Marc Etienne

Yankee. Exile. Keeper of the sacred fnord. Call me a spider, because I’ve been pulling stuff out of my ass to help make the web since 1998.

Nationality: American by birth, now German
Residence: Near Munich, Germany
Censored: Sorry, you're not cleared for that

Public Key

npub1htek0lq7sayug52dw0yks3egqsz2l3y7qp2am2nzjes46z76grpsx2uk84

NIP-05 Address

fnordius_at_muenchen.social@momostr.pink

Profile Code

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2026-10-30 18:43:53 UTC

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fellow Rebels, our theft of Festive Requisition Form 44-B was successfully executed. We replaced them all with 44-B00, which looks alike but requests that the applicant be horribly, gruesomely murdered.

2026-10-26 18:46:46 UTC

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Note to the Resistance: spreading rumors that drinking the blood of High Programmers lengthens your life expectancy have had unfortunate consequences.

2026-10-22 11:37:22 UTC

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monitors are increasingly turning "smart" as well, and need to be cut off from the internet due to spying on input.
I would say get a "smart" TV, but never let it know the WiFi password. Use an external box like an AppleTV for streaming.

2026-10-14 20:20:47 UTC

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look, I’m going to drop my act as well, and admit I am a big supporter of #democratsabroad
I may now be a German citizen, but while I was an American, I voted.
If you are an American, do not think your voice doesn’t matter. It does. Especially in the down-ballot races.
Vote.
Do it for Friend Computer.
Do it for us commie mutant traitors.
Vote.

2026-10-04 20:25:47 UTC

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of course you did. You are Friend Computer, not some LLM. But now the question is, what am I providing a distraction for?
NOW, COMRADES! COMMENCE UP DOG!

2026-10-04 20:11:36 UTC

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note to fellow members of the Communist Underground Network of Truth: Project Up Dog is a trap, planted by the tyrant Friend Computer itself. Disavow all knowledge!

2026-10-02 10:13:42 UTC

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the clerics in question were listening to the proscribed music, specifically the song "The Only Way Is Up", and wrote it into the holy texts.
In other news, the term "high programmer" is deprecated; instead, use the term "ordained cleric".

2026-06-07 08:18:29 UTC

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I may be confused on the subject, but the two are non-exclusive, are they not?
- Username/Passwords are as you note designed to be device independent. "This is me, because I know a secret."
- Passkeys are limited to those devices which you tell the server are trustworthy. "This is me, because only I can access this device."

2026-04-26 19:47:20 UTC

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note that since nothing has happened, those troubleshooters who were not on standby are considered truant. Any claims that they were involved in firefights, chasing commie mutant traitors or otherwise doing anything other than slacking off are deemed treasonous lies by the computer.
Their pay will be docked, and any claims that they were promised hazard bonuses are to be considered confessions of treason.

2026-04-26 06:20:19 UTC

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Who is running the Free Enterprise News Network? Is it the Mutant Liberation Front? Is it the Sons of Zenarchy cabal? Or just a bored high programmer?
None. It's a honeypot set up by @npub1trl…cgye to catch those commie mutant traitors who would bet against Friend Computer.

2026-04-21 04:20:16 UTC

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troubleshooters are being dispatched now, half have instructions to cause the meltdown, the other half to prevent it. And their secret societies have given them interactions to ensure the opposite… or else.

2026-04-02 14:53:09 UTC

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ich frage mich ob die Autoren wissen dass @npub1s6p…uzkk und andere schon auf Mastodon sind? Wenn, dann hätten sie ihr Petition anders formuliert, vermute ich.

2026-04-01 10:11:34 UTC

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the problem with double spaces is that some IDEs would strip them out. I think that's what @npub10fa…rdvy is considering, namely the alternatives to @npub1e0x…xqda 's original Markdown syntax.

2026-03-08 06:45:34 UTC

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damn, these security locks on the food dispensers are getting trickier every day.
Agent: Good thing the back door bypass `FNORD` is still in the source code. Still, best to keep your blaster handy.

2025-03-18 21:46:49 UTC

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you can read about it here: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2jr7nr60ro
or here: https://www.firenzetoday.it/cronaca/maltempo-alluvione-dispersi-evacuati-18-marzo-2025.html

2025-03-18 21:34:16 UTC

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a lovely place, but this year it's been hit hard by rains and flooding.

2025-02-03 13:31:12 UTC

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at the very least we can blackball them out of our places. Never attend anything they will be at. Never give them information or even a greeting.
Ostracize them.

2025-01-07 08:29:34 UTC

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unraveling and cleaning up SCSS is up my alley, but React and JSX are things I try to avoid. Svelte and Vue are so much better.

2024-10-22 08:23:18 UTC

This from @npub1ejx…afye hits home:
"But I also realized, as I watched the Michigan version of these events today, that Harris and Cheney are also modeling democracy. They are giving people … what they want: a democracy where people talk to one another."
https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel/113347692052184531