[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think it's fair to look at Canada as a monolith. Quebec is generating most of its energy from hydro, whereas Ontario relies on a well established nuclear energy infrastructure. Provinces that need to change are Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.

Edit: Manitoba actually relies on hydro for 97% of their usage. So correction: only Alberta and Saskatchewan!

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 24 points 3 months ago

Having setup both, ive found syncthing to be much simpler. I would probably not go through the headache of setting up https and databases for next cloud again...

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 months ago

The fundamental issue with housing as an investment is that it is a monolithic and non-fluid vehicle, which makes it worse when leverage comes into play. Whereas stocks can be purchased/sold at any time in an instant and have fractional costs (sometimes as cheap as 10$ per stock), houses are not, and fast fluctuations in prices could heavily impact your ability to realize your gains. So it is, on that aspect, a terrible investment.

For large companies owning thousands of units, this is not an issue since they are spreading the risks across the units (by buying diversely located units of all types). They can also quickly execute purchases and sales since they are in that exact business.

So the argument that houses are ways to pass down wealth is misguided: they are terrible ways to pass down wealth, and parents should leave a trust fund or safe investments rather than a house if their goal is to build generational wealth - housing should be passed down for personal reasons.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 months ago

Oh there's so many people who want to be doctors! No shortage of that.

What ends up is the extremely difficult admission process, poor mentorship/training structure, long work hours, and low salary; at the end you are rewarded with high salary and prestige, but very few makes it that far.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 24 points 4 months ago

Honestly I'm really not surprised. Tim is known for choosing the lowest bidder.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago

Has there been a programmer for anything other than a computer

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 months ago

Syncthing backup server for your important files.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 30 points 8 months ago

By using the computing resources of others' servers to mine cryptocurrency, the cybercriminals can profit at the expense of the compromised organizations, whose CPU and GPU performance is degraded by the mining.

Oh boy, where do I start...

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 25 points 8 months ago

If a company agrees to buy the business, then it means it has value for them. If that's the case, why can Canada Post not derive value from SCI, but Metro can? Also, what will they do with the money they earned - will they reinvest it in growing services that are highly in demand?

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

When Whatsapp was sold to Facebook in 2014, they had 55 employees. Considering the app had considerably less features and did not focus so heavily on encryption and privacy, Signal can be considered even leaner than Whatsapp.

Now, for the actual breakdown, they have at least the following technical teams: desktop, android, iOS, server, calls (ringrtc), core (libsignal). If we assume a team has usually 5 people (manager, Sr SWE, Jr SWE, QA, maybe PM), that's already 30 people. On top of that, they have an in house support team (don't know the size but I wouldn't be surprised if they have 10ppl on the payroll considering the number of signal users) and management (CEO, CTO, CSO, VP), which will quickly add up to around 50.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 25 points 10 months ago

Phone numbers will still be required to sign up, you only won't need it to add a contact.

[-] Poutinetown@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 year ago

Very promising technology! Good to see better-than-mixed review. Looking forward trying once it hits the shelf.

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