VancouverMan

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by VancouverMan 2y ago
That's roughly the range of nonsensical or incorrect answers I've gotten from various human lawyers, accountants, financial advisors, and other professionals over the years. I've come to expect about a fifth to a quarter of t
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Does that same reasoning of yours apply to JavaScript, given that person's involvement with its development? For example, do you disable JavaScript in whichever browser(s) you use? Do you avoid all desktop and mobile apps that may cont
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> (Weird how no other website has issues like this…) The Firefox 126 preferences UI for the "Strict" setting shows this warning: "Stronger protection, but may cause some sites or content to break." When the panel for
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Just this morning, a colleague of mine in Toronto forwarded me a link to a very recent video showing the current state of Yonge in that area: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0onFRIQrGQ That video starts just slightly north
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
In general, I have trouble trusting environments that can be described as "strongly moderated and curated". I find that environments that rely on censorship tend to foster dogma, rather than knowledge and real understanding of the
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> you'll never know if those are answers, bullshit, trolling, or straight up hallucinations That's how it has always been for purely human-generated content, too.
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Anyone who uses Firefox with the belief that it offers "privacy" should really read the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Quite a few company and organization na
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
What's "edgy" about that comment? That comment is a concise and literal description of what the North American college/university experience has been for decades now, if not much longer. It does cost a relatively large s
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
In my case, I've repeatedly had bad experiences with Fedora itself, and bad experiences with a lot of other software coming out of that part of the Linux ecosystem. For example, I had one computer about a decade ago where the Fedora in
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I wouldn't make the assumption that the people buying luxury units will be moving out of lower-priced units. In Canada's major cities, for example, we see such luxury and non-luxury units being bought as stores-of-value by wealthy
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Easy hiring/firing of employees may not guarantee a robust economy, but we can see from the situation in Canada, for example, that harder-than-necessary hiring/firing can definitely inhibit an economy that would otherwise be much
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Desktop users who last used, and liked, Ubuntu during the pre-Unity/pre-GNOME-3/pre-Wayland era (before 2011 or so) may not like it so much these days. It's a very different default experience now. While I have fond memories
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
I haven't rigorously tracked all of the instances I've seen of this happening over the years, but I've tried to quickly find some more prominent examples for you. This bug report, for example, has various "This comment h
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
Based on what I've seen, various forms of censorship and suppression are often employed in such cases, rather than outright "flaming" or other discussion-based approaches. It really depends on where and how the discussion is
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
> I spend more time dealing with systemd edge cases, and bugs, and security issues every few months, than I did in 30 years of other init systems. It's been the same situation for me, too. Every time I get stuck dealing with a new s
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by VancouverMan 2y ago
This can easily become an economy-wide problem. Canada is an example of this, and it has certainly harmed the country's overall productivity. Language has long posed a challenge for organizations in Canada with operations and customers
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
As a Debian user since the 1990s, this situation has once again made me thankful that I've moved important systems I'm responsible for away from Debian and over to OpenBSD and FreeBSD whenever possible. Even if Debian wasn't
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Do you know yet which Canadian sources you'd likely use content from? For news matters that I have had direct personal knowledge about, I've often found that the coverage from the so-called "mainstream" Canadian news med
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
There's no connection between how much money somebody charges for their services and the quality of the services that they in turn provide. Much of the worst professional service I've ever received, despite paying them a lot of mo
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Can you be specific about these "right-wing and far-right" subreddits you're seeing on the front page? I'm not logged in (I don't have a Reddit account), I'm in Canada, and on the Reddit home page I'm curr
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> my own example is the default home page for Canada. It's now exclusively sports and right-wing nuttery. Can you give some concrete examples of this "right-wing nuttery" you mention? I've heard other people in Canada
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
As a native Canadian English speaker who has interacted with many non-native English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds in Canada, I can't see how that approach would work out well. That sounds like a way to acquire an unusual
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
It's an even stranger example to use when you consider Montreal's (and Quebec's) history. During the "Quiet Revolution" era of the 1960s and 1970s, government in Quebec basically became a "Style Czar", to
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Keep in mind that winter in the most-populated areas of Scandinavia and surrounding regions can be quite mild compared to cities in North America that are much farther south. Consider the climates of cities like Ottawa and Montreal in Canad
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> you'll have no idea if a brilliant essay or entire magazine is made by a bot. That doesn't sound like a problem to me. If the ideas being expressed offer value to the readers, who/what created them isn't particularl
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
If you use Firefox for privacy reasons, and especially if you're concerned about your data potentially ending up with Google (or other entities), please be sure to read the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org&#x2
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> functional liberal democracy full of checks and balances with a government subject to regular elections It's more nuanced than that. The current system can easily result in surprisingly disproportionate representation in the House
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I think you're right, and that phenomenon extended well beyond desktop environments, too. The same thing happened to many existing web sites, with "responsive web design" and "mobile-first design" starting to be hea
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
While being bundled made it easier to start using IE, that didn't guarantee that people would try it, and it didn't guarantee that they'd continue to use it on an ongoing basis after that. It may not be as obvious now, but at
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
If Mozilla is truly going to be taking privacy seriously, they should start by reading the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ Firefox could then be modified to remove the n

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