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> These deaths could have been prevented if all the students were not concentrated into these schools.

Dr. Peter Bryce's report is essential to understand the preventable deaths from disease: https://archive.org/details/bryceonresidentialschools/Bryce%...

The Indian Department knew that the schools served as a conduit for the spread of disease from at least 1907 onward. Dr. Bryce was still campaigning to get them to address the issue in the 1920s.

Sometimes, when I have a few things to remember, I start repeating the list. It always turns into "A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im4GwUD1UY8

Yes! When I lived there, there was no bridge to Kinuseo, so you had to drive through the Murray. I crossed with a friend who had a lifted Dodge 4x4. It was more than a little un-nerving to have water starting to fill the cab...

The other thing I remember is that the Conservation Service used to catch poachers up in that area with "robot" deer (IIRC, the extent of the automation was that the heads turned).

It's a tiny, dying mining town over 50 miles away from the closest community. Having fibre is amazing as it is.

I lived and worked in Tumbler Ridge for about six years in the 80s and 90s. I never expected to see it on the Hacker News. Too funny!

My wife and I have had a fanless PC hooked up to our TV since 2011.

Firefox is the only browser we use and we watch Youtube every day. If it broke, I'd know about it or hear about it.

It never breaks.

I was once on a flight (capacity of about 30 passengers) where they made several people change seats to balance the load.

Ditto. While Mozilla shut down the mailing lists this week, there's now an alt.comp.software.seamonkey newsgroup.

I have read a lot of Metis history, and this passage struck me as oddly appropriate, although unintentionally so: "the practical wisdom that comes from being a tight-knit community sharing a common goal, watching each other succeed or fail, and passing down lore to the next generation."

THAT would have been interesting....

I agree with your math and your assessment of what's available at Github and the like. Perhaps part of the problem is that people (including many developers) treat git repositories as app stores.

It seems unfair to complain that you're getting rough products when you're snatching them off the factory floor -- or out of the design room.

I would take issue with "far more often." I guess that's true if you're searching out software on Github or the equivalent. If you're installing packages from your distribution's repository, there are tens of thousands of finished free software products (inasmuch as any software, open or proprietary, is ever finished).

I would add to this that it seems like I can find the software I need in the Debian repositories 99% of the time. If I can't, it's usually because I want to do something niche. In those cases, it's on me to figure out what to do next.

The purpose of joining a union is to gain better wages, working conditions, and protection from mistreatment by supervisors. Then no one has to give you specific perks to entice you into saying that you like your job. You'll just say it's a good job when asked.

There's a difference.

A good portion of Jared Diamond's Collapse covers the history and decline of the Greenland settlements. It's a worthwhile read.

I just wanted to chirp a "Thanks" here for all the work you've done to keep gopher going. I'm a daily user, have a small presence, and your work as an ambassador and steward of the protocol is greatly appreciated.

There was an impact on service. I can't remember the levels (I was 10), but I'm sure someone must have studied it somewhere. It would be a really interesting piece of history to dig into and dissect.

The destruction of an entire union by a former union president (Screen Actors Guild). That's some irony for you.

As I recall, in addition to administrators, they made use of the military.

This looks like an interesting site. I've checked out All Sides and Ground News and a lot of what used to be considered center is now labelled as "left." I think that's because of the particularly skewed Overton window in the U.S.

It would be nice to have a spectrum that could be set based on your country.

I've been surfing around on your site. The article selection is very good. I'm unlikely to use it because I refuse to sign up for almost anything these days, and it's a requirement on the site, but it looks well done.

Thank you. That looks like it may be exactly what I need to do.

I still use Claws Mail because I have never been able to figure out how to set Thunderbird to display emails with a consistent font size.

I've changed the advanced settings and set a minimum font size, and it has no effect. You can zoom in when you're looking at an email, but the results are inconsistent from email to email.

With Claws Mail I get the same font size every time.

If anyone knows how to set this up properly, I'd give Thunderbird a try again.

I haven't used any essay-checking or exam-taking software yet.

Even so, based on what I've heard from my immediate superior, I'm flagging somewhere between 10-20% of all of the plagiarism and cheating cases in my faculty.

It's not hard to detect (generally good writing mixed with bad on essays / the repetition of similar phrases by different students on exams), but it does take a bit of time to confirm and you need to write a some policy-consistent boilerplate to make it simple to take action.

Some here have suggested that we need to write the equivalent of "open book" exams for the online environment. I'm not sure that would be beneficial. It's still important to exercise your mental faculties. People who can recall information and reason for themselves are still more valuable than those who can cut and paste. Or to put it another way, you need to understand the math in order to wield a calculator well.

Only for the purpose of giving additional political representation to southern white men. Otherwise, they weren't people at all.

I try to get away from all that by hosting a site on gopher. Neocities would be another option, if you need the eye candy.

I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my reddit and Mastodon accounts. But this is tempting. It gives me the feeling I used to get when listening to tunes and surfing last.fm

There's also a Firefox extension called "Disable JavaScript" that places a JavaScript toggle switch on your address bar and remembers whether you want JavaScript on or off on each specific site that you visit.

Agreed.

I would have replied earlier, but I've been digitally detoxing for the last few months, so I'm fairly inactive.

I think you misunderstood the comment above yours.

I'm in Western Canada and Greyhound is gone now. A couple of replacement bus lines started up prior to the pandemic, but I don't know if they've survived.

I never had a problem with the depots, though they definitely weren't classy places. If you knew the towns along the route, it was usually easy to walk to a better restaurant, store, etc.

I continued to ride the bus long after my economic situation improved, because I actually enjoyed it. I met a lot of interesting characters taking the bus. I've heard a lot of "Greyhound stories," smoked a bit of weed with strangers, and found myself in some unexpectedly cool situations. Always an adventure. Air travel is so sterile in comparison.

An unbelievable act of humanity, especially since it appears to have been undertaken by a man the French abducted the year before.