I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.
It’s really unfortunate that we’ve spent the last 30-40 years deleting a lot of the passenger-specific rail infrastructure outside of metro Vancouver and the Toronto-Montreal corridor. At this point it would be a major breakthrough to even bring a serious passenger service into existence. There’s nothing I would like more, but it seems impossible.
I’d argue that it is for the consumers, as those are the people getting the rebate. It incentivizes a shift in consumer behavior that is meant to take revenue away from the fossil fuel industry and redirect it towards green alternatives. I agree, it’s a good policy, and one of the only ways we have of gracefully moving away from fossil fuels.
As long as you can avoid having people completely miss the point of the tax and being misled by politicians for their own personal gain, that is.
Smith said the province tried to work collaboratively with the federal government to make the province’s electricity grid net zero by 2050
“The feds didn’t capitulate to our demands so we’re taking the province of Alberta hostage”
“We will not put our operators at risk of going to jail if they do not achieve the unachievable,”
It’s unachievable, Danielle, because your ignorant ass put a moratorium on renewable energy projects. And why does she feel the need to feign sympathy for the dinosaurs at the top whose refusal to act is the reason we’re here in the first place? If they can’t conduct business in accordance with the law, they can gtfo of the way and make room for those who can.
“…he’s a maverick. He doesn’t seem to care about the law, doesn’t care about the Constitution. I do.”
Says the person who personally donated $60k to a seditious organization.
As far as I’m concerned, these excuses are nothing but selfish and asinine. They only serve to vindicate and encourage the bad behaviour of those who ought to be taking responsibility. How exactly “It’s too expensive” is a serious take when we all just spent 4 consecutive months living inside a cloud of wildfire smoke is beyond me. Fuck off.
But yeah. I find the most mysterious and time-consuming of problems are usually caused by a very minor detail that is so obvious it gets overlooked immediately.
And even if you know that’s probably the case, sometimes your brain will just discard information that isn’t consistent with its assumed reality, and it tells you the piece of code you just read is fine when it’s obviously not.
I was watching a video from two years ago about different social norms and this showed up. Found someone questioning the same eight years ago on reddit (when it seemed less normalized). It feels so weird not being aware of this shift, even as a foreigner.
I agree 100%. “You’re welcome” is the phrase that everyone knows to be the direct response to a “thank you”, so using it implies the necessity of a prerequisite thanks. So really it’s just a polite way of saying “yeah you better be thankful.”
Whereas “no problem” seems to be a fairly sincere way to say “no thanks are needed, I’m helping because I want to.”
What are these MAGA clowns doing in Canada’s Parliament. The Conservatives are embarrassing to us as a country. The fascist virtue signaling is sickening.
It might be cool to get some graphs to see what our growing community looks like. We could also make it an annual/biannual thing and see how things change over time....
When a lemmy instance federates, does it connect to one big lemmy network, or can there be multiple disconnected, yet locally federated instances? What I’d like to know is, can I simply join any Lemmy server and choose “All” to view everything Lemmy has to offer, or is there still hidden content?...
The way I think it works is that your local instance hosts its own communities, and then it will reach out to other instances to grab content from every external community that at least one local user has subscribed to. “All” mode is limited to that set of content.
So I think the only way to see the entire set of all content on lemmy would be to meticulously subscribe to every single community on every single instance.
And someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you can still subscribe to subs on defederated instances, it’s just the interactions that don’t get passed back and forth.
This would normally be a compiler warning, but someone has enabled the -Werror compiler option (probably in the makefile) which causes the compiler to treat all warnings as errors. You can just remove any -Werror flags from the makefile and it should compile properly.
I’m using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?
“We want our pilots to be entirely free from any financial consideration when they take a safety-related decision,” WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech said...
Pilots shouldn’t be pressured into making unsafe decisions? Then stop pressuring them to make unsafe decisions. If the plane isn’t safe to fly for any reason, then it doesn’t take off, period. It shouldn’t be a choice for anyone.
The way airlines are acting these days, I can’t shake the feeling that the business of flying people from place to place is not the primary focus. It seems more like they facilitate flights mostly for the purpose of luring people into their poorly-lit wing of the airport where their goons can extract the real profits.
A Regina judge has ruled that the Saskatchewan government’s naming and pronoun policy should be paused for the time being, but Premier Scott Moe says he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to override it....
strong support of a majority of Saskatchewan residents
Sure, a majority of people who are old enough to vote, anyway.
Eroding the rights of people who can’t even vote is straight up tyrannical. Doubly so when the courts say “hey maybe you shouldn’t do that” and you invoke the notwithstanding clause to do it anyway.
Alexis von Hoensbroech says the global push to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 will lead to a major increase in ticket prices unless governments step in to offer support.
Plane tickets should go up in price as a response to climate change. If people can’t afford to take as many flights, then that’s a good thing, because flying is one of the least efficient modes of transport from a carbon perspective, and it’s twice as bad as the raw numbers would suggest because dumping the carbon into the upper atmosphere actually makes it more effective at warming the planet. Even if the industry manages to “decarbonize” its fuel sources, it’s still going be monumentally harmful and wasteful of resources that could be better used elsewhere.
If our government actually cares about consumers having transport options that are both affordable and carbon efficient, they should look at providing any passenger rail service in western canada.
Lmao when you’re trying to turn your company into a bloodsucking vampire but you forgot that long ago, you told your lawyer to chain the coffin in case this very thing happened.
I’m hoping this results in some public health oversight recommendations, and that they don’t try to say this was a one-off and pin all the blame on some poor line cook. However, given this government’s (and particularly Smith’s) track record on the matter of public health, I’m preparing to have to manage my expectations yet again.
This is totally wild to me. There is more than 1 road connecting Kelowna and Penticton, why didn’t the bus company have a contingency plan for this situation? Not to mention the massive waterway, he probably could have borrowed an inflatable raft from someone and floated down there in less time.
I definitely admire the self-sufficiency and work ethic on display here, but damn. Guy doesn’t need new running shoes, he needs a support network.
Two years after Valérie Plante’s administration said a new housing bylaw would lead to the construction of 600 new social housing units per year, the city hasn’t seen a single one....
It’s been on the back-burner for a bit but it’s time that I get on it and register our operation as a on-profit organization. We will be registering under the BC Societies Act. Completing this registration will allow for opening up a bank account under the organization’s name and reopen donations and have the previously...
I’m trying to figure out what demographic would be downvoting this to hell. Arch users getting triggered by a clickbait title? Arch haters trying to cope with a somewhat charitable take on arch users? Or are we all just downvoting for the meme?
If Russia is drafting foreigners who would otherwise not be there if not for Unilever, then this would be a profoundly evil thing. If they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever, then this might be a misleading headline. The article doesn’t specify.
(Unilever still sucks for paying Russian taxes and supporting their war effort)
And a few more which I think are great but YMMV depending on your particular interests:
city planner plays
historia civilis
junkyard digs
tech ingredients
Scott Manley
BobbyBroccoli
summoning salt
tl;dr: if you only pick up one name from all these comments, let it be jon bois. He’s made some of the most compelling content I’ve ever seen, especially the “pretty good” series. Money back guarantee, you will not be disappointed.
tl;dr for real: jon bois, climate town, electroboom.
I’ve been using Linux for the better part of 4 years so I’m not new to it, but I’ve always learned stuff on an as-needed basis. Today I ran into an issue that I want to prevent in the future since I had a mini heart attack thinking about how my last backup on this system was… Never since I’m an idiot who forgot to set...
The only difference between those two versions of linux is that the new one was built with a newer version of gcc. That doesn’t really narrow the problem down, though. As far as I’m aware, emergency mode is caused by either a kernel panic or a failure to mount a needed filesystem. I’m leaning towards a corrupted kernel, since it doesn’t sound like you changed your fstab or had any problem mounting /. I would run fsck -f on your boot partition, then try to re-download and reinstall the new package.
If that doesn’t work, then you can add IgnorePkg = linux linux-headers to pacman.conf so you can update without installing the broken package, until you resolve the underlying issue. Or your can install a different kernel altogether.
As for preventing problems in the future, there’s only so much you can do. Check archlinux.org before updating to see if anything requires manual intervention, and pay close attention while running pacman in case something goes wrong. You already seem to know the most important part, which is to keep a set of packages that are certain to work, so you can easily downgrade if a crash does happen.
I decided to switch when windows xp went end-of-life, because my pc was a mid-2000’s era relic that would surely catch fire if it was forced to handle the windows 7/10 bloat. Naturally, I installed Mint on bare metal without doing any research beforehand. Not the best idea, but sometimes it’s fun to jump headfirst into a completely foreign landscape. That said, Cinnamon (the desktop environment of Mint) shares much of its design language with windows, so it’s not really that foreign, as far as the graphical interface is concerned.
What surprised me was just how different the underlying system was, how much more transparent and accessible it was, and how incredibly efficient and versatile the command line could be. Then there’s the broader OSS community, which I think is a fantastic thing to participate in even if you don’t use Linux, but using Linux is certainly a gateway.
I’m not saying Linux is perfect, and it’s probably not for everyone, but it is nice to not be held captive by some monopolistic corporation, who continuously engages in ethically questionable anti-consumer behaviour, in the name of increasingly monetizing their user base. Linux gives power back to the end users, and that’s what makes it worthwhile and important.
Gotta love the feedback loop of uninsured drivers causing insurance premiums to rise, leading to more uninsured drivers. If only there was a way to stop people from zipping around in giant steel murder boxes without having insurance…
The NY Post got their hands on some pretty damning text messages where this CEO was irresponsibly downplaying the risks and cutting the ticket price for a potential prospect. I know he’s dead now, but I hope some sort of regulations come out of this.
I can still barely believe it's real. The Titanic is a living monument to the importance of safety regulations, slowly dissolving at the bottom of the ocean because its builders and operators were a little too presumtuous with their risk assessment. With that in mind, why wouldn't you name your rickety deathtrap of a submarine "Titan" of all fucking things, plot a course to the wreckage, and proceed with a similarly cavalier attitude towards safety and a considerable lack of contingency planning? It's like they wanted to see exactly how much temptation fate was capable of resisting.
Dear Lemmy, **why** Star Trek??
Every single large server in this federation has at least one Star Trek community. There is even an entire server dedicated to Star Trek....
This B.C. MP is taking a 4,500-km train ride to try and improve passenger rail in Canada (www.cbc.ca)
The ‘carbon tax’ isn’t causing inflation. No matter what politicians say | The Narwhal (thenarwhal.ca)
Which song are you currently obsessed with?
I will start. Lovely by Billie Eilish. I have already played it 34 times and can’t get enough it. I feel like i could hear it all day.
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.
You can't cd or ls in a folder if you have no +x permissions on it. That is all. I wasted 3 hours of my life.
Single-Use Plastics Ban Overturned by Canadian Court (www.nytimes.com)
Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s environment minister, said the government was “strongly considering” an appeal of the federal court’s ruling....
Americans are explaining why they don't say 'you're welcome' in customer service settings after foreigners complained that 'mmhmm' comes off as rude (www.insider.com)
I was watching a video from two years ago about different social norms and this showed up. Found someone questioning the same eight years ago on reddit (when it seemed less normalized). It feels so weird not being aware of this shift, even as a foreigner.
CBC president defends broadcaster's Israel-Hamas coverage in a testy meeting with MPs (www.cbc.ca)
What are these MAGA clowns doing in Canada’s Parliament. The Conservatives are embarrassing to us as a country. The fascist virtue signaling is sickening.
Chicago Doesn’t Own Its Own Streets (www.youtube.com)
Chicago is held hostage by a 75 year lease of its parking meters to Morgan Stanley, impacting public transport and alternate transportation funding.
Would people be interested in having an instance census sometime?
It might be cool to get some graphs to see what our growing community looks like. We could also make it an annual/biannual thing and see how things change over time....
Does federation connect to a single lemmy network, or can there be multiple?
When a lemmy instance federates, does it connect to one big lemmy network, or can there be multiple disconnected, yet locally federated instances? What I’d like to know is, can I simply join any Lemmy server and choose “All” to view everything Lemmy has to offer, or is there still hidden content?...
Why do so many mobile versions of sites run worse on phone than desktop versions?
I swear every mobile site is absolute garbage that runs like ass on phones.
Can't compile "iwlwifi" module in Linux
I’m trying to build iwlwifi module manually and for my needs....
Plasma randomly warns that my SSD is going to die?
I’m using KDE Neon with the latest version of Plasma. Sometimes I get a warning that my SSD has poor health and may die soon. When I check the SMART stats the drive seems fairly healthy. Is this just a Plasma bug?
Airlines claim passenger safety at risk under new passenger rights rules (www.cbc.ca)
“We want our pilots to be entirely free from any financial consideration when they take a safety-related decision,” WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech said...
Sask. premier to use notwithstanding clause to veto judge ruling on school pronoun policy (www.cbc.ca)
A Regina judge has ruled that the Saskatchewan government’s naming and pronoun policy should be paused for the time being, but Premier Scott Moe says he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to override it....
WestJet CEO says aviation will need significant government support to decarbonize (globalnews.ca)
Alexis von Hoensbroech says the global push to decarbonize the aviation sector by 2050 will lead to a major increase in ticket prices unless governments step in to offer support.
Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out (lemmy.today)
From The Internet Archive: web.archive.org/…/Unity Software Additional Terms…
Alberta premier to address Calgary daycare E. coli outbreak as parents urge action (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Article Paywall
‘A last resort’: Man walks Kelowna to Penticton following Highway 97 closure - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Every developer has opted to pay Montreal instead of building affordable housing, under new bylaw (www.cbc.ca)
Two years after Valérie Plante’s administration said a new housing bylaw would lead to the construction of 600 new social housing units per year, the city hasn’t seen a single one....
Non-Profit Registration: Name suggestions.
It’s been on the back-burner for a bit but it’s time that I get on it and register our operation as a on-profit organization. We will be registering under the BC Societies Act. Completing this registration will allow for opening up a bank account under the organization’s name and reopen donations and have the previously...
Why Are Arch Linux Users So TOXIC? (www.youtube.com)
I also want to see how many downvotes i am going to get
Do you have a moment to talk about... (lemmy.ml)
Unilever to comply with Russian conscription law if staff called up (www.theguardian.com)
What are some quality YouTube channels that you recommend?
Kind of tired watching trash from YT....
Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town (youtu.be)
Ran into an issue with the latest arch Linux update, how to prevent in the futur
I’ve been using Linux for the better part of 4 years so I’m not new to it, but I’ve always learned stuff on an as-needed basis. Today I ran into an issue that I want to prevent in the future since I had a mini heart attack thinking about how my last backup on this system was… Never since I’m an idiot who forgot to set...
why did you switch?
Hey everyone,...
High car insurance prices are worrying Americans (www.usatoday.com)
Sometimes I feel like my car is just a money-burning machine.
Doomed Titanic sub CEO tried to sell cut-price tickets, saying it was ‘safer than crossing the street’ (nypost.com)
The NY Post got their hands on some pretty damning text messages where this CEO was irresponsibly downplaying the risks and cutting the ticket price for a potential prospect. I know he’s dead now, but I hope some sort of regulations come out of this.
Is there any truth to this? (raddle.me)
https://raddle.me/f/lobby/155371/warning-lemmy-doesn-t-care-about-your-privacy-everything-is
This Meme was made on a Wireless Logitech Controller (i.imgur.com)