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Greg
@gregmorenz.bsky.social
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Rust, programming, urbanism and other left leaning Canadian politics.
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I've hacked together a wayland screenlock app that renders shadertoy like shaders, because computers could use more whimsical.
September 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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These pilots made the interesting decision to fly out of Iran into Iraq directly along what one imagines is the line of missile flight...
As described in the post, a flight from the UA to somewhere north east of Iraq that detoured from Iran into Iraq directly towards Israel, before continuing northwards in Iraq
June 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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The original photo of a dog
June 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Bevy + Anvil = We have openscad at home :)
May 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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The last bullet point feels off. Comments matter.

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think this aligns with copyright's de minimis definition either (if it's meant to). Copyright protects creative, not functional, work. Comments are the most protected, fixing a bug by changing + to - probably isn't.
Screenshot of text: 4.7. De minimis change Some changes can be considered de minimis, and need not have a copyright notice or update. These kinds of changes include: Pure deletion of code Correcting spelling or grammar Changing only code comments In general, any code change — however small — should not be considered de minimis.
May 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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On the bright side, there's another two possibilities that don't appear in this chart
April 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Also thrilled to learn that Canada's second largest party is actually a lobbyist firm in disguise.
Poilievre and Byrne are not inclined to listen to outside advice, sources said, relying instead on "a tight inner circle," which is composed, in part, of people who also work at Byrne's lobby firm outside the campaign period.
March 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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I wonder which "role model" Poilievre inherited this obsession from.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Yet another source said the campaign has a "weird fixation" with relatively minor issues, like how the media is reporting Poilievre's rally crowd sizes. This Conservative said this should not be a concern for senior leaders like Byrne, given other issues they are grappling with.
March 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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It's nice to see regulations (and plans to regulate) working

www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg...
Screenshot of pdf: (e.g., see references). In particular, the US government demands a plan for achieving memory safety by 2026 and several important organizations will follow that. Without the support from the committee this will imply • Disuse of C++ for many important new projects • Decreased funding for future development of C++ language, libraries, and tools Screenshot of pdf: I have heard said that the US government mandate and the related “safety concerns” will affect only security sensitive and network-facing components. That’s not the way things work in many organizations and tool chains. If a language is labeled “dangerous” or “unsafe” (the way that seems to be popular for “C/C++”), it will (where possible) be kept out of potentially sensitive code and not included in tool chains unless necessary. Not using C++ will be seen as the safe bet. The demands for memory safety are not unreasonable, in fact, I consider them too feeble for the long term, so responding to the demands is in the interest of C++.
March 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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NDP leadership needs to take the last paragraph of this very prescient statement from @charlieangus104.bsky.social, a few months ago, to heart today.

openparliament.ca/debates/2024...
Screenshot of text: Charlie Angus Timmins—James Bay, ON Mr. Speaker, that really goes to my point that we are at a really important moment, yet what do I see, and what do Canadians see? We see four or five toxic kids sitting in a sandbox throwing stuff at each other, and everyone is running down the street saying the tsunami is coming. This is the nature of Parliament right now. It is a broken Parliament. It is being interrupted in its work. At a certain point, we need to put aside certain divisions to make sure that we are ready to deal with the Trump administration, to make sure that we can keep our economy going, because people sent us here to do that. This is our job, regardless of whether we like each other or not. To undermine Canada at this time is very concerning.
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Light based distances leads to a certain interesting conclusion about speeds
Galaxy Brain meme: 1 foot / s 1 ns / s 1E-9 s/s 1E-9 (Unitless)
January 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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How to make a really bad shell out of a really good shell (fish_swimmer is my module hiding complexity)
Screenshot of code: use std::io::stdin; mod fish_swimmer; fn main() { fish_swimmer::global_init(); let instance = fish_swimmer::Instance::new(); for line in stdin().lines() { let Ok(line) = line else { return }; instance.run_command(&line).expect("Failed to parse command"); } }
December 29, 2024 at 3:56 AM