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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-02-03 at 23:14

"At the end of the day, Canada is many things. But above all else, we’re a bunch of grudge holding motherfuckers"

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/editorial-trump-underestimates-how-proud-united-and-most-importantly-petty-canadians-are/

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-02-03 at 15:27

Feeling so cool today! Might freeze later.

[#]weather #alberta #winter

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-02-02 at 17:49

As noted elsewhere, make sure you export at least one copy of your Google https://takeout.google.com/ or Outlook https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/import-and-export-outlook-email-contacts-and-calendar-92577192-3881-4502-b79d-c3bbada6c8ef

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-02-01 at 18:06

In 1985 characters named Jeff were cool. Just check out his outfit :) Featuring young Sarah Jessica Parker, Helen Hunt, Shannen Doherty.

Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089208/

[#]movies #1980s #1985 #jeff #dance

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-31 at 21:59

At the vet last night because cat did cat things :)

• They dramatically underestimated my angry tuxedo boy and suddenly need more sedative to get xrays, surprise claws appeared!

• Medication is supposed to make him drowsy, yeah, that isn't happening.

• The vet suddenly spoke Spanish while counting hours to herself. Childhood sticks hard.

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-30 at 16:06

Oh, that time that Super hacker (Tim Russ), Undersea boy genius Lucas (Jonathan Brandis), Hacker teen (Seth Green), and Hacker teen (nice gender include for 1993, Sarah Koskoff) were busy HACKING THE PLANET from an under ocean fiber optic hub? Run by teenagers? What? This doesn't make any sense at all.

[#]seaquest #timruss #seaquestdsv #sethgreen #sarakoskoff #hacking #hacktheplanet #1994 #cybersecurity #hackers

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-29 at 21:53

Hey #abpoli #alberta maybe this is worth a read to slow some nonsense in this province too. https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-27 at 22:55

Today in ethical conundrums

• Use new app that sends data to Communists who might build a profile on you to match up with all that shit you ordered from AliExpress.

• Use existing app that sends data to Nazi's who have explicitly stated they build psychological profiles to manipulate you.

hmmm.

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-27 at 19:16

Want

More: on-brand Star Trek like lower decks.

Less: poorly done action movie with Star Trek logo attached.

[#]startrek #section31 #lowerdecks

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-27 at 16:52

Sure I bought 5 kg (11 lb) of cheddar but in my defense it was cheese.

[#]cheese #cheddar

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-26 at 22:48

Dead ps4 controller batteries, no problemo. My wife got annoyed, ordered the parts, followed an iFixIt video and tada, 15 minutes later they work perfectly again. No waste here.

[#]reducereuserecycle #selfrepair #righttorepair #ewaste

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-24 at 18:16

"How could there possibly be a semesters worth of stuff to talk about in a business ethics class".

Real sentence said to me this week.

[#]ethics #business #college

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-24 at 16:07

Hey friends. Another topic I didn't think was controversial but was surprised talking to other instructors yesterday. Let me know what you think.

A bad day in programming is way better than a bad day in pretty much any other job.

• and still often better than a good day in many jobs too.

[#]programming #development #software #trades #labour #deskjob #outside

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-22 at 22:23

Your as often as I remember reminder.

The "news" has never been "the news"

It has always served other purposes than a well informed populace.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-22 at 22:03

No young developer, you and your buddy on different phones comparing speeds on your cellular data does not qualify as scientific method and you have not proved a bug that I need to fix in the code.

[#]programming

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-22 at 17:14

There is a very nice guy in my neighborhood that takes his snow blower around a bunch of the sidewalks, he also often does our complete driveway.

Sometimes I wonder if it is because he sees my wife shoveling and thinks I'm dead :)

[#]snow

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-22 at 15:59

Happy to report that yesterdays class agrees with the premise that as technology people they should make ethical choices about how they use it and what they recommend to people.

Unhappy to report that several not students said ethics in tech choices and use hadn't even crossed their minds.

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-20 at 19:08

Ran across some SeaQuest DSV last night and wait, what? The SeaQuest creator was Rockne, the guy that (later) made Farscape!

[#]seaquest #farscape #90stv #scifi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockne_S._O'Bannon

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-20 at 00:10

2025 plans, step 1

• Opened the activity pub documentation in a new tab where it will taunt me for months.

Now to work towards step 2 :)

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Written by Jeff Horton on 2025-01-19 at 21:23

Students: "I thought this class was about cloud computing and how useful and cheap it is, why do you keep telling us that it is terrible and expensive?"

Me: "Experience"

[#]cloud #aws #gcp #azure #computing #serverless

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