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I've heard it said that the horse is man's best slave.

My main use is as an SSH client. My next most common use is pass (with the password store synchronized via a Syncthing app, outside of termux). And one more I enjoy is pdftk for basic PDF editing operations (e.g. split, merge, remove passwords); that's been useful at work where it seems like no one's got PDF editors installed on their computers already.

Remember the leadership “vote” he recently passed was based on the votes of people who paid ~$1500 to be there

Also worth noting it was held in Calgary and all voters had to physically be there. So voters were Calgarians with enough money to get in, and people from the rest of Canada with enough money to get in and enough money/time to travel there.

As someone from the “MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+” community

Since you're alive enough to post here, I don't think you're from that community. Note the first three letters are for "missing and murdered Indigenous", and the rest are modifiers from that. As I understand, Leah Gazan is using this initialism as an expansion of "MMIWG", not as an expansion of "LGBTQ+". She is highlighting that the "ongoing genocide" she refers to is not solely of Indigenous women and girls, but also of gender-diverse Indigenous people.

I host a CalDAV server (specifically Nextcloud's Calendar app, though plenty of others exist, like Radicale) and all my devices sync with it.

"Sight impaired" as in "blind", or close to it. That is, vision problems that can't be corrected with lenses. A camera that can describe what your face is pointed at would be a game changer such people.

I don't know about the whole country, because there's a lot of low-density space where it's hard to justify this level of infrastructure cost.

But the Quebec City-Windsor corridor absolutely needs high-speed rail because it includes roughly half of Canada's population. It's even conveniently arranged in a straight line! Driving in this region is hindered by tons of traffic, and flying has huge carbon costs. Rail should be the default way to get around in this region.

Maximum 4296 alphanumeric characters, but that's with the largest-sized code and low/no error correction (so not always practical).

What drove me nuts about the sewer part was that he described a bunch of things that changed after the time period of the novel. And then once he's back to the story and people are running through the sewers, he adds bits like "if it had been 30 years later, they could have gone this way, but it hadn't been built yet". Like, why do we need to know how the sewers will be? At least the description of Waterloo was interesting and gave context to the corpse robbing.

There is way too much sensationalism around this law. All this law calls for is an OS-level "Are you over 18?" button, the kind that's been all over the internet for decades. See the Ubuntu mailing list discussion for a possible technical approach. There does not appear to be any requirement for age verification beyond that of the system administrator, and reporting is by a total of four age brackets, so even the privacy impact is limited.

The benefit of something like this is that age can be enforced by the system administrator rather than the user, so parents can set their kids' computers with an accurate age bracket. Meanwhile, all of us with just a single user can set the highest age brackets and move on with our lives. Now, as the CEO of System76 says, kids will find ways around it, and we shouldn't discourage kids from controlling their own computers, but he says "If there is any solace in these two laws, it’s that they don’t have any real restrictions".

But that same article notes that New York has a proposed bill S8102A that is much more draconian. California's law is a minor nuisance, while New York's bill sounds like an outright danger. Please focus on a real threat, especially considering it's much easier to change laws while they're still only bills.

AsteroidOS mostly supports watches that come stock with Wear OS, which is a modified version of Android, which, guess what, runs a Linux kernel. These watches are on the more powerful end of the computing spectrum. As you say, there are a lot of smart watches that use pretty lean MCUs, but those aren't running AsteroidOS or Wear OS, as noted in this FAQ entry.

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