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Father,Husband,Software Security Architect, Ethical Hacker,Musician,& Karate Geek.OWASP Ottawa Chapter Leader/OWASP Chapter Committee Secretary. Trying to learn Kendo. Devious-Plan.com founder. He/Him 📍🇨🇦

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · Mar 5

#CANADA #CDNPOLI #CANPOLI #boycottUSA

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 5

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

www.youtube.com

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1h

Ottawa has the best politicians that real estate developer money can buy.

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1h

“World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”

—Marshall McLuhan

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 3h

1/n The corrupt wellness influencer industry combine with MAHA pseudoscience with two goals in mind:

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

How a Joe Rogan-Mel Gibson podcast inspired Florida’s cancer research focus

Following a Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson podcast, Florida wants to study whether ivermectin could work against cancer. There is not yet evidence it would.

www.washingtonpost.com

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 2h

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS

column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

www.theregister.com

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 11h

I hate to inform you, but I am not paying for this. Are you?

But then I use mastodon more.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 16h

a man in a plaid shirt is holding a plunger in his mouth in a bathroom .

ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is holding a plunger in his mouth in a bathroom .

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 22h

Medium needs works on continuity management. They gate, force accounts, and require subscriptions, but then cannot allocate funds to having a consistent only presence and put all their eggs in one cloud basket.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 22d

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1d

This were we learn who has the best continuity management playbook. Using more than one cloud provider clearly should be part of it.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1d

So was it “vibe coded”?

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1d

I left it because it was Amerikan.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 1d

Consider following the work of @bellingcat.com and UofT @citizenlab.ca who work in this space.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 2d

A national treasure.

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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 3d

I'm Canadian.

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 2d

When all you have is anger and hate it is inevitable that they turn on each other.

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OWASP Ottawa @owaspottawa.bsky.social · 2d

We are getting setup for today’s workshop.

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 3d

On this day in 1921, Beatrice Worsley was born. She was the first woman to work as a computer scientist in Canada. Her PhD was also the first granted to a woman in the field of computer science. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC.

A black-and-white photograph of a woman in her 40s with dark wavy hair, wearing a textured sleeveless dress and a necklace, seated at a wooden desk in a mid-20th-century office. She leans forward with her right hand holding a document near a large analog computer console with circular screens, switches, and control panels, while her left hand rests on the arm of a wooden chair. A window with sheer curtains, a small table with a coffee pot, a black box, and a dark hat are visible in the background against light-colored walls.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

Here is another great fact: AI data centers are a relatively new concept, and nobody has ever built a 1 gigawatt data center campus at speed. Crusoe? Never built an AI data center before. We have less than a year of data on cooling Blackwell.

Hey whatever happened to CoreWeave Denton?

CoreWeave Data Center to Double City's Power Needs as Al Strains US Supply
CoreWeave Inc. is expanding a data center that is projected to double the electricity needs of a city near Dallas, another example of the strains that artificial intelligence workloads are placing on the US power supply.

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Hammer of Ukraine @hammer-of-ukraine.bsky.social · 3d

💔 The German magazine KATAPULT showed what the occupation of Ukraine looks like on a European scale
The area of Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia is compared with similar areas in other European countries to show a scale that many in the West do not realize.
#Europolitics #USAPolitics

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 3d

@cnn.com Completely misses the point that their current administration (regime) started it. Their mental delusion that they are somehow the victim can be traced back to their incestuous notion of Amerikan exceptionalism.

We do not have to buy from them.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 4d

Amerika in collapse.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 4d

Where have I heard the phrase “war zone” before?

Screen cap of September 11 cbc news article of Pierre poilivre news conference where he refers to some communities as war zones

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garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 4d

#enshitification

You must read this. Our collective sanity depends upon it.

#doctorow #internet #Shit

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 5d

Congresswoman Van Duyne does not seem to understand that restoring fair and open market access only works when both sides participate.

garthoid @garthoid.bsky.social · 5d

Congresswoman Van Duyne does not seem to understand that restoring fair and open market access only works when both sides participate.

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