Nostr notes by Brett Kosinski

As an aside, the fruit was harvested from city trees in the green ...

2025-10-19T23:39:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ycl3
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As an aside, the fruit was harvested from city trees in the green space behind our house, so shout out to #yeg for planting fruit trees instead of just boring ornamentals!

Now that’s a lot of crabapple jelly… #cooking #canning #fall ...

2025-10-19T23:37:50Z

Now that’s a lot of crabapple jelly…

#cooking #canning #fall

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Lol yeah, in my case they did a factory reset on the modem and ...

2025-08-12T23:20:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…08je
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Lol yeah, in my case they did a factory reset on the modem and I'll bet that included a firmware upgrade that fixed some issue that was introduced during a network change. So back to normal here except resetting the modem reset the network numbering and some hell broke loose for a bit...

So #yeg, anyone else having #telus residential fiber issues? ...

2025-08-06T13:31:15Z

So #yeg, anyone else having #telus residential fiber issues? I'm seeing 2-4 kb/s down near Castledowns which I haven't seen since my 2400 baud modem days...

Warning to folks in #yeg on #telus broadband who host services at ...

2025-06-04T23:53:23Z

Warning to folks in #yeg on #telus broadband who host services at home: Telus has apparently started silently deploying CGNAT in the region which means any IPv4 hosted services on your home network will be toast. At this point I think I'm just going to set up my own tunnel to a VPS I rent that has static IPs so I never have to deal with something like this again...

Could be worse, she could have been Marco Rubio appearing on Fox ...

2025-03-13T23:24:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…gpm4
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Could be worse, she could have been Marco Rubio appearing on Fox on Ash Wednesday...

Watching #CNN claim there was a "shouting match" between ...

2025-02-28T18:54:19Z

Watching #CNN claim there was a "shouting match" between Trump and Zelenskyy when it was, in fact, Trump and Vance dogpiling on Zelenskyy while he tried to calmly get at least a few words in edgewise, is one of the most blatant examples of false both-sides spin I've seen from them yet. Truly truly shameful.

I do not suggest watching the clip if you value your sanity. The behaviour of Trump and Vance was despicable and genuinely hard to watch. #ukraine #uspol

Man, corporations really want to put a stop to libraries: ...

2024-12-20T16:49:35Z

Man, corporations really want to put a stop to libraries:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-library-e-books-queues-1.7414060?cmp=rss

"Depending on the title, public libraries may pay two or three times more for an e-book than they pay for its print edition. In some cases, the e-book may be up to six times the price, librarians told CBC."

"Those publishers ... will often license copies of e-books for just 12 or 24 months. Once that licence expires, libraries must repurchase access to the same book." #canada #cdnpoli #books

Yeah, okay, no disrespect to the folks running the #AdventOfCode, ...

2024-12-08T22:49:40Z

Yeah, okay, no disrespect to the folks running the #AdventOfCode, but the description for day 8 was... just okay. Part 2, in particular, was very confusing to me, and I ended up having to guess (fortunately correctly) what they meant.

Who needs your fancy Cities: Skylines or SimCity 4 when you can ...

2024-10-18T16:49:26Z

Who needs your fancy Cities: Skylines or SimCity 4 when you can play the classic SimCity SNES port on the #MiyooA30? #retrogaming

So I finally finished Sonic CD on my #MiyooA30 and man I love ...

2024-09-10T17:09:55Z

So I finally finished Sonic CD on my #MiyooA30 and man I love this thing.

Does it get warm while playing? Yup! Is the battery life only 4-5 hours? Yup!

Yet for me it's damn near perfect: great design/form factor (so pocketable!), nice screen, fantastic controls (the d-pad is far superior to the one on my Steam Deck), and all at a very reasonable price.

Next up, S3&K, which I never played!

Though I feel bad for Jedi: Fallen Order, which I've left half played...

#retrogaming #gaming

Man, 30 years later and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is still a banger. ...

2024-09-02T03:05:03Z

Man, 30 years later and Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is still a banger. While I remembered the game having amazing level design, when you consider the context at the time, what they did in that game was really remarkable. And damn that soundtrack is great!

And it played great on the Miyoo A30 I picked up in a lark. For the price it’s a great little device to carry around!

#retrogaming

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Oh and here's their (yes, absolutely slanted!) coverage of ...

2024-08-29T17:50:10Z

In reply to nevent1q…jsse
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Oh and here's their (yes, absolutely slanted!) coverage of the ruling: https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/29/third-circuits-section-230-tiktok-ruling-deliberately-ignores-precedent-defies-logic/

This piece is pretty slanted. I'd recommend some ...

2024-08-29T17:47:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…c9ga
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This piece is pretty slanted. I'd recommend some counterbalancing coverage from, say, Mick Masnick (who is unabashedly a big tech booster): https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

The situation around 230 is complicated. Does it protect X and Tiktok and give them an out for failing to police dangerous stuff on their platforms? Absolutely!

But without it there'd also be no Mastodon as every admin could become legally liable for the speech of the users on their instance.

So. Yeah. Messy.

Over twenty years ago, now, I played a small role in the Sonic ...

2024-08-20T04:34:46Z

Over twenty years ago, now, I played a small role in the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hacking community by reverse engineering the level data compression algorithm used in the game. I figured it was about time I wrote my side of that story, so, here it is!
#hacking #retrogaming: https://b-ark.ca/2024/08/19/on-sonic-2-compression.html