Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦

Though, now I suspect that such scenes are usually embarrassingly badly written (and sometimes pronounced/acted) when shown to native speakers.

An idea I had: an app that uses clips of a language being spoken in popular films (or tv) as a way to onboard people to being conversational in that language.

Because I was watching Clear and Present Danger night before last & there was a scene in spanish that I sadly only understood about 10% […]

What's the opposite of a boycott?

TIL: There is a firearms manufacturer in BC. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/sudan-rsf-massacres-canadian-rifles-sterling-cross-9.6969856?cmp=rss

Need help completing easy but boring programming tasks?

Would you rather spend more time thinking at a high level and crafting good specifications and documentation?

Want an intelligent assistant that can learn and improve over time?

Happy to review code and guide development through ongoing […]

@ocramius another one? https://youtu.be/HCHGFkhxInM

Is slack busted for anyone else? #slack

@blogdiva @MastodonEngineering Given that they already support OEmbedding of mastodon posts, I assume the option was on the table & was discussed. (I don't want to speculate, so I'll let someone from the project track down the deciding factor.)

Me, cursing at zoom this morning: "No! Fuck off with your red fucking dots. How do I kill you?" ... i swear, the rule shouldn't be that every software project ends up being an email inbox. It should be that every enterprise product tries to become a "productivity suite".

@xankarn @kf I feel like Betteridge's Law of Headlines needs some refinement in the modern age. When no one reads the article, the headline's question advances a worldview divorced from whatever the article might actually say.

@timbray It's a protected DNS service. It attempts to block malicious servers at the DNS level. Fast, unobtrusive, and generally works great.

Except it keeps flagging macports servers as malware, and they won't tell me why (maybe I should email, they probably don't check notifications on @cira )

Ah! Ah hah. I've finally sorted out why the water argument against data centres baffles me. The answer?

Nestlé.

Rainwater rights.

Fuck them and the capitalist dreadnought they sailed in on. And if you're complaining about AI for water waste, you better also go for Nestlé for water theft.

"People are our greatest asset ... after dashboards."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCivp2qnhr8

Watching hank green do that recent connections ... and I'm glad he fell down the same benjamin hole I did. Now I don't feel so bad.

At least I immediately knew Roberta.

So what does Tesla's road to recovery look like?

Here's what I think it would take:

1. Completely removing Musk from the org - ideally, even as a shareholder
2. Taking some time to fix QC issues
3. Discontinuing Cybertruck, or spinning it off into its own thing
4. Delivering an affordable […]

It's possible for finance guys to be wrong. Which might be unfortunate.

But it's also common for finance guys to be a herd of big dumb idiots that follow anything that moves in any direction, so this guy's move could be the permission they needed to start taking their money back […]

I've unfollowed @arstechnica because their parent company, Condé Nast, fired critical journalists at Teen Vogue.

I would like to see them rehired, or for Condé Nast to aid them in starting an independent publication for their work (if the journalists are interested in that).

@sean it's november. Only an idiot would do an outdoor presser in a warehouse parking lot in NYC in november.

@edwiebe Nice! Knowing next to nothing about physics, and too much (relatively speaking) about Star Trek, I do sometimes wonder if dark matter measurements themselves are the result of some fun quirk. Like gravitons or somesuch. (But I know that folks are already always checking for that […]

@ocramius sounds familiar, yeah.

Is it Thursday yet?

Oh wait. Isn't there going to be a wedding today?

No, you can't run a planet like a buggy Windows system from the 90s.

So, so good.

https://thebulletin.org/2025/10/you-cant-reboot-the-planet-if-you-crash-it/

Tim Hergert (@cjust@infosec.exchange) Attached: 1 image #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomewhereElseOnTheInternetHonestlyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore

@Graham_LRR Hey there! I've got an idea for a desert bus challenge for a certain LRR member ...
https://infosec.exchange/@cjust/115489213783217986

A screenshot of a gloriously colourful BeOS desktop, with a blue background, vibrant yellow window title bars, and colourful isometric icons

Bring back BeOS style iconography

In Canada, @gandersocial.bsky.social’s equity crowdfund is really resonating.

It turns out that people want Canadian owned and run social media.

Very excited to see this!

contains quote post or other embedded content] [https://bsky.app/profile/bmann.ca/post/3m4qkffn7s22e

People seem baffled when I say I like PHP. I was talking with one person today - whom I've known for multiple decades - who says I'm the only person they know in the industry who works with PHP.

If bill gates ever gives me that million dollars I asked for, I'm definitely going to use some of it […]

This is a bit bad (but will be fixed before release!).

On the other hand, this also sort of makes sense within mastodon's implementation of DMs (which are NOT private messages, they are posts to the accounts that are mentioned/specified), and in this case doing a QT ends up getting counted as a […]

A dark sea, speckled with raindrop circles. A round Tilley hat, T3, floating in the water. A childrens fishing rod has hooked the hat to try and rescue it. Along the bottom of the frame, the yellow edge of the marina dock.

RIP Alex Tilley. Your hats were the real deal. I still have this one, despite almost losing it in the ocean - twice.
https://flic.kr/p/2hMCLzf

Heidi Klum was Medusa for Halloween. See the photos. Heidi Klum donned green scales and squirming snakes to transform herself into Medusa for Halloween​ on Friday.

"Heidi Klum was Medusa for Halloween. See the photos."

Did a Gorgon write that headline? A siren? I'm not falling for that one again!

...

...

I fell for it. (It's rather tremendous, actually.)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heidi-klum-halloween-costume-2025-medusa-photos-pictures/#

@sean ah ha! victory! This tool was very helpful. I needed to add a TXT/SPF record for the subdomain that the server was calling itself ... and that TXT record couldn't reference any other domains that happened to point back at it, or else it would create an infinite recursion. 🤦