Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
Some of us are IT admins who have been in the game since the 1990 and have seen this happen before. The chances of a good outcome wrt Threads are vanishingly small. Not zero for sure, but damn close.
The American system is great if you have money. A lot of money. If you are poor then it is more a “Sucks to be you” system than a Medical System.
A couple of years ago I was paying us$700/month for medical insurance for my family, and it sucked. Deductibles meant that I still had to pay a couple thousand dollars for my wife’s surgery and any visit to be seen cost a us$35 copayment. Just to be seen, not for any medication or treatment. To top it off, you have to fight the insurance company to get them to actually cover anything, and who work their asses off not to pay out. It is also always possible that your local medical facility wont take your insurance so you still end up paying out of pocket, assuming that you actually can.
Imagine being rushed to hospital only to find out that none of the treatment that they gave you is covered by your expensive insurance because the ambulance company does not accept your insurance and the doctors, nurses, anaesthetists etc are out of your network. Lot of Americans do not have to imagine that because it happens every day. Canada’s system may be flawed but it can get worse. Much much worse.
Dont even need to be that modern. My house was built in 1992 and is very well insulated. Rooms stay toasty warm thanks to cheapo baseboard heaters. Admittedly I live in a pretty mild area of BC where winters are mostly “3c and rainy”.
Had you actually read the article you would have seen that they are not simply dusting off the old plan book but creating a whole new one. With modern applicable designs and up to modern codes.
BTRFS is honestly really great and has been for the last few years. Dont take the word of random people on the interwebs, check out some modern sources of info on the subject. Some people love to complain about RAID5/6 but if you use BTRFS the BTRFS way then it is solid.
With that said, if you dont need snapshots, drive mirroring, sub volumes, bit rot protection etc then EXT4 is hard to beat for reliability.
Well I’m just about fed up with streaming bullshit. I currently have a home server that’s just a raspberry pi4 with a bunch of docker containers and it served my light usage well....
Usually when people say a place is expensive they mean housing/rent. That certainly applies to Vancouver and to nearly everywhere else that anyone wants to live.
It is a childish argument. A walkable/bikeable city is a chicken and egg scenario and the author has it all ass-backwards. Infrastructure to encourage walk/bike/bus comes first. People will not walk/bike if there is no safe way to do so, or places near by to go to. I love walking and biking but it will not get groceries to the store or lumber to/fro the Home Depot. It has its place, but it is not a panacea.
I dont think that it is something that should be encouraged anywhere. Investors buying up apartments and condos and turning them into ABNB has grossly distorted the long term rental market. Short term rentals certainly have their place. If someone wants to rent our their home while they are on vacation or a spare room (even a suite) to visitors then that makes sense. Buying a 2nd property for the purpose of short term rental is an idea that should be crushed. Investing in traditional rental ownership though has a place and makes sense. Not everyone can afford to buy property and build a house on it, but they still need somewhere to live. Without ABNB distorting that market hopefully prices there would come down out of the stratosphere.
The Galileo is hanging on my tree right now! My mom bought it for me in 1992 and it is one of the only ornaments I put up. I leave the rest of that to the kids. I am not very festive…
If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
That is a tough one, as it would also prevent employers from firing nazis or J6 insurrectionists as long as they keep it off the clock. But their bad actions can reflect poorly on the employer if they become public.
Part of me thinks what they do on their own time is none of the employers business, and another part of me thinks fuck those nazis, they deserve nothing but scorn.
I have all my mp3s on my NAS. Over the years, I’ve been rating the tracks, standardizing the id3 tags, etc. I love my music collection. But the era of the single device experience is over and as such I need a little more. Up until now, I’ve been copying tracks over to my phone every time I need new portable music....
I have a 2020 Niro PHEV and frankly the gas motor is piece of shit. Last year they had to rebuild the entire thing after some piston parts failure. They had the car in the shop for almost 2 months because they had a back order on the engine parts. Luckily all has been well since then.
It has otherwise been an excellent little car. 99% of my driving is done on the electric charge. I went most of the summer using almost no gas. Now that winter is here it mostly runs the heater :)
I worked for Interplay back in the 90s. It was pretty great for me, launching my IT career. Working in QA did temporarily ruin my ability to play games for fun though.
The infamy of Nixon’s foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history’s worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him
I have not seen anything that indicates KDE requires a specific video player. So I was asking does it NEED a specific player or just have a default that it is installed with?
The Conservatives have a 16-point lead. Three-quarters of the country think it's time for a change. But Justin Trudeau is vowing to fight Pierre Poilievre in the next election.
We met project lead David “Fossfreedom” Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it’s caused by Wayland....
Damn, that really was a wild ride. I hope I never accidentally purchase anything from MNOC grifters.
I am not indigenous (though I would apparently qualify for MNOC membership!) so my opinion on who is and is not is probably not worth the bits it is printed on. It does not seem to me that simply having a distant ancestor somewhere back in time gives you the right to make such a claim, especially if you did not grow up with related traditions to link you to it. A vague family story or 23&Me result does not change anything about your cultural identity.
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
Right-Wing Trolls Are Freaking Out After Learning They Can Get Sued For Calling People 'Groomers' On The Internet (pressprogress.ca)
Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good....
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
Presidential Immunity (beehaw.org)
#immunity #biden #trump
Threads and the Fediverse | Kev Quirk (kevquirk.com)
Here’s a very different take on Threads by a Fosstodon admin.
Alberta’s health care system struggling with overflowing hospitals (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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If AI is making the Turing test obsolete, what might be better? (arstechnica.com)
Sauber's new team name unveiled after Alfa Romeo departure (www.formula1.com)
“Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber”
Tech Billionaires Launch Fund to Create New Libertarian Societies (www.vice.com)
More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture....
Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort (www.cbc.ca)
The federal government intends to resurrect a post-war effort to ramp up housing construction across Canada — but with a 21st-century twist....
Liberals to revive ‘war-time housing’ blueprints in bid to speed up builds - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
What are you most excited when it comes to linux in 2024?
For me it must be kde plasma 6 and the wayland driver for wine....
Snow falls across B.C. as province gets 'taste of wintry weather' (www.cbc.ca)
A dozen or two TB of storage for media on the cheap?
Well I’m just about fed up with streaming bullshit. I currently have a home server that’s just a raspberry pi4 with a bunch of docker containers and it served my light usage well....
It now costs more to afford basic necessities in Calgary than in Vancouver, Toronto: StatsCan (www.cbc.ca)
Poof Goes the Electric Car Dream | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
'Pseudoscience': Alberta's health minister under fire for naturopathic medicine meeting (calgary.ctvnews.ca)
Alberta's health minister is facing pushback after taking a meeting focused on naturopathic medicine's role in the province's primary care.
World of Goo 2 - Official Trailer 1 - YouTube (youtu.be)
Time’s up for some short-term rentals in B.C., as new housing rules transform scene (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Wasabi, beloved on sushi, linked to "really substantial" boost in memory, Japanese study finds (www.cbsnews.com)
This AI model can tell if you're at high risk of lung cancer by analyzing a single X-ray scan (www.livescience.com)
An old Hallmark commercial for Star Trek Christmas ornaments, with Leonard Nimoy (1992) (youtu.be)
Here’s another one with Romulans from 1995....
Amazon slams Microsoft’s business practices in UK cloud industry probe (www.theverge.com)
twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links (beehaw.org)
If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
Palestinian journalist says CTV News fired her after "speaking up for Palestine" (dailyhive.com)
Plex Alternative
I have all my mp3s on my NAS. Over the years, I’ve been rating the tracks, standardizing the id3 tags, etc. I love my music collection. But the era of the single device experience is over and as such I need a little more. Up until now, I’ve been copying tracks over to my phone every time I need new portable music....
Electric Vehicles Have 79% More Reliability Challenges Than Gas Powered Cars (samrome58.substack.com)
What game company from your childhood do you remember with fondness?
I was thinking about how I remember Maxis fondly, and I got to wondering what other people’s experiences were like!...
Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America's Ruling Class, Finally Dies (www.rollingstone.com)
The infamy of Nixon’s foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history’s worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him
KDE Plasma 6 Megarelease - Beta 1 (kde.org)
Poll says three in four want Trudeau to go, but Trudeau insists he’ll stay (globalnews.ca)
The Conservatives have a 16-point lead. Three-quarters of the country think it's time for a change. But Justin Trudeau is vowing to fight Pierre Poilievre in the next election.
Canada's fossil fuel industry is banking on carbon capture to lower emissions. Is it a viable solution? (www.cbc.ca)
One person dead in cantaloupe salmonella outbreak: PHAC (globalnews.ca)
The Public Health Agency of Canada says one person has died after a salmonella outbreak linked to Malichita and Rudy brand cantaloupes.
Alberta to invoke Sovereignty Act against Ottawa’s Clean Energy Regulations (globalnews.ca)
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith confirmed the her plan to invoke the Sovereignty Act on Your Province Your Premier on Saturday.
Elon Musk says Ireland's Leo Varadkar 'hates Irish people' (www.euronews.com)
Canadians deserve better than misinformed battery plant debate (www.unifor.org)
Ubuntu Budgie switches its approach to Wayland (www.theregister.com)
We met project lead David “Fossfreedom” Mohammed and packaging guru Sam Lane from the Ubuntu Budgie team in Rīga, and they passed on news of a rift – and indeed possible divorce – between Budgie and Enlightenment… and it’s caused by Wayland....
Self-proclaimed Métis group sparks debate with shop opening in Ottawa (www.cbc.ca)
China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities (www.bloomberg.com)
A subsidy-fueled boom helped build China into an electric-car giant but left weed-infested lots across the nation brimming with unwanted battery-powered vehicles.
Far-right party set to win most seats in Dutch elections, exit polls show (www.theguardian.com)