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> It feels entirely like a thou doth protest too much situation. I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC…

Affiliated by name only ;) It's a private corporation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadian_Press

Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence: > Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or al…

From the Globe & Mail article[1] about the "government-funded media" label: > The Canadian Press e-mailed Twitter asking for an explanation of the added tag, and the company respon…

The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a page on their website listing cars available for charter: https://www.aaprco.com/travel/cars-for-charter/

> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun. I'm goi…

I feel like there have to be actual hackers out there thinking "You think that's hacking? I'll show you hacking!"

My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic locati…

> If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan. Ouf.

ATC warning of a jetpack reported at 14:36 here: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Oct-14-20... Edit: The incoming report from the pilot is at 7:23 of this file: h…

Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but …

Seems pretty big, I can't log in to my account and it seems like no email is being sent. Hopefully this isn't another Garmin.

I would think so too, (that batteries may not have enough energy). On the other hand, it looks like some are about to be used in New Jersey: https://www.government-fleet.com/101220…

Vocational trucks, (think garbage trucks & dump trucks), are the ones that I'd love to electrify. Those can wake you up even if you're indoors.

Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also h…

So they rediscovered orchards?

A squirrel did the same thing and brought down the computer systems of a 3-year-old, CA$1.3B super hospital complex in one of Canada's biggest cities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canad…

Looks like Pi Hole on a larger scale. Maybe I'll test it out as the upstream provider for my Pi Hole.

PhpStorm = Big, Java-based IDE. It's not some simple text editor. PHP Dev often means some sort of local server running too.

> This is very misleading reporting. ... Slightly less than one-fifth were employed before but unemployed during the pilot (17%) From the article: > The report shows nearly three-q…