Catelli

Consumer of beer, smoker of cigars. Also camping and cycling

IT guy, from Cambridge, Ontario

On BlueSky as @catelli.bsky.social

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2025-06-26 13:53:28 UTC

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It's exhausting and frustrating. Managing 365 as an admin is like wrestling an Octopus/Hydra combo. As soon as you pin down one arm, it grows another.

2025-06-26 13:53:02 UTC

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Yeah. The evils of Microsoft cloud.
We have a 3rd party spam filter that is very reliable. But I cannot completely disable the Microsoft 365 Spam filter and say I have a solution I trust. I can only shut it down so far, but it's still @#$@# there! And it still traps stuff into Junk, separate from our 3rd party Junk system that we actually trust.

2025-06-26 13:38:04 UTC

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But... Huh... *SIGH*

2025-06-19 18:53:07 UTC

FWIW the JD Vance BlueSky account rocketed to the number one blocked account by the BlueSky user community in under 24 hours.

2025-05-05 17:02:02 UTC

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Well. If the translation makes sense, you did it wrong!

2025-05-05 16:52:08 UTC

The entire IT industry is bafflegab.
This paragraph is 100% meaningless. It tells customers nothing useful whatsoever.
#Innovation
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/456/258/468/849/231/original/fdfbae8529b2edee.png

2025-03-13 12:47:40 UTC

Technically it's only Champagne if it's from the Champagne region in France, otherwise it's sparkling tears of a crybaby.
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/114/155/194/374/639/796/original/13fb94c14baac19a.jpg

2025-02-25 16:46:09 UTC

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And look how well a two party system without vote splitting went....

2025-02-25 16:44:27 UTC

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Yes, FPTP has issues, but that doesn't mean we solve it by making it worse by making it less democratic and more dictatorial.
"If only everyone did as I did" is a path to autocracy, not democracy.

2025-02-25 16:44:14 UTC

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his is something that is really starting to offend me to be honest.
The "vote strategically at all costs" campaign subverts democracy, and establishes one goal as the only goal for everyone. It's dictating to the people what they should do, individual desires be damned.
Don't think, do. Don't believe, just act. Don't have preferences of your own, just follow ours.
That's not a democracy.

2025-02-25 16:36:08 UTC

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I only have one vote. It cannot be split.
Therefore "vote-splitting" is a made up concept that's improperly used to describe an overall result, and should be abolished as a descriptor.

2025-02-25 16:36:00 UTC

"Pressure to avoid vote-splitting intensifies in Waterloo region"
It's only "vote-splitting" if you believe the only goal of the vote is to remove the Conservative government.
However, if you just vote for your preferred party... that would be called "voting."
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/thing-pressure-avoid-vote-splitting-152917739.html

2025-02-04 14:19:32 UTC

If Donald Trump “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist” then someone that supports him 100% is also a fascist.
https://catelli2oh.medium.com/moral-clarity-8d368828d4d9

2025-01-24 20:25:59 UTC

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There's that, but there's the total apathy about the entire issue. I know several "Conservatives" that had bad shit happen to immediate family members, and it still didn't cause concern. It's just "the way things are."
Your wife doesn't matter? Your parents? Holy eff.

2025-01-24 19:18:15 UTC

One of the facts of society that I cannot comprehend is the level of support Doug Ford still has even though Emergency Rooms regularly close.
I may have the wrong perception of the society I grew up in, but hospitals regularly denying access to care would've quickly sunk any other government. Right?

2025-01-13 16:30:58 UTC

The thing about Doug Ford is that he's reasonably decent with words and horrid at actually doing anything.
Playing Captain Canada is all the former and none of the latter, so yeah, it's easy for him to do.
If you like a gasbag blowhard, he's you man!
https://www.threads.net/@theagendatvo/post/DExaWODRTl-

2024-12-09 16:07:20 UTC

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One day my mother looked at me and asked "Why don't you ever wear your slippers?"
I replied "What slippers?"
"The ones we got you for Christmas... Oh. Wait."
She runs upstairs, comes back, tosses a box in my lap "Merry Christmas!"

2024-12-04 16:25:35 UTC

https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/595/483/395/197/324/original/01a7514c0fdbdc0f.jpg

2024-11-21 00:07:59 UTC

Being on BlueSky the most useful feature is the Quote Post.
If the person quoted, doesn't like it, they can detach from your quote.
Encourages respectful information sharing with context and nuance.
Mastodon needs that feature too.

2024-11-07 20:39:39 UTC

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If you're tall like me, the upper point of that headrest is in the middle of the back of your head, not even above it.
I'm with you, this design is stupid. It fits the "average" male. Like how warplanes were designed for the "average" male at one time. (and therefore killed a lot of pilots)

2024-11-07 14:45:16 UTC

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This is much more than election grief, that's certain. For anyone that takes a long view, and I consider myself one of them, what I feel isn't just grief. It's the horror of being pushed into an abyss.
Self-care is going to be so important. And so much harder.
If everything I said resonates with you, survive as best you can my friends. I will try to do the same.

2024-11-07 14:44:51 UTC

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The big important stuff is all bad new. Even with the little good news reported... well, it's like building a sand castle as a hurricane arrives. The joy is ephemeral, and the awareness of that is quite strong.
I'm not sure how I will navigate it all this time. I feel quite brittle. And I'm sure many feel the same.

2024-11-07 14:44:25 UTC

I know I reacted with horror to Trump 1.0. But 2.0 feels so different, so much more ominous as to the changes that will happen.
America chose the madman. He is clearly unhinged and unrestrained. And now we wait to see what that will actually mean.
I find myself in a dark place. I try to avoid the news now.

2024-11-01 15:10:35 UTC

Old IT guy gets a kick out of launching Windows Word by typing "winword" into the Run line.
I amuse myself, when I want to amuse me...

2024-10-31 15:52:02 UTC

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"...of the week"

2024-10-31 13:23:22 UTC

I wish I could escape that dual-mind state of "Damn this is a nice day for this time of year/Holy Fuck we have messed up this planet" every time we have an unusually warm day outside of summer.

2024-10-30 01:42:57 UTC

Hey Ontario Cyclists and allies! There is no data validation on this form the Ontario PC Party is using.
I used First Name: Bike Lanes Last Name Save Lives
E-mail: [email protected] and a valid Postal Code
SPAM protest away!
#BikeTooter #Bike #BikeToot
https://ontariopc.ca/bike-lanes/

2024-10-23 18:02:22 UTC

Holy crap.
They managed to come up with something worse than Skynet.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/claude-ai-can-now-control-your-pc-prompting-concern-from-security-experts

2024-10-18 12:35:15 UTC

Coffee maker has a "self clean" setting and warning light.
But for it to do a "self clean" I have to do the work to set it up.
This bothers me a lot more than it should, but that's probably because I haven't had my coffee yet.
Grumbles: Go-ahead-and-clean-yourself-then-gawddammit

2024-10-17 13:09:41 UTC

Province's plans to limit bike lanes 'stepping directly into municipal jurisdiction,' says Waterloo mayor
... more pressing needs "If we could get the premier to respond to us around some of the things we're actually asking the province for, that would be great."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-region-kitchener-reaction-bike-lanes-province-approval-1.7353983

2024-10-01 12:56:20 UTC

"You won't get back to an affordable range for housing on a sustained basis for a decade"
Guess the kids are living with us until they are in their late 30s after all.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/buying-home-canadians-future-1.7338119

2024-09-12 19:27:39 UTC

This is how I'm going to go.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10751872/eastern-equine-encephalitis-virus-ottawa-death/

2024-09-08 15:03:33 UTC

In Ontario, your family doctor is financially penalized if you go to a walk-in clinic. do it too often, and you no longer have a family doctor. This happened to friends of ours too, because they took their son to a clinic “too many times.”
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/102/538/940/381/184/original/6e870c7466b53b38.jpeg

2024-09-05 17:02:26 UTC

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Far too late for that. They tied themselves to that ship when they signed the deal.
Regardless, I think they would have been better off focusing on the positives accomplished. Focusing on the negatives just reinforces the message he was "on board" with those too. A deal is a deal.

2024-09-05 16:58:43 UTC

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Little old me thinks the NDP could have let the deal expire naturally, and then campaigned on what they accomplished. "Look at what we did for you under a deal with the governing party! Imagine what more we could do if we were in charge!"
But nope. He's trying to gain more attention going negative on the Liberals. That's Pierre's schtick.

2024-09-05 16:58:24 UTC

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said a supply-and-confidence agreement between his party and the Liberal government “accomplished a lot” but that he had “ripped up” the deal with the Liberals, arguing that they have “let people down” and “don’t deserve” to be re-elected.
So NDP “accomplished a lot” and Liberals “let people down” executing the same deal. Huh.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10734350/ndp-jagmeet-singh-vision-liberal-dea

2024-09-04 18:51:11 UTC

"The live action Minecraft movie trailer..."
Oh god.
Can we not just end it all instead? Nuclear apocalypse? Asteroid? Something?
Just make it quick and painless.

2024-08-28 18:37:06 UTC

Right back atcha bud.
How dare I share information about BlueSky on Mastodon.
I tell yeah, the open source community is the biggest argument against open source.
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/113/041/091/941/318/135/original/d7e6571eabb15da0.png

2024-08-28 16:39:08 UTC

Woah!
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3l2s5qmjedc2b

2024-08-08 13:29:16 UTC

Da Fuq is this????
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/926/630/065/439/203/original/945d5d37f906f840.png

2024-08-03 00:02:49 UTC

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Some of that looks like Twitch Grass. It’s worse than Crab Grass.

2024-08-01 17:42:11 UTC

What people think IT is and what IT is actually like
https://cdn.mastdn.ca/media_attachments/files/112/887/995/571/391/113/original/54f6a11960b327b8.jpg