Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
emd.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
@emd.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
I am a husband, a father of 2 teenage girls, and a Canadian.

When I'm not building #statamic and #LaravelLivewire sites & apps, I'm at Crossfit, reading a book or […]

[bridged from https://cosocial.ca/@emd on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
If "servicing the national debt" were phrased as "giving wealthy people free money for being wealthy" and the reaction was to not curb spending but to tax wealthy people more, I might actually care about the debt.
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Yup my daughter had a trans guide in her unit.

Lovely organization. https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/115662255521498194
Natasha Jay 🇪🇺 (@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt)
Attached: 1 image Statement by the Canadian Girl Guides Association. 🇨🇦 #Trans #Transrights
tech.lgbt
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
December 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Leaf cleaning of bike lanes, by bike! ❤️🚲💪
https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/115649411885174244
kim_harding ✅ (@kim_harding@mastodon.scot)
Attached: 1 video We need this in Edinburgh!
mastodon.scot
December 3, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
For those of us shaking our heads over the Carney/Notley deal, this seems relevant and… not terrible? https://www.readtheline.ca/p/ken-boessenkool-carney-and-smith

Yes, I know Carbon Capture is not actually useful (unless something changed?)
Yes, I know they're still talking about building […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
December 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Definitely don’t start Mare of Eastown late at night. We made the mistake of starting the first episode at 9. It’s now 11pm and we’re debating whether to stay up too late to watch a few more.

Instantly engaging, amazing acting.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Just ordered a small VPS to give https://yunohost.org a try.

First up is ActivityPub, one of Mastodon, GoToSocial or Bonfire? Any recommendations?

Any advice/gotchas for yunohost that you know about?

#selfhosting #yunohost #mastodon #gotosocial
YunoHost: garden your own piece of the Internet!
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.
yunohost.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I handles many of important extensions, I’m liking it so far. But no safari extensions unfortunately, so missing my favourite blocker.

It is wicked fast though. https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/115634295732705020
Ian Betteridge (@ianbetteridge@vivaldi.net)
I completely missed that Kagi's Orion browser is now out of beta and released to everyone. I've been using it as my main browser on the Mac for a while and it's great. And next up: the Linux version. https://blog.kagi.com/orion
social.vivaldi.net
November 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
‘Carney doesn’t actually want a pipeline or think one will get built, he’s just a duplicitous weasel’ is not the defence you think it is.
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible:
it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables
—at half the cost of fossil fuels.
The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere
—if governments have the courage to change the rules.
For […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Just cancelled my Liberal Party membership. This is not what Carney ran on in the leadership campaign. This is not what the Liberals ran on in the election campaign. This is the planet-destroying conservative agenda, but with less bigotry.

Carbon capture is a bluff, not a solution.

#cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Any BC Cabinet or caucus members want to take a public stand on principle over the single most important issue of our time or nah?
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?
November 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
I can’t help but think that most of today’s social problems can be solved with UBI and a real corporate/wealth tax.

I can’t think of many big problems that that wouldn’t address, in some way.
November 27, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Only in Canada . . .
November 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Ok, wife and I have been watching Knife Edge on Apple TV. Now I wanna eat at Michelin starred restaurants.

I’m going to Amsterdam in March (#laracon #laraconeu) anyone eaten at any of these? Recommendations?

https://guide.michelin.com/en/nl/noord-holland/amsterdam/restaurants

#michelinstar
Amsterdam MICHELIN Restaurants - The MICHELIN Guide Netherlands
Starred restaurants, Bib Gourmand and all the MICHELIN restaurants in Amsterdam on the MICHELIN Guide's official website. MICHELIN inspector reviews and insights
guide.michelin.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
I hate the shopping season, but I posted this list of "Disaster Preparedness Stocking Stuffers" it seems like a century ago on Tw*tter, so reposting the list again here:

Disaster Preparedness Stocking Stuffers

It's that time of the year again, where people are thinking about holiday gifts […]
Original post on ai6yr.org
m.ai6yr.org
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Folks don't apprentice what an amazing thing OpenID was, and what a monstrous act of vandalism Google's destruction of it was.

You could literally put up a minimal site on your own domain with whatever authentication method you prefer, and use that URL as your identity to login to any site […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
“Cursor leads to…a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity…the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427v2
Does AI-Assisted Coding Deliver? A Difference-in-Differences Study of Cursor's Impact on Software Projects
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in their application to software development, with practitioners claiming a multifold productivity increase after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a significant and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized method of moments estimation reveals that the increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity acts as a major factor causing long-term velocity slowdown. Our study carries implications for software engineering practitioners, LLM agent assistant designers, and researchers.
arxiv.org
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Erin Dalzell (He/Him) 🇨🇦
Hey, #admins!

Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #canada.

We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently […]
Original post on aoir.social
aoir.social
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM