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Would you mind elaborating?

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Ha, I didn’t notice that in the thumbnail. Very interesting indeed, if it is a 22 degree halo!

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I’ll preface this by saying that this isn’t an argument in favor of the imperial system, nor is it an argument intending to detract from the usefulness of the metric system. But I have wondered if there is some merit to having a simple, colloquial, “human friendly” system of measurement — something that’s shown to be the best system for people to grok, and is the most convenient to use in day-to-day life. If you need precision, and well defined standards, then certainly use the metric system, but is the metric system easy for people to grok? Say you ask someone to estimate a length. Would they be more likely to accurately estimate the length using the metric system, the imperial system, or some other system? Likewise for telling someone a length and asking them to physically reproduce it. Would they be more likely to do so with the metric system, the imperial system, or some other? It’s an interesting problem, imo, and it doesn’t seem to get much attention.

It could very well be that people can, indeed, grok measurements the best when using the metric system, but I currently am unaware of any research that has been done to show that. If anyone is aware of any research that has looked into this, then please let me know! I’d be very interested to read it.

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While topically interesting, a lot of those graphs are either saying the same thing or are misinterpreting an exponential.

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Windows -> Ubuntu -> Arch Linux

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Without it being open source and not providing reproducible builds, the privacy claims are borderline weightless.

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Hm, I feel that it’s inaccurate to say “we wouldn’t be able to tell”. It’s not exactly a black box system — the app would have to run on an operating system, and if you are able to know what the operating system is doing, and what instructions are being executed by the CPU, then you can know exactly what the app is doing.

What the aforementioned bits of information provide is the ability to treat software as a black box and be sure of its safety without having to fundamentally audit it.

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For sure. What the aforementioned bits of information provide is the ability to be confident in the privacy of software if one were to treat it as a black box, ie an average consumer.

The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a Québec ruling that bars Canadians from suing the U.S. Government over it's involvement in Project MKUltra (www.cbc.ca)

“Supreme Court won’t hear appeal in Montreal MK-ULTRA brainwashing case”. The Canadian Press. 2024-05-30T16:39Z. CBC News (cbc.ca/…/mk-ultra-supreme-court-of-canada-class-a…)....

Hector Aubertin went on a cross-Canada roadtrip with his pet goat named Jimmy (www.cbc.ca)

Jimmy the goat was rejected by his mother, so Hector Aubertin stepped up and became his best friend […] “Everywhere we go, people are doing double takes,” Aubertin told As It Happens host Nil Köksal. “He’s probably had his picture taken easily 100 times.” […] “After the first week or so, we formed a bond. I...

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Nearly 90% of their servers are blocked to do common internet tasks .

Perhaps your browsing habits are severely impacted by Mullvad being blocked, but that doesn’t seem to be the universal case. I’ve had the occasional hiccup with a few sites that block VPNs (Mullvad’s IPs), but “90%” is quite an exaggeration when compared to my personal experience.

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Hm, it depends on the context. Any open source project, or fork thereof would be an independent isolated instance with it’s own practices — e.g. authoritarian, anarchist, democratic, etc.

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I won’t watch this clickbait

Are you referring the title here on Lemmy (ported from YouTube), or are you referring to any video, in general, that uses this practice? If it’s the latter, why punish the creator? The need for clickbait is more of an environmental requirement for success created by YouTube. I can’t fault a creator for trying to succeed.

forks who succeed the prior are exactly what we call democracy.

Hm. Democracy, by definition, is rule by the majority. A smaller fork gradually becoming larger and more successful than the prior, thereby eating up a larger chunk of the market, is really more of an example of competition. The larger fork doesn’t have any say over the smaller forks. It is somewhat of an analogy to democracy, perhaps, in that people “vote with their feet” by moving to the fork that they want to succeed, but it breaks down in that you don’t have one, or the other — both can exist in tandem.

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It’s direct democracy

Maybe some projects, but that certainly can’t be said for all open source projects. Also note that “open source” in “open source software” is simply the license that makes it so. This idea of governance is more of a project issue than a software distribution issue.

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Correct…? I’m not sure what your point is.

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Is that a bad thing? Why is it a problem that you, personally, haven’t heard the argument before?

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I like your idea of “natural selection” for OSS, but I’m not sure I understand the parallel that you are drawing between democracy and natural selection. Would you mind elaborating?

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I don’t click on clickbait i’m absolutely sure it’s misleading or wrong.

Well, if you didn’t click on it, then you can’t be sure ­— it’s just a presumption.

If someone has a valid point, tone it way down, i don’t expect anything serious out of it.

How do you mean?

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I’ll preface this by saying that, imo, these sorts of views are the complete wrong type of mindset to have for governing a region that is known for it’s diverse and beautiful natural features and ecosystems.

“What are we going to do if we have 30 per cent less food production?

This is a pretty weak argument considering that food production accounts for a very small portion of B.C.'s total land ­— specifically 4.9% of B.C. is within the ALR [source], so to say that 30% of that is going to be taken away seems like quite a stretch. On top of that, most food production in B.C. is in a relatively compact portion of B.C.'s southern regions [source].

What are we going to do if we’re going to have 30 per cent less forestry production?

Less than 0.3% of B.C.'s land is actively logged at any given time [source], on top of that, only 26% of B.C. land (42% of forests) is available for logging [source], so, again, to assume that it would cause B.C. to loose 30% of it’s logging production is a stretch.

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Democratic Gov. Tim Walz signed HF3782 into law last week, which prevents libraries from removing books “based solely on the viewpoint, content, message, idea, or opinion conveyed.” Instead, content curation will be managed by “a licensed library media specialist, an individual with a master’s degree in library sciences or library and information sciences, or a professional librarian or person with extensive library collection management experience."

This entirely depends if the libraries are publically run, or if they are private. If the library is private, then it should be allowed to curate what it wishes.

Side note, licensing someone for this purpose is quite hillarious — It’s not complicated to just not ban books…

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hey’re basically saying librarians shouldn’t be random political appointees.

Again, the ethics of this law heavily depends on if it applies to libraries which are publically or privately run.

They need to actually be librarians

It’s risky, imo, to define this through law.

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There’s no need to port the game. Just make sure that the Windows version is compatible with Wine/Proton.

EDIT: Nvm — at the end of the article, it states that it’s probable that part of the reason why the Linux version was cancelled was because proton already works well.

On the Linux side, it’s also not overly surprising given that we have Proton now which enables the game to run with a tick of box on Steam. I even showed it previously running really nicely on Steam Deck with Proton using the demo.

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Pedophile

Ephebophile*

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I think the distinction is important so as not to detract from what is arguably more horrible and worthy of condemnation — pedophilia.

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Out of curiosity, what content in the video do you specifically disagree with?

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I would argue that it’s due to people not making the distinction between the government policies that attract immigrants, and the immigrants themselves. The immigrants are simply pawns in the greater game, and they are therefore used as a scapegoat to detract from the government’s own failings.

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I see no citations in the video description and I’m not too interested in listening to their argument if they can’t provide those citations up front.

Yeah, I agree that this is annoying, but, to be fair to the video, there are citiations within the video itself in the bottom right corner. I have no proof if they are provided for every claim, however.

The only measure they seem to be appealing to in order to support their claim that “no one wants to live in Canada” is that Canada has lowered in happiness index.

Aha, I would be very hesitant to justify clickbait, but, that being said, did the creator refer to that thesis within the video itself (I’m not disagreeing with you, necessarily — I could simply have missed something in the video)? One other claim that may be in line with that thesis is at 12:38 when they mention that, each year, Canada loses 0.7% (in the video, they misquote this figure as 7%, but, to be fair, the document that they were citing wrote the value as “.7%” which, arguably, could be easily misread) of its population to brain drain.

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reflect on how bad you colonized and fucked up my continent

By “my continent”, I presume that you are referring to the idea that the indigenous peoples were the first ones to arrive in North America, and, by extension, you apply the first possession principle? Also, for clarity, what exactly does “my continent” refer to, in terms of lands?

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food prices are through the roof because we’re being robbed

Would you mind clarifying what you mean by this?

Higher education is unaffordable to anyone without wealthy parents

Based on what are you making this claim? The Canadian Government and the provincial governments provide loans and financial support to students, which should be able to cover all expenses for an average post secondary institution [source] [source]. Furthermore, the Canadian government provides extra support for Indigenous Peoples [source].

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It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Which problems that they mentioned do you think are global, and why?

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Is empty housing a prevelant problem across Canada? I was under the impression that it was really only a problem in Metro Vancouver. Furthermore, B.C. has a vacancy tax [source], which should capture the negative societal and economic impact generated by empty housing .

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Empty houses in the Metro Vancouver area have certinaly been an issue [source]. The B.C. Speculation and Vacancy Tax was implemented to discourage this behaviour [source]. Theoretically, it should also capture the negative impact that vacant housing has on society and the economy.

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My child will have to take out loans for like x10 that amount and it will destroy her future before it even begins.

It depends on where one goes — not all post secondary institutions charge the same amounts. Generally, the fancier/more reputable schools will charge the most. It is quite possible to complete undergrad in Canada for <30k CAD (not including living and transportation expenses). Also, keep in mind that inflation is innevitable — the Government of Canada targets an inflation rate of 2% per year [source].

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The original comment that I responded to was about inflation, food costs and housing costs.

Those are all global problems.

How would you argue that they are global problems? (please don’t interperet that as condescending, or accusatory — I am simply curious. It is hard to convey emotion through text)

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I would guess that it is extremely difficult to quantify how much of an effect the tax has had on the housing market. Anything beyond a guess, however, would be outside of my qualifications — I would defer to those who have looked into this more appropriately. After a very quick, and cursory websearch, I found a paper that stated the following:

From the empirical analysis of overall market, we cannot detect the significant effect of Speculation and Vacancy Tax on the price of housing property in Vancouver after the implementation. Only the parameters of GDP of real estate growth and unemployment rate are reexamined to be statistically significant. We could observe the decrease of housing price in Vancouver from the price chart after the tax policy entered into force. The decrease is also reflected by the negative coefficient of City*Time although it is not significant. […] Focusing on a specific region’s housing price, we still cannot detect that British Columbia’s Speculation and Vacancy Tax has significantly impact on the housing price of Vancouver West compared to Toronto Central. All the other factors mentioned by other researches are not statistically significant neither. [source (archive)]

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I think I may have misinterpereted your argument. When you said

It seems most the problems you’re talking about are global problems though.

Where do you think you’ll have a better quality of life? [source]

were you arguing that most countries have the same problems as Canada, so to immigrate elswhere would be futile? I was under the presumption that you were arguing that Canada can’t do anything to fix it’s issues, and that it would instead require some global collaborative effort.

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So what were we talking about before you started trying to derail this conversation with endless questions?

Is that rhetorical? I don’t understand the purpose of your seemingly condescending question.

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The title is certainly classic clickbait — disingenuous and sensationalist. It also doesn’t really match the content of the video, imo.

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Why do you constantly ask questions without adding anything to the conversation?

That’s a loaded question; I disagree with the premise — I feel that I have provided useful information and context. You, however, have not provided anything but seemingly non-constructive and condescending content for your past 3 comments [1][2][3] in this thread.

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That was a very informative and interesting read. Thank you for sharing!

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I agree with the general sentiment, but I don’t believe that it’s right to wish harm upon them.

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Thinkpad T460.

I'm looking for a task time tracking app (android, and/or desktop Linux)

I’m trying to keep a log of the time that I spend doing specific tasks throughout the day. Currently, the way that I am doing this is by constantly running a stopwatch and filling out a spreadsheet for the day — when a task is completed, I lap the stopwatch and add the task and the time spent on that task in a row in the...

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I appreciate the inclusion of a CLI program! Personally, I am looking for something with a UI.

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I’ve been using this for the past day, and it is a great app! It seems to cover exactly what I’m looking for, and it’s a pretty well designed app. Thank you for the recommendation!

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