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Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
  • Hahaha I saw the parent commentor of that chain notorious for getting into back and forth arguments, sometimes reasonable sometimes not, and I thought to myself, this is going to be fun. Then I recognized the username of that other .ml user as a known troll and I was like, yep now this is going to go way off the rails.

  • Inside the Company Helping America’s Biggest Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments
  • The short jump from EviCore to EvilCore is really a bit on the nose, isn't it?

    Anyways but middlemen and insurance companies cutting costs and raking in profits, with healthcare practitioners and patients suffering are the hallmarks of the American Healthcare system.

  • The Death of the Junior Developer
  • The bad firms are going to lay off most or all of their juniors, hire AI leash-holders or something and do fine to code everything their hearts dream of, but at some point (5-10 years my estimate) enough of the seniors have left and shit hits the fan in a way where AI models can't save the company from its own creations.

    The thing that ChatGPT doesn't have (at least right now) is the ability to tell management to piss off. I assure everyone that this is what the recipe for disaster for many firms will be, if any.

    The smarter firms will have a keep a sizable contingent of juniors, who will work with help from LLMs, but have seniors teach them to have a bullshit detector in their industry.

    Or, we start up all the coal power plants to keep the ever-hungry AI chatbots alive so humanity is fucked in the end anyway.

  • *Permanently Deleted*
  • Don't use my Reddit account anymore, and now I obsessively check and contribute to discussion on Lemmy instead of Reddit.

    As a search result, sure I'd click on a Reddit link once in a while, but other than that I've stopped interacting with Reddit altogether.

  • Plant-Based University Catering Would Slash Costs And Emissions, New Report Finds
  • Seems not bad, a lot of vegan and vegetarian food options with catering I've occasionaly sampled have gotten comparably tasty, too. I'm not a compulsive meat-eater but I'm not on any strictly plant based diets either. We've long known that water and energy inputs for plants are an order of magnitude less than meat for the same output.

  • 20/10/2024 Polls
  • It's just sorted by the percentage of NDP vote descending from left to right. Greens in the conservative area mean that NDP doesn't have as significant of a vote share there, whereas near the centre it is a closer race between greens and NDP. Sorting by Conservative support will show Greens and NDP as one bloc.

  • Harris leads Trump 2-1 among the earliest voters, many driven by abortion access: new poll
  • Winning, losing, whatever, GO AND VOTE!

    A Canadian provincial (state equivalent) election just happened and a number of races have a margin of difference under 200 votes. And though the polls were reasonably correct overall there were several upsets that were more than 10% off from polling like my riding. Campaigning makes a difference.

    Get every eligible voter who is sick of Trump to go and cast their ballot. Get every man, woman and person you know out to protect American uteruses, American democracy, American freedom.

  • I bought a larger internal SSD for my laptop. How would I go about transferrring the data?
  • If you're feeling risky, dd can do everything you want to but it can also fuck everything up if you make a mistake (so can ignoring warnings on gui programs). So triple check everything (the if= and of= portions in particular) before you run any dd command. Launch a live distribution off a CD or USB to use a disk image maker or dd, don't make images of the operating system disk while it's being used for best results. A couple sample methods:

    • make an image of the entire smaller disk, place it on a third storage disk
    • restore the image from the third disk to the destination disk you want
    • then resize the partitions or add new ones on the second disk using Gparted for the remaining storage space.

    The quicker but riskier method is to directly clone the first disk to the second larger disk, then adjusting the second disk using Gparted to add or expand partitions.

    Either way it will copy everything from the old disk including windows and root partitions.

  • Airport introduces time limit on hugs
  • Pearson Airport is still like that at the dropoffs and arrivals areas... luckily there is a cell phone waiting lot now where you can hang out until you know your buddy is at the pickup area.

  • Every vote matters
  • I don't know how many last minute mail in ballots there are, but any mail ins received after Wednesday is still not counted. For some of these races it could possibly make a difference.

  • Doug Ford’s Terrible Plan for Cycling in Toronto - Oh the Urbanity!

    Just put it on the side streets - Doug Ford's gaslighting compromise might work in some cities like Montreal and Vancouver but aren't well suited for Toronto and its suburbs.

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    Tim Walz: Radically Nice | The Daily Showography (YouTube)

    People think vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is nice. But is he... too nice? From his dangerously folksy upbringing, to the National Guard, to teaching America's future enemies in China, Tim Walz's "nice" act isn't fooling anyone. This is the Dailyshowography of Tim Walz.

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    Steamed Hams but Skinner doesn't realize the roast is ruined

    Mmmm. Roasted ham.

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    United States | News & Politics @midwest.social Rentlar @lemmy.ca

    25and.Me - Summaries of ramifications of implementing the Republican agenda

    25and.me 25and.me: How Does Project 2025 Affect Me?

    See how Donald Trump's Project 2025 will affect the things YOU care about

    25and.me: How Does Project 2025 Affect Me?

    This is a site that has summarized and cited points from the Project2025 document (with assistance from Google's Gemini AI algorithm along with manual fact-checking) categorized by topic.

    If you want a concise and accessible set of reasons on why a Trump/Republican presidency would be bad for the US, to help explain important issues to friends and family without sounding like a conspiracy theorist or a political savant, this resource may help.

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    Rail reform is go, says Britain’s transport secretary - IRJ

    Shadow Great British Railways created as legislation to end private operating contracts makes progress.

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    Canadian e-petition to Stop Killing Games Reminder (collection closing soon)

    Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

    Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

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    Le gouvernement du Canada lance une consultation sur le droit à la réparation en vue de mieux répondre aux besoins des consommateurs

    www.canada.ca Le gouvernement du Canada lance une consultation sur le droit à la réparation en vue de mieux répondre aux besoins des consommateurs - Canada.ca

    Les Canadiens s’attendent à juste titre à ce que leurs achats, qu’il s’agisse d’une laveuse, d’une sécheuse ou d’un téléphone, demeurent en état de fonctionnement pendant des années. C’est pourquoi le gouvernement du Canada s’est engagé à faciliter la réparation des électroménagers et appareils élec...

    L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

    >Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

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    Government of Canada launches consultation on right to repair to better meet Canadian consumers’ needs

    www.canada.ca Government of Canada launches consultation on right to repair to better meet Canadian consumers’ needs - Canada.ca

    Canadians rightfully expect that their purchases, from phones to washers and dryers, work well and last for years, and that’s why the Government of Canada is committed to improving Canadians’ ability to repair home appliances and consumer electronics. Every generation should be able to repair their ...

    I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

    >Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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    How long it takes 200 people to reach the front of the line with 5 modes of transport

    mastodon.social Cragsand :catjam: (@[email protected])

    Attached: 1 video :AngeryCat: :KEKW: #traffic #meme #UrbanPlanning #trains #trams #PublicTransportation #transportation #WarOnCars #InducedDemand #TrafficJam #buslanes

    Cragsand :catjam: (@cragsand@mastodon.social)

    Video shared from a Mastodon user.

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    Clipboard Copy Paste History Function I Accidentally Encountered with Fcitx

    Some Lemmy user at one point had asked about a "multi-paste" feature, if there was a way to use keyboard shortcuts to display multiple clipboard items and copy/paste them out at will (this user mentioned similar to RTS games they like to play). If someone can find that post, can you notify them and direct them here, please? I'm having trouble locating it but I recollect that it was within the last 3 months. Edit: I found the post!

    Somehow this was stuck in my mind when I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut, that showed my last 5 copied items. This isn't exactly what the user was looking for but I thought I'd publicize it here.

    If you use Fcitx (because you need multi-language input) from the fcitx5 packages, then you may already have installed the clipboard add-on. You can use fcitx with just one keyboard layout. By default, it's activated by Ctrl+semicolon and shows the 5 last entries, but the number can be configured.

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    Canada Rail Lockout - Federal government sends rail dispute to binding arbitration

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27490241

    > CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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    Canada Rail Lockout - Federal labour minister to deliver update on rail shutdown

    CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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    US Pentagon Planning an Extended Drone Lightshow Festival To Entertain Taiwanese Populace

    https://www.wired.com/story/china-taiwan-pentagon-drone-hellscape/

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    Train Simulator "Take The A-Train 9" to release construction pack, new edition in November 2024

    railf.jp 【PR】 「A列車で行こう」の新作を11月に発売|鉄道ニュース|2024年7月25日掲載|鉄道ファン・railf.jp

    アートディンクでは,Windows専用ソフト「A列車で行こう9 トレインコンストラクション」を2024(令和6)年11月21日(木)に発売

    【PR】 「A列車で行こう」の新作を11月に発売|鉄道ニュース|2024年7月25日掲載|鉄道ファン・railf.jp

    The edition is called: "Take The A Train 9 Version 5.0 Final Edition Complete Pack DX+"

    !

    Train Construction Pack Steam Page

    Unfortunately, the ridiculously titled combo pack's Steam page appears to be region locked to Japan, the DVD version is also Japan/Japanese only.

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    Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app

    Crosspost from: https://lemmy.world/post/18724475

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    Van City

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    Vancouver City Council Bus Lane Motion - Passed with amendments

    The motion was shared here earlier:

    https://lemmy.ca/post/25243197

    There were 35 speakers in support, 1 speaker in opposition. The amendment and motion were supported unanimously by councillors. There were hundreds of comments received, largely in support.

    The 49th Avenue, 41st Avenue, 4th Avenue, Granville Street, and Hastings Street corridors were talked about most. The amendment added Granville Street to the list of corridors of focus, and inclusion of TransLink's report for city staff reference. Another important point was the request for automated buslane enforcement.

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    What Project 2025 Means for Our Cities - CityNerd

    Chapter 19 of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 edition of Mandate for Leadership (Direct PDF link) is full of policies that would be terrible for the US.

    Highlights:

    • Replace national transportation infrastructure projects with a flat transportation subsidy formula to each state (most of whose DoTs don't know how to do anything with money other than build highways)
    • Stop funding mass transit, give public funds to Rideshare companies like Uber/lyft instead.
    • Preserve single family home zoning at all costs. Each state and city knows what is best for their people, better than the federal government, except when states and cities do something that conservatives don't like.
    • Screw California in particular.
    • Trying to reduce the number of traffic fatalities is bad if anyone dare suggests that we have to drive a little bit slower.
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    Gastown Alley

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24849600

    > Taken at Vancouver, BC in June 2024

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    Gastown Alley

    Taken at Vancouver, BC in June 2024

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