assaultpotato @ assaultpotato @sh.itjust.works

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I'm messaging Facebook users over Matrix via the bridge.

That is fair.

IBT Media introduced a number of bad practices to the once reputable magazine and mainly focused on clickbait headlines over quality journalism. Its current relationship with IBT Media is unclear, and Newsweek's quality has not returned to its status prior to the 2013 purchase. Many editors have noted that there are several exceptions to this standard, so consensus is to evaluate Newsweek content on a case-by-case basis.

Lines up with the "nothingburger' headline. Probably case-by-case is appropriate. Thanks for showing me that!

For the record I can't comment on this specific article - it may be a nothingburger. I just think Newsweek itself is not inherently problematic.

Are you thinking of NewsMax or whatever? Newsweek AFAIK is a run-of-the-mill average news source - no NYT but certainly not NY Post.

Water, that "great big tap in Canada"

I can try to write some stuff up, it's not super complex. Core requirement for my setup is Docker + a domain. I recommend Linux host but you can make Docker Desktop work.

Let me write some stuff down this week.

I'm running a Matrix server with a FB Messenger bridge via mautrix-meta and that makes it a clear winner. Half my group chats have migrated entirely since I've set my close friends up with accounts in my server and they also use the bridge. The fact that people can slowly migrate chats without losing messages or groups is killer for adoption imo.

Ah that's true, good point. Got a bit carried away.

We still aren't paid for the rest of our NORAD hosting though, nor the highways we have to maintain to Alaska, nor...

Not so sure - yes don't feed the trolls but we can't just let them control the narrative. When Elon starts posting made-up polls on Twitter showing Canadians want to join the US, we need to have started the precedent already that that is a lie. I say, don't give up any space for free.

You don't pay us for NORAD dipshit. We've been trying for years and the US won't pay up. We host your nukes, your early detection warning systems, for FREE.

Parasite.

Yea I'm gonna do zfs or something when I get set up properly again. I've got 2 16TB HDDs and Storage Spaces won't let me pull a drive out :v

I think I'm gonna have to make a new Storage Space and slowly grow that one and shrink the other as I basically shift the extra storage budget between the two until the data is on just one of my drives without redundancy, and then I'll pull that drive, dual boot Ubuntu or something, format, get everything prepared, and then mount, copy, start services, and then go back and kill the old storage spaces and then never run Windows for anything meaningful again.

I need to migrate off Docker Desktop for Windows and Storage Spaces but I fear the process will be difficult due to my data volume and the stupidity of Windows. I should never have gone Windows, but I wanted to use Steam Big Picture off the media PC and didn't want to deal with getting that functional on Linux.

But Docker Desktop for Windows keeps crashing WSL and bricking the network devices randomly, and also continuously grows memory consumption until the machine reboots. Piece of shit.

First Panama. Then Greenland. Then us.

We must speak up now before there is no one to speak for us.

Agreed. This is very contingent on the follow through, but it also makes sense. There's two scenarios:

1. This helps him win the election or get a minority government. He immediately puts in a functionally equivalent replacement. Move worked.
2. He loses the election and we get a Conservative majority. They would have immediately repealed the Carbon Tax, so it's irrelevant.

Let's see how it plays out.

Before we get all doomer up in here (generally fair), I genuinely believe this is a smart play and exactly in line with Carneys stated plan. Carney does believe in the carbon tax as both a way to put money in most Canadians pockets and to reduce our emissions. He has said fullstop that the Carbon Tax was effective and good. He has said he wants to "cancel the carbon tax and replace it with a consumption pricing model" - which is effectively just rebranding the Carbon Tax. And he said so directly, that the carbon tax is effective but has become too political and is an unwinnable battle politically, but the core function should be maintained. Based on his public history I do believe he's an environmentalist, so I do trust he'll follow through with a replacement.

I think this is smart politically because the Carbon Tax and proximity to Trudeau is essentially PP's only play. In one shot Carney takes away the last of PP's cards, which may be enough to cement a lead for the coming election.

Admittedly this all hinges on him actually getting a replacement in, but based on his history of public statements for the past few years, I do believe he will. If he doesn't, feel free to come back next year or whatever and yell at me. For now, I'm huffing my hoping here.

At 42%? Not really.

After a certain point the US will start to riot and burn again like it did near the end of his other term, and then it will matter.

I... somewhat agree. Job postings are currently at a local minimum, and if you're intermediate/junior it is pretty rough out there.

But postings are still around 2021 levels overall, which while not amazing, still have jobs available. I got a couple of decent-but-not-amazing offers last year.

Really the biggest trend I've noticed is that real seniors are genuinely impossible to find/hire. Hiring has become a spamfest. Companies use LLMs to poorly filter resumes. Candidates use LLMs to shoddily write resumes and cover letters. Filtering through this to find the actual senior vs. the guy who worked at FAANG for 3 years and got a staff title for it is virtually impossible. Getting your resume seen through the cruft is also impossible, so many great candidates never make it into the process in any meaningful way. As soon as we get into an interview, it's been incredibly obvious who the good candidates are, and we've hired most of them. But getting good candidates to the interview stage is nigh impossible for candidate and employer.

I guess from my perspective the job market is there, but the process is absolutely horrendous.

I grew up in Vermont and I live in Canada now. Please don't make me go back, lol.

Maybe. Russia currently has the upper hand sadly, but if Zelenskyy trades 30 day pause (appearance of victory for Trump and a short reprieve for UKR) for resuming intel sharing and some US aid that may be a net win for UKR. Really depends on what comes along with the deal - what has UKR agreed to give up to get this ceasefire?

steel mine

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