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observantTrapezium

@ observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

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  • You can force parliament to pass one piece of legislation right now. What do you make them pass?

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  • Proportional representation without question

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    A developer in our team sent me a full presentation without using a slides tool.

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  • I'll check out sli.dev, I've been using Reveal.js for years now and highly recommend, I love how hugely customizable that is, but one issue for perfectionists is that it's relatively hard to perfectly convert to a PDF, these days I use DeckTape that does a decent job. I used to be one of those nerds that used LaTeX (Beamer) but fell out of love with it.

  • Looking for expenses splitting software

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  • Some time ago I tried Abrechnung and it was quite good actually.

  • What's up with Ontario and the Fords?

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  • Not answering the question of why these bozos get voted on, but one would be remiss not to mention our dumb and unfair first-past-the-post electoral system.

  • When to switch to network storage

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  • When you run out of local storage...

    If you have a single node, external USB storage is 100% fine. Even if you have more machines, if you don't actually need a massive amount of storage, you can share that external drive as NFS.

  • "Vote for me, you filthy poors!"

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  • My boss's mom was on the MS St. Louis, and came to Canada eventually many decades later.

    And my phone bill is CA$19/month in the most populous city in the country (Public Mobile, I think I have 1 GB a month that I never get remotely close to using up, unlimited calls and texts). I know that by international standards $19 should get me more than 1 GB, but just putting things in perspective.

  • Do Canadians actually consider joining the EU?

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  • I would love closer ties, even very close like customs union and freedom of movement. Also personally I'm not attached to the Canadian dollar, and if it made economic sense to replace it with the Euro I wouldn't mind.

    I'm not sure what a "European Republic" would entail. I assume that means that a lot more issues will come under the responsibility of EU institutions such as the EP, as opposed to local governments. Canada is big enough as it is, and people often complain (rightfully or not) about bad decisions made in far-away Ottawa. I think Canadians won't like to delegate a significant chunk of our sovereignty to Brussels.

    And anyway as you pointed out the EU is far from perfect. What bothers me the most is the frequent need for unanimity and the ability of small countries like Hungary to block fairly routine decisions about spending. In Canada unanimous consent is required only to depose the King or something like that.

  • Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing.

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  • That's a shitpost

  • Which one is more annoying: leftover bread or leftover cheese?

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  • Rarely happens, I freeze bread and consume cheese fast enough. But bread would be more annoying, I can make breadcrumbs but I don't use that too often (so that will have to go to the freezer too)

  • I can't wait for BYD and it's technology to come to Canada.

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  • I can't wait for public transit to suck less in Canada.

  • Quebec is the most anti-Elon Musk province in Canada

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  • I just love it that we complete for who is more anti-Musk now 😂

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    Idea for experiment: mail to fediverse?

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  • Sounds doable, will need a bit of scripting, but I don't really get the use case.

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  • Arch on desktop since 2020, RH-flavoured on servers.

    Used Kubuntu from 2012ish to 2020, distro-hopped in the decade before that.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Americanisms in Canadian comedy

  • Typing into the abyss - need a service

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  • The fundamental difference between GPG encryption and encrypted partition is that of asymmetric vs. symmetric encryption. Whether you mount encrypted storage or decrypt a file with GPG, there's some "effort" in putting in the passphrase and in both cases the system's keyring is briefly aware of it and the plaintext is saved to memory (volatile, unless you have encrypted swap or other edge cases).

    Asymmetric encryption is not normally used for personal stuff but mostly to exchange material with one party holding the private key, and other having access to the public key (which is public). Of course you can act as both parties if you like. If you do, keep in mind:

    1. Asymmetric encryption algorithms may be vulnerable to quantum computing attacks in the coming years. There are quantum-resistant algorithms, but to my understanding they are not necessarily quantum-proof and could potentially be broken in the more distant future.
    2. If you do choose to use GPG, make sure that the plaintext never touches the disk, for example save it to /dev/shm before encryption.
    3. You can also protect your private key with a passphrase.

    Personally I use Joplin. On the clients it's secure because the database is saved on encrypted storage secured by my login phrase. On the server it's secure by Joplin encrypting the files saved to WebDAV storage. Is it 100% safe? Probably not, but probably good enough to stop all but a nation-state level actor.

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    Caldav/carddav/webdav recommendations?

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  • I use Baïkal for card and cal and Apache for webDAV, they provide all the features I need and were easy enough to set up, never tried alternatives.

  • GrapheneOS Foundation Never To Require ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS

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  • I wonder how many countries' laws every Linux distribution violates by existing (e.g. North Korea, Turkmenistan) but these bozos at Arch Linux 32 don't proactively block.

  • GrapheneOS Foundation Never To Require ID or Other PII To Use GrapheneOS

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  • That is the way. I just don't understand open source projects that have no ties to regions where these dumb regulations exist blocking users from said region. Why is it your problem? If California (for example) wants to block your website, let it be their problem.

  • LibreWolf @lemmy.ml
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    YSK that LibreWolf creates persistent connections to Mozilla

  • Be aware that ALL samsung phones can't be degoogled anymore. Do not ever buy samsung again if you hope to make calls.

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  • Sorry man, I feel for you.

  • We can just do the adult check thing the usual way.

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  • Akahually at my work we used a third party authentication PAM module that uses the gecos field for username mapping.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    I fixed a leak with Babybel cheese

  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Life, uh, finds a way in the wetlands

    www.theguardian.com /world/2025/oct/09/toronto-waterfront-soil-plants-worms
  • Personal Finance Canada @lemmy.ca
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    RRSP contribution before March go to previous tax year, right?

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    Time to double down on the metric system

    www.cbc.ca /player/play/video/9.6694195
  • Ontario @lemmy.ca
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    Split voting and spoiler candidates in Ontario 2025

  • Fairvote Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Split voting and spoiler candidates in Ontario 2025

  • Fairvote Canada @lemmy.ca
    observantTrapezium @lemmy.ca

    Mike Schreiner says the right thing when forced to

  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Tunnels under University Avenue?

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    'Star Trek' now a Canadian enterprise. What made it so?

    toronto.citynews.ca /2025/01/03/star-trek-now-a-canadian-enterprise-what-made-it-so/
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that Inuvik, NWT is the largest town in Canada whose antipodal point lies within Antarctica

  • [Migrated, see pinned post] Casual Conversation @lemm.ee
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    I re-discovered a video library on an old laptop

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
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    Floor-to-ceiling vertical blinds

  • Personal Finance Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Question about interest calculation (mortgage)

  • Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website
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    Shatner's "do over" of the Veridian III death scene on Kimmel

  • C++ @programming.dev
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    Anybody at CppNorth this week?