Steven Black

At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.

A royal gold medal The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (IVA, the same org that selects winners for three of the Nobel prize categories) awards me a gold medal 2025 for my work on curl. This academy, established 1919 b...

I am awarded a gold medal by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for my work on #curl

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10...

YGK: You Gottabe Kidding

The Wolfram website is dog slow, actually. Especially where paying customers go. I submitted feedback about that a couple of days ago. Maybe you could fix that?

By the way the new homepage isn’t actually useful at all.

Finally, we can watch baseball games in the terminal! 🔥

⚾ mlbt — A TUI for the MLB stats API.

💯 Supports checking scores, standings, and stats. Also watching a live game using Gameday!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs

⭐ GitHub: github.com/mlb-rs/mlbt

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #mlb

Realtime map of Kingston waterfront from Utilities Kingston. Warning: contact with polluted water can make people and pets sick. Consider this information for at least 48 hours after a sewer overflow has occurred at a specific location. Check the map for status updates. The legend on the map explains the symbols to look for and what they mean to water users.

Hot, eh?

Hey! Let's go swimmin' at Gord's Pier...
#ygk

Strangers in the middle of a city: The John and Jane Does of L.A. General Medical Center What does a hospital do when a patient has everything but a name?

www.latimes.com/science/stor...

ChatGPT o3 is my favorite way to consume news lately.

I just ask it what I missed regarding some geopolitical shitstorm in the past day or so and it goes off for a minute browsing a few dozen web pages and comes back to me with a report with no click bait or ads or tired reddit commentary.

I find it unbelievable that even after around 40 years of secure multi-party computation and Zero knowledge proofs, there's not a single country that does elections in a manner where the citizens can ensure that the results are verifiably correct.

#Cryptography #ZKP

The Soviet Cosmos 482 will pass over Kingston on Friday morning prior to crashing to Earth over the weekend.

Here's an interesting thing about the Soviet Cosmos 482 landing module which is expected to crash to Earth sometime over the weekend.

Cosmos 482 will pass almost directly over Kingston at 5:37 AM on Friday morning

#ygk

Data and images from heavens-above.com.

www.heavens-above.com/gtrack.aspx?...

GitHub Star History View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.

See www.star-history.com#Canop/dysk&D...

Time Traveler by Merriam-Webster: Words from 1991 See which words were first recorded in 1991. Or search for other words by the year when they were first used.

www.merriam-webster.com/time-travele...

browse by category

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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Control flow analysis with hax A difficulty of formal verification is that specifying programs can be hard. Certain kinds of programs can end up having a specification that is as complex as the code itself. In this case it is…

New blog post! 📝 Control flow analysis with Hax. In this post we show how to ensure control flow properties such as "function A is always called before function B" in Rust. Super relevant for security! 🔒

buff.ly/ntTW299

#rustlang #formalverification #security

As spring approaches, a reminder for Kingston-area boaters and day travelers.

All along the St-Lawrence River and the Thousand Islands, a large majority of Americans voted, sometimes massively, to elect Donald Trump. It's a sea of red MAGA.

Don't give your patronage to the American side.

#ygk

When Mike Myers wore his "Canada Is Not For Sale" t-shirt on SNL, he mouthed a secret code: "elbows up."
It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team.
You heard him Canada: elbows up.
If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.

Number 99 Wayne Nazi

How Dunning-Kruger works...
and travels.

OpenTimestamps: a timestamping proof standard OpenTimestamps aims to be a standard format for blockchain timestamping.

opentimestamps.org

That’s why it’s incredibly important for folks to turn on things like Advanced Data Protection (end-to-end encryption for iCloud.) Go into Settings on your iPhone, type “Advanced”.

Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a spare bedroom in Sydney This weekend, Google Maps turns 20 – and Stephen Ma is writing himself and his friends back into its origin story

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care:

1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2

YouTube video by TVO Today Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye | TVO Today Live

Also airing on our YouTube page — Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye www.youtube.com/watch?v=hij5...

HI AMERICA, YEAH, NO. LOVE, CANADA

I'm playing two chess grandmasters by mail. One as white, the other as black. I just send them each other's moves. They both think I'm a genius. Both invite me to their homes to make love to their wives as they watch from the closet. That's when I secretly charge all my electronics. Free electricity

Image of the surface of the moon showing many craters. In the top left there is a rectangle with two zoom in boxes with successive zoom levels to one crater that has an elongated shape. In the center of that crater one can see the outlines of a rocket stage. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/R. Marschall Source: https://www.lroc.asu.edu/featured_sites/18/site_images/233

Not all craters are created equal! The S-IVB (the 3rd stage of the Saturn V) of the Apollo 13 mission impacted the surface of the Moon and made the crater below. The stage in the crater can still be seen.

#planetaryScience #SciComm🧪⚛️

Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University/R. Marschall

TELEGRAM is a recursive acronym for “Telegram Encryption Lets Every Government Read Any Message"

let's talk about how assless chaps should fit 🧵