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Findings cast doubt on the existence of Jesus Christ
  • I've read some stuff suggesting pretty much that -- a cult that he started, ditched when it got out of hand and they killed his brother, but then he rejoined to reign it back in. Far from low-born, far from celibate, far from magical. He's buried in northern Spain and was survived by three children.

  • Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?
  • I got the point: like every Calgary commercial realtor I've ever met, you're concerned with taxes you must pay - dramatic swoon - and not really aware how tax money makes things not suck like it does in America as I've seen with my own fucking eyes.

    Keep. Up.

  • Housing Crisis, Packed Hospitals and Drug Overdoses: What Happened to Canada?
  • they tax the living shit out of businesses

    Yeah. It's how we spend on keeping Canadians healthy and happy like every other happy country does. Keep up.

    And TEN IS LESS THAN THIRTY like it was in the Good Old days we seemed to survive before, in those years when we built things like bridges and railways (those are the rotting, unmaintained things we non-helicopter-owning wage-slaves use) like Sweden and Denmark do to this day.

    increase in government spending

    TAX AND SPEND. Keep up. It's a whole thing.

    quite profitable just on the other side of the border

    Unless you mean on Miquelon or Greenland, you must be talking about the border to that user-pays, fuck-the-plebes, birth-slavery, medical-bankruptcy hell to our south.

    Having lived there, I fervently hope you aren't holding that nearly-fascist mess as a goal. Alberta is cruel enough for us; let's not go full American.

  • This historical tavern in Toronto is closing after nearly 200 years
  • So it's being sold and it can't be demolished.

    It's gonna be a rough bit of renos to get it back up to code while still following the labyrinthine heritage regs, but by no means it is gone for good.

    Hope someone buys it and can grow a local pub with all those high-rise patrons around it.

  • backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise
  • when building RPM or DEB.

    Which ones? Everything I run seems to be clear.

    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094

    Products / Services Components State
    Enterprise Linux 6 xz Not affected
    Enterprise Linux 7 xz Not affected
    Enterprise Linux 8 xz Not affected
    Enterprise Linux 9 xz Not affected

    (and thus all the bug-for-bug clones)

  • Doug Ford calls on federal workers in Ottawa to return to office
  • I think Mr Ford should stick to his provincial lane, and let the poor commercial landlords figure out their own finances.

    This isn't a provincial issue and this isn't a federal issue. I'm not even sure it's a muni issue, as it seems like a case of bad planning and over-extended land-barons -- ie a private budgetary issue.

  • B.C. Conservatives drop candidate amid misinformation claims
  • We do not applaud the tenor for clearing his throat. Likewise, we don't congratulate a party for finally ditching the fraudulent scumbag they initially thought was a great fit for the party who previously supported anti-vax blockades.

  • Your first distribution
  • After the Mandrake merge with Conectiva - what an awesome distro that was before SuSE beat it to death with UnitedLinux shenanigans! - and the mandriva progression, it still lives on as either Mageia or OpenMandriva; but my favourite of its children is the PCLinuxOS offshoot of Mandrake.

  • Your first distribution
  • Slackware2 or maybe 3 in 95.

    RHL4.x from 1998 . Looked at debian, but a local snob convinced me halfway through explaining "the debian way" to steer clear. Didn't even learn of the validation glitch in the .deb format by then.

    Now it's Rocky. But if PCLinuxOS had a better installer (like a good kickstart) I'd be there in an instant. Its massive versatility in having so many versions of apps available without the appstream bullshit - it's just Alternatives and proper naming - really makes it stand out.

    Now let me packer some templates and I'm SO done with ELs and the shit RH has done to their crown jewels.

  • Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat

    Pay-wall link: https://globalnews.ca/news/9938774/air-canada-vomit-seat-passenger-apology/

    Air Canada has apologized to customers who were allegedly escorted off a plane for refusing to sit in a chair covered with vomit for the duration of their over four-hour flight.

    The airline issued a statement after a viral Facebook post claimed two as-yet unidentified female flyers were told there was nothing to be done about the visible vomit on their soiled seats.

    Oh! AirCanada!

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    Ah, RedHat (rpmdb failure)

    We've been using Yum (and now its "differenter name is betterer" dnf) for what, 20 years?

    error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 13664/139968089683776 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30973) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

    You think we'll ever get someone with a clue to fix this? Will RedHat going all IBM about source code help?

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    Screen width and web dev

    Okay, so what's with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?

    What's the standard width that actual professional webdevs are building toward? Is there a standard, or like app dependendencies are they back to pre-y2k "moar moar nom nom" methodologies?

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    Where's the "Did MSFT sharepoint just go down again today" posting space?

    Look. It happens a few times a week, where reps in 3 time-zones will be fucked by an interruption to azure services like o341 or sharepoint (we don't do VMs in azure; not secure enough).

    I'm used to shadenfreuding Reddit over that, or at least finding it's not just our company firewall and VPN taking the Proverbial.

    Is there a sub I can join to get the topical junk like that? I'm too indolent - like a fox! - to go to twitter (or ideally mastodon) for a more suitable location; but will I find it there if I do? Can it be here too?

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    #174 Fedora Linux With The Project Leader | Matthew Miller, in which RedHat stabbing the GPL in the back may or may not affect Fedora

    I didn't find this yet, but please downvote to hell itself and drop a link to the proper prior post in comments if you find it.

    In here, eventually, are some comments from the Fedora project leader about how RHEL trying to kill open access to source and packaging source code is potentially going to affect Fedora, RedHat's ginger adopted stepchild which it usually overlooks.

    I must say there's a LOT to wait through and one of them has a mic with a bad level at times, and I didn't sit all the way through. Tell me if I've been scammed, but I thought this may have value and I'm hoping to hear confirmation of that too.

    Enjoy? Or flame me. Happy Friday.

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