John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁🫎

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I have performed the deliberately slow and difficult procedure and I'm ready for FDroid 2.0 on my daily driver. On a 2nd phone, I've had GrapheneOS going for several months, and I've tested my critical apps over there, obtained via Fdroid and Aurora app store that front-ends play store. A few commercial apps, like Costco and Canadian Tire app didn't work well the last time I tried, but I can just use a browser instead. I am ready. #degoogle https://www.theregister.com/applications/2026/09/24/f-droid-app-store-thumbs-its-nose-at-googles-dev-crackdown/5298974

RE: https://journa.host/@winnipegfreepress/117316653332861693 If Solomon is involved, I have zero confidence.

There is a tree frog in my entryway... sound up!

@cwebber@social.coop mid....the special characters nobody wants, like |,\,/,',",&,{} ? Best to escape them all with 8 \s and sprinkle with long sequences of unbalanced string delimiters...

RE: https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/117270595951939868 Mr. Fink of Blackrock is in Toronto today where Carney will sell him a bunch of Canadian sovereignty

Patrick Corrigan Coo, coo-roo-coo-coo coo-roo-coo-coo! #canada

@intothewestaway@mastodonapp.uk "Canadian Indigenous group celebrate their simultaneous victories over 3 pipelines and 2 separarist provincial govts at the Supreme Court of Canada"

Moudakis

Someone left me a 4mo Cocker Spaniel pup and he passed out beside my chair. #dogsofmastodon

@occult@vox.ominous.net a classic Irish folk song just waiting to happen

@CTHW@mstdn.ca @PaulBusch@cosocial.ca @Cassandra@ottawa.place sounds like privatization to me...

@evan@cosocial.ca @mariellequinton@ottawa.place pfft that's poseur tourist food. Nobody staggers into Beavertails after 8 pints at the Dominion, one needs the fortification of a shawarma to make it home without ending up in a snowbank.

@aram@aoir.social the one ingredient is matter/energy/information, which are equivalent and transformable. The recipe takes over 6h because it involves a lot of gluons and entropy.

One of my clients now requires internal registration for all use of non-internal AI, and VP-level approval for Claude, ChatGPT etc. VP-approval is basically a death sentence, the message is "we don't want you to use this". They don't want to be liable for its mistakes that impact real world, heavily regulated business operations. They have no PR cover if the shit fans, the public already mostly hates them, and the govt could score points with the public spanking them around.

@CalmPresence@mstdn.social if only there was some sort of automated technology to punish speeders that was proven to greatly reduce speeding

@datum@zeroes.ca yep. And the most recent pipeline is non-economic. Even when the federal govt. took on the $40B financing risk, when it came to set the usage tariffs, they were set far below what is necessary to pay back the $40B over 50 years. So Canadians pay to extract the oil at a loss, pay to export it at a loss, and yet when it comes to us buying fossil fuels...we pay "full global market price".

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange removed app, deleted account, never missed it at all.

@jasongorman@mstdn.business pretty good evidence of a strongly negative effect on senior resources as the volume of junior-created problems spikes when they use AI. A senior resource at one of my clients needed to adapt a set of 5 config files. Copy, change 2 values in each. 2 minute task. He used Claude and it mangled the piss out of them.

Went outside for a few min in #Ottawa and its like a smokey hot-tub out there.

@mykl@infosec.exchange fun fact, many points along the eastern edges of James Bay burn about every 30 years. Overlaid GIS forest fire boundary maps going back that far cover the complete area. Most fires don't actually kill all the trees.

@ottaross@mastodon.social @zazzoo@mstdn.ca how do the power and drain line work? Just run across the floor?

😆 Trump incensed at Canadian wildfires for not blowing smoke up his ass - The Beaverton https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/07/trump-incensed-at-canadian-wildfires-for-not-blowing-smoke-up-his-ass/

@BlakeHamiltonCA@mstdn.ca I will definitely sign if it gets picked up as a parliamentary petition. I don't like handing my political opinions to non-Canadian websites.

Homey really came through with the abandoned hardware for r730xd "Manousos" Stack of 12x16GB DDR4 2400, to increase total RAM to 256GB. And a pile of old drives, some useful, some not. 10TB SAS 3.5 2x1.1TB SAS 10k 2.5 1x500MB SAS 15k 2.5 Bunch of 300MB SAS 2.5's that won't be useful. And dumpster diving location tips. #homelab

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@teledyn@mstdn.ca @dyckron@cosocial.ca too late. Carney already wrote a book about it, before erasing all the principles in his brain upon becoming PM. I hope you can summon the will to carry on. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/national-post-latest-edition/20260620/282248082269868

@dyckron@cosocial.ca uh... flip flop after what, 5 years?

@Barbramon1@mas.to that's great news. I'm optimistic that techniques will improve with further studies.

@mariellequinton@ottawa.place @evan@cosocial.ca over 58,000 shawarma locations within the municipal boundary, about 1 for every 16 people, if you include newborns. It greatly surpasses the handful of beaver tail locations.

@evan@cosocial.ca correct for marginal age related vision loss. Even on the clearest, darkest night, I'll never see what my 8yo eyes could see...

@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca keep wasting time emailing me, calling me. Visit my door. Hear my lies of support. Of course I will need a ride to the polls. The campaign volunteers dutifully enter it into the PC voter info database. A van arrives on polling day. I jog out and take a spot among the elderly passengers, privately casting my NDP vote at the polls. Of course I wait for the ride home after.

*Nelson laugh* https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/convoy-leader-pat-king-loses-at-appeal-court-to-be-resentenced-9.7274254

@evdelen@mstdn.ca too bad we're waiting until 2029 to get rid of Ford, he would've gotten smoked had the election been in June 2026 like the fixed election date "legislation" required.

@evdelen@mstdn.ca we need a BC-to-Ontario medical professional pipeline!

@bruce@darkmoon.social casualties aren't always fatalities, more of a measure of fighting capability. So if foot blisters reduce capability to fight by 50%, that's a 0.5

@bruce@darkmoon.social still, if that's the scene where he shoots 50 cops non-fatally in the leg... those are non-zero casualties... 🧐

@idren@mstdn.ca looks fun. Are the pipes blocked at the little black x's ?

@rolle@mementomori.social https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=avb1XbO0EIs

The latest in post-vibe-coding paradigms, being flogged around my work neighbourhood. Spec Driven Development! The silver bullet to eclipse 50 years worth of earlier silver bullets! Anyone familiar with software development methodologies should immediately recognize the problems with this familiar old approach. Do you? #softwaredevelopment

Oh, this is even better than teachers putting a white-on-white prompt into their assignments... Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/open-source-project-fools-ai-scrapers-with-poisoned-font/5281303

@Shanmonster@c.im yuck

huh, blocked for exaggeration in suggesting the gaps between human rights between China and the US aren't that large. Oh well.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca @stephanie@ottawa.place its not bad from the western approaches to Eddy or Portage, except during afternoon rush hour. Do not proceed east of Booth, that's cannibal territory.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca @stephanie@ottawa.place I'm OK with Bat Country. I have a bat house. We're friends. But not with the Ottawa-Gatineau Cannibal Downtowner Commuters. With them, a long feud.

@vicfroh@mastodon.social won't help, thinking and acting will work better

@cwebber@social.coop then there's this thing...⁓ , I call it a mid-tilde, it's so pathetic it can't even bend itself proper like a ~

@ottaross@mastodon.social @zazzoo@mstdn.ca this is for a garage floor drain? Sump pump?

@hewer_of_code@mstdn.ca those are as much to identify non-supporters as supporters/donaters. If you are identified as a non-supporter, then they won't waste any effort trying to reach or convince you, making their campaign more efficient and focused on getting their existing base to show up and vote. I don't want to improve their campaign efficiency, so I respond yes. Even though the chances of me supporting the PCs is nil, I don't want the PCs to know that, until it's too late on election night.