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@guigsy@mstdn.social @texttheater@mastodon.social that’s the name of the blog. Their crème brule recipe is my go to. https://www.cookingforengineers.com/recipe/32/Creme-Brulee-Cregraveme-Brucircleacutee/print
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Eric Goodwin
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hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Getting by. Just look at this place. Eternal thanks to the ottawa.place admins.
Web/Cloud developer and antifascist. Urbanist and cyclist. Gay dad. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada #ottbike
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Now that the path is open again it’s time for the NCC to tear down the Alexandra bridge and leave us without a nice crossing for ottbike and ottwalk for a generation. All to save the couple million a year in maintenance costs and spend a billion dollars on concrete when what we actually need is the kettle island bridge built. #ottpoli
JK Rowling is a violent danger to the world, but especially the UK. She took all that money and became the worst person she could imagine. https://www.antirights.com/
If surveillance pricing is necessary for your business a/ fuck you; and b/ we should also ban loyalty/points programs entirely and cap credit card fees at 0.4%.
Downside of summer swim lessons. Sundays ruined with scheduling conflicts all over. Upside only 3 registered and only bear turned up today so it’s a 1:1 class today and we’ll stick around for the public swim right after. #ottawa
Ugh. Someone needs to make the fucking PM work the rest of the day outside at 30°+ and breathing that smoke. Might slow down the next pipeline
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@johnefrancis@cosocial.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca buddy’s been running on a campaign of forcing us all to the office and extracting as much money as possible…
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@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @mayintoronto@beige.party I was there March 2025 and it was lovely. Only thing I missed was banana slugs and proper whale watching. Hadn’t been singe around 2001, the island is still lovely.
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Even if she’s (ineffectively) attacking a fascist shit she shouldn’t be in the news. And John fucking Baird? Fuck. Right off. His attacks on the city and democracy have left a 6 story scar looming over Dow’s lake and set back projects from the interprovincial bridge to LRT back by years. Again. Do not talk to these idiots.
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Related. The path below parliament is ok. Maybe a B except for the section where after 4 years and countless millions on their prison like heating plant they have a walk your bike sign that no one will ever follow. Fucking centrist wankers.
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@stephanie@ottawa.place @stephaniepixie@fandom.garden Vanier too? My house has power but my rear neighbor has trees down and a fire on the block (fire truck already there) what a mess
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@EndlessMason@hachyderm.io @WTL@mastodon.social @hailey@hails.org when I was a kid in Alberta we’d visit a cave some summers and go into the dark of the mountain. Sometimes I think that might be the best place. https://hikebiketravel.com/canyon-creek-ice-cave/
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@dyckron@cosocial.ca he says it like a promise. Like he’s excited to burn all that oil and forest.
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The slip in the market has reached openndrug deals and prostitution at 8:30am. Sigh. Meanwhile the city keeps spending money on that one corner making it uglier and uglier without dealing with the traffic sewer.
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@Centretowner@urbanists.social i biked by some NCC kids once and asked if a road was “closed” and they shouted back. “OPEN FOR BIKING!!” I can’t recall the details but it felt ambiguous on QED that day…
Carny’s hierarchy:
1. Bankers
2. OIl and Gas
3. Military contractors (mostly in the US)
4. Alberta’s right wing
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4273. A future where the environment is survivable
Fuck CBC. “Breached”. “Enclave”. Ffs.
This article is not about the irrational valuations of the big Canadian banks. Or their monopoly and how it harms Canadians. It’s a love letter to share buyback programs that should be illegal since they manipulate the stock price and divert funds from real work
Fucking TERFs
I limped along while ‘men played football’ but we’ve gone too far. Updated the block list to reduce discussion of absurd and corrupt sports organization.
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@WTL@mastodon.social @Centretowner@urbanists.social @ellie@ellieayla.net it’s heavily at the theatre end of the spectrum which means it’s really a filter for “undesirables”. Surprised they don’t just limit access to people who drove there in an SUV. The mayor’s people
This bill is pushed by the worst people alive. Either so naive for it to be surprising they can walk setting us up for data breaches that harm millions or viciously cynical people looking for fascist surveillance on the population. Neither is acceptable. Neither should be in power. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-officials-on-the-defensive-as-momentum-grows-against-lawful-access-bill-9.7206179 #cdnpoli
Suckcliffe should have to answer at every door (like he’s going to visit people who don’t pay $1500 to hang out in a developer’s back yard) that giving half a billion to OSEG wasn’t in his platform and then he rammed it through. #ottpoli
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@cyberseckyle@infosec.exchange been eyeing that very configuration. They managed to make the M5 version essentially the same price as the M4 even on eBay pricing (from reputable sellers) which is odd. I’m feeling silver this time for nostalgia.
Dug into the HTML on TechCrunch’s website and was able to add a blocking rule in StopTheMadness Pro which blocks a pile of crappy mystery things on the web. Earning its keep. They actually went for it and embed the anti ad blocking stuff into the initial HTML payload. Not blockable by domain.
After two years of fucking around after destroying the app maybe they’re just going under and we can start to move on. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/22/sonos-app-vanishes-app-store/
![Sonos App Currently Unavailable on iOS and Mac App Stores [Updated]](https://images.macrumors.com/t/xY3tM6tZIrBWMv2bDfiPcyY5ex8=/1600x/article-new/2025/02/sonos-logo.jpg){kind=logo}
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@dairpo@ottawa.place the NCC bike breakfasts (not even really brunch!) is so disappointing. Close the damned roads to cars.
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@casseagull@mstdn.social @Centretowner@urbanists.social obviously needs to go all the way to Preston.
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@elfkin@woof.group or even just in neighborhoods where the vents blow their wild smells out into the world. They can’t be good for us… so strong
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@PatrickoftheG@mastodon.social for sure. when you bike it’s just the sun in your face and the wind in your hair!
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@Gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe I use whc dot ca for some Canadian hosting. Classic shared host with cpanel kind of thing but generally competent. They offer email within that and Inthunk directly but I’m not sure it’d feel like a real replacement.
When you drive with Grok you can literally chat with Hitler. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/08/grok-ai-voice-mode-apple-carplay/
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@ellie@ellieayla.net @Centretowner@urbanists.social exactly. I’ve been precisely once since they added this nonsense and it was because I had to be there for stupid servie ontsrio.
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@revk@toot.me.uk @lectronz@mastodon.social sky writing? Seriously though… direct sponsorship… podcast, YouTuber. No middlemen. Either samples or straight up cash.
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@roadskater@mastodon.social @jessamyn@glammr.us i do this with my old series 5. Use it as backup when I forget to charge. Lately it’s not recording sleep data like it used to.. just never syncs. Not sure if an OS change or something I did.
Microsoft’s capacity issues have meant on again off again issues for me with VM allocation in Canada central. How long are we to run like this before it’s cheaper to just use on-premises resources rather than cloud. #Microslop #Azure
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@mikepmoffatt@mastodon.social the plan seems to be to absorb units so crappy they can’t be sold but also at prices that are high. If the market was interested in these and developers were sure they wouldn’t get bailed out then prices would come down. The Feds are certain to overpay. If these were being purchased closer to, say 2004 prices per square foot then maybe we could talk about it. There’s also precious little information and they keep taking about weird schemes with private lenders. It all just screams neoliberal giveaway.
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@jwz@mastodon.social Cloudfront might be your best way. It’s a proxy and cache for reasonable cost (my old job had a fairly large government website behind it and it was in the $300/month range.) CloudFront can block by geographic region even without using their WAF. With some testing you can probably run without fancy logging etc. The cache can be turned off or very short if you want mostly live hits on the server. It passes the original IP through in the X-Forwarded-For headed for your Apache logging.
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@jwz@mastodon.social that’s fair. There do seem to be some Apache modules that might do it but I have no experience with those so shouldn’t comment.