/ˈiːv/ (Yves) Dorfsman
@dorfsmay.bsky.social
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Despite warnings from the Commissioner of Elections and Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Liberals and Conservatives have been quietly working to pass Bill C-4, exempting themselves from privacy law imposed on others and undermining privacy rights of Canadians.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/how-...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/how-...
How the Liberal and Conservative Parties Have Quietly Colluded to Undermine the Privacy Rights of Canadians - Michael Geist
It hasn’t received much attention, but the government and official opposition - ie. the Liberals and Conservatives - have been quietly working to pass legislation that undermine the privacy rights of ...
www.michaelgeist.ca
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Despite warnings from the Commissioner of Elections and Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Liberals and Conservatives have been quietly working to pass Bill C-4, exempting themselves from privacy law imposed on others and undermining privacy rights of Canadians.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/how-...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/how-...
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Dr.K Explains Tylenol and Autism
YouTube video by HealthyGamerGG
www.youtube.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Love/hate for bash reignited! I don't know if this is a POSIX spec or a bash bug, but that's unexpected and needs to be understood. This will print "no"!
```
rm ~/toto
ln -s ~/toto tata
[ -e tata ] && echo yes || echo no
```
```
rm ~/toto
ln -s ~/toto tata
[ -e tata ] && echo yes || echo no
```
September 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Love/hate for bash reignited! I don't know if this is a POSIX spec or a bash bug, but that's unexpected and needs to be understood. This will print "no"!
```
rm ~/toto
ln -s ~/toto tata
[ -e tata ] && echo yes || echo no
```
```
rm ~/toto
ln -s ~/toto tata
[ -e tata ] && echo yes || echo no
```
The @calgary.ca transit app has become unusable on Android, it goes all the way to the edge of the screen, the top buttons (eg: back, hamburger) are covered by the Android notification bar, bottom buttons (eg: skip) are covered by Android buttons. We can see them but cannot press on them.
September 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The @calgary.ca transit app has become unusable on Android, it goes all the way to the edge of the screen, the top buttons (eg: back, hamburger) are covered by the Android notification bar, bottom buttons (eg: skip) are covered by Android buttons. We can see them but cannot press on them.
Facebook getting rid of public followers. This is sad, I like the idea of public vs friends access without the headache of a professional profile.
August 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Facebook getting rid of public followers. This is sad, I like the idea of public vs friends access without the headache of a professional profile.
TIL you can change the wiper insert (the piece of rubber), rather than the whole windshield wiper, for a quarter of the price.
August 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
TIL you can change the wiper insert (the piece of rubber), rather than the whole windshield wiper, for a quarter of the price.
Given the lack of communication about this from the government of Alberta, @drluannemetz.bsky.social could the NDP find out what the "Pre-Order Vaccines for the 2025-2026 Immunization Season" is about, if it is required to get vaccination, etc...?
August 13, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Given the lack of communication about this from the government of Alberta, @drluannemetz.bsky.social could the NDP find out what the "Pre-Order Vaccines for the 2025-2026 Immunization Season" is about, if it is required to get vaccination, etc...?
If you ask Gemini to adopt a behaviour, eg: "from now on use metric units only" it remembers it across sessions. You can check what settings have been set at gemini.google.com/saved-info
Google Gemini
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July 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
If you ask Gemini to adopt a behaviour, eg: "from now on use metric units only" it remembers it across sessions. You can check what settings have been set at gemini.google.com/saved-info
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How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:
More on Alberta’s book ban: government staff used an index of America’s most banned books and a controversial American website to create lists of specific books deemed “inappropriate” for school libraries.
theijf.org/alberta-used...
#abpoli #bookban
theijf.org/alberta-used...
#abpoli #bookban
Alberta used lists of America’s most banned books and a controversial database to identify ‘inappropriate’ material in schools
Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled pages of book titles that could be restricted through new content guidelines.
theijf.org
July 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How did Alberta decide what books were 'inappropriate' in its new school policy? By referencing lists of books banned in the U.S. and searching for the same titles in the province's public school libraries. Full story here:
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I had a really good conversation with @mgeist.bsky.social about a part of #BillC2 that is not getting enough attention. Part 15 would mandate standards, technologies and techniques for surveillance well beyond traditional telcos.
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 238: David Fraser (@privacylawyer.ca) on Why Bill C-2’s Lawful Access Powers May Put Canadians’ Digital Security At Risk
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/law-...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/law-...
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 238: David Fraser on Why Bill C-2’s Lawful Access Powers May Put Canadians’ Digital Security At Risk - Michael Geist
The Bill C-2 lawful access focus has thus far primarily centred on the creation of a new warrantless information demand power and the expansion of production orders to access information. Those provis...
www.michaelgeist.ca
June 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I had a really good conversation with @mgeist.bsky.social about a part of #BillC2 that is not getting enough attention. Part 15 would mandate standards, technologies and techniques for surveillance well beyond traditional telcos.
Pilots not knowing about some automation were factors in Scandinavian 751 and TAM 402. What did the industry learn from it?
Will AI 171 turn out to be an automation issue?
Will AI 171 turn out to be an automation issue?
June 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Pilots not knowing about some automation were factors in Scandinavian 751 and TAM 402. What did the industry learn from it?
Will AI 171 turn out to be an automation issue?
Will AI 171 turn out to be an automation issue?
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It took 21 months but, this morning I received the results of the Alberta government's pension plan engagement survey:
*63% opposed to Alberta Pension Plan (APP)
*10% pro-APP
*12% undecided/unsure
*15% other responses
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#ableg #abpoli
*63% opposed to Alberta Pension Plan (APP)
*10% pro-APP
*12% undecided/unsure
*15% other responses
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#ableg #abpoli
Alberta releases its pension survey results, 63% opposed to leaving CPP
After a more than 21-month wait, the Alberta government has released to Postmedia the results of its 2023 provincial pension plan survey.
edmontonjournal.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It took 21 months but, this morning I received the results of the Alberta government's pension plan engagement survey:
*63% opposed to Alberta Pension Plan (APP)
*10% pro-APP
*12% undecided/unsure
*15% other responses
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#ableg #abpoli
*63% opposed to Alberta Pension Plan (APP)
*10% pro-APP
*12% undecided/unsure
*15% other responses
edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
#ableg #abpoli
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Canada’s political parties are the top source of SMS spam yet they exempt themselves from anti-spam laws and the do-not-call list. With Bill C-4, they want out of the privacy rules everyone else has to follow altogether.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/gove...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/gove...
Government Seeks To Exempt Political Parties From Privacy Laws Even As CRTC Reports They Are Leading Source of Spam Complaints - Michael Geist
I have previously written about Bill C-4, legislation framed as an affordability measures bill, but which also exempts political parties from the application of privacy protections on a retroactive ba...
www.michaelgeist.ca
June 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Canada’s political parties are the top source of SMS spam yet they exempt themselves from anti-spam laws and the do-not-call list. With Bill C-4, they want out of the privacy rules everyone else has to follow altogether.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/gove...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/gove...
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The Government of Alberta will begin charging Albertans who don't fall into certain vulnerable categories for the Covid-19 vaccine, citing an American CDC reported cost of $110 per dose (why the GOA didn't use the Alberta purchase price is unknown).
A thread:🧵
A thread:🧵
June 14, 2025 at 2:47 AM
The Government of Alberta will begin charging Albertans who don't fall into certain vulnerable categories for the Covid-19 vaccine, citing an American CDC reported cost of $110 per dose (why the GOA didn't use the Alberta purchase price is unknown).
A thread:🧵
A thread:🧵
Reposted by /ˈiːv/ (Yves) Dorfsman
Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - my 2,600 word post on the history of lawful access and the new “information demand” power, global production orders, and new rules on law enforcement access to communications.
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/priv...
Privacy At Risk: Government Buries Lawful Access Provisions in New Border Bill - Michael Geist
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding...
www.michaelgeist.ca
June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bill C-2 has enormous implications for the privacy of Canadians. Buried toward the end is a law enforcement wish list that includes warrantless disclosure of information about Internet subscribers and unprecedented access to Internet provider networks.
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
bsky.app/profile/mgei...
Recently YouTube in the browser has started to interpret GNOME workplace switches (Ctrl Alt arrow) and jumps to a different chapter/timestamp. This is killing the whole experience.
June 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Recently YouTube in the browser has started to interpret GNOME workplace switches (Ctrl Alt arrow) and jumps to a different chapter/timestamp. This is killing the whole experience.
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How BC Wildfire Service is fighting misinformation with compassion www.burnabynow.com/highlights/h...
Many have incorrectly conflated “human caused" with arson and "the idea has taken hold."
Team responding to "comments with a playful, gentle tone and a wealth of facts."
Many have incorrectly conflated “human caused" with arson and "the idea has taken hold."
Team responding to "comments with a playful, gentle tone and a wealth of facts."
How BC Wildfire Service is fighting misinformation with compassion
As more people engage with posts about wildfires on social media, the government agency is trying a new approach to combat the spread of misinformation.
www.burnabynow.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
How BC Wildfire Service is fighting misinformation with compassion www.burnabynow.com/highlights/h...
Many have incorrectly conflated “human caused" with arson and "the idea has taken hold."
Team responding to "comments with a playful, gentle tone and a wealth of facts."
Many have incorrectly conflated “human caused" with arson and "the idea has taken hold."
Team responding to "comments with a playful, gentle tone and a wealth of facts."
I find that Gemini does better translations than Google translate for short paragraphs (English to French and vice vera).
May 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I find that Gemini does better translations than Google translate for short paragraphs (English to French and vice vera).
"those living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the odds of receiving a Parkinson’s diagnosis than those who lived more than six miles away."
www.psychiatrist.com/news/golf-co...
www.psychiatrist.com/news/golf-co...
Golf Course Living Linked To Higher Parkinson’s Risk?
Incidental exposure to pesticides can elevate the risk of Parkinson’s disease for anyone living near a golf course.
www.psychiatrist.com
May 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
"those living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the odds of receiving a Parkinson’s diagnosis than those who lived more than six miles away."
www.psychiatrist.com/news/golf-co...
www.psychiatrist.com/news/golf-co...
It dawned on me that in the same way meditation is a metaphor for life and vice versa, a levain is just a larger sourdough starter, and bread dough is just a larger levain to which you add salt.
You can use the same ratio and in fact it'll make timings consistent across the 3 activities.
You can use the same ratio and in fact it'll make timings consistent across the 3 activities.
May 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It dawned on me that in the same way meditation is a metaphor for life and vice versa, a levain is just a larger sourdough starter, and bread dough is just a larger levain to which you add salt.
You can use the same ratio and in fact it'll make timings consistent across the 3 activities.
You can use the same ratio and in fact it'll make timings consistent across the 3 activities.
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“An online fundraising campaign has been started on behalf of former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.
As of 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the GoFundMe had neared $13,000 of its $100,000 goal in support of Mentzelopoulos’s legal costs.”
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
As of 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the GoFundMe had neared $13,000 of its $100,000 goal in support of Mentzelopoulos’s legal costs.”
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
Speedy support shown with fundraiser for ousted Alberta Health Services head
An online fundraising campaign has been started on behalf of former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.
www.ctvnews.ca
May 1, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“An online fundraising campaign has been started on behalf of former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos.
As of 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the GoFundMe had neared $13,000 of its $100,000 goal in support of Mentzelopoulos’s legal costs.”
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
As of 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, the GoFundMe had neared $13,000 of its $100,000 goal in support of Mentzelopoulos’s legal costs.”
#abpoli #cdnpoli
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
I love Gthumb feature of rotating the picture parallel/perpendicular to a line you draw on the pic!
April 27, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I love Gthumb feature of rotating the picture parallel/perpendicular to a line you draw on the pic!
groupfie: a setting on smartphone for the front camera, like a selfie, but but for groups and where everybody is in focus, no more blurry friends!
April 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
groupfie: a setting on smartphone for the front camera, like a selfie, but but for groups and where everybody is in focus, no more blurry friends!
