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BuoyantCitrus

@ BuoyantCitrus @lemmy.ca

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  • Blueberries aren't my favorite either but they're healthy and I've come to really enjoy a blueberry smoothie/slush if it's a third frozen pineapple and I use some pomegranate juice as part of the liquid.

    I think part of why the combination works is the acidity, blueberry needs a bit of a boost in the tanginess department. Probably why blueberry + lemon is a common pairing in pastry.

    Hadn't noticed a texture issue, you might benefit from a more powerful blender to more completely annihilate them

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  • Don't pilots need to keep up their skills by getting in flight hours? So perhaps this expense is somewhat offset by fewer practice flights?

  • Cost of living drives 3 in 4 Canadians to skip eating out, report shows

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  • Why can't both be true? Inequality is increasing and one tech/finance/etc. person expensing delivery near daily offsets quite a few people who might have put in an order every month or two and can no longer afford the luxury.

  • Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

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  • So I suppose I'd have no hope of finding a therapist where notes are local-only on airgapped (eg. no nic, never online) devices and remote sessions, if offered, are over Signal?

  • Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty

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  • I suspect US tariffs have more of an effect on Canadians than we realise

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  • I'm not talking about the overall price of coffee, that's merely what caused me to think about the tariff affecting us via intermediaries thanks to Subtext's unusual level of transparency in disclosing it. I would have assumed tariffs wouldn't apply and found it interesting that, while sorta true in theory, in reality it may not be practical for small scale shipments. This roaster buys direct much of the time also, you can try their stuff without supporting Americans.

  • I suspect US tariffs have more of an effect on Canadians than we realise

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  • This is from my favourite small roaster in my Canadian city. They're one of the only ones that give this kind of detail, almost all others I would have had no idea any Americans were involved in the process and might have bought these without realising as you undoubtedly buy from Canadian businesses with some US suppliers. Which is why I figured it might be an interesting topic for a post.

  • I suspect US tariffs have more of an effect on Canadians than we realise

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  • Sure, and this is a Canadian company roasting Ethiopian beans (as far as I know we don't grow coffee). There are many things we don't make here and even for those we do the supply chain likely intersects with the US.

    Another example this had me thinking about is close to your goals: a Canadian baker making bread from Canadian wheat might use a mixer or an oven or whatever as part of that where the only way to get parts is from a US distributor because it's too niche a thing to have a Canadian presence.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    I suspect US tariffs have more of an effect on Canadians than we realise

  • When will online identity verification affect me?

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  • I would be astonished if VPNs were allowed to continue if they actually succeed in identity-gating everything. eg. that's next. Best we can do is keep talking about it, help people understand what's happening.

  • When will online identity verification affect me?

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  • Canada's version is currently hanging out in the Senate: https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-209

    Here's some background and detailed analysis about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJe3gB2Po4https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/herewegoagain/

    And yeah C-2 is also bad. As you point out, these sorts of things are often coordinated and some of that is at least documented in the form of treaties. That was really not made clear in the case of C-2 but it very much is:

    Given significant democratic, public interest, and human rights implications of Canada’s potential agreement to a data-sharing framework with foreign authorities in the United States and/or elsewhere, it is surprising that the federal government is now quietly introducing the powers necessary to ratify the 2AP, without making this intent explicit to the broader public when it introduced Bill C-2.

    https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/

  • Server access from China

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  • they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS

    Whoa. Anywhere to read more about this? Had not been paying close attention, didn't realise that was so starkly the case.

  • Looking for an affordable way to file a T2 led me to native Linux tax software for Canadians, "myTaxExpress". Are there others?

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  • Thanks for chiming in because that's exactly my situation so reassuring to know it won't be a huge compromise. Where'd you run across it? I felt compelled to post because if it wasn't for the change in T2 requirement I probably would have gone another five years without realising there's a Linux option now.

  • Personal Finance Canada @lemmy.ca
    BuoyantCitrus @lemmy.ca

    Looking for an affordable way to file a T2 led me to native Linux tax software for Canadians, "myTaxExpress". Are there others?

  • Canada should build public cloud infrastructure rather than relying on U.S. tech giants

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  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    An RCMP officer and a retired Vancouver cop say not even police are safe from high-tech spyware

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/rcmp-spyware-mcnamara-merrifield-1.7500360

  • Ontario: TODAY IS ELECTION DAY

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  • Ontario: TODAY IS ELECTION DAY

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  • https://results.elections.on.ca/en/graphics-charts has a chart at the bottom for "Historical Voter Turnout". It goes back to 1866. What I see in this is that giving up so hard on our democracy that you don't engage with it in the simplest way is a pretty recent thing:

    1929 set a new all-time low of 57% that didn't get beat until we hit 52% in 2007. And we've been lowering the bar since then:

    2011, the next election hit a new low of 48%.

    2014 at 51% wasn't much better, in 2018 we at least got 57% to tie the record low that held since 1929.

    And last time in 2022 it was 44% and we talked about it a lot. Because that was depressing af. I really hope enough of them heard so we never lower the bar beyond that. And hopefully we can start getting it above 57% on the regular like we managed to do for 78 years.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Look at your boxes, Uline is not only American but the wrong kind of Republican

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Canadian government ends Meta advertising ban, launches up to $100K GST break ad buy

    www.ctvnews.ca /politics/article/canadian-government-ends-meta-advertising-ban-launches-up-to-100k-gst-break-ad-buy/

  • We Are Now Being Extorted

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  • neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,

    the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense

    ...WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia's inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be "self defense", that's absurd.

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

    How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It's not. It's abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    We Are Now Being Extorted

    thetyee.ca /Analysis/2025/02/05/We-Are-Now-Being-Extorted/

  • The Republican-controlled US government has decided to impose a 25% tax on American imports of goods from Canada

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  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    The Republican-controlled US government has decided to impose a 25% tax on American imports of goods from Canada

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  • Microsoft Recall screenshots credit cards and Social Security numbers, even with the "sensitive information" filter enabled

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  • The new version of Recall is now opt-in rather than opt-out – I got prompted to enable Recall immediately after installing the Insider Build.

    This seems to be the important bit, hopefully it stays opt in.

  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Stop Pretending Toronto is More Than It Is

    mishaglouberman.substack.com /p/stop-pretending-toronto-is-more-than
  • Thunderbird @lemmy.world
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    Backing up my Thunderbird profile to back up my email

  • PixelFed: A free and ethical photo sharing platform. @lemmy.ml
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    WebP on pixelfed.social

  • Debian operating system @lemmy.ml
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    Can we have an alias for bind mounts on the rescue image? Or maybe we do?

  • Mechanical Keyboards @lemmy.ml
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    I like using my rotary encoder to prune tabs, what do you do with yours?

  • LinuxHardware @programming.dev
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    Best PCIE wifi/bt for Linux at the moment

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca
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    Should I renew my liberapay donations?

  • Android @lemmy.ml
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    Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates

  • Android @lemdro.id
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    Better understanding and mitigating the risks of using a phone that no longer receives system updates

  • Personal Finance Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Equal weight S&P 500 for US exposure

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    A key part of Canada's Internet was just sold to Japanese telco KDDI

    money.tmx.com /quote/AP.UN/news/6622298329971614/Allied_to_Sell_UDC_Portfolio_to_KDDI_Corporation_for_135_Billion