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Ray McCarthy

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A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland.
Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Feb 26, 2026

I suspect the sending of school kids to Gaeltachta damaged them.
The promotion of Irish since 1922 seems to be largely not just a failure, but damaged it.
Irish wasn't blocked in the 6 counties till Unionists took control. It's a myth that the British suppressed Irish. We did it ourselves before the end of the 19th C. in the belief English speaking was more important. I have some school books from the 1910 to 1913 era. One has a preface about the importance of resurgence of Irish. A Prod School!

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Revealing cross section of a road in England
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Feb 24, 2026
@infobeautiful@vis.social Some Roman roads were laid straight on top of existing "Celtic" log roads in Britain, France and lots of Europe. There was a Pan-European Celtic Culture reaching to northern Turkey. Romans hated it, lied about it and tried to "genocide" the Helvitians as they migrated to "Switzerland" to avoid Slavs. Romans get credit for lots of Greek, Celtic, Egyptian etc stuff, because victors & Colonial powers write most of the history.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @oldgeek@masto.yttrx.com @lucien@toot.community The point of starlink is low latency, which means low orbit. Which in turn requires lots of them to ensure there are no gaps i
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Feb 01, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop @oldgeek@masto.yttrx.com @lucien@toot.community No, I don't because I was RF R&D in an ISP with fibre, mobile, Fixed Wireless and Satellite. They also had datacentres. Railway is better served by Cellular. Obviously in LEO you need a load to have continuous coverage, but to do the equivalent of rural fibre or cellular for trains you need orders of magnitude more. Even cellular is being done badly due to too big cells and regulatory capture. I've dealt with the Irish regulator, Comreg.
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This is going to sound a bit weird, but it might be a good idea to purchase a shortwave radio if you haven't got one already. They're quite cheap and small, you can buy one and store it long term just
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Jan 25, 2026
@FediThing@social.chinwag.org Sadly most of the West has abandoned SW. Romania & China are on it in English Approximately 4MHz to 9 MHz after dark and above 7 MHz during daylight. Upper 15 MHz to 25 MHz varies with solar conditions.
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Oh fuck: that's ME determined never to fly on a Boeing 787! Air India AI-171 crash: "Aircraft health data that had been transmitted via ACARS by VT-ANB about 15 minutes prior to the crash, indicated f
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Jan 21, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop At least ferries have enough lifeboats now? Then there is the ghastly airport security and seats less comfortable than a Toyota Yaris, with less space. At least the smoking is gone!
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"There are no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark …" Well, if you're in the UK you should delete X from all your devices because you are ONE received tweet or DM away from committ
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Jan 06, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop "We would like to remind the Irish public that the sharing online of non-consensual sexual images, including deepfakes, is a crime under Irish law," said RCI's Executive Director Dr Clíona Saidléar. https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0106/1551702-ai-features-rci/ Digital Services Commissioner with Coimisiún na Meán, John Evans said there are a number of things people can do … Contact the Garda [Police] The EU is likely to eventually respond.
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"There are no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark …" Well, if you're in the UK you should delete X from all your devices because you are ONE received tweet or DM away from committ
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Jan 06, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop Delete X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, WhatsApp and similar.
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@cmconseils@mastodon.social Maybe they mean onion powder. Onions also come powdered.
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 25, 2025
@crazyeddie@mastodon.social @cmconseils@mastodon.social Cups is wrong for powder too. Solids or powers: grams. Liquids in ml or litres. Wife complains about wool. She weighs it. The metric system older than Victorian! Pre-Frech revolution. Updated 1832 to 1901, partly by British.
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Hey, @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange why are you illustrating your article about a 7-zip vulnerability with a photo of a computer that was discontinued 12 years before 7-zip first shipped AND CAN'T
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 24, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop @beyondmachines1@infosec.exchange Dreaded stock photo. Caused by the fallacy that every article needs a photo or illustration. Is it an Apple IIGS? Couldn't the author have snapped their own computer?
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One of the reasons I'm skeptical of the practicality of e2e verifiable voting schemes is that every system proposed so far is fragile. A single mishap can result in an unverifiable election (and, in w
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@mattblaze@federate.social paper is good. Machine free is best.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie Not really, and election security is not really something you can reduce to a slogan. Automation is ususually better than people at routine tallying, but is also unreliable a
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 22, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social Bruce Schneier. The Irish government bought machines and got rid of them. No-one has yet suggested how machines can be as transparent and auditable and secure as paper. Not perfect. The conclusion is that speeding up counting can't be at the expense of security.
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One of the reasons I'm skeptical of the practicality of e2e verifiable voting schemes is that every system proposed so far is fragile. A single mishap can result in an unverifiable election (and, in w
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 22, 2025
@mattblaze@federate.social paper is good. Machine free is best.
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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Some people in the 1930s had 78rpm recording turntables and radio. They are probably all dead now.
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Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for. It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligen
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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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Ray McCarthy
@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie

I usually won't follow accounts that mostly just boost posts. A writer living in the Mid West of Ireland. Formerly an Electronics Engineer with expertise in RF, programming and IT.

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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie · Nov 14, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Don't look behind the curtain. Ignore that guy. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, 1995. The AI was fake.
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