@timbray@cosocial.caThings are happening in the C2PA world; here are a couple of useful steps forward, plus cheers and boos for Adobe. Plus a live working C2PA demo you can try out: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/17/More-C2PA
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Maan Farm & Corn Maze. Weekend adventures
@emd@cosocial.caI love how Mastodon operates
https://cosocial.ca/@timbray/114705127870668731
@timbray@cosocial.caBram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff
@timbray@cosocial.ca @emd@cosocial.caBest CMS/core team/community out there.
Love the software and the people.
May you celebrate many more
https://mastodon.social/@statamic/114711898063716746
@emd@cosocial.caThis would be hilarious
https://beige.party/@SnowshadowII/114705410178751849
@timbray@cosocial.caSomehow I got myself on this mailing list, every month or 3 they send a list of used printing equipment in Europe. I actually enjoy glancing at it, definitely a Heavy Metal vibe, for example this thing, made in 2011, has printed 137M impressions, and can be yours for a mere 420,000€. Free shipping probably not available.
@timbray@cosocial.ca#Vancouver folks: They’ve renamed Trutch St (thank goodness, Trutch was an asshole), its new name translated into English is “Musqueamview”. In Musqueam that’s “šxʷməθkʷəyΓəmasəm” which, it turns out, sounds like “sh-musqueam-awesome” to my ears. I think it’d be cool if we were all saying sh-musqueam-awesome to each other.
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Z-Space. Z in the sunshine
@emd@cosocial.caGosh it's shocking how good Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers were right at the beginning.
#TomPetty
@timbray@cosocial.caObvious what’s going on here with just a bit of study, but had me puzzled for a moment when I came around the corner and saw it.
#photography
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Revolver. Duet, with Rooftop beans from Fernie https://www.rooftopcoffeeroasters.com/
@timbray@cosocial.caPiketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/06/17/the-senate-beside-the-story/
Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Take Out Shack. Health food for lunch.
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caFor a very long time, it’s been a central goal of Israel’s governing faction to get the US and Iran into a war. Hoping Trump doesn’t fall for it, but not optimistic.
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Yugo Restaurant. Sashimi lunch for me, house bento for Rachael. This place is great!
@timbray@cosocial.ca @emd@cosocial.caRelated, if I am going to have my own instance how would I choose between mastodon, gotosocial, etc?
https://cosocial.ca/@emd/114690337238365051
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Seiffert Market Bakeshop. Student baking. $10 for garlic bread, 2 mini baguettes, and 6 donuts.
@timbray@cosocial.caColor study.
#bloomscrolling #photography
@emd@cosocial.caI'm really torn. I love me my @…, great people, great model, love to support and use.
Buuuuut, I'd also love to use my own domain so I can truly own my own social. However I’m concerned about a single user instance not seeing all my current interactions.
Any advice from you self-hosters? I'm trying out
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Yušn Coffee. My second coffee: Colombia El Eden sangria co-ferment washed purple caturra bourbon, from Rogue Wave in Edmonton.
@timbray@cosocial.caWow, C2PA Content Credentials working in the wild. In Chrome, anyhow. If you install this extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/c2pa-content-credentials/mjkaocdlpjmphfkjndocehcdhbigaafp and then visit a page on …
@boris@cosocial.caChecked in at Welk’s General Store. Welk’s has a little bit of everything, & a lot of coffee and cocktail paraphernalia. House of Funk is local roaster with great design
@timbray@cosocial.caI’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/
@emd@cosocial.caI totally should have got a heat pump when we replaced our furnace a few years ago but a) the folks we bought from (who sell heat pumps) said not to, b) my electrician said not to, and c) the rebate/inspection process was extremely confusing to navigate.
https://mstdn.ca/@Sanderde/11468944577
@timbray@cosocial.caI remember when you used to be able to search for text in Web pages.
Is this another thing that we can blame React and its ilk for?
@timbray@cosocial.caGoogle Cloud outage in progress apparently.
#hugops
@timbray@cosocial.caI saw Brian WIlson’s “SMiLE” tour in August 2005 and wrote it up: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/31/SMiLE
You can watch that show here:
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caStoller: “Private Equity, UnitedHealth Take a Huge Loss as Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors”.
Here in Canada, the home of single-payer free-for-residents healthcare, we’ve also had financiers rolling up a variety of healthcare operations and we should do like Oregon.
https://www.
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caCalico in early summer.
#caturday #photography
@timbray@cosocial.caUK and partners unite to sanction ministers inciting West Bank violence - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-and-partners-unite-to-sanction-ministers-inciting-west-bank-violence
@timbray@cosocial.caI like this introduction a lot: https://jointhefediverse.net/
@emd@cosocial.ca@… it seems like the timelines aren't syncing across my devices now? Anything change on your end?
I've reset the account cache on 2 of the devices and the sync hasn't really come back.
Any ideas?
@timbray@cosocial.caAm running across occasional uses of the phrases “Mastodon tweet” and “Bluesky tweet”. Hmm… I think that’s OK. Twitter is irretrievably gone so let’s memorialize it in a short, pleasant, instantly-understandable new idiom.
@timbray@cosocial.caHere’s a person, Baldur Bjarnason, @…, who thinks I’m really wrong about LLMs and coding. I mostly don’t agree but the argument is well-presented: https://www.baldurbjarna…
@timbray@cosocial.ca1/2 “My input stream is full of it: Fear and loathing and cheerleading and prognosticating on what generative AI means and whether it’s Good or Bad and what we should be doing. All the channels: Blogs and peer-reviewed papers and social-media posts and business-news stories. So there’s lots of AI angst out there, but this is mine. I think the following is a bit unique because it focuses on cost, working backward from there.”
@emd@cosocial.caYowsers, what a great article on innovation today vs yesteryears
https://manganiello.social/objects/1bf46e19-a33a-4a99-b5a6-2a834bd649bf
@timbray@cosocial.ca“This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/31/Colors
@timbray@cosocial.caWSJ: Search-based traffic from Google is declining as Google uses AI to keep people on its site. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-news-publishers-7e687141?st=mfqzPY&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
@timbray@cosocial.caRelevant to yesterday’s big argument: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/a-tale-of-two-claudes/
@timbray@cosocial.caIs there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caHmm watched the Liquid Glass movie. Just me or is everything higher contrast? Also, colors seemed distinctly more saturated.
@emd@cosocial.caOK coffee snobs, let’s say we were convinced that it’s worth it to pay $1800-$2500 for a Miele coffee machine. At that price range, is that a good one? what you recommend (it was like this one): https://www.miele.ca/en/Shop/products/deta
@timbray@cosocial.caWow, setting electric cars with 90kWh batteries on fire in the middle of a crowd is seriously fucking bad karma.
@timbray@cosocial.caHere are a couple of springtime pictures with small associated stories. It’s a thrill to find something positive to write about: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/27/Happy-Colors
@emd@cosocial.caTrying to order a product I normally get from Amazon, directly from the vendor.
Takes 4 days to say “order getting ready”, still in that state 3 days later, and it costs 25% more! It also takes 3-4 business days to hear back from their support.
From Amazon, in their own store, it's cheaper and comes in like 2 days.
I know I shouldn't expect same speed/pricing from vendors as Amazon, but this makes it very hard to support vendors directly.
Am I expecting too mu…
@timbray@cosocial.caYou might want to fine-tune your notification settings:
“Apple Gave Governments Data on Thousands of Push Notifications” - https://www.404media.co/apple-gave-governments-data-on-thousands-of-push-notifications/
@timbray@cosocial.ca @emd@cosocial.caFolks who have recently bought kitchen appliances, time for recommendations.
Are Bosch/Miele still the best dishwashers?
Looking for induction stove, counter-depth french door fridge (we tend to like LG appliances but not committed to them) and microwave/range hood.
Not luxury (so like no wolfe etc), just "nice”.
All stainless or black.
#KitchenRenovation
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caNew turntable thinking: Hold the arm steady and slide the platter sideways.
No, really: https://soulution-audio.com/soulution-787-turntable/
@emd@cosocial.ca@… FR: love to be able to adjust the playing speed for a single episode/moment, and have it revert when done listening to that episode.
@timbray@cosocial.caWhat was the anti-AI rant I read recently from a link here titled something like "I don't want to hear about AI anymore"? Thanks in advance. Also, Web Search sucks these days.
@timbray@cosocial.caWhy Google should proactively break itself up: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html?unlocked_article_code=1.L08.oUPn.B0yCN3RUyZxS&smid=url-share…
@emd@cosocial.caMichael “Murph” Murphy, I salute you.
#Crossfit
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caWhen you’re busy in your typical work environment:
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caIt’s language pedantry! No, it’s math pedantry! Anyhow, “Comparing Numbers Badly” gripes about the mis-use of “order(s) of magnitude” and percentages in comparing numbers: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/30/Number-Comparison-Representa…
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caScientists Capture Sharpest Images Ever of Sun's Corona | PetaPixel https://petapixel.com/2025/05/30/scientists-capture-sharpest-images-ever-of-suns-corona/
There's video in there you might want to full-screen.
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.caVibe coding: https://bramcohen.com/p/vibe-coding
“Vibe coding definitely changes the, uh, vibe of coding. Traditional programming feels like a cold uncaring computer calling you an idiot a thousand times a day. Of course the traditional environment isn’t capable of calling you an idiot so …
@timbray@cosocial.caThe future of Bitcoin:
#Crypto #cryptocurrency
@emd@cosocial.caThanks to @…'s great list: https://codeberg.org/Taffer/canadian-alternatives I just switched my S3-compatible backups to a Canadian pr…
@timbray@cosocial.caHeh, so people in the import/export world, instead of dealing with Trump’s short-attention-span/TACO tariff policies, now have to deal with the uncertainties of US constitutional litigation. Joking aside, I think that’s an improvement.
#USpol
@emd@cosocial.caStock buybacks should be illegal
https://mastodon.social/@gvwilson/114610239799915892
@timbray@cosocial.caThat… is quite a number. I wonder what the return on that investment will look like?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/how-nvidia-played-a-central-role-in-the-306-billion-ai-startup-boom-195741749.html
@timbray@cosocial.caI’ve read a lot of horrible news this last couple of years but this is maybe the worst? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-magazine/.premi…
@emd@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.ca“I am disappointed in the AI discourse” https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/
@timbray@cosocial.cahttps://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess
Tl;dr: Spam LLM is a combo that’s hard to deal with.
@timbray@cosocial.caI bet a lot of folks (especially on the tech side) have just stopped paying attention to crypto, which is perfectly sane because we all know that it’s bad technology. On the other hand, the finance sector, with MAGA cheerleading, is still wildly enthusiastic. See https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/1894
@timbray@cosocial.caNew IETF Working Group: Digital Emblems: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/diem/about/
When I first saw this I thought “WTF?!” but… OK, I guess?
@timbray@cosocial.caPretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399
@emd@cosocial.caAnd the world suddenly became a better place: https://mastodon.social/@verge/114563010203972684
@timbray@cosocial.caThe Education Vigilante - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604
@timbray@cosocial.caInteresting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca
@emd@cosocial.caAgreed, great series about the enshittification
https://famichiki.jp/@lazysupper/114551206200705897
@timbray@cosocial.caBig thrill today, saw two humpbacks breaching by Bowen Island, about here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Ly9AteWe1JHN7SyX6
Wonderful creatures and so obviously having fun.
