Andrew McIntosh

@amcintosh
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I'm a programmer and an occasional supernumerary with the Canadian Opera Company.

I like tea and cookies. 🫖🍪

HomeToronto, Ontario
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The fact that there's so many tech people against daylight savings time tells me that it's probably a pretty good idea actually.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

Hell froze over in Toronto and the Eglinton LRT opened!

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Sneaky CN Tower and Allan Gardens #photography #toronto
"Deescalation" is a weasel word when you use the passive voice and one side is exercising their first amendment rights to peaceful protests while the other side is murdering them.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.

https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/

"Women don't believe that anyone who'd opt in to a life of society treating them the way society treats women are a real problem worth bringing up" is the opposite of surprising, but when you're calling out manufactured crises and bigoted bullshit for what they are, it's important to know that the numbers back that up.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/01/almost-no-one-is-complaining-about-trans-women-in-womens-spaces-study-finds/

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#StarTrek