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www.theglobeandmail.com 3y ago

Canadian judge says thumbs-up emoji amounts to contract acceptance

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www.theglobeandmail.com 5y ago

Shopify confirms significant investment in payment processor Stripe

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www.theguardian.com 5y ago

Forrest Fenn Has Died

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status.sendgrid.com 5y ago

Major Incident at SendGrid

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www.cira.ca 6y ago

Canadian Shield Malware Protection (DNS Filtering from the CIRA)

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www.trucknews.com 6y ago

Nikola Motor Claims New Battery Has 2X Range, Half the Cost of Lithium-Ion

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www.scmp.com 7y ago

China's Beidou (a GPS competitor) launches, a year ahead of schedule

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www.thestar.com 8y ago

How Google Almost Destroyed the Zagat Restaurant Guide

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www.cbc.ca 8y ago

Blackberry Sues Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

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globalnews.ca 8y ago

Electronic roadwork signs “hacked” in Ontario

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mjtsai.com 8y ago

Amazon Revokes Delicious Library API Access

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www.wired.com 9y ago

Retiree Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality, Posts It Online as a Word Doc

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www.theglobeandmail.com 9y ago

Interview with U. of Toronto professor and counterespionage hacker Ron Deibert

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www.cra-arc.gc.ca 9y ago

The Canada Revenue Agency Fixed Their Mysterious “Internet Vulnerability”

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www.nbcbayarea.com 10y ago

95-year Old Shipwreck of the Ituna Discovered Off San Francisco

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www.theglobeandmail.com 10y ago

How a Charity Fundraiser in Nova Scotia Became a Months-Long Weekly Party

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news.nationalpost.com 10y ago

‘I’m Stalin’s daughter’

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theconversation.com 10y ago

9,000-year-old case of ritualistic beheading may be oldest in Americas

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today.duke.edu 11y ago

Centuries-Old Shipwreck Discovered Off the North Carolina Coast

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Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence:

Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. [https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/government-me...]

Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on. Twitter also has a "publicly-funded media" label which, in spirit, is probably more applicable, but the way the definition has been written, (I suspect it was written exclusively for the BBC), it doesn't apply to the CBC:

Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.

Twitter should remove "may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content" from the government-funded media label and call it a day.

A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.

I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that's a thing.

My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic location, and maybe even a second provider, tomorrow.

(My servers aren't in SBG either - phew!)

Seems pretty big, I can't log in to my account and it seems like no email is being sent.

Hopefully this isn't another Garmin.

I would think so too, (that batteries may not have enough energy).

On the other hand, it looks like some are about to be used in New Jersey: https://www.government-fleet.com/10122076/jersey-city-to-rec...

I guess when it comes down to it a fuel tank only holds so much energy, and if we think we can replace a fuel tank with batteries on another kind of truck with an acceptable loss in range, then maybe we can do the same on a garbage truck. They were burning diesel to run the compactor before, so it may not be much difference.

Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.

I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!

New MacBook Air 6 years ago

PhpStorm = Big, Java-based IDE. It's not some simple text editor.

PHP Dev often means some sort of local server running too.

This is very misleading reporting. ... Slightly less than one-fifth were employed before but unemployed during the pilot (17%)

From the article:

The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income.

While they didn't say "83% of people kept working" saying "nearly three quarters" is much easier to read. The article under-reports the number of people who kept working, if anything.

Edit: formatting.

Calibre 4.0 7 years ago

Thought you were on Kobo for some reason. Might be worth grabbing a cheap one as a Pocket + Overdrive device, it's a pretty great combo ;)

Calibre 4.0 7 years ago

On your Kobo go to Hamburger Menu > Settings > Accounts, then do what it asks to sign in to Pocket.

Once that's done you get a "My Articles" option in the hamburger menu, and that's your Pocket content.

Excellent, thanks!

I Google Translated the federal law, and it seems to be mostly about how leases are dealt with. I also did some Googling and found what I think is the garden in the article, although there seems to be a few gardens in Wedding. They're big compared to what we have here in Montreal.

Thanks for the link. I may be able to convince someone to translate if Google isn't good enough.

If that page is the whole set of laws then it's really not so many rules as the article makes out - our rules in Montreal are probably just as long. I'm going to see if I can cherry-pick the best parts for my little corner of Montreal.

Does anyone know where I can get an English copy of Berlin's Bundeskleingartengesetz?

I manage a community garden in Montreal and love the idea of BBQ and beers in the evening, but the city, (who owns the land), is not ok with drinking at the garden, (or cooking, in general).