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  • Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network

  • I wouldn't use this day to day, but what I found cool was:

    • it doesn't require cables or any additional equipment (including routers, cell towers)
    • it can't be detected by anything, assuming you toss a blanket over the transfer

    The downside is that if you wanted to get it truly offline, you would need to have the an app installed on both devices ahead of time, if I understood it correctly. (Edit: bolded bits are new)

    It did lead to some fun discussion in this thread :)

  • Wikipedia has a list of Canadian stores, grouped by type

  • Just an odd patchy incomplete list that seems to be put together using different evaluation criteria.

    Since it's a lesser known Wikipedia article, it probably has been. Some community contributions would likely help, if anyone is experienced with contributing to wikipedia

  • Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters

  • You don’t actually care about that.

    Disabled people are not your fucking pawns

    I didn't intend for it to sound like that, and reading my comment again I see that I should have expanded on it further. I'm hoping my posting history can show where I stand on issues like this.

    What I should have said was that delivery services can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities, and that legislation on delivery services can help us improve access to those without the harms of these current robots.

    For what it's worth, we don't have these robots where I am, so I didn't know how bad it was. In person, I've only seen a few that were sitting around our university plaza last fall. I looked online, and it looks like we don't currently have any here. I will keep what you've mentioned in mind when talking about these bots moving forward, especially if our local politicians are going to be deciding on them in the near future.

    To expand on where my thinking was coming from, I have read first person accounts from people who can't leave their homes easily, and also how existing delivery programs are helpful but don't have the capacity to meet everyone that needs it: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/seniors-grocery-app-delivery-anjel-vancouver-1.4938035

    Often with these discussions, automation is brought up as a way to bridge the gaps that current public funding can't fulfill.

    I also recently read about how some cities have a thriving bike/scooter sharing program, while others are suffering from mismanagement, excessive prices, and chaos; and how it came down to whether the programs were started as a public project or if they were led by tech companies. So in my earlier comment, I was tying information to this story and saying that regulated and/or publicly managed delivery options might be a better thing to focus energy on

    https://bikehub.ca/about-us/news/bike-share-dilemma-why-metro-vancouver-needs-regional-bike-share-system

  • Delivery robots keep crashing into bus shelters

  • These bots can be helpful for the elderly or those with disabilities. It's probably more effective to legislate them at the municipal level.

  • Vancouver - What are your plans for this weekend / next week? [week 13]

  • Good luck! 😄

    Is the outhouse for something, or is the goal just to build an outhouse?

  • Vancouver - What are your plans for this weekend / next week? [week 12]

  • Nice! That seems to be a common sentiment, I'll have to see it soon

  • Fishing crews in the Atlantic keep accidentally dredging up chemical weapons

  • I was also hoping that the article would explain why. I was guessing that with certain chemicals, it might dilute it enough to become harmless.

    But instead, the closest I found was this, which cited cost as the reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submerged_munitions

    I'd like to see a comparison of the long term economic costs of these accidents with just dealing with them early on. Or even entombing them the way we do nuclear waste.

    I also found this article and map

    https://nonproliferation.org/chemical-weapon-munitions-dumped-at-sea/

  • Why do office chairs have 5 legs? | Rabbit Hole [20:17]

  • Sorry about that, done!

  • Enhancing drug coverage for people in British Columbia - Province’s National Pharmacare Plan will benefit hundreds of thousands of people

  • Scrubs Season 10’s Debut Reminded Me Why I Fell In Love With This Medical Sitcom All Those Years Ago

  • Good to know! I'll give it a try soon

  • ‘We need to act’ on men’s health, minister says as government seeks feedback - National | Globalnews.ca

  • I think you are misunderstanding the goal of this. The article says that men "are less likely to ask doctors for help with a range of symptoms". Addressing this is a part of addressing toxic masculinity and historic inequities, and a part of the broader work of finding the appropriate healthcare intervention for each person instead of the traditional one size fits all approach.

    I would rather that men go to doctors for health advice instead of trying to fix it on their own, or worse, going to online influencers for advice. Figuring out why that happens is a step towards changing it for the better. If this work actually produces results, it will be good for both men and women.

  • Questionaire Design Matters: How you could get contradictory polling results on the same topic by asking a series of leading questions and asking the key question in a certain way

  • YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows

  • Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice input

  • Heliboard + Google Swipe Lib + FUTO Voice input

  • I had the same issue, I set it to 110% on my phone. It would be cool if someone put together a guide on common configurations to help it match other apps.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ant

  • YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows

  • There is disagreement and outdated advice on what to do / not to do. First aid is time-sensitive so having a discussion about updated guidelines can be helpful :)

  • YSK What to do if someone’s choking: Evidence says begin with back blows

  • Ski mountaineering is making its Winter Olympics debut at Milano Cortina 2026

  • Definitely!

    Olympic events seem to standardize the events as much as possible for easy and accurate judging. I'll have to check out some non-olympic competitions for this sport to see what they are like. Since yea, I also want to see people making those calls and finding interesting ways to get around obstacles in a forest or other complex setting.