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He/Him - Toronto 🇨🇦 - Software developer Big into nerd shit of all kinds, but especially vidya games. 🤓🕹 “I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people […] [bridged from https://l3ib.org/@smn on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Well the good news out of all of this is that I'm not as worried about signal getting defunded or blocked

I see zero reason for Canada to continue to abide by US intellectual property law

So you're doing backups, and naturally you want to have monitoring to ensure that your backups are recent and can be restored. But how far do you go with that? What's a reasonable approach to verifying that your backups can be restored without actually restoring them? Also of importance is that […]

I think we should require actual evidence for claims like this, especially when the person making the claim has a significant financial stake in AI.

Mastodon announced that they're bringing "quote posts to Mastodon and the fediverse". Eh, no. You're (finally) bringing them to Mastodon. The Fediverse has had them for several years now. #mastodon #fediverse

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]

A side-effect of having USDS listed in my LinkedIn bio right now is journalists keep asking me to talk with them. I just heard from a reporter at #WashingtonPost. This is what I told him. #WaPo #journalism #politics #USPol

Wow, it actually happened. I can remove whatsapp from my phone because the last holdout on my contact list switched to signal this weekend. And the truly wild thing is that I had nothing to do with it! I guess some certain political developments finally pushed them over the edge.

I see zero reason for Canada to continue to abide by US intellectual property law

Product of Canada, Product of Mexico signs going up all over our local grocer. Shoppers looking at labels and putting back items that say USA People are angry and actively resisting #CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics #Tariffs

is there a pokemon deckbuilder? not the TCG, which also has cards but I consider it a completely different genre

You spent HOW MUCH on monkeys and typewriters, when all you needed to do was pay a human writer a living wage?

'“Immunity debt” provided a simple, easy-to-grasp explanation that was repeated over and over by media, scientists and physicians alike, until it took hold in the population. This is how dis/misinformation spreads. Anyone who pointed out that’s not how the immune system works was drowned out by […]

ai is taking human jobs (being vulnerable to social engineering)

Playing the google maps zoom level like a trombone to get it to show me a street name

🎄 New article! 🎁 "Catching up with async Rust" is sponsor-exclusive for six months as an article, and available now as a video: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/catching-up-with-async-rust

A reminder that puberty blockers aren't being banned for cis kids, because they're safe. It's not clinical risk, it's transphobia.

I GOT A 96 ON MY CREATIVE WRITING FINAL LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO that's an >95% in every class this semester hell yeah