Mat X
@mat-x.bsky.social
Storage and Backups for Creative professionals matx.ca + conference organizer MacDevOps: YVR mdoyvr.com
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People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it.
If an electric charge can’t charge is it still an electric car? 🤔 ⚡️ 🚗
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
If an electric charge can’t charge is it still an electric car? 🤔 ⚡️ 🚗
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I spent all day arguing with people from Squamish that oil and gas companies aren't your friends, and are not good for communities.
unbelievable that it even needs to be said, given the evidence
unbelievable that it even needs to be said, given the evidence
A northern B.C. community faces a massive revenue shortfall after an oil company went bust without paying nearly $9 million in outstanding property taxes, interest and penalties.
Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
A Sprawling BC Community Is Set to Lose Millions Owed by Oil Firm | The Tyee
Bankrupt Erikson National Energy leaves Northern Rockies Regional Municipality deep in the hole for tax revenues.
thetyee.ca
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I spent all day arguing with people from Squamish that oil and gas companies aren't your friends, and are not good for communities.
unbelievable that it even needs to be said, given the evidence
unbelievable that it even needs to be said, given the evidence
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Fog on the Fraser. Wednesday.
November 19, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fog on the Fraser. Wednesday.
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It’s shocking how many people forget this.
October 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It’s shocking how many people forget this.
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October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Dont want a text file on macOS indexed by Spotlight then start the document with LG or Draw … the story of UTI and magic bytes eclecticlight.co/2025/10/23/a...
A Spotlight bug affecting all recent macOS: the LG error
From Ventura (if not earlier) to Tahoe, Spotlight appears unable to index text files that start with two specific letters. Although those are exceedingly rare, this could still catch you out.
eclecticlight.co
October 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dont want a text file on macOS indexed by Spotlight then start the document with LG or Draw … the story of UTI and magic bytes eclecticlight.co/2025/10/23/a...
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Cars deliver the dependency that car ads promise.
Trapped in traffic and stuck travelling long distances to work because of car-centric planning?
Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
Be grateful, says Mercedes-Benz’s latest advert which aims to persuade us that spending two years of our lives stuck inside a car is somehow actually a good thing.
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Cars deliver the dependency that car ads promise.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The link to the campaign. check out all of Vision Zero Vancouver's work.
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
Demanding Safer Streets
Read more about the billboard we put up in Vancouver in the summer of 2025!
visionzerovancouver.ca
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The link to the campaign. check out all of Vision Zero Vancouver's work.
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
visionzerovancouver.ca/2025/08/02/d...
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Enough.
Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
October 16, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Enough.
Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.
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FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.
October 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
FYI for BC residents, if you want a COVID booster/flu shot, I was able to search in my emails for a previous "Book your next vaccine appointment" from a previous year and click on the link and it just let me schedule my covid vaccine.
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This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News
For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...
www.cbc.ca
October 11, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Wow! Montreal’s public bike share system (BIXI) was featured in the TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame for 2008, not far from the iPhone and Google Street View.
While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.
While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.
TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame
See the most iconic inventions of the past 25 years
time.com
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Wow! Montreal’s public bike share system (BIXI) was featured in the TIME Best Inventions Hall of Fame for 2008, not far from the iPhone and Google Street View.
While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.
While not the very first bike sharing system, it was one of the earliest and it was the model for many other systems, from NYC to London.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Does anyone know of a RELIABLE tool for screen recording long sessions on macOS?
I've been burned a ton of times by tools which seem great... and then they crash and lose the whole recording, or it turns out the audio wasn't recorded properly
I've been burned a ton of times by tools which seem great... and then they crash and lose the whole recording, or it turns out the audio wasn't recorded properly
October 9, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Does anyone know of a RELIABLE tool for screen recording long sessions on macOS?
I've been burned a ton of times by tools which seem great... and then they crash and lose the whole recording, or it turns out the audio wasn't recorded properly
I've been burned a ton of times by tools which seem great... and then they crash and lose the whole recording, or it turns out the audio wasn't recorded properly
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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
October 4, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943
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This video is a long time coming.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
The Secret of Montreal’s Urbanism Success
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This video is a long time coming.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
A very excellent video explaining Montreal’s borough system as it relates to a possible reason why this city has the best bike and pedestrian friendly streets in North America. Many courageous people working together have transformed this city over the years. I’ve seen them do it. It’s awesome.
This video is a long time coming.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
People always ask me: what makes Montreal so ambitious on urbanism? (At least for bikes and pedestrians.)
I've been thinking through this and asking Montrealers, and in this video I want to cover *part* of the answer.
The Secret of Montreal’s Urbanism Success
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
youtu.be
October 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A very excellent video explaining Montreal’s borough system as it relates to a possible reason why this city has the best bike and pedestrian friendly streets in North America. Many courageous people working together have transformed this city over the years. I’ve seen them do it. It’s awesome.
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“Expanding the average car length from 5 meters (16.4 ft) to 5.5 meters (18 ft) decreases street parking spots by 9.3%, while an additional expansion to 6m (19.7 ft) causes a further loss of 7%…the growing share of larger vehicles has caused many on-street parking spots to effectively disappear.”
Meet the Montreal Mayor Who Declared War on SUVs
Oversized vehicles are devouring street parking spaces in the Canadian city. So one borough’s mayor is fighting back with bigger fees for hefty trucks and SUVs.
www.bloomberg.com
October 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Expanding the average car length from 5 meters (16.4 ft) to 5.5 meters (18 ft) decreases street parking spots by 9.3%, while an additional expansion to 6m (19.7 ft) causes a further loss of 7%…the growing share of larger vehicles has caused many on-street parking spots to effectively disappear.”
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Canada Post is a service. Like other govt or quasi-govt services, it is not supposed to turn a profit. It needs to be efficient, but so do healthcare, the military, food inspection, schools, and other govt services. We subsidize it because people, businesses & remote communities rely on it. #cdnpoli
September 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Canada Post is a service. Like other govt or quasi-govt services, it is not supposed to turn a profit. It needs to be efficient, but so do healthcare, the military, food inspection, schools, and other govt services. We subsidize it because people, businesses & remote communities rely on it. #cdnpoli
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Siri is always going to be better "next year." Fifteen years later it pretty clearly hasn't improved much.
Sources: Apple has developed an internal ChatGPT-like iPhone app, code-named Veritas, to help test and prepare for a major Siri overhaul next year (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Siri is always going to be better "next year." Fifteen years later it pretty clearly hasn't improved much.
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