cazabon

@cazabon@mindly.social

I'm a software engineer by trade, an electronics hobbyist and amateur guitarist by night, and a house-rabbit enthusiast and ambassador all the time.

I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.

#RabbitsOfMastodon #rabbit #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #RodentsOfMastodon #electronics #retro #1970s #70s #blinkenlights

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cazabon, to privacy

Remember set up new on-by-default sharing of your account information with every other Patreon user (and maybe the world)? Remember people posting how to turn it off, because they were using confusing language/dark patterns to try to you into oversharing?

I got the "welcome to the new Patreon" today, and ... they've turned the "Community Profile" setting back on after I deliberately turned it off.

Go check your settings, and opt out -- again.

cazabon, to random

1/34 This started out as a much shorter thread about a related topic, but Something Happened and now it's a #LifeHack #instructional thread on keeping your house comfortable and saving #money and the #environment, through the magic of air movement. It's also timely, what with it being the start of the northern-hemisphere summer and southern-hemisphere winter.

#CeilingFan #SaveMoney #SaveTheEnvironment #home #house

cazabon, to random

@jerry 's recent reminded me of something I've long wondered about.

have .

mostly seem to have overflow drains.

I don't think I've ever seen a kitchen sink with an overflow drain, and I've overflowed a couple in my life as a result.

Anyone if there's a practical kitchen sinks don't have 'em? Or is it just "always been done that way"?

cazabon, to tech

I'm going to have a bit of a #tech #rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.

Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.

I'm ranting about #furnace #motors.

Ages ago, furnaces had one #motor in them, to spin the #blower that moves air through your house.

1/x

cazabon, to random

1/17 With the recent of , there have been a lot of stories in the press talking about whether Canadians want to keep our traditional relationship to the British monarchy, or abandon it and choose a different head of state.

I Have Ideas. Hear me out.

cazabon, (edited ) to journalism

: Hey govt, do us a solid and make and give us .

Govt: Uh, for what?

CLM: You know, because they have money, and we can't figure out how to get some ourselves.

Govt: I'm not sure...

CLM: You're , and you'll get to publicly stand up to .

Govt: Sold!

Govt: Bill C-18 will make Big Tech for the of to Canadian media.

1/x

cazabon, to Rabbits

Way back when, I wrote a thread on house rabbits, and how they're different because they are prey animals, not predators like cats and dogs. That thread starts here:
https://mindly.social/@cazabon/109882459730036423

One thing I didn't mention is that, like many other prey animals, they are extremely good at hiding health problems. You've heard how the jackals will separate the weak or sick member from the herd; prey animals evolve to disguise being sick or weak.

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#prey #rabbit #HouseRabbit #predator #health #sick

cazabon, to tech

There are many large and in the world. Many people are victimized by the in a thousand different ways. This is not their story; it is not about their problems, but this should not be seen as minimizing them.

I'd like to talk about something a little closer to home: in the field. I've been in this field for <mumble> years and worked for tiny companies, medium consulting companies, large orgs, and as a one-man independent contractor.

[...]
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cazabon, to security

1/13 So, this week I discovered my first in a public system.

In the past I've found in , problems with , with bureaucratic processes, some of which were significant, but they all pale in comparison to this one.

It starts with a of .

cazabon, to politics

Apologies, as this will be a bit , but it will come back to , I promise.

First, the of views along a single left-right is almost . This has long been known, and alternatives exist that present a much more accurate picture, but the traditional is to " this" and " that" and is lazy, so they'll probably never get better.

One was developed by Jerry .

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cazabon, to Software

@paul_ipv6 posted about managers, fanciful , and his response involving a Magic 8-Ball. It reminded me of a story I've told about one place I worked. I've never told it here.

I was working at a small-to-medium-sized IT/ company that had a few internal products, but mostly did outsourced R&D work for a behemoth company - one of the largest on the planet at the time.

It was classic planning. HugeCo's R&D department would send us a high-level .

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cazabon, to debian

#Debian #major #releases come along so rarely I always forget something since the last time I upgraded.

#Bullseye -> #Bookworm this time, and that was fun 😂

#Lesson learned; perhaps this will save someone else some time.

If you have #Python 3.11 installed on Bullseye from the "#deadsnakes" ppa, uninstall it before attempting the upgrade. It conflicts with the Python 3.11 package in Bookworm in a way that causes the upgrade to #fail partway through. Then you have to manually fix it all...

cazabon, to programming

I'm told I need pinned posts on my profile.

I'm a living in , , the middle of the prairies. I've worked in countless domains, but find generally useful for many of them, and have been using it for nearly 30 years.

I'm a enthusiast and have had them for more than 20 years.

Other hobbies include , music / playing , writing , and enjoying novelty music & / / .

Gracie, a large grey lopped-ear house rabbit, is poking her head out of the cardboard box she's currently using as a hidey-hole. She appears to be trying to determine if whoever is bothering her has brought her a snack.

A "Super Computron 4500" light prop / toy, which is an array of 18x18 blinking blue LEDs. The LEDs all blink at slightly different rates, causing complex patterns to form and re-form continually. I sell kits to build this, or the smaller 12x12 "Computron 3000", in a choice of colours or colour-morphing RGB, in my Etsy shop.

cazabon, to philosophy

@lauren

I'm wondering if you have any on the " " proposal by some folks. I wrote a short thread about it, but would be interested in hearing your thoughts before reading it (if you do read it - I'm not demanding it 😀 ).

https://mindly.social/@cazabon/110750088975348947

Re: it's essentially a proposal to so they can't do things the web don't want - think , that modify content, etc.
https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

cazabon, to random

is weird. action makes it weirder. If you have perverse , you get perverse results.

An example.

Every spring, there are floods somewhere in North America. Maybe the Red River that flows up through North Dakota to Winnipeg and beyond. Maybe the winter snowpack is heavy and melts quickly in the Rockies, flooding out parts of B.C. Maybe torrential rains in Atlantic areas cause overland flooding throughout Quebec.

[...]

cazabon, to DaftPunk

So Justin #Trudeau, our "#unifying" prime minister who wants to "build #bridges, not sow #division", announced the suspension of the much-hated and regressive #carbon #tax on #heating #oil - but only in the Maritime provinces, because heating your #house shouldn't be expensive, and the #Maritimes are mostly oil-heated.

The west, which is mostly natural #gas-heated, or #propane-heated, which are also carbon taxed?

A big middle #finger to us.

"Oh why is western alienation a thing?" they wail.

cazabon, to internet

Google's "Web Environment #Integrity" #proposal is one of the #evilest things I have ever seen proposed for the #internet, possibly only behind #government #IDs being required for any access.

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md

Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".

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cazabon, to rainbow

We unexpectedly lost Gracie today; she'd successfully hidden her symptoms until recently, and we'd gotten her to the vet as soon as possible, but with the benefit of hindsight we can see what happened. It explains a lot of things.

The worst part is I hardly have any photos of her and George, her bonded mate, who is now looking for her.

It's been a shitty month. Here are a couple of the few photos I have of her.

Gracie, a lop-eared grey house rabbit with extremely fine, soft fur, seen in the midst of doing some bunstruction in a cardboard box. She is taking a break to peer suspiciously at the photographer.

cazabon, to Canada

A followup to this #horrific thread on a huge medical-privacy #fuckup in #Canada ...
https://mindly.social/@cazabon/110557881736874267

The #pharmacy #chain in question, which is happy to give both your #prescription (and presumably #vaccination) #records to pretty much anyone who wants them, in addition to letting them see when your prescriptions are eligible for refill, order those refills, and turn on OR OFF automatic fills for your prescripts is ...

Shoppers' Drug Mart.

[...]

#Shoppers #ShoppersDrugMart

cazabon, to random

One thing that has become apparent over the last 20 or 30 years is a true change in education - particularly "higher" post-secondary education. While many have pointed out various flaws and problems, they mostly seem to point to differing ideologies ("indoctrination").

That problem is significant. Instilling a particular set of beliefs rather than helping to build the mental skills to investigate and understand the world, and then synthesize a cohesive set of beliefs, leads to failure.

[...]

cazabon, to Signal

The continues.

Got a replacement blower from northamericahvac.com - had to order from the States. Installed it, and ... furnace was still throwing an code meaning "incorrect from ECM motor" once, then "no signal from ECM motor" forever after.

After double-checking, I saw the part number on the box didn't match what I'd ordered - but that turned out to be a red herring. The box number was for the unprogrammed motor.

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cazabon, to fediverse

Trying to harness the #fediverse #electronics #hobbyist #brain ...

I've got a busted consumer product here that has 2 #Holtek #microcontrollers in it. Either one would be sufficient to run this product (a brushless-motor tower fan), but #MCUs are cheap, so why not throw a second one in if it saves a few centimeters of wire?

I'm trying to determine if there's a #standard #serial #physical #layer in use here to communicate from one #MCU to the other. It's one-way communication.

[...]

cazabon, to opensource

And people say open-source software is unapproachable and difficult for the average user!

(Yes, expecting them to write Lisp-like code is "simple" according to the Gnu IMP documentation...)

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #GIMP #documentation #UI #easy #simple #lisp #scheme #BatchMode

cazabon, to random

One-question #capitalism test!

A peddler has been walking the town streets all day. It's been extremely hot and he's tired. As he passes through the market, he sees a man with an enormous decanter of ice water. The man #offers to #trade him a glass of ice water for one of the peddler's wares.

The peddler thinks on it for a second. He can drink at home, but this looks so refreshing... He accepts the trade.

Question: Which of the two men is #better off than he was before the trade?

cazabon, to math

Yes, I use strong #encryption.

Why, no, I don't have anything to #hide.

I also #mail my #correspondence in #opaque #envelopes, rather than on the backs of #postcards.

No, I don't have anything to hide there, either.

#Normalize encryption.

There is no such thing as "#lawful #access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".

Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.

#Fight them.

#StrongEncryption #EEE

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