Dr. Mark Roper, a family doctor and the Director of the Queen Elizabeth Family Medicine Group says his clinic has lost two full-time physicians amid concerns over the legislation, even as the CAQ government delays implementation and signals it will revisit some of its most controversial provisions ahead of its February 28th deadline.

montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/0… #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli #cdnpoli #polcan

Q&A: Bill 2 uncertainty leaves Quebec clinic short two doctors

Quebec’s wide-ranging overhaul of the health-care system under Bill 2 continues to ripple through the province, with some clinics reconsidering closures even as others warn the uncertainty is already taking a toll. Dr.

^{Lola Kalder (CityNews Montreal)}

What are some technological examples (preferably from the somewhat recent past) of things that used to be available, and were then replaced by something strictly worse in at least one important aspect? I'm not talking about situations where users have decided to move on (you can still use Windows XP if you want), or cases that are due to a business decision of a single entity.

A few examples that come to mind are:

* Basically everything about air travel, supersonic, hassle-free / no security, standing room.

* Extremely high-quality telephony, which used to be available on analog lines, was left behind during the move to digital, and then came back somewhat with the advent of the internet.

* Low-latency communications, both one-to-one (telephony) and one-to-many (radio / TV). Same story with analog -> digital, except the internet is even worse on that score than the older digital protocols were.

* Extremely long-range mobile telephones (as far as I understand, analog and some GSM variants offered ranges far longer than achievable on LTE).

* Telephone directories, and the concept of just being able to contact basically anybody you'd like.

* WHois (being able to see the owners of any website on the internet, thanks GDPR).

* Short and unbreakable digital signatures (ECDSA still works, but only until a sufficiently powerful quantum computer is build).

* Being able to make as many copies of your credit card as you wanted (doable with MagStripe).

* Media distributed in physical form and watchable offline.

* Websites that worked with old and underpowered processors. Javascript isn't the main blocker here, forcing TLS on everybody is.

* Radio scanning and Wardriving (still a thing to some extend, but a lot of stuff is encrypted nowadays, so not as useful).

* Being able to receive radio stations from a great distance (many AM stations are no longer on AM, particularly outside the US).

* Remote work and remote in general (much more prevalent during the pandemic than now).

* Access to many substances, E.G. cocaine was once used as an anaesthetic, now you go to prison if you use it, basically no matter where you live.

* X-Ray machines everywhere, they used to be E.G. in shoe stores. That was before we knew how dangerous they were.

* Prevalent and cheap (unlicensed) doctors, though sometimes of dubious quality. Now outlawed in most countries.

* Passport-free travel across borders.

Are there any others?

"Why is the government posting on a deepfake child porn site?"

That's the question to ask them, journalist friends.

Für den nächsten #Diday möchte ich gern #Mastodon und auch #Pixelfed vorstellen. Dazu habe ich unter
pix.freiraumzittau.de/qbi
einen Account angelegt.

Wer von euch ist bei Pixelfed bzw. welche Accounts könnt ihr empfehlen?

#followerpower

Friends, do not visit the United States unless you absolutely must, and even then consider alternatives.

This is not a safe nation.

Amis parisiens, suite aux grands froids dans la capitale, un centre d'hébergement d'urgence a été ouvert dans la crèche Frédéric Mistral dans le 15e arrondissement (10 villa Frédéric Mistral).

Si vous êtes voisins et que vous pouvez donner un peu de nourriture ou que vous tenez un commerce alimentaire et que vous avez des invendus, n'hésitez pas à passer, c'est ouvert 24h/24.

Il y a aussi d'autres centres peut-être près de chez vous, n'hésitez pas à aller demander s'ils ont besoin de choses.

Me: I was given the Leslie Nielsen Award at school.

Them: What’s that?

Me: It’s a big building where they teach children, but that’s not important right now.

Recently, the application of AI tools to Erdos problems passed a milestone: an Erdos problem (#728 erdosproblems.com/728) was solved more or less autonomously by AI (after some feedback from an initial attempt), in the spirit of the problem (as reconstructed by the Erdos problem website community), with the result (to the best of our knowledge) not replicated in existing literature (although similar results proven by similar methods were located).

This is a demonstration of the genuine increase in capability of these tools in recent months, and is largely consistent with other recent demonstrations of AI using existing methods to resolve Erdos problems, although in most previous cases a solution to these problems was later located in the literature, as discussed in mathstodon.xyz/deck/@tao/11578… . This particular case was unusual in that the problem as stated by Erdos was misformulated, with a reconstruction of the problem in the intended spirit only obtained in the last few months, which helps explain the lack of prior literature on the problem. However, I would like to talk here about another aspect of the story which I find more interesting than the solution itself, which is the emerging AI-powered capability to rapidly write and rewrite expositions of the solution. (1/5)

One of the hardest things about being an immigrant is I don’t know what to do with ‘rugged individualism’.

I am considered one of the most ‘westernized’ and ‘independent’ people in the society I come from (people think it’s too much.. moving to a whole other country? Too independent) but

Even I really struggle with some of the daily manifestations of hyper individualism that surrounds me.

A friend had just visited a developed Asian country and wondered why it wasn’t full of homeless people. I said well it’s probably that Asian homelessness looks different, but there’s probably an element of.. you don’t want to be the person who people say let your second cousin die and starve on the streets. The social shame, I tried to explain. Also, if it’s a warm or religious place, they have food.

I felt it was very similar to what I saw my parents grasping with when they visited me. On BART, kids were making loud sounds. My parents glared at them. Nothing happened. They were confused. I had to explain to them that.. there is just no social shame. Glaring at them doesn’t mean anything, they just think you’re weirdos. It isn’t anyone’s business that they’re making loud sounds.

So while I think there are pros to some community consciousness, I also think the people who want to sell a vision of ‘collectivist societies are better’ are also failing to account for the patriarchal bs that comes with it. We take care of our elderly because we are shamed by it, but it is largely the mothers and grandmothers doing the work.

But what I’ll never, ever get used to is this: the idea that in some places, poor people, sick people, elderly people, deserve to be cast aside and deserve no help. That’s a level of cruelty I do not wish to understand.

RE: infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11…

As Tagartt says, do not share health data with these eejits, or any private company.

Your health is a matter for you and your practitioner, who has a duty of care.

These cunts will sell your data at the drop of a hat to any and everyone.

Taggart

2026-01-07 19:12:12

Don't, uh

Don't use this. Don't let your family or friends use it. If you see it in your neighborhood, bang pots and pans, whistle, and scare it off.

help.openai.com/en/articles/20…

Don't, uh

Don't use this. Don't let your family or friends use it. If you see it in your neighborhood, bang pots and pans, whistle, and scare it off.

help.openai.com/en/articles/20…

I’m sorry to ask, but at what point is it warranted to boycott US products and services? I realize this is effectively impossible, but is it not something to prepare for? I mean, when Putin started to invade Ukraine we did that, right? Multinationals pulled out of Russia?

Asking for a friend.

How do we come back from this? Do we even?

Also, does anyone genuinely believe that the solution to the problem of an out-of-control fascist police state is to hand that police state over to its other primary architect, then show up every 2-4 years when that same group of architects says "vote for us or else?" If someone pulled that shit in a relationship we'd call it abusive. In America we call it politics. Yay enlightenment, or something.

Ahoj, tady Tlapka! 👋🐾 😃

Poslední dobou jsem hledala nějakou mikroblogovací platformu, kde se můžu kreativně (především textově) "vyřádit" o čemkoliv, co mě zrovna napadne a kde se na mě zároveň nebude hrnout kupa reklam a algoritmem vybraných příspěvků. No a vzpomněla jsem si na Mastodon, který jsem kdysi objevila. 😉

Vybrala jsem si tedy právě Mastodon pro svůj profil, kde bych ráda sdílela své myšlenky a názory na různá témata. Chci ho tvořit pod svoji přezdívkou, neboť jsem vyrůstala v době, kdy bylo běžnější na internetu vystupovat pod přezdívkou, než pod reálným jménem - a mě se to tak líbí víc. 😊 A komu se to nelíbí, ať mi klobouk políbí. 🧙😁

Chcete-li o mně něco vědět, přečtěte si popisek mého profilu, případně nějaké mé další příspěvky. Většina toho, co dělám, se dá shrnout pod pojem "digitální tvorba". 💻

Pokud se vám moje tvorba líbí, klidně můj profil sledujte nebo se třeba zapojte do (prosím slušné) diskuze o tématech, budu ráda. 😇

V roce 2025 se v AI kodovani ujal "deep modules" (simple interface, complex functionality) jako zasadni pattern. V podstate cele Unreleased je takhle napsane.

Rok 2026 ukaze, jak je to udrzitelne. Kod v modulech je v podstate "write once, edit never". Kdyz je neco potreba, cele se to prepisuje. A API kazdeho modulu hlidaji agenti, aby se pouzivalo a neduplikovala se funkcionalita.

Rikate si, ze takovy AI agentni system poroste exponencialne?

Ano.

Bude to zabava.

#ai #agents #claude

In all the time I've had my Zoom H5 Studio, I've really never given it a good SPL tolerance test. So, today, I went out to the nearby train tracks, and recorded two trains, both with the includec X/Y microphones, and a pair of Micboosters Clippy Pro.
The Clippy Pros lived up to their name, and the recording I got from them was basically unusable distorted bad. Next time, I'll try turning the pads on the inputs and see if it's the mics or the recorder that didn't like things.

Anyway, here's one of the two trains I managed to capture. This one is fast and short. I didn't use any processing, but I did ride the gain a little bit to make it a little easier to deal with the wide dynamic range. If anyone wants the raw, let me know.

For best affect, play it loud through something with lots of range.

Every day I see some horrifying thing (today it's ICE killing someone in Minneapolis) and then I have to look at my work computer like "okay let's review this cute little design here" like nothing is happening.

Sometimes the routine comforts me. Other times, it feels absurd and painful.

Totally normal HN poster about LLM running on a raspberry pi

> We're approaching the point where we could have sophisticated sound controlled sex toys.