Ben Kennedy
@zygoat.bsky.social
Software developer and aviation enthusiast. (Vancouver BC 🇨🇦)
It’s insane that the IOC and NHL failed to properly communicate the rink size in actual numbers prior to the design and build. (Seems like IOC took the NHL size in feet and summarily rounded it to the nearest whole metre in each dimension. It’s the Gimli Glider on ice.)
December 11, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It’s insane that the IOC and NHL failed to properly communicate the rink size in actual numbers prior to the design and build. (Seems like IOC took the NHL size in feet and summarily rounded it to the nearest whole metre in each dimension. It’s the Gimli Glider on ice.)
Ken “Levelset” Sim might have been an accountant, but he disqualified himself as a competent economist. Every renter in this city should be disgusted with his mealy-mouthed equivocating. @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ken “Levelset” Sim might have been an accountant, but he disqualified himself as a competent economist. Every renter in this city should be disgusted with his mealy-mouthed equivocating. @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social
The voice-to-text feature on my iPhone consistently interprets “stalwart” as “Star Wars”. (Almost as dumb as Siri.)
November 12, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The voice-to-text feature on my iPhone consistently interprets “stalwart” as “Star Wars”. (Almost as dumb as Siri.)
News to nobody: Siri is fucking dumb and useless.
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
News to nobody: Siri is fucking dumb and useless.
Who else is annoyed by the neologism of “compute” to mean computing power?
October 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Who else is annoyed by the neologism of “compute” to mean computing power?
Apple of the 2020s is building a deficit of both testicles and taste. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
Apple’s Justification for Removing DeICER From the App Store
Link to: https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents
daringfireball.net
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Apple of the 2020s is building a deficit of both testicles and taste. daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...
This article spends 12 paragraphs on light human-interest boilerplate before addressing its headline. Where are your editors, CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This long weekend is your last chance to do the Grouse Grind for 3 weeks | CBC News
A B.C. trail in North Vancouver, which sees around 250,000 visitors a year, will close on Tuesday for annual maintenance for three weeks.
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
This article spends 12 paragraphs on light human-interest boilerplate before addressing its headline. Where are your editors, CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
@gruber.foo Hey John, you need not apologize to your readers. Take care of yourself and your family. We’re just glad to know you’re doing OK.
September 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@gruber.foo Hey John, you need not apologize to your readers. Take care of yourself and your family. We’re just glad to know you’re doing OK.
I was going to make a comment about avoiding the upgrade to iOS 26 Liquid Ass UI, but just realized that joke was already made three months ago—by Apple itself, fittingly. www.theverge.com/news/684321/...
No more Liquid Ass.
Don’t worry, this isn’t an ad for medicine. Regardless of what you think of Apple’s new Liquid Glass design, the company doesn’t want you, or its own video, calling it Liquid Ass. Apple has changed it...
www.theverge.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I was going to make a comment about avoiding the upgrade to iOS 26 Liquid Ass UI, but just realized that joke was already made three months ago—by Apple itself, fittingly. www.theverge.com/news/684321/...
Why did Patty Hajdu decide to step into it? Voluntarily soiling one’s own shoes with breathless abandon. A bad look for Team Carney and labour relations in Canada.
August 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Why did Patty Hajdu decide to step into it? Voluntarily soiling one’s own shoes with breathless abandon. A bad look for Team Carney and labour relations in Canada.
A convicted felon and a convicted war criminal walk into a bar, and agree to keep fucking Ukraine.
August 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
A convicted felon and a convicted war criminal walk into a bar, and agree to keep fucking Ukraine.
Look at all these big-name chumps who can’t be assed to write useful release notes, instead choosing to bloviate generically about their work ethic.
July 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Look at all these big-name chumps who can’t be assed to write useful release notes, instead choosing to bloviate generically about their work ethic.
Have oak leaves ever reminded you of arugula?
July 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Have oak leaves ever reminded you of arugula?
I rarely wear sleeveless undershirts, but when I do, I often can’t resist temporarily hanging the shoulder thingies from my ears as I put it on.
July 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I rarely wear sleeveless undershirts, but when I do, I often can’t resist temporarily hanging the shoulder thingies from my ears as I put it on.
Looks like Apple discovered Windows 95.
June 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Looks like Apple discovered Windows 95.
CI Assante Wealth Management has been running ads during the NHL playoffs backed by an ominous, minor-key crescendo. Perplexing. It gives the whole spot a creepy feel. Who’s the agency? Is the music director tone deaf?
May 24, 2025 at 2:57 AM
CI Assante Wealth Management has been running ads during the NHL playoffs backed by an ominous, minor-key crescendo. Perplexing. It gives the whole spot a creepy feel. Who’s the agency? Is the music director tone deaf?
Reposted by Ben Kennedy
Your daily reminder that CBC News is still posting on X (a hate-speak and conspiracy-peddling platform that is hostile to science and journalism) & not posting on Bluesky; a platform that has become integral in Canada's "Elbows Up" movement.
🇨🇦 You can contact the CBC at ask@cbc.ca or 1-866-306-4636
🇨🇦 You can contact the CBC at ask@cbc.ca or 1-866-306-4636
May 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Your daily reminder that CBC News is still posting on X (a hate-speak and conspiracy-peddling platform that is hostile to science and journalism) & not posting on Bluesky; a platform that has become integral in Canada's "Elbows Up" movement.
🇨🇦 You can contact the CBC at ask@cbc.ca or 1-866-306-4636
🇨🇦 You can contact the CBC at ask@cbc.ca or 1-866-306-4636
Tim Cook looks increasingly like Apple’s Musk—damaging the reputation of his company with steadfast stubborn arrogance.
May 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Tim Cook looks increasingly like Apple’s Musk—damaging the reputation of his company with steadfast stubborn arrogance.
@mark-carney.bsky.social Following will the real Mark Carney begin posting under this account on his own, or will it remain an automated marketing dispensary?
April 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social Following will the real Mark Carney begin posting under this account on his own, or will it remain an automated marketing dispensary?
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social It’s a pleasure to hear Robert Zimmerman again. Please keep him!
April 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social It’s a pleasure to hear Robert Zimmerman again. Please keep him!
@gruber.foo Regarding “floundering” (daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...): seems likely the author meant “foundering” (i.e. to collapse, sink, burn out). Confusing these two words is a commonplace error.
‘Floundering’
Link to: https://www.reuters.com/technology/will-trump-tariffs-make-apple-iphones-more-expensive-2025-04-03/
daringfireball.net
April 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
@gruber.foo Regarding “floundering” (daringfireball.net/linked/2025/...): seems likely the author meant “foundering” (i.e. to collapse, sink, burn out). Confusing these two words is a commonplace error.
What a perverse, mendacious, and self-indulgent spectacle this Trump address is. Incredible to watch America abase and dismantle itself like this.
March 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
What a perverse, mendacious, and self-indulgent spectacle this Trump address is. Incredible to watch America abase and dismantle itself like this.
@bluenotify.app Hi! After installing today’s update 1.1.1, Blue Notify simply launches to a blank white screen and does nothing (whether launched manually or from to a notification). Force-quit and restart does not resolve.
February 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@bluenotify.app Hi! After installing today’s update 1.1.1, Blue Notify simply launches to a blank white screen and does nothing (whether launched manually or from to a notification). Force-quit and restart does not resolve.
@gruber.foo: “back door” = noun phrase; “backdoor” = adjective. (Akin to “log in” = verb phrase; “login” = noun or adjective.)
February 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
@gruber.foo: “back door” = noun phrase; “backdoor” = adjective. (Akin to “log in” = verb phrase; “login” = noun or adjective.)