Grappling7155

joined 2 years ago
[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Try Consent-O-Matic if you’re tired of doing it manually for each website

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

(FYI Charlie Angus is a Minister of Parliament in Canada.)

Member of Parliament. He’s a part of the NDP opposition party. Ministers are heads of ministries, which are like departments, and ministers have traditionally been from the governing party.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

Northern Ontarian detected

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

What’s the advantage of a third?

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would you recommend LunaNode? I’ve been looking for AWS, gcloud, Azure, and DigitalOcean alternatives and a lot are underwhelming.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

North American driving culture sucks. For the past 70 years cars have dominated at the expense of all other modes of travel. They’re deeply embedded into our culture, infrastructure, planning processes, transportation engineering, and daily lives. They have become synonymous with freedom of movement for a lot of people who can’t imagine any different way to get around. Speed limits and enforcement in their minds are seen as an infringement on their rights. It will be a long and uncertain process to enact change, ripe for disruption and setbacks, but the status quo isn’t working, we’ve hit the limits of cars’ ability to scale, and with the internet showing how things are in the rest of the world, some people are waking up to what’s possible when you aren’t dependent on cars to get around safely and reliably.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 24 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Canada too. Sometimes it seems like the speed “limit” is actually the minimum most people are expected to go (if possible) on Ontario’s highways, especially the busiest ones. Enforcement is almost entirely done manually and barely exists, if it’s being done at all.

A lot of roads and highways are very over-engineered here with wide & forgiving lanes, with broad shoulders at the side. The actual speeds that can be accommodated in the design are far greater than the posted limit.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Try OnlyOffice instead

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

Or meta paid even more to make it go away

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Don’t forget anger

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

My experience with it has been mostly positive, however the laptop I’m running it on is aging and now doesn’t have support for hardware accelerated video decoding for some of the newer codecs. Watching some streams and videos has been a painful experience. Not sure if there’s a way around that.

[–] Grappling7155@lemmy.ca 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

we definitely want the fourth column to remain independent from government funding

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/01/do-countries-with-better-funded-public-media-also-have-healthier-democracies-of-course-they-do/

“among rich countries, the United States is a biiiiiiiiig outlier [in per capita spending on public broadcasters]”

“Germany spends $142.42 per person on its public media. Norway spends $110.73, Finland $101.29, Denmark $93.16. Leave Scandinavia for Western Europe and you see the U.K. at $81.30, France at $75.89, and Spain at $58.25. Heading a bit east? The Czech Republic’s at $60.08, Estonia $55.70, and Lithuania $32.71.

Only trust the Anglosphere? Try Australia $35.78, New Zealand $26.86, or Canada $26.51. How about Asia? Japan spends $53.15, South Korea $14.93. Africa? Botswana’s at $18.38, Cabo Verde $15.22. 

And then there’s the United States — which spends $3.16, per person, per year, on public broadcasting.”

Fund PBS and NPR.

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