VancouverMan

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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I've got some colleagues who live in apartment buildings in an area of Canada that's like that. About half a year ago, they were telling me about how they're seeing more and more of those thicker bags in their buildings'
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Keep in mind that the experiences that people had during 2020, 2021, and 2022 differed a lot based on where they were located. Across Canada as a whole, for example, there were a lot of harsh, extremely harmful, and blatantly stupid "p
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Submissions about Firefox, Mozilla, or Rust that get a lot of comments often remind me how I wish this site had a setting like "showdead", except it disabled all moderation. With that setting enabled, there would be no grayed-out
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Any Firefox user who is concerned about privacy should definitely read the Firefox Privacy Notice: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/ The name "Google" appears multiple times, sometimes
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> This hurts because Firefox should have been that embedded framework powering browsers like Brave and electron apps. Years ago, Gecko had at least some support for being embedded within native applications. This was apparently discontin
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> Except that, in basically every other developed nation, healthcare is _more_ regulated, if not nationalized, and has better performance for substantially lower cost. The various provincial public health care systems in Canada are gener
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> how do we systematically realign delivering quality and efficiency with profits. Free entry into the market, along with competition, are the free market forces that naturally balance those attributes over time. Keep in mind that within
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I can't trust CBC News' reporting of anything having to do with this subject after the incident/controversy earlier this year where CBC itself halted its own use of Twitter. This is CBC News' own article about that earli
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Joking aside, those countries have a very sensible policy. While multi-citizenship may offer some benefits, it also results in numerous problems, too. We see these problems in Canada far too often, for example. One issue is the Canadian-of-
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
As somebody who wants to see as much discussion as possible, even if I might disagree with or dislike what's being expressed, I find the moderation here tends to be more "toxic" to my user experience than the dead or grayed-o
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Portable Object Compiler may be of interest, too. It's an open source compiler for a more traditional dialect of Objective-C, and it generates C code: https://sourceforge.net/projects/objc/ The bootstrap sour
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Firefox's users shouldn't have to ignore or disable them. That kind of extraneous functionality just shouldn't be bundled with Firefox to begin with. If a user does want such functionality, then an extension could be voluntar
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
For me, the money itself isn't really a problem. Creating a Google account, however, is a problem. Having to log in with that account is a problem. Having to link the account with a credit card or some other payment method is a problem
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> Just use Firefox. That approach doesn't work well given Firefox's established track record of just imitating Chrome, and then getting rid of the prior (and better) way of doing things. XUL extension developers are well aware
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
At fast food restaurants in Canadian cities, I've found that ordering using a kiosk is often the only way to place a complete and correct order. Due to Canada's immigration policies and economic policies, retail and fast food jobs
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
The feasibility of widespread bike usage doesn't just depend on density. It depends a lot on a region's weather, too. Amsterdam, for example, happens to have weather that's relatively compatible with biking, all throughout th
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I know a number of people, myself included, who have been waiting for the return of decent mid-range phones before getting a new one. Right now, there are very few options for people who want a reasonably sized phone, offering reasonably go
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
While it was already obvious to some people before then, after everything that happened from early 2020 through most of 2022, it should be completely clear to everyone now that "expert consensus" has absolutely nothing to do with
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I've experienced corruption and data loss with Btrfs each of the times I've tried using it, too, after only about a week of use at most. Thankfully, all of those incidents were with some non-critical, throw-away VMs where the data
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I don't use Firefox as my primary browser, but I do use the desktop version of it on various computers numerous times per week as part of some work I do. I find Firefox to be noticeably slower than the various Blink-based browsers and
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I've been holding off on upgrading some older Intel Mac minis I have while waiting for the memory situation to improve, but so far it hasn't. Ideally, I'd consolidate these older systems into one new Mac mini, or even a Mac S
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
We have to be very cautious with "the actual data" from that time period. The death counts from Canada's government officials from that era are very questionable, for example. As early as June of 2020, the "public health
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Of the people I referred to, many were in Canada (primarily BC, Ontario, Alberta, and Quebec) at the time, but they're from a wide variety of ancestries, nations-of-origin, and socioeconomic statuses. Most of the rest were living prima
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
From what I can see, there does seem to be a strong correlation between how much attention one paid to the government and media, and the subsequent attribution of health issues to having tested positive for an infection at some point. Among
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> Shockingly the government in power who implemented it is the Conservative Party. It's not that shocking. Political parties in Canada with the word "Conservative" in their name, and especially the ones with the oxymoronic
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
> Given the CBC's limited resources, ... CBC has been getting well over a billion dollars of taxpayer money each year lately, and they also have advertising revenue on top of that. CBC does not have "limited resources".
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
While caution is needed with all media, more caution than usual should be used with anything coming out of CBC, especially recently. In January 2022, for example, a long-time former journalist with CBC discussed some objectivity and quality
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
I have a couple of questions for you: What interaction(s) have you personally had with government? Do you personally depend on government for your income/existence (as your "job", via welfare, via tuition/scholarship, pa
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
Is that really a problem with the CVEs, though? That sounds more like a problem with the compliance team in question having policies that are flawed in one or more ways. One entity blindly/inflexibly/irrationally/wrongly reac
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by VancouverMan 3y ago
That is another good example of how a relatively small number of pointless and unnecessary government "jobs" unfortunately result in even more pointless and wasteful private sector "jobs" existing. Those kinds of "j

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