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Daniel Quinn

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<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Treehugging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Treehugging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dotcommunist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dotcommunist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hacker</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/atheist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>atheist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canadian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Canadian</span></a> expat trying to save the world in my free time. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🌹</p><p>For the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Python</span></a> nerds, I&#39;m the guy who wrote Paperless, Aletheia, mt103, mpan, Majel

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    @randahl@mastodon.social this is dangerous rhetoric from someone who doesn&#39;t appear to understand the implications. Banning young people from social media isolates them from those that might support them while handing your citizen&#39;s biometric data to foreign 3rd-parties for &quot;verification&quot; only creates a target for surveillance and identity theft. I get he&#39;s coming from the right place, but he&#39;s talking like an MPAA lawyer, pear-clutching &quot;for the children&quot;.

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    @mullvadnet@mastodon.online the primary video appears to be corrupted. At about 5s in, it breaks down. It&#39;s also giganimous for the web and in a proprietary format that&#39;s not very friendly. This should help: ``` $ ffmpeg -y -i https://media.mullvad.net/andthen/30s/Mullvad_AND_THEN_30s_US_ProRes422_Webmix_4K.mov -vcodec libx264 -f mp4 -filter:v scale=720:-2 -c:a copy -vb 1024k -preset slow web-friendly.mp4 ```

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    What&amp;#39;s this? Just yet another story of corrupt police in the UK being corrupt: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yxley0pp5o

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    I just found this delightful outtake from the Firefly movie &amp;quot;Serenity&amp;quot;. If you&amp;#39;re a fan and you haven&amp;#39;t seen this, you&amp;#39;re welcome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqFSzNNdrw

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    Happy First of May everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhPeJ3uzOc

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    https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026/04/30/green-party-gaza-flotilla/

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    The NHS is moving to privatise all the code that was developed in the Open. There&amp;#39;s a petition if you wanna tell them how you feel about that. https://keepthingsopen.com/

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    New (long, cynical) blog post: &amp;quot;2025&amp;quot; - https://danielquinn.org/blog/2025/

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    RE: https://fosstodon.org/@nuclearplayer/116448508522578620 There is no valid excuse for continuing to host a project on GitHub.

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    I played &amp;quot;The Expanse: Osiris Reborn&amp;quot; tonight. It was just the beta, but it&amp;#39;s looking really good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1IdgDSZueU https://osirisreborn.owlcat.games/

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    RE: https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/116420902745022245 Exposing the lie of individualism, one cooperative gesture at a time.

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    It&amp;#39;s frustrating to see individualist &amp;quot;solutions&amp;quot; like freezing fuel prices gaining popularity on the left (looking at you @avilewis and @thegreenparty). This crisis is an opportunity to push for #renewables, mass transport, cycling infrastructure, and subsidised insulation programmes, not perpetuating the failed pattern of cheap fossil fuels. #cdnpoli #ukpol

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    Hey there fellow nerds, ready for a niche blog post about something that I think is important and seemingly no one else cares about? I got you covered: &amp;quot;The Case for Standardised Time Range Variable Names&amp;quot; https://danielquinn.org/blog/the-case-for-standardised-time-range-variable-names/ #Python

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    Just when it sounds like the BC government has managed to do something right, I&amp;#39;m reminded of just how unbelievably stupid its politics are. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/time-zone-changes-local-government-east-kootenay-9.7113102