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Is there such a thing in Canada?

Neither is Saint Pierre et Miquelon. There is the island of la Réunion but no name, and the name for Ibiza but no island...

I hope those can be fixed, I love the concept.

I have given up on the idea of a clean home dir a long time ago. I have "networked" directories (pCloud,Dropbox) in my home for everything I care for, and those are organized "perfectly".

Additionally I symlink .vimrc and .gitconfig to a git repos. Then everything else in my home dir can be total garbage, it no longer matters. The big plus is that if a machine dies I can be back in business in minutes on another one.

Ads and subscriptions seems easier on sites for video than text. Nobody ever made significant money with blogs or other online text form, while some people make a very decent living just producing YouTube videos.

What?

I use it on gnome all the time and never run into an issue.

Given that over 40 years they changed everything but the panels themselves, what maintenance?

This is fascinating:

Chemical analysis performed in recent years confirmed that the three encapsulants are made of the same base polymers but their three respective suppliers used different additives in the encapsulant formulation, explaining the varied performance. “As in many cases with PV installations, the devil is in the details,” Virtuani stated. “By just changing a single element, in this case the supplier of the encapsulant, the entire performance of a PV array can be compromised,”

Blacklists feel more like reinforcing the echo chamber than moderation.

On the other hand, most elections in Canada have turned into one week election, officially 6 days of advanced poll and 1 day of election, and the result has been greater participation.

LibreOffice is amazing, beside being able to open many document formats, it can run headless and has command line options which allow automating some tasks such as converting format that would not be possible otherwise.

https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/shared/guide/...

https://opensource.com/article/21/3/libreoffice-command-line

> creating a recommendation system that is based on concious curation, not statistical metric

That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channels, not articles. It's still who vs what. For me the concept of "subreddits" is the best we've achieved in in terms of social sharing. It was about what over who. You picked a subject, followed a subreddit, and found articles, videos etc... about that subject. Conscious curation on specific subjects.

I still use the old.reddit.com, but few non-tech people do and the primary Reddit interface has pushed people away from the platform and a lot of the smaller subreddits are drying up.

I understand why the changes were made and it brings the question of how can we create social sharing based on subjects that is either distributed (but easy to use by non-tech people) or centralised and profitable?

Backblaze is 6$/TB/month with no egress fee, and are a well established company with a good reputation:

https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/pricing

I'm surprised the don't come up more in a discussion about backup storage.

Why a GPS? Do you ever go anywhere without your phone where a GPS would be useful?

The next step will be fan intake in the floor of the bathroom instead of the ceiling.

Now, everytime I switch the toilet fan on I think about the researches on airplanes during covid that showed that there was little contamination thanks to cabin air intake being at the floor level and fresh air coming from the top.

I wish jdon5.org were adopted more widely, it's JSON,safe because it cannot be executed, but with comments and trailing comma!

Note: YAML is a superset of JSON, which means that any YAML reader can read JSON.

Can you elaborate?

Which countries would that be? And have you tried to live in one of them? How did it go?

> Bluesky invites have been abundantly available for months now

Only in a bubble where everybody already has an account I suspect.

Or split it off like they did with thunderbird.

You switched because of the change in taste? Texture? Environmental or philosophical concerns? Health concerns (does palm have more saturated fat than cocoa?)

I remember reading that Ferrero tried to switch away from palm oil but never managed to recreate the taste and texture and all tests showed that people did not like the alternatives, so Ferrero kept it and invested in ethical palm instead.

That work is amazing!

Now before you laugh at the original meme and the use of AI chosing the wrong algorithm, read this:

https://fosstodon.org/@gabrielesvelto/110592904713090347

There is no proof AI was used, but:

> Google's code was allocating 20000 variables in a single frame.

I too was surprised, I was really surprised by this statement and would love to see more data on it:

> while adding vegetable fats to chocolate is something that is a unique practice among British manufacturers, these fats are tasteless, so they're unlikely to be contributing.

Google lets you "buy" movies online. The movie is attached to the email account. You cannot transfer it to a different email account.

The very same google that offers Gmail but is also known to block accounts for perceived violation of contract and which will now close Gmail accounts that aren't used for a number of months.

Same issue as with tax fraud. Governments prefers dealing with mistakes and small frauds they are cheap fast success, simple to detect, no lawyer to fight back, but the opposite for large frauds.

This was explain to me by an accountant when I wondered why they wanted to have me fix what felt like I significant errors, mean while a big corporation was in the news for what was clearly tax fraud but the government was dragging they feet about it.

A lot of controls in airliners are via software and electrical signals.

As long as the same rigour that is applied to the aviation industry is used and that they don't use an MCAS, I think I'm ok with it.

That sort of work but not all the time, your messages still end up in spam a lot when trying to reach somebody you haven't exchanged email with before.

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OP imagines that there is a point in the future where they read the book without commiting to it. Selling/donating it would put an end to that possibility and force OP to imagine a future where they cannot read it, and hopefully helps them assessing one va the other, and prioritizing accordingly.

Memento Mori.

You should imagine that you are forced to sell it every day. Eventually you'll either sell it (or donate it (your local library might appreciate it)) or start reading it.

Do you write your software to use the small sensor from scratch or do you build on top of existing libraries?

As another long time Linux user, I've just started to worry how Microssoft is invading my work life:

GitHub, TypeScript, Vscode (when I have to interact with people who cannot think outside an IDE), and I've just started to use Playwright.

Wouldn't it be fun if it turns out that Max Headroom signal hijacker, D. B. Cooper and Satoshi Nakamoto are the same person ‽