony when an entire country’s military is participating in ethnic cleansing….

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@okameraka @MarcHiltbrunner Bro just likes to demonize his opposition instead of listening to fuckin logic

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@MarcHiltbrunner @UNWatch @UN @MarkJCarney @Keir_Starmer @EmmanuelMacron @bundeskanzler What a fucking dunce. I’ve clearly stated a anti-terror or anti-state terror position and you label me pro-terrorism. You’re a joke who can’t even reply 😂😂😂

[☠️ Lilith Lovett ☠️ same @ on 💙☁️🦋 @LilithLovett]

TurboTax gave $1 million dollars to Trump, in exchange he made them many billions at the expense of Americans.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

How do you kill a Supercomputer?

(Accidentally) using radioactive solder is a good way.

IBM’s Blue Gene/L frequently crashed when running simulations at LLNL.

Turned out that alpha particles from the lead solder in the board carrier were slamming the L1 cache with bit flips. It’s a particularly nasty issue. Unlike DRAM /w ECC, there wasn’t a transparent way to correct it.

The fix was brutal. IBM recommended scientists reprogram critical workloads to write-through mode.

Basically, every store in L1 would also travel down the cache hierarchy immediately. If L1 got corrupted, the kernel would invalidate the whole cacheline and force a refill from slower pools.

It worked…but had a massive performance hit. As much as 20-30%!

[Lain on the Blockchain @CryptoCyberia]

Anna's Archive is so based.
I hope they can't ever find them.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

You have an old Android phone in a drawer right now. Collecting dust. Worth nothing.

Someone built a script that turns it into a full Linux desktop. Or a smart home server. Or a development machine. For free.

It's called linux-android.

One script. No root required. No flashing. No risk of bricking your device. Run it in Termux and your old phone becomes a Linux computer.

Here's what it installs:

→ Full Linux desktop. XFCE4, LXQt, or MATE. Real windowed desktop on your phone. Connect a monitor and keyboard via USB and it looks like a PC.
→ Smart home server. Home Assistant runs on your phone. Control your WiFi lights, plugs, and smart devices from any browser on your network. No cloud needed.
→ GPU acceleration. Snapdragon phones get near-native GPU performance through Turnip Vulkan drivers. Mali GPUs use software fallback.
→ SSH server. Access your phone from any computer on your WiFi. Full terminal. Transfer files. Write code. All from your laptop keyboard.
→ Wine support. Run basic Windows applications on your Android phone through Box64 translation.
→ Audio support. PulseAudio configured automatically.
→ Works on any Android phone with Termux support.

Here's the wildest part:

A Raspberry Pi 4 costs $35 to $75. A used mini PC costs $100+. A VPS costs $5/month forever.

That old phone in your drawer? It has a faster processor, more RAM, a built-in battery backup, WiFi, and a touchscreen. All for $0. You already own it.

A Snapdragon 855 from a 2019 phone still outperforms most entry-level server chips. You're throwing away a computer every time you upgrade your phone.

Not anymore.

One command. One old phone. A full Linux machine.

100% Open Source. MIT License.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.

Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

This is an unprovoked aggravated assault which has a sentence of 2-20 years in jail in the USA.

It is only made even more serious by the fact he is a cop.

He shouldn't just be fired he should be going straight to jail.

[Kourra 🐀✨ bRat Vtuber @KourraVT]

Because only horrible people use religion as an excuse to hate lgbtq people.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history.

Media giants are now threatening to do this.

We can't let this happen.

Pass it on.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

We were joking earlier about this being Biblical but holy fuck - kinda crazy. A bunch of bees shutting down the Israeli genocide machine, we didn't see this on this whacky ass timeline.

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

Everyone wants soul returned to our society but nobody wants to pay the ones who provide it: artists

[Sigrid Jin 🌈🙏 @realsigridjin]

hmm

finally admitted ipv6 is a mess and dropped an internet draft for ipv8

if an ipv4 address looks like 1.1.1.1, an ipv8 address looks like 1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1

kinda wild it took 25 years to just suggest making the numbers longer haha

[f4mi ‼️ @f4micom]

the whole RAM crisis thing has pushed Laurie to find every single historical way to conserve memory size or bandwith and i am loving every second of this because the stuff she is finding is insane

[BuBBliK @k1rallik]

🚨do you understand what just happened with America's biggest corporations..

Disney made $8.3 BILLION in profit last year.
Federal taxes paid: $0

CVS made $6.57 BILLION.
Federal taxes paid: $0

Tesla made $5.7 BILLION.
Federal taxes paid: $0

Meanwhile Tesla paid China $1 BILLION+ in taxes the same year.

88 corporations. $105 BILLION in US profits. Zero to the IRS.
Instead? The government PAID THEM $4.7 billion in rebates.

You paid more in federal taxes than Walt Disney.
Let that sink in.

> 1950s: corporations funded 1/3 of the federal budget
> 2025: corporations fund 8.6%

It's not illegal. It's not a loophole.
It's the system working exactly as designed.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

Your smart TV is taking screenshots of your screen every 15 seconds.

Not a guess. Not a theory.

A peer-reviewed study by researchers at UC Davis, UCL, and UC3M tested it.

Samsung TVs: every minute.
LG TVs: every 15 seconds.

Even when you're just using it as a monitor.

Here's how to turn it off for every brand:

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@MrDickson_O @ZacksJerryRig I mean there’s not many countries actively engaging in destroying public infrastructure instead of any attempt at winding down conflict soooooo

[Mason Wheeler @j626w]

@Cpetzel2005 @ZacksJerryRig Keep sucking off the 0.1%, I’m sure they’ll save you one day.