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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 01/10/2026

Maybe, as a treat, we could have a party of the left that doesn't want a PSPP-led independent Quebec? Lots of people would vote for that, there are dozens of us!

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 01/10/2026

But they also keep saying that if the PQ calls a referendum, they'll be on the Yes side. And they refuse to make their desires into _conditions_ on whether they'll support yes. So I'm not sure what this means, in the practical world where QS is not the leading party.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 01/10/2026

I'm really not sure what to think about this. QS keeps saying that if they were in charge, they'd consult all of Quebec society, including minorities, which is great.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 29/09/2026

Interested to hear how that goes.

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⤵️ @bryce.lol · 27/09/2026

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber’d here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend; And, as I am an honest Puck, Show is over, off you fuck.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 24/09/2026

Is your constraint decompression CPU or wall-clock? If wall-clock, there may be juice to squeeze in separate-block compression, so decompression can be parallel. I'm really not sure why zstd implementations never optimize for this.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 24/09/2026

When would the court rule?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 22/09/2026

* How can I make sure my passkey ends up in my desired credential manager, and not a different one on the same device? * If I accidentally create a passkey in the wrong device/credential-manager, what can I do?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 22/09/2026

More FAQs about multiple devices (and devices with multiple passkey credential managers) might be helpful. Specifically:

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 21/09/2026

I guess you gotta keep some powder dry for when the US threatens a blockade? 🫤

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 19/09/2026

I just found an old FireWire enclosure instead, Mac OS and Linux both boot fine from it 😁

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 19/09/2026

I'm too scared to take mine apart! It's 44 steps on iFixit, and some look very fiddly.

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This might be the funnier YouGov poll: Canada's retaliatory tariffs are above water with US adults:

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 24/08/2026

Oh interesting! My friends and community mostly post stories, which then get interleaved with mostly-awful video ads, so that makes me use it less. But I have seen some actually useful ads lately, mostly for bands I like on tour. Maybe I can influence their ads algorithm to get more of those.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 18/08/2026

This is really exciting! How'd you decide on Fedora KDE specifically, has there been some interesting support work in KDE?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 18/08/2026

I assume this is just "winning conditions" with optionality? If Trump leaves office, and a referendum still looks like a political liability, there will be another reason to put it off.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 10/08/2026

It was so much fun! Unfortunately the audio is a bit buggy in emulators.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 31/07/2026

Ooh nice! I got my Rage 128 working on ArchPower, but it took some patching, and honestly didn't help performance much. Are you getting much uplift from the R200?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 30/07/2026

Aaaaah I need to read so much!

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 30/07/2026

Was just trying to explain these to coworkers. Let us all know if you find anything.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 28/07/2026

The West Island route is ok if you stick to Lakeshore/Senneville/Gouin/Pierrefonss

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 28/07/2026

Damnnnn. Thanks for sharing!

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 25/07/2026

Definitely Haiku! But I would love to see you try out Arch Power one day, it's become my favorite distro for PPC. Maybe I should write about why.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 22/07/2026

Is yours clamshell or dual-USB?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 21/07/2026

Oh gawd, I keep thinking I need to do this, and keep delaying because it sounds impossible.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 12/07/2026

"How many children do you have?" "I have two living children, one child who died in a recognized miscarriage, and perhaps several others whose existence and death I never detected."

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 07/07/2026

I just wish they'd put a bixi station at each REM stop

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 05/07/2026

These are 25 years old and mostly unmaintained, so that'll happen! I'm trying to add some personal docs, which I do intend to share later, but there's unfortunately nowhere to contribute upstream.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 04/07/2026

I'm trying to learn a weird Forth variant, and the docs are all terrible. Asking an LLM "explain to me why X happened" has been pretty ok as a learning tool.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 22/06/2026

We all stole it from Belgium!

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 22/06/2026

So cool! D'où vient les données? Est-ce que c'est une liste que tu as crée toi-même?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 21/06/2026

Omg kotu roti is so good. Try also at Jolee in CDN

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 10/06/2026

Best Game confuses me. Do I vote for the best narrative or worldbuilding, as if they're novels with joysticks? Or for great gameplay, in a game which technically mentions magic once or twice?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 06/06/2026

Congrats to all the Frost fans who've been waiting for this day!

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 30/05/2026

It started over an hour late. I gave up

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @parisien.cc · 23/05/2026

I made this website which shows the construction date of each building in Montreal as a colour gradient so one can easily explore when the different borough were built and such. map.parisien.cc

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Montreal building ages

Every parcel in Montreal, colored by year of construction.

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 07/05/2026

I both love and hate this! We can change things so easily, but the sheer volume of code produced makes it hard to carefully review. Do I slow down, or produce mountains of code noone has ever read?

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 10/04/2026

I would definitely read/watch this

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 27/03/2026

I see what you mean. But removing HST and removing development charges seem equivalent in incidence, even if one is nominally a tax on buyers and the other on builders.

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Dave Vasilevsky @vasilevsky.ca · 26/03/2026

Uh isn't this mostly a supply-side change? It's a subsidy that only applies to new homes, not existing ones

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