Food prices are going up on mostly everything, even as high as coffee at 41% https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/grocery-prices-food-cost-9.6956462 - - - Les prix de l’alimentation augmentent sur pas mal tout, même le café qui augmente de 41% // Article en anglais // #canada #inflation

Basically all of the Province of Ontario’s data exists in the MS stack. While the servers are on-shore their recent remarks to the EU show that they will and are capable of handing it over to American governments. This is a REAL danger and a threat to our sovereignty. I would really like to see […]

In my years of working for the Ont. Public Service I’ve seen an ongoing decline in working conditions. In 2016 I had my own cube. I could have a family photo on my desk. In 2018 moved to an open office, I had my own desk and walls weren’t full of asbestos and the water was drinkable. In 2020 […]

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Anyone have experience on where I could get a bike frame painted in #toronto? It’s a nothing special 90’s mountain bike frame, but it’s my Dads old bike and I’ve been wanting to restore it for a while. Unfortunately it’s sat outside of a garage for years. Steel framed but has some rust spots.

In my job search for a remote role I keep seeing posts like these: “Remote anywhere in Canada unless you live near our offices, then you are expected on site X days per week” So admittedly the job can be done remote, and they’re fine with remote… but it’s not allowed to be remote if you live […]

I finally got my #obsidian vault syncing to my server. There's a few plugins that work with self hosted instances. I have multiple computers and a phone that I would like to keep my vault in sync with. I first tried the plugin 'Self-hosted Live Sync' but unfortunately I found it too unstable on […]

Hey Fedi folks, if anyone knows of remote data engineering roles that are open at non-horrible companies, ideally ones that contribute positively to society please let me know. I’m an experienced data engineer currently working for the Province of Ontario. #toronto #canada #jobsearch

When union salary increases negotiations are reported in %'s, I think it messes up the public perception. An 8% increase on $50K is $4K. That same 8% on $100K? $8K. No one is going to think that $54K is too high in Toronto. Looks fair to me. Given the current cost of living and the inflation […]

I’d love some #Apple #iOS HomeKit help. For some reason the default home location has its radius fixed to 100m, however I can use the second “home” option which is my actual address to adjust. My buildings construction causes some GPS interference causing me […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This applies to me and I think it represents a further deskilling of the public service, you get what you pay for and currently we are paying consultants who deliver half baked solutions and then bounce while the dwindling work force deals with the actual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Confessions of the Working Poor I work hard, buy quality clothes and fake my way through dinner-party conversations. I’m also part of a fast-growing Canadian underclass. https://macleans.ca/society/confessions-of-the-working-poor

I’ve been working on cleaning up my bathroom this weekend. It’s still a work in progress, so far I have: • Replaced the broken shower head, and corroded spout • Cleaned the stained grout with a drill brush, and a hydrogen peroxide and baking soda mix • Removed most of the old caulking Time for […]

Anyone know anything about solar stations? I’m looking for something small for camping that I can connect a solar panel to in order to charge my phone, maybe recharge my laptop, run lights, and whatnot. It might also be nice for something small during a very rare blackout. #solar #canada #camping

Crushed 45 minutes on the elliptical today and have been working on some custom tooling to generate column lineange in our DBT data model. Then made some delicious asparagus pasta for dinner. I’m feeling very accomplished today.

Another day another set of reps. I got back to the gym after taking a rest day, incline bench, skull crushers, cable pull through, flexion rows and push ups. I was supposed to do the hip drive but my insulin site is on my stomach today and that belt has a knack for wrecking them. I also still […]

I did some RDLs followed by lunges today at the gym. I don’t have hamstrings anymore.

As someone with a bit of #climate anxiety my building had a lot of issues this week dealing with the extreme heat that covered much on Ontario. Though we were comfortable these events are only going to become longer, more severe, and more frequent. Given current gov policies and flailing […]

In these times I think it’s a good idea to broadly share this: https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/how-to-hard-lock-your-iphone-in-a-hurry How to hard lock your iPhone and disable biometric unlock: 1. Hold Lock and *any* Volume Button for 2 seconds 2. This will bring up the slide to power off […]

Random question for those #iOS users who like to keep contacts organized. What do you do when someone passes away? I have my my grandmother for instance, I have messages I’ve sent her over the years, emails and whatnot. What I don’t need is a Siri suggestion to call her on her birthday.

Cyclists, do you ever wonder what you are expected to do when confronted by a "Cyclists Dismount" sign? Why do they even exist? Is it poor road design? Here's an alternative sign. #cycling

I’m playing a bit of #overwatch this morning and am grinding their April Fools event for a skin. I love when you’re forced to play half baked game modes, that don’t reinforce existing skills, for something that should be unlockable during normal gameplay. I have to complete at least 12 more […]

I really feel for those poor poor landlords who thought they could: - buy property they couldn’t afford - get rich by taking all the gains - jack up real estate in their speculation - Someone else would pay their mortgage and receive nothing, extracting […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In light of all the gloom I wanted to share one of my favourite shots of #toronto #canada, this was taken early fall of 2023 on a bike ride of Tommy Thompson park.

This is a common issue here in #ontario, and I think headlines like this really drives the “tough on crime” rhetoric. The reality is that our government has dropped the ball on staffing and things are incredibly slow. Our system relies on the presumption of innocence and time in custody […]

@ivory Maybe I missed it in the settings but is there a way to enable tap to play video? I’m scrolling through my timeline and videos that just happen to be at the top of my feed steal my headphones’ connection away from my computer.

I’ve been diagnosing weird internet dropouts that seem to last a blink all weekend. Just enough to boot me from a match. So after getting a ban from #overwatch I decided to pick up #deadlock again. Unfortunately I just don’t see it sticking for me. After staying in match for 35+ minutes there […]

Any one out there recommend a bike balcony storage solution for #toronto winters? I'm thinking like some sort storage tent/plastic shed, that wouldn't take up too much space (or raise questions). I just don't have enough room inside and thefts from the building's bike storage doesn't inspire […]

Mainstream media trying to sanewash @elonmusk’s Nazi antics #elonmusk #nazis #nazism #fascism

A good searchable list of where to avoid taking your pet! https://mas.to/@dmacphee/113877865853075306

Ex Toronto resident Jason Slaughter put up a new video on his "Not Just Bikes" YouTube channel calling Bill 212 "The World's Dumbest Bike Lane Law". While the original link was removed, it has since been re-uploaded. #BikeTO #ottbike #TOpoli #ONpoli #VisionZero www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgFC...

Airpods conversational awareness needs to know if I'm talking to my cats or not, or maybe an easier way to toggle it on and off. #apple

The world smallest violin for anti-labour consent building nonsense! https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/@glcanada_mirror/113534640991059364

Something like this is absolute anti-labour trash and consent building. Labour’s right to strike is pinnacle to our society, when you don’t have a choice to widthdraw your labour what then? These strikes are supposed to be uncomfortable. If their labour isn’t valuable why are we considering […]

Googly Eyes continue to amuse me

@bkmilli.bsky.social Hey darling’ 😏