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aka Ming. Privacy advocate. Full-stack Web Developer by trade; fledgling rustacean 🦀 by moonlight. Sci-Fi enthusiast. Horror movies/shows nerd. Pluto did […] [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@quaff on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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https://www.eurogamer.net/the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on What a beautiful article to honour #SirTerryPratchett on his death anniversary. #GNUTerryPratchett #TerryPratchett

We have reached blood moon status! #Vancouver #VancouverBC #YVR #TotalLunarEclipse #LunarEclipse #BloodMoom

It's almost there! What a sight to behold! #Vancouver #VancouverBC #YVR #LunarEclipse

#GNUTerryPratchett

I don't really see BlueSky or At protocol being used for actual distributed social networking. Maybe someone can set me straight, are people, actually setting up their own BlueSky instances? Is BlueSky actually federating with anyone except BlueSky? If the answer is no, or yes but in a limited […]

Keep Calm.

I've launched a beta of a meta search engine called maapl. It allows you to search the internet without ads or tracking. It's based on the open seource project searxng. You can access it here: https://maapl.net Be gentle it's just one server for the moment.

Am I the only psycho that takes their phone out of it's #phonecase when at home? Also, my new term for my phone case (which is basically a condom for the phone): #phondom 😅😅😅

Who You Gonna Call? Ghostbusters Pizza! https://www.globalgeeknews.com/2025/03/07/who-you-gonna-call-ghostbusters-pizza/ #Ghostbusters

Harper: "Governor Carney has done an admirable job in fulfilling the Bank of Canada's mandate and has been a valued partner as the Government has worked to steer Canada away from the worst impacts of the global economic recession. As a result, Canada remains an example to the world with its […]

Elbows Up.. #ElbowsUp #FortressCanada #CanadaStrong

Yeesh woke up to hearing lots of rattling. Guess there was another earthquake 20 mins ago. https://earthquaketrack.com/r/british-columbia-canada/recent #vancouver #yvr #vancouverBC #britishcolumbia #earthquake

The two-day old crescent moon, brilliant Venus above, and faint Mercury below... ...and the progression of evening twilight. First photo is taken during the 'blue hour' In the second photo the planets sink closer to the horizon and some red hues appear […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

There's always forks of Firefox that are already pretty great. @zenbrowser for desktop: https://zen-browser.app/ Ironfox for mobile: https://ironfoxoss.org/ @arstechnica https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114082752888598867

"We're consolidating our social media presence due to limited resources and no longer posting on Mastodon. Follow us on Reddit for the latest updates: reddit.com/r/ProtonMail" @protonprivacy You can't help but alienate your most vocal users. Do you even care about privacy? #proton […]

The Supreme Court of Canada Leaves Twitter — It’s time all Canadian entities use Canadian Social Media This is a letter I sent to the Supreme Court of Canada upon hearing this morning that they had announced their departure from the Twitter/X platform. CC: Speaker Greg Fergus, House Clerk […]

I’m switching back to #Android, mastodon Android users: what’s a good mastodon app? I’m currently using @IceCubesApp and it’s amazing. Really love the tag groups being pinned to the Home Screen. Is there any mastodon app for Android that is similar?

House of Commons Petition to have the Government of Canada stop using X. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359 #Canada #fediverse

McDaddy 😍😍😍 From: @chad https://mstdn.ca/@chad/114040050692407943

No notes. #HNOM #4Nations #GoCanadaGo

it’s not wrong.

you got this 🫶

Do you know what it takes for a Canadian to boo a visitors national anthem? When this happens it's 20 thousand people basically breaking years of conditioning.

Imagine the irony of this… after how many decades of Americans Guns and drugs flowing across the border, Canadians and their politicians never blamed Americans. All it took was a senile rapist, a couple billionaires, and some Russian bot farms to make Canadians unwelcome in America. So be it […]

Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

Happy Threshold day! 🖖#StarTrek #ThresholdDay @Tenforward

Canadians on Bluesky! In a trade war with the USA will you #BuyCanadian social media? Bluesky is American. Lots of Canadian Mastodon places! Make a backup account at least! socialbc.ca mstdn.ca Ottawa.place And more!

🦀 People on Rust Job > Backend > Python libraries > Firmware for charging stations for electric vehicles >embedded, live streaming > backends using axum & egui > games server side > Industrial automatization > firewall software Thread www.reddit.com/r/rust/s/fM7... #programming #rustlang

I think we’ve officially entered The Idiocracy Era of history.

BLUESKY USERS We are not 24hrs into this Techno-Oligarchy. They are censoring and manipulating every corporate platform. They will come for Bluesky. You need to get off it asap. Use an #ActivityPub open service. Smaller the better. #Mastodon #Pixelfed #lemmy #Friendica anything on the […]

Don’t CW this. I beg you. My wife is on Instagram. She just did this. She heard there was weird stuff happening. She searched “#Republicans” and “#Democrats”. She had to do it herself to see if it was true. It is. She is beside herself. This is […] [Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]