I'm going to need to see a reenactment or video before I believe this.
"No, in fact Tolkien said the exact opposite. Jews are based on dwarves."
See how that works when you don't actually provide a source? To be honest, I have no idea if Tolkien based the races of Middle Earth on human peoples, and would've liked to learn if he did. But instead of actually teaching me something, I'm left here with intellectual blue balls, so thank you for a wonderful start to Locktober.
We just got the Canadian Future Party, and even though I'm pretty left leaning (both financially and socially), it gives me some faith for conservatives here.
It works okay for a while, but eventually it loses the plot. The storylines are usually pretty generic and washed out.
Arguably Ghostbusters (1984) is prior art for throwing a capsule and capturing 🤣
Edit: they even had a video game with the ghost trap.
I run Gentoo as my main distro, and have for a couple years now. It's a pretty stable rolling release (IMO more stable than Arch), and since you're already an advanced user, the experience should be pretty rewarding!
The wiki is great, and the installation handbook is top notch.
You get to control exactly what features each package is compiled with, so no bloat at all.
KDE 6 just landed too!
That's a ridiculous rationale. If the Lemmy developers actually cared about the integrity of users' posts, they wouldn't have released software without support for cryptographic signing.
Maybe confused with xz: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3094 ?
Bah, real power users only need a magnet and a pin.
Linux is whatever the Linux Mark Institute says it is.
You don't need reproducible builds. You can get by if you trust whoever compiled it, like your distro's maintainers or the pidgin developers.
The risk of mis-ordering your layers is a security issue.
There are two ways to layer a VPN and tor:
- Tor over VPN; or
- VPN over Tor.
In the first option, you gain little. Tor already encrypts your traffic, so your ISP can't see inside them. Technically, Tor over a VPN hides the fact that you're using Tor from your ISP, but Tor's snowflake does something similar if you need that.
In the second option, you're revealing your VPN account information, which could theoretically be associated back to you. Tor adds nothing over just a VPN in this case.
Anyone running Pathfinder Society (or other tabletop RPGs?)
Hey Ottawa! Bit of a long shot, but does anyone here know of a Pathfinder Society playgroup in town? I'd love to find one to join. Thanks!
Mk3s+ fails part way through detailed prints
Hey !prusa, maybe you can help me. I have a self-assembled Mk3s+ that I put together about a year ago, but never really used because of the following problem.
If I print on draft quality, it makes it through most prints. I've printed a dozen cubes, several brackets, and some other odds and ends.
If I try to print on higher detail settings, however, it behaves very strangely. Most often it'll just hang, and keep oozing out more plastic. Once in a while, the steppers will keep turning and ram the bed or print head against the ends of their tracks.
I've tried updating and downgrading the firmware, different SD cards, etc. to no avail. Support hasn't been much help either.
Any ideas?
2 dead, 6 injured in shooting at Ottawa wedding reception
Ottawa police are investigating a Saturday night shooting at a wedding reception that left two Toronto men dead and injured six others.
2 dead, 6 injured in shooting at Ottawa wedding reception
Ottawa police are investigating a Saturday night shooting at a wedding reception that left two Toronto men dead and injured six others.
Education minister believes “parents must be fully involved” if their child chooses to use a different pronoun at school
Ontario’s education minister said he believes “parents must be fully involved” if their child chooses to use a different pronoun at school.
Ontario’s education minister said he believes “parents must be fully involved” if their child chooses to use a different pronoun at school.
The comments were made at a news conference on Monday morning, where Stephen Lecce was outlining the changes students and parents can expect at Ontario schools come September.
They also come as Saskatchewan adopts a new gender and pronoun policy, joining New Brunswick in legislating parental consent for students under the age of 16 who want to change their given names and/or pronouns at school.
“I think we understand though that parents must be fully involved and fully aware of what's happening in the life of their children,” Lecce said.
“I mean, often there are health implications, and I think we have to respect the rights of parents and recognize that these can be life-changing decisions, and I think parents want to be involved so that they can support their kids. And I think that's a really important principle that we must uphold.
Lecce prefaced this by saying that schools should be safe for all children. He noted that teachers and school boards take home environments into account “where there are exceptional circumstances” or “situations of potential harm to the child.”
“Educators are well versed on exactly what to do and who to turn to if they believe that child may be harmed for whatever reason, or whatever circumstance,” he said.
“But as I say, as an overarching value system, I really do believe that parents need to be fully aware, fully engaged. And school boards need to be transparent with parents. I mean, they are the legal guardians. They love their kids. They want to be aware of what's happening in the life of their children in their schools.”
The minister would not say if this were something his government would legislate, saying only that this was the “province’s position on the matter.”
A new poll by Angus Reid released Monday, which surveyed 3,016 Canadian adults online, suggests that about 43 per cent of Canadians believe parents should both be informed and give consent if a child wants to change how they are identified within a school setting.
In Ontario, 43 per cent of survey respondents said parents must both be informed and give consent of an identity change, while 34 per cent said parents should simply be informed.
About 16 per cent of respondents said it should solely be up to the child.
The Toronto District School Board currently has a policy that protects the privacy of transgender and gender non-conforming students, recognizing that some children may not be open about their identity at home.
It notes that a school “should never disclose a student’s gender non-conformity or transgender status to the student’s parent(s)/guardian(s)/caregiver(s) without the student’s explicit prior consent.”
“This is true regardless of the age of the student.”
The policy says that school staff should consult the student as to how to identify them when communicating with their guardian.
School boards in Saskatchewan have asked the province to pause its gender and pronoun policy in order to allow for a “complete review and report” prior to implementation, arguing it could have safety risks and could violate charter rights.
As of last week, the Saskatchewan government has not backtracked on its position.