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New comment by kimos in "This blog is written in en-GB"

kimos — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:48:31 +0000

Unfortunately en-CA is not really supported as a locale and we have to choose between en-US and en-GB. I’ll usually choose the latter, because despite more differences in language, there is more alignment between Canada and British English in spelling, units, and style.

I really wish en-CA was as well supported as fr-CA honestly.

New comment by kimos in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

kimos — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:14:27 +0000

Whereas tens of thousands contract Lyme, often in life altering infections. Lyme is a big deal. But yes, I agree, we can both aim to reduce new disease without letting old vectors for disease back in.

New comment by kimos in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

kimos — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:51:51 +0000

I care about the Lyme more than the rats tbh. That is way more likely to fuck you up long term than anything a rat will bring in this day and age. We aren’t getting the black plague anymore.

New comment by kimos in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

kimos — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:50:52 +0000

I live in Ottawa and I watched a crow rip a dead brown rat apart in my front street this week. I don’t see them often but they’re here. (I swear I live in a nice neighbourhood)

New comment by kimos in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

kimos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:30:15 +0000

It’s worth knowing the answer, but also the answer shouldn’t matter for most cases.

Regular users should only use these stations for road trips. Nearly all charging should be done with L2 chargers.

New comment by kimos in "BYD is bringing its 5-min 'Flash' electric car charging to Canada"

kimos — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:25:50 +0000

Manitoba is almost 100% powered by hydro, and exports something like 7TWh of power a year. You’re drawing your line in the wrong spot.

New comment by kimos in "It's death"

kimos — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:28:30 +0000

Wow! Two hours!

New comment by kimos in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

kimos — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:52:11 +0000

This is not correct, for me at least.

I want a very good washing machine with frills, but it want it to wash well and quietly without needing to be configured from my phone over wifi.

New comment by kimos in "A new register allocator for ZJIT"

kimos — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:39:41 +0000

Used in production? Probably not yet. But likely tested in production on a small %. They’ve gotten practiced at using the Shopify Rails monolith as the biggest test suite and regression tests for Rails and Ruby.

New comment by kimos in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

kimos — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:33:38 +0000

Businesses and reviews mostly. Not navigation.

I participated actively in the Google Local Guides. I depend on the content from there to discover stuff geographically. But I’m also aware reviews and interactions and even images that look human can’t really be counted on anymore.

New comment by kimos in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

kimos — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:37:03 +0000

Yes, I am also hopelessly tied to Google Maps. Which I think is relatively distinct from web search, IMO.

New comment by kimos in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

kimos — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:23:47 +0000

My wife and I have a family account. I absolutely love it and have used it for a while. I’m a programmer and use it more for that kind of thing. She, however, does the purchasing and shopping and product hunting for our house. She keeps trying to use it but ends up with Google tabs open anyway. As as much as I’m a big Kagi fan, YMMV depending on your usage patterns.

New comment by kimos in "Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the Rust rewrite"

kimos — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:49:55 +0000

Are these… real names? I can no longer tell if this is satire.

New comment by kimos in "Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he's our 26-year-old son"

kimos — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:16:33 +0000

There is an excellent children’s book about their story. It’s hard to read to my kids without getting teary, tbh.

https://www.petermercurio.com/our-subway-baby/

New comment by kimos in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

kimos — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:36:43 +0000

The issue here is that Canada belongs to all Canadians. A portion of voters in one province can’t just vote to help themselves to the territory of Canada.

New comment by kimos in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

kimos — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:46:41 +0000

Unfortunately it wasn't my project so I can't speak to it with detail or authority. I was just observing.

It was things like: Where do log statements go? Via what path? Are we sure none of those routers are in the US? Can we spin up new instances of EVERYTHING in a `-ca` region? Can we force traffic for this shop to only use those instances? What about vendors? Can we disable US-only vendors of whatever? What about backups? What things are centralized (which were good to identify)? Can we region those too? Can we disable/bypass them?

And do that for every bit and packet for a very complex system. I think that it launched with a considerable number of features just disabled. Privacy trumped everything.

New comment by kimos in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

kimos — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:58:55 +0000

I have most often used it to be every amiibo that exists.

New comment by kimos in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

kimos — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:34:50 +0000

I worked at Shopify at the time this became legal and several provinces were launching on our platform. It was a monumental lift to get every single thing a transaction from these shops touches to only run on or through infrastructure on Canadian soil for this exact reason.

New comment by kimos in "Googlebook"

kimos — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:10:44 +0000

My brother in size Small-Tall, tell me where you shop!

This is a good one: https://tallslimtees.com/

I also do some made to order from Son of a Tailor and Proper Cloth, but it’s expensive and laborious and slow and risky.

New comment by kimos in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

kimos — Tue, 05 May 2026 04:01:57 +0000

Then that becomes an ongoing effort. The rewrite is once. (Good idea or not)