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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 24/09/2026

Just wait until you’re 36.

Peter F @gwellin.ca · 10/09/2026

To a point, it is. Though compared to other companies, I do trust Apple to make some effort to actually anonymize and not overreach on its collection. I’m more concerned about third party apps. That said, I use a DNS service on all my devices to block telemetry domains used by Apple and others.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 10/09/2026

Well, it did start as an N64 game, then had the Star Fox IP slapped on top of it later on.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 09/09/2026

I’ll admit that I was quite tempted when I found out about that. I don’t want to accidentally brick an expensive TV that has never been online and has a connected Apple TV, which is very capable and one of the least bad streaming boxes.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 09/09/2026

Oh, it is. Some are less worse than others though. A separate box limits the collection a degree, because it can’t see external video inputs such as a TV channels, games, or a computer display. Definitely be wary of apps and voice control options regardless of the device.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 09/09/2026

Keep it off the internet, use a separate box for streaming services, and bask in the discount you got on the TV because they thought they’d make up the difference in advertisement and tracking. I’m glad I never let my 2 LG TV’s go online…

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 21/08/2026

Thank you. Definitely a place I’d like to visit in person someday. My model was trying to imagine the original that burnt down centuries ago, but they weren’t even certain how many sides it had.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 19/08/2026

It was a drafting class, so I went over the top on detail and measurements.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 19/08/2026

The texture of those columns jumped out at me, sparking the memory of the 3D model I made in high school 23 years ago! Did you happen to get a shot of the ceiling of the stage? The computer really struggled because I used a far too high resolution image of that starry sky mural.

A 3d render of the Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre stage, made in AutoDesk Inventor and 3D Studio Max, circa 2003.

A distance 3d render cut away of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, made in AutoDesk Inventor and 3D Studio Max, circa 2003.

A 3d render of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre stage, looking up, made in AutoDesk Inventor and 3D Studio Max, circa 2003.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 14/08/2026

Why not on display riding the back of a t-rex, or in its belly.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 13/08/2026

This is what all coders strive for.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 13/08/2026

Thank you! My apparent present to myself was sleeping past my alarm and rushing to get to work. I hope you continue to have a good time in the land of Count Binface.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 03/07/2026

It has become more of a secret affair due to the great maple syrup heist fifteen years ago. So many syrupmoose were ruined.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 19/05/2026

Huh. That’s a new word for me. The cynical side of me wonders if they’re using an AI with a prompt to favour synonyms over reusing words.

Dictionary
donnybrook | noun
a scene of uproar and disorder; a heated argument
Source: Oxford Dictionary of English

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 09/05/2026

Then people blindly believe it, and form groups to try and convince others that anyone who says otherwise is trying to trick you. Before long you have a full blown Vowel Movement.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 20/04/2026

I’m glad you remembered to pack the important things, like Majima.

A packing box, labelled as carrying: Misc, Majima, gift wrapping, etc.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 17/04/2026

I don’t follow FF XIV at all, but I do appreciate my wife’s scramble to find a trailer when I show her your posts. She is particularly invested in the drama around this voice.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 01/04/2026

Pretty sure the NSO app is just a webpage. Still surprised they haven’t done system themes though.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 29/03/2026

That’s a a Windows XP era problem with nVidia drivers. Yes, I am enough of a nerd that I looked up the file referenced in the error. I do love seeing crashes like this in the wild.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 04/03/2026

They still make those?

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 17/02/2026

You going to play all of Mario Odyssey in Labo VR mode? It works, if you pull out the red lenses.

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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 27/12/2025

That alone is an incredibly good reason to give them. I’m sorry they’ve been awful to you.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 27/12/2025

That method took a lot of time and planning to build in to a home, but from before anyone imagined how much power any one home would use nowadays. I’m glad you have a modern breaker box now, but I doubt the circuits changed so you might still need those extension cords to distribute the load.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 27/12/2025

@alanedgehead.bsky.social I have just educated myself on knob-and-tube wiring because of your stream.

The More You Know graphic above a star with a trailing rainbow.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 14/12/2025

Was Gooigi not enough body horror for you?

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 28/11/2025

This fishing was for material grinding. I prodded him a bit for it, but more so when he told me about programming (pre-AI) a red LED to flash a simulated pulse to fool his connected exercise bike and get higher in the leaderboards. For him it’s more about whether he could, over whether he should.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 28/11/2025

My boss uses AI for code. But to be fair, he doesn’t really use it for work because he’s in the management side of the business. He uses AI for more important coding, like writing a macro to fish for him in an MMO while evading anti cheat detection.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 11/11/2025

If I were trying to be cool with modern kids, I suppose I’d respond with “How six seven.”

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 10/11/2025

Barely played it so far, but the co-op is bullshit. Most story missions are forced single player.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 03/11/2025

Reminds me of this copy of Epic Mickey I kind of regret not buying.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 20/10/2025

Is that right? I loved Arceus, more than I expected, but didn’t get Zed/A because it didn’t feel like it would hold me the same way.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 12/10/2025

Or can you put the mirror back together with the gum?

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 12/09/2025

You would be the one arguing for a Lost Levels movie first.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 23/08/2025

Get a printer that doesn’t use canned ink.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 23/08/2025

We seem to have similar goobers.

Noctis the black cat lays in a box with his front paws stretched out to the side.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 22/08/2025

I particularly like this take. bsky.app/profile/tekn...

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 10/08/2025

You could take up sniffing stuff as a hobby.

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King Koopas Kool Kartoonz @akoolkoopa.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Fun fact about the Donkey Kong Country cartoon: The entirety of season one had to be redone last minute because the scripts were so racist and sexist that they had to fire every writer.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 23/07/2025

I’ve heard of a garter belt, but this is the first time I’ve seen a girder belt.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 21/07/2025

Is it not 1 Chips ‘N 1 Cheese?

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 16/07/2025

It’s possible that I have been an AI this whole time.

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Peter F @gwellin.ca · 16/07/2025

I always appreciate it when people do things for my sake.

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