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Routhinator
Routhinator @ Routhinator @startrek.website
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John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • Never mind, youtube faked me out. Looks like the new one will require a proxy

    • Paging Canada: Your future doctors are fleeing the U.S.

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  • Only took 40 years to reverse brain drain

    • We Need to Switch to Canadian Services

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  • Delpoy Nextcloud with the Memories app. It's a google photos clone that has the Nextcloud ecosystem behind it which means you can replace Drive, Notes, Reader, Podcasts, Hangouts and more.

    • Tim Hortons Hasn't Been Canadian-Owned For A Long Time

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  • BC has Waves, Serious Coffee, Island Grind, Blenz, JJ Bean, and more but thats what I can recall off the top of my head.

    Ottawa has Bridgehead

    • We Need to Switch to Canadian Services

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  • Its nice, but Memories app as part of Nextcloud is better and Nextcloud completes the rest of the Google suite (Drive, Calendar, Notes, Reader, Podcasts, Hangouts)

    If you're going to put in the time, Nextcloud has more value.

    • Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip

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  • I keep reading this as Marijuana chip.

    • Pierre Poilievre Signals Plan to Extend Government Subsidies to Right-Wing Media Websites

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  • What happened to defunding the CBC there pal, wasn't part of your argument that the government shouldn't fund TV or News?

    • Amazon will remove your ability to download the books you bought

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  • Was Canadian, its owned by a Japanese company since 2010

    • I had to do a double take when I saw Lemmy.ca spiked to 9.1k registered users

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  • Captcha: What is Madame Soleil's first name?

    • Air Canada was ordered to pay a passenger $2,000 for delayed luggage. Instead, it's taking him to court

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  • Shit is expensive. And Air Canada are pricks.

    Seems fair to me.

    • If you could rearrange the days in a week, what would your ideal month look like.

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  • Holoscenic calendar. I get mine from Kurzgesagt every year.

    • Population of the UK split into 4 equal quarters

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  • Neat. Now do Canada.

    • Go to wikihow and press on "random article". That is what you die doing. How do you die?

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    • What is one video game cheat code that will you will always remember?

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    • Parks Canada backtracks on directive to buy from Amazon

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  • By missing the mark I think they meant it was glaringly out of touch and supporting the Bozos tech broligarchy.

    • Is it me or Ubuntu secretly replaces DEB Firefox with Snap Firefox?

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  • The deb version is a pointer to the snap in their repos. Nothings being replaced, it no longer exists. The deb version of Firefox in Ubuntu repos is a wrapper that installs snap and has no binaries in it. Has been for 3 years or so.

    • Ecuador president says new trade deal with Canada finalized.

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  • Perfection.

    • Who needs newfangled stuff like forums? 🤢

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  • I'll note that a number of groups and forums send mailing list like emails (google groups, django dev being a big one) and that notifications can be threaded from places like Github with the right client.

    Thunderbird has good threading.

    Roundcube webmail is also capable here. Though when I have had it working it didn't include sent messages... which is not great in my mind.

    • After many years on GNOME, I finally switched to Plasma.

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  • You don't need special docks in KDE, its all configurable through the default desktop settings. You have enough knobs to make it look like anything.

    • Canadian alternatives to Big Tech

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  • An interesting caveat I've found for self-hosting is that getting server hardware in Canada is harder now that several companies, most notably NewEgg, have decided that any equipment that might have a business use case requires a business account and license, meanwhile Americans can still buy things like rackmount hardware no issues.

    You can still get rackmount stuff on Amazon, but fuck Bezos. I'd like a better option. I've found some places like AVADirect that will ship to Canada, but not any Canadian businesses that sell that stuff to normal Canadians.

    That would be an interesting list.