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Jean-Francois Mezei
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Network/IT guy, started work on VAX computers. Author of Petition to Governor in Council to overturn UBB decisions at CRTC. was/is jfmezei on Twitter. From greater […] [bridged from https://mstdn.ca/@jfmezei on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21m
Last week, I splurged while visiting a chocolat shop. And I have to say this stuff is SO much better than Nutella, far less sugar in it. (even if sugare is still #1 ingredient). And the ingredients don't include much in terms of bad chemicals. Comes from Italy (where Nutella is from originally)
Inpredients: Sugar * Vegetable oil (sunflower, safflower, coconut, rice bran) * Cocoa powder * Hazelnuts * Milk ingredients: Cocoa butter * Almonds * Soy lecithin *Vanilla powder. May contain: Peanuts & Other tree nuts
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26m
Grey Alert for Montréal, I repeat "grey alert".

Batten down the hatches. Bring in your plants.

Insulation shields up !
Engineering: prepare to start the warp heaters.
AVIS DE GEL on a grey background.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 41m
Copying my 3rd disk. Even if it was only 2gb, it was still 1.4million files.
One disk was from 2012, the other two from 2015. Only one had indicating signs of failure. But the smaller 2GB drives can act as backup on my old server whose SATA controller requires 3gbs […]

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Dialog on a Mac: Copying 928,224 itemps to DMB2 696.11 GB of 1.54 TB - About 5 hours.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3h
@EdwinG If CN sells VIA time slots that allow its trains to average 102kmh Montréal to Toronto, then VIA builds its schedules accordingly. If you can't predict when CN has slowdown and pad the schedule too much, you may get to Kingston 30 minutes early and CN won't let you proceed towards […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4h
@chris I would support a cap on extraction of poil/coal in Canada, and such cap being reduced each year to achieve the goal of reducing emissions by 2035. That would send signal to oil industry that it can still profit, but no growth is allowed.

But lacking the will to do this, I think the only […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 4h
@chris Carney is stuck between a rock and a hard place.If all of Canada beleived in fighting Climate change, he might have easier job, but with one nameless province who is threateningt o sepearte if they don't get their oil business, by doing "photo op" promise on Keystone XL, Carney may kill […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5h
Translati9on of this Politico article:

The UK will raise its drug prices and buy more american drugs in orderto avoid Trump imposition of stiff tariffs of UK exports to USA. So in the end, British citiens end up paying more for services to please Trump. This is wrong, very wrong.

UK should be […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 5h
"Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry"

@chad ! Can you confirm this BBC story? 😉 (You know you've become famous when even the BBC calls you by your first name 😉
BBC News logo, and story headline is "Chad cuts ties with wildlife charity linked to Prince Harry".
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 6h
@EdwinG In the YouEsse, Amtrak gets financially compensated when freight railroad delays a train, so the goodies you get for missed connections (hotel, meals) are actually paid by the freight railroad. (but Amtrak doen't have a policy of just handing out partial refunds for late train, it is […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21h
@EdwinG I couldn't find any articles on it. They may have simplu dug a channel and lowered water itake (during whcih some temporart rock damw was built). This was more or less emergency work one summer when water levels were too low.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21h
@EdwinG I was unaware you could SMS EXO. Is that a formal support channel?
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Jérôme @jerome.jasette.facil.services.ap.brid.gy · 23h
A week late but the 30 day revenue testing has started today for the Eglinton LRT line

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/10/07/eglinton-crosstown-lrt-revenue-service-demonstration-begins/

#crosstown #eglinton #eglintoncrosstownlrt #eglintoncrosstown #metrolinx #ttc
#toronto
Eglinton Crosstown LRT 30-day revenue service demonstration begins, opening date still unclear
Officials say the revenue service demonstration is the last major test needed before launching the Eglinton Crosstown LRT in the future.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Toughts and prayers to the people of Trwanna who are losing the Richmond Street exit from the southbound Don Valley until sometime in 2026. Can Torontonians survive this? Will this justify an emergency project to add 4 more lanes tothe 401 ?
Is the 401 able to go […]

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Map of Toronto showing Don valley parkway with the Richmond/Eastern Ave exit and further south thecurce towards the west as it becomes the Gardiner.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Some progress: Trump usedto say that Canada wanted free protection from "Golden Dome" and woudln't get it unless they joined ats 51st state. Today, Trump said that they would be working together to build Golden Dome.

(For those too young, this was the Star Wars programme tried by Reagan and […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Now I am jealous. Trump says that Canadians visiting Washington were getting shot because crime was so bad before he acted. Of all the times I visited/biked in Washington, I was never shot. Obviously I didn't getr the full experience 😉
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Big view of the Oval Office studio with all the garish fake gold decorations and many painting all with fake gold frames.
Big view of the Oval Office studio with all the garish fake gold decorations and many painting all with fake gold frames.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
New Episode of the "Oval Office" drama starring Don J Trump Sr and this week's guest star, Canada's Mark Carney !

32 minutes https://youtu.be/qnRQP628zfM
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@samhenrigold Don.t forget that we also got a free rubbery case so our fingers wouldn't shortthe antennas, and Apple implemented it as an App. Alas, that ap neededto purchasse the free case is gone from my purchase history but remained for many years.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@chris It is important to remember that he was democratically elected to do what he promised he would do and what he is doing. Just as we don't want to be told by USA what laws to pass here (C2 anyone?), we can't tell them how to conduct their domestic business because he was duly elected […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Annonce d'Élections Québec pour motiver les gens de voter dans élection municiplales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI6_WVtl3zw

Attention: les abrevoirs vous surveillenet 🙂
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Why Trump is cutting Department of Transportation funding:

He thinks it used to be the Department of Portation and then it went Trans 😉
Seth Meyers with hands gesturing as he is about to deliver punch line to a joke :-)
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Missing The Point @missingthept.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Breaking: Caving to pressure regarding Bad Bunny’s planned Super Bowl halftime show, the NFL will instead invite Morgan Freeman to read aloud excerpts from the Epstein files.
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@EdwinG Your picture shows the bike path/flood control dam. But one year, the level of Lac des Deux Montagnes was too low and the dam still had to let enopugh water through to feed the other minicipalities that draw water from it, so St Eustache/Deux Montagne had to do emergency near that dam to […]
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@EdwinG Didn't expect Ste Thérèse to draw water from Mille Isle river. some distance away. Some years ago, they built a small dam with rocks to raise water level of the river at St-Eustache where they draw their water due to low levels. This was near the train tracks (before REM project).
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Jean-Francois Mezei @jfmezei.mstdn.ca.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Please ! Please ! no power failure ! I think I am finally gonna get a clean copy of my backups !

It is now doing September 30th. At this point if it fails, I will let it stand and when I tund it into a backup set, Time Machne will fill in gaps in the first backup it does.