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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 21, 2026

Replying to @Lazarou@mastodon.social

@Lazarou@mastodon.social @momo@social.linux.pizza But if he was a "big fan" he could help cool your cpu! :-) Seriously though, great post.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 20, 2026

Replying to @GeofCox@climatejustice.social

@GeofCox@climatejustice.social I do tell people. Problem: same people don't know how to change search engines, much less, in that case, create a new one to change to... On a train, one might have time to change all their phones for them, but irl, there are not enough hours in a day to de-enshitify all the rampant enshitification capitalism hath wrought :-( @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 19, 2026

Replying to @Pomegranatepirate@kolektiva.social

@Pomegranatepirate@kolektiva.social Even when I'm working up the side of a mountain at the Christmass tree farm, there is a sub-stx within line of sight, if I'm up high enough, and I can hear the 60hz hum and it's darn irritating. Doesn't seem to bother my workmates at all. Maybe they can't hear it? Never asked. @UrbanCityCowboy@mastodonapp.uk @mlanger@mastodon.world

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @djflore@mastodon.online

@djflore@mastodon.online No,, no!! :-) I only have 1600x900! In order to frame the moon and the storks, I had to bring it down to ~1364x900. That really is a spectacular series. Wonderful. Do you live in Morocco or just visiting?

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @djflore@mastodon.online

@djflore@mastodon.online Those are awesome! Thank you so much! I had to scale and crop the heck out of it to fit the top one on my 1600x900 left monitor, but I got the good bit anyhow, at least. From now, it will randomly show up as my wallpaper changes every hour with fresh information.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @claudiom@bsd.network

@claudiom@bsd.network Bad caps are common in older equipment. It seems to me there was a period of time years ago when a huge batch of sub-standard caps was distributed. Thanks for the show btw. Still listening, I'm up to the bit where you reach out to your boy and grandfather. Of course, I know this story already from fedi ;-) It's been a long time since I made a show for HR...

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · Jun 15, 2026

Replying to @hpr@infosec.exchange

@claudiom@bsd.network Everytime you mention EVOO, what I hear: Extra Virgin Olive Oil! :-)

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 30, 2026

Replying to @mwl@io.mwl.io

@mwl@io.mwl.io Thanks! Those were fun! :-) If you like that sort of thing, you may enjoy some longer stop motion. 'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' won awards and stuff. A crew out of Montréal: https://www.nfb.ca/distribution/film/the-girl-who-cried-pearls They got an oscar for that. I've seen others from them. @cstanhope@social.coop

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 28, 2026

Replying to @peemee@aus.social

@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social Actually a thing - https://e-upgames.com/ Also news to me: you can put hyphens in domain names. @peemee@aus.social

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 18, 2026

Replying to @franksting@theblower.au

@franksting@theblower.au Why do all the media around the world not call it what it is? It's baffling to me! "Dr Margaret Connolly, sister of President Catherine Connolly, 'kidnapped by Israel' say flotilla organisers" But the bloody papers keep using the words 'detained' and 'intercepted' like Israel has any right! They have NO RIGHT! None. They are pirates, kidnappers, and thieves. No right to act there in international waters. Same as Israel's genocide and apartheid in Palestine. No right. No nation has a right to exist whose existence is predicated on slaughtering all of its neighbors. I will die before I stop protesting this gross evil. And Ahmed Najar points out another bullshit that Israel employs: 'Criticism of Russia is not treated as hatred towards Russians. Opposition to American wars is not automatically framed as hostility towards Americans as a people. Protest against the Chinese government is not assumed to be anti-Chinese racism. Only when it comes to Israel does this distinction repeatedly collapse.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 18, 2026

Replying to @UnePorte@eldritch.cafe

@GeoffWozniak@masto.hackers.town Then you'll probably like this too. Years ago, a local travel agency kept bothering me with fax spam - two blocks away from me in a small town. I asked them more then once to stop sending me 2-3 pages of expen$ive treated paper every week. They didn't stop. I wrote the request on a piece of paper and began to fax them. But I snapped the case open half way-ish through and stopped it sending, cancelling the call. Next, I used sticky tape to form the paper into a roll. Then I faxed them again. For a long time... They stopped faxing me spam. :-) That's not evil, that's payback. Naming your SSID as 'Connecting...' - that's evil. @UnePorte@eldritch.cafe

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 16, 2026

Replying to @mho@social.heise.de

@mho@social.heise.de This is where my tech comes from: OS PC/Laptop: 🇮🇪 OS Smartphone: 🇫🇷 Browser: 🇺🇸 E-Mail: 🇨🇦 Microblogging: 🌍 Office Software: 🇩🇪 Cloud: 🇩🇪 Streaming: 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 Percentage of 🇺🇸: 22% Youtube and Firefox are dragging me down! Nowhere to go really. There wasn't a search engine? I use SearxNG and have peertube weighted higher than Youtube, which I watch ad-free via ublock-origin. Firefox and it's derivatives would just still be usa I suppose, like librewolf, palemoon, w/e. I stopped using paypal, because I finally got a credit card in my old age (for travel), but it's mastercard, so that would drag me down some more, I suppose. Linux, /e/os on a used handy, my own email, .de VPS's, selfhosted fedi/peertube/et al, libreoffice.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 15, 2026

Replying to @d4v@mastodon.social

@d4v@mastodon.social @CTHW@mstdn.ca Nope. I'm in northern canada, but it put me in iceland! :-) @EvilKiru@techhub.social @petersuber@fediscience.org

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 15, 2026

Replying to @CTHW@mstdn.ca

@CTHW@mstdn.ca @petersuber@fediscience.org Some things were right, but I love how often it was wrong. Wrong tz, wrong fonts and others. Any unrelated tab I open is a brand new container with no cookies or data. I don't randomize my user agent, b/c so many browsers and sites are written for quirks.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 14, 2026

Replying to @bert_hubert@eupolicy.social

@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social and oracle !! He didn't miss anyone evil to work for! Disgusting. Same kind of thinking as appointing a former telco CEO in charge of the CRTC in canada. Or bojo bringing in a former CEO of a large 'health' company in the USA to reorganise the NHS.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 13, 2026

Replying to @ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social

@ObsidianUrbex@mstdn.social Ah memories... ;-) That place has carpet! and normal doors? When I was 12, I lived on the streets of the downtown east side of vancouver as a runaway. I sometimes made 50 cents an hour as a ball boy at the PNE for 2-3 hours. Food and cigs. One day, I was caught for shoplifting and sent to juvie. Ironically, I wasn't actually shoplifting (for a change - had to eat). There was a store named Eaton and they had a book store on the basement floor of a tall building. I was going in and boosting e..g. popular electronics/science, sciAm magazines, going out into the mall, reading them and then putting them back... Store detective got me. VJDH, Vancouver Juvenile Detention home looked not too bad from the outside, but we had actual cells with slits and barred windows. I was by myself for a week, then in a room/cell with 3 others. I found 'school' and volunteered for the kitchen. I loved it there! 3 meals, dry. Way better than going 'home'. I wanted to stay actually. Read down to Juvie and The Last Gang https://evelazarus.com/burrard-view-park/ https://placesthatmatter.ca/location/burrard-view-park/ Court days were Tuesday and Thursday. Armed sheriffs would escort me to the courts. Remanded until Thursday. Remanded until Tuesday. One day, in about 5-6 weeks, I made the mistake of smiling at the verdict. The judge reversed his decision and ordered me 'home'. Fsck! I escaped, but whatever.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 13, 2026

Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Agree, but rather phrase it that the government's contempt for the rule of law is ever stronger. Starmer, like his hero Trump, just sweeps such frivolities as Justice to the side. I do what I want. Justice is Just Us. You're saying it wrong.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 11, 2026

Replying to @trebach@functional.cafe

@trebach@functional.cafe @fitheach@mstdn.io Yep, same era 86-89 metallica - and justice for all remastered 2018 (full album) HD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnXOSUQ5HJY

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 11, 2026

Replying to @fitheach@mstdn.io

@fitheach@mstdn.io It is fun when things cluster like that sometimes.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 11, 2026

Replying to @fitheach@mstdn.io

@fitheach@mstdn.io Oh, did you? Sorry. It was prolly like 05h00 when I read it. I have a tab; bit early for that sort of thing. Mind you, in the 80s, my roomy in college liked metallica turned loud first thing in the morning upon waking up.

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 11, 2026

Replying to @fitheach@mstdn.io

@fitheach@mstdn.io It's 3 hours! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7FGZYlJO8

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 10, 2026

Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Obviously, this is because the zionist lobby knows that, under reform, it's business as usual in supporting their genocidal and territorial aims, while under the greens they'd be cut off. Normal, everyday people always want to do the 'right thing'. Why doesn't our governments??? The system is inherently (insert your own word).

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Kermode 🇨🇦 @gemlog@friendface.kalum.ca · May 10, 2026

Replying to @debborah@mastodon.online

@debborah@mastodon.online Something I knew 'of', but had never gone off and read about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria?useskin=vector I had no idea it was that massive.

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