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by xemoka 3y ago
It always shocks me how what appears as entrapment turns out legal.
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by xemoka 3y ago
I’m curious about this statement too, seems there’s evidence that they don’t and the customer is the data handler: https://www.edps.europa.eu/system/files_en?file=2023-01/0221... top of page 4. I guess this is all
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by xemoka 3y ago
Arguments against same-sex marriage are often framed in terms of defending traditional or religious values. This is common refrain in anti-gay hate groups^1 and is used to push homophoic agendas. 1: https://www.hrw.org/news&
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by xemoka 3y ago
Great, I'm super happy you're using this opportunity to engage in the political system! Goal achieved. I hope you find lively debate with the members who disagree with this bill, for both of our sakes.
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by xemoka 3y ago
How the second reading vote went, so you know who to call and email, https://openparliament.ca/votes/44-1/609/ And everything said about it and the status in the house: https://openparliament.ca&#x
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by xemoka 3y ago
The thi.ng umbrella has a hiccup variant for JS that looks pretty neat too: https://thi.ng/hiccup
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by xemoka 3y ago
I often thought a private, indexed, and archived, mailing list is best of both worlds. I’ve had trouble getting buy in though.
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by xemoka 3y ago
And where Operation Atlantic Resolve is the US activities in response to the conflict in Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Atlantic_Resolve
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by xemoka 3y ago
Still not in Canada, I wonder why? Surprising given where else they've expanded.
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by xemoka 3y ago
It constantly seems like the BoC and the Government are at odds when it comes to inflation. Government spends, gives out cash to help (grocery rebate program) and the BoC raises rates. I guess the grocery rebate is aimed at lower incomes, a
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by xemoka 3y ago
But likely because of a post-processing step that scans for copyrighted text…
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The concurrence of three climatic events(climatecasino.net)
450 points by xemoka 3y ago|389 comments
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by xemoka 3y ago
Similar reasons to elsewhere with these problems: lots of NIMBY, lots of people who think (at least here on Vancouver Island) that we should just close up shop and not have anyone new move here, lots of building requirements that increase p
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by xemoka 3y ago
So many listed here are already in my top list, what I haven’t seen is the Luna Trilogy by Ian McDonald. Neat ideas from corporate run future moon colony.
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by xemoka 4y ago
Canadaland did a great feature on him: ep#313 as a history of his work, and then a rare interview with him in ep#314. And an article if you prefer: https://www.canadaland.com/oral-history-of-nardwuar-the-huma... 313: https
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by xemoka 4y ago
They're pretty good, I have the wireless model and wish I had gone for wired; some of my setups have had some interference that has impacted its range, other setups have been fine though.
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by xemoka 4y ago
I hate being without a middle mouse button, but pushing down on a scroll wheel is not the solution—it often triggers a scroll or tilt which sucks. Middle-mouse buttons are super useful in CAD / GIS or 3d modelling domains for panning.
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by xemoka 4y ago
I use an Elecom Huge[1] trackball, it's got a few extra buttons that I've mapped with SteerMouse[2] (excellent MacOS Mouse Driver tool) and BetterTouchTool[3] on macOS to provide window and space management/switching: It has:
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by xemoka 4y ago
You'd think right? There must be other reasons then... how does Google benefit from not building better SPA crawling infrastructure? It's certainly gotten _better_ over the last few years, but still seems lacking.
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by xemoka 4y ago
Random fact, it's been used in Switch cartridges to stop folks from putting them in their mouth.
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by xemoka 4y ago
In the past, I’ve used a specific ‘api’ schema that contains the views and functions that modifies a ‘data’ schema. You can then have multiple versions of the ‘api’ schema for versioning (with a different postgrest instance pointing at each
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by xemoka 4y ago
That’s weird, I have the exact opposite issue, I’m constantly triggering the bookmark via double-tap where in iOS 15 it was never an issue.
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by xemoka 4y ago
re:VSCode; There pretty much already is one, looks fairly similar formatting too: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
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by xemoka 4y ago
This is the same situation as the opposite side of the country, here on Vancouver Island the waitlist for a doctor is only getting longer. That combined with offices closing (can't get enough money doing their fee-for-service work to k
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by xemoka 4y ago
Com-tiles[1] also looks pretty good, a bit more optimized than pmtiles. The whole cloud optimized vector tile/data space is next after COGs (cloud optimized geotiffs). Point-clouds are also getting the index-range-request treatment as
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by xemoka 4y ago
Another Vancouver Islander here, exactly as you say, there has been no "rules" implemented by anyone in any government position. This is the BC SPCA, a non-profit, asking people with bird feeders to take them down: https:/&#
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by xemoka 5y ago
A couple good Canadian podcasts about this (in Canada, related to our search for a Deep Geological Repository) have recently aired: on Canadaland [ https://www.canadaland.com/nuclear-waste-ignace-ontario/ ] (also an ar
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by xemoka 5y ago
The podcast Tech Won’t Save Us had a good interview with Quintin Smith (quoted in article, has written and produced on this topic) the other week: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/9838527-how-roblox-exploi...
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by xemoka 5y ago
Oh man, that’s such a false equivalency. Because someone thinks journalism should be done in the open, particularly when the topic of commentary, doesn’t mean they want their private information (location, sex partners, whatever) sold to th
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by xemoka 5y ago
If this interest you, both dbmate [ https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate ] and golang/migrate [ https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate ] are in very similar spaces---and can be provided as a sin

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