Posts by timbray@cosocial.ca
 (DIR) Post #AUU8ypjIq7am9gwUBk by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       #introduction - Hyperoverprivileged straight cis white greybearded neurotypical male, living in Vancouver with loved ones. Proud member of #CoSocialCa, a member-owned co-op Fediverse instance.I’m old.I can’t not write, as evidenced by the 2+ million blogwords at https://www.tbray.org/ongoing - also I was “timbray” on Twitter starting in 2007 but stepped away  2022/11/27.Tl;dr: Geek, photohobbyist, and environmentalist. For details, type my name into your favorite Web search, I’m overly public.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4SQOZ5mB2vwcosLWy by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116261526543583522The reason I joined the Android team in 2010, and that since 2008 I’ve carried Android not iOS devices, was that I could just download software. And other people could download mine. This new process is a massive breaking of faith with the community.To be fair, every year or two Apple ratchets up the difficulty of downloading Mac apps.The doors on every open platform are swinging closed, fast or slow. Capitalism is broken. Another reason we need to protect the Web.Feaugh.RT: https://mastodon.social/users/nixCraft/statuses/116261526543583522
       
 (DIR) Post #B4hsjeybCsL92llTIu by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Hmm, writing a thing and, without thinking about it, used the verb “enslopify”.  I can’t be the first. I think it’ll catch on.#GenAI
       
 (DIR) Post #B4npM0k3UvU6gSklNY by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       @taylorlorenz I'd second the recommendation for @cwebber I'd also recommend a glance at my essay on why Mastodon/Fedi is currently the best choice for social networking: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
       
 (DIR) Post #B53cRwtUWiR7c31iqG by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Why those gorgeous shots from Artemis are courtesy of a 10-year-old Nikon camera, rather than anything shipped since then: https://petapixel.com/2026/04/06/the-10-year-old-nikon-d5-dslr-really-is-the-best-camera-for-artemis-ii/#Photography #nikon
       
 (DIR) Post #B5HEjqupoajPb469mC by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Book idea. It’s written collectively by seasoned Wikipedia editors. Title: “WP:OR” - it contains interesting facts and stories that are known to be true by the contributors but which will never be published in Wikipedia because they are “Original Research” i.e. have no citation from a reliable source, and little likelihood of one ever appearing.  I'd have a few contributions.(see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bRJSJhppyiLDfp1E by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       When you hit an app or website that you haven't hit for a while, and there's a popup saying “Check out our new features!”…
       
 (DIR) Post #B5csGGaZsHAN1HEFQu by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Took my ancient cello into the luthier for maintenance. What a charming experience! Thanks to Brian and Angel for their warm greeting and the loaner instrument. https://wilderdavis.com/fr
       
 (DIR) Post #B5jFfB0XE6AmqKycEa by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Existential Comics publishes every Monday, and rarely misses: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/652
       
 (DIR) Post #B623wmRzlD9gRkgg0e by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       “War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?”: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/03/Life-During-Class-Wartime#USpol #cdnpoli
       
 (DIR) Post #B6B5sZvgJvq2mlKusy by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116553395984214488“Summary:A compromised dependency in the JavaScript ecosystem led to credential theft, which enabled a supply chain attack on a Rust compression library, which was vendored into a Python build tool, which shipped malware to approximately 4 million developers before being inadvertently patched by an unrelated cryptocurrency mining worm.”RT: https://cosocial.ca/users/mhoye/statuses/116553395984214488
       
 (DIR) Post #B6jlEXTNJc2QOb4fmC by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       In which @mitsuhiko, who’s on a tear recently, defends and promotes the use of the word “clanker” to replace “agent” (in the LLM sense): https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/5/26/clankers/#genai #clanker
       
 (DIR) Post #B6lEyePsvGQh54k3jU by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       Can we have the day off?https://mlsu.io/posts/day-off/h/t @nelson #genai
       
 (DIR) Post #B6zUqARmWoZDGDqU2S by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       @jerry I realize this wouldn't work for everybody, but the number of bots trying to sign up to CoSocial.ca is zero, because we require that members pay $50 a year to run the service.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAM2anzBDtpn0z2e7k by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       @stux Having said that, “@linux.exe” would be a pretty good Fedi handle.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAO3lLRcAUGvx1qpiy by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       @ariadne Or consider an extended Canadian vacation.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAO5Fcgej0cc4Nt7wW by timbray@cosocial.ca
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       @ariadne Hmm less likelihood of the breakdown of civil society?  But yes, you're probably right.