Andrew Dunham
andrew.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
Andrew Dunham
@andrew.ottawa.place.ap.brid.gy
Running ottawa.place with @leigh. Canadian, security person, and proud cat-dad to two wonderful fuzzy friends (profile picture is Marie). Currently working @ […]

[bridged from https://ottawa.place/@andrew on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT
[Video] Original post on greennuclear.online
greennuclear.online
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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To all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.
January 9, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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apparently i can't quote-post my other accounts, will fix that later, but if you had friends or colleagues using med-mastodon.com, please go see if you can find them on another fediverse host or help them FIND a new fediverse host.

It seems the #medmastodon instance disappeared very abruptly […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 AM
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Ford Gov: Mayors need more power to get things done *enacts law*
Mayors: Alright, more bike lanes
FG: No, not like that *enacts law*
Toronto: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-council-bike-lane-approvals-9.7021551
December 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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RE: https://toot.yosh.is/@yosh/115606322667370792

if your company has gotten to the point where you are paying more than $1000/mo for a wiki (confluence, sharepoint, etc) you should probably hire a librarian
toot.yosh.is
November 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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OK so I have finally purchased a cable tester and hopefully this will help me deal with the morass of "???" USB cables floating around my home. But… does anyone sell USB-capability stickers? 90% of these which don't have their own integrated badging are just going to be USB-2 cables of course […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
July 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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One of the problems with the fediverse(s) is that there are in fact cash costs to compute share, and we can't wave it away with VC and ad revenue. There's no economy of scale and complete self-hosting costs hundreds/month even if your admin&mod team is volunteers.

Which is why I'm really keen […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Random emergency management question: there was a great doc out there (by a 3rd party consultant) about properly constructing emergency text messages. i.e. how to build good templates for various disasters. Anyone recall where that was? (Internet search... useless now). #emergencymanagement
November 13, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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huh. TIL: there is a “four corners” place in Canada, like there is more famously in the USA, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet.

But ours is automatically cooler, figuratively and literally*, because it is a: at 60° Latitude, and b […]

[Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca]
November 4, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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@moderation Question for mods & admins out there - does anyone host their own as a sandbox/playground, and what's your architecture for doing this? I want few and invitation-only collaborators to multiple AP-social web applications that we can experiment with as mods/admins as we […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
November 2, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Has anyone planted hazelnut bushes in Ottawa? Did you get hazelnuts?
November 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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We are notifying the community of additional public exposure locations for measles.

Two new confirmed measles infections in Ottawa residents are linked to the previously reported ones.

Please read the full PSA, including detailed exposure locations, dates, and times at ottawa.ca/en/city-hall...
October 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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I am incredibly delighted and impressed to see the domain access subscription feature in #gotosocial - allowing admins to subscribe to a domain list for allowing or denying domains, and - more importantly - processing retractions when those lists remove an entry 💯

If you are building federated […]
Original post on mastodon.iftas.org
mastodon.iftas.org
October 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Good morning! I am looking for contract work. If you have 10-15 hours a week of work on a well defined technical project (‘we need to move 6 websites by this date’, ‘we need to hire a team to do an infra migration’, ‘we need to complete an accessibility audit and figure out next steps’, ‘we need […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
October 21, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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US friends: please go be counted tomorrow.
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I remember a while back someone on fedi posted a little thing they built that was a personal url shortener in a single HTML page. If I remember correctly they just loaded in an array of ids and destinations and then you'd point someone to mysite.example/short?id=123 and the page would just […]
Original post on friend.camp
friend.camp
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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I’ve taken over the listing of Canadian mastodon servers at https://MastodonServer.ca from @mike thanks for your work on this Mike!

Don’t expect much change, though I might update the domain name at some point to be more “Fedi” inclusive?

I also enabled it on ActivityPub. You should be able to […]
Original post on mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
October 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
So, there's been a lot of discussion about Canada Post and it's "profitability". My view on this is pretty straightforward: it's a service that benefits Canadians, not a profit-making enterprise.

However: I do think that there's an opportunity for discussion on how Canada Post can evolve to […]
Original post on ottawa.place
ottawa.place
October 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Alright it's late and i need to go to bed, but here's a draft FEP to do full account migration with posts and whatever other kinda objects you want to bring with you. It's a trivial expansion of existing ActivityPub/streams systems and supports gradual migration as it's implemented and after an […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.
October 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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My parents moved next to a subway station, where there are at least 3 good sources of groceries, and they’re also walking distance from a public gym, which they go to with their government gym credits for seniors. Singapore isn’t perfect in many ways, but me not having to worry about my parents’ […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Can anyone recommend any tools for #crossposting between platforms (particularly #instagram

My academic association is moving off of #x. Apparently the younger kids are all on Instagram. They're the ones doing most of the posting, so that's likely where we'll end up.

However, I would like us […]
Original post on ottawa.place
ottawa.place
September 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Courtesy of /r/ottawa: apparently there's a new tea house opening in Centretown: Haus of Chaa. It opens tomorrow (September 15th) and if their Instagram is anything to go by, I'm very excited to go try it out! No affiliation... I just like tea 😛

https://www.instagram.com/hausofchaa/

#tea #chai […]
Original post on ottawa.place
ottawa.place
September 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM