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A nuclear reactor in the Alberta Oil sands would take care of a large amount of the CO2 produced in the production of crude.

The article praises the UI, but isn't Windows 2000 using the Windows 95/98 UI with a different kernel?

I live in Alberta. No rats here. Also the ticks here don't spread Lyme disease.

The new TPS reports!

Do you mean the ICRC?

I think you'll need to look at the constitution of Canada (section 35) and the legally-binding treaties that have been signed with indigenous Canadians. There's no "tribal" territory. It's all treaty territory.

Albertan here. I want to remain in Canada. I will leave Alberta if it separates.

This is being driven by a vocal conspiracy-minded maple-MAGA base that got our current premiere her job.

A majority of Albertans are against any talk of separation.

I spend summers in Central Portugal after enduring the winter of Canada's North. Sometimes my Canadian friends want to spend a couple of days in Portugal and ask me what's for a good place to visit, or a good attraction to go to, etc. I always answer the same:

I have no idea. I don't go as a tourist. I go to live in my family's home town for 6 or 7 weeks and not think about work. I don't have any recommendations for a checklist. I avoid the touristy places if I can.

I then turn it around on them. If someone was visiting Canada for 2 or 3 days, where do you tell them to go? I dunno.

This is why rats are illegal in Alberta. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_control_in_Alberta

My understanding is that when Elections Alberta shares the voter list with legit users (ie: sitting members of the legislature), it includes unique fictitious entries in the data. That way if there is a leak of the data, they can trace the source of the leak. Which they apparently have done.

I guess it's a form of a canary trap.

It reminds me of mapmakers including fake towns or other features in their maps, in case someone leaked them.

Coming to Canada soon, though in a limited way:

https://nationalpost.com/news/massive-risk-chinese-evs-are-t...

Hopefully this means competition with the other EV manufacturers in Canada too.

Archive link: https://archive.is/k4Pxr

I'm Backblaze user -- multiple machines, multiple accounts. I'm going to be dropping Backblaze over this change, that I'm only learning about from this thread.

Any suggestions for alternatives?

I didn't know about Webminal until today. Going to try it with some college students this afternoon!

Base model M4 Mac Mini -- takes 2 seconds to load Word (and ready to type) without it being cached. Less than 1 second if I quit it completely, and launch again, which I assume is because it's cached in RAM.

Neither are earthworms.

That could explain one accidental shootdown. It cannot conceivably explain three.

If you read the article, you'd know most of the information came from Bellingcat and ABC.

I think it means that the entire site, including the school and several other buildings, were all hit at the sae time:

Wes Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the US Air Force, also confirmed it was a Tomahawk missile.

Bryant added that the evidence for multiple strikes on the entire IRGC compound "is indicative of a deliberate and precise" US operation.

N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, previously told BBC Verify it was unlikely an Iranian missile had caused the significant blast damage seen at the school because they carry "relatively small explosive warheads".

You didn't read the link, did you? This is addressed in the article.

Why are they using Discord instead of Teams? Is this an internal Microsoft group? They don't dogfood?

I'm with you. Low-tech works just fine. I hate the idea of having to depend on a working phone just to pay for things.

But isn't the promise of Apple Pay that you never expose your real credit card # to the merchant? So they can't track you? I know Walmart in Canada really resisted Apple Pay for a few years because it would mean no more ability to track people by their payment methods.

It was big on TikTok a few months ago, which makes sense that it's on Instagram now.

AirTag itself doesn't have GPS, of course. It depends on the devices that communicate with the AirTag having precise location. IF you have a phone in Russia, are your maps apps off by 50km these days?

And those poor people are objectively poorer because of Brexit. But as long as there's fewer foreigners coming in, then they're happy?

I take suspicious student papers and feed them to Turnitin, as well as the popular LLMs. Hey ChatGTP, give me a report on the likelihood that this paper was generated by an LLM. Do that with Gemini, Claude, etc.

Then if there's a high probability, I look through the references in the paper. Do they say what the student attributes to them?

Finally, if I still think it's AI-generated, I have the student in and ask questions about the paper. "You said this here in this paragraph -- what do you mean by that?"

AI detectors are a first-pass, but I think a human really needs to be in the loop to evaluate whether it's cheating, or just using something to clean up grammar and spelling.

No, he's saying that the area is international waters because Finland and Estonia agreed it was not either's territorial waters. It doesn't have to be international waters.

Is it whatboutism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

At this point, isn't Tesla another example of Chinese companies taking a product and making a better, cheaper version?

A lot of Chinese EVs are much better and cheaper than the Cybertruck.

Doesn't reddit block VPNs as well?