The OQLF commissioned a survey to show that the majority of Quebecers, particularly young ones, think they're a waste of resources.
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Majority of Montrealers 'not bothered' by lack of French in stores, OQLF finds
Survey findings suggest Quebecers aged 18 to 34 are more flexible, showing a greater acceptance of bilingual or English interactions.Andy Riga (Montreal Gazette)
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Amazon Announces A New & Larger Smart Display with The Echo Show 21 & Upgraded Echo Show 15 | Cord Cutters News
Amazon today announced a significant expansion of its Echo Show lineup with the introduction of Echo Show 21, its largest smart display yet. The company also unveiled a refreshed Echo Show 15 with enhanced features and capabilities.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
Comcast Reportedly Plans to Get Rid of MSNBC, CNBC, USA & SyFy As It Spins Off Its Cable TV Channels | Cord Cutters News
Comcast is shaking up its media empire by spinning off a significant portion of its cable TV channels, including news giants MSNBC and CNBC, as well as entertainment networks like USA and Syfy.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
I did it, it's out!
This is a labour of love and fighting against my own self deprecation.
I've been told my whole life that I was tone deaf and a terrible singer.
I had to push myself real hard to start getting singing lessons at 39 years old, and publishing this song, knowing that it's not perfect.
I still hate the sound of my voice, and I know that I can do better, but I needed to let this go and move forward.
I see so much nastiness being flung about on my timeline about #blueSky being run by billionaire bastards/dicks/every insult in the book, that they support fascism, that they are turning a good product bad. You realize that for most people they just want a place to share cat pics and keep track of book releases, right? Like... do I need to explain that for the majority a social media is just a social media, nd they couldn't care less WHO runs it as long as the people they care about are on it? Sure, ideology is important but good god, looking from the outside in the fediverse really looks like a bunch of salty geeks arguing over semantics sometimes and that's a shame because it CAN be great. Maybe just a little more happy and a little less judgy. Can we do that?
Assassin’s Creed Shadows got a store page
"Experience an epic action-adventure story set in Feudal Japan! Become a shinobi assassin and legendary samurai as you explore a beautiful open world in a time of chaos. Switch between these two unlikely allies as you discover their common destiny and usher in a new era for Japan."
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#steam #gaming #videoGames #steamStorePage
Trying to figure out the marketing speak of things like "WD Elements" or "WD Passport" external USB hard drives.
Are they just hard drive I can reformat as I wish or is there some trick with the garbage software they ship with it. Strangely the "PC" version is cheaper than the "Mac" version. (I don't care either way, so less money is good)
I don't want to have to go through the return hassle if I get one.
So I have a bunch and there's all just straight up external disks.
There may be a difference in quality - speed, endurance, what have you.
It usually comes with software for backups but AFAIK there's nothing OS specific. Our designer at work used a non-Mac one for years.
@alpha1beta ok, that's what I wondering. cool.
yes I expect varying level of internal hard drive "quality" I have already a bunch of LaCie and WD accumulated over the years
Haven't had a WD fail on me yet. Got 21 spinning now, oldest from around 2018
However, rarely have I had a seagate not fail one me. Never had a LaCie - any good?
Oof. Sticking to WD then. I got .25PB at home at this point, all WD drives.
Funny enough, for SSDs and SD cards, its Sandisk I run from. WD Blacks have been wood, but Sandisk SD cards suck - I buy almost exclusively Samsung.
Elements used to be the plug in 3.5" drives but now there's a portable...not sure what's the diff. My Collection is mostly Type-C Passports which come with a C-C cable and detachable C to A adapter.
At a quick glance, Passports seem to have a longer warranty and higher speed.
WD Black is basically a passport in a tough case with the old MicroB connector (I have 2 of these)
Simple answer: Get a windows Passport Type C
Samsung Android Accessibility Framework 34.1.1 Highlights: Paid a Buck, I Sit in Front; Couldn't Pay,
When I posted my article about Samsung's accessibility framework after One UI 6.1 was released—a framework that continually improves—I ended the article withCiprian Dinca (Accessible Android)
St-Pierre Plamondon accuse QS d’être woke
Le chef péquiste Paul St-Pierre Plamondon estime que les déclarations controversées d’Haroun Bouazzi sont le reflet du « wokisme » de Québec solidaire, qui se sert depuis 10 ans de cette technique pour faire avancer son agenda.La Presse
il parle pas en Français cet ostie d'épais. WOKE c'est pas du Français!!!!!
(I love le Franglais, fuck the franco-fascists)
@driusan you are like a republican voter that vote against their own interest doing so.
Le PQ veut foutre dehors tous les anglos aussi.
The PQ want to throw out all the anglos too.
I really, really can’t say enough positive things about server-side Swift. I literally had no backend experience before this year, but I decided to write the entire backend for AltStore PAL in Swift and after some initial hiccups (*cough* URLSession *cough*) it’s been remarkably smooth sailing. Plus I can still use Xcode to develop everything & cross-compile for Linux!
If you’ve been wanting to experiment with server-side Swift, there’s really no better time to start swift.org/documentation/server…
Excited to announce our partnership with @openuk
Together, we’re working to support and promote open technologies and green digital future! 🎉 👏
Every time I have to deal with the libatspi C API, I want to bang my head repeatedly against the desk. The Python bindings around it moved from a "we're writing static bindings so might as well make them more idiomatic" to a big "let's fix the C API" layer, but nobody is fixing the C API because that would require breaking backward compatibility.
I'm not even going to touch the fact that it took more than 10 years to get the RPC interfaces to match the implementation…
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Welcome to the RB family, OpenAthena™ 🥳
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OpenAthena™ is a project that enables consumer and professional drones to identify precise locations based on their images.
After getting rid of some Umlaut in a file name, the code did not only compile – but resulted in a reproducible build. So the new release that shows up in about 2 hours from now will have the green shield up 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„OpenAthena™ for Android“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
OpenAthena™ lets common drones spot precise locationsIzzyOnDroid App Repo
These #InternationalStudents Wanted #Citizenship. #Canada Killed That Dream.
As Canada tries to staunch an overflow of temporary #immigration, tens of thousands of international students and recent grads may be forced to leave the country. Here are their stories.
"For example, I’m developing a device for newborn care that monitors infants’ body temperature, skin colour, eye colour, weight and heart rate, among other factors, to track their health, particularly during those critical first few weeks of life. It could save lives. Think of how many other students have ideas and skills we can’t even imagine yet.
That’s why it’s so disheartening to hear some Canadians talk about international students like we’re parasites. I pay about $12,000 per semester in tuition—far more than Quebec residents do. I have a campus job as a kitchen supervisor to cover my expenses, and I live in a small two-bedroom apartment with a roommate. People like me are not responsible for Canada’s problems. But we can help solve them, contributing to the country’s cultural diversity, its economy, its innovation and its growth. And by bridging gaps between nations, we help build a more inclusive society for everyone."
#CDNpoli #InternationalStudents #BaitAndSwitch #PostSecondaryEducation
is there a visual thing to learn, as a teen here, that actually writing "2.146". wouldn't provide?
It bothered me as a kid myself having to 'feel' analogue clocks, but I don't see interpreting the number in this way is any different to reading it from a screen in the first place?
- (weighted) push-ups (33%, 1 vote)
- renegade rows (66%, 2 votes)
I used to do a pull-push split but now I usually do two splits. My primary split is an upper- and lower-body split. I split arm and torso/back concentration on alternate upper-body days.
on leg day, I can only do 7 or so sufficiently hard exercises with the limited equipment I have so I don’t bother splitting.
So it’s three sets of exercises. Every upper-body day mixes pulling and pushing but every muscle group only hits 100% once every 3-4 days.
@gekitsu The reason I do this is partly because I don’t really have equipment to do a lot of push-based exercises. Our bed isn’t heavy; if I face away from my bed when I do a push exercise with resistance bands, I tend to drag the bed. No bench makes it hard to do presses with full motion.
Trying different variations of push-ups (elbows in/out, narrow/wide) seems my best bet for pushing right now (but I’m open to ideas!)
I'm happy to announce that I will be presenting about the #WebAlmanac for the December Boye & Co Member Call:
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Using the Web Almanac to Understand Trends with Mike Gifford
I will be talking about #CMS, #JavaScriptframeworks and of course #sustainability and #accessibility
10 December - Free with Registration
Today's Web Design Update: groups.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/… Subscribe info: d.umn.edu/itss/training/online… #Accessibility #A11y #WebDesign
Featuring @todd@a11y.info, @theaccessibilityguy, @TPGi, @ozewai, @ScopicEngineer, @codepo8, @medienbaecker, @shadeed9, @LFLegal, @heydon, @tbroyer, @jarango, @AlexDawsonUK, @InesAkrap, @mgifford, and more.
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Web Design References: News and info about web design and development. The site advocates accessibility, usability, web standards and many related topics.www.d.umn.edu
On the downside, though, every time the speaker is at louder volume (and this laptop has 4, so I assume it's the bottom-facing wufers causing this,) the inside of the trackpad make a slight raddle sound, sort of like the old BrailleNote classics did with their singular speakers raddling the Braille pins, you know? OK, you probably don't, but either way it's not pleasant. Placing my hand over the trackpad will stop the noise, and again it's very slight and only at louder volumes, but still. The downside to a haptic trackpad.
Hallo @Friendica Support ,
meine Instanz dica.interfel.de liefert seit vorhin Err 504 Gateway Time-out zurück.
Sie liegt bei Uberspace und der DNS-Eintrag funktioniert offenbar.
Die Datenbank scheint auch ok, ich habe gerade erfolgreich ein Backup davon erstellt.
Konsole und Performance auf der Konsole, Quota usw sind ok.
Die einzige Änderung der letzten Monate ist die Aktivierung des Addons Bluesky. Es lief bis gestern Abend sauber und hat drei Accounts von Bluesky in meine Timeline integriert. Mehr nicht.
Habe als erste Maßnahme gerade auf der Konsole versucht, das Addon zu deaktivieren, aber der entsprechende Befehl scheint das Addon nicht zu finden:
[... bin]$ console addon disable bluesky
[Error] Addon nicht gefunden
Der Befehl zum Auflisten aller aktiven Addons liefert auch nur eine leere Liste:
[... bin]$ ./console addon list enabled
+------+---------+
| Name | Enabled |
+------+---------+
| | |
+------+---------+
Gibt es irgendwelche Ideen dazu, was ich tun kann?
Ah, okay, danke Dir.
So funktioniert schon mal der 'disable bluesky'-Befehl - zumindest kommt keine Fehlermeldung.
./bin/console list enabled wirft allerdings die gesamte Liste aller Addons raus, obwohl ich nur einige wenige aktiviert habe.
Der '504' kommt immer noch. Es ist die Friendica 2024.06.
Kann ich über die Konsole irgendwie einen relevanten Status herausfinden?
./bin/console maintenance 1 bzw 0 funktioniert übrigens einwandfrei.
Kann ich das Protokoll (trotz "Ich hoffe...") manuell irgendwo einschalten?
Der Fehler ist behoben, aber das Konsolenkommando zum Einschalten des Friendica-Protokolls wäre bei Gelegenheit trotzdem von Interesse.
So für das Befehls-Archiv.
Fehler offenbar behoben :-)Habe aufgrund Deines Hinweises mal das PHP-Log von Uberspace aktiviert. Das dauerte sehr lange und hatte schon durchs Einschalten dutzende ERRORs im sehr langen Logfile.
Dann auf die PHP-Version auf 8.1 umgestellt und erneut das PHP-Log aktiviert. Drei Zeilen im Log und "ready to handle connections".Laut History war zuvor PHP 8.0 aktiviert und war wohl Ursache des Problems. Irgendetwas muss vergangene Nacht bei Uberspace verändert worden sein.
Die Instanz läuft nun wieder erwartungsgemäß und Deine Hilfe bei der Konsole hat mich auf die Spur gebracht.
Vielen vielen Dank dafür!
@SoNak @Michael Vogel gaaaz simpel 
bin/console config system debugging zeigt den aktuellen Wert der Einstellung an, 0 bedeutet kein logging, 1 bedeutet logging. Wenn du den gewünschten Wert als vierten Parameter übergibts änderst du die aktuelle Einstellung, also zum Aktivieren des Protokollierens bin/console config system debugging 1.
Fehler offenbar behoben 
Habe aufgrund Deines Hinweises mal das PHP-Log von Uberspace aktiviert. Das dauerte sehr lange und hatte schon durchs Einschalten dutzende ERRORs im sehr langen Logfile.
Dann auf die PHP-Version auf 8.1 umgestellt und erneut das PHP-Log aktiviert. Drei Zeilen im Log und "ready to handle connections".
Laut History war zuvor PHP 8.0 aktiviert und war wohl Ursache des Problems. Irgendetwas muss vergangene Nacht bei Uberspace verändert worden sein.
Die Instanz läuft nun wieder erwartungsgemäß und Deine Hilfe bei der Konsole hat mich auf die Spur gebracht.
Vielen vielen Dank dafür!
Das war zwar wirklich herumstochern im Nebel, aber oft reichen grobe Indizien, um ein Problem einzugrenzen. Von Beginn an war da das Gefühl, es liegt in der Infrastruktur begründet. Daher auch zunächst die Tests bezüglich DNS, Quota usw.
Es brauchte nur den passenden Funken - Logfiles. Ich arbeite einfach zu selten auf dieser Ebene, um von selbst darauf gekommen zu sein.
Zeit für den zweiten Versuch eines Liberapay-Kontos. Hatte bei einem früheren Versuch 2021 keine Einzahlung hinbekommen oder einfach das Prinzip nicht verstanden.
Do you know a business still using a #Gmail address? Tag them here!
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Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refers to this information as “keystroke dynamics” or “typing biometrics”.
Other modern “operator signatures” are easier to minimize. A user can learn to obfuscate writing style, or can use keyboard navigation with different pointing devices to limit fingerprinting of mouse behavior.
Keystroke biometrics are difficult to anonymize without installing software such as kloak or browser extensions (the latter of which may add fingerprintable vectors) designed to cloak some of your typing habits. Signature typos, approximate typing speed, etc. will still leak. Alternatively, we could normalize typing messages out in a simple offline editors that don’t store revision history before pasting them into other input fields.
Originally posted on seirdy.one: See Original (POSSE). #Privacy #Anonymity
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What a refreshing story! I imagine many of us here owe a great deal to @libreoffice a software suite that has freed us from the grip of the document monopoly, thus broken our dependency on the fate of a single company.
If you're curious about how LibreOffice became what it is today, I highly recommend watching this in your spare time: youtu.be/9M468Krlawo
#LibreOffice #FOSS #DocumentFreedom
LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #1 – Marketing Free Software
Italo Vignoli and Mike Saunders from The Document Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind LibreOffice, discuss marketing free and open source software...YouTube
Me and a few friends had a night on the absinthe once.
One thing we noticed was that it made us incredibly flatulent. Being the mature grownups we were at the time, we decided it'd be funny to let rip into jars, and seal them up.
Anyway, next day, in my jar, there was a tiny motorbike- a replica of the CRF1100L Africa Twin.
Unbelievably, this is a common occurrence, and all the bikes came from the same manufacturer.
Turns out that absinthe makes the fart grow Honda.
Hubert Figuière
in reply to Dave Mac Farlane • • •who knew?
#sarcasm