Jean-Francois MezeiNetwork/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 Montréal, Québec, Canada, Earth area
Jean-Francois Mezei@Milnoc@mstdn.ca are there any dates set for opening of LRT extensions ? I take it the east opens first ? Have they received extra LRT trains? I assume they have same bogie flaws that require lots of maintenance and slow speeds ?
Jean-Francois MezeiA few days ago, I wondered where in Alaska Trump would allow Pitin t land. 2 days before meeying the USA finalized the actual location of the meeting: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage.
The is quite last minute and shows they couldn.t secure/empty the whole town.
Photo: location of Elmemdorf air force station relative to Anchorage.
Back in Soviet era, it would have been unthinkable to allow a Russian plane to land at a US Air Force base. But the only way to protect Puni's plane from seizure if it were to land at commercial airport and would disrupt Anchorage Ted Stevens airport way too much.
Jean-Francois MezeiFrom CNN:
American officials scrambling this weekend to identify and lock down a venue for Friday’s summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart quickly discovered a major snag: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options both available and equipped to host the two world leaders were severely limited.
<...> It’s unclear if those offers ever reached White House officials, who were calling sites in Juneau, the state capital, along with Anchorage and Fairbanks.
Organizers of the summit soon came to believe the only city in the massive state with viable options for the summit would be Anchorage. And only Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, on the northern edge of the city, would meet the security requirements for the historic meeting, though the White House had hoped to avoid the optics of hosting the Russian leader and his entourage on a US military installation.
Jean-Francois Mezei@Milnoc@mstdn.ca Ottawa gets its own 11foot8 bridge !
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/out-of-service-oc-transpo-bus-gets-stuck-under-shopping-mall-sign-1.7608325?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Jean-Francois MezeiA few days ago, I wondered where in Alaska Trump would allow Pitin t land. 2 days before meeying the USA finalized the actual location of the meeting: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson near Anchorage.
The is quite last minute and shows they couldn.t secure/empty the whole town.
Photo: location of Elmemdorf air force station relative to Anchorage.
Back in Soviet era, it would have been unthinkable to allow a Russian plane to land at a US Air Force base. But the only way to protect Puni's plane from seizure if it were to land at commercial airport and would disrupt Anchorage Ted Stevens airport way too much.
Jean-Francois MezeiTrivia:
In February 2004, the Onion parodied the shaving industry with this article:
"Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"
https://theonion.com/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades-1819584036/
A few months later, Gillette introduced 5 bladed shavers 😉
Jean-Francois MezeiIn 1985, a young adult Marty McFly travels back to 1955 where he meets both George McFly and Lorraine Bates who would become his parents.
In fact, Lorraine Bates is very smitten with Marty.
Marty has many interactions with his future parents.
Returning back to 1985, wouldn't his parents recognize their son's voice and looks to be the same as that Marty who got them together in 1955 ?
Upon Lorraine doing the laundry in mid 1980s, wouldn't seeing her son's "Calvin Klein" underwear put 2 and 2 together?
Jean-Francois MezeiOver the decades I have seen number of fiction movies if a dire future where people are forced to live underground. With climate change bringing 50* to eurooe, people will have to start digging caves like in Coober Pedy central Australia to cope with heat. Digging caves is exoensive. Will oil companies who insist on making our planet unlovable pay for this ? How many animal species go extinct ?
Jean-Francois MezeiToday would have been Emilia Earhart's 128th birthday....
if she had just asked a guy for directions 😉 😉
(of course we all know she was abducted by aliens and transported to the delta quadrant along with other humans to start a new colony there, so she wasn't really "lost").
Jean-Francois MezeiArghhh ! more enshittification despite new recommendations to let us choose passwords without silly restrictions.
" At least 1 digit, 2 lowercase characters, 1 uppercase character, 1 symbol, at least 12 characters long. At most 2 same characters in a row."
(the last one is is the bigger since you can't just pad an 8 character password with same symbol).
In essence, any login requires "forgot my password" step so one never enters a password and it becomes email verification only. And as they never state those restrictions when login in, you can never remember which password to enter for that service due to random restrictions.
Jean-Francois MezeiAnd it gets better:
"Sorry, we couldn't confirm you're not a robot. Try moving your mouse a bit and try again."
And they zap the password field so you have to restart from scratch. Really ?
Jean-Francois MezeiArghhh ! more enshittification despite new recommendations to let us choose passwords without silly restrictions.
" At least 1 digit, 2 lowercase characters, 1 uppercase character, 1 symbol, at least 12 characters long. At most 2 same characters in a row."
(the last one is is the bigger since you can't just pad an 8 character password with same symbol).
In essence, any login requires "forgot my password" step so one never enters a password and it becomes email verification only. And as they never state those restrictions when login in, you can never remember which password to enter for that service due to random restrictions.
Jean-Francois Mezei@alberniweather@socialbc.ca I have overlaid previous fire area estimate (purple) with the more recent one (red). Some expansion to north, but most of expansion was to south. retreat from former estimated eastern boundary.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
Jean-Francois Mezei@alberniweather@socialbc.ca @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
SENTINEL-2
Instrument: MSI
Sensing time: 2025-08-12T19:09:31.025000Z
(that would be 12L09:31 in BC land.)
1 is infrared (SWIR) 2 is visible.
Nte the 2 red hot dots at southern edge in pic 3. Might point to fire ambers transported some distance in air to start fires ahead of main one. In Pic 4, shows location of fire relative to Albernu, 9.75 km from northern edfe of fire to southern edge of Alberni.