Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
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Canadian software engineer living in Europe.
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The Biden administration’s new automatic braking rule is “impractical,” auto industry says ( www.theverge.com )
Billy, yes!! ( programming.dev )
Wealthy Canadians announce BMW X3 convoy to protest capital gains tax hike ( www.thebeaverton.com )
spoilersatire
Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise ( screenrant.com )
The carbon pricing debate is somehow getting worse ( www.cbc.ca )
Why No One Wants to Live in Canada ( www.youtube.com )
Canada boasts the 9th largest economy, pristine environmental standards, a robust legal framework, universal healthcare, world class education, and numerous ...
Searching for the "most representative" Star Trek episode
Whenever I see a conversation along the lines of "what episode should I show my friend/partner/etc. to get them hooked on Star Trek," the suggestions are pretty predictable - your "best" episodes that are regarded to represent the franchise at its peak....
Canada abstains from UN assembly vote backing Palestinian bid for membership
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/un-palestinian-request-canada-vote-1.7200464
A Justin Trudeau Ally Nearly Quit the Party Over its Israel Policy ( www.politico.com )
Anthony Housefather, an outspoken Jewish MP from Montreal, toyed with leaving his party to join the Conservatives after most of Trudeau’s Liberals voted in favor of a non-binding motion in the House of Commons that took direct aim at Israel. It’s the latest example of how the conflict is straining center-left politics across...
Shell sold millions of carbon credits for carbon that was never captured, report finds ( www.cbc.ca )
Shell sold millions of carbon credits for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that never happened, allowing the company to turn a profit on its fledgling carbon capture and storage project, according to a new report by Greenpeace Canada....
Canada Post lost $748 million last year, warns of "critical" financial situation ( www.cbc.ca )
Speaker kicks Poilievre out of the Commons after he calls PM a 'wacko' in tense question period exchange | CBC News ( www.cbc.ca )
The hyper-clouds are open source's friends ( www.theregister.com )
Downloading/torrenting kids cartoons
Hey all. noob-ish pirate here. Skipping long winded post. I'm struggling to find sources to download/torrent kids cartoons. Some are easy, but I'm looking for paw patrol and it's scarce on 1337. The more modern stuff and the super popular stuff are a little easier though. Not really any information on the Wiki about this stuff....
What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?
I'm working on a some materials for a class wherein I'll be teaching some young, wide-eyed Windows nerds about Linux and we're including a section we're calling "foot guns". Basically it's ways you might shoot yourself in the foot while meddling with your newfound Linux powers....
Python's UV tool is even better ( micro.webology.dev )
Emulation on Linux
The last time I tried emulation on a desktop PC, whether it was Windows or Linux, I had to install each emulator separately. It was a bit of a mess....
Yuzu Nintendo Switch emulator must cease operations after $2.4M lawsuit ( www.dexerto.com )
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what's your experience with paperless? ( github.com )
9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI ( hachyderm.io )
His original post , titled I can't sleep, is some brilliant writing. When we talk about the chilling effect that criticism of Israel creates in industries everywhere (including ours) this is what that looks like.
I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier ( gitlab.com )
The other day someone was complaining about the new ad blocker-blocker on YouTube and I mentioned that it might be fun to write a Firefox extension that would just load up yt-dlp and play the video through mpv....