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[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 10 points 14 hours ago

It's not like military operations are supposed to be the Treasury Secretary's area of expertise. He should probably just keep his mouth shut.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 8 points 16 hours ago

I wonder how many people freaking out over this field have even looked at what other fields are on that user record. The realName field could be used to dox you! ICE and the CIA are interested in your location! Those fields have about the same level of enforcement as the new one, i.e. you can just lie.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Also: Shut down Iran's nuclear weapons development that accelerated after "Trump I" pulled the US out of the deal that was keeping it in check.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

How much video information does a project file even have though? Like, if it's just instructions for editing together the video clips, that aren't even being uploaded, that doesn't seem very useful for AI training.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The program now requires video projects to be saved to Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service in order to continue editing them, reports Windows Latest.

According to Microsoft, the media files themselves (such as video clips and images) don’t necessarily need to be synced to the cloud.

This is less shitty than I expected. Forcing people to put videos and images in OneDrive could have pushed them towards paying for more OneDrive space, but if it's just the project file I'm not even sure why Microsoft made the change. Are ClipChamp project files big?

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 days ago

Revoke this man's security clearance.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

The Notepad getting junk added is a Microsoft Store app. The old notepad.exe is still usable.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 week ago

We just had this month's Patch Tuesday and they're still dealing with problems caused by last month's?! I really need to try harder to convince my father putting Linux on his current computer is a better idea than buying a Windows 11 computer.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Looks like it really might have vanity for Rubio:

As Vice President J.D. Vance recalled at an event in December, the Journal reported, he was meeting with Trump, Rubio, and an unnamed third politician in the Oval Office when the president accused Vance and Rubio of having “shitty shoes.” Trump asked them all for their shoe size; Vance made sure to put in the record that he’s a size 13, while Rubio claimed to be an 11 and the third man a 7. The president then launched a sideways insult at the guy with the daintiest feet: “You know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size.”

That the “locker-room talk” president would place an inordinate, genital-related premium on a man’s foot size was surely no surprise to Rubio, who has risen in GOP influence in direct proportion to his willingness to contort himself to Trump’s exact desires. It does not seem out of the realm of possibility, then, that Rubio would inflate his own shoe specs to impress Trump with his masculine bulk.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

What I read was that Trump has been guessing the shoe sizes and people don't want to correct him.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It doesn't work like that:

Multiple councillors and the mayor asked if there were options the city could use to gather a higher density bonus fee from the developer, or require more affordable housing units, but staff said that was not possible.

Municipal lawyer John Traves said the municipal planning system is not set up to be disciplinary.

“As much as I’d like to find a way around it, I haven't been able to,” Traves said.

The case is now before courts, which will decide if a fine should be issued.

 

Just the three big revenue streams that Houston cancelled — $272.4 million for HST (that benefits those with the money to allow them to be big spenders), $160 million for income tax bracket changes, $40 million for bridge tolls (that primarily benefit people in HRM but have to be made up for by everyone in the province) — add up to $472.4 million.

The cuts save the provincial government just $304.9 million.

With the tolls now gone, the province is budgeting $120.1 million for Halifax Harbour Bridges.

No matter how you slice and dice it all, the fact is that Houston-the-professional-accountant seems to have badly messed up the province’s accounts.

 

While mired in controversy from all sides, the Walt Disney Company has unveiled price hikes for Disney+ and its other streaming services today.

As of October 21, Disney+ will cost up to 20 percent more, depending on the plan you have. Disney+ with ads is increasing from $10 to $12 per month, while the ad-free plan is going from $16 to $19 per month. The annual, ad-free plan will go from $160 to $190.

 

There was a time when sneering at international law would not have been a good look for someone aspiring to be Prime Minister of Canada.

But, charting new territory, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre contemptuously called Justin Trudeau “woke” for indicating Canada would abide by a ruling of the International Criminal Court (ICC) — a court that Canada helped establish to punish war criminals.

Poilievre specifically rejects the legitimacy of the ICC charges against Netanyahu, on the specious grounds that Netanyahu was democratically elected.

Poilievre's tweet with an interview clip

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