So my oldest kid was asking about the CBS thing and I explained to him about Oracle and he'd never heard of Oracle.
Which is weird, I remember the days when they had more cultural impact.
I basically had to explain them as "like Adobe but for Enterprise Software."
On the NIN song "Copy of a": A co-worker said his kid calls that song "Capybara", so...
Look what you have just done
Why not just eat some fruit
You need to boop my snoot
Capybara capybara
Now look what you've gone and done
Well aren't I a giant bun
See, I'm not the only one
Capybara capybara
Sent a letter to the city, contents recorded on my blog for records.
This time it was about the #HamOnt HSRNow web application. For background, HSRNow was a live map of all City of Hamilton buses and bus-routes on the city website. In February of 2024, the City IT infrastructure was hit by a bad ransomware attack and a tremendous amount of digital infrastructure was lost, including HSRNow.
Last week was the two-year anniversary of HSRNow being down.
https://pxtl.ca/2026/03/02/hamilton-hack-anniversary-letter-to-council/
Here we go. The UCP has once again used the notwithstanding clause to bypass the rule of law and legislate away Charter rights of Albertans. This time not rights to assembly and collective bargaining, but the most basic fundamental human rights to health, safety, and security FREE FROM DISCRIMINATION!
Danielle Smith called the existence of trans kids the most urgent threat to the safety of other children. This is absolutely unheard of. And yet her caucus dares to deny being the villains of the poem, "First they came for". She knows these laws puts trans kids at-risk and endangers them, that's why she's using the notwithstanding clause to shield her legislation from the judicial process.
Statistically you are probably not trans, but these fundamental human rights belong to all of us. They will come for yours next.
We have seen how Albertans are mobilizing over the charter rights of teachers being taken away, primarily because they targeted the worker rights which affect so many of us. This time they are targeting the smallest marginalized group in Alberta, but taking away the most essential fundamental rights they have.
It doesn't matter how big the group is or how basic and essential the rights are, neither is beyond the scope of the UCP to attack.
The only urgency here is for Albertans to mobilize like never before to recall all UCP caucus members. This autocracy is the most existential threat our province has ever faced. I have never seen Albertans mobilize like they have, but the threat here requires much more than we have even seen.
#abpoli #cdnpoli #fascism #education #humanrights #transrights #gayrights #transrightsarehumanrights #union #strike #Solidarity
Mastodon's CEO has officially stepped down. I can't be the only one disappointed that Mastodon didn't succeed in rising to the moment when the Muskening happened, so it's probably a good thing to change the leadership.
But still, his accomplishment deserves respect.
This came across my feed and I enjoyed it.
https://www.staffordshire-live.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/funny-mystery-road-sign-leaves-7148462
New #wplace hobby: Finding abandoned WIP pixel-art that I can cross-reference on Spriter's Resource and finishing it.
Found that Advance Wars bomber that was outline-only in Lake St Clair between Detroit & Chatham. Also tweaked the coloring of the battleship to be closer to the canonical color.
FFmpeg to Google Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs: https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/ by @sjvn
The clash between small volunteer-driven, open-source projects, such as FFmpeg & the billion-dollar companies built on their work, which demand rapid security patches, is heating up.
Ned Yeung
sjvn