1.5V Li-ion batteries in AA size that can be charged by USB-C are now available. For stuff like TV remotes, flashlights, little toys and gadgets anything more seems overpowered than needed.

The oven has finished preheating for Poilievre’s goose.

Carney is indeed out-conservativing the Conservatives, but that’s happened before with the Chrétien government. So I think this is within the reasonable band of Liberal left-right political wobbling. Poilievre is kind of analogous to the 90’s Reform party of Canada, the wing of social conservatism seems to line up with Poilievre’s Maple MAGA Conservatives. The Liberals moving right is not an irreversible ratchet effect that I think some people here fear, it will swing back at some point in many years from now. Of course, harmful policies absolutely should be pushed back against, but it’s not an inevitability or if a push to stop one fails, it’s not over forever.

This is a serious issue when it comes to Indigenous self-determination. There’s not one Indigenous representative that speaks for every band affected by a project like this. The Nisga’a are elated by investment in the community, other neighbouring nations are fully against any intrusion of a pipeline. I think a solution will need to be settled before we start building this.

Most of the point of C-5 is that it will be that Texas shell company’s money spent and not the government, whereas government gets its share of taxes and royalties. BC had better made sure it pencils out for them in scenarios where LNG prices are high, low or negative, and not subsidize this project if it doesn’t.

Stickers and nice words won’t win us back. But perhaps some more S O C I A L I S M could?

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Jeneroux is a 3rd term MP, and based on riding location and the 2025 polling (45% Lib 48% Con) Matt appears to have been a moderate conservative.

Clearly he’s not a good fit in Poilievre’s Maple MAGA party anymore. And his party faithful reportedly harassing him or people around him about it would confirm that. No way that would he have included “don’t contact me or my family” if it was just a normal decision to leave.

January’s going to be very interesting for PP.

There are a number of ideas of how to go through Montreal, one alternative is making like a Y shaped pattern through Lucien-L’Allier (a commuter rail end station). Still would require a big detour.

We are well past the conceptual stage, and into design. i.e. the government has stopped asking “should we?” and over the last couple years has started asking “how?”

I mean, that’s how a lot of Canadian politics works… “passed because no one really hated it”…

He has no official ties with the European Citizen’s Initiative (besides “hype-man” as I recall he described it) but he is the founder of the Stop Killing Games movement, encompassing the original research effort in terms of what people could do to stop games being lost or intentionally destroyed.

In one sense yes they are a monopoly. But there are alternative game stores. However Valve has earned their cut of money by actually trying to make a platform that works for game developers, game players and themselves.

Don’t get me wrong, they have a high risk of turning bad and extorting the market they have captured. But the truth is that every equally or greater sized competitor (Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Epic) has already skipped to the extortion part of the cycle and Valve simply hasn’t, and hasn’t really expressed any intention to do that. Being a privately owned company, Valve is allowed to sit back, enjoy the money they do make and not have to constantly ask for more, and develop what the staff feel like making without strict deadlines.

The smaller competitors are still great even if not as feature filled (GOG, itch) and you should support them too. So while I reject that Valve is the big bad, I also reject that Valve could never enshittify. My position is that Valve has earned a trust no one else has (even itch had to cave to Credit Card companies), and that trust is Valve’s to break.

The first is about the physical storage location of data.

The second is about the nationality of the storage’s owning entity.

Budget is coming out at 1PM PT/4PM ET for better or for worse. So until then we can only speculate.

Edmonton’s cool. Calgary’s aight. But I’ll tell you that it’s Smith and the UCP who are the ones that pretend they represent the opinion of all Albertans instead of the oil coal and gas lobby. And sure, many people don’t agree with the fact that she’s taking big government steps to prevent free-market renewables from taking hold or allow the tech industry to prosper and to use the support of a neighbouring city to put mining residue into other people’s water. But the fact that this is happening under the Alberta populace’s watch reflects poorly on them.

So anyway. Nothing against you personally, but if you want a better name for your home province than Texas-north, then you have to collectively earn it. Sign that petition thing (done), organize around a general strike (in preparation) and topple the UCP government (in election or via recall petitions).

I think your average Linux user does want to give game creators their fair share. But they would like to withhold from those that take away from others.

I more or less stopped pirating games after moving my PC to Linux full time.

Many files copied to an external disk are cached, and not written immediately unless you run the “sync” command.

So when you press the “eject” icon, on most frontends a notification will tell you not to unplug it right away, once the write is complete it will send a “it is safe to remove the drive” message. This can take a couple minutes if you are writing a big file to a slow drive.

It doesn’t seem to occur to people that adding a comprehensive bike lane, gets fewer people “in their car’s way”, since more people feel safe to switch to cycling and walking.

You have a point, but to be faaaaaair, the quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin about fire prevention in Pennsylvania towns.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Perhaps we forgot that after changing to grams and kilograms.

The NDP’s Heather McPherson has said on CBC P&P that their caucus will evaluate the bill when it becomes public. That seems like the correct attitude rather than making rash decisions on rumours alone.

Nice gesture but Mr. Johnson and the House of Representative Republicans voted not to talk about tariffs and also to tie their hands behind their back.