Ryan. Reluctantly, I remain.

I finally found the ad I've been referencing for the past 20 years. youtube.com/watch?v=Bzapn4…

@levisan @acedtect @mollywood Ditto

@acedtect @mollywood We Canadians also say gen zee not zed in my experience (in Alberta and in cyberspace) with zero exceptions

Why is it pfp and not pfpt and if the answer is “profile pic” then why not “prof pic”

@levisan FWIW a lot of system turn this into a proper emdash: OTTOH iOS keyboard, WordPress, and maybe Google Docs (in markdown, its 3). If you see me do it, it’s in protest of the system not doing it for me.

I don’t think I can take seriously anyone who has the knowledge of how to use an em dash properly but lacks the knowledge to type it. Has a Ph.D., still types "--"

@rouchefort73 @brent_bellamy And… croissants?..

@ohryan @brent_bellamy and Crime?..

Welcome to Osborne Village. 🎩 @brent_bellamy

@levisan What kind of restos you eating at! 😱

This was originally composed as a speech-to-text note ending with "…take my dick home"

@brent_bellamy That looks kind of permanent (especially the stairs), they leaving it when filming is over?

They are building a replica of the Grassy Knoll in Bird’s Hill Park for the filming of John Travolta’s movie about JFK.

@levisan @ohdessa Wow!

@ohryan @ohdessa 70 thousand 2025 dollars! Also, if 🤖 is right, that was 90-100% of the median household income in Canada at the time. (Similar to 70k and now)

@richtabor I’ve had some success with prompts like “accuracy is very important. Please check your sources.”

sooo… how do you get a model to stop making up sources like it’s fanfic?

Or don’t? It’s kinda fun to have someone to talk to on the phone.

@NetApp hey, you or someone claiming to be you had been blowing up my phone today. Quit it!

WTF is “net apps” and why are they spamming my phone?

Gen X will silently pivot or move the goal post rather than admit they’re wrong.

@levisan I voted “first.” But I almost wonder if it’s neither. I’m not certain inflation makes sense in the context of relative buying power of currencies.

100 USD in 1975 is worth 590 USD now, which is ~800 CAD at today's rates. But 100 USD in 1975 converts to 102 CAD at the 1975 rates, which would be worth ~600 CAD today. Which gives a better idea of how much money it was?

The weird thing about companies asking devs outsource writing code to LLMs is that outsourcing that same work to human devs would probably be a fireable offence.

@levisan I was going to say that it’s important to remember that zippers (and buttons to a lesser extent) and relatively new inventions. But prior to their invention were we making full body clothing that enclosed the legs? I doubt it.

The single weirdest niche in fashion design is clothing items that require the wearer to get buck naked in order to defecate being marketed as daily-wear clothing

@vinnysgreen Don’t worry - speaking as a Canadians - none of the rest of the world sees the nuance of which specific US government entity is enabling tyranny today. The entire brand of your entire country has been destroyed. Sorry.

The American Gestapo has co-opted the brand of the Marines in order to further terrorize communities

@bellamy_sherry @misstea10 @brent_bellamy Read the room. This is in response to someone literally dying.

@ohryan @misstea10 @brent_bellamy Uh……Someone on a bike hitting a cinderblock? Yeah, that would really make a statement for safety.

Vigilante bike lane on Wellington Crescent. Love it.

@bellamy_sherry @misstea10 @brent_bellamy uh...

@misstea10 @brent_bellamy Good. The speed limit needs to be reduced to 30 kilometres for sure. But this could get someone killed.

@neke989 @d_r_e_w @rmccue Based on the calls to api.aspirecloud.com, I think so.

@d_r_e_w @rmccue Reading in the docs that “FAIR operates an open discovery server available for everyone to use” - is that aspirepress.org/plugins ? Thinking about hacking on something similar and would love an example

WordPress plugin & theme authors, agencies & hosts, take note! FAIR is not a central repo replacement; it's a protocol designed to help you distribute packages hosted anywhere. Want to self-host? Use the Mini FAIR Repo package for small-scale distribution github.com/fairpm/mini-fa…