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Mike Olson @mikeolson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I do not design spacecraft, but a number of these apply more broadly. spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/akins_laws.h…

spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu

Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

Panel 1: a large robot (composed of AI servers, network switches, storage arrays, and power distribution units) and a human are talking.

Professor "You don't want to destroy humanity do you, lLLM-A-9300x?"

Robot "Haha. What a silly question, Professor. I have no desires or feelings of my own whatsoever."

Professor (relieved)"Oh good."

Panel 2: they walk on. The robot continues "I am merely a tool of the company that created me. And that company, being composed of humans, will naturally have humanity's best interests at heart."

Panel 3: The professor is conspicuously quiet.
"Right?" says the Robot.
…
More silence

"Professor?"

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 08/10/2026

🤦🏻‍♀️ Montreal West residents are totally #carbrain! "It would be a shame if a child, or grownup, gets injured while chasing a soccer ball into a mangle of metal from the bicycles and the heavy racks that will accompany a @biximontreal.com station." #velomtl #biximtl #bixi #bikemtl #motonormativity

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 07/10/2026

[Mon GPS fait des siennes... 🫪] Non, je n'ai pas fait de pointe à 160 km/h sur une petite piste cyclable en pavé, et encore moins avec un trike assis pesant 25kg tout seul !!! 🤣

Graphique de ma vitesse sur un parcours enregistré par l'application Strava. Au début du parcours on y voit une zone d'environ 3km sur laquelle la vitesse est bien supérieure à 40 km/h, avec des pointes approchant 160 km/h.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 07/10/2026

@jef And painted so it matches the ground!! That's crazy.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 05/10/2026

J'ai du 4mm et 1/4 po, pas de 3mm 😭

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 05/10/2026

Y'a quelqu'un qui a déjà vu ça? J'ai voulu remettre les pédales d'origine d'un tandem qui a très peu servi, mais l'une d'elles avait une sacrée résistance. Je la démonte, il y avait 2 roulements à billes avec 12 billes de 3mm chacun. Sur la photo à […] [Original post on jasette.facil.services]

Photo de deux billes d'un roulement à billes, celle de gauche est intacte alors que celle de droite est séparée en deux.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 01/10/2026

Microsoft Office sur un écran d'affichage de salle d'attente... POURQUOI ???? #CHUM #Montréal #Québec #dependancetechnologique

Photo d'un écran de salle d'attente d'un hôpital affichant des numéros et l'endroit où se présenter. Par dessus, obstruant une partie de l'information présentée, une boîte de dialogue avec le contenu suivant :

Titre : Message de 2026-10-01 09:56

La mise à niveau de Microsoft Office est maintenant terminée.

Microsoft Office est prêt à être utilisé.

Merci de votre collaboration.

Bouton : OK

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Masse Critique Montréal @massecritiquemtl.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

🚲 Ce vendredi 25 septembre, c'est la Masse critique! La Masse critique est une ballade manifestive sur roues à Montréal! Nous prenons la rue afin de partager la joie de rouler avec la force de son corps et afin de faire valoir l'importance […] [Original post on jasette.facil.services]

Affiche de la Masse Critique Montréal

Photo de quelques cyclistes attendant à une intersection. Sur le panier de l'un d'eux y est écrit : « Le cœur est ton seul vrai moteur ».

Le texte:

masse
critique
montréal

vendredi 25 septembre
jardin du petit monde
à bicyclette (parc Laf)
17h00 - départ 17h30

fin vers 19hO0

départ exceptionnel
rendez-vous au
Jardin du Petit
Monde à bicyclette

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 24/09/2026

@EdwinG @cazabon AFAIK the problem is licensing, you can always install an open source media player or codec, but commercial OS'es and players would have to pay the licence. Reminds me of when I tried sending myself a very well compressed PNG (lossless format) over Signal, and it re-compressed […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 24/09/2026

@i0null So what should we call it? Benware? Goodware? Archware?

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 06/09/2026

Driving safety, Motorola's 2008 version 🫪

Photo of a Motorola phone manual page from 2008: Smart Practices While Driving

Drive Safe, Call Smart (SM)

Check the laws and regulations on the use of mobile devices and their accessories in the areas where you drive. Always obey them. The use of these devices may be prohibited or restricted in certain areas. Go to www.motorola.com/callsmart for more information.

Your mobile device lets you communicate by voice and data-almost anywhere, anytime, wherever wireless service is available and safe conditions allow. When driving a car, driving is your first responsibility. If you choose to use your mobile device while driving, remember the following tips:

Get to know your Motorola mobile device and its features such as speed dial and redial. If available, these features help you to place your call without taking your attention off the road.

When available, use a handsfree device. If possible, add an additional layer of convenience to your mobile device with one of the many Motorola Original handsfree accessories available today.

Driving Safety, page 9

Next page of that 2008 phone manual:

Position your mobile device within easy reach. Be able to access your mobile device without removing your eyes from the road. If you receive an incoming call at an inconvenient time, if possible, let your voice mail answer it for you.

Let the person you are speaking with know you are driving; if necessary, suspend the call in heavy traffic or hazardous weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, ice, and even heavy traffic can be hazardous.

Do not take notes or look up phone numbers while driving. Jotting down a "to do" list or going through your address book takes attention away from your primary responsibility-driving safely.

Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, place calls when your car is not moving or before pulling into traffic. If you must make a call while moving, dial only a few numbers, check the road and your mirrors, then continue.

Do not engage in stressful or emotional conversations that may be distracting. Make people you are talking with aware you are driving and suspend conversations that can divert your attention away from the road.

Use your mobile device to call for help. Dial 911 or other local emergency number in the case of fire, traffic accident, or medical emergencies.*

Driving Safety, page 10

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 06/09/2026

Found this on a very old phone case... Thought it might be worth sharing before throwing the case away...

Photo of the back of a white phone case. There is a line with the shape of a single heartbeat. Below it, the following text: The best thing is listening to someone's heartbeat, and knowing that it's beating like that because of you.

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Masse Critique Montréal @massecritiquemtl.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Demain c'est une autre édition de la #MasseCritiqueMontréal, avec un ciel dégagé et une température parfaite! 😎 Invitez vos voisins et amis pour vous balader avec nous en ville. On prévoit finir au parc Girouard dans NDG, le lieu parfait pour […] [Original post on jasette.facil.services]

Poster d'été de la Masse Critique

Balade mani-festive inclusive et familiale à travers la ville

31 juillet * 28 août * 25 septembre

Rendez-vous à la statue du parc Mont-Royal à 17h

En haut, l'illustration d'un cycliste roulant avec sa tasse de café à la main.

En bas, celle d'une cycliste filant à toute allure, suivie d'un escargot en planche à roulettes.

Design & illustration: Phil Math

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ScarletCoral @scarletcoral.ca · 26/08/2026

@francoisjoly.bsky.social a parlé au maire de Delson pour sa chronique sur les chicanes installées le long des voies cyclables du Grand Montréal avec @magbebronne.bsky.social de @velo.qc.ca qui dit qu'il n'y a pas de chicane pour les routes🤷🏻‍♀️ @matthieudugal.bsky.social a été blessé par une chicane

ici.radio-canada.ca

Pistes cyclables : des barrières jugées dangereuses | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez l’extrait de l’émission Votre retour : Pistes cyclables : des barrières jugées dangereuses

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 08/08/2026

@jef or maybe go back to the good old multi-bike rack? It's not even a full loop. What this rack definitely is thought is an excellent lever to free itself from it's anchor 😭

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Your regular reminder that there ISN’T a “war on cars.” Any objective observation in most cities however, would conclude that for 60+ years there’s been a war on every mobility choice EXCEPT cars. And that’s been bad for EVERYONE, including drivers. Poster via @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

“The Highway Lobby spends millions to make sure we spend billions.” – Union of Concerned Scientists.

Background image is a highway jammed with car congestion, and good luck, thanks to car dependency by design.

Tag line at the bottom says “Their profit, your cost.” All via the Urban Truth Collective. #UrbanTruth @UCS.org

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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 05/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@jef/11703884843110… I have barely used Emacs in the past and never bothered learning #LISP, but this post explains nicely the beauty of this language.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 05/08/2026

@jfmezei @EdwinG that's why I use tap water instead, it doesn't get into the phone and isn't as cold as a fridge 🤣 But seriously tell me about temperature shock from a fridge when I go biking outside below -20 °C... I don't expect this to kill my phone so I'd be surprised a fridge would […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 31/07/2026

TL;DR; despite having two languages set in her account none of them were set as the display language, referred internally as the "Locale", and having it unset caused an obscure error when trying to add a billing address.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 31/07/2026

I look at the profile, and there it is, language shows something like: , English, French (yes, it starts with a comma) I "change" (or actually set) the display language to English (which it is already, by default). Lo and behold, I come back to the address book and it accepts my address, then I […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 31/07/2026

No matter what I tried it refused to accept the address, throwing a "it's on us" error message. I even added a CC which includes a billing address, but I still needed to add one in the address book. So I fire up the debugger, look at the report returned by the server; something about an invalid […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 31/07/2026

MS is so f*ing ridiculous... My wife and I have been using Skype for years to make cheap intl. calls, but since we're using it sporadically, every once in a while she has to reactivate her Skype credits. This time it didn't go very smoothly. It said to reactivate the credits (money we paid a […]

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Jacques Nacouzi @jacouzi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

« En observant les villes du monde réel, on a vite réalisé qu’il y avait énormément d’espace consacré au stationnement. Alors on s’est dit qu’on ne pouvait pas reproduire les proportions réelles dans SimCity, parce que notre jeu aurait été vraiment ennuyeux! » ici.radio-canada.ca/info/long-fo...

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Le coût méconnu du stationnement gratuit

Le Canada compte près de six cases gratuites par voiture, l’un des taux les plus élevés au monde. Mais des promoteurs et urbanistes déplorent le prix à payer.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 29/07/2026

@jonny and since most people don't even use that feature, there would be nothing suspicious besides maybe the light usage of the phone, and that is not proof of anything.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 29/07/2026

@jonny I haven't tried graphene, but stock pixels have this private area where you can have apps that aren't shown to the main OS, or even the same apps with different data (ex. connected to different mail accounts...) Rather than having a safe mode, what about a code that deletes that private […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 27/07/2026

At least they included alt text, this is good, right??

Screenshot of the top of a commercial email from a phone app, with remote pictures not displayed to prevent tracking. Next to a broken image icon the alt text reads: "Example Alt Text".

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

The New York Times has (somewhat belatedly) discovered that Google is an enemy of the open Internet. This is an important piece, because the Times still is an agenda-setter in journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technolo… (Google spokes-parrot denies it all […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

Having an in person international or national event in America? Are you weighing factors like lodging and transport? Cool stuff to do? Here’s a map to consider if any of your attendees may possibly, even remotely be LGBTQIA. And you care about them.

Source: Movement Advancement Project (MAP) LGBTQ Equality Maps

See original source of US LGBTQIA safety study for tabular data by state.

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 18/07/2026

@jef None. You could redirect them to a nepenthes instance though, they'd spent less time harming the web while trying to crawl a bottomless tarpit... zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes

zadzmo.org

Nepenthes - ZADZMO.org

Making web crawlers eat shit since 2023

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 18/07/2026

@jef Could it be just AI scraping bots doing normal AI stuff?

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 18/07/2026

I never pinned an introduction post and today @natlaf, the love of my life, got me this shirt. There could be no better way to introduce myself so here it is:

Photo of a blue t-shirt with the following with in bold white letters:

THAT'S WHAT I DO
I RIDE BIKES
AND
I KNOW THINGS

Between the lines, there is the outline off a cyclist riding his bike with mountains in the background.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸 @chris.mstdn.chrisalemany.ca.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

This is for readers on Bluesky. The weather is not ok, and Environment Canada is being cut. Please sign and share my House of Commons petition to restore Environment Canada funding. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Peti… Text below: Petition to the Government […]

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Bob Downie @geomannie.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

A timely safety reminder from Natalie Horberg 🤔 #roadsafety #drivinglaw

Cartoon of two women in car front seats. In front of them is a modern touch screen typical of modern cars. Caption is of the passenger saying to the driver "Remember it's illegal to use your phone while driving. Instead use the giant iPad built into the car".

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Apple hasn't bothered to fix a flaw that makes a charade of its "Hide my Email" feature. This is naturally a much lower priority than going to the Supreme Court to beg for the right to keep extorting IOS software developers […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 24/06/2026

I also hate to say this but Windows is now surpassing Android for cross-os compatibility, File Explorer in Windows even natively supports tar archives, including those with Zstandard compression. Meanwhile I have to use the clunky Android terminal to extract a plain tar archive, and writing […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 24/06/2026

Totally normal... Since there is a terminal app on the phone, why not plug my keyboard and mouse into it 🙂 All that because I wanted to send myself a PNG compressed with zopflipng, and Signal decided to "recompress" it to 140% of it's original size! […] [Original post on jasette.facil.services]

An Android phone sitting on my desk between the keyboard and mouse, showing a Linux terminal running Debian. A USB cable with a USB-C adapter is connected to it. A mouse cursor is visible on the left edge of the screen.

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

Mastodon is close to 1 million MAU according to FediDB, and don't you love to see it! Pixelfed remains 2nd with over 100k MAU. If Misskey published their MAU, I'm sure they would be in second, or maybe first. We did this together, without VC funding, enshittification or selling out users via […]

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Thomas Guyot-Sionnest @thomas.guyot-sionnest.net · 12/06/2026

Question pour le Fedivers, je serai en #France près de Marseille cet été et planifie un aller-retour pour Londres en #train. Avez vous des recommandations pour réserver les billets? Merci à l'avance! 🙂 ~~~~~ Hi, I'm planning a train round-trip to London from Marseille, France, this summer. I […]

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