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• Post #4393479

  Travel can be very stressful - especially if you're a parent & are the primary person in charge of packing. One of the most useful things I've ever done is create a Master Pack List that covers the average week long trip. It completely eliminates the mental load of figuring out what to pack. #travel #parenting #LifeHack

• Post #4367537

  RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/117034109353216769 As someone who studied like a fiend, stressed out like crazy, and would never, ever cheat on a test, this absolutely BOILS my blood. The thought of either being disadvantaged by a curve that now includes a TON of cheaters OR being forced to retake an exam I stressed & studied for is totally crushing. More people need to nope out of post-secondary & go the online self-directed education or apprenticeship routes. #AI #education #c...

• Post #4337313

  RE: https://wandering.shop/@kagan/117027449979840955 I don't understand why all these "we can't quite get LLMS to police themselves" problems can't be solved with deterministic filters before & after the input/output? #AI #LLM

• Post #4217904

  @fuzzychef@m6n.io @evacide@hachyderm.io Americans don't use bill-pay via online banking? I think in Canada that's the main method now besides direct, automatic withdrawal.

• Post #4111699

  The tech professional's quintessential dream of moving to a cabin in the woods. 😓 Had a benign action on a #MediaWiki instance triggering a ModSecurity false flag blocking my IP. I thought the entire server was down. Actually I had to disable a specific #ModSecurity rule. I'm a team of 1 managing these servers. This is a very lonely situation. Who could ever be expected to know what's happening?? It's just confused sysadmins and a lot of Googling. Brutal. #WebDev #Sysadmin #...

• Post #3985738

  "At this point I just feel sorry for Americans," Eby said. "If you're picking fights with Canadians, you don't have a friend in the world." - B.C. Premier David Eby Exactly. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/new-trump-tariffs-canada-us-trade-cusma-usmca-9.7277143 #UsPol #CDNPoli #politics #Canada #tariffs

• Post #3841630

  Yard work this past weekend resulted in poison ivy IN MY EYE. 😭 This poor eye is swollen & itchy & torturing me. Poison ivy for sensitive people takes WEEKS to clear. Going to be awesome when everything is face scan age verified. How old does potato-face scan as?? #gardening #ageVerification #tech #sad

• Post #3823881

  Omg can you really not power off an #iPad without unlocking it? The power button doesn't do it?? I thought #Apple was all about intuitive UI? This thing is nonsense.

• Post #3585218

  The Philips #Hue app for the smart bulbs has a special feature for changing your lights based on what's happening live in the #Fifa #WorldCup game. Pretty cool!! #SmartHome 🇨🇦⚽

• Post #3571303

  Group of friends & I are on our 3rd year still working on a single #BG3 playthrough. I haven't played much besides this one group campaign. And we don't even play with or do the story quests for the main characters. I'm so sick of this game guys. 😫

• Post #3559901

  @phpc .... getting a ton of 500 errors since the new update...

• Post #3557283

  The stories of large sites selling their data to #OpenAI then seeing a complete crash of their traffic and userbase is both sad and a blatant tale of #FAFO that I struggle to feel empathy about. StackOverflow went from 'partnering' with OpenAI to an utter wasteland in ONE YEAR. What did they think would happen?? #AI #LLM #programming

• Post #3499286

  I've heard several reports that #FIFA is really investing to try to get #soccer to take off in North America. Folks, you have #hockey fans in #Canada and #football fans in the #USA..... you're going to have to do something about all the babies crying about fake injuries if you want this sport taken seriously. 😭 It's very cringey. #WorldCup

• Post #3467879

  Exciting #Accessibility tech being built in #Canada! This is #EasyPath - an early version of an app to aid in navigation for visually impaired people. Verbally dictate locations & queries, receive voiced navigation options & steps. An #OpenSource project from an #Ontario developer, built with open #GIS data. https://github.com/adohx/EasyPath #Hackforge #YQG #Tech #VisuallyImpaired #OpenData #A11y

• Post #3454914

  Let's go!!! ⚽🇨🇦 #fifa #Worldcup

• Post #3439634

  Well that was certainly a movie alright. 😏 #Supergirl

• Post #3431228

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-2PtJ0_4DQWaLXYWeDth-RQ%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0 There is so much that could be done to make cinema etiquette more inclusive. Ask people to mute & lower the brightness instead of not check mobile phones at all. Have an intermission for movies over 2 hours. Etc.

• Post #2574795

  We have a family #karate belt test this weekend. 😬🥋 Trying to wrangle 3 boys ages 10 - 14 to *focus* on drills to practice for like 20 minutes is high-key a parenting nightmare. I've got one kid asking questions, another kid sitting down on the couch, another kid proposing a different type of drill, another kid getting frustrated, another kid starting to read a book... Meanwhile I don't have that plastic preteen mind anymore so the memorization takes me a good bit longer.

• Post #2498296

  Can't remember if I ever beat this as a kid, but listening to the #DosGames Club podcast inspired me to whip out the #DosBox again and explore some of my old favs. Monuments Of Mars (1991) was such a unique game in my childhood collection with its orange and green colour scheme and it's one-screen puzzles. Episode 1 - completed! #VideoGames #RetroGames

• Post #2498295

  Number 1 #parenting hack: Repeat after me: "Hey kids, do you want to earn an extra hour of screen time? Can you _________ for us?" Tonight it was do the dishes after a very long day. Works like a charm especially if you've already taught them how to do chores & feel a sense of responsibility for the household. Pre-teens is the sweet spot to introduce this. My sons are so used to having daily chores & get limited screen time generally so I'm h...

• Post #2498294

  I signed up for an inclusive, non-competitive #kickball & #softball league for the first time this season & our first meetup is tonight. I don't know anyone there yet. Kinda nervous!! #adulting #sports

• Post #2498293

  TIL that iframes create their own history entry when you change their src attribute. Unbelieveable. This writeup saved me hours of hair pulling. https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/react-iframes-back-navigation-bug/ #webdev #javascript

• Post #2210709

  I had a professor in a university PM course who had a lesson that has had a lasting impression on me. He said that the people who are most successful in #life & #business, are the ones who most readily adapt to change of all kinds. His advice was that more than any other skill, if you practise being adaptable and quick to let go of old assumptions & behaviours, then you will have an advantage when things inevitably change. This is on my mind a lot as we face so much change t...

• Post #2130284

  Son came home today telling me about a class assignment in which he feels pressured by his teacher to use #AI to do a large part of it. And worried that his own work will look "ugly" if he doesn't. He's in grade 6. So now we're teaching our kids that AI not only can do their thinking for them, but that their own creativity sucks in comparison. Wrote a long email to the administration that I'm going to sleep on for now because I'm furiou...

• Post #1624663

  🇫🇷🎮❓ Je recherche des jeux vidéo d'aventure pour pratiquer mon français! I'm searching for recs of casual, point & click, or adventure games with a lot of voiced dialogue in #French, to aid in my learning. I played "Pierre's Adventures In French" which was excellent & even spoke out inventory & menu items. Something with a good amount of everyday vocabulary. I have "Broken Sword" in my library. Played Monkey I...

• Post #1615761

  I keep hearing media & #LLM fans say that tech isn't losing jobs to #AI, while #Microsoft offers buyouts & #Meta is letting go of 10% of staff, and all the layoffs we had last year & the year before that. Where's the data & why is it not telling a clear story? #tech #programming #jobs

• Post #1456975

  Do you feel overwhelmed, stressed or too busy a lot of the time? Do you frequently listen to podcasts or other media during chores & browse your phone during down time? I've been thinking about when do our minds have time to process the high levels of information flying at us & everything going on in our lives? When do we have quiet to think about our life or the problems we're facing? I'm conducting an experiment today. No podcast or videos during &am...

• Post #1156963

  Wow. This is code committed by developers who presumably know HOW to read & understand code, and know how it *should* be written. In 10-15 years will there be any of us left who can? It'll be the movie Idiocracy with the plants all dying & no one left who knows plants need water. 😆 https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude #AI #LLM #Claude #programming #coding #development

• Post #1113545

  Man, with #NASA 's budget how did they not hire a media team to ensure that this live coverage stream of the moon flyby was better than that of a local little league game?? How is the audio from Mission Control so tinny??? #Artemis

• Post #1113544

  I think every time I get the urge to impulse buy something from #Amazon, but I don't buy it.... I'm going to put that money I almost gave to Bezos into my 🇨🇦 investments instead. 😆 #investing #finance #shopping