Kirk Ismay

Owner of Secure by Design, a little Internet Service Provider in BC 🇨🇦 (he/him)

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

My alternative contact information is available on my personal site at: https://t.co/HxGYKVPcRw

For professional inquires about my business, see https://t.co/jM5FGWj5Q4

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@CRTCeng The volume of spam is increasing too.

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@iamharaldur Happy Birthday!

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@DJSnM I've long thought that once Starship is able to land reliably, the option of a Starship kitted out for orbital research / manufacturing & that could stay up there a year or more, then land with the finished goods becomes possible.

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

I cancelled my #adobe creative cloud subscription and bought another @affinitybyserif license.

[Bill Nelson @SenBillNelson]

In 1968, during Apollo 8, Bill Anders offered to humanity among the deepest of gifts an astronaut can give. He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves. He embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration. We will miss him.

[Jonathan McDowell @planet4589]

Sad to hear of the death of Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, 90, after he crashed the T-34 he was flying in Washington state this afternoon. We now only have 6 survivors of the cadre of 24 humans who have flown to the vicinity of the Moon.

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@facebook @fbsecurity a client's Facebook account and business page was hacked, and there doesn't seem to be any way to get it back. Have visited https://t.co/xgOj7Zejwo and reset the password many times.

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@IAMIRONMAN7 @NWSSWPC Would this storm have any affect on home WiFi?

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

Phil Katz, the designer of .ZIP, died because of acute alcoholism. His mark, “PKZIP” is the preceding mark of every ZIP file in the world. He is forever. He mattered. And in the end, it didn’t matter.

https://t.co/cblkBzo2xg

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@DJSnM @CommunityNotes The location is great and all, but it lacks atmosphere! ;-)

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

ok, I've now read the full NYT complaint filed this morning vs OpenAI and Microsoft. I'm impressed - it's future-focused around fair value for work vital to democracy. It also contains 220k pages of exhibits although the pages of Ex J stood out to me. more on that in a minute. /1

[𝙹𝚘𝚎 𝚅𝚒𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚍 [email protected] @jvipondmd]

There's a common myth being passed around that longCOVID is rare, that it only affects medically infirm people, that it can't happen to me. Here's a short thread on the famous people (politicians, atheletes, entertainers) that are dealing with #longCOVID
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[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@DJSnM I wonder if they were aiming for close to the road to go pick it up with a truck in case the helicopters were grounded due to weather?

[Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu]

Here is @onthemedia's guide for interviewing conspiracy theorists and other disinformers running for office.

The first one is by far the most important. And I'd go further: ask yourself why you're doing this— then share that answer with the rest of us.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

I am looking at the pre-colonial history of the Indigenous people of each province.

Today, I am focusing on the Tlingit people of northwestern B.C.
Located in the northern coast of British Columbia, the traditional Tlingit territory stretched down from Alaska.

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[WordsMatter 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌻💔🌵🐈 💙🇺🇦 @millj919]

@Stonekettle Found this the other day 💙

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. This is Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Indigenous woman

On March 31, she was killed when an alleged white nationalist ran her over on the side of a highway

Her killer is not currently facing any charges for killing Mika

Mika matters

This is her story

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[Dr. Lisa Iannattone @lisa_iannattone]

Checking in on excess mortality in Quebec. Data up to early April 2023 now available. Excess mortality in 0-49 year olds has yet to slow down.
Week of Apr 1: 59% excess deaths.
Week of April 8, 2023: 71% excess deaths. Folks that is the single worst week of the entire pandemic.

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@geerlingguy @Raspberry_Pi Oh good, I have a TuringPi 2 that needs 4 compute modules....

[Kirk Ismay @KirkIsmay]

@climagic I just did!