Eric Goodwin

Getting by. Just look at this place. Eternal thanks to the ottawa.place admins.

Web/Cloud developer and antifascist. Urbanist and cyclist. Gay dad. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada #ottbike

Location: Ottawa, Canada
Blog: https://blog.auxonic.com

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2026-01-14 23:03:18 GMT

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so far at my work the primary use of AI seems to be implementing AI

2025-12-26 20:25:16 GMT

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lately I see typos as a sign of humanity. They’re caused by these terrible modern smartphone keyboards anyways but also a good sign of a real person witting.

2025-12-22 20:31:16 GMT

I quite literally mean burn it down. At some point people have to have had enough and just end this bullshit. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/12/22/texas-town-battles-nonstop-noise-from-bitcoin-mine

2025-11-14 00:49:47 GMT

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five years ago I could search my iPhone for “blacksmith” and get the exact picture I was thinking of. Today that search yields nothing. Sigh.

2025-09-29 22:48:22 GMT

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transport Canada could never be arsed to mandate truck side guards which cost almost nothing, improve fuel efficiency, and save lives. The disappointing but predictable answer is that no one wants to pay for safety and there’s no political will to force them

2025-09-29 22:13:26 GMT

Victim blaming bullshit from the city of ottawa. How about the idiots driving these vehicles pay attention. How about we stop allowing vehicles with blind spots the size of school buses on our roads.
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2025-08-29 19:21:51 GMT

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and how much went to the like 2 poor bastards actually building the software.

2025-08-29 19:13:10 GMT

Governments have basically lost the ability to build large IT systems. And politicians keep thinking the solution is giving trash like KPMG money to “fix” the problem they literally created. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/saaqclic-over-budget-1.7463880

2025-08-29 17:24:33 GMT

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it’d be cheaper to just start paying dividends to TC Energy (lol. Formerly TransCanada Pipelines) shareholders directly in exchange for nothing.

2025-08-28 14:24:39 GMT

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agreed. Back to the “office” but the office is a high school cafeteria.

2025-08-28 14:23:27 GMT

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I don’t mind the office but I loath hot desking

2025-08-28 11:11:02 GMT

Imagine writing this entire thing to explain a couple times that the city manager (aka mayor’s enforcer) made this decision entirely in isolation #ottpoli
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2025-08-26 20:14:11 GMT

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“chat with our AI in one of the new beanbag chairs”

2025-08-26 20:12:34 GMT

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6k people assigned to a building with maybe 3k workspaces. 🤔

2025-08-26 20:07:46 GMT

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compliance on 3 day RTO must be like 40%. And most people seem ok with that

2025-08-26 19:56:50 GMT

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the cowards. Papa carny’s going to have to get me an assigned desk if he wants me here more than I am now.

2025-08-26 16:14:26 GMT

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they can fuck right off. We were there with my disabled friend. The world didn’t end.

2025-08-26 15:44:00 GMT

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I noticed that were literally in the background of one of the IG videos they posted from the parade. 😂

2025-08-25 19:52:29 GMT

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I don’t want to think about it. But if it really was just on some old bill… ugh. He better have pulled it from the external website and not just copy and pasted from internal sources. #sigh

2025-08-25 19:48:41 GMT

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“reading is hard and the team of paid experts who should be doing this briefing apparently aren’t… so I dealt with an untested, unapproved, unmonitored tool based in the US” the real question is did he try to sell the AI any art

2025-08-24 17:02:41 GMT

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pride needs extra costs (water and bathrooms) like it needs a kick in the butt. But it’s also such a mess of corporate and anti-Palestinian nonsense. Sigh. Honestly. I’m nearing “over it” but of course that’s the point of crushing all dissent

2025-08-24 16:15:42 GMT

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in ottawa. Both.

2025-08-24 14:46:27 GMT

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sigh

2025-08-23 01:02:37 GMT

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sigh

2025-08-23 01:02:13 GMT

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on social media I don’t use I guess.

2025-08-23 00:59:42 GMT

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saw that. I do t like deli by inclined to be on her side. Like how did she get in trouble.. she doesn’t do anything

2025-08-22 17:49:09 GMT

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it kills me.

2025-08-22 17:47:32 GMT

Got word the department social media people (how is that even a job) are going to start a BkueSky account. Sigh. From Nazis to neonazis. Great work everyone.

2025-08-22 17:38:47 GMT

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I’m sure that’s what it means. It’s the Cordon Bleu. The Oysters will be live though https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/savour-september-an-evening-of-oysters-canapes-charcuterie-tickets-1611759278389

2025-08-22 17:35:29 GMT

Just got an email featuring “Live Charcuterie & Antipasto Station” which makes me wonder. I hope they’re not carving the cow from live

2025-08-22 17:32:14 GMT

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I loath desktop Linux (no comments please it’s just me and GUIs that hate me) but I’d go if we could ditch it at work.

2025-08-22 17:30:32 GMT

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let in all the furries that run the Internet.

2025-08-22 16:01:01 GMT

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strong mandate for “deal with the fascist making explicitly threats to the country” govern on “suck up to the fascist while selling out to corporate and right wing interests”

2025-08-20 18:51:08 GMT

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don’t worry. New Phoenix is also in development and will roll out at some point.

2025-08-19 15:37:27 GMT

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that’s the problem with oven mitts. I can never find them. But towels are bountiful

2025-08-19 14:51:19 GMT

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I just use a rag or tea towel, often damp, and burn my hands. 😔

2025-08-18 20:42:13 GMT

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“we made hundreds of millions of dollars profit. I make $12M a year or more and we knew our friends in government would never make us pay a decent wage”. The Supreme Court should strip the goverment of the power to force an end to strikes.

2025-08-18 20:34:15 GMT

Is it even a strike if the corporation refuses to pay people for working. air Canada can go suck eggs.

2025-08-14 13:44:21 GMT

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my whole job is trying to keep MS from destroying everything.. but it’s treading water at the best.

2025-08-14 13:37:35 GMT

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*screams*

2025-08-13 12:46:06 GMT

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for sure!

2025-08-13 00:11:53 GMT

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picked up bear from her cousins. Had a great weekend of swimming and French!

2025-08-13 00:09:59 GMT

Caught some good rain driving back to ottawa on the 50. Doesn’t look like any came down here :(

2025-08-11 21:09:51 GMT

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I recently failed to recognize the provincial flag. But the Franco ontarian one I’m solid on

2025-08-11 20:29:47 GMT

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copy and paste my text messages for translation. Yikes.

2025-08-11 16:47:10 GMT

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I use my personal phone too… mostly as a backup for my work phone. I really don’t want to get locked out

2025-08-11 16:20:53 GMT

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the direction is not supposed to be “use your personal phone” since by the end of the year they’re supposed to be locking down MA Authenticator to managed devices. It’s yubikeys. A small usb device for MFA

2025-08-10 18:55:37 GMT

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congrats! 🥳

2025-08-08 23:47:50 GMT

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obviously. My mistake was getting caught

2025-08-08 23:47:02 GMT

Bear is in the bath singing a full ballad about how I ate her last green gummy candy.

2025-08-07 21:34:01 GMT

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damn!

2025-08-07 21:08:59 GMT

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so many of my plants howling in joy!

2025-08-07 21:08:20 GMT

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yeah!!

2025-08-06 15:28:02 GMT

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Make Rain Acidic Again?

2025-08-05 01:38:06 GMT

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yup. Some Guide camps overnight but THREE nights and four days is big. Would have gone last year but otherdad couldn’t cope :)

2025-08-05 01:34:38 GMT

Packing Bear for four days at YMCA sleepaway camp. They grow up so fast. 🏕️

2025-08-03 13:54:48 GMT

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fur bird

2025-08-02 17:56:25 GMT

Fuckers. If you have the gall to make a 12 year old pay an adult fare then scrap the senior fare too. https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/oc-transpo-scrapping-youth-passes-on-sept-1-charging-11-19-year-olds-the-same-fare-as-adults/

2025-08-01 01:48:56 GMT

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does she know about all the baby birds?

2025-07-31 20:36:28 GMT

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good luck!

2025-07-30 19:48:32 GMT

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in private sure. Have a terrible opinion but posing with a sign in the newspaper making sure we all know you’re an idiot who hates your neighbours? Wow.

2025-07-30 10:52:40 GMT

These redlining fuckers hate everything and loath paying taxes. Upzone the whole area to r4 at 6 stories and let it evolve.
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2025-07-29 12:54:28 GMT

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going to get a one star review.

2025-07-28 18:36:22 GMT

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I’m sure it’s just a recursive meeting of 99 people trapped in a teams call.

2025-07-28 18:28:33 GMT

Weep 😭 in a meeting with SSC to walk through a process to setup SSO on some app.. I thought we’d just do it. No. We’re just walking through it. Like. This is routine for us. We do this all the time. Please don’t waste an hour of my life

2025-07-28 16:32:40 GMT

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“do you support a pipeline to transport rainbows and puppies without crossing indigenous land claims that will make gasoline free and save the environment?”

2025-07-26 17:33:30 GMT

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maybe 40 as the cicada flies

2025-07-26 16:59:11 GMT

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whoa! I almost never see them alive. I’m sure that’s good luck.

2025-07-25 19:21:34 GMT

“Cancel culture” for “do nothing wrong” is not how it works. This little shit is also documented to be one of the most disgusting pigs ever to walk the streets of ottawa. I’d wager that only a fraction of his sins came to light. Some day he’ll do the decent thing and die so this horrible woman can collect her payout and disappear forever. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rick-chiarelli-was-a-victim-of-cancel-culture-his-wife-tells-bill-9-hearing-1.7593437

2025-07-25 17:38:55 GMT

#Bell raised the cost of my internet and cellular services so I called in and cancelled some stuff to offset it. At this rate I won’t even make it 2 years before having to torch them completely. I knew it would be bad but yikes. The things we do for fibre.

2025-07-25 17:37:36 GMT

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exactly. Since MEC fell apart I’ve built relationships with other Canadian vendors who still sell good stuff and haven’t wronged me. The company that made some of my favourite gear (like a >30yo tent and >20yo sleeping bag still in use) is dead.

2025-07-24 21:39:28 GMT

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the real lesson is the state won’t protect you. It’s sickening.

2025-07-24 21:37:34 GMT

Sigh. The system loves a rapist sportsbro.
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2025-07-24 12:54:41 GMT

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need to get past “controversial” and call American neonazis and white supremacists what they are.

2025-07-24 10:50:16 GMT

“Two wheeled vehicles”. Children on bicycles. Being run down by fucking drivers. Cars are a scourge. #autowa
https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/2-children-struck-by-vehicles-in-separate-incidents-wednesday-ottawa-police/

2025-07-24 01:07:40 GMT

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they’re consciously choosing to ignore private contracted translation? That’s where the bulk of the money is going as far as I know. Machine translation just isn’t good enough to be used in bulk. For anything.

2025-07-23 17:51:43 GMT

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same

2025-07-23 17:50:01 GMT

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water logging would be NRCan.

2025-07-23 17:49:29 GMT

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yAIkes

2025-07-21 22:28:57 GMT

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just checked. Yup. Absolute ghouls.

2025-07-21 01:27:19 GMT

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strathcona park parking lot emptied out in like 2 minutes. People literally screaming and running. Caught us all by surprise I think

2025-07-20 18:41:20 GMT

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and threatening the zinnias who need to make some good choices about growing bigger and flowering.

2025-07-20 18:40:46 GMT

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I was weeding but the baby bunny is hiding in the front bushes so I’m giving him space :)

2025-07-20 18:39:34 GMT

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who can be sad on a day like this?

2025-07-20 11:26:47 GMT

Literally trying nothing by and out of ideas. #cdnpoli
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2025-07-20 01:30:03 GMT

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and after dark a bunny came by with her tiny tiny baby 🐰

2025-07-20 00:15:35 GMT

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we had dueling outdoor dinner parties today with the neighbours. And everyone on both sides enjoyed themselves.

2025-07-19 11:24:37 GMT

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your local CIBC branch.

2025-07-17 14:56:00 GMT

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there are sooooo many this year

2025-07-15 19:49:44 GMT

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yeah. It’s going to need a ton. Did a big prune though so fingers crossed

2025-07-15 19:46:14 GMT

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we moved a 15’ redbud from one part of the yard to another. I can attest to the warmth

2025-07-12 19:41:43 GMT

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my last camping trip was ok but also saw >50kph winds. Tents are made for that.

2025-07-09 19:49:31 GMT

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I might not even mind if the military was out building water management systems and doing energy retrofits on buildings

2025-07-09 18:42:00 GMT

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no more KPMG, etc. and halve ministerial staff. Basically save it all. But austerity isn’t about saving money. They don’t need the savings. They need the pain.

2025-07-09 18:39:02 GMT

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any article that quotes CFIB is just toilet paper. Boo hoo. Business spend money complying with regulations. Woe betide.

2025-07-09 18:37:59 GMT

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exactly. It’s all nonsense until you have to explain to some idiot in a suit worth as much as my car that year we do need to regulate the safety of milk, or steel, or the stock market. Ffs.

2025-07-09 18:28:20 GMT

The worst people alive.
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2025-07-09 00:30:57 GMT

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the self awareness of a jellyfish

2025-07-09 00:27:17 GMT

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I had my own eod emergency to deal with but I saw the online chatter.

2025-07-09 00:25:25 GMT

Maybe for the full moon this week wolves could drag neoliberalism into the woods where it will never hurt anyone again.