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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

It's so "funny" that macOS helpfully offers to move Servo to the trash bin because it's unsigned. At least the troubleshooting steps on the download page work: servo.org/download I wonder what options are available for signing it? Or would that go against a portion of the project's aims?

“Servo” Not Opened
Apple could not verify “Servo” is free of
malware that may harm your Mac or
compromise your privacy.

Two buttons: Done, and "Move to Trash".

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Posted my photo of the Hawaii Mars water bomber to flickr. Features some unusual cloud formations. #flickr #airplanes #airplaneHistory #photos flic.kr/p/2sE5F1p

A large plane with a 200 foot wingspan; near the tip of each wing is a pontoon. The top of the plane is white, the bottom is red. The lower half of the plane is constructed like a boat hull, because it can only take off and land in water. However, this one is retired and can be found on the hard at the BC Aviation Museum at Victoria Airport. The sky is blue, and pierced with radiating/undulating strips of clouds that flow from the top of the frame down to the top of the plane, creating a ray-like effect. In a cameo on the right, a smaller passenger plane with similar white and red livery that says "Con Air".

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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 · 25/09/2026

Okay, well, that was unexpected. Nothing seems to have happened to the code. But, at around the same time, my sailing co-op's boat had an encounter with a rock. It's currently stranded until 5pm's high tide. Which means it's once more time for me to use a particular gif. #SalishSea

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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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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Last year we had a bad keel & had to replace the co-op boat. This year, the rudder on the replacement (50-year-old) boat is full of water & isn't safe. ⛵️💸 Drowning my sorrows with black forest cake. #sailing #sailboat #boatRepair #boatlife #pacnw #yyj #victoriaBC #BritishColumbia

Blue hull, blue rudder. Top of the rudder has been eroded, exposing a hole & letting water in

Photo of the stern of the sailboat, showing the black outboard motor and the blue rudder. The boat is on land, on jackstands.

Black forest cake on a white plate at a cafe, outdoors.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Thesaurus word association is on point. I searched for "abuse of power".

Thesaurus dot com suggesting "House of Prayer" as the thing to find synonyms for, rather than what I actually searched for.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Saanich Fair was this weekend. Lots of fun! I took this light-painting style photo of the Midway Amusements rides, inspired by a photo I saw a few days ago. #yyj #photography #flickr #saanich flic.kr/p/2szFoq4

At night, amusement park rides are lit up. As one spins, the motion blur effect turns the glow into an illuminated conical shape.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I was thinking of maybe emailing 1pw to voice my concerns, but procrastinating. And then they hit me with a "support for 1password 7 is going away" email, so I sent a snarky reply.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Dear companies, A dollar amount of "$42.4" is not a thing. Stop it.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

"I was telling an american friend of mine to Get In The Sea, but he said he wasn't near The Sea, so I told him to get into Lake Ontario and he said couldn't find it. I think your map service is broken. Please fix it." -- what I'm considering submitting to Google. Alternatively, this:

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

"Sitting" is the word I was looking for, and Sept 21st is the answer.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

At one point this week, for a fraction of a second, I felt sympathy for Github. But, just now, I changed the base of a PR I was creating & the interface erased the in-progress PR's title.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Last weekend at the Sooke Fall Fair, I entered a prize draw at a vendor booth... and I won! The vendor, Tones Stones Sooke, sells all kinds of cool minerals, stones, and jewelry. I won a pendant of Ocean Picture Stone, and a slice of the same stone. It looks […] [Original post on phpc.social]

Two rocks. Or, more specifically, two exquisite examples of BC Ocean Picture Stone, which is a mineral that looks like an ocean view. The bottom is coloured like dark sand, followed by an aqua/turquoise blue, and then a white quartz that resembles a cloudy sky (or wind-swept sea surf). A small square pendant stone is on the left side of the picture, with a silver chain attached to it. The chain leads over to the larger stone slice of the same style but wider and larger. Then, the chain comes to the right of the frame with some bokeh-like sparkles. The background is blue tissue paper. The stones are resting on a fancy oceanic-themed coaster.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

Well, I heard that Peter Cullen died today. Some of his many roles: - Optimus Prime - Monterey Jack - Thadeus (Invincible) - The Predator - King Kong But most importantly... Eeyore.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

900 lines of AI code to PR/code review at the end of the day, with smoke rolling in (so, windows closed), air filter droning, and room temp shooting up...

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Does anyone know if there is a full-length version of the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World song?

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

@NetNewsWire Is there a way to apply a colour filter to a feed, particularly in the iOS app? I subscribe to an earthquakes RSS feed and the visual jumble is hard to visually parse. I'd like to be able to change the colour based on earthquake magnitude. (It's […] [Original post on phpc.social]

A list of six earthquakes, cluttered with automated information. It would be nice if anything over M3.0 could be colour coded based on severity.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Wish I could afford to make a sequence where River Cartwright drops into other TV shows, crossover style. I can't decide if it would be funnier for them to think he's an idiot of a spy, or for him to be acknowledged and praised by them only to culminate in a […] [Original post on phpc.social]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Some not-quite-local fauna I spotted at the Sooke Fair yesterday... well, I missed it at first. The exhibitor had to point it out. 😂 #Flickr #Chameleon #Reptiles #Lizards #herps #animals flic.kr/p/2swQX9r

Amidst the branches and leaves of an artificial tree, a chameleon conceals itself quite effectively.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@patigallardo.bsky.social considering their non-perv trademark pair are called Predators, feels like a rock and a hard place question. I think I'll stick with my cheapass pleb sunglasses. 😎

A Selfie of me wearing my polarized green-lensed non-rayban sunglasses that probably cost less than $30 Canadian. Middle aged ish white guy, greeting hair and goatee-ish beard, standing outside in a city.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

My attempt at reacji-based story telling. See if you can decipher it.

A sequence of reactji in slack:

- school
- alarm
- books
- "whoa" custom animated emoji (anime face looking at rainbow)
- bus
- fingers crossed (vibrating, intense, custom)
- bell
- alright alright alright custom emoji

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

"Any idea how we can take out a whole asteroid?" "Yeah ... with _that_."

An image in space. Lower left: a very large space station. Main picture: a many-times-larger-still cylindrical space ship. The LDSS Nauvoo generation ship, under construction at the Tycho shipyard, from The Expanse.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

A photo from the beach at Cadboro Bay, Victoria, BC. I think the striped shirt helps the scene look a smidge mediterranean. #photography #sailing #sailboats #flickr flic.kr/p/2sv4pjS

Two young people sit on a log on the sandy beach at sunset. In the background, several sailboats are moored. The water is calm. Sunset/golden-hour light gives the scene a serene quietness.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

The "intrinsically safe wiring" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the sign. flic.kr/p/2suphrQ

Two grey wire conduits fastened to a beige/greige wall. The lower one has a sign ziptied to it. The sign, white text on blue background, says "Intrinsically Safe Wiring".

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Uh, does YouTube not have a Block feature? That's pretty pathetic, if so. Ah. You can only block them based on interactions - live chat entries & comment mentions. PATHETIC.

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Block or unblock people's accounts

To avoid unwanted interactions, you can block other users in certain Google products, like

Google Chat and Photos. When you block, you block a specific Google Account.

To block another person's account, use the "Block" action in one of these products.

Use YouTube to block an account IN
When you block someone on YouTube, that person's account is blocked only on YouTube.
You can block someone on YouTube through live chat or through your notifications inbox, if
someone mentioned your channel.

Tip: In the past, if you blocked someone on YouTube, it would also block them in all
products listed on this page.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

The number of people I've talked to - scifi fans, even star trek fans - who've never watched Strange New Worlds makes me sad. Everyone should watch!

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Oh, sweet, OrbStack has a Danger Zone featuring a "Reset Docker Data" button.

Danger Zone, featuring three buttons: Reset Docker Data, Reset Kubernetes Data, Reset All Data

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/07/2026

They say that you shouldn't go to bed angry. But I spent the evening trying to safely update a wordpress theme (a moderately customized twentytwentytwo), and failed. Soo ... Guess I'm watching TV until my blood stops boiling.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@jfmezei @chris oh? Like who? I'm guessing not the person that Chris is talking about. But I can think of a few actors who stand out negatively in their roles due to off-screen antics.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

@munroe Bases allows you to treat your entire vault as a database (or filter down to a specific folder or some other criteria). Then, the front matter fields of the files become columns that you can work with. I'm currently using it to help hunt for a new car […] [Original post on phpc.social]

My car hunt template which has placeholders for all the Front Matter properties I want - such as car price, make, year, odometer, VIN, etc.

A filled-in template, showing a 2022 Ford Mustang Mach_E GT's info

The sortable spreadsheet-like arrangement of my base's data

A different view of the same dataset, this time using "cards", and it visually shows the picture of the yellow Mach-E.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Oh lovely. So here's a preview of what using the internet is going to look like in 5-10 years.

A view of the login page for BC Wild, to purchase fishing licenses. My options are to install an app, or wait to receive a physical security token generator in the mail. What the utter fuck.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

@ramsey Yes, I am, but the joke I made applies to both versions. Luffy has a special fighting ability where he is made of rubber... and can do very strange attacks. He got it by eating a rare Gum-gum fruit. He precedes his attacks by yelling "Gum-gum […] [Original post on phpc.social]

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

Tired: LLM (Large Language Model) Wired: LMM (Lucy Maud Montgomery)

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

GMail is giving me a button to click, but I don't want to click it because it doesn't explain beforehand what it'll do. I'd have to trust it to either be reversible, or to ask for confirmation before performing the Upgrade action - neither of which I can trust Google to implement.

Some buttons in my gmail: a help button, a settings button, a butthole button, and a nebulous "Upgrade" button.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

RE: dosgame.club/@MichaelKlamerus/11684… "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ... Snatch ... Boondock Saints. Now that's what I call an evening well spent."

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

Honestly, I kind of like the phrasing on the Creative Cloud cancel button.

End your service

Sometimes you just need to call it quits. We get it.

(Button: Cancel your plan)

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

The #R2AK race kicked off from Victoria's inner harbour on Wednesday. I got some photos... and a sunburn (oops!) These entrants - including at least one stand-up paddleboard paddler - will be racing 750 miles to Alaska. First one to arrive wins a prize. Second […] [Original post on phpc.social]

Sailboats, rowboats, kayaks, and even paddleboards exit Victoria's inner harbour on their journey to Alaska. A very sunny day - and very busy on the water. A seaplane is taking off beside the racers.

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