mastodon 4.7.3+todonMichael Richardson is an open source and open standards consultant.
An autodidact, he wrote mail transfer agents as a teenager, and in the
1990s, after failing at high energy physics, found his calling designing and
building embedded networking products, in the security sector.
Michael is a father of a young adult, and lives in Ottawa, Canada.
#ottawa report on Automated Speed Enforcement cameras via Councillor Sean Devine. From https://www.seandevine.ca/april_28_2026_newsletter: "At the safety level, the statistics could not have been more clear. In school zones alone, ASE was a proven tool for reducing speeds. The original ASE pilot of 8 cameras in school zones showed that speed-limit compliance went from an abysmally low 16% to a remarkably high 87% in only 4 years. And when it came to high-end speeding, i.e. speeding at more than 15 km/hr above the posted limit, it had declined from 14% to a statistically negligible 0.3% in that same span.
In other words, the cameras worked. No reasonable person can deny this fact.
And what has happened since the removal of those cameras in November 2025? The result is as horrifying as it is depressing, because it was altogether predictable.
Ever since the cameras were removed in November 2025, City staff have been monitoring speeds at the 8 locations where ASE cameras had first been installed in the original pilot project – all of them in school zones. While there will be another analysis once the City has implemented the new oversized signs that have been mandated by the Ford government, the initial post-removal speed data shows significant regression in driver behaviour."
https://jamesfell.substack.com/p/terry-fox-begins-his-marathon-of April 12, 1980, Terry Fox started. "I'm not crying, you are crying". I lived in Fredericton, NB. I was 9, and I couldn't really understand how difficult a challenge this was. I didn't know Four Seasons had supported him.
I remember seeing the sign outside Thunder Bay on our 2018 trip.
I only vaguely remember him travelling through Fredericton.
I for one, will from now on, talk about how I get Epic Fanny. https://www.patreon.com/posts/like-thunderbolt-156230695
I have been doing #email for just under 40 years now. FidoNet, UUCP ( lsuc!nrcaer!fts1!Latour!MCR ), ocunix.on.ca, and sandelman.*ca since. I wish the #crtc would take the do not call list seriously, and I wish the #rcmp would spend some real effort on the fraudsters. I think it is much like the Broken Window Theory: "People in the community help with crime prevention. Newman proposed that people care for and protect spaces that they feel invested in, arguing that an area is eventually safer if the people feel a sense of ownership and responsibility towards the area. Broken windows and vandalism are still prevalent because communities simply do not care about the damage.". I would take a job investigating/repairing broken internet windows.
I have now managed to move my desktop #devuanlinux system away from chrome to #librewolf. Wasn't that hard, just a lot of context. And passwords in chrome which my two other password managers had not been updated with. (Two. Because the old one was homebrew shell scripts. New on is pass(1))
It helped that I had many Firefox profiles for banking, media, and development. All those had been moved to #librewolf a few months ago. The kicker was that last two chrome updates seemed eat huge amounts of ram. Htop claims they were 1.3TB in size, which is nonsense, and counts shared libraries, etc.
What I would like is a tool/service that lets me send URLs from my phone to my desktop browser. "Send to devices" equivalent.
"The cool thing about solar and wind energy is that it doesn't need to pass through the Strait of Hormuz" ("kirtzimmer"). #operationepsteinfury #operationenduringepstein
An article https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/adhd-symptoms-high-stress on why #adhd #neurodivergent "stay" calm in a crisis.
Does my #mastodon instance/account keep track of number of people who follow me (that I don't follow back) who then have their accounts killed/removed? 90% of people following me in the past few months have been real, interesting people who I definitely wanted to follow back. But, in the past few weeks it's been 90% empty accounts, which I assume are phisphing.
@rdm@aus.social How does one become a mermaid? Is there a course? Do I have to write a certification exam? Are there any yearly fees?
#microslop ! (ham, eggs and ...) #microslop [Would be nice to get independent confirmation of this]
