Software developer, co-founder and CTO of A.I. Analysis, Inc.
Other places I have worked: Royal Canadian Navy, Nortel, BNR, Sedona Networks, Tropic Networks, Bronze Age Software, Gridiron Software, BlackBerry, AMAG nanometro. It feels like there should be more!
I'm still holding out hope, though. I'm glad I use 1Password. Their passkey UX for me has been very good, and my passkeys (and passwords) are fully portable to all my devices and computers.
Wow! I just submitted a job application somewhere that was simply asking to send a resume and cover letter to an email address and I have to say this is so refreshing and wonderful.
@evan it’s a well-worded poll question. “Should”. Yes, postings about the Gaza war should have a content warning, just like any other potentially disturbing content. We should give readers the opportunity to consent to viewing that content
While I'm on my favourite hobbyhorse (healthcare): the best health system in the world is not in Canada or the USA, it's widely considered to be in the Netherlands. I wish there was a Canadian discussion about healthcare reform were we specifically discuss adopting the Netherlands system. I encourage you to read about how the Netherlands delivers universal, high quality, reasonably priced healthcare:
I will admit I still don't understand what's so offensive about my pointing out the unsafe, confusing semantics of the Mastodon PM mechanism, or why this topic seems to provoke so much anger.
Basically, I have learned nothing from your yelling.
@mattblaze when Years ago when I worked at RIM, my dev team was responsible for (among other things) the “find my lost phone” feature. Out of the gate we got an unexpectedly large amount of traction in Venezuela. Looking into why, we found that people were buying BlackBerries to give to their children, so that if they were kidnapped they could geolocate them. We developed the feature to find lost phones, but discovered we were saving kids’ lives.
@evan when I answered your poll (using the Ivory app), I clicked on the third answer that was something like “the prosecutors would never accept” (IIRC), but the poll suddenly changed the third answer to “no, he would never betray his team”, which isn’t what I think! Maybe other people clicked that third answer like I did and then felt the need to give the answer that they really wanted
@evan perhaps. The reason I mentioned @ivory is that the app does show that my vote was counted against the modified third response. My guess is the order of operations was: Ivory displayed for me the poll with initial response set, you modified response 3 text, I clicked on response 3 (which still appeared to me as the original text), Ivory register my response on the new response 3.
@siracusa I work with radiologists, and they joke about this. The fictional doctors on the TV drama will be pondering MRI images of someone’s head saying “hmm, it’s a mystery what’s wrong”, and all the radiologists in the audience are yelling at their TVs “OMG, can you not see the giant brain tumour?!” It seems the set designers just grab whatever MRI images they can find off the internet, not understanding what’s in them
just watched a video about the lack of bicycles in hollywood productions. e.g. there are post apocalypse shows where there's no fuel or they can't use engines for other reasons, and the characters are shown walking or riding a horse. they never try bikes even though it's the most popular mode of transportation on the planet. Daryl from TWD on a bicycle? uncool. if a protagonist is doing it, it's a comedy. riding a bicycle is seen as a ridiculous thing to do unless you're a child. I am stunned.
@evan ‘x’ is dependable and consistent. There is always an ‘x’, while the other axes come and go. Also, ‘x’ is level, and doesn’t fly off into weird directions.
Hey masto, if you’ve been here for more than a few weeks and you really like your instance and have a minute, could you weigh in here and name it and say why you like it? We have new folks coming in and I never know where to point them for real-talk instance recs.
Would love to know whether your instance is open to new people, whether it strictly moderates abuse (racist, misogynist, anti-LGBT, disability-linked), how aggressive its defed policies are, whether it’s technically stable.
@kissane I'm on cosocial.ca (https://cosocial.ca), a member-funded co-op for all Canadian residents. I like it a lot. It feels friendly and calm, and has a great group of welcoming, sociable members.There are 50-100 members (I think), which is a nice size for the local timeline to not be overwhelming. CoSocial is open to new members, and it's stable, and well-run. AFAIK the admins strictly moderate abuse, but I don’t know what the de-fed policies are.
#CoSocialists definitely check out the server announcement:
"The board of directors of CoSocial.ca is soliciting feedback from the membership on the following question: Should we defederate immediately from Meta? Please use the #CoSocialMeta hashtag to discuss. This question will be considered by the board at its next meeting on 27 Jun 2023."
@evan I think we should give Meta’s product a chance. It could be good for a billion or so Meta users to get easy access to the fediverse. But if it becomes clear that the experiment isn’t working CoSocial can always defederate at that point. I don’t see that there’s any rush. #CoSocialMeta
@evan I’m lucky that my in-laws have a cottage that has been in their family for several generations. My wife and I try and visit every summer, although some years life gets in the way
@evan I first heard about #CoSocialCa on @timbray’s blog last November. I had a Mastodon account elsewhere, but I wanted to be on a Canadian server. I also prefer CoSocial’s co-op model.
I'm nearly 70 years old. Many of my followers here are seniors, like me, or are at least middle-aged. Most of us are angry and probably grief-stricken about what human industry is doing to the biosphere.
But what must it feel like to be a young person in your teens or your twenties and be looking toward a future of near-certain disaster, the collapse of society, destruction of everything you hold dear? I can't imagine the pain.
It would be understandable if they reacted by simply giving up. Or perhaps by lashing out in anger. But some of them, showing incredible courage and determination, have formed movements to change what they can and save at least a vestige of the civilization they are inheriting.
Sophia Kianni, Vanessa Nakate, and Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg), three of these young climate activists, recently posted an opinion piece at Common Dreams. Let's hear what they have to say...
President Joe Biden’s recent approval of the Willow Project in Alaska has alarmed many young people and once again made us question his seriousness about addressing the climate crisis before it is too late. As if that were not enough, the Biden administration is also auctioning off more than 73 million acres of waters in the Gulf of Mexico to offshore oil and gas drilling — double the size of the Willow Project if it goes ahead as planned. The President faced one of the greatest tests of his commitment to addressing climate change, and he failed.
Young people and members of marginalized communities are the ones who will bear the brunt of the consequences of the escalating climate emergency. The rubber-stamping of such projects sends a message not just to our generation but humanity as a whole: The future of our planet and the present well-being of frontline communities are being sacrificed for short-term economic gain and political expediency.
Scientists warn us that crossing the threshold of 1.5°C could trigger multiple climate tipping points, leading to irreversible and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity. The Willow Project, set to produce 600 million barrels of oil and generate roughly 278 million tons of carbon emissions, goes directly against the word of climate scientists.
As young people who will inherit a burning planet, we are gravely concerned about the long-term impact of the Willow Project and the precedent it sets for future decisions on climate and energy policy. We have said it before and we say it again: We need system change, not climate change. We need people in power who show real climate leadership, who will work with young people and stand by their promises.
That means stopping the Willow project and ensuring there can be no more of its kind. It is the only way to secure a livable planet for all. It is also a chance to listen to our generation and take the first important steps away from a broken political system where leaders care more about short-term political gain than our collective future.
"We need system change, not climate change." YES! 💯
@breadandcircuses@gretathunberg I was recently discussing our climate future with my 82-year old mother, in the presence of my 23-year old daughter. I glanced over and saw the fear on my daughter’s face. It was hard to know what to say that was both truthful about the situation and gave her some optimism
