Starfleet vessels have a proud tradition of being named after important ships of ages past, and so in that spirit, I am proud to introduce

Star Trek: Boaty McBoatface

✅ Having opinions
✅ Keeping them to myself
✅ Sometimes

@cwebber I tell the same jokes over and over in person too

Me: Ahh, some soothing caffeine-free green tea!

Also me: Ahh, a handful of chocolate-covered coffee beans

Don't forget, if you're on a Mastodon instance and there's something going on that you don't like, you can add a filter

Settings > Filters > Add new filter

It's okay to let people enjoy it

Current status

This is the sort of problem that the future of AI poses to humanity; not any sort of hyper-intelligent singularity sci-fi thing

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/terrifying-how-a-single-line-of-computer-code-put-thousands-of-innocent-turks-in-jail-1.4495021

Reminder that Project Gutenberg Canada exists

http://gutenberg.ca/

The site is formatted like it's from 1994, but it's got dozens and dozens of digitised books that are in the Canadian Public Domain

#publicdomain

~ Computer security tips from the year 2035 ~

Never memorise the characters that comprise your password as this could be picked up by a nearby device with Facebook thought-to-text activated

Instead, focus on using muscle memory alone to hit the correct keys in the correct order

Me, visiting San Francisco: Wow you guys are like right on the edge of a huge violent uprising with all this wealth inequality

SF dude: Yeah I bet I could monetize that with an app