Tim Lavoie
@fractaldragon.net
Living the island life on Canada's west coast.
Interested in programming, security, photography, and anything adjacent
Interested in programming, security, photography, and anything adjacent
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The 5.4 update of OCaml is out! Check out our blog for an overview of the biggest new features and fixes🐫 tarides.com/blog/2025-10...
OCaml 5.4 Release: New Features, Fixes, and More!
An overview of the OCaml 5.4 update highlighting new features and bug fixes!
tarides.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The 5.4 update of OCaml is out! Check out our blog for an overview of the biggest new features and fixes🐫 tarides.com/blog/2025-10...
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TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
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Purely functional gRPC and HTTP/2 with OCaml - Adam Cholewiński - FUN OCaml 2025
YouTube video by FUN OCaml
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
omg.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
Meta clearly trying to polarize the issue of digital sovereignty by running this in the Hub.
November 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Yes, digital sovereignty for all things in Canada is a good idea.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
That doesn’t mean insulating us from the world: open collaboration with others still fits with this.
Buying from a vendor with nothing of our own (especially from an American vendor) is not the way.
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day 4 of posting FUN OCaml 2025 talk recordings:
https://youtu.be/iQc5fHW5SZA?si=vo6TjToRdXe67doV
🥹🐫🔥🧡
https://youtu.be/iQc5fHW5SZA?si=vo6TjToRdXe67doV
🥹🐫🔥🧡
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
day 4 of posting FUN OCaml 2025 talk recordings:
https://youtu.be/iQc5fHW5SZA?si=vo6TjToRdXe67doV
🥹🐫🔥🧡
https://youtu.be/iQc5fHW5SZA?si=vo6TjToRdXe67doV
🥹🐫🔥🧡
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Researchers at the Citizen Lab and director @rondeibert.bsky.social sign open letter to the Canadian Minister of AI and Minister of Industry rejecting the “National Sprint” on AI strategy.
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
OPEN LETTER to the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation from civil society organizations and individuals opposing "National Sprint" consultation on AI strategy - BC Civil Liberti...
The Honourable Mélanie JolyMinister of IndustryHouse of CommonsOttawa, OntarioK1A 0A6 The Honourable Evan SolomonMinister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital InnovationHouse of CommonsOttawa, Ontar...
bccla.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Researchers at the Citizen Lab and director @rondeibert.bsky.social sign open letter to the Canadian Minister of AI and Minister of Industry rejecting the “National Sprint” on AI strategy.
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
Read it here: bccla.org/policy-submi...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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C is for ‘Carnival of Souls’ in my #folkhorroralphabet released in 1962 and directed by Herk Harvey. It’s a low budget cult classic, unsettling period Americana that inspired directors like David Lynch and George Romero.
matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
C is for ‘Carnival of Souls’ in my #folkhorroralphabet released in 1962 and directed by Herk Harvey. It’s a low budget cult classic, unsettling period Americana that inspired directors like David Lynch and George Romero.
matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
matpringleillustration.bigcartel.com/product/folk...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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posting one FUN OCaml 2025 talk recording per day, starting today with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGlQZ2pkss
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
posting one FUN OCaml 2025 talk recording per day, starting today with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfGlQZ2pkss
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I was in the audience, and I loved this talk! Although it did lead to late night conversations about why we're allocating external memory in the first place in OCaml, instead of going full zero-copy. My thoughts here: anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25...
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I was in the audience, and I loved this talk! Although it did lead to late night conversations about why we're allocating external memory in the first place in OCaml, instead of going full zero-copy. My thoughts here: anil.recoil.org/notes/icfp25...
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The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
October 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'
10/10 response, no notes
10/10 response, no notes
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A fun talk about...hacking OCaml. Basically, what you get when you supercollide a systems-y OCaml developer and a CTF.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9V...
Hacking OCaml
YouTube video by Jane Street
www.youtube.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A fun talk about...hacking OCaml. Basically, what you get when you supercollide a systems-y OCaml developer and a CTF.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9V...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV9V...
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This is just some of the stupidest shit we've seen from a group of people who are excelling at stupid stuff. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
U.S. Congress members urge Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summer
A lack of forest management and arson control is causing blazes that release hazardous fumes drifting into the Midwest, their letter reads
www.theglobeandmail.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
This is just some of the stupidest shit we've seen from a group of people who are excelling at stupid stuff. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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The most incredibly fun part of this Nature comment on evidence synthesis we published today is that the cartoonist (David Parkins) also did Beano and Dennis the Menace (!) A true legend. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The most incredibly fun part of this Nature comment on evidence synthesis we published today is that the cartoonist (David Parkins) also did Beano and Dennis the Menace (!) A true legend. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT Lost a Chess Game to an Atari 2600
And on the 'Beginner' difficulty level, too.
www.extremetech.com
June 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.
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![Comic. [Two houses next to each other. Piping runs from one underground, connecting it to the other.] [caption] A covertly-installed *Neighbor-Source Heat Pump* takes advantage of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihme75kw3ibwada5jzdvby6ctmeiuwpvwxkwcuww4bag43agicxz4@jpeg)
June 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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I love Mexican art so much
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I love Mexican art so much
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Hack a satellite challenge hacksat.dev
SpaceOS
hacksat.dev
May 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Hack a satellite challenge hacksat.dev
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Happy Terry Pratchett Day!
To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday and the wonderful world he created, we're resharing some of our favorite essays related to his work ❤️
To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday and the wonderful world he created, we're resharing some of our favorite essays related to his work ❤️
April 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Happy Terry Pratchett Day!
To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday and the wonderful world he created, we're resharing some of our favorite essays related to his work ❤️
To celebrate Terry Pratchett's birthday and the wonderful world he created, we're resharing some of our favorite essays related to his work ❤️
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Massive fan of this standards-compliant C compiler that always outputs a copy of Doom (1993)
April 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Massive fan of this standards-compliant C compiler that always outputs a copy of Doom (1993)
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We've been having a "return to our blogging roots" to seize our attention economy back recently, and @jon.recoil.org might have catapulted to the lead with his "interactive OCaml notebook blog". Just needs wasm to make it full rube goldberg jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/04...
blog/2025/04/this-site.mld
jon.recoil.org
April 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We've been having a "return to our blogging roots" to seize our attention economy back recently, and @jon.recoil.org might have catapulted to the lead with his "interactive OCaml notebook blog". Just needs wasm to make it full rube goldberg jon.recoil.org/blog/2025/04...