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Vancouver | Wildfire/Emergency Preparedness Open House [May 2 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm]

Vancouver | Wildfire/Emergency Preparedness Open House [May 2 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm] - Lemmy.ca

From the event page: > With the 2024 construction blaze at 41st and Collingwood still in recent memory, local residents will be interested in learning how to prepare for the risk of house fires caused by a major earthquake or a forest fire in nearby Pacific Spirit Park. > > Come with your family to the May 2 Wildfire and Emergency Preparedness Open House hosted by Dunbar Earthquake and Emergency Preparedness (DEEP) and FireSmart B.C. > > Check out information booths and demonstrations from community partners including: > > - DEEP and VECTOR HAM radio operators > - Pacific Spirit MedVents > - Vancouver Fire Rescue and FireSmart BC > - UBC Engineering Shake Table > - Canadian Red Cross > - Survive-It Disaster Preparedness > - Total Prepare (a supplier of emergency preparedness products) > - Metro Vancouver Emergency Management and Pacific Spirit Park Society > KOM Community Policing Centre. > > A small fire engine will also be on site for children to explore. > > The event will take place at the Disaster Support Hub beside the tennis courts in the park behind the Community Centre, from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. > > This free event is made possible by funding support from the Province of BC, FireSmart Canada and Vancity.

Darryl Pogue Apr 4

Me: It's been a really busy few weeks, looking forward to a relaxing long weekend doing nothing.

My brain: What about an ambitious new side project in a language you don't know and a problem space you're not familiar with?

Darryl Pogue Apr 3

Simon Willison Apr 3

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Darryl Pogue Apr 1

So how is Anthropic using DMCA copyright claims to take down code that they boast was written by AI? Didn't the courts just recently rule that AI-generated material wasn't copyrightable?

Darryl Pogue Mar 31

Jeremiah Lee Mar 31

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116322870856344339

Why do people use Axios instead of the native Fetch API in 2026?

#NodeJS #JS #webDev

Darryl Pogue Mar 23

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Open Web Advocacy Mar 23

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More than two years have passed since March 7, 2024, when Apple became legally obligated under the DMA to allow third-party browser engines, yet not a single browser vendor has successfully ported their own engine to iOS in the EU.
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy

Darryl Pogue Mar 21

Oh really?

Darryl Pogue Mar 11

Sophia J. Turner Mar 6

Can we just put it bluntly?

If you're vibe-coding open source, you are *not* doing open source.

To do open source, you must be creating source code that both has clear provenance *and* the new code you're writing is IP you have full rights to offer under compatible license. As is quickly becoming clear, that second one is getting tested and failing legal checks in places like the US.

Darryl Pogue Mar 3

RIP semi-annual clock switchy nonsense! 🙌

https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2026AG0013-000209