There are some services that I expose to the internet (using Apache reverse proxy) that really should be accessed by only a small set of devices. Requiring client certificates seems like a great way to reduce the attack surface and prevent brute force attacks (since the attacker doesn't even get a chance to attempt a login).

I wonder about the difficulty on the client side as well as other practical implications. The clients are smartphones of various makes.

It's something I started noticing recently in some standup and improv shows in Toronto, not sure if it's a new trend, or it just more noticeable now. Here are some examples I remember:

• Jokingly asking audience for their social security number. This happened in two different shows
• "I've been on dating apps for a presidential term"
• I heard zip code being mentioned in one act
• A performer shouting "fuck ICE". This was not even part of any joke, just a political statement. While I sympathize, of all the scourges of the US this one is really domestic in nature and I don't get the point bringing it up in front of a Canadian audience (unless it's part of your set)
• And not to mention using their units of measurement, which is unfortunately commonplace (thanks a lot Brian Mulroney)

Other than the "fuck ICE" performer who said about themselves that they are Turkish (which I took to mean Turkish-Canadian, but maybe I'm wrong), the others were Canadian-born. In all cases these were young people who I don't believe do comedy professionally.

I have nothing against American comedy, but this low key pretense that Canada is part of the US irks me.

I discovered a puddle in my washroom that led me to find a leak in the drain pipe. Looks like a plastic piece called the cam assembly that controls the pop up sink plug eroded away. I removed it and ordered a replacement, but in the meantime I have a hole in the side of the drain pipe. The only temporary solution I could think of using things I already had at home was to take the wax casing of a Babybel cheese piece, smoosh it into a ball and press it into the hole like putty. It's been working amazingly well (there's a bowl underneath as a failsafe and it's completely dry).

The article implies that an individual "brown wormlike creature" is more than 130 years old, I wonder if that is literal or they just mean that ancient desiccated eggs lay dormant for that long and were successfully revived. I know nematodes were revived after millennia in the Siberian permafrost, but the Toronto wetlands are hardly that.

Could somebody just confirm whether I got it right? Whatever I contributed to my RRSP between Jan 1 and March 4 of 2025, and was declared in the 2024 tax returns, counted towards 2024. If my Notice of Assessment for 2024 says

Your available RRSP contribution room for 2025: $10,000

then it actually means I can contribute that much from March of 2025 until March of 2026 (whatever I contributed in the beginning of 2025 is a done deal).