@stevenblack.bsky.social
Computer systems analyst in Kingston Ontario Canada 🇨🇦 and I help keep the internet safe and less enshittified. https://github.com/StevenBlack
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
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?...
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
1/9
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
27.02.2025 16:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
How Dunning-Kruger works...
and travels.
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”.
09.02.2025 19:25 — 👍 42 🔁 12 💬 2 📌 0Ok 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
Also airing on our YouTube page — Margaret Atwood: Democracy Under Her Eye www.youtube.com/watch?v=hij5...
06.12.2024 21:39 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2HI AMERICA, YEAH, NO. LOVE, CANADA
09.01.2025 20:13 — 👍 3133 🔁 1037 💬 121 📌 109I'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
05.01.2025 06:57 — 👍 2965 🔁 637 💬 19 📌 12
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"
20.11.2024 20:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
let's talk about how assless chaps should fit 🧵
16.11.2024 04:47 — 👍 5046 🔁 615 💬 130 📌 116
This is incorrect and shows how little the average person knows about garment manufacturing. 🧵
13.11.2024 20:21 — 👍 7230 🔁 891 💬 153 📌 147@brenttoderian.bsky.social
Hey Brent knock it off with the endless reposting of people boosting your stuff.
I do not consent to you taking over my feed like that. Just stop.
cannot believe that we taught rocks to whisper Secret Numbers so vast that their names have never before and will never be spoken again in the long span of human time, and we use them to key databases for e-commerce systems
12.08.2023 04:31 — 👍 772 🔁 260 💬 11 📌 10
drawing of a stonemason hoisting stone with scissor-dogs, circa 1425
There’s an old story I just made up about a mason, spending his days piling stone on top of stone. Raising a church. He’s asked by the abbot:
“We build for the glory of God; how do you intend to keep the stones standing through years of wind and frost?”
a 🧵...
