"the wildfire smoke has provided some relief from the heatwave by blotting out the sun" feels like real monkey's paw shit
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hometown 4.5.10+hometown-1.2.1Tired of technology; still hopeful about what it can do for people. Thoughts posted in whatever language they occur to me in; apologies in advance. 😅
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idk man, has the city considered actually fixing the potholes themselves
> Montreal warns vigilante pavers to stop patching potholes
https://montrealgazette.com/news/montreal-tells-vigilante-pavers-to-stop-patching-city-potholes/
well that's a feature of GrapheneOS I wasn't previously aware of
US citizen returning from vacation allegedly provided U.S. border agents with a "duress" passcode that wiped the contents of his phone when they entered it
rescuing a moose then wrapping him up in blankets in your front yard so he can recover must be one of the most canadian things possible
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/tow-truck-driver-rescues-moose-trapped-in-ice-9.7180811
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@ricci they say Computer Science isn't political, but it is, because you can't do Computer Science if you're murdered by masked agents of the state
things I actually got to write at work today: "Time cannot stand still, no matter how forcibly the user legislates against it."
welp! good a time as any to start looking for other local coffee options
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tim-hortons-harry-potter-jk-rowling-9.7287100
I'm not saying I have a great security mindset, but my first thought on this was "throwing some junk into your annoying neighbour's recycling bin seems like a great way to get them fined $500" 😅
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/contaminated-recycling-wishcycling-9.7279807
good news for BC 🙏
> The BC Wildfire Service says 25 Yukon firefighters will arrive on July 27 with 66 members of Alberta Wildfire showing up the following day. On Aug. 3, 114 personnel from Mexico will arrive.
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/626050/B-C-bringing-in-wildfire-reinforcements
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@independentpen right? once you start getting into direct action it's shocking how often you hear "stop doing good things!!" "why??" "you're doing them in the wrong way!!1"
watching Rs contemplate a bajillion dollar bailout for low-cost airlines...who are in financial trouble partly due to skyrocketing fuel costs
I simply would not have bombed the living shit out of the region that the rest of the world gets most of its oil from
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@kevinbowrin@ottawa.place @andrew@ottawa.place @mWare@ottawa.place oh hey if you're interested in energy podcasts you might like The Polycrisis too https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-polycrisis/id1884213852
re: lb, maybe instead of buying electronics, you would prefer a "Since the images are completely black, I cannot fulfill the request. I am unable to generate a title based on a blank image. If you can provide a valid image, I am happy to create a title"
https://www.amazon.ca/completely-fulfill-request-generate-provide/dp/B0FS5LVB86
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@djfiander hope your car has water wings, this is going to be one epic trip 😁
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas,_Queensland
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@djfiander see? this is what I've been saying, if you call Alberta "Canadian Texas" you don't understand Alberta and you don't understand Texas 😅
welcome Second Winter lol 🥶
mannn they demolished the Frederick St Bridge! is the Highway 7 expansion that's been promised since I was in uni actually happening? 😅
https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/frederick-street-bridge-finally-comes-down/
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@somecanuckchick so far, so good, it seems! they definitely have some ice accretion but I haven't seen any damage yet. feels like we're getting more rain than freezing, thankfully 😅
christ these guys are going to negatively polarize me into giving a shit about this airport aren't they
some folks seem puzzled by the Air Canada + both official languages thing, and understandably so
as in, aren't they a private company? why do they have to operate in both English & French?
not quite 🙃
Air Canada used to be a crown corporation. when a deal was reached to privatize it, back in the 1980s, the gov't set out several conditions for that to happen. these are laid out in the Air Canada Public Participation Act:
https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/a-10.1/FullText.html
the most notable of these are:
• the company's headquarters must remain in Montreal.
• Air Canada is subject to the Official Languages Act. it must provide all of its services in both English and French, just as though it were a branch of the federal gov't.
so when people get upset about AC not providing services in both official languages, it's not just annoyance with a large company. it's seen as AC not upholding its end of the social contract that it signed in exchange for allowing its privatization.
false friends are funny sometimes. saw "détroit d'Ormuz" and thought wow, the Detroit of Hormuz, that would be a cool mash-up of a city 🥲
some real monkey's paw energy in this update on the Clinton fire lolsob
"Where the fire has crossed Highway 97, east of Clinton it is burning into an old burn scar, which is helping to decrease fire activity and behaviour as fuels are sparse."
https://wildfiresituation.nrs.gov.bc.ca/incidents?fireYear=2026&incidentNumber=C40983&source=map
shocking reveal: telling all your friends & allies to fuck off results in all your friends & allies fucking off
goodnight, internets. whatever the morrow brings, we'll be better equipped to deal with it if we get some sleep.
freezing rain here in #TheSoo for the last half hour or so. one of those days where you want a cup of tea for spiritual reassurance as much as physical warmth 😅
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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange can I also put in an honourable mention for the sequence of
≅ U+2245 APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO
≆ U+2246 APPROXIMATELY BUT NOT ACTUALLY EQUAL TO
≇ U+2247 NEITHER APPROXIMATELY NOR ACTUALLY EQUAL TO
wild to have a mayor of NYC who understands football. is there anything this guy doesn't know or can't do?
ah yes, just checking in on the party of "Governments shouldn't pick winners & losers"
> Budget airlines pitch US government assistance on $2.5 billion relief plan, WSJ reports
https://www.reuters.com/business/budget-airlines-pitch-us-government-assistance-25-billion-relief-plan-wsj-2026-04-27/
too real, lolsob
"After years of overlapping crises, Irish people have “run out of shock” and are “emotionally checking out”"
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2026/04/04/the-irish-public-has-accepted-chaos-is-no-longer-temporary-and-instead-are-tuning-out/
I say this with the greatest respect for the people of IL-9, but: I shall be all too pleased when I never have to hear about your politics again 😅
mannnn not great when you find a security incident runbook that's like
# Scenario: Horse Escape
Remediation steps:
1. Close the barn door.
2. Admonish devs not to open barn door in future.
3. Mark incident as resolved.
it's kind of absurd that Northern Ontario is the second or third most scenic area of Canada *at best*, and it still looks like this. 🤩🏕️
regret to inform that this image is once again relevant, lol
wild. not sad to see it go, but that thing's probably a more iconic Sudbury landmark than the Big Nickel, lol
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/vale-contractor-chips-away-at-sudburys-superstack-12597659
tfw you need to find a non-trivial bug in a new system, and you nail one on the first try
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@djfiander oh ghod, right? from Windsor to Cornwall, with everything from Paris to Athens in between, you could be criss-crossing Southern Ontario for decades
elsenet: American polisci prof trying to argue that the USA is still a more reliable partner than China
Canadian replies "at least China has the decency to stab us in the front" and I haven't read anything that real in a long damn time 😂💀
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related: this Wikipedia file has the best captions ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pseudacris-crucifer-002.ogg
M7.1 quake in Kumamoto, Kyushu, Japan. 😥
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/28/japan/strong-earthquake-kyushu/
slowly being driven mad by people suggesting tanker trucks to route oil around the Strait of Hormuz. it's like asking how many Honda Civics it would take to pack up Mount Everest and bring it to London. it's not practical and it isn't going to happen.
#TravelMoose has excellent foraging skills; he managed to find berries even in Toronto. 😋
always somewhat smug when I can read a passage that machine translation screws up, lol 😏
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@somecanuckchick truest thing, lol
it's always surreal to drive to Toronto around this time of year and see Spring begin somewhere around Barrie 😅
mannn it's a real choice to try and claim you're not Maple MAGA, then pull this kind of elmu/DOGE bullshit
frankly the MPs should be asking Poilievre to prove his value, not the other way round! but that ship has already sailed, lolsob
> Conservative MPs bristle as Pierre Poilievre asks them to justify their roles
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@somecanuckchick everywhere south of here too, it seems, but we apparently missed the memo. like -1C with more rain and snow, followed by a stretch of -10C or so 😅
hoping for a morning update on the situation in Boston Bar because mannn it seems like bad scene down there.
some structure losses seem inevitable at this point but hopefully they manage to save as much as possible and avoid any serious injuries
115. votes. we were 115 fucking votes from not electing this fucking disaster as our MPP.
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/chris-scott-affair-staffer-arrested-spousal-abuse-12599538