It was early August 2022, when Michelle Wigmore was on her way back from leading a crew of wildland firefighters near Grande Prairie, Alta. They stopped for a coffee in Fox Creek, about 230 kilometres northwest of Edmonton....
Would you like to do this vitally important job that requires travel, training, hard labour, living rough, and includes heightened risk of serious injury all for minimum wage?
Canada boasts the 9th largest economy, pristine environmental standards, a robust legal framework, universal healthcare, world class education, and numerous …
As someone who did choose to leave the USA, it is not as easy as they make it out to be. I honestly would probably have given up on the idea if I did not have dual citizenship. It is expensive and difficult.
Professional encoders who fully understand the encoders and the schemes in use and care about not seeing artifacting or low quality would never intentionally go as low as 300mb for a feature length movie of even an hour. Yes there are people who do such things but they’re not well regarded and it won’t look even passable on anything larger than a phone screen.
This has not been well regarded since the days when DivX ruled the pirate scene, and even then cramming a film onto a 600MB CD left a lot to be desired.
Buckaroo Banzai was working on similar tech all the way back in 1984!
RAWHIDE:Dr. Banzai is using a laser to vaporize a pineal tumor without damaging the parthogenital plate. A subcutaneous microphone will allow the patient to transmit verbal instructions to his own brain.
STAR SURGEON: What, like “raise my left arm”?
RAWHIDE: Or “throw the harpoon,” . People are gonna come from all over. This boy’s an Eskimo.
Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
Petitions are annoying, but I’m hoping some of us will want to sign this one! The goal is simple: Have the National Hockey League create a solution where the local broadcast announcers of the home team handle the broadcast for every nationally-televised game, such as the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Seriously. Moving to a new country is GD EXPENSIVE. This is not something you can just do on a whim unless you are quite well to do. That is assuming that the other country even wants you.
I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?
New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
The authors of the study said the figures should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ for the country’s Liberal government
Would you fight Alberta's wildfires for $22/hour? And no benefits? (www.cbc.ca)
It was early August 2022, when Michelle Wigmore was on her way back from leading a crew of wildland firefighters near Grande Prairie, Alta. They stopped for a coffee in Fox Creek, about 230 kilometres northwest of Edmonton....
Both of Biden’s Key Economic Advisers get Basic Econ Wrong (mises.org)
Reddit’s deal with OpenAI will plug its posts into “ChatGPT and new products” (www.theverge.com)
Biden's Tariffs Are a Bad Idea (reason.com)
Shoppers Drug Mart says job post looking for ‘volunteer’ to clean store was a mistake (www.thestar.com)
The job posting, which has since been removed, was advertising for a “volunteer” at Shoppers Drug Mart that would restock shelves and clean the store.
Winamp is going open source (feddit.uk)
I used this for years, from version 1.9 all the way to 5.x when I moved onto other software....
Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame (www.cbc.ca)
Susan Dennison recently had an unsettling experience at her local grocery store, a Loblaw-owned Fortinos in Burlington, Ont....
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here (www.ghacks.net)
The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
Why No One Wants to Live in Canada (www.youtube.com)
Canada boasts the 9th largest economy, pristine environmental standards, a robust legal framework, universal healthcare, world class education, and numerous …
Trump Says He’d Deport ‘Anti-American’ Protesters in Bizarre Rally Speech (www.rollingstone.com)
Share your aurora photos!
https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/a0aee397-13f4-4982-83f0-0e384e7f2576.webp...
Handbrake/ffmpeg: What free video codec to use for 720p videos?
I have a lot of old movies, most will barely be 720p....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip (arstechnica.com)
Steve Albini, Studio Master of ’90s Rock and Beyond, Dies at 61 (www.nytimes.com)
I just finished setting up Linux Mint for an old buddy of mine on his old dog of a laptop, rendering it useful once again! (i.imgur.com)
Edit 2: to everyone suggesting an SDD: i know. Look, if this guy had enough $$$ for an SSD, he could buy a used lappy less than half the age of this one that has an ssd and 2-3x the memory....
Uuh grub? (programming.dev)
nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?...
Raspberry Pi Connect: an easy-to-use way to access your RPi remotely, using just a web browser (www.raspberrypi.com)
Petition to allow local announcers to call playoff games (www.change.org)
Petitions are annoying, but I’m hoping some of us will want to sign this one! The goal is simple: Have the National Hockey League create a solution where the local broadcast announcers of the home team handle the broadcast for every nationally-televised game, such as the Stanley Cup playoffs.
This Is The best way to set up the internet on Mars? (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Novel methods are being investigated to overcome these obstacles and improve communication on Mars to resemble terrestrial experiences
Growing number of Canadians are moving abroad due to lack of affordability: McGill study (nationalpost.com)
The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?
I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?