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1. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 19-Dec-2025 19:01:19 EST Hubert Chathi

   I'm not sure how I missed this, but there's a petition to implement Proportional Representation for Canadian federal elections: ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…

   @Bob Jonkman did you hear about it?
2. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 13:15:53 EST Brian Ó

   As a follow on to my last post, I've decided to shut down the pod next weekend. Thanks for all the fish.

   #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish #404
3. zorak (zorak@social.ilikefreedom.ro)'s status on Monday, 08-Jan-2018 12:41:56 EST zorak

   • Science (News, Articles, …)
   • watching
   #Watching Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Is This Thing A Spaceship? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxc1tasmiCs !science !watching
   • arunisaac, arunisaac and arunisaac and 187 others repeated this.
4. kuro (kuro@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 01-Mar-2018 06:21:21 EST kuro

   • Evolution
   • Science (News, Articles, …)
   • Nature (federati)
   The terrifying phenomenon that is pushing species towards extinction ogy.de/e0xv #wildlife !evolution !science !nature
   • auroch likes this.
   • drak, drak and drak and 373 others repeated this.
5. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Nov-2025 13:48:03 EST Hubert Chathi
   My opinion of Marit Stiles has improved. www.elorafergustoday.com/ontar…
6. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2025 14:11:57 EST Brian Ó

   I don't really know who else uses this pod anymore as registrations have been closed for a long time and the built-in user pruning feature deleted the podmin account (!) a long time ago -- but I'm winding down my use of social media and I haven't really checked in here in weeks. I think when this domain is up for renewal at the end of January I'm going to let it lapse (i.e. the pod will cease to exist).

   Sorry if that inconveniences anyone. This is your notice to find a new pod.

   #diaspora #podmin #gibberfish
7. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 12:29:12 EDT Hubert Chathi
   Python 3.14 is released. (Which I think they should officially call Py π)
   • Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Oct-2025 12:32:54 EDT Hubert Chathi
     Or they should take a book from the book of Knuth, and rather than incrementing the (sub-)minor version on each release, start adding more digits of π. So the next release will be 3.141, and then 3.1415, and so forth.
8. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Oct-2025 14:42:17 EDT Hubert Chathi
   RIP Jane Goodall
9. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 26-Sep-2025 18:11:21 EDT Hubert Chathi

   The premier made a series of false claims in his announcement on Thursday.

   Well, that's always a good sign.

   www.thetrillium.ca/news/munici…
10. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Sunday, 28-Sep-2025 23:11:49 EDT Hubert Chathi
    @Martin Kleppmann Just finished reading "Designing Data-Intensive Applications". I really enjoyed it and learned a lot. Thank you very much for writing it. I especially appreciated the last section, "Doing the Right Thing".
11. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 00:38:54 EDT Hubert Chathi

    I've caught some AI crawlers aggressively crawling some of my sites, disregarding the robots.txt. Some of the sites are of little or no interest to any real person. So I've deployed iocaine (iocaine.madhouse-project.org/) on them, in a "always spew nonsense" mode, rather than the suggested "generate nonsense if it looks like a bot" mode. But I am not unfair. I've included a robots.txt there so that any bot that respects it will be spared from ingesting it.

    Unfortunately, I'm abandoning my self-hosted git repositories, but I didn't have much on there of interest any more. Most of what was there was old, and was also in my GitLab account.

    • Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 18:07:01 EDT Hubert Chathi

      in reply to

      As fun as it is to taunt the bot with random garbage, the idiots trying to crawl my git repo have pulled 2GB in less than 4 hours. Which should fit within my monthly limit for my VPS, but is just a stupid amount of data. So for now, I've set the hostname for my git repo to point to 127.0.0.1 instead. With any luck, the bot will try to DoS itself. But at the very least it will stop bothering me for a while. I might turn it back to iocaine at some point. I've left iocaine on the other sites.

      By the way, from the access logs, it hadn't even started crawling the garbage links that iocaine generated. It was only crawling links that it had before.

      In other news, you'd think that Google would understand about respecting robots.txt. Googlebot seems to do so, but GoogleOther does not.

12. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Sep-2025 09:47:11 EDT Hubert Chathi
    First, we had "Erlang: The Movie". Then, "Python: The Documentary". What will we get next? "JavaScript: The Parody"? "PHP: The Horror Movie"?
13. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 14:32:52 EDT Hubert Chathi
    Ugh. Why would you make a language where "val" and "var" are two different keywords?
14. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 22:56:00 EDT Hubert Chathi

    "Kitchener non-profit to head 'deeply affordable' housing project in Guelph" Rent is expected to be $500/mo. It's only 13 units, but 13 is better than 0. We need more of this type of thing.

    www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchen…

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15. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 08:39:32 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

    • New Hampshire
    9th annual !NH #Beer & #Bacon #Festival, this Saturday June 7 in #Merrimack: "celebrating greasy, fatty, savory bacon alongside the endless possibilities of incredible craft brews" & raising funds for the High Hopes Foundation to benefit chronically ill children: https://beerfests.com/events/nh-bacon-beer-festival #food
16. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jun-2025 08:29:08 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

    • New Hampshire
    Boards & Brews: a #boardgaming café in #Manchester, !NH — boasting the largest library of #boardgames in New England w/ almost 2000 games to play https://www.boardsandbrewsnh.com/
17. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:47:08 EDT Hubert Chathi
    Ontarians: Let Doug Ford know that we don't like his attempts to get around environmental protections and indigenous rights ontarionature.good.do/bill-5-s…
    • Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:50:57 EDT Hubert Chathi
      You can also submit a comment on the bill directly at ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0391 (deadline: tomorrow!)
18. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 07-May-2025 19:48:22 EDT Brian Ó

    I've been meaning to put up a bee hotel for a while now, so I printed one. We'll see.

    #nature #insects #bees #pollinators #3dprinting
19. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Apr-2025 20:08:04 EDT Brian Ó

    I found #pedantle #1077 in 34 guesses!
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/
20. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 16:30:51 EDT Brian Ó

    I would have expected to get this one a lot sooner since it aligns with my interests.

    #pedantle I found #pedantle #1075 in 93 guesses!
    🟩🟩🟩🟩🟧🟧🟧🟧🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥🟥
    https://pedantle.certitudes.org/