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Tuition in Canada is heavily subsidized, 80% of the cost is covered by tax payers.

FastMail scores pretty well on this comparison of email providers based on privacy: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-email-comparison-chart...

I use a password manager which generates a random password for my accounts (and I don't take my computer with me), would they turn me away at the border?

I think the factors that make, or break, an online community are: The number of active users, the visibility of posters (so reputation is at stake), and the ability for the communi…

Download link is broken. Alternative ways to download: a) Use brew: brew install Caskroom/cask/disk-inventory-x b) Another download link (same link used in brew/cask)[0]: http://ww…

Could you recommend a few articles?

The practical reason for this is that you don't lose you friend in a crowd.

If Java was released today, it would still be valuable. Java is a small, well defined language (without many surprises). Java runs on an open source platform, OpenJDK. The JSR's ar…

It's much broader than that, "(f) interference with critical infrastructure;" which can be interpreted to mean First Nations protests that delay pipeline construction. I heard from…

C-51 is a proposed anti-terror law that gives "secret police" powers (the ability for intelligence organizations to detain a suspect without charge for up to a week) and broad eave…

Going to the test site of the Root 2 certificate prompts a cert error. https://www.thawte.com/roots/ If you're signing applications with this certificate then you'll have to resign…

I use the Vimperator add-on for Firefox.

Idea: When you're traveling change your settings to load the grub shell -- they ask for the password and you can say, "There is no password. It's a Linux grub-shell, just type the …