caleval.bsky.social
Aging Canadian Curmudgeon engaged in an experimental life. I'm here because I love art, photography, science and humour.
Oh, and Linux, I love Linux...
I share the *credited* work of others by repost or upload
NB: I often go days without being online.
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I can believe that. Last time I checked (few years ago) there were still millions of commercial devices running embedded Windows XP. Doesn't obviate the need for new defaults to move forward. If there is the scale of dependence on x11 you describe, it will absolutely find supported paths. Be well 🙏
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I appreciate these app peeks you provide. I'm Kate and vim all the way, but reading about other options is always interesting, so just a thank you. :)
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This level of hostility is bizarre. No one is forced to use Kubuntu. I get that there are Wayland Gestapo that treat x11 users with disdain but that's not what is happening here. You'll still be able to install x11 if xwayland doesn't do. But hating on people is not going to win them over.
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Most of the blockers have fortunately been resolved for me in 25.04. To my surprise my problems are in EndeavourOS virtual machines on my Kubuntu host. A lot of visual flicker, sometimes seriously impairing function. I'm told it's Nvidia's fault, but hmmm in a VM??.
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The problem is that Trump's just proven the only way to defend yourself from world powers is to have nukes. Nobody's missing the point that there are no US bombers headed for N Korea. So get real, Iran is more committed than ever to build nukes. The planet, including Israel, is much less safe.
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He's kinda right about one bit: Congresses over the past 4 decades have been abdicating power to presidents, constructing a near unitary Executive State. Even SCOTUS is all scrotum no balls. Trump's just more vocal about his divine right of kings.
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Delusional to think when Trump fudges on Article 5, he doesn't mean it. If Russian jackboots march into Estonia tomorrow, Trump will say they always belonged to Putin so not a US problem. The free world no longer includes the US. And the US no longer belongs to freedom-loving people.
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Delusional to think when Trump fudges on Article 5, he doesn't mean it. If Russian jackboots march into Estonia tomorrow, Trump will say they always belonged to Putin so not a US problem. The free world no longer includes the US. And the US no longer belongs to freedom-loving people. Fuck 'em.
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This time I didn't even go to the link. So egregiously anti-science. There is *no* analogy here. "Dark" matter is only dark because we don't quite know what it is. We *do* know it's matter with measurable properties. It's opposite is not "light" but simply "better understood matter.
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The poetry of science lives in people working on a scale of galaxies declaring the discovery of a "massive molecule."
Simply wonder-full.
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He's being sarcastic, not genuinely endorsing the madness.
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Reality is there are still far too many Canadians traveling there. Canada should impose a $600/person border administration fee to all non-US citizens crossing the border. Not enough to kill a legit business trip but a big factor in a weekend to Vegas.
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Spectacular result made possible by massive international research cooperation. This is the stuff that inspires mere mortals like me to think big and be better.
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Pretty funny article. tl;dr eat cheese.
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Sweet image! Thank you for sharing.
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It was a shocker to me too. I was very thoroughly and publicly dressed down for using the m-word as apparently giving great offense to the parent of a developmentally different child. This was a decade ago so not exactly new.
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I'm not an effective gatekeeper, but given the context you may want to know that the m-word is also widely considered as an offensive slur, basically on par with the r-word. If you're serious maybe just avoid ad hominem slurs in general.
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Great story with enough substance to get a little education in with some pretty cool news.
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Growing up I had one that also had six toes on each paw. Very creatively named "Six Toes." When looking for him I enjoyed gravely telling people, "I've lost six toes" usually mixed with something like "and it makes for long walks" or "and I don't know how worried to be." Orange and sure footed :)
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This is a much better path than relying on American breeder fuel. Uranium is so much safer and easier to manage than the enriched stuff too. It was foolish to get rid of Candu in the first place. A case of ideology trumping practical government.
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Virtualbox features don't work with Wayland guests & there are so many "edge cases" that it's condescending to dismiss every user's issues in the cause of progress. Of course it will just mean a *lot* of installed *buntu will move to other solutions and Gnome will see a deserved decline in userbase.
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What is the world supposed to understand? Discounting infants and others ineligible to vote, a large majority of Americans either actively voted for Trump or chose not to show up to stop him. In democracies the elected government represents the country. America is what America does.
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I get that many Americans didn't vote for him. I also get that many more did. They also elected a Congress with Trump stooges in control on both houses. What am I not getting right.
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I use them. All the time. Small towns have been using them for as long as Canada Post existed. Is your neighborhood more entitled than an entire town of 1,000 people?
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Without knowing or assessing the details, the principle is sound. We need to protect and promote the Canadian French culture and if the streamers find no profit in serving the market with these conditions then Canadian alternatives can fill the void.
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What exactly is wrong with community boxes? It is abusively irresponsible to insist on doorstep delivery for a service that is infrequently used and heavily subsidized by non-users.
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We've known many of the needed adaptations for a long time. Ending door to door residential delivery in favour of community boxes, reducing residential frequency to once or twice a week, employing dynamic routing to maximize effective use of resources. These and others are not rocket science.
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This is what America's friends look like today: the Butcher of Bucha was never that one Russian colonel, it was Putin. And the continuing campaign of mass murder is Putin's. Abetted by America.
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Specifically, they took parts Denmark bought and paid for, off a Danish military base *in Denmark*, and shipped them to Israel. That level of compromised sovereignty is intolerable. Get the Gripen.
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Taking parts away is not merely theoretical. When Scandi countries decided they didn't want to arm Israel, U.S. ordered aircraft parts removed from them and transferred to Netanyahu. Based on real experience it is madness to buy US defense equipment.
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I just want to be on the record that Erdogan is a sensitive little flower who wouldn't survive 3 minutes in a real democracy where insulting our leaders is daily diet. Pathetic, weak of character and petulantly tyrannical are words that describe Erdogan. A very small man with a dainty ego.
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At the time I checked CBC still failed to report the reason: a juror claimed the defense lawyers are talking about her behind her back, specifically that they are mocking het. Other news outlets report the full story. Judge agreed this posed clear bias risk to a fair trial.
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Wonderful, wonderful photography. Thank you for sharing.
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Not a big fan of Can-Con but if domestic firms have to do it, foreign players should not expect special treatment. Likewise, why do they think their business in Canada should not pay the same taxes as local competitors? They don't want an even field, they want predatory preferential treatment. No.
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This is a great little article. But you forced me to go back to ad blocking Ars to avoid those damn annoying auto play videos. They're not even ads, why do you insist on running crap as soon as I land on a linked page?? Road rage over.
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2 possibilities: tariffs work, US business gets 30% price increase making it profitable. Tariffs not enough to make US business profitable at higher price, goods still imported at +30%. Both cases consumer pays 30% more. There isn't an alt reality where tariffs make US profitable without price hike.
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Lol. Yup, a 30% tax is great for the economy.
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The headline is wayyyyy more optimistic than the content of the article.
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The solution is for the US to become Canada's 4th territory. In the current climate there's no way it'd be accepted as a full province, but a status equivalent to Yukon might fly and get you universal health care. Ask Premier Trump to start the process.
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I use it to illustrate logic, not for the merit of the placeholders. Saying we do A so we *must* do B, is riddled with problems.
No one here has yet made a reasonable case to disregard the explicit agreements made by temporary workers. There is no negotiation involved, they already made the deal.
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People who agree to do a temporary job and return to their own country on completion, but instead demand to be made citizens and remain illegally, which is what this particular thread has been about.
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It is remarkable how being sufficiently crazy makes many sigh in relief when told they'll be paying a 30% tax.
I suspect if Trump said he was executing every 5th person to manage growth, let people whine about it for a few weeks, then said he'd agreed to kill only 1 in 10, everyone would cheer.
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Thank you for the tip.
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Non sequitur. I say people should make agreements in good faith and not cry foul when its terms are expected to be honoured. At best your group A is composed of people who willfully lied at the intended expense of group B.
Or are you saying don't punish killers because we're lenient to shoplifters.
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Well obviously they'll be the first to be replaced by code. They're just pre-testing for the full deployment, give 'em a break. 😄
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How does this make any sense in context at all? Explain yourself.
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They're supposed to be here for a few months. It is clearly defined as a "Temporary Work" program.
How does agreeing to come, harvest some tomatoes and on completion go home, translate to "they completed the citizenship process." All those waiting in the legitimate immigration line beg to differ.
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I'm not fooling anyone. You're the one who's hiding behind a fake identity, so who's fooling who?
Anyone who actually believes in the elimination of borders as a practical step is indeed a fool, so I guess you're being consistent.