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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

i was wondering what the .HIF photo file extension was, so I went to search it up ... and found out it was for a HEIF. I blame MS-DOS for the resulting facepalm.

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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦 @kboyd.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@mikej "Has he heard about second haul-out?" We don't know yet if there's any damage from the incident. But the rudder damage that was observed in the first haul-out has been fixed, at least.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[Top tip for injured hairy men] If your plaster/bandaid is the sort that's more clothy/fabricy than plasticky/rubbery then rubbing/isopropyl alcohol will wick right through the fabric to the adhesive underneath and dissolve it damn near instantly. Put a dab on your fingers and rub the cloth and […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Really tired of the "I worked at the kitten crushing factory for years, made a fuckton of money and now I found my conscience and get to tour the stages of the world telling people how to be ethical" grift.

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

@mikej Nice! Wish I could be out there today, but our boat is back on the hard due to an "incident".

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Jon Sullivan @joncounts.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Which Quetzal is right for you? Here's my Day 3 of the Ink-Birdtober challenge. The 3 October Birdtober prompt is the Resplendent Quetzal and the Inktober prompt is Miniature. I figure the Quetzal Mini must be an egg and the Quetzal Ultra is the ridiculously […] [Original post on mastodon.nz]

My ink drawing for Birdtober of the Resplendent Quetzal. On the left is the adult male, labelled as Quetzal Ultra, "Innovative design for ultimate resplendence". Next is the female, less colourful and without the silly, long tail feathers. She's the Quetzal Pro, "Strength. Beauty. Replendent.". Third is a fluffy little brown juvenile, recently fledged. They're Quetzal Air, "Say hello to Quetzal". Last is the small Quetzal egg. This is Quetzal Mini, "The smallest Quetzal ever with Pro resplendence inside".

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

@ObsidianUrbex @joncounts prototype salsa delivery system for the tacomack fusion cuisine reactor

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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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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I don't think that's what was meant in a post I just read about a SpaceX launch that includes a Canadian astronaut from Fort Saskatchewan, but anytime I see "Saskatchewan" and a SpaceX Crew Dragon in the same place, I think about the terrifyingly huge pieces of debris that SpaceX casually drops […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Leviathan Snores by James S.A. Corey #TooEarlyBooks #HashtagGames

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oh please. These dipshit tech freaks and tech losers don't hate AI bots. They hate you, and they want your data. Money second, but data first. That's why, for example, reddit is doing this, all so they can force you to make an account and get more data on you […]

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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

Alright, I finally figured out an approach that works: Freeform Pen Tool. Shape mode, not Path. No Fill. Stroke set to red, dashed, 13px. NOW it lets me draw a damn line.

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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

I was so ready to be happy to have the boat back in the water & ready to sail. Now we'll have to redo our haul-out to check for fresh damage... and if there is anything significant, that could be The End.

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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

*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

[ST:SNW minor spoilers] Yep, loved that episode. Tomorrow's Enterprise. Because it's not Tomorrow, it's Today!

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

@nelson I'm one of those people who doesn't like that stuff, but I do use it at work. Conflicted, you might say. But I'm glad to hear that it is fun - computers should always have been fun, IMHO, but the industry dropped the ball on that for 30+ years.

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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

@mntmn @mcc Love the concept but can't afford the dollars at the moment. Am I reading correctly that I could make a slimmed down budget version using the case + reform board + rPi adapter + rPi cm4 module?

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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

@outofcontrol ... while I suppose the "illegal" phrasing is a stretch, seems to me that it does make such things functionally infeasible - which is of grave concern.

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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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