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Dianora

@Dianora@ottawa.place

live in #Ottawa, #Canada (Unceded territory of the #Anishinaabe #Algonquin Nation) My Background is #Programmer #RealTime #Embedded some #ScientificProgramming Hobbies? ;) #FreeBSD dev. #amateurRadio, #Musician #Baking (I love to bake Universes) #Cooking some Uni. #Maths #Physics #Linguistics now interested in #Philosophy #Propaganda #CriticalThinking If you know who I am, you know.

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GottaLaff, to Canada
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TODAY IS THE DAY.

We're in Washington now and arrive in this afternoon. 🇨🇦

Our new home.

It's surreal, scary, wonderful.

My posting will be light until we're settled in a little.

Thank you for all your amazing replies and good wishes. I read them all, but can't reply back.

Big hugs to all of you. 🥰

Dianora,
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@GottaLaff Welcome to Canada!

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Oh a Tornado did touch down in Quebec. 😞
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/tornado-touches-down-in-rigaud-monteregie-1.7216580

#Ottawa

Dianora, to Ottawa
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lovely. Tornado watch for most of eastern Ontario.

Dianora,
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@ottaross "Climate change is a scam!" /s

Dianora, to space
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So the news announcer on CTV news says "breathtaking views of our universe" and I wonder which other universe that would be if it wasn't ours... Well Ok Ok Hubble volume..

#Space #Universe

Dianora, to Ottawa
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What is it with CanadianTire not selling replacement parts for their garden equipment? sheeeeeeshhh Of course, Rona has it. (See earlier post about broken wheelbarrow)

#Canadiantire #Rona #Ottawa #Gardening

Dianora, to mastodon
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I saw two posts today both identical with the image. One had alt-text the other did not. Guess which one got boosted by me?

#Mastodon #AltText

Dianora, to Ottawa
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I am so very out of shape. Gardening is making me huff and puff so.. a little bit at a time I guess eh?

#Ottawa #Gardening

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Apparently according to the post office, Nepean is not a part of Ottawa. (I'm waiting for a parcel)

#Ottawa #Nepean

Dianora, to mastodon
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I had given up on pleading for more alt-text but I'll try again!

Please add alt-text to your photos/pictures it only takes a minute and does not have to be fancy. My policy is not to boost images without alt-text and I am not the only one.

This is one of the cultural things I like about Mastodon, the inclusiveness. Please don't ruin it.

#Mastodon #Alt-Text #Ottawa #Blind #Accessibility

Dianora,
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@thepoliticalcat As someone pointed out to me privately, they are also often useful to the sighted.

Dianora,
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@sleet01 @thepoliticalcat Someone gave me this link earlier on here: https://www.perkins.org/resource/how-write-alt-text-and-image-descriptions-visually-impaired/

Dianora, to Ottawa
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So it was -40 last week and +40 this week. Welcome to #Ottawa

Dianora, to random
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I hope Mr. Beige pants chokes at his breakfast. I have no idea what it is about him but I despise him. I don't hate people as it's a waste of time. But some I just look at like a piece of doggy doo-doo on the road.

SteveBellovin, to random
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This is one of (many) lessons I learned, way back when, from Brian Kernighan. His approach: first, get it right (my phrasing: there's no benefit to doing the wrong thing thing quickly); second, measure, because your guesses about bottlenecks are almost certainly wrong; third, optimize.
https://infosec.exchange/@larryosterman/112486986728658068

Dianora,
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@SteveBellovin Pretty code is good code.

Dianora, to martialartsmemes
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Oh Dr. Forbin!

HT @rysiek

#Humour

Dianora, to random
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Propaganda is the art of making sure people see what they wanted to see in the first place.

#Propaganda

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Amazing how tired I am after doing some gardening. Also amazing is how out of shape I am after doing said gardening.

#Ottawa

Dianora, to ontario
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Sadly a child has died of measles in Ontario. Wow. Get your children vaccinated.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/measles-death-child-ontario-1.7207293

#Ontario #Canada

johnefrancis, to random
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Today I was asked to describe the amount of technical debt involved in a system running HPUX 10.20 and Ingres.

I declared it technically bankrupt!

Michael Scott from The Office declares bankruptcy by yelling out "I declare bankruptcy"

Dianora,
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@johnefrancis We had an HP system of some type (I never touched) for doing accounting? or something at Dynalogic (Hyperion). I do remember writing a terminal emulator for the HP terminal for the Hyperion. A block oriented protocol as I recall. I am not a geek.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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We should never have removed our streetcars .

#Ottawa

Cassandra, to random
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My plan for tomorrow is (1) laundry and (2) Star Trek AND THAT'S IT.

Dianora,
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@Cassandra James T Kirk STOS was a narcissistic sexist pig. I enjoyed TOS when it was first on (!) despite this but holding my nose at the stupid seduction scenes Kirk always had. My hero was Spock. ;)

Dianora, to Ottawa
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Parkdale market is a bit of a bust still. Oh well. I'm sure they are a lot busier on the weekends.

#Ottawa

Dianora, to random
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So I got a phone call the other day. She started out with "'I've been making so many calls thinking I am going to get an answering machine!" So I told her Yes, I was an answering machine and hung up. Don't try to be "cute" with an autistic. Be direct and to the point.

Dianora, to Ottawa
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I remember Diane Deans for standing up to Watson then getting silenced by him.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/diane-deans-who-sat-on-ottawa-city-council-for-28-years-has-died-1.7198785

#Ottawa

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