I’m not a big movie rewatcher myself, but this is one of those movies to watch again because you know the plot. It’s extremely well crafted, and there are plenty of significant scenes with hidden meaning or foreshadowing to catch on the second watch if you keep your eyes open.
Mild in Montreal, maybe, but check out the Canadian Drought Monitor as the rest of Canada is in drought. Like, the entire rest of Canada. …canada.ca/…/current-drought-conditions
Over here in the west it’s never been so dry. Pastures are brown, hay and crops aren’t just stunted but are dying before maturity. Trees are yellowing and dropping leaves. Plague of grasshoppers eating everything that was still green. Every day is hot and the air is full of smoke, it feels like the end of the world over here.
Guessing you’ve never been to Western Canada. We only have a couple major cities, and we don’t use that much groundwater both as it tends to be saline and because we have plenty of surface water to use due to snowmelt runoff. Also we don’t have anything to desalinate, unless we’re talking about that low-quality groundwater, which is a very expensive proposition as you say to get any significant volume.
We’re not concerned about water for drinking, city usage etc. Most cities are on major rivers that are running near normally. Hydro dams have tons of storage to run until next winter’s snow. On my farm I have dugouts that capture runoff, they are full. I have shallow wells on GUDI aquifers where the water is near the top of the casing! I’m irrigating my garden and my orchard like mad out of my yard dugout and that usage isn’t even noticeable compared to evaporation losses.
We’re concerned that our crops are dying, our livestock are starving (sold mine already) and almost none of our land is irrigated. In BC the trees are dying and burning for lack of rain and there is no way to irrigate them of course. This part of the country has long relied on a steady cycle of June and July thunderstorms for moisture - but the thunderstorms have dried up.
Welcome to Alberta, thunderstorms are the dominant weather in the summer. Make sure your shingles are tacked down around the edges of the roof, even if it isn’t “proper” because updrafts will tear them off. If your neighbourhood codes allow it, switch to metal roofing when the hail trashes the shingles you have now and save the hassle of replacing shingles non stop.
I moved from AB to SK 8 years ago and we had a similar storm cycle then, but it’s been dead for almost 5 years now. Just hot dry sun. Thunderstorms are the main source of summer rain as we haven’t seen a real multi-day “soaker” in many years now, so we’re in big trouble.
It works with Google Cloud’s dashboard lol, I swear they broke it in Firefox on purpose.
But seriously it’s like the IE days, some sites are designed with one target in mind and that target is now Chrome instead of IE, partly because the Chromium engine is now the de facto one to embed and rebrand. So sometimes you just have to use Chrome.
However I use Firefox 99% of the time myself and only use Chrome when needed (mostly when managing my Google compute engine VMs, sigh)
Definitely there should be an updated list of apps as the first recommended app (Jerboa) is like… Pre-alpha. Constant authentication issues for the one day I used it, plus other usability issues galore.
I only found any mention of Connect for Lemmy on Lemmy itself and it’s a far superior app, used it ever since.
I guess it’s self explanatory but I keep seeing all this stuff about how everyone is moving from Reddit to lemmy and I’m wondering if anyone knows if that’s really what’s happening. If you have numbers that’s even better....
I used RedReader which got an exemption, so it still works. So I still use it because I enjoy talking to people on Reddit despite the bad behaviour from the admins, and they don’t make any money off me so who cares. The day I’ll leave is the day they force me to use their unusable app (and when your non-tech buddy tells you he uses Reddit in desktop mode on mobile Firefox, you know it’s bad)
I’ve been using both services as there’s way more news and discussion on Reddit but Lemmy is improving rapidly. I do think Reddit has shot themselves in the foot by restricting NSFW subs to logged in / official app only though. I honestly expected this would result in a ton of content moving to Lemmy but that doesn’t seem to have been the case so far.
I think Lemmy’s biggest issue is community discovery on federated instances. Lots of active communities don’t show up unless explicitly requested on your own instance, and that’s going to confuse a lot of new users.
Nibbles are still a thing in embedded programming and in ultra low bandwidth comms like LoRa. For example you can pack 2 BCD digits into a byte, one for the high nibble and one for the low nibble. This results in the hex representation of the byte actually being directly readable as the two digits, which is convenient.
Datasheet for sensors will sometimes reference nibbles as well, often for status bits on protocols like Onewire where every bit counts. i.e low nibble contains a state value 0-15 and high nibble contains individual alarm flags.
Such good memories of learning to code as a kid in QBasic, I remember NIBBLES.BAS.
I was totally spoiled as my dad had the professional paid version which had an incredible IDE for the time and things like user defined types and structs that I later found out weren’t usually part of BASIC. It also had a ton of fancy graphics modes, double buffering, and even a sprite library. I loved playing around making crappy games.
Give it some time, user count is still tiny compared to Reddit so obviously niche content will be less common at first. But it’s growing rapidly, I’ve not even been here a week and every day it feels more alive.
Another good example is the still ongoing Raspberry Pi shortage, a cheap SBC made with legacy processes that was too capable for its low cost and ended up integrated into all manner of commercial and industrial products.
Raspberry Pi is made by the non-profit Pi foundation with a very low target price, but the inability to get cheap legacy silicon made drove extreme scarcity, panic buying and hoarding/scalping behaviour. They have greatly scaled up production, but suppressed demand and continuing scalping are chewing up all production.
However at some tipping point there will suddenly be a vast oversupply of Raspberry Pi.
Police no, but municipalities yes IMO. If Montreal / Winnipeg choose to turn a blind eye to victimless crimes, they should be able to do so and order their police to ignore offenses. Much like how here in SK the provincial government passed laws requiring provincial oversight and handling of any federal firearms appropriation, making it so the feds couldn’t simply demand we turn over our guns after Trudeau’s gun grab.
If the federal government wants to enforce their drug laws they can send the RCMP to enforce them, like the DEA does in the USA. It shouldn’t fall on local police departments to enforce unpopular federal laws.
Propane firepits are very rarely classed as a campfire as they don’t really have any ignition risk. Here in SK they are exempt from all fire bans, most of us have one in our yard for when it gets dry in the summer.
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....
Here in rural Canada we all use SMS because it’s guaranteed interoperable and more likely to be deliverable in poor service conditions. A text can be life or death or mean the difference between hours of walking and getting quick help in the case of a vehicle or tractor breakdown. I don’t know what phone the recipient may have and most of us have something ruggedized, there are even some flip phones and candy bars out there. So I actually use an aftermarket SMS app (Pulse) to avoid the chance that my phone’s native app will attempt to send the message through an incompatible protocol.
We had terrible reliability issues in the last few years when iMessage and RCS started becoming defaults and most people I know have switched to 3rd party messaging apps or attempted to disable messaging (not always successful). It’s gotten better with the default apps falling back to SMS more reliably now, but we are still all happy with SMS.
SMS is far more reliable in rural conditions with marginal signal. Often I can’t make a call, but I can send and receive SMS. Fat chance I can get any data-driven messaging app to work. Also, with SMS I don’t have to worry about what the recipient is using - it always works.
I agree that messengers are a superior product in most cases and I do use several myself for different use cases. It’s just that we always fall back to SMS when out in the field or as a quick point of contact, because it works.
My main issue with the modern crop of messengers is that they are back to walled gardens again, which does cause tribalism. Back in the day I ran multi-protocol clients to talk to my friends on every platform, and then migrated to mostly XMPP for many years as most of those protocols faded away. It had extensions to handle signing and encryption and most other use cases, and ran on every device. Then all of a sudden people started using WhatsApp and Line and Snapchat etc. and now we have a whole bunch of different messengers again, but without the option to run a multi-protocol client anymore. Even Google Chat migrated to a proprietary protocol instead of XMPP.
Here we are discussing it on a new federated Reddit equivalent, but they killed off federated messaging years ago leaving SMS as the only truly open option with broad adoption.
I just finished watching The Prestige (2006), and I have to say..... wow. (lemmy.world)
I am still having trouble deciding who really was the better magician. Perhaps the Nolan brothers are the answer.
‘I’ve never seen heat this bad. It’s not normal’: Italy struggles as temperature tops 40C 118f (www.theguardian.com)
The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (lemmy.world)
Lemmy + Kbin Just Surpassed 500,000 Total Users (i.imgur.com)
Is it really a mass exodus? And is it really a mass exodus to lemmy?
I guess it’s self explanatory but I keep seeing all this stuff about how everyone is moving from Reddit to lemmy and I’m wondering if anyone knows if that’s really what’s happening. If you have numbers that’s even better....
Firmware. (seemel.ink)
Is it just me, or is Lemmy 1000% better? (lemmy.world)
Opinion | Bank of Canada’s fight against inflation is a war on workers (www.thestar.com)
Montreal police raid illegal magic mushroom store | Winnipeg Free Press (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
B.C. announces total campfire ban amid huge surge in wildfires (vancouversun.com)
Is having an Android really a deal-breaker for some people?
I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason....