George Geczy

Video Game Developer and Part Time CompSci Prof... with a dose of balanced copyright, privacy, freedom of information, libraries, open govt, and science fairs.

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@keaninloomis @ronmckerlie @MohawkCollege @hamiltonchamber @trish_loomis I taught at Mohawk for five years and I was never aware that there was a rooftop patio on the Ron Joyce Centre. Also, even though I've worked with Trish in the past with the BASEF science fair event, it never occurred to me that you were married :)

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@GreyAlien My games released this year sell for the same dollar amount as my games released 35 years ago. So, that's 35 years of not going up with inflation.

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@cliffski Had to pop back on twitter recently to handle promotion of our new Steam release - was very sad that all twitter would push me in the "More tweets that may interest you" section was dumpster fires

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@SkyFi_Wireless still getting errors (timeout etc) on half the sites I try... Work sites, Blink (amazon security cam), etc etc... Are problems still significant? Have rebooted everything.

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@keaninloomis Every previous mayor had committed to transparency in local government and yet Hamilton remains the worst in council secrecy, rejecting FOI requests, and much more. I hope you may be the first one who actually means this pledge and fights a staff & council that fears scrutiny

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@globeandmail I wonder if the management of @globeandmail will read Andrew's column and reconsider their support and lobbying for the news link tax bill? Would be nice.

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@cliffski Oh oh.

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@cliffski Don't forget you need to protect your trailing nul. So you need to force tttemp[2047] to 0x00 after the sprintf_s

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Quick test for web programmers: If they can't add in the one line of code to automatically handle Canadian Postal Codes both with and without the middle space, they should fail and go back to programming school immediately.

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Why do big companies do the internet so badly? Looking at you today @enbridgegas - confusing payment systems, no listed email address for assistance or questions, outdated security standards. Ugh. Their payment processor took my money twice and I can't even find a way to fix it.

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@cliffski After years (decades?) of making geo-political strategy games, I've learned you can't get away from the fact that certain policies (ie public healthcare) have crazy socialist positive outcomes (ie longer life expectancies). Darn us and our data analysis.

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@BonsignoreMr So between your internet outages, the problems with the hub, and the way you have to answer the same questions ten times each period, I'm not sure how you keep it all together :) Great work this week.

[CHCH News @CHCHNews]

Mayor Fred Eisenberger hosted the annual New Year’s Levee. It was the very first time the celebration has been hosted virtually. The event featured music from local artists and vendors as they celebrated the recipients of the 2020 order of Hamilton.

WATCH:https://t.co/pwa4Gep2pf

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Humbled to be awarded with an "Order of Hamilton", recognizing volunteer efforts in our community. In particular my work with the Hamilton Public Library, promoting access to digital technologies, and support of youth initiatives. @cityofhamilton @HamiltonLibrary @basef

[Internet of Shit @internetofshit]

Every time Google goes down, a thousand nerds cry out, wishing they'd installed actual lightswitches

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@JoeyColeman @cityofhamilton That's a pretty high - I mean, low - bar...

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@cogeco is there a known internet outage in Dundas right now? Internet has been since 11am for us

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@jkenney As an ethical producer Alberta wants to ship the "last barrel of oil" as the world transitions away to renewal energy; problem is the "last barrel" will probably sell for negative just like WTI is today. Is that what Alberta really wants?