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Since the comments are turning into a flamewar, thread locked.




That would put the burden of verifying the identity of users on the website operator before they can participate. Personally, I know I don’t want to have the responsibility of handling PII just so that a stranger on the Internet can participate on a public forum where there could be harassment when I think we’re doing a good enough job by moderating the platform with a decent set of rules.

And this kind of requirement doesn’t really consider the nature of a federated platform such as the fediverse, as I couldn’t vouch for the identity of remote instance users if we get audited.


Another added benefit is that it would also make roads lasts longer if water doesn’t have a chance to infiltrate and expand into ice within the asphalt/concrete.


Link to the proper article if referencing CBC, and put your commentary in the post of the body or as a comment.


Counter-offer: Vermont, New York, and some other states would make a fine addition to our current roster of provinces.





And there’s also Bill C-63 that may fuck us up too…


Honestly, I don’t have any issue using a pirated software for my own personal use.

I put the line where you use the software to make money.







OP could start a Lemmy equivalent to EhBuddyHoser for Canadian-specific shitposting


The GST vacation offloaded all the work to the local businesses, many who weren’t ready to apply the exemption in time. Kind of a dick move to them.

It would have made more sense to give that back in the form of a tax rebate during income season, or through bonus child benefit / pension payments, etc who are usually those that needs it the most if they wanted to put it back in people’s pocket faster.





All I can say is up yours, alt-right moralist


For those who don’t want to click

Transcription: It was a pleasure to have dinner the other night with Governor Justin Trudeau of the Great State of Canada. I look forward to seeing the Governor again soon so that we may continue our in depth talks on Tariffs and Trade, the results of which will be truly spectacular for all! DJT


If we stop teaching about LGBTQ garbage in school, we will not have any abuse, God will not allow it if we live a life he demands of us.

Everything was pure and without abuse when the clergy was teaching kids 🙄


lmao wrong community

A place to share alternatives to popular online services that can be self-hosted without giving up privacy or locking you into a service you don’t control.


Summarized the transcript using Firefox Orbit

  • The speaker had an unexpected experience with UPS, a shipping company, regarding high brokerage fees for a package shipped from the US to Canada.
  • UPS charged significantly higher fees than competitors for customs clearance, holding the package hostage until the fees were paid.
  • The speaker ordered a hot sauce collection and was not informed of the shipping company used, resulting in unexpected fees.
  • The fees included entry preparation, disbursement, and GST, with the entry preparation fee being more than the initial shipping cost.
  • The speaker contacted UPS to dispute the fees, citing the Consumer Protection Act of Alberta and arguing that the fees were unfair and an unwarranted additional cost.


I use handbrake with libaacs, libbdplus and an up-to-date keydb

https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

With these in place, you can just read and transcode a Blu Ray like any other media.



This would save me some time travelling between Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto for work, as I absolutely hate travelling by plane.


How would “here’s me stalking your family” ever “win an argument” anyways???

It’s not about winning an argument, it’s about coercing the opponent into silence.


I use them for our printed version of our documentation, each document has a cover page with a QR code pointing to the latest version of the electronic copy.

Handy during an outage, and you don’t have to search for the online copy.



I fileshare because buying is renting nowadays, and I don’t want to own content that can be revoked because of an expiring agreement, service shutting down, etc.


I wish more news organizations would do this. Make the instance only for the employees and have the public follow them through public instances.

It solves the following issues

  • Social media independence
  • Validate account authenticity through the instance domain name
  • Ability for followers migration between instances (leave, join, change news organization)


Flip a couple of tables where this decision was made at the very least.


MKV is just the container though, what really matter are the codecs and their parameters. Transforming the container (aka remuxing) doesn’t require a lot of processing power, and in fact some platforms like Plex will remux an MKV to another format on-the-fly to another container if the player doesn’t natively support MKV but otherwise support the codecs used inside with little effort required.




[Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20240207165203/https://www.thebureau.news/p/fake-chinese-income-mortgages-fuel) [Archive](https://archive.ph/Hv2ra)
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Anonfiles is shutting down
> After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. > Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible. We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. > Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process. > Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. > This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down. > > This can not continue. > > Domain 4sale. > > domain@anonfiles.com
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Google delays its upgraded Find My Device network until Apple can add safety alerts
Also, Android users will soon begin seeing notifications for unknown item trackers that are traveling with them — no separate app downloads or installs required.
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B.C. port workers resume strike after union rejects tentative deal
FR: [Entente de principe rejetée par le syndicat des débardeurs, la grève reprend en C.-B.](https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1997208/entente-de-principe-rejetee-par-le-syndicat-des-debardeurs-la-greve-reprend-en-c-b-)
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