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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Does anyone know of an inverse murphy bed, that flips the sleeper onto the floor like a pancake before it folds closed? Asking for someone who is late for school.

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Victor Villas @villasbc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Renewing my plea to progressive comrades to abolish the concept of "virtue signalling" from their vocabulary. That's a term trolls use when someone cares about a cause for which there's no real rational reason to be against; so the only option left is to deny that the caring is sincere. Sure […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Wizards of the Coast has really been dropping the ball on a whole new segment of D&D players: Retirement Communities. You got millions of people all hanging out in the same place all the time with nothing to do. Get them into TTRPGs. Make large print versions of key books, oversized high […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

So I spotted this weird moving shape on my nature cam. What could it be? A bat, maybe? A large grasshopper? (It's located dead-centre frame, just above the tree branch)

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

When one of these megacorps (e.g., Oracle) goes belly up, it's going to be like a horrendous whalefall of relentless scavenging, isn't it?

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 27/09/2026

i don’t know how i manage to still be astounded by any of this, but it’s astounding how closely the enron story mirrors the ai bubble. to me the only difference is the scale of the fraud, how many billions are involved, and how many people will be utterly destroyed when it all pops

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laura lemay @lemay.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Thinking about how for years teenagers and curious nerds were prosecuted and thrown in jail because poking at a web site was a clear sign of being a ☠️ CR1MIN4L H4CK3R ☠️ Now it's all like oh no! the computer did an oopsie! no one is to blame, nothing can be done! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I am looking at tutorials for making dashed lines in Photoshop. The tutorials all say that it is easy and straightforward. I want all the people who have presented these instructions and described them that way to look in a mirror and hear these words: FUCK YOU. NO, SERIOUSLY. FUCK YOU.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

*ships something a Friday* I wonder how this will go.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@zzt/117316445573281541 I mean, there's a reason I'm waffling on buying the new iPhone I was planning on getting. But what is better? Android is google, which is a hard no. PinePhone is outdated. I don't know about jolla phone vs fairphone in terms of hardware quality, I […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

They want you to believe that resistance is futile. They want you to _feel_ that, in your bones. That's how they win.

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Riding bikes is - by itself - an extremely safe activity. It's the cars that are dangerous.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Here's the forecast for sailing tomorrow. I won't be able to make it out, but it looks like it will be interesting for the folks that do. They're planning to transit from Canoe Cove to Pedder Bay, starting at 7am and getting to PB (where this forecast is) in the afternoon sometime.

A grid of weather information for the 24-hour period of Friday. Rain starting at 6am, winds building to 19 knots at 11am with gusts to 30, and by 5pm it's gusting to 35+ knots. The rain stops around noon, at least, but I think that's just a bit too much wind for me.

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Andrew Hinton @andrewhinton.jawns.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

When some hacker kid gets caught using some downloaded cracking software to get into a system illegally, the headline is “kid caught hacking.” When a multibillion dollar corporation uses a more advanced piece of software that hacks into a system illegally, “AI did it”.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Start with what you want to achieve, and work your way backwards to where you are. Then follow the path you've outlined. In the case of Star Trek, this looks like: > Luxury space communism. >> Mankind becoming truly post-scarcity. >>> Global thermonuclear war. >>>> Capitalism run amok […]

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Ray*mond Li*terally @madbarrister.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The regulation A.I. needs is not a million hoops that only the most well funded players can afford, but simply unlimited, absolute liability. If your A.I. results in any harm whatsoever, you whole company goes under. Watch the funding dry up.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

"Christ, it's like watching plankton think!"

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Chowarmaan/1172922… Let it be known that "AI Minister" sounds as pathetic and fad-chasing as "Beanie Baby Minister" or "NFT Minister". #Canpoli

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

*Well, it looks like everybody is Jekyll and Hyde, not one brain but truly two different brains med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026…

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Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

"I think the world is a lot more nuanced than goodies or baddies." "You're wrong. It's not."

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Lately I've taken to adding a few spices or veggies or other ingredients to store-bought pasta sauces, so I can pretend I'm cooking. Today I was going to add a dash of cinnamon, but I slipped up ... Anyway. Marinara with garlic, red chili flakes, paprika, a touch of basil, and two tablespoons […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I started creating a new hobby project from scratch last night (yes, another one) and I was midway through setting up the web server stack on it (using Caddy) when I realized that everything I'd planned on coding for the code side of things could literally just be a Caddyfile. So that's […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@existentialcomics/… Interesting. Thought provoking. Is my vocal abstention from coffee and alcohol actually a symptom of extreme narcissism? (No. Well, the vocal part is, yes.)

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

"28th state" just doesn't have the same nefarious ring as "51st state". Sorry, PP, try again. That soundbyte don't hunt.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

I'm never going to remember the new apple ceo's name. Something like Terminus? Well, anyway, someone should convince him to buy the Hannah Waddingham show that Amazon just cancelled.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Hanging out at a nearby field, watching people play disc golf, with some instrumental/strings music floating in the air from an unknown source. Sunny day. This seems like a good way to spend a Saturday.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Apparently the skunks have rabies now. Don't get too close.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

There is a cameo in Neagley episode 5 (right at the beginning) that is amazing. More shows should cast that guy!

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

"Hearing voices" happens to *almost everyone* at least a few times in their life, but people are often scared to admit they had a harmless, benign voice-hearing experience, or they even deny to themselves that it counted, because the phenomenon is associated with being extremely crazy and […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Training an LLM exclusively on non-stolen content, if that's even possible, wouldn't magically fix all of the ethical and moral and technological and political problems of LLMs.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

LOL. LMAO. I'm currently dragging my feet on my migration away from digital ocean, because life is busy and because I'm not totally enamored with my available options. They just emailed me to tell me to upgrade my database engine before it gets discontinued/end-of-lifed on Oct 30th. Way to […]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Okay, I need to take a break from that boost storm. (If you find such things annoying, rather than helpful/informative, remember that mastodon lets you disable seeing boosts from specific accounts.)

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Such a good post about how to format webpages for printing. I had no idea any of this existed. I totally forgot about print style sheets matuzo.at/blog/i-totally-forgot-abo…

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I totally forgot about print style sheets - Manuel Matuzović

A small collection of useful CSS techniques and a quick reminder that print style sheets are still a thing.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I don't need farm-fresh outrage, nor even mass-produced outrage. I have perfectly sufficient outrage stockpiles at home.

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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Only an absolute lunatic would touch #Wordpress as a product with this maniac at the helm. techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/automatti…

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Hmm. Firefox iOS just shipped a built-in ad blocker. I wonder how that works.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: tane.codes/@tanepiper/1172650216189… Oh no, not Werner Vogels. Now I'll have to stop using AWS, too. (While this is supposed to be read sarcastically, so that it seems like I was already avoiding AWS, I unfortunately do still use a couple of AWS services. R53 and S3, mostly […]

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