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Not really my main social media platform, mainly here just to follow cool people. If you're reading this because I followed you, you're cool! (You do not need to follow back; I am not cool.)

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halibutbarn.bsky.social
Well...that's reassuring...
A screenshot from the game No Man's Sky, of a Korvax named Technician Sutovoro aboard my freighter, and by their name is the status "Not considering mutiny".
November 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Ominous Fog in Calgary this morning.
A photo of downtown Calgary from the 10th Street bridge, with the tops of various buildings obscured by fog. A photo looking down 4th Ave downtown, with the buildings in the distance heavily obscured by fog. A photo looking towards McDougall Centre, looking up towards the foggy tops of the buildings behind it.
November 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Hmmm, I'm having trouble finding good info on this, maybe this is something AI could actually help with?

Me: "Hey Copilot, how do I do <x>?"

Copilot: "Have you considered checking the documentation?"

...thanks Copilot, very helpful
A screenshot of a query to Copilot, where I ask "How do I give the Global Administrator role to an app registration?" Copilot responds, "To assign the Global Administrator role to an app registration, you need to follow specific steps in Azure Active Directory. This process involves granting the necessary permissions and ensuring compliance with security policies. For detailed guidance, please refer to the official Azure documentation or consult with your Azure administrator to ensure proper configuration and security practices."
October 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Not exactly the best sleep last night. Getting sick sucks...
A sleep state chart from last night, showing that I got 3 hours and 48 minutes of sleep, about a third of my time was spent awake, very little REM sleep, and absolutely no deep sleep.
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Bought a couple new pillows to replace the lumpy mess I've been using, so maybe I'll get a better night's sleep.

Not tonight, though! I probably should have realized earlier that I'd bought queen-sized pillows and all my pillowcases are 'standard'-sized...
October 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
If you're a Minecraft oldhead, KurtJMac should be hitting the Far Lands any time now.

www.twitch.tv/kurtjmac
kurtjmac - Twitch
Reaching the FAR LANDS after 14.5 Years - FLoB-a-Thon Day 69 - !charity !map
www.twitch.tv
October 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
"This comics bundle is great, but the covers are kinda hard to read in this reader. I'll just put it into list mode so I can see what the titles actually are..."
A screenshot of the Kobo ebook reader, showing a grid of 15 comics, every single one of which is shown with the title "Teenage Mutant Ninja..."
September 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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b0tster.yeag.gay
boycotts work. anyone who says otherwise is spreading pro corporate, pro government propaganda
joolia.bsky.social Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Sep 25
Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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rakeeshsorrel.bsky.social
The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.
September 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
I only reinstalled LOTRO to get the free stuff pack, but the summer festival was going on so I figured I do a few of those quests and now three days later I'm looking up detailed Loremaster build guides...
September 4, 2025 at 2:11 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
A bit smoky this morning. Despite a bad wildfire season, we've been lucky this year and haven't gotten a lot of the smoke in the city, but we couldn't avoid it forever... #yyc
A photo of the Calgary downtown skyline, with a haze of smoke obscuring many of the farther buildings. The sun is just above the horizon, an orange dot angry at how diminished its strength is, as we can look directly at it.
September 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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"Okay, I've been putting it off for weeks, but I'm clear of tickets to work on, and I'm waiting on a very-long-running test, so I've got a few hours to spare to take that online Fire Warden training my boss wanted."

*it turns out to be literally just three slides and takes less than 2 minutes*
August 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Dang, 30 years ago I went into the Compucentre in Bow Valley Square and bought a spankin' new copy of Windows 95. I still have all of the floppies for it:
A photo of 14 3.5" floppy disks fanned out on top of a bedspread. The disks all say "Microsoft Windows 95" along the edge, and the top disk reads "Boot Disk" with some setup instructions.
August 25, 2025 at 12:21 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Beauty survives.
A photo of two red and orange flowers growing out of a crack between the parking lot asphalt and the orange brick wall of a building.
August 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
I just got an email informing me about some kind of change to Google Gemini. I normally wouldn't care, but I did find it a bit amusing that Google Mail saw fit to automatically put it in the Spam folder...
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
I don't know if there's a collective noun for a group of cell tower antennas, but we probably need one.
A photo of the top of a building, the center of which is a pillar just riddled with rectangular cell tower antennas.
August 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Boaters on the Bow. (actually from a few weeks ago, but it's been nice again the last few days)
A photo of a large number of small rafts and such making their way down the Bow river.
August 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
A bit damp this morning.
July 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Almost lost my USB thumb drive, but found it at the building entrance.

Strangers could have learned my embarrassing secrets, like that I haven't updated the Linux boot/rescue image on it in at least 6 years!
July 26, 2025 at 3:14 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
For the first time I had to be the grumpy old fart telling a kid to watch it with the soccer ball they were kicking against my apartment wall.

I feel bad for them, kids do need places to play. But I don't want a broken window either, and a stray ball has already knocked the screen out of alignment.
July 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Left work early but didn't quite beat the sudden storm cell home. I managed to make it to the Peace Bridge for shelter at least, unlike these poor boaters.
July 3, 2025 at 11:33 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Finally cancelled my PC Game Pass due to the layoffs, what MS has been doing with AI, and, well, their general behaviour lately.

I have Too Damn Many other games to play already anyway.
July 3, 2025 at 2:23 AM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Got my daily walk in before the temps got unbearable, and ran across a whole bunch of Canada geese on Canada Day.

I'm sure some of these are goslings I've caught in previous photos, now nearly fully grown.
A large flock of Canada geese at Prince's Island Park, crossing the walkway to get to some grass, unlike some other indecisive fowl.
July 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Steam is not only saving me money by having their giant summer sale, but also saving me money by keeping me from loading my wishlist.
June 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
halibutbarn.bsky.social
Braved the rain to see how the Bow River is doing (it's fine, no flooding), and ran across what has to be the largest flock of geese I've ever seen.
A photo of a flock of geese feeding in the grass beside a concrete pathway, in the rain. The number of geese is so high that we are going to have to start keeping track of them in terms of military squads, regiments, divisions... (I count around 55 geese, roughly.)
June 21, 2025 at 10:53 PM