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FFmpeg moves to Forgejo in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is forgejo federated yet?

*Permanently Deleted* in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The way people turned up their nose at the Fediverse when the Muskening happened to Twitter was heartbreaking. I knew social media was an addiction but when you find out your dealer is an absolute monster how do you not go looking for a new supplier?

But they all discarded Mastodon et al as cringe and teduoust. Like, the way even trans women influencers stayed on Twitter blew my mind. When bluesky got off the ground there was finally some migration, but not enough.

It really showed me how many of the "anti-capitalist" and the "anarchism" and "mutual aid" people were all just talk. The mutual-aid volunteer-based platform exists and you stuck with the fascist because it was easy and you're too cool for the nerd shit.

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago

I mean he's literally a boomer.

Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago

But they make it up on volume!

Cable car gondolas as public transportation in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

If a normal LRT is possible then it is the gadgetbahn.

Cable car gondolas as public transportation in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 months ago

They're only useful in very specific scenarios, because they can have very few stops, aren't very fast, and people don't like them over their yards.

For GTHA where we don't have a lot of mountains or islands and what we do have has established roads? Just. Build. A. Train.

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Right? I don't want an AI chatbot, I want a natural language oral shell scripting language with APIs for all the major services I use and good verbal man pages. The AI can be a separate tool on a separate hotword that I'll probably only ever use to ask for help debugging the other one.

The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid [22:04] in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Well, also sounds like Uberization: "The laws for X are annoying, so we'll do Y that's basically the same as X but dumber because there's no regulation on Y".

If it were a train it would have more room for evacuation because a train could run a half-inch from the non-door wall. Tesla model 3 is about 1.85M wide sans mirrors. The Vegas tunnels are about 3.6M wide at the widest, but that's not useful because of road... eyeball it and say it's about 2.5M wide. Put the car on rails so it's at the leftmost edge of that road (no need for wiggle room where it gonna go?) and you've got 0.65M of emergency walkway on the right hand side, which is almost spec for an EU emergency walkway. Lift the walkway up a bit higher off the level of the road/rail so it's level to the doors and you're at a wider spot of the tube, and then you've got your emergency walkway.

A train also drives the risk of fire way down, since you don't have a big scary Tesla battery down there anymore. I mean you'd still have a 3rd rail or a catenary cable or whatever and that's not nothing but that's not the Greek Fire of a modern lithium battery.

If there was an actual reason that narrow-gauge tunnels were cheap for some use-cases, you could probably make a pretty cool vehicle for them.

But yeah, this is all academic, since the point was to use Teslas.

Microsoft is cautiously onboarding Grok 4 following Hitler concerns in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 39 points 4 months ago (4 children)

MS is also trying to be the one-stop-shop for people wanting to access AI-gen stuff through an abstracted provider-agnostic interface.

The Vegas Loop Is Getting Progressively More Stupid [22:04] in c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What bugs me is that there's probably some kind of rail-based system you could design that's actually reasonable for narrow-bore tunnels like that. Something physically more like a train of passenger-vans or a roller-coaster than a proper subway or LRT. But instead they made this nonsense?

Eat | Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago

This is kinda the plot the later Callahan's books by Spider Robinson. Man-eating aliens who believe the only ethical way to slaughter is to trick the meat into slaughtering itself, and so they infiltrate humanity to encourage that.

Canada wants cities to start filtering toxic forever chemicals from public drinking water, but that’s no easy feat in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

While that's awful that's not really a municipal issue like housing and water treatment.

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Google is moving Shopping List and other notes back into Google Keep (www.google.com)
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Google is moving Shopping List and other notes back into Google Keep (www.google.com)
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Last few chapters of Armored Core 6 (lemmy.ca)
 
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Last few chapters of Armored Core 6 (lemmy.ca)
 
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WIP dryer repair part 2: swapping out the heating coil. (lemmy.ca)
 

Well, the dryer has been disassembled and vacuumed, the dead coil removed, the new coil swapped in, ready to reassemble as soon as the new belt arrives. I was surprised how much of the brown shmutz in the heater was just ash from the coils - it dusted off quite shiny after I replaced the coil.

Before

busted heating element before

After

repaired heating element

I'm a little worried about the visibly duller part of the heater assembly, hopefully that won't absorb too much heat - I tried to cluster the coils a bit looser there to compensate.

It's even visible on the reverse side.

dull area where burn happened

Either way, I'm reassembling tomorrow when the new belt arrives.

dryer interior

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WIP: Replacing heating coil in dryer (lemmy.ca)
 

I feel like I have a moral responsibility to attempt to repair anything before making it waste. So I'm trying my hand at the dryer. Sadly I didnt' realize that the whole tub joint pops upwards so I detached the tub from the join and then found the join comes off pretty easy anyways.

Anyhow, everything is made of garbage these days:

Photo of disassembled Kenmore stackable washer

Photo of broken heating coil

But I think I can replace that. But while I'm in there: any recommendations on how to lubricate the tub joint? Anything else I should be replacing while I've got it apart? I noticed the tape sealing up the exhauste has disintegrated so I figure I should replace that with a strip of aluminum duct tape.

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About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off (www.theverge.com)
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Mississauga city council decides against fourplexes, move 'very concerning': federal minister (www.cbc.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7083978

Mississauga city council voted down a proposal on Wednesday that would have allowed fourplexes across the city but it decided instead to ask staff to consult on the feasibility of the idea and report back.

In a tie vote, council defeated the motion moved by Ward 2 Coun. Alvin Tedjo and seconded by Ward 5 Coun. Carolyn Parrish. The motion, which aims to address what is widely referred to as the "missing middle" of housing availability, called on the city to allow four units "as of right" in Mississauga. A fourplex is a residential building with four separate dwelling units.

archive link: https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fmississauga-fourplexes-vote-motion-defeated-1.6993400

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Mississauga city council decides against fourplexes, move 'very concerning': federal minister (www.cbc.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7083978

Mississauga city council voted down a proposal on Wednesday that would have allowed fourplexes across the city but it decided instead to ask staff to consult on the feasibility of the idea and report back.

In a tie vote, council defeated the motion moved by Ward 2 Coun. Alvin Tedjo and seconded by Ward 5 Coun. Carolyn Parrish. The motion, which aims to address what is widely referred to as the "missing middle" of housing availability, called on the city to allow four units "as of right" in Mississauga. A fourplex is a residential building with four separate dwelling units.

archive link: https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fmississauga-fourplexes-vote-motion-defeated-1.6993400

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Mississauga city council decides against fourplexes, move 'very concerning': federal minister (www.cbc.ca)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/7083978

Mississauga city council voted down a proposal on Wednesday that would have allowed fourplexes across the city but it decided instead to ask staff to consult on the feasibility of the idea and report back.

In a tie vote, council defeated the motion moved by Ward 2 Coun. Alvin Tedjo and seconded by Ward 5 Coun. Carolyn Parrish. The motion, which aims to address what is widely referred to as the "missing middle" of housing availability, called on the city to allow four units "as of right" in Mississauga. A fourplex is a residential building with four separate dwelling units.

archive link: https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fmississauga-fourplexes-vote-motion-defeated-1.6993400

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Mississauga city council decides against fourplexes, move 'very concerning': federal minister (www.cbc.ca)
 

Mississauga city council voted down a proposal on Wednesday that would have allowed fourplexes across the city but it decided instead to ask staff to consult on the feasibility of the idea and report back.

In a tie vote, council defeated the motion moved by Ward 2 Coun. Alvin Tedjo and seconded by Ward 5 Coun. Carolyn Parrish. The motion, which aims to address what is widely referred to as the "missing middle" of housing availability, called on the city to allow four units "as of right" in Mississauga. A fourplex is a residential building with four separate dwelling units.

archive link: https://web.archive.org/save/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fnews%2Fcanada%2Ftoronto%2Fmississauga-fourplexes-vote-motion-defeated-1.6993400

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The anti-Trudeau hate farm based out of Cairo (www.canadaland.com)
 

The YouTube channel Street Politics Canada is, by its own description, an “independent news organization that aims to cover unfiltered news.”

“Unlike other news organizations,” it writes, “we are clear and upfront about our biases.”

Since April 2022, it has published approximately 600 YouTube videos catering to an audience of Canadian conservatives, nearly all of which take aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. These typically consist of news clips, still photos, and basic motion graphics, accompanied by a voiceover relaying arguments and information gleaned from an assortment of Canadian sources. Titles include “Worst Prime Minister In History Gets Booed By Canadians” and “WATCH!! Trudeau Gives UNHINGED SPEECH After Protestors HECKLE him AGAIN!!” Thumbnail images often compare the prime minister to Hitler.

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