Ken Buchanan

Got my flu and COVID shots this morning. Reflecting on how I have gotten the flu shot every year since Ontario made it free in 2000. I'm not aware of having had the flu in that entire time. If I did then the symptoms were mild enough that I passed it off as a cold. It's a good policy.

Using terms like this is literally the grocer from Václav Havel's essay.

This particular example goes a bit far but adding a few spelling and grammar errors to text might be a good way to signal that it wasn't written by AI.

Everyone with ambition to rise within the Party must carefully study Donald Trump Thought on Capitalism with Fascist Characteristics for a New Era.

In case you missed it, "World Password Day" is now "World Passkey Day" www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...

The first question imo is a really hard but important problem. Most users don't really even have a concept of password manager or passkey provider. This leads to cases of people wanting to sign in and the passkey isn't there and they don't know why.

I was Very Skilled at Wordle today.

A lot of stuff on the web works on the model that a large community can contribute work and a smaller group can verify the integrity and quality of the output. AI has caused the contributions to scale by orders of magnitude and overwhelm the maintainers. Bug bounty programs also feeling this pain.

Where are your "CSS is not a programming language" gods now?!?!? muwahaha. muwahaha. lyra.horse/x86css/

Gerson: "What I thought was interesting about that column, is that at no point did you stop to consider whether America is a country worth joining." Douthat: "That's true. I did not." The 63-minute podcast should really have been condensed to that 20-second exchange.

I appreciate the good work by @dangoodin.bsky.social.

One thing about browser notifications is that it was a huge lesson learned by the web platform community. For all the abuse and annoyance, consider that it may have averted worse catastrophes to follow.

Feel old time: Blink's fork of WebKit is now as long ago as WebKit's fork of KHTML was before that.

If you're wondering about the vibe in Canada right now, I just got served this ad for a brewhouse that is just a portrait of the White House being burned down. No text, just a bigass picture of the White House burning and a link directly to their menu lolol

Trudeau invites Zelensky to friendly pick-your-brain coffee chat about being invaded by warmongering neighbour

Et tu, Bidoof?

Some places have used internet naming contests to name snowplows, which might be the only thing that they are actually suited to. Other jurisdictions that enjoy wintery weather have used: The Big Leplowski Yer a Blizzard, Harry Han Snowlo Snowba Fett Sled Zeppelin Better Call Salt

Keep seeing versions of this take, “Trump voters had concerns, legitimate or not, about their feet being grabbed by a ‘freaky arm’ if they dangled them over the edge of the bed at night. Harris appeared weak on the spooky limb issue and the Dem’s sole response was to turn the lights on and check.”

Canada turns off all lights in hopes US will think we're not home www.thebeaverton.com/2024/11/cana...

This is a feature I've been working on over the last year or so, with a few other members of the Chrome WebAuthn team. It makes passkeys a lot more convenient to use if you have an Android phone and use Chrome on a desktop machine. developer.chrome.com/blog/passkey...

in the same vein, implementation of HTTPS everywhere was a quiet social revolution that will go unheralded because the actual very dire collective action problem never fully surfaced

A story by @dougsaunders.bsky.social that gets everything right about Julian Assange. (gift link) www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0597199...

Make a movie milder: All the Secretary of Agriculture's Men

sick of normal things being given grandiose epithets? you might be part of the great oh fuck off now

<The next person is checking out the book> Librarian <intense gaze>: Are you sure you're ready for this?

reading online discussions about git is always really funny because 50% of the people are like "i don't understand git" and the other 50% say “no you just have to understand git is a directed acyclic graph where branches are pointers to commits" and nobody learns anything

HTTPS encryption for EU residents is at risk, as the soon-to-be-passed Article 45 removes browsers’ control over security for their users.