Colin B.🇨🇦

@georgetakei@universeodon.com "The next administration..." Good luck with that.

@chakie@toot.community @dreid@wandering.shop keepass is free, open source, and easily self-hosted.

@TheConversationUS@newsie.social for once, imma defend men. This isn't so much about women shouldering the burden as it is the marginalization of men as caregivers.

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I just bought a new computer. I chose the components, just like I did in 1991. I installed the OS, just like I did in 1991. I dealt with the glitches, the app problems, the 'issues' mostly like I did in 1991. My computer is tellinh the vendor *almost* nothing, kind of like it did in 1991. But I'm a seasoned geek, and it's taken me three days to get a *mostly* functional system working *mostly* the way I want without selling my favourite underwear colour to someone. In a just universe, the default would be "here's your tool, it works for you" without this much bullshit.

@avilewis@mstdn.ca Federal (small-c) conservatives don't give a fuck about anything other than profits.

@sidalsolgun@infosec.exchange it is, and it isn't. In the cities, things are perfectly reasonable. Nobody gives a shit about others' unusualness. Small towns are hard to gauge. Most of them have a mixture of intolerant rednecks and a fierce pride community. If you're cruising through, I don't *think* it's a problem. If you're doing drag storytime at the library, you'll definitely get harassed.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I've given away my Perl books, but still have my copy of 'Sed & Awk.'

@avilewis@mstdn.ca are counter-tariffs the best we have? We need to isolate ourselves from the vaguaries of the US insanity. This has to be a long-term solution, not a 'next quarter' fix.

@Slashline@universeodon.com Ocean's 11:30 in Newfoundland.

@ottawasteph@mstdn.ca adding the #MutualAidRequest hashtag for visibility.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social don't know how many OSes or apps are still using 32-bit counters for time.

@dyckron@cosocial.ca be a real shame if the lines were swamped with complaints about the lanes being blocked by cars or construction, in poor condition, improperly marked, etc.

@benroyce@mastodon.social @georgetakei@universeodon.com I think you misunderstand. This is not passive cynicism, it's a call for IMMEDIATE action! The US needs to put this shite down RIGHT NOW, not just keep threatening future consequences. If you don't act now, if you wait until the GOP is out of power, it's far less likeky to happen. Due procedure, measured response, and waiting your turn are the biggest allies of a despot like Trump. And frankly, the rest of the world is fsirly unconcerned with the US collapsing into anarchy except for the damage it's doing to the rest of us.

@HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social disagree. Topping it with cheddar cheese powder from a shaker can was all the rage back in the '70s. Can yoy even gwt that stufd anymore?

@nivrig@mastodon.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social sounds like my office! A bunch of old (1970s) Lego, a broken DMM, various bits of electronics, and a bunch of wire. Oh, and two computers.

@dazo for the record, that was a year ago.

@Willow also, to all of my fellow cis folks, put your prefered pronouns in every work app (outlook, zoom, teams, etc.) you use. Be the person who normalizes being able to declare pronouns.

@admin@mastodon.slightlycyberpunk.com @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange exactly right, as that was the point at which Bill Gates realized computing could be exploited and destroyed by capitalism.

@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca we're working through thos ATM too. Annoyed that a certain major vendor hasn't released a patch yet; and also that a certain major vuln protection tool blocks this by searching for the python code, not the kernel call. So much bad in this industry.

@pjohanneson@mstdn.ca @joeybaumgartner@mstdn.ca still here, though not necessarily planning on staying.

@Stormgren@obsidianmoon.com @Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io @AbsentAbigail@lgbtqia.space it's a game rather than a book, but... "Later Daters."

@spiralganglion@merveilles.town I'm not much of a songwriter, but I took a free course on Coursera (taught by Pat Pattison) that provided some incredible i sight into songwriting. He also has writen 'THE' book on songwriting/lyrics.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social I'd love some bbq eel

@ebel@moytura.org what about trans men?

@jaredwhite@indieweb.social honestly, bsky seems like it has already failed to maintain momentum. I know people who moved there from twitter, but haven't bothered to log in for months. There's just not a lot of content to drive people. I suspect that $100M will be its swan song as a relevant platform.

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social funniest thing I've seen in ages.

@sillyCoelophysis@hachyderm.io @ebel@moytura.org That was _totally_ my fault, and I'm genuinely sorry. My honest intent was to say that I intend to treat trans men the same as I treat trans women, which is (I hope!) with respect, support, and no concern about what's under their clothes if I'm not invited to check it out. (and I'd refuse anyways, because I'm monogamously and faithfully married.)

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org it's a cover of a cover. There are probably hundreds of covers, but John Cale significantly reworked Cohen's original and struck lightning with it. Almost everything that came after was based on Cole's version. Even Cohen absorbed a lot of it in his later concerts. (He also famously said that there was no point in anyone covering it again, after k.d. lang's performance at the Vancouver Olympics)

@LALegault@newsie.social no, Mark Carney doesn't give a fuck. Mark Carney cares about profit in the next three fiscal quarters. That's all.

@LALegault@newsie.social this is YET ANOTHER war crime.

@winnipegfreepress@journa.host boo fuckin' hoo.

@Blort@social.tchncs.de my D&D character's name is Lobo!

@chakie@toot.community @dreid@wandering.shop Honestly, "hosted" is a strong word. It stores its information in a single, encrypted file. You can store that file on shared storage (e.g. Dropbox), and access it there directly. Consequently you can share your password database across multiple devices. So yeah, my statement about 'self-hosting' was a bit overblown. It's just storing a file somewhere, and pointing to it from the app. And since it's all open-source, there are actually multiple apps available. I use Keepass2XC on my computers, and Keepass2Android on my phone.

@verge@mastodon.social Cook's "legacy" was beinng an amoral, greedy robber baron. This is entirely on brand.

@hollie@social.coop frickin' awesome.

@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Collisions at all will be terrible, but at what point do we reach critical mass for a runaway chain reaction?

@janeishly@beige.party guilty as charged.

Starting day four of nonstop staring at the ground. Had a detached retina laat week which led to a vitrectomy. Two weeks I gwt to sit at home, looking straight down, not reading excessively. Ugh.

@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org I was on the cusp generation. I grew up with records, and CDs were an absolute revelation. Better sound, consistent sound, and simplicity. These days, I'm as likely to buy records as CDs, because they sound good *enough* (modern records are FAR better than most of the '70s and '80s), and if I need better sound, I can download it. What I can't download is the feeling of a record in my hand, the joy of a large album cover, or reading the detailed liner notes while listening to the music.

@backupbear@aus.social I havenpt veen following closely - has the US eliminated women soldiers?

@stux@mstdn.social I can't install an ad blocker on my work computer, and it constantly reminds me of how shitty the web is without it.

@yuhasz01@mastodon.social US *laws* may not protect them, but it sure looks like the US judiciary will do so.

@sdarlington@mas.to @CiaraNi@mastodon.green 'most...'

Feeling overwhelmingly sad tonight. Just want to cry until I can't anymore.

@farah@beige.party trim back any flowers/seeds, then hit it with a blowtorch. You don't need to fry it, just cook it enough to make it unable to grow. 2-4 days from now, look for any thriving bits and repeat.

@FknHannu@zeroes.ca a suggestion: stop worrying about what other people do when it doesn't directly afffect you.

@louisc@mastodon.social just saw at 23:11. And it's 2min long.

@Nonilex@masto.ai This article suffers from the same extreme myopia as most US-based hand-wringing articles. The US wasn't a shining beacon of democracy and culture before Trump. Most of the world did NOT aspire to become more like the US. It was a behemoth with some fun tourist destinations; and those are no longer worth visiting. And while we will lament the loss of global stability, the lives lost because of (e.g.) the cancellation of USAID, the destruction of decades of scientific research... Nobody outside the USA is mourning the death of the country. It has become too big, too bloated, too destructive. It is a lumbering giant, accidentally or deliberately stomping on others. We will remove ourselves from this abusive relationship. Get rid of Trump, and this won't change. Get rid of the entire white Christian nationalist backers, and we'll still move on. Roll back the anti-human horrors of the past decade, and we'll give you a thumbs-up as we continue with our own nations' interests. This is permanent.

@JEmphatically@mstdn.ca a week ago, she was on "bertaprouddad"'s podcast - an unabashed separatist, racist and bigot. She's a fascist dirtbag with absolutely no morals.