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Canconda

Yup. Here's my thoughts on those.

1) DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping

2) DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping

3) Only mention of replacement in that article is union saying AI cannot replace them. IMO we need more AI tools in public service.

4) The expectations being unrealistic are your allegations. Based on what I've read from you, you're wholly unqualified to make those kind of determinations.

5) Broken Link. I'll assume it's your opinion that the timelines are unrealistic.

6) Canada's steel/auto sectors are highly integrated and interruption is going to have massive ripple effects in the Canadian economy. So yea Carney is meeting with their CEOs. NEXT.

7) Our legislature has been largely ineffective and it's Clear the CPC/PP intend to continue gridlocking our government. Shifting power from the house is hardly the biggest problem with C-5. Further illustrating that you're not writing this article objectively but with a specfic target in mind.

8) An amendment gets voted down and this relates to pancakes HOW? At least this is a legitimate concern about C5. Albeit a widely discussed one.

Honestly that's as far as I got. I have concerns about bills C-2 and C5, but the way you're trying to connect this to Carney personally is a waste of my time as a reader.

You absolutely lost me when you started trying to call out his financial holdings. It's right there in his response... Is Pierre Poilievre on the up and up with his stock options?

If I had written that and submitted it to my English teacher he would have told me to delete 80% and do 3 more drafts.

This whole thing comes off as a Carney hate piece with zero objectivity. You need to appreciate that the people taking the time to read articles are likely going to be turned off by blatantly biased writing.

I personally am only bothering to respond because clearly you put some effort into this, and maybe you do have something valid to say. But you got some work to do first.

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lemmy - Link to source

I'm a stone mason, and I'm half way convinced that a fair portion of the posts here are at MOST five people. AMA?

The title.

Feel free to ask me stuff. I'm in Scotland, born in Canada. I've been a mason for coming on 15 years. And my favourite dinosaur is....not really a dinosaur.....the Stenopterygius species. because they're tubby not quite dolphin looking (apparently) reptiles.


genus of reptiles (fossil)

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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GrapheneOS version 2025070800 released
Tags:
  • 2025070800 (Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 7a, Pixel Tablet, Pixel Fold, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 8a, Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL, Pixel 9 Pro Fold, Pixel 9a, emulator, generic, other targets)

Changes since the 2025070700 release:

  • update to BP2A.250705.008 vendor files (July 2025 Pixel monthly release)
  • disable temporary unconditional system crash notifications since we've gotten the initial feedback we needed since releasing our port to Android 16 (users can enable this themselves via Settings > Security and privacy > More security and privacy > Notify about system process crashes)
  • NFC: always show standard confirmation dialog before opening a URL instead of it only being enabled for a small subset of users
  • temporarily remove NFC auto-turn-off feature since it can cause NFC HAL or system_server crashes in rare edge cases and we need to entirely reimplement it inside of the NFC APEX module to avoid the problems (there were rare issues reported prior to Android 16 but 1 user reported an NFC HAL crash loop on Android 16 making it clear we need to drop this until we redo it in a better way)

Release 2025070800 · GrapheneOS/platform_manifest

GitHub

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Canada closer to recognizing Palestinian statehood, envoy says
The Palestinian ambassador to Canada says she feels Ottawa is on the brink of officially recognizing statehood for her people, as she also takes note of tougher language from Canada on Israel’s actions in Gaza.

Canada closer to recognizing Palestinian statehood, envoy says

The Canadian Press (CTVNews)
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lemmy - Link to source

garbagebagel

This would be great if they did it. However, Canada is still providing weapons or vital weapons parts that are being funneled to Israel through US trade. We are still providing weapons to Israel and just taking their word for it that they aren't being used for murder. Words mean nothing if we continue to provide the means for genocide.
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U.S. Congress members urge Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summer

U.S. Congress members urge Canada to deal with wildfire smoke ruining their summer

A lack of forest management and arson control is causing blazes that release hazardous fumes drifting into the Midwest, their letter reads
Temur Durrani (The Globe and Mail)

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Lossless Scaling frame gen on Linux gets some help from the original dev, next 3 steps outlined by creator

Lossless Scaling frame gen on Linux gets some help from the original dev, next 3 steps outlined by creator

The new Linux port has some issues to iron out, but implementation of Lossless Scaling Frame Generation is slowly improving.
Jack Goodall (PC Guide)
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lemmy - Link to source

Megaman_EXE

I often hear how the TSA was/is security theatre. Was this ever proven with any kind of stats? Did they ever stop any big incidents from occurring?

I remember going through various American airport security in the 2000's and thought it was intimidating (i was a kid). But i figured it would at the very least deter people who might attempt some kind of crime of opportunity? Idk.

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Vodulas [they/them]

They find a lot of guns (about 5,000/yr), but it is usually from people that forget they can't take guns on a plane.

What they don't catch is unknown, but the tests show probably a lot more

onemileatatime.com/tsa-fails-t…


The TSA Continues To Miss 95% Of Weapons — HOW IS THIS OKAY?!?

The results of yet another internal test have been revealed, where TSA agents have missed 95% of weapons that were brought through the checkpoint.
Ben Schlappig (One Mile at a Time)
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lemmy - Link to source

Vodulas [they/them]

I truly do not know if there is a good solution, but I do know the TSA ain't it. People are pretty ingenious, and if someone really wants to get something through security, they'll likely find a way. Hell, I saw a video of someone that built a functioning weapon entirely from items purchased after the security check. Luckily he was doing it as an example, but still.
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lemmy - Link to source

JillyB

I feel like we already have the solution. The reason hijacking a plane is attractive for a terrorist is because you essentially have a precision missile. There's little security for buses or trains because you can't do the same thing. If you make the cockpit basically bulletproof and have strict procedures about entering the cockpit during flight, then it's not nearly as attractive. Those changes were already made after 9/11. Hijacking a plane only allows the hijackers to kill the people on board, which isn't as useful. Literally eliminate TSA and I think we're good.

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WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging

I think a lot of people have heard of OpenAI’s local-friendly Whisper model, but I don’t see enough self-hosters talking about WhisperX, so I’ll hop on the soapbox:

Whisper is extremely good when you have lots of audio with one person talking, but fails hard in a conversational setting with people talking over each other. It’s also hard to sync up transcripts with the original audio.

Enter WhisperX: WhisperX is an improved whisper implementation that automatically tags who is talking, and tags each line of speech with a timestamp.

I’ve found it great for DMing TTRPGs — simply record your session with a conference mic, run a transcript with WhisperX, and pass the output to a long-context LLM for easy session summaries. It’s a great way to avoid slowing down the game by taking notes on minor events and NPCs.

I’ve also used it in a hacky script pipeline to bulk download podcast episodes with yt-dlp, create searchable transcripts, and scrub ads by having an LLM sniff out timestamps to cut with ffmpeg.

Privacy-friendly, modest hardware requirements, and good at what it does. WhisperX, apply directly to the forehead.


GitHub - m-bain/whisperX: WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization)

WhisperX: Automatic Speech Recognition with Word-level Timestamps (& Diarization) - m-bain/whisperX
GitHub
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lemmy - Link to source

irmadlad

Now that's an interesting angle. I am a mediocre musician on my best day, but sometimes I incorporate phrases and lyric snippits in a piece. I wonder if I could use WhisperX to find those words or phrases from a stack of songs. For instance, I did a piece that used a line from Jimi Hendrix's 'If 6 were 9' where he says 'I'm the one who's gotta die when it's time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to.' I wonder if WhisperX could pick that out of a stack of Jimi Hendrix songs.
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lemmy - Link to source

dgdft

You should be able to get decent results if you pipe your tracks through demucs first to isolate the vocals.

github.com/adefossez/demucs

Vanilla whisper will probably be better than whisperX for that use case though.

Depending on how esoteric your music library is, you can also build a lyrics DB with beets: beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable…


GitHub - adefossez/demucs: Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation

Code for the paper Hybrid Spectrogram and Waveform Source Separation - adefossez/demucs
GitHub
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Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire

Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire

A healthy and sustainable planet means supporting action based on scientific evidence, not misinforming people with catchy phrases and political rhetoric, writes Dal's Tony Walker and colleague Miriam Diamond.
Dalhousie News
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lemmy - Link to source

Davriellelouna

This is a great article from Dalhousie University.

Justin Trudeau tried to reduce the use of single use plastics. He faced enormous political backlash. Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party, campaigned on defending plastics:

cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre…

Poilievre claimed that the federal Plastics ban was inflicting financial pain on Canadian families

Evidence‑based solutions are indeed under political fire.


Reversing the Liberal ban on plastic wrapping & containers

CHANGE ALERT: Conservatives will save your family $400/year by Axing the Food Packaging Tax; reversing the Liberal ban on plastic wrapping & containers.We’ll...
YouTube
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aksdb

I think you won't regret it. If the container startup installs stuff, you might lock yourself out when the remote server has issues, your network has issues, or if the package you install changes due to an update.

With it baked into an image, you have reproducible results. If you build a new image and it doesn't work anymore, you can immediately switch back to the old one and figure out the issue without pressure.

lemmy - Link to source

Anyone else able to "sense" whether a solution on a forum will work before fully reading it through? Especially the long-winded ones.

Searching gives me the impression there's a million ways to solve the same problem on Linux, and I find myself profiling answers into about four categories at a glance:

  • Succinct: one or two-liner, a single config file, or just a few clicks
  • Long-winded song-and-dance: Full train of thought interspersed between various commands and logs, several config files (some of which don't already exist), or installing an obscure package that is no longer maintained
  • Specific to a desktop environment or version I don't have
  • Just looks wrong

I'll usually just take solutions from the first category, which almost always works, save for differences between updates and versions. Solutions in the second category also seem to end with a 50% chance of the OP unable to solve the problem. If I'm desperate, I'll try the second one, but it often ends up not working, eventually leading me to come up with a much cleaner solution of my own.

Curious if anyone else does this too and if those one-liners are really better solutions or if it's just confirmation bias.

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Random Dent

The usual tech support search:

  • First hit is a thread describing your exact problem, marked as [SOLVED]. Clicking it goes to a 404.
  • Second hit is a thread describing your exact problem that goes to an actual thread, but the message has been edited to just say "Solved" with no record of what was done.
  • Third hit is a thread describing almost your exact problem, with the first response calling the poster a noob for asking and then 15 pages of arguments.
  • Fourth hit is a thread describing something in the same general area as your problem, which you try anyway and makes the thing you're trying to fix break in a different way, but it's progress at least.
  • Actual solution is somewhere between the 5th and 8th hit, or you give up and come back to it in about a week and solve it instantly without trying for some fucking reason.

So to answer the question, I can usually tell I'm getting close to the solution when I say "Oh for fuck's sake" as I'm closing tabs lol.

lemmy - Link to source

Keeping track of different targets in terminal

I'm just using the Cosmic Terminal that's part of the Pop!_OS Cosmic Alpha, but I ran into similar issues with Gnome terminal and even with Termius.

Scenario:
I'm currently working on leveraging a VPS to act as the gateway to my homelab so I have one ssh session to Unraid server and one to VPS. One in each tab. Obviously the name shows up as what the username@servername is called in each tab. But I keep getting tripped up and sometimes try to do something from the wrong machine. Once I even failed to realize that the ssh session to one of them cut out and I was back on my desktop and took me an embarrassingly long time to realize why stuff was failing.

So what are y'all using to keep that organized in your work flow? Separate terminal windows instead of tabs? Some shell customizations to make them look different than one another? Or just so ingrained in your brain that you never have this problem?

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ChaoticNeutralCzech

The vision is only explained near the bottom, obviously:

Coming from very different positions, the two women are co-executive directors of A Land for All, which since 2012 has promoted “two sovereign states — Israel and Palestine — in one shared homeland.”

Rather than divide Palestine into two wholly separate countries, A Land for All calls for shared responsibility for resources like water systems, electricity and public health. But two independent states would exist, with “recognized borders, right for self-determination, equal rights, and security for both peoples.”

People would be free to travel across both states and to live in either one; Israelis could live in Palestine, and Palestinians in Israel. Jerusalem would be the capital of both states, and freely accessible to both peoples. Their justice systems would “include recognition and compensation for past wrongs — without creating new ones.”


That sounds very naïve – there are too many religious extremists on either side.

A Land for All | english

A Land for All

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There's always money for the military. But climate?
Avoid Paywall

There's always money for the military. But climate?

For years, the climate movement has been calling on the federal government to spend two per cent of GDP on climate infrastructure and action, to no avail.
Canada's National Observer
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lemmy - Link to source

imrighthere

promising to “relentlessly defend the French language and Quebec culture,” which he called “the heart of Canadian identity.”


These people are huffing their own farts.

“The first idea is to define oneself as a nation. Therefore, it requires a culture of their own. And I am not certain that oil and gas qualify.”


Neither does speaking french. These people are fucking delusional.

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Evkob (they/them)

I'm honestly curious, how would you define anglo-Canadian identity?

I feel like more and more, English Canada is becoming culturally Americanized. Less gun-obsessed, sure, and hockey over football/baseball, but apart from that the difference seems to be waning.

Not that francophone communities, including Québec, aren't also influenced by the US, but the impact is a lot lesser. I'd be super curious to see how much Canadian music/TV the average Canadian listens to, versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes.

There, to me anyways, seems to be a much higher emphasis on national identity in Québec than anywhere else in Canada (for better and for worse).

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Chloé 🥕

versus how much québécois content the average person in Québec consumes


you’d be disappointed… we still consume a lot of american media in quebec. more and more untranslated, too

of course, this is just my experience, not a study, not sure how it compares to english canada either tbh

we’d probably consume more quebec media if less of it fucking sucked lol

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cyborganism

They're a separatist federal party. It's their jam.

Quebecers weren’t buying it. The Bloc is a federal party that exists to promote Quebec interests and, ultimately, its independence. Voters not only viewed Canada as a real country but they saw it as worth saving from the territorial clutches of US president Donald Trump. The province overwhelmingly rejected the Bloc’s ethnic nationalism and rallied around Mark Carney’s Liberals and a unified effort against American overreach.


Uhh.... no? They elected 22 members of the Bloc. That's still very good, even though it was less than the last parliament. Before that there were a LOT less Bloc MPs.

lemmy - Link to source

Why no central script repository?

We all know how common terminal one liners have became as a installation method on GNU/Linux and what are the issues with it but let's recap quickly.

You go to a pager of some project and it tells you to do curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs/ | sh or curl -fsSL https://deno.land/install.sh | sh. The only way to verify that this command will not delete all your files or install malware is to manually review the entire script.

So... why not create a secure script repository? On a central website you would create an account for a project and submit a script. On the other side we would provide a binary client that will download and execute the script (we can call it grunt from get and run it). So as a user you would run for example grunt rustup and it would get and execute the script created by rustup project. I imagine it shouldn't be that difficult to add a tiny package to the major distros.

I believe this would be a fairly simple project that would solve all the security issues typical terminal one liners have.

On the website for uploading scripts we could introduce:

  • multi user approval flow for script updates
  • 2FA
  • static checks of the scripts
  • reporting system for compromised scripts
  • verified project status

On the client side we could:

  • provide info about this script's security (how many people reviewed it, when was it last updated, is the project verified)
  • provide info about downloads (how many time was this script downloaded since the last update)
  • do additional checks (maybe the project could provide MD5 of the script on their servers and grunt could verify it?)

So it would look something like this:

# grunt rustp

Downloading rustp.sh from https://getandrun.it/...
Last updated 30 days ago.
Downloads since last update: 5
Verified project: No
Reviewed by 1 user

Execute script [y/N]

Clearly something is wrong...
# grunt rustup

Downloading rustup.sh from https://getandrun.it/...
Last updated 60 days ago.
Downloads since last update: 5342
Verified project: Yes
Reviewed by 3 users
Comparing MD5 checksum with https://rustup.rs/grunt_md5... Passed 

Execute script [y/N]

That's better!

Right? So why don't we have something like this? Or we do and it simply didn't get enough traction?

========

So just to address some of the comments. No, it's not a package manager. Package managers are complex tools that handle versioning, dependencies, updates, uninstalls and so on. Package mangers are also distro specific. A lot of devs decide not to use package managers and use bash scripts that are distro agnostic and don't rely on external maintainers and packagers. It would be ideal if everyone used secure package managers but the reality is they don't. This solution is a compromise that offers devs full control of software distribution while introducing decent security.

=======

Someone suggested brew. How do you install brew according to brew.sh/ ?

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

See the problem?


Homebrew

The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).
Homebrew
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lemmy - Link to source

Samueru_sama

So… why not create a secure script repository? On a central website you would create an account for a project and submit a script. On the other side we would provide a binary client that will download and execute the script (we can call it grunt from get and run it). So as a user you would run for example grunt rustup and it would get and execute the script created by rustup project. I imagine it shouldn’t be that difficult to add a tiny package to the major distros.


github.com/pkgforge/soar

However instead of running scripts on your machine, soar runs them in CI and stores the binaries for you to download.


GitHub - pkgforge/soar: A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid]

A fast, modern package manager for Static Binaries, Portable Formats (AppImage|AppBundle|FlatImage|Runimage) & More [maintainer=@QaidVoid] - pkgforge/soar
GitHub
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lemmy - Link to source

Coelacanthus

Package managers are complex tools that handle versioning, dependencies, updates, uninstalls and so on.


No. The original package manager can only handle install, uninstall and update (even no update). Since 1995 CPAN was invented, the package manager start to add feature to handle download and dependency resolve.

Actually you still can find this kind old school package manager: Slackware, its package manager can only handle install, uninstall and update. It won't do any dependency check or version check. It's package format also very simple: just a tarball, install is extract tarball to specific directory and execute doinst.sh in tarball. Uninstall is invert, remove all files in tarball and execute douninst.sh.

If you package all files needed by install process into a tarball and place it in your repo, you will get a Slaceware package manager with download feature. (Slackware don't have download feature, all official packages were included in install media and you must download third-party packages by yourself.)

Package mangers are also distro specific.


Package manager can be universal. But make it universal with cost: since it can't depend on any distro-specific thing, it must include nearly everything of userspace.
(NOTE: Your script repo is not universal since prebuilt binary downloaded from script usually depends on some distro-specific things, such as Glibc version. Glibc is backward compatible, but not forward compatible. So you can't use these binary in the environment with lower version glibc than when it was built. So many projects will try to avoid these things, they use static-linked musl or don't use libc at all (e.g. Golang). But it will bring maintenance pressure so most projects don't do it unless there is an infrastructure to do it easily, such as Golang)
Actually there is some package manager make themselves universal like Gentoo-prefix and Nix.

Someone suggested brew. How do you install brew according to brew.sh/ ?
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
See the problem?


That's bootstrap problem. You always need a way to get the first package manager. I don't know how Homebrew do. But you can use curl command to download static-linked version package manager to use it without any https://example.com/install.sh for most linux package manager (Except the one written by python. Actually you can do it as well, just download hundreds of files is annoying.).


Homebrew

The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).
Homebrew

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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers

Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers

Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts.
www.phoronix.com

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That white guy who can't get a job at Tim Hortons? He's AI
« It's part of a trend known as "fake-fluencing." That's when companies create fake personas with AI in order to make it look like a real person is endorsing a product or service. The company in this case is Nexa, an AI firm that develops software that other companies can use to recruit new hires. Some of the videos feature Nexa logos in the scene. The company's founder and CEO Divy Nayyar calls that a "subconscious placement" of advertising. »
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teppa

Regardless if its AI or not youth unemployment in Toronto is nearing 20%, which is a great injustice that mass immigration did help create.

How this happened was Covid stimulus, the Bank of Canada printed lots of new currency to buy federal bonds during Covid, which causes a labor shortage as per the phillips curve. We then did mass immigration as the Bank of Canada was jacking up interest rates to cool the job market, and miraculously the labor shortage vanishes and we are left with the excess of people who are now looking for work. This was also why US wages rose much faster than Canada, as we had capital shallowing.

This AI may be bad but the problem is real, and it seems as though this AI slop will be used to refute the fact that people are really suffering due to government manipulation of the economy, with a clear goal to feed corporations cheap labor which the UN then called modern slavery.

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lemmy - Link to source

Englishgrinn

Canadian immigration policy in the wake of Covid was reactionary and a mistake, as has been acknowledged by the people who put it in place. Relaxing temporary worker and student visa requirements allowed companies and universities to exploit the government's panic over Covid reconstruction.

But this video is gross for a bunch of unrelated reasons. It's racially charged. It's dishonest. It's propaganda from foreign money.

I understand the impulse to try and pull the conversation back to a substantial policy discussion- that conversation is harder and therefore feels more important- but that's not actually the topic of this post. I think there's value in everyone recognizing and taking time to denounce that gross racists are trying to manipulate Canadians with the one-two punch of racism and AI Slop.

Despite what I believe to be good intentions on your part, I would say that bringing up that more substantial and honest issue in reference to this video actually unintentionally lends them credibility they have absolutely not earned. Don't let your impulse to discuss more important issues inadvertently let someone claim this video is actually "about" anything real. Your seriousness, admirable as it is shouldn't provide cover to these buffoons.

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Ont. seniors separated in long-term care reunited after nearly 8 years

An elderly couple from Cambridge, Ont. has been living separately in the same city since 2017 – but not by choice.

Jim McLeod has been trying to reunite with his 86-year-old wife Joan, who requires long-term care, for nearly eight years.

He has been living independently at Fairview Mennonite Home, which has long-term care facilities on-site.

Joan was sent to Hilltop Manor due to health complications, which is a 25-minute drive away. Jim lobbied to have her moved to Fairview, but Ontario’s long-term care system doesn’t prioritize keeping married couples together.

The pair have friends in the building who are separated from their spouses. They want to see the Till Death Do Us Part Act become law so other couples don’t lose valuable time together.

“Unfortunately, we have seen some spouses pass away and never be unified again,” said Fife


Ont. seniors separated in long-term care reunited after nearly 8 years

Spencer Turcotte (CP24)
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rekabis

America is now following the path that Nazi Germany took. It is on the precipice of denaturalizing its own citizens, which will precipitate its own version of Night Of The Long Knives.

Which means that an attempt at seizing lebensraum should not be dismissed - Trump is already replacing key members of the military command structure with loyalists who will obey any command, no matter how unconstitutional. I mean, just look how the California national guard is being forced to play backup for ICE in California, against the wishes of its governor.

As Canadians, we need to be ready to make their lives very miserable when - not if! - this attempt at seizing lebensraum happens and America tries to make us the 51st state.

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SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

With SUSE's help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
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skozzii

Shouldn't be that hard to greenlight the projects with support first, and the work on details later of those with objections. These folks want their communities to prosper, and infrastructure, jobs and development can only help. Whether it be using some of the local workforce on projects or simply helping infrastructure projects along the way there must be a mutually beneficial way to proceed.
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Keep away from wokeness and DEI, new minister warns municipalities

Keep away from wokeness and DEI, new minister warns municipalities

Major municipalities should steer clear of creating drug injection sites, licensing body rub parlours and banning plastic straws, says the first municipal affairs minister from rural Alberta since January 2021.
The Local Journalism Initiative (CTVNews)

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Carney confident government can meet spending cut goals as long as they make life a little worse for every Canadian

Carney confident government can meet spending cut goals as long as they make life a little worse for every Canadian - The Beaverton

OTTAWA – Mark Carney has unveiled an “ambitious” plan to cut government spending by 7.5% next year, and 15% by 2029, figures he truly believes his government can manage as long as he ensures daily life getting between 5 and 30% worse for Canadians du…
Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)
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it_sunburn

Funny I just spend a few hours working on this on my workstation. Tested in VM first before deploying out to my main machine. but here are rough steps:

You have to use wine and the browser extension "User-Agent Switcher and Manager"
I would say first install the browser extension then log into your RMM agent. The button to remote will appear but won't work.
Click the remote in button and Download the 32bit agent from the pop up
Then run wine not sudo on that exe file.
Once installed you need to make a desktop entry
[nano ~/.local/share/applications/ninja-remote.desktop]

Change the username and verify the path is correct by checking your wine folder


#Paste this with the correct path and username
[Desktop Entry]
Name=NinjaOne Remote
Exec=bash -c 'wine "/home//.wine/drive_c/users//AppData/Roaming/NinjaRemote/ncplayer.exe" "%u"'
Type=Application
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/ninjarmm;
###

Second to last Register the desktop Entry:
run: xdg-desktop-menu install ~/.local/share/applications/ninja-remote.desktop
run: xdg-mime default ninja-remote.desktop x-scheme-handler/ninjarmm

Lastly, Paste this in your firefox extension (The we used to trick sites into thinking we are windows)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.124 Safari/537.36

Let me know how it goes.
Cheers!

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SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

SUSE launches new European digital sovereignty support service to meet surging demand

With SUSE's help, European companies and governments can ensure their IT support, software, and data assets are safe.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)

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The price is not right (yet): $10-a-day child care falling short of target - Child care fees in Canada, 2025

The price is not right (yet): $10-a-day child care falling short of target | CCPA

By early 2026 parents in Canada should be able to put their young kids in child care for an average of $10 a day. With less than a year to go only six of 13 provinces and territories have met the target.
Martha Friendly (CCPA)

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Is possible to learn to swim, just by reading a lot about it?

If a person reads a lot of theory about how to swim, different types of techniques, other people's written experiences etc., can they swim if thrown in a deep swimming pool? Or, at least, be able to swim enough to reach the steep end and save themselves from drowning?

By "a lot", I mean spending over 6 months to a year, gaining theoretical knowledge. And when we throw them in the pool, they are willing to try it, as in, "I have learnt enough, and I am willing to try it out."

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How can you make stock Android as private as possible?

I know that stock Android itself is spyware.

What tips about setting up my stock Android phone would you give me?
It's not factory unlocked so I'm sticking with Google Android.

Things I've done:
- Stopped and disabled all apps that I don't use or need.
- Replaced all apps that I can with FOSS alternatives from github using Obtainium.
- Not installed things that I can just check on my laptop like email.

Is there anything else that I can do?
Thanks in advance

Edit
I've also:
- Changed my DNS to Mullvad DNS
- Restricted app permissions to only what they need
- Not signed into the phone. I don't even have Gmail account.

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Okay why is your distro the best?

I made the unfortunate post about asking why people liked Arch so much (RIP my inbox I'm learning a lot from the comments) But, what is the best distro for each reason?

RIP my inbox again. I appreciate this knowledge a lot. Thank you everyone for responding. You all make this such a great community.

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moonpiedumplings

I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.

But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don’t use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.

It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux, which another commenter pointed out.

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setVeryLoud(true);

I've been looking at K3s deployed on FCOS, but I have no clue how I'm supposed to use Terraform to deploy FCOS.

My understanding is that FCOS is supposed to be ephemeral and re-deployed every so often, which would imply the use of a hypervisor like Proxmox on the host, but Proxmox does not play well with Terraform.

I also considered OpenStack, but it's way over my head. I have a very simple single-node Kubernetes setup to deploy using GitOps, and nothing seems to fit the bill.

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Is the Trinity Desktop Environment Secure?

So, a while back I installed Xfce with Chicago95, but was disappointed. Xfce just doesn't vibe with me, and a strict emulation of Windows95 is not really what I wanted, I just wanted something that "felt" that classic.

So I was gonna give up and just use KDE, until I saw TDE. I think TDE is probably what I'm looking for but I'm concerned about using anything so minor because security.

It TDE secure (for personal use)?

Can a DE even be insecure, or are they all generally as secure as each-other as long as you follow the rules (trustworthy software, closed firewall, install patches fast, and disaster recovery plans)?

What vulnerabilities can a desktop environment even have (edit)?

Trinity Desktop Environment

www.trinitydesktop.org
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Tenderizer78

Oh damn, so just viewing a file in your file manager is enough to get infected in an insecure desktop environment, as thumbnails can be generated programmatically? If I clicked a bad link that would 100% infect my system.

I'm not worried too much about screen-capture. I'm worried first and foremost about triggering any arbitrary code execution and thumbnail generation on a file would definitely do it.

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Which Kubernetes is the Smallest? Examining Talos Linux, K3s, K0s, and More - Sidero Labs

Which Kubernetes is the Smallest? Examining Talos Linux, K3s, K0s, and More - Sidero Labs

Lots of projects claim to be the “smallest” or “simplest” Kubernetes, but they never provide data to back it up. Let’s look at how these distributions compare to Talos Linux.
Justin Garrison (Sidero Labs)

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moonpiedumplings

I find this comparison unfair becuase k3s is a much more batteries included distro than the others, coming with an ingress controller (traefik) and a few other services not in talos or k0s.

But I do think Talos will end up the lighest overall because Talos is not just a k8s distro, but also a extremely stripped down linux distro. They don't use systemd to start k8s, they have their own tiny init system.

It should be noted that Sidero Labs is the creator of Talos Linux.

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Canadian armed forces dudes get busted in Qc building anti-government militia

RCMP: Ideologically motivated violent extremism: four individuals charged


One of the accused allegedly created and administered an Instagram account with the aim of recruiting new members to the anti-government militia.


Numerous firearms were seized by police officers during searches in January 2024.


Military-style training in which the accused took part.

NYT: Canadian Armed Group Charged in Plot to Seize Quebec Land

The men charged with terrorism offenses were identified as Marc-Aurèle Chabot, 24, and Raphaël Lagacé, 25, both of Quebec City, and Simon Angers-Audet, 24, of Neuville, Quebec. Matthew Forbes, 33, of Pont-Rouge, Quebec, was charged with the explosives and weapons offenses.

Mr. Forbes and Mr. Chabot are corporals in the Canadian Armed Forces stationed at a large base northwest of Quebec City, the military said in a statement on Tuesday evening. The armed forces added that another of the accused men is a former member of the Canadian Forces while the fourth man was once a civilian instructor with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. Neither of those men were identified by name.

In the statement, the police said that the men facing the terrorism charges had been “planning to create anti-government militia.”

Ideologically motivated violent extremism: four individuals charged

RCMP Federal Policing National Security – Eastern Region announces the arrest of and laying of charges against four individuals, including active members of the Canadian Armed Forces, who were allegedly involved in activities intending to forcibly ta…
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
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DaddleDew

For those who don't know: Edmonton is where the military prison is. Referred to as "Club Ed" by members and is known to be a living hell designed specifically to break you through non-stop work and makes regular civilian prison look like a vacation. You have to be an absolute piece of shit like these guys to end up in that correctional facility. They are guaranteed to not be the same when they get out of there.

The CAF doesn't mess around with people like these so if you think they are representative of the CAF as a whole you are wrong.

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nyan

I don't think there's any evidence right now that the military had anything to do with this beyond being how these nitwits met. Let's wait and see if some turns up before blaming anyone not directly involved in these crimes. This is a bit different from most military-related scandals—these guys acted in direct contradiction of what the military stands for.
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Ferk

Is the data and public keys being replicated in the communication between instances? it's not made clear how the federation actually works, because "enabling users on different servers to share data with end-to-end encryption" (from foks.pub/) is something all services with TLS / HTTPS support already do...

Also.. one big plus for the OpenPGP HKP protocol is that technically you can self-host your own key in a static HTTPS server with predefined responses and be able to have it interact with other servers and clients without issue. I'm expecting the more complex nature of FOKS might make self-hosting in this way difficult. I'd rather minimize the dynamic services I expose to the outside publicly if I'm self hosting.

Federated Open Key Service (FOKS)

foks.pub
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thatradomguy

I don't appreciate the attitude and arrogance of the guy behind systemd because he actually believes what he produces can replace everything that already "just works". He wants to push out systemd-homed because "why not". He wants to replace grub. He wants to replace a myriad of things that just flat out don't need to get replaced. autofs, cron, you name it! That kind of thinking and one-size-fits-all mentality is backwards and does not benefit the community in any way. All it does is stuff everything into one bin and so long as influencers like this guy continue to restrict what works or doesn't work according to their own work, the community and its users will not be able to freely develop FOSS. Gnome is a good example of something that creates too much of a dependency on systemd and so when you're trying to use something like Gentoo, it becomes very difficult to get that done and hacks have to made in order to get it working. FOSS shouldn't work like that. He'll keep stripping away legit projects from major distros until IBM/Red Hat finally decide to seal the deal and lock everyone out for good. Sorry if I can't rejoice in the woah whiplash.
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MangoCats

So, I don't like the guy either, but for a little devil's advocacy:

The stuff that already "just works" was developed during a very different era in terms of computing power, tasking of the computers which were running the systems, etc. Nobody (serious, and he is serious) develops something different because "why not?" they, at least from their perspective, feel that they are improving on the status quo, at least for the use cases they are considering.

one-size-fits-all mentality is


being decided by the distro maintainers, not the developers. Sure, developers promote their product, but if a distro thinks that multiple flavors are a better path, they distribute multiple flavors. It's not like the systemd developers are filling billion dollar war chests with profit because they're using strong-arm tactics to coerce distro maintainers to adopt their products.

stuff everything into one bin


When one bin serves the purpose, it's a lot easier to maintain, modernize, security harden, etc. than ten bins.

the community and its users will ~~not~~ always be able to freely develop FOSS.


Fork it and your loyal users will follow.

Gnome is a good example of something that creates too much of a dependency


Agreed, I was never happy with GNOME, and starting about 5 years back I have been migrating my systems, personal and professional, off of it. That's the nature of FOSS, no contracts to negotiate, make the choices that make sense for your use cases and execute them.

FOSS shouldn’t work like that.


FOSS, by its very nature, should be expected to work all the ways. If a particular way can't get enough developer traction, it stagnates but never really dies, not until the ecosystem it is dependent upon can no longer find hardware to run on and users willing to run it.

IBM/Red Hat finally decide to seal the deal and lock everyone out for good.


I am very glad that I walked away from CentOS about 8 years back, its proximity to Red Hat never made me happy. I have been trying to walk away from Canonical (toward Debian) for about 3 years now, but it still has some hooks that keep our professional team happier than Debian. If the unhappy ever outweighs the happy, we'll execute the move.

Sorry if I can’t rejoice


Never asked you to. End of devil's advocacy. I still don't like the guy, but I never really interact with him. I do interact with his products and the alternatives, and in my use cases the products speak for themselves. There's nothing about systemd that makes me dig around for systemd free alternatives - they are out there, but for my use cases I don't care. YMMV.

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MangoCats

Gnome is a good example of something that creates too much of a dependency


Agreed, I was never happy with GNOME, and starting about 5 years back I have been migrating my systems, personal and professional, off of it. That’s the nature of FOSS, no contracts to negotiate, make the choices that make sense for your use cases and execute them.

Does Gnome have too much dependency on Gnome: yes or no?


Absolutely. If you don't mind using Gnome exactly as Gnome wants you to - this year - then it's usually a pretty refined desktop experience, but if I wanted to be told what to like, how to like it, and to shut up and be happy, I'd use a Mac.

I prefer XFCE for its modularity... don't want a launcher bar? Don't run the launcher; nothing else misses it when it's gone.

Mess around with Gnome too much and it becomes a nightmare mess of dependencies.

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Magiilaro

All it does is stuff everything into one bin


Well, it is not one bin.
There is no monolithic systemd bin that does everything.
There are a lot of separate bin files for all the different tasks.
Well and if you don't want to use timers, then don't and just use cron instead.
If you don't want to use journald, then just don't and use rsyslog or whatever you want.
Don't need systemd-homed? Well, then don't use it.
You want to configure your network with something else then systemd-networkd? Great, do it if you want.

The Poettering Army will not come and force you to enable all the options 😜

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Magiilaro

I am not seeing how IBM and/or Microsoft are winning anything here or how systemd enables them to take over Linux. But maybe I am missing something.

Last time I checked (60 seconds ago) systemd was using FOSS licences for all it's code. So it seems to be living the FOSS culture, or not?

I am always open to learn and correct my view on things under new information, so if you can provide them I am open to read it.

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vivendi

Ah but you see, you have to understand the FOSS community a little more than just "using a license that FSF and OSI endorsed".

In terms of inter-project politics, systemd is almost wholly owned by IBM. They can override any will they want, they can change anything they want, all while fucking the community over. In short, IBM, using systemd as a massive octopus growing it's tentacles all over mainstream Linux distros, is gaining considerable weight to pull in the Linux world.

They can essentially dictate matters to everyone they want, because you don't want your distro to stop being supported, do you? And now, another IBM-majority project, GNOME, is almost dependent on systemd (despite the very good word of both gnome and systemd that this wouldn't happen, IT HAS) and KDE is also being slowly pulled in that direction, with DrKonqi becoming systemd only in it's latest update.

Essentially, we are handing over 30 years of work in FOSS to IBM, literally the caricature of evil tech company, and now they control the mainstream and can dictate their will.

Allow me to remind you that this same IBM almost immediately after taking over RedHat, started closing down the source sharing of RHEL, which is it's own whole thing so I digress.

Let my final word be this, R.M.S as much of a problematic piece of shit he is, correctly predicted we being fucked over by DRM and subscription services 20 years ago and was ridiculed for it.

Don't you think it's time to take a fucking hint? You don't have to be an anarchist to see where this is going.

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Magiilaro

I have seen with Oracle Java and OpenOffice (as two examples) that the open source community is very good in just leaving and forking a project if the current owners fuck up.

The same will happen with systemd if needed.
Red Hat may be the primary source behind systemd now, but they don't own it.
All the code is fully open source, none of your ramblings have any hint of facts or any real foreseeable danger behind it.
I asked for facts, for anything with some kind of real information behind it.

There is nothing that powers the claim that RedHat or IBM could take over Linux with systemd.
How would they do it? They can't, because even if IBM would tomorrow change the license to a closed one and would want money.
Who cares, everyone will just fork the version before the license change and good is.

Just as it happened back then with Xorg, like it happened a short while ago with Redis, and there are so many examples more.

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Magiilaro

Grub is working perfectly fine.

If it breaks it is, in my experience as a grub user for over 20 years and as a guy working in server hosting for 15 years, either because of failing HDD/SSD or because of user error.
People don't read when the updater tells them that running "grub-install" is needed (or they perform it on the wrong drive/partition) and then blame grub when it fails on the next boot.

The crappy bootloader that comes with systemd very often, in my experience, fails to register that a new Kernel was installed and boots the old one (or fails to boot if the package manager removed the old Kernel).

Oh and GRUB has so many useful features, like booting a ISO image.
GRUB is a piece of programmer art!

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gnuhaut

Because people here accuse Poettering of being an asshole: I've read some of his blogposts and seen some talks of his and him doing Q&A: He answered professionally, did his best to answer truthfully, did acknowledge when he didn't know something. No rants, no opining on things he didn't know about, no taking questions in bad faith.

As far as I can tell all the people declaring him some kind of asshole are full of shit.

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Eggymatrix

He is not that bad, the issue is that, as all foss devs, he is not interested in solving problems he does not feel like are important.

The problem is, he disapproves when resources are allocated in his project to those problems and one main area he is not a fan of is support for legacy stuff.

It just happens that legacy stuff is the majority of the industry, as production environment of half the globe needs to run legacy software and a lot of it on legacy hardware

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My husband is interested in trying fisting, but I have long nails?

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southsamurai

Well, generally, the answer is a no. Nails and intestines do not mix well, and once you're past the anus, that's what you're dealing with.

It isn't impossible to modify the nails to be less risky, but never to the degree that I'd be willing to have them up my rear, even if I was into that. There's reasons that nurses and nurse's assistants are often expected to keep their nails short, and that's one of them. We don't go wrist deep, and it's still too big a risk.

Way I see it, you have two options. One is to cut them back to where they don't extend past the end of the fingers, then use two nitrile gloves over your hand that's doing the work. You can still keep pretty nails like that, they just won't be as showy

The other is to take the risk, and wrap the nails in something like gauze, then tape them, then glove up. I've heard of people doing that with no injury, but it is still risky.

If you can't/won't do either of those, call it done and get a fist dildo.

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"I installed Linux (so should you)" by PewDiePie
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🧱 Building better initramfs: A deep dive into dracut on Fedora & RHEL

🧱 Building better initramfs: A deep dive into dracut on Fedora & RHEL - Fedora Magazine

Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.
Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)

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Yukon disaster one of two 'most catastrophic' in heap-leach mining history: expert

Yukon disaster one of two 'most catastrophic' in heap-leach mining history: expert - Canada News

An engineer tasked with reviewing the spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine says it was one of the two "most catastrophic failures" in the 45-year history of the heap-leaching mining process.
Castanet.net

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What is this new Bitchat scam that crypto-bros think is good?

My friend was telling me of this, thinking since its crypto related it must be really good. I said this has been around for many years and there are much better solutions than any that Jack is going to come up with to scam us. Have you guys heard of this?

I have to laugh at these tech-bros that actually know nothing, thinking they are great genius inventors. Reminds me of fElon.

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This will be my last post on Lemmy...

Unfortunately, the time has come for me to leave Lemmy. Time will show where we all end up. I'll see you in the future... maybe sooner than you think?

Edit: Follow up post is here. Don't worry. You're not getting rid of me that easy. I'm just switching to piefed.world

Configure Lemmy redirect

lemmyverse.link
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I've been told that I "bottle things up and then explode". How do you not "explode"?
First, don't tell me that the answer is just to "not bottle things up", because that's objectively incorrect too. Society doesn't want you to have any negative emotions. I need to know how to not express negative emotions at all whatsoever unless I'm alone. I know it can be done because it is done in many other people on the planet.

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Any tablet suggestions?

I'm looking for something in the low hundreds range, mostly to do Visual Studio Code, pretty light html editing, general purpose stuff like Netflix and web browsing.

I'd kind of just like a decent tablet with a keyboard cover. The Pixel tablet might be an option, even if I have to go with something like this.

store.google.com/us/product/pi… $280

logitech.com/en-us/shop/p/k480… $35

I'd of course prefer to run Linux over Android if it works. Is there anything in a similar form factor and function for price in the Linux world?


Pixel Tablet

The Pixel Tablet is the first tablet with the Tensor G2 chip built in featuring Google AI for fast and smooth streaming, and more.
Google Store
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cyborganism

Honestly? Surface Pro tablets. I have an OG 1st gen one with Ubuntu on it with the Surface kernel and it works fantastic! Just make sure you go with the vanilla Gnome desktop and not Ubuntu's modified version and a better on screen keyboard extension for best results. The default OSK is shit. KDE Plasma is also good but I feel it lacks in stylus support and decent on screen keyboard.

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PieFed.World is now open

cross-posted from: piefed.world/post/237378

Hello World!

We've recently added PieFed.World to the Fedihosting Foundation portfolio.

PieFed.World is still in its early stages, and we still need to port some of our automations we already have in place on Lemmy.World. This includes functionality to inform people about moderation actions taken against them, as well as some other moderation tooling. Administration is currently done by the same team responsible for Lemmy.World, and the same rules that apply to Lemmy.World also apply to PieFed.World.

What is PieFed?


PieFed is a Fediverse/Threadiverse platform similar to Lemmy or Mbin/kbin. You can find a description and feature comparison with Lemmy on their website.

While PieFed has a range of features currently not present in Lemmy, it also is a a lot younger and isn't quite as robust as Lemmy currently is. There are still many bugs and missing features that you will likely run across compared to Lemmy, which will take time to be addressed. PieFed has fairly active development and is seeing a lot of issues addressed fairly quickly, which is especially important recently, as the number of active PieFed instances and PieFed users increased significantly with a range of Lemmy instances opening up PieFed instances as well. PieFed currently does not have proper "stable" releases and no test suite, so it's not unlikely for things to break from time to time. Although 1.0.0 has already been released a while back, there are still too many issues addressed in more recent commits to stay on that version.

As PieFed is part of the same federated network as Lemmy and Mbin, all PieFed communities can be accessed from Lemmy and Mbin, as well as other Fediverse platforms. Likewise, PieFed can access communities from Lemmy, Mbin and other Fediverse platforms. Whether you use a PieFed instance, a Lemmy instance, or an Mbin instance, it does not matter what type of instance the community is on. The software affects your own user experience, but the content is available regardless.

Creation of communities


Creation of communities will be limited to admins for the first week of the public launch. We will reserve this time to allow community moderators of established communities to claim the name on PieFed.World before we open community creation to the public. We will limit this to communities with the same name and at least 2k monthly active users. In case of multiple qualifying communities with the same name on different instances expressing interest, Lemmy.World communities will be given preference, afterwards the number of monthly active users. Please reach out if you'd like to discuss an exception. Requests can be posted in !support@piefed.world. After the first week, community creation will be available to anyone.

Migration of communities


PieFed has a feature to migrate communities to a local instance. We will not be offering PieFed's community migration feature initially.

We still need to research the details of how this works and the impacts this has on federation before we will make a decision on whether will support this in the future. If requested, we may reserve some names for potential future community migrations until we have made a decision to allow community migrations.

This does not prevent you from moving communities in the classic way, by opening up a new community and posting in the old community that people should move over.

Private voting


We had previously disabled private voting for PieFed.World before opening the instance to the public, as the original implementation has a range of drawbacks when it comes to federation, and our team overwhelmingly believed that the individual benefits of private voting did not outweigh the impact this has on the Fediverse beyond the user's instance. Additionally, due to the implementation of that feature, it was also trivial to identify the original voter, which significantly limited the promises of this bringing actual voting privacy.

Since then, the implementation of private voting has been changed to provide the option of federating or not federating votes. While this is more likely to result in vote differences across instances, it does not feed bad information to other instances, which could make it a lot harder for other instances to identify manipulation.

Non-federated voting is available for all PieFed.World users.

Topics


Topics are a kind of "starter packs" or collections grouping multiple communities that people can follow, curated by the admin team. We don't have a clear vision for the structure of these yet.

You can see an example structure on piefed.social.

Feel free to let us know your thoughts on this.

Feeds


PieFed supports feeds, which are user-created groups of communities, similar to topics. These are currently in a global namespace and all users can create public feeds in the same shared namespace.

Reputation and vote weight


PieFed has options for admins to treat certain types of content differently for "reputation" calculation, as well as options for weighing votes of specific instances differently compared to others. We currently have all options for treating certain content, communities or instances differently disabled.

How does PieFed compare to Lemmy?


PieFed has various features not present in Lemmy, check out their website!

There is also various functionality that Lemmy has, which you may be missing currently with PieFed for now:

Limited API support


In Lemmy, the default web interface relies entirely on the Lemmy API. This has the major benefit of all functionality available in the default web interface also being available to all third party clients. PieFed currently uses separate code paths and implementations for the default web interface and its API. To make it possible to access functionality in third party apps, dedicated API endpoints have to be created, even if this functionality is already available in the default web interface. This also includes alternative web-based UIs.

Multiple developers of alternative UIs and mobile clients are already working on PieFed support, some already released experimental versions.

Limited availability of Markdown previews


Markdown previews are currently only available in posts. There are many other places that accept markdown, but you can't preview the rendered comment before submitting it. This is tracked in #532.

Image uploads only on post creation


Images can't be uploaded to comments currently. You'll have to host them externally for now. This is tracked in #768.

Autocompletion of users/communities


Usernames and communities can't be autocompleted when typing their names currently. This is tracked in #799.

Limited availability of modlog


Modlog is currently very limited. While there is an instance modlog, there are currently no filters available, so it's not possible for users to see actions taken against a specific user or within a specific community. Community modlog exists, but it is currently only available to community moderators and admins. Filtering modlog is tracked in #846.

Moderator hierarchy


Lemmy has a moderator hierarchy based on the time a moderator was appointed, relative to other moderators in the community. This allows moderators to add other moderators, but they can only remove moderators that were added later than they were. There are a few other actions that check moderator hierarchy as well, including deletion only being possible by the top mod. In PieFed, communities have one or more owners, who can add and remove moderators, while all other moderators are currently on equal level. Community owners currently cannot be changed without editing this directly in the database, if you'd like to change owners in your community please reach out in !support@piefed.world.

Donations


Similar to Lemmy, PieFed development is supported by donations. You can donate to PieFed development through Patreon.

Additionally, we would appreciate donations towards the Fedihosting Foundation, the non-profit organization operating PieFed.World, Lemmy.World, and a range of other Fediverse platforms.

Problems and questions


Please report any issues and questions about PieFed.World in !support@piefed.world.

For topics about the software PieFed, please visit !piefed_meta@piefed.social.

Bugs can be reported on Codeberg.

TLDR: New platform with similar functionality available, Lemmy.World will continue to exist.

edit: reordered sections and minor wording changes

edit 2: updated community owner information


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in reply to MrKaplan

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TheObviousSolution

Thanks for the correction, I was going off of the FAQ page, join.piefed.social/features/, that had a post to a thread that has not been updated.

So in that regard, is it what lemmy instances already do when they don't want instances like mbin to see downvotes? Or does it completely eliminate federation of votes and only shows tallies from the host instance? Either way, the decision is taken from the user and basically undoes the federated aspect of the platform for a dubious concern. At the very least, it should be up to the user.

Features - PieFed

Nice things about PieFed: There are two other options for reddit-style federated forums, Lemmy and Kbin (recently forked to Mbin, which shows some promise). Having used them both extensively I came away unsatisfied, for a variety of reasons.
PieFed
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in reply to TheObviousSolution

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MrKaplan

lemmy currently doesn't have granular federation controls. the only option right now is to defederate from mbin instances, but other instances might still announce your users' votes to mbin instances. the more hacky way would be to also block federation related http requests from mbin instances to prevent them from retrieving user profiles, which is probably the most effective method that could be used.

piefeds non-federated votes are a user setting for the default value and users have the option for each vote whether it should be federated. see also piefed.social/post/982478

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Competition Bureau gets court order in Amazon probe into pricing policy

Competition Bureau gets court order in Amazon probe into pricing policy

GATINEAU - The Competition Bureau says it has obtained a court order as part of its probe into Amazon’s conduct related to its online Canadian marketplace.
thecanadianpressnews.ca
in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

ActivityPub - Link to source

https://lemmy.world/u/NarrativeBear

An Indian status card is an official document issued by the Canadian government to First Nations people who are registered under the Indian Act. The card serves as proof of identity and legal Canadian identification, and can be used as ID for domestic flights.

He was then on the phone with WestJet customer service, and they didn't even know what an Indian status card was. They started asking if Corbiere was from India.

lemmy - Link to source

Is contamination on a Canadian Armed Forces base making employees sick?
‘I took an oath that I would risk my life for what Canada stood for’: members of Canada’s military say they didn’t expect that risk would be carcinogenic environmental contaminants in their offices

Staff at Canadian Armed Forces base say contamination made them sick | The Narwhal

CFB Moose Jaw is contaminated with forever chemicals (PFAS). Employees say toxins at the Canadian Armed Forces base caused cancers, neurological disorders and other illnesses
Leah Borts-Kuperman (The Narwhal)

lemmy - Link to source

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants

Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants | CCPA

During the 2025 election campaign, prime minister Mark Carney made a striking admission about Canada’s dependence on U.S. tech companies.
Paris Marx (CCPA)
in reply to Pro

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Reannlegge

The government should not be hosting a public cloud service; if they really want to do something like that they should do a public private thing with Canada Post, maybe.

I personally have moved all of my hosting off of US servers, my ISP uses exchange for their email server where ever it is hosted I do not know so I have been moving all my email things onto the Canadian host. I started using apple’s hide my email years ago so I have decided to do a more extensive hide my email setup with my host. I have a pi hole system setup so with the 120+ emails so my internet data is worthless to Google and all the other US advertisers.

lemmy - Link to source

B.C. eyes ban on exotic cat ownership, citing safety and animal welfare concerns

B.C. eyes ban on exotic cat ownership, citing safety and animal welfare concerns

The B.C. government is looking to ban exotic wild cat ownership following years of warnings from wildlife experts and welfare groups.
Jeff Lawrence (CHEK)

lemmy - Link to source

Ubisoft tells players to “destroy” games when online support ends
Ubisoft has updated its End User License Agreement, and it’s instructing its users to remove and destroy their games completely should the title be taken offline.

Essentially, the EULA has given Ubisoft free rein on its ability to stop supporting a game, writing: “You and Ubisoft may terminate this EULA at any time, for any reason. Termination by Ubisoft will be effective upon notice to you or termination of your Ubisoft account, or at the time of Ubisoft’s decision to discontinue offering and/or supporting the Product.”

Interestingly, this isn’t the only company that has the same terms in its EULA. The likes of Capcom, Sega, and even the Oblivion Remaster have the same clause in their terms and conditions, meaning the stipulation isn’t unique to Ubisoft.


Ubisoft tells players to “destroy” games when online support ends

Ubisoft has updated its EULA, and it’s now instructing its users to destroy their games should the title be taken offline.
Jessica Filby (Dexerto)

lemmy - Link to source

Linux removing an outdated, insecure Microsoft USB network protocol that's still on Windows

Linux removing an outdated, insecure Microsoft USB network protocol that's still on Windows

The Linux foundation seems ready to finally axe a Microsoft-made remote network protocol for USB that is still a part of modern Windows operating systems.
Sayan Sen (Neowin)
in reply to Kazumara

lemmy - Link to source

argarath

So if my mint install updates I won't be able to use USB tethering? Is there a way to update my phone to use USB CDC NCM? Or would I have better luck recompiling my mint install to add the standard they just removed? I'm pretty new to Linux (literally made the switch last November) and I sadly have to use USB tethering when my ISP shits the bed with routing to the US

lemmy - Link to source

Very water-resistant chalk for asphalt?

Does anyone have recommendations for some chalk that resists water very well?

I'd love any recommendations of brands, specific chemicals or properties to look for, or maybe questions that I would need to answer about the environment.

I'm planning to use my chalk on my asphalt driveway.

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