I kinda like RGB but not in the pulsating rainbow way how it seems to always be on marketing materials.

I like keeping it to one colour, with the intensity at half. It is nice to change it a few times a year for a fresh look.

The fonts and other stuff, I don’t care that much as long as the components are good quality. Maybe subconsciously I would consider design if I had to choose between options that performed and cost relatively equally.

The US government flaunting its effective tyrannical control of its tech companies are, somewhat ironically, helping the EU get away from that control by being encouraged to swap to Linux and FOSS.

I think the state legislature and governor will be more of a hurdle to clear than council. Since in US and Canada, most municipal powers are rooted in state/provincial legislation, they have the ability to override or veto, sanction or outlaw anything the city tries to implement. Gov. Hochul is an establishment Democrat so I expect some efforts to water down the most radical policies, but aside from her characteristic flip-flopping she won’t try to put herself in the way of city politics.

“Right, so we can distract from our Palestinian genocide six more times?” - bibi

On that https://cardsagainsthumanitystopsthewall.com/

C.A.H. hired an eminent domain expert lawyer to stall the process, probably you’d need legal advice for your idea.

I think contributors were given a recognition that they helped buy 0.00067% of the land, it wasn’t officially subdivided between the contributors nor were they given a share.

Going backwards in time, they had metal and brass containers, before that they had wooden buckets and barrels, ceramic pots, carved out animal parts or fruit of plants.

Before farming, probably a good portion of the water early people subsisted on was from the food they ate. (Berries and fruit, fish, meat, etc.) Water might pool around rocky areas after rain, even if there was no stream nearby in a pinch.

So if a brand new instance is started, it does not retroactively receive any content from other servers. Only ones that were connected by a link at the time content was posted will have a copy, essentially.

To know which posts will be kept on different servers, look up your own username, e.g. https://lemmy.ca/u/TrivialKin@lemm.ee

https://photon.lemmy.ca/ (among a number of frontends!)

The best bike infrastructure in the GTA is no match for the stupidest drivers in the GTA.

On the other side of the country, here in Vancouver, a couple times a year you get a car that decides to turn into the separated bicycle lane.

Once in a blue moon there will be a Reddit-style comment chain on Lemmy, I can tolerate it occasionally when the situation warrants it. When I left Reddit, I was getting tired of every top thread having at least one of the same joke template replies and I’m sure it hasn’t gotten any better since.

Lemmy’s issues are with leftist vs. liberal infighting I would say.

Oh the Urbanity, a Canadian couple discussing housing and transit !urbanism@video.canadiancivil.com

Some people are addicted to sugar to the point where every beverage must be sweet flavoured.

I have water, but othertimes I am sugar addicted so I want a different beverage.

Also I have had tap water in various places across Canada. Most are decent, some are especially delicious, some have awful after tastes and even smell weird (sulfur or chlorine). If that stuff runs to your home I can understand why people prefer bottled water, tea or soda instead of tap water.

Proof by induction seduction

Just give yourself plenty of time (arrive 3 hours before departure or earlier). Review your flight number and look at the screens every half hour to reassure yourself you’re at the correct gate.

Mr. Doctorow has expressed before he doesn’t mind enshittification being used casually as it helps proliferate it. But strictly speaking by his original definition, there are three stages:

• Offer something extremely good to your customers, to expand reach even at a loss.
• Once enough of the market is captured, offer something very good or unique to your business clients, at the expense of customers.
• Once enough of business is captured, extract value from the platform at the expense of business clients and customers in favour of shareholders and owners.

Now, yes, this type of thing has long been common, in terms of oligarchic, monopolistic capitalism, cartels, mafia, colonial market exploitation, etc. But the original context of the word, to clarify, has to do with the kind of changes enabled by technology (twiddling), where digital firms can A/B test, degrade the experience in minor increments or for algorithmically based sectors, pretending certain failures are accidental glitches, so that it is hard to notice and the justice system can’t keep up. With traditional rackets, a court with enough of an anti-trust mindset can effectively identify the affected class, identify and effectively deal with the scheme. The modern “enshittification” is much more elusive, and we’re only beginning to think about how to tackle this form of subtle yet widespread manipulation enabled by digital technology.

Irreplaceable is important here… billions is the $ amount given but the replacement cost probably a multiple of that if even possible.

Copycat parts probably have to be sourced from China at inflated prices, or salvaging crucial components from its spares or manufacturing using whatever remaining workforce Russia still has as they send their young boys to the front line, driving up the prevailing military factory wages. So it’s going to cost a lot more than $100M for Russia to make a $100M plane.

First off, specifically to answer your question, it is to ask for more time before your start date because you’re in the process of “moving to a new place”.

It’s a rough situation, but you more have to focus on what went wrong and learn from that for next time. Rather than stress too much upon what you could have done to prevent whatever, because there are some (as you say, bullshit) things you just weren’t able to anticipate ahead of time.

Now at least you know the jobs are out there, it’s not an impossible task to land one so you can do it again. Your next job might end up being an inperson instead of remote, whatever, be flexible and just be ready. Have time on your side.

Also, if you’re in Vancouver and this sort of predicament is about to happen again, DM me, and perhaps we could figure something out.

Your comment highlights one of the difficulties I find with going between treating someone exactly as you would anyone else, while also dealing with particular sensitivities or sensibilities of that person. Even trying to describe how to be less offensive, includes wording that can sound offensive to some, justifiably so based on experience.

But all in all, I think most people will recognize good faith efforts and accept quick apologies and corrections when we make mistakes. We’re not perfect.

This sounds like something a programmer would come up with as a joke, but because it’s Microsoft, I believe you.

The English + Undefined issue is indeed a nasty issue that makes half of the content disappear for a reason that’s not easy to figure out. It really should be a separate checkbox of whether to show or hide posts where the language is not labelled. I do think that Undefined is selected by default now, but might still get unselected if the language setting is clicked and changed.

For those people saying “Ctrl+Click, should be obvious”, that won’t work at all on mobile web UI.