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Natasha 
🇪🇺Interviewer: Can you perform under pressure?
Me: I can do the Bowie part, but I don't have the upper range to sing the Freddie part.
| personal web site | https://samedwards.ca/ |
| location | victoria, bc |
sam
@samedwards
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just some guy
🇨🇦 looked at 🇺🇸's surveillance problems and said: hold our beer.
#BillC22 is proposing far greater surveillance, and a permanent treasure of private Canadian data no other democracy demands.
It's wildly dangerous, and we need to shut it down, NOW!
https://www.openmedia.org/StopC22-mast.
Stop the Surveillance State: Stop Bill C-22!
🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: https://openmedia.org/StopC22 #BillC22
PanicPrompt 3.5 is out! A hhuge update to our terminal emulator / SSH client. We fixed some bugs. We deeply lowered the price (everything is too expensive right now). And we added…
…Apple Vision Pro?! Yes. And not just a basic port. We also added an original immersive environment, made in-house, for maximum basement hacking vibes.
Did you ask for this? No. Was it fun? Yes. Enjoy: https://prompt.app/
🆎
Hypnagogist
never obsolete
Yes it’s true, hell is a little colder today as I have finally started backing up any of my self-hosted stuff
(Using @restic to https://www.borgbase.com/ if you’re wondering)
Tech TangentsWell I had a fun day today!
These are unaltered direct photos (other than mirroring) of a CED and a Laserdisc where using diffraction grating I was able to VISIBLY SEE video physically encoded on the disc!
I will be editing a video about this process but also did a quick write up about it on my wiki here with the direct sample images:
Cabel Sassera lot of you are hesitating to update to macOS 26, which is too bad, because i'm over here making my new best friend: foldy
susEven when Canadian governments do the right thing, they do it as badly as possible. It is infuriating.
Today, BC announced that we’re going to stop doing time changes (good) but stay on DST (bad).
You don’t have to take my word for it that DST is the wrong choice. Here’s basically every organization that thinks about sleep or circadian rhythms on the topic:
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
https://aasm.org/advocacy/position-statements/permanent-standard-time-is-the-optimal-choice-for-health-and-safety/
Sleep Research Society
https://sleepresearchsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cpst-PERMANENT-STANDARD-TIME-talking-points-2024.pdf
Canadian Sleep Society
https://css-scs.ca/society-news/position-statement-of-the-canadian-sleep-society-on-the-practice-of-daylight-saving-time-dst/
British Sleep Society
https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/187671/1/Journal%20of%20Sleep%20Research%20-%202024%20-%20Crawford%20-%20The%20British%20Sleep%20Society%20position%20statement%20on%20Daylight%20Saving%20Time%20in%20the.pdf
National Sleep Foundation
https://www.thensf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/NSF-Position-on-Permanent-Standard-Time_Final_.pdf
Society for Research on Biological Rhythms https://srbr.org/why-we-should-let-the-sun-set-on-daylight-saving-time/
European Sleep Research Society and others https://esrs.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/To_the_EU_Commission_on_DST.pdf
