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Pierre Belzile 🇨🇦
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💻 Information Technology Engineer 👨🏻‍💻
Dysprosium

The name of this bright metal is derived from the Greek for « hard to obtain ».

Mainly used in alloys for magnets deployed in motors or generators.
The Consequences of China’s New Rare Earths Export Restrictions
China has imposed export restrictions on seven rare earth elements and magnets in retaliation for new U.S. tariffs. These materials are vital to defense technologies, but the United States is entirely...
www.csis.org
April 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Apple manufacturing transferred in US ?

Here some US Statistics from the Cato Institute

People when asked do you want more manufacturing in the US ?

• 80% said yes

Same people when asked would you take a factory job ?

• 75% said no
• 23% said yes
• 2% said I already have a factory job
Apple market cap falls back below $3 trillion as 'relief rally' fades amid new tariff uncertainty
Apple stock fell more than 2% late Wednesday morning, once again putting its market capitalization below the $3 trillion mark after a brief rally.
finance.yahoo.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Eh... What's Up Doc? 🇨🇦♟️
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes
deanblundell.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
NIST recommends timelines for transitioning cryptographic algorithms
NIST recommends timelines for transitioning cryptographic algorithms | PQShield
The quantum age is quickly approaching. This month, NIST (the US National Institute of Standards and Technology) posted an initial public draft (NIST IR
pqshield.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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I hope you enjoyed the real (non-Argo) story of the Canadian Caper.

If you enjoy my Canadian history content, you can support my work with a donation at 👇
www.buymeacoffee.com/craigu

*sources in next post*

🧵15/15
Craig Baird is creating Canadian history content
Hello!Bringing Canadian history to people is my full-time job through my podcast Canadian History Ehx, and on social media.I love Canadian history and I share my passion with my listeners and viewers.
www.buymeacoffee.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Katy Perry, Nelly Furtado, Noah Khan and Roxane Bruneau will be performing live at the Opening Ceremony of Prince Harry’s Invictus Games Vancouver Whistler 2025.

The Games is presented by ATCO and Boeing, Live at BC Place on Feb 8, 2025. 

#InvictusGames #KatyPerry #PrinceHarry
December 4, 2024 at 5:14 PM
13 years from today - Unfixed Unix systems store time as a signed 32-bit int counting seconds since Jan 1, 1970. This count reaches its maximum value on January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. After that, it overflows, to a negative number, systems relying on this time format will malfunction or crash !!
January 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security

www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
Convincing a billion users to love passkeys: UX design insights from Microsoft to boost adoption and security | Microsoft Security Blog
Passkeys offer faster, safer sign-ins than passwords. Read Microsoft tips for encouraging users to adopt passkeys for improved security.
www.microsoft.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:25 PM
December 5, 2024 at 5:04 PM
True vision, Internet is back in social media, ready for all to build on!
What's @jay.bsky.team's vision for Bluesky's future? To make social like the open web and create the foundation for future construction, from her remarks at tonight's StrictlyVC event.
December 5, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Bluesky has seen massive growth in the weeks following the US election. There are 24 million users on the social media platform. Bluesky CEO @jay.bsky.team has to do a lot to keep her promise to not “enshittify” the platform with ads while still funding its explosive growth.

Our interview:
Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification
At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.
A New Phone Scanner That Detects Spyware Has Already Found 7 Pegasus Infections
The mobile device security firm iVerify has been offering a tool since May that makes spyware scanning accessible to anyone—and it's already turning up victims.
www.wired.com
December 4, 2024 at 2:22 PM
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I keep finding cool 3rd-party apps and projects built for Bluesky, so I've started to collect them all here:

justinjackson.ca/best-bluesky...

Did I miss any?
Best Bluesky apps, projects, tools I've found
A collection of cool apps and projects built on the AT Protocol: analytics tools, dashboards, and custom feed builders.
justinjackson.ca
November 29, 2024 at 12:52 AM
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👋 Bluesky is an open social network that gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience. We're so excited to have you here!

We share Bluesky updates & news from this account. A quick orientation thread: 🧵✨
October 17, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Great TOOLS, many thanks!
dame.is dame @dame.is · Nov 24
I put together all of the Bluesky tools/resources I've collected into a list on my website. There are over 60+ different links now, and I've organized them by category: dame.blog/skeet-tools

Enjoy! 🦋
November 28, 2024 at 7:50 PM
This post reminds me of the RIM story...
Social media is in desperate need of innovation. Meta is only letting you have a slice of control over what you see because Bluesky is here building for you.
We wrote on Saturday about how Meta is going all-out to meet the threat of Bluesky: wapo.st/3OrYxBj

Today they took another step— finally allowing users to set their default feeds to a chronological “following” feed.
November 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
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looks like graze.social makes it extremely easy to emulate the following feed of any other user on the network — see through someone else's "eyes" instantly! super cool
November 28, 2024 at 5:16 PM
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While Bluesky looks like other social apps on the surface, it’s actually quite different. It’s an open network.

I blogged about it here:
Benefits of an open network
emilyliu.me
November 24, 2024 at 11:53 PM