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Notices by Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)

  1. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 21:40:13 EST Hubert Chathi 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.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  2. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Sunday, 02-Feb-2025 13:07:12 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    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".
    In conversation about 3 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  3. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 10:10:25 EST Hubert Chathi 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.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  4. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 09:49:14 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    RIP Jimmy Carter
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  5. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 16:59:46 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    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.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  6. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 22:30:15 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Good to see some cities trying out free transit, and having good results with it.

    www.cbc.ca/news/business/free-…

    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  7. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Nov-2024 09:20:42 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    So many people voted against their own interests. Have y'all not been paying any attention to what's been going on?
    In conversation about 6 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  8. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 31-Oct-2024 23:03:02 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    in reply to
    • Hubert Chathi
    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.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  9. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 17-Oct-2024 11:19:49 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    So, the Ontario Conservatives are resorting to bribery now.

    www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto…

    In conversation about 7 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  10. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 19:27:13 EDT Hubert Chathi 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".
    In conversation about 8 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  11. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 05-Sep-2024 10:35:23 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    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.
    In conversation about 8 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  12. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Aug-2024 11:20:37 EDT Hubert Chathi 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.

    www.newsday.com/long-island/na…

    In conversation about 9 months ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  13. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2024 22:35:43 EDT Hubert Chathi 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.
    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  14. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 20:48:32 EDT Hubert Chathi 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
    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  15. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Thursday, 29-Feb-2024 20:18:37 EST Hubert Chathi 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.

    In conversation about a year ago from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  16. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 12:48:58 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Governments should use interoperable communications, not proprietary systems.

    www.process-one.net/blog/insta…

    In conversation Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 12:48:58 EST from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  17. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 17:46:58 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    I've memorized enough that I can now solve a Rubik's cube without looking at the instructions. In the time that it takes me to solve a Rubik's cube, my daughter can solve three, and be half-way through solving a fourth.
    In conversation Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 17:46:58 EST from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  18. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 09:38:08 EST Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Thanks to Ada Lovelace's example, writing a program and never testing it is a time-honoured tradition among computer programmers.


    ♲ @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social: Ada Lovelace's notes were labelled alphabetically from A to G. In Note G, she describes an algorithm for the Analytical Engine to compute Bernoulli numbers. It is considered to be the first published algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and Ada Lovelace has often been cited as the first computer programmer for this reason. The engine was never completed and so her program was never tested. via @wikipedia

    #mathematics #computerprogramming

    In conversation Monday, 27-Nov-2023 09:38:08 EST from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  19. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:33:27 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi
    Finally figured out how to make flatpak Firefox use my non-flatpak Firefox's profile. Copy ~/.mozilla/firefox/{profileDirectory} to ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox, and edit ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.firefox/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini to add the new profile. Then run flatpak run org.mozilla.firefox --ProfileManager and select the profile that was copied.
    In conversation Tuesday, 31-Oct-2023 22:33:27 EDT from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
  20. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 18:58:05 EDT Hubert Chathi Hubert Chathi

    Wow! The Bank of Canada is actually acknowledging that inflation might be caused by corporate greed? It's taken them long enough, but I guess it's good that they got there. I guess the next question is: what are they going to do about it?

    www.cbc.ca/news/business/corpo…

    In conversation Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 18:58:05 EDT from social.uhoreg.ca permalink
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