The Robelus cartel is one of the things to be shameful of as a Canadian (though the US isn’t much better).

In Canada we got a solid reminder of the importance of cash when the Rogers outage took Interac and many credit card processing systems offline…

I carry cash and I give it to people in need, I don’t mind cashless payment being the default but at least some of the following things need to happen before we can fully move to that:

• Canada Post needs to open a savings account/credit card so that it is not profit motivated and accessible to disadvantaged people. Most poor people can’t afford the annual fee for cards with decent benefits, and to get it waived you need to have significant deposits with your bank/credit union.
• We need a public option compared to Visa/MC/Amex, even if it’s only usable domestically. Letting a handful of non-Canadian companies make a percentage of all Canadians’ transactions is ridiculous and if there was no cash then they would look to jack up rates to whatever they wanted.
• We need regulations in how credit card companies can charge merchants and customers.

Hats off to the writer, a surprisingly well balanced report on events.

I had a nightmare one time when I was video calling my family from my phone who were on a plane that was falling out of the sky… since then I started checking flightradar once or twice whenever they go on flights.

Well, I’ll give Ford the “bigger” part.

Conservative statistics have a higher level of bullshit because they have a greater sense of fabricating correlations not based on fact.

“Too many new people here! Rents are high/not enough housing!”

“New people are leaving! Aaaaah!”

Yeah the Constitution don’t say anything bout AI so according to the originalists, companies can do anything they want, lol.

Your firefox build version and a screenshot of what you’re seeing would make for a more helpful issue report.

Go to your local marina or their website and see if there are sailing classes.

As part of the CUSMA trade agreement, I think us Canadians and Mexicans are allotted one sigh of disappointment…

Como parte del acuerdo comercial T-MEC, creo que a los canadienses y los mexicanos se nos permite un solo suspiro de decepción…

I have experienced an issue sort of like that in the past, where my computer occasionally won’t do anything other than spin the fans, unless there’s a working connection to a monitor…

More than half of Bill Gates’ pre-Windows 95 fortunes must have come solely from this ad spot from Steve Ballmer

In Canada, external hard drives of 8-20TB capacity show up every now and then for a rate of C$20/TB (US$14.50) so it won’t take more than 3 months to offset that cost. As a backup, online s3 storage might be reasonable.

E - Speak of the devil: https://lemmy.ca/post/23948873

Yep I’ve been a bit peeved by these ads. North American Oil industry advocates are pushing any way they can to stay relevant over the next decades. They won’t hesitate to tell misleading statements to get their way.

There are still commits being pushed to it in 2024, but a lot of the open issues are talking about errors that apparently were fixed but not provided in a release.

Yes, internally and also with a beta-stage Nextcloud Social app, but the builds appear to be out of date and not working that well with the latest Nextcloud installations.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introduces-social-features-joins-the-fediverse/

https://github.com/nextcloud/social

I’ll take slightly curdling milk in my cereal over piss, thanks.

Someone reupload yuzu, stat!