Great local #Fediverse news and efforts to get Canadian politicians off American SM! #ElbowsUp folks! The Fedi can do its part!

Elizabeth May, speaking frankly as she always does!
"“I'm embarrassed to say that I started with Blue Sky. I'm trying to stop using Twitter altogether. The problem is I already have 300,000 followers on Twitter and the question is, do they migrate with you?””

Can we get her on #SocialBC :)
Councillor @ZebKing championed this!
#Mastodon #Bluesky
https://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/local-news/central-saanich-councillor-calls-on-leaders-to-elbow-up-on-social-media-8125046

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Dear Mark Carney - in the light of Trump's new tariff letter threatening 35% on basically everything, tell him to fuck off and bring back the digital service tax

Be like Brazil, stand up to the orange asshole - appeasement doesn't work, cut off the potash and watch US farmers freak out

#CDNpoli #USpol #USpolitics #ONpoli #ABpoli #BCpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-35-per-cent-tariffs-1.7582563

The only #cool #influencer is a #Fedi Influencer.

Tell your #family
Tell your #friends.
Tell your #neighbors.
Tell your #co-workers.
Tell your worst fucking #enemies

#KillCorporateSocialMedia

#fediverse

The command line was foreign to a lot of Apple folks, and so the number they typed in was often a calculated guesstimate based on how much data was in the HFS volume. That meant any data which was on the drive after the cutoff number got skipped, including partitions which may or may not have been located at the end of the device.

tl;dr: Meridian CD Publisher software was DOS-based, not user-friendly, and it was very easy to get numbers wrong.

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Once you had your large external 650MB Mac drive filled, you attached it to the Meridian and issued a DOS command, e.g.:

di2file 5 0 630000000 1:image.dat

which would image the device at SCSI ID 5, starting at byte 0 and ending at 630000000. Then you would run the `cdmaster` program on the Meridian to start burning from the image.dat file, hoping that it would succeed and not leave you with an expensive coaster.

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To follow up a recent thread about early Apple CD-ROMs (pre-1992) which report incorrect device sizes: I think I know what happened.

These discs were all mastered using the Meridian Data CD Publisher (https://mastodon.social/@_the_cloud/114812848624013542). It was a PC in a huge metal box, with integrated Yamaha CD burner and attached SCSI storage. At the time, individual hard drive sizes were smaller, but it was possible to buy an external drive unit that connected multiple drives to appear as one large volume.

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January 2024: Reminder: it's against company policy to use non-approved applications, including AI code-generation tools.

July 2025: You haven't used CoPilot even once. Lists of non-adopters are being shared with managers and senior leaders.

omg

https://github.com/bitwarden/mcp-server

What could possibly go wrong?