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Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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  • Adam Bighill retires as a Blue Bomber

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  • Classy. Hope he helps lead the next generation :)

  • Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.4% in March, driven by high gas prices | CBC News

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  • Considering how crazy fuel prices are, I'm surprised this isn't higher actually.

  • Opinion: The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty

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  • Time to start lobbying within your industry I guess :)

  • How we’re tunnelling under the Red River for a critical sewer pipe repair | City of Winnipeg

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  • Something from the airport to the river going on right now too.

  • Yet another global warming feedback loop discovered.

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  • Thanks for the concise quote :)

  • How we’re tunnelling under the Red River for a critical sewer pipe repair | City of Winnipeg

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  • City getting into a lot of tunnelling recently. I like.

  • 2026-04-10

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  • Cheese grater. Sorry for your insomnia.

  • Whose future?

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  • What is the top one?

  • Opinion: The U.S. isn’t happy about Canada’s quest for digital sovereignty

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  • Our small business just bought a server and installed NextCloud on it. We're doing our part.

    There's a killswitch scenario where a malicious US executive order shut off our civilization by banning Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon from serving Canada. Almost every business would be immediately hamstrung and the economy would collapse in a week. This is too fucking dangerous.

  • Why is the Canadian Dollar crap for international travel?

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  • Exchange rates vary. Cost of living varies. Purchasing power parity varies. Travel one year, and it's cheap, and the next it's expensive. Pick destinations accordingly.

    (I recommend Chile).

  • Some reach it quicker than others

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  • And something about potatoes

  • Saskatoon @lemmy.ca
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    Bare it, don’t pair it: Saskatchewan’s weird strip‑and‑sip rule has a little-known loophole

    www.ctvnews.ca /saskatoon/article/bare-it-dont-pair-it-saskatchewans-weird-stripandsip-rule-has-a-little-known-loophole/
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    RESULTS: Fedecan 2025 Instance Census

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  • Damn, are you me?

  • Euro-Office: European industry initiative launches office suite

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  • If they're the copyright holder, they are allowed to use any license they want. Including a modified AGPL. It's up to the users to understand what license they're getting the software under. In this case, it is a modified-AGPL.

    This is like Qt when they used the modified GPL (Qt 2-3 era, before they went full LGPL). Qt was the copyright holder and can issue under terms they decide. Then it is up to the users to decide if those terms are acceptable. KDE decided these terms were acceptable, but some other users did not.

    However, if a user decided to ignore the additional clauses in Qt and treat it as unmodified GPL, they would have been in violation of the license. Because Qt was the the copyright holder and can dictate terms. Qt would have won the court case. It never happened, so it wasn't tested, and that's ancient history now.

    But here OnlyOffice is in the same boat. They can dictate the terms, and a court can decide if a user is in adherence of those terms. There's no part of copyright law that OnlyOffice is violating here.

    What will be up for legal debate is whether EuroOffice is willfully and maliciously violating it, or if they just interpreted differently. If the latter, then there will be a great deal of legalese. The real question will be: the AGPL as amended by OnlyOffice -- does it permit forking, and are forks subject to the same modified clauses.

    I suspect OnlyOffice wins this one if it actually goes to court. Which will be super annoying from an end user perspective.

  • Euro-Office: European industry initiative launches office suite

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  • The problem with this is that OnlyOffice owns the copyright and used attribution agreements from any contributions. Meaning, as owners of the copyright, they are allowed to set the license. So if they applied the AGPL wrong, they aren't violating anyone else's copyright. If OnlyOffice has used someone else's AGPL code and then added these impossible restrictions, then I would agree.

  • Euro-Office: European industry initiative launches office suite

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  • OnlyOffice and OpenOffice are two different things. One is originally Russian, the other is not.

  • Artemis II astronauts rocket towards the moon after breaking free of Earth’s orbit

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  • Technically correct. But it is still a departure burn into another sphere of influence. So you can forgive the quibble. There's nothing else massive enough in Earth's orbit to do a free return trajectory around. Or an orbital insertion burn into. And technically lunar orbit is still an earth orbit, but no one would ever use the word that way when in a lunar orbit.

    But, yeah, technically ;)

  • Artemis II astronaut finds two Outlook instances running on computers, call on Houston to fix Microsoft anomaly — puzzled caller describes ‘two Outlooks, and neither one of those are working’

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  • Linux is as buggy as you want it to be. If you're using Gentoo or Arch in production (and aren't Valve) and are recompiling kernels cause you read a tomshardware article about a scheduler... Then yeah 😀

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • Cannot say. Saying, I would know. Do not know, so cannot say.

  • Euro-Office: European industry initiative launches office suite

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  • The legal battle between euro office and onlyoffice is interesting. I actually hope it goes to european courts. I suspect onlyoffice will win this one, but then everyone will abandon their code.

    Simultaneously TDF and collabora are having a spat.

    Interesting things afoot in the FOSS hosted office ecosystem. Prediction: a third option emerges -- clean room rewrite (maybe this is a good thing).

  • MapleResistance @lemmy.ca
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    SPECIAL REPORT - Your Neighbour Canada Has Changed And You're Not Going to Like What is Happening

    americanpulse.substack.com /p/special-report-your-neighbour-canada
  • pics @lemmy.world
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    OC

    Dodecahedron in coffee cup

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Through a train window in Toronto

  • Manitoba @lemmy.ca
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    Manitoba bill would ban suppliers from keeping repair parts private | WFP

    www.winnipegfreepress.com /business/2026/03/11/manitoba-bill-would-ban-suppliers-from-keeping-repair-parts-private
  • Music @lemmy.world
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    ROSALÍA - Berghain (Live at The BRIT Awards 2026) ft. Björk

  • Winnipeg @lemmy.ca
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    Caution Wet Floor

  • Programming @beehaw.org
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    Addressing AI-slop in security reports · apache/logging-log4j2 · Discussion #4052

    github.com /apache/logging-log4j2/discussions/4052
  • Geophysics @lemmy.ca
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    ABEM TerrameterLS2 cable isolation test failure

  • Winnipeg @lemmy.ca
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    Frosty barbs

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Frosty barbs

  • Politics @beehaw.org
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    As we return to a pre-WW2 order, the middle powers face a challenge

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c99kkerr93ko
  • CanadaPolitics @lemmy.ca
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    Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum

  • MapleResistance @lemmy.ca
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    Canada must stand up to Donald Trump — or there will be no one to stand up for Canada | The Star (Opinion)

    www.thestar.com /opinion/contributors/canada-must-stand-up-to-donald-trump-or-there-will-be-no-one-to-stand/article_f282a4f8-aae3-4d88-9f2d-16c9897b7494.html
  • MapleResistance @lemmy.ca
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    It Can't Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | Project Gutenberg

    gutenberg.net.au /ebooks03/0301001h.html
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    Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada

    www.theglobeandmail.com /opinion/article-we-need-to-prepare-for-the-possibility-that-the-us-uses-military/
  • MapleResistance @lemmy.ca
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    Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case | TheBeaverton

    www.thebeaverton.com /2026/01/mark-carney-turns-off-geolocation-on-phone-just-in-case/
  • Winnipeg @lemmy.ca
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    Winnipeg’s Top 5 Best New Food Spots — As Voted By You

    www.winnipegsun.com /top_5/winnipeg-s-top-5-best-new-food-spots-as-voted-by-you/article_ec3eb304-a296-4214-8502-a72248fa3591.html
  • Winnipeg @lemmy.ca
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    Winnipeg: where am I?