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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Hey neighbour! I'm a few km outside the evacuation zones for the Adams Lake fires. We've packed the car, just in case. Take care.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I was born in B.C. over 50 years ago. I don't remember having to live with intense forest fire smoke until 2003. We've had heavy smoke almost every summer since 2018 in the Southern interior. So something has definitely changed.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
The radio seems to be working just fine. I'm between three fires and they've been covering them all day.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I'm Canadian and I'm not upset by this. If you can't find the local news websites, it's probably best that you don't get the news. Incompetence and (dis)information are a bad combination.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
That's what I came here to say. You can hear the differences when people from various parts of British Columbia speak, much less Saskatchewan and northern Ontario.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I've used DuckDNS for over five years. It seems reliable and makes running a gopher server from home quite simple.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Fair, though the author of the article seems to hedge in both directions: "Or it could have been the product of the opposite: absolutely no self-awareness about how current events can be sneakily channeled or commented on through seemi
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Even as a teenager the anti-Sandinista politics of this game were clear: https://killscreen.com/previously/articles/the-forgotten-pol... Contra was an early experience that made the propaganda of everyday life vis
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I was at Millhaven, a maximum security institution in Ontario, a few years ago. The prisoners told me that only 10 of them could attend university courses at a time. The librarian confirmed it.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I run an encrypted XMPP server for about a dozen people. It's completely ephemeral in the sense that the server stores no messages. If you're offline, you miss them, kind of like IRC. Will this apply to me? Do I need to ensure tha
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
This should load: https://web.archive.org/web/20230717065235/https://sci-hub.r...
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Thanks! The mailing list was never that busy, so it wasn't really a problem. I'd probably automatically redirect to a folder if I needed to do that. Funny that you mention USENET. I'm subscribed to about 20 newsgroups, using
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Back around 2007 or so, I discovered BasicLinux ( https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/ ), a stripped down version of Slackware for old PCs, compatible with Slackware 4.0 packages. It installed from a couple of floppies o
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
It sure looks that way. There's less damage if an experiment goes awry in Canada.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
You can port your number between providers here in Canada too. I even ported my old landline over to VOIP.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
The official instance is teddit.net The repository is here: https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit Individual instances appear to be shutting down. This is one of them.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Damn. I was hoping for a Red Green-designed Mr. Fusion.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
One of my friends was way ahead of the rest of us in 1987, and bought a V20 to upgrade his Tandy computer. He works for a telcom now. Nice to see one still churning away.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Wow. After years of being irritated by the inconsistent font sizes in incoming emails in Thunderbird (and using Claws-mail instead), I downloaded this new version and finally figured out how to set it up properly (which was likely always po
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I came here looking for this comment. You can also create a toolbar in the titlebar. So if you minimize the ribbon by default and add the old style icons to the titlebar, you end up with a really nice setup.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Would you explain it? I'm self taught, have programmed in Python, C, and am looking at Pascal, and I don't understand the difference.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
What happened to the EU ruling from way back? Do I still have the option to uninstall (or not to install) Microsoft's browser?
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I can't know if this is true or false. It reads like it is politically motivated. Can you cite sources to substantiate the many claims you have made here?
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I read your capsule. I think you hit it out of the park when discussing how Google impacted XMPP and the possible implications for the fediverse. Nicely done.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Weird. I just drove through Oregon last week. I didn't know about this law and everywhere I went, I just pumped my own gas. No one seemed to care. Maybe they were anticipating the change.
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I operated the dryers at a coal mine in the 1980s. We had to start the exhaust fans with the dampers closed and then slowly open them, or we'd take out the power for all of Northeastern British Columbia. I know because I knocked the po
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I live in British Columbia and BC Hydro (a government-owned utility, thanks to our right-wing Social Credit party, which bought out a private supplier in 1961) is the best. Service is amazing and rates are great. Apparently, government owne
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
I came here for the Jornadas and all I get are walled garden debates. Sigh. Back to HPC:Factor...
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
Why make this comment without elaborating on the problem with term papers?
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by ipcress_file 3y ago
You can access gopher using a regular browser through Floodgap's proxy: http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw A good gopher hole to visit to find recently-updated material is here: gopher://i-logout.cz&#x

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