Dave Vasilevsky

Someone asked me recently about my favourite bug. So I told them about aRts codec registration via static initializes, and how dyld's two level linking interfered. Can't believe I still remembered!

Des ainés contre l'abolition du PEQ

1/5 💙 Michèle, le PEQ et 83% des québécois-es.

Hir la firme Leger a divulgué un sondage commandé par l’UMQ et qui révèle que 83 % des québécois-es estiment que les personnes immigrantes qui occupent déjà un emploi et qui sont bien établies dans la province devraient pouvoir y rester.

Collections: The Late Bronze Age Collapse, A Very Brief Introduction This week, by order of the ACOUP Senate, we’re talking about the Late Bronze Age Collapse (commonly abbreviated ‘LBAC’), the shocking collapse of the Late Bronze Age state system …

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social Hi! Bronze Age specialist here (on the linguistic side) to say that I really enjoyed your post on the Bronze Age collapse, but I want to correct you on one of the points that you made (and then add something else I think is really cool). 1/

Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...

It feels like there's a real tension between "voters can know what a party stands for" and "voters in ridings have local control". And I don't know how we resolve that.

Thanks for the video, I appreciate your perspective. It does seem important that parties are more than just leaders.

As a dual-citizen, I do want to note that few US primaries are state-wide. Most are for seats in congress, or state legislatures, with small districts.

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

I think as of 2008 it stopped going back indefinitely, and was only to a max of one generation.

This was also the case before 2008, so most people who it could apply to were already citizens. Still a bug deal to those born since then, and to Canadians who want children but were born somewhere else!

Hmm no, it actually takes a full re-compression, since we'd need to turn it into independent blocks. Unfortunate.

Yeah, you'd have to repack it, that's really annoying. Maybe I'll write a tool to make it easier.

Side note, there is a seekable zstd extension: github.com/facebook/zst...

Trekorama! 360° of Star Trek

Someone has lifted the QuickTimeVR movie files from 1994's "Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual", upscaled them then built an in-browser replica of the ITM's "Tour" module. mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/
#StarTrek

Sign for the Bloq Quebecois in Montreal, saying "je choisis les regions".

Definitely exists in Quebec! The nationalist party here had election signs saying "I choose the regions", which hilariously even went up *in Montreal*. It's like an "I choose upstate" sign for a NYC representative.

Hardcover We're a social network for book lovers to find life changing books, track what you read & want to read, and connect with passionate readers.

I've been using Hardcover.app. it's got good integration with KOReader

A commemorative plaque titled "The Toronto Recursive History Project of Toronto's Recursive History," situated in a garden area. The plaque has text explaining its significance, stating it was commemorated on October 10, 2018, and states that by reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque. To this day and up to the end of this sentence, this plaque continues to be read by people like yourself.

“By reading this plaque, you have made a valuable addition to the number of people who have read this plaque” … an important heritage moment on the streets of Toronto (by artist Sarah Lazarovic).

My building only has balconies in back, but I'm not really sure why! I seem to recall someone saying there was some regulatory reason.

Where's my Cel-Ray?

Allison Chase's Fundraiser for Santropol Roulant Dear friends of Allison,  Thank you for choosing to join Alli in supporting food security and social inclusion in Montreal!As we mark Santropol Roulant's 30th anniversary, the generations of Roulanter...

If you have a couple of bucks spare, someone who is very very cool (a friend) is organizing a fundraiser for an org that gives food to Montréalers—delivering it door to door, for those most in need.

Santropol Roulant is a gift to the city, please share this fundraiser!
www.zeffy.com/en-CA/donati...

The never-ending riddle of Canadian health spending Annual costs have climbed to $400-billion, yet we struggle to provide timely care

What both grows and shrinks at the same time? The never-ending riddle of Canadian health spending, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

Thanks!

Also thanks for all the pictures and info! It's still exciting, I don't want to only complain.

I'm so impatient for the bus network to adjust! It's not fun trying to get to the REM from Mile End/Villeray/ParcEx. Maybe they can extend the 18 and 193 buses eventually.

This!!!

but that's just a local effect. It's hard to say what the overall impact is.

More generally, even if it is having an impact on rent, there's a well known solution called "build some more housing". Seems a lot easier than hurting thousands of students, educators and others.

I was talking about what sentiments I was hearing. It's still unclear to me what effects international students are having on housing. Mike Moffatt talked about prices going down a lot in some Ontario college towns after sutdent quotas were cut, which sounded fairly convincing,

It feels like there's a gaping political space for someone to talk about higher education as one of Canada's most successful exports, at a time when trade is threatened. Not sure why nobody in politics has been jumping in!

It's also really weird to have an across-the-board cut. Most of the complaints I hear about international students have to do with housing, but that impact varies drastically by region. It might even make more sense to just download international student targets to the provinces?

Ottawa’s immigration plan halves international student intake Ottawa says the cut aims to ease housing and health care system pressures

The Globe & Mail claims it was 306K in 2025: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... Still a really big cut!