bbbhltz

Professor.
#NovaScotia hillbilly.
I speak English and French.
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He/Him/They.
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"Pretty soon, the hippies of today will be the squares of tomorrow."
—Buck 65

Banner image: Classroom (1910) by J. Muusses

Blog: https://bobbyhiltz.com
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Fixations: music, shmups, blogging

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2026-06-18 22:35:35 CEST

C'est fait...
Mon employeur vient d'annoncer qu'ils vont gaspiller 15 million d'euros...
Pour faire quoi ? Un institut de recherche #IA avec des professeurs de IA et tout...
#AI #education

2026-06-02 09:53:33 CEST

Quick one-question #survey
What score is a bad score?
You are reading reviews for a game/film/book and there is a rating out of 100 points. If you had to decide using just that number, what is your threshold for discriminating between and "good" and a "bad" review?
https://beta.framaforms.org/bad-reviews
(Looking to get at least 100 responses, so a little boost would be nice)

2026-05-21 11:25:48 CEST

First of all, this site is awesome.
I had this bad boy: https://walkman.land/sony/wm-fs473
My friend borrowed it and somehow ruined it (leaked batteries) so I emptied out the guts and used it as a waterproof carrying case for, uh, stuff...

2026-04-11 16:30:29 CEST

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Vous avez ajouté des correction en plus.
Ils insistent sur tellement de points. C'est comme si on ne peut pas parler d'eux même pour dire du bien. Leur partenariat avec Motorola va tomber à l'eau s'ils continuent comme ça.

2026-04-11 11:59:34 CEST

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Et je suis bloqué par leur compte maintenant

2026-04-11 08:25:04 CEST

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Wow. Je viens de lire leur "réaction". Prévisible à 100%. Chaque fois qu'on parle de leur projet ou un autre ils sont là...
Si on dit qu'un tel projet est bien c'est du "harcèlement" contre eux (ou le projet est financé par je sais pas quoi comme la CCP).
Ils surveillent des dizaines de comptes et sont prévenus dans leur Discord quand ces comptes publient.

2026-03-18 19:02:37 CET

"you should have a google account" my arse...
https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/03/google-account/
#KeepAndroidOpen

2025-12-01 07:37:14 CET

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at the end of the install you can choose, can't you? I use the netinst iso.
At the Software Selection screen?
I think LXQt is great, but not for everyone. Xfce and Cinnamon would be good choices.

2025-11-22 13:19:14 CET

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If they're calling you criminals then they must also admit that they've let the OS grow and operate in broad daylight for like 6 years and done nothing. The whole thing is dumb.
The journalist from Le Parisien (owned by B. Arnault) covers police and crime news, but this should have been handled by their tech writer. They refer to GrapheneOS as a "new solution"... France also supports Chat Control in Europe, so getting out of here is a good idea.

2025-11-02 13:20:39 CET

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so many students come to the school where I teach based on rankings. It is all for show. They accept nearly every applicant so other schools have fewer butts in chairs and somehow that makes us look better? And then they survey them 3 years after graduation and ask how much money they make? And for some reason our school needs to pay to be accredited and on the ranking list?

2025-10-05 12:32:50 CEST

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I read this yesterday and felt sick. I then spoke with some people about it and was disgusted to find they had zero sympathy and called her an idiot for going there.
"Why would she get involved in something she has no stake in?" They said.
"Why would a human care about human rights?" I answered.
They said she did it for fame!
What are these people watching and reading that they had ZERO CLUE that a flotilla even existed but are able to state "she does it for fame" and turn a blind eye?

2025-07-03 19:39:56 CEST

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But the worst is the title page with word art.
What is this?
Every booklet has this.
The students pay €15,000 or more a year for tuition.
Word art.
In 2025...
2/2
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/114/790/514/792/292/208/original/40e0c305893c9fb4.png

2025-07-03 19:36:23 CEST

My school has a language department. Within the department there are more departments for each language. The English department is pretty big compared to others, so to make sure we're all teaching the content we have a syllabus.
Normal.
But, some of the colleagues make booklets. Big booklets. Booklets containing articles and exercises copied and pasted from around the web and other sources. The fonts change. The numbering system changes. The spacing and kerning are whatever...
1/2

2025-06-02 15:33:04 CEST

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John Oliver? I kinda wanna try their training software though. It looks exactly like something I'd be horrible at.

2025-05-28 14:52:07 CEST

This post is going around again.
It is true. 600 words isn't much.
Today my students are having a fit because I asked them to write 350 words in two hours.
A few years ago it was double that (700). When I started teaching it was always 1500, in class, no notes.
I remember when it changed though. The students coordinated and refused to write more than 500 words for an exam asking for 1500.
The prof failed them all, but then the school "curved" the grades and they passed. The prof quit.
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/114/585/525/664/623/272/original/c86209768a66a793.jpeg

2025-04-25 12:31:35 CEST

I accidentally bought something cool, and I can't put it down
#videogames #evercade #retrogaming
https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2025/04/evercade/

2025-04-17 16:08:00 CEST

Finally a new post after fixing MANY broken links.
I could have spent HOURS going over every aspect of this album...
La De Da 20 Years Later
https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2025/04/la-de-da/
#music #novascotia

2025-03-28 07:59:59 CET

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Bubble Bobble is the one with 100 levels

2025-03-28 07:44:18 CET

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only 30 but I was stuck on a handful of the levels that were more puzzle-like than the others. I remember this in the arcades, but at that time we started getting Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. Games like this gathered dust. But it is addictive.

2025-03-28 00:00:20 CET

It took some doing and some save state spamming but I beat Puzzle Bobble.
This song is now stuck in my head...
#evercade #retrogaming #taito
https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/114/236/869/426/101/540/original/ba6a417d5a059028.mp4

2025-03-14 07:48:53 CET

I haven't ever used the lists function on Mastdon. Maybe I should? What do you use lists for?

2025-03-08 16:37:43 CET

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thanks for including me! It means a lot.

2025-03-07 13:41:41 CET

day off, will blog!
here's a quick post about #teaching English and beginner #programming
https://bobbyhiltz.com/blog/2025/03/too-hard/

2025-02-18 13:04:29 CET

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ridiculous on so many levels, hateful on others
Just intolerant.
But, remember how they censored Sailor Moon by making Uranus and Neptune "cousins"? Make them cousins instead of a couple. Your sales will take off in some states! /s

2024-12-21 13:57:26 CET

"[N]obody in the history of music has made more money than the CEO of Spotify.
"Taylor Swift doesn’t earn that much. Even after fifty years of concertizing, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger can’t match this kind of wealth."
The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify-is-finally
#spotify #music #streaming

2024-11-26 20:45:28 CET

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years ago I had a similar realization when I used a bathroom scale to weigh luggage for a trip and was like "wow, this suitcase is 50kg!"
No. It was 19kg. I had gained 30kg.

2024-11-23 00:30:19 CET

It's #caturday where I live, so my cat gets a wiki page
Sula https://cats.wiki/Sula
(Thanks @npub1s20…twmm for setting this up)

2024-11-07 18:37:09 CET

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAYGi8rQag

2024-10-27 20:30:11 CET

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Big yes for @npub1hc3…0jsz, @npub1d0g…7n90 (seriously, ddg and ecosia are pretty similar results and one of them seems a little bit greenwashed...but I might be wrong) @npub1rkw…5q62, @npub1mtr…trt0, @npub1are…fcch, Aegis, and @npub1ajf…rx6k
Vimeo... meh... (I know, nobody asked me).
Still, getting graphics like this out there is important.

2024-10-13 12:41:31 CEST

Want something chill to watch today?
I have some guest passes for Nebula TV and this video about humpback whales by The Octopus Lady is great
https://nebula.tv/videos/theoctopuslady-i-thought-humpback-whales-were-boring
If you want one week of Nebula for free, send me a DM.

2024-10-10 12:14:06 CEST

Very important question.
What's your favourite type of bus door?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_doors
Obviously boost this because busses.
#publictransport #publictransit

2024-09-04 07:24:49 CEST

Yesterday I asked a group of students a question. It was just for fun. Not really à propos of anything we were studying.
There were 13 students, all 22-years-old or older.
I asked, "When do you think the first email was sent?"
After a moment a student suggested 2001 as a possible date.
I said, "never mind, just look it up, you'll be a little surprised."
2001!

2024-07-31 10:01:25 CEST

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxjbF18BBM