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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Considering Linux as my first non macOS laptop. My ecosystem has been Apple since the MacIntosh 128K. This is a big change to consider, so a baby step is in order. The Lenovo ThinkPad T14 1st or 2nd gen seem like interesting starting points and I can find them easily on eBay for between […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Oh my gosh, I had no idea I had so little time left to upgrade Jenkins! #jenkins #linux

Notice from Jenkins self-hosted server:

Operating system end of life monitor
You are running Jenkins on Linux. Jenkins will no longer support Linux after 2099-12-31.
Please plan your upgrade to a supported operating system before 2099-12-31.
Refer to the documentation for details.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Anyone here with experience on Babbel and or Busuu? Learning Dutch. Tried DuoLingo and wasn’t happy due to mostly a lack of speech and grammar, and silly phrases. #busuu #babbel

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Now armed with a roll of 1000 “Made in USA” stickers. Yes I bought them on Amazon and yes they are American made. The irony of telling people to not buy USA products with USA made stickers works both ways. Going to hand these out to a few friends who have offered to help get the word out. @tod […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Saw a bogus claim about the leaked proposal for EU kids privacy will make it illegal to have private servers. This is simply not true. My read is it means owners of micro services or private servers offering some public service will need to do the same age verification as the big tech players […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

Walking in the local palliative care fund raiser this weekend. The kit bag came with a 20% off purebites dog and cat treats, a self proclaimed 100% Canadian company. Except, most of their ingredients are from the USA and lots of their products are manufactured in the USA. So, purebites will not […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Learning a it more, it was straight forward to swap out MySQL for mariadb and upgrade the config, now importing at what I would call a normal speed. Lerd also has a decent MCP which made trouble shooting a snap and very fast.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Lerd certainly isn’t happy about loading a 900MB sql file. cli appears to have hung itself (hanged?) and the dashboard for MySQL is dead as can be. Never had any issues loading into the system mariadb

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@emd Thanks for the extra info. I never tried Herd, so this is quite new to me.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@emd Anything in particular, or just fits your brain space better?

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

For PHP dev work I have switched to Lerd (from Valet) on my demo laptop (along with macOS 27). I’d love to hear others thoughts if they are or were Valet users and have switched or tried Lerd. My initial thoughts are: Interesting, seems mostly seamless, fairly lightweight, love the dashboard […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Asking mastodon: is it really not possible to unlock a locked MIFARE Ultralight NFC tag? Seems to me there should be some way to do it. Or is it actually physically altering the chip?

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

No complaints tonight. Happy Labour Day everyone! 🙏🌼

A bright sun peeks through trees in a serene outdoor setting, with a rustic barn visible on the left and clear blue sky above. Golden hour.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Here's a win for Canada, USA companies moving to Canada from the USA, so they can save money and ship for less to places outside the USA. We need to encourage more of this behaviour and buy Canadian - which these companies are becoming […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@michael at this point, Taylor and those that now own the quickly closing open source framework laravel, are saying “we don’t want the public to contribute anymore” a big FU to all of us.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@emd sort of winging it, reading and learning as I go. 🥸

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@emd ssltrust isn’t a CA as far as I know, they are simply a front for Arizona based Sectigo

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Michael Thomas @michael.mstdn.thms.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Yikes! This wouldn't be half as bad if Taylor wasn't absolutely famous for closing PRs without any feedback. #Laravel #PHP

Taylor Otwell's tweet:

Last week I disabled GitHub Issues on most Laravel open-source packages.

If you hit a bug, describe it to a coding agent and open a PR. Even if the code isn't great, that's fine - code can be iterated on. The PR still documents the problem, and a proper fix can follow.

I suspect this will soon be how most open-source libraries operate.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@michael that is certainly possible. I haven’t followed the self proclaimed gods of PHP (Laravel) for some time now.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

@michael “I suspect this will soon be how most open-source libraries operate” seems to be a grandiose statement similar to statements Steve Jobs used to make “no one will use a cd drive soon”, “no one will use a crt monitor soon” etc. Which suggests that Taylor fancies himself a Steve Jobs type […]

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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 03/09/2026

if you currently depend on #Laravel, this might be a good time to evaluate the cost of moving framework vs the likelihood of major issues appearing in the "soon" term...

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Finally started to migrate my LetsEncrypt SSL certs to Actalis. Seven domains done, only around 38 domains to go. #ssl #security

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Saab upping the ante for a Gripen order, first production line outside Sweden and will be built here in Canada, if it goes through. And Carney announced shift of rail cars and locomotives away from the USA and into to Canada with a $1.6B deal to start the ball rolling. I suspect that is a […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Saw “The Lion King” last night. What an amazing show and talented cast. Costumes are out of this world! A needed break from all the insanity #LionKing #montreal

The Lion King theatrical performances closing scene

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Marielle Quinton @mariellequinton.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

A new Heritage Minute about Gander and 9/11 youtu.be/wCjsUk7PchI?si=v64ASmZcWXY…

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

In my weekly email newsletters I subscribe to, a popular PHP personality wrote for their weekly tip "Don't make mistakes.” For everyone out there that looks up to these PHP “experts”, don’t listen to this. Go forth and make mistakes, make lots of mistakes. Not only is it human to make mistakes […]

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Fun little parody by the Marsh family “Moronic”, we all know who it’s about… youtu.be/Y6OGKFQBG7s #elbowsUp

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Are you in Canada and still using Google services? Time to stop using them. They have already renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America if you are in the states. (This is my screen shot using a VPN dialed to a USA geo location) #elbowsUp #boycottUSA #boycottGoogle

Google map screen shot showing Lake America instead of Lake Ontario.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

The most striking things about this are: 1. They are signing long term contracts, not going back to the USA anytime soon. 2. Packaging didnt make it clear so much of their ice products were from the USA […]

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Bruce Elrick 🇨🇦 @virtuous-sloth.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

RE: mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/117179802627… Ok I actually laughed out loud at this one.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Thankful to be heading out with my wife to the farm for a little recharge time this weekend. What fun thing are you doing this weekend? #weekend

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Utterly and totally brain exhausted. The remainder of my mental get up and go, has got up and gone. Self employed, gonna be a small month.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

@derickr based on your tag I thought “what’s Derick doing in the Ukraine ?”

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

The clafoutis is just as good if not better a day or two later. And when cut into slices and put in the fridge, is very much like left over pizza. Good cold and better than the night before. #EBTSC

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

The #EBTSC clafoutis turned out pretty well. Not too sweet, nicely done. Between my adult son and myself we ate half of it… no self control I guess 🐷

A round, baked clafoutis featuring a mix of blueberries and raspberries, in a metal cake pan on a cooling rack. The top has a golden-brown crust with some fruit peeking through.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Out of the oven. Fell a fair amount, is that normal? Baked way longer than it called for but the pan was an inch too small for the recipe. We shall see what monster I have created once it cools a tad. 🤞

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

My first "Everyone Bakes the Same Cake" as not a baker. Today I learned that melt the butter doesn’t mean soften the butter. We shall see if I have successfully engineered my way out of that little gotcha. 🥮👀 Now in the oven. #EBTSC Clafoutis edition.

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

@AmeliasBrain this is what I aimed to use, you know, to be different. Raspberry and BC blueberry

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Out of Control :laravel: 🇨🇦 @outofcontrol.phpc.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

We week in trying other Mastodon clients. Someone recommended Ice Cubes as an alternative, GPLA licensed, source code on GitHub, a ts quite nice. As a holder of an Apple Dev account, I think I will modify the app slightly adding a couple of things it is missing compared to @MonaApp , since I can […]

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