Notices by Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025 14:32:52 EDT 
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Ugh. Why would you make a language where "val" and "var" are two different keywords? -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 25-Jul-2025 22:56:00 EDT
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"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.
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:50:57 EDT
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You can also submit a comment on the bill directly at ero.ontario.ca/notice/025-0391 (deadline: tomorrow!) -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 09:47:08 EDT
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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, 07-Feb-2025 21:40:13 EST
Hubert Chathi
Trump says he's creating a task force to "halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government"? Maybe he can start by getting rid of all those who were targeting Bishop Budde. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 13:07:12 EST
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Wiarton Willie has predicted an early spring. I'm not really interested in whether we have 6 more weeks of winter or not. The important question is whether or not we have four more years of Doug Ford. Fingers crossed for "not". -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 10:10:25 EST
Hubert Chathi
If you're have to make people pay even more to disable a "feature", maybe you shouldn't have developed the it in the first place. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 09:49:14 EST
Hubert Chathi
RIP Jimmy Carter -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 16:59:46 EST
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I went to a couple stores today. One of them was still advertising Black Friday prices (over a week after Black Friday). The other was already into their Boxing Day sale. It is very confusing. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 22:30:15 EST
Hubert Chathi
Good to see some cities trying out free transit, and having good results with it.
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 09:20:42 EST
Hubert Chathi
So many people voted against their own interests. Have y'all not been paying any attention to what's been going on? -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 23:03:02 EDT
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I've decided that when my bribery cheque comes in, I'll be sending it to the Green Party of Ontario. If Doug thinks that he can buy my vote, I'm going to use that money against him instead. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:19:49 EDT
Hubert Chathi
So, the Ontario Conservatives are resorting to bribery now.
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 19:27:13 EDT
Hubert Chathi
Just found out (via infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/…) about LinkedIn automatically opting-in (almost) everyone to having their data used to train generative AI. Checked my settings to turn it off, and I also noticed that they had opted me into having my data used for "social, economic, and workplace research". -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:35:23 EDT
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Wow, Poilievre. First he calls on the NDP to withdraw from their agreement with the Liberals, and then when they actually do it, he calls it a "stunt". I don't know why anyone would trust him. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 11:20:37 EDT
Hubert Chathi
Huh. I didn't expect "If you try out a streaming service for a month, the company is allowed to kill your wife" to be in my news feed today.
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:35:43 EDT
Hubert Chathi
Good grief. Poilievre complains about a tax hike that "that disproportionately affects wealthy people and big corporations." And then says that a government led by him will reduce "the share of taxes paid by the poor and middle class". So he's saying that the rich shouldn't pay a greater share of taxes, but also, he wants the not-so-rich to pay a smaller share of taxes?
I don't understand how anyone could think that Poilievre is the best leader for the country. I mean, I'm not that happy with Trudeau or Singh, but at this point, government-by-coin-flip looks like a saner choice than Poilievre. -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 20:48:32 EDT
Hubert Chathi
Managed to get to a place that wasn't too cloudy for today's eclipse, near the path of totality. I got a few pictures with my camera. I didn't bring any fancy equipment; I just brought my 20-year-old DSLR, with the kit lens. So the pictures are nothing spectacular, but I'm happy enough with what I got. Here are a couple that I took.
https://social.uhoreg.ca/photos/hubert/image/302717217666148d9aae753877064625
https://social.uhoreg.ca/photos/hubert/image/625465918166148dbab2f8a796833171 -
Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 20:18:37 EST
Hubert Chathi
I'm back!
In mid-January, the VM hosting social.uhoreg.ca, hosted by Google Cloud, was taken down for "policy violations". Their support was extremely unhelpful, and they would not tell my what the issue was. It looks like their support can only send canned responses because they would re-send me the exact same messages after I had responded to them. My best guess as to the issue is that it was github.com/friendica/friendica… and so I've applied the patch for that (I'm having issues upgrading to the latest release, but that's a separate thing). In fact, the main reason that I found out about that issue was due to a report that I got from Netcraft at around the same time as Google suspending my VM.
I don't know if Google's support is better if you're paying them real money (I'm just using their free hosting tier, so I only pay a couple dollars a month for bandwidth), but Google support was pretty useless at providing me with any information or help. Even though their messages kept saying that I could ask for assistance, they were entirely unhelpful. In fact, the only real information that they gave me was the time of the violation, and the fact that the violation was reported by a third party. I got more information from an automated notice from Netcraft (who I don't pay any money to), than I got from trying to deal with Google Cloud support.
Eventually, I got a message saying that they reviewed my information, and they decided to reinstate my VM. (They didn't by the way. I had to contact them again and tell them that my VM was still disabled.) Still no information about exactly why it was suspended in the first place. Which means that I hope that it was just friendica#13216, and not some other vulnerability that allowed someone to take over my VM.
In summary, I highly do not recommend Google Cloud. I will probably be looking into migrating my ActivityPub home elsewhere. Which may involve switching software to something that uses PostgreSQL so that I can run it on my main VPS. Bonfire looks interesting.
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Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 12:48:58 EST
Hubert Chathi
Governments should use interoperable communications, not proprietary systems.
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