TIL that Canadian ReserVec predated SABRE as the first computerised airline reservation system.

Canada first, but last.

Similarly Avro Canada C102 was the second jetliner to every fly, years before Boeing's. Sadly was cancelled due to other priorities.

BTW Sud-Aviation Caravelle and Tupolev Tu-104 where in service before Boeing's. But after the DeHavilland Comet, which was grounded quickly.

Anti feature of streaming service: not being able to mark something as watched/unwatched. Why would I do this?

1. sometime shitty UI make you start an episode that you didn't ask to watch
2. often there are bugs where the app doesn't remember you watched.

And they all want us to believe AI is accurate.

Also if the Government think an Air Canada strike is so disruptive, maybe they should (get the Competition Bureau to) investigate whether Air Canada dominant position on the market has a negative effect.

My guess? Crickets. See the recent CRTC policy decision in the telecartel.

#cdnpoli

I hate Air Canada as a corporation. They are one of the worst airlines I have flown with. Short of Swiss Air and Ryan Air.

But I am in total solidarity of their workers that want to be paid for the job they are doing.

The actions of the Government in legislating them back to work but not legislating that all worked hours must be paid is a direct afront to worker.

The same affront that the "capital gain inclusion rate" make labour income more taxed than lazy income (trust fund).

#cdnpoli

Stock buy back is legal in Canada?

Maybe there could be legislation for that. Because Air Canada can't pay for the worked hours of they crews but have 500M for stock buy back?

youtu.be/LBq3d1MNmBk

YouTubers and podcasters who regularly do that will easily be able to recognize themselves :')

When Podcasts Platform Terrible People

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^YouTube

Other arrangements could be made for Air Canada customers, this was an unnecessary move by the federal government.

"The Liberals are violating our Charter rights to take job action and give Air Canada exactly what they want -- hours and hours of unpaid labour from underpaid flight attendants, while the company pulls in sky-high profits and extraordinary executive compensation,” said CUPE Air Canada Component president Wesley Lesosky in the release."

#Women #AirCanada #Union
#Canada

ctvnews.ca/business/article/ai…

BREAKING: Jobs minister orders Air Canada flight attendants back to work

Air Canada flight attendants have officially begun their strike after failing to reach a deal with the airline, the Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Saturday morning.

^{CTVNews.ca Staff (CTVNews)}

*baseball pitch windup*

What if

the "don't ever comment in code thing"

is mostly functioning as a strategic defense inside of a field with a climate that's so chilly that every disclosure of your thinking to anyone else just becomes a psychological attack vector

and people just have to come up with "it magically makes your code better to do this" explanations to justify it

*sprints away*

Kiddo: why do you put the full year with "20" at the front when you sign the school forms?

Me: thousand-yard Y2K stare

Remember in 4 years, Democrats didn't manage to:

1. make Roe v Wade enshrined into law (they had a cumulative 24 years to do it)
2. Get rid of DeJoy from the USPS
3. Actually have DoJ handle the insurrection (Korean did it, didn't they?)

And then all the previous terms (20 prior to Biden, since Nixon)

To kind of summarize some of the recent #Bluesky drama. Yesterday Bluesky changed their Terms of Service to require binding arbitration. Users are unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go. Today, Bluesky banned a user for wishing ill of J.K. Rowling for her anti-trans hate. Users are very unhappy, but there's nothing they can do about it because Bluesky is not decentralized and there is no place they can go.

Get it?

Note to self: be more thoughtful when sharing stuff on linkedin and mentioning specific organisations - a person from said organisation told me that my last post about their organisation sharing very badly protected documents via e-mail made it to their internal meetings (it's a large financial institution) 😅

(Badly protected means 5 characters long password for a zip file, which takes roughly 30 seconds to crack)

There is a reason why it's a 12-pack and not a 15 pack. Because 15 is only multiple of 3 and 5. While is multple of 2, 3, 4, 6.

This after I put the last single can after bring them out in pairs for day drinking.

Re Air Canada, this is not hard folks. If you work, you should get paid.

I stand w the flight attendants.

#AirCanada #unions

All Modern Digital infrastructure ...

A #Meme for #Developer

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