Poor XMPP, no one will just let it die.

I think this is part of some effort to destroy the last of the public’s confidence in these institutions after their COVID handling fiasco. The health risks and elevated risks of dying is true, but in a couple studies were similar to cycling or walking on city streets, and nowhere near the risk from sedentary lifestyles and social isolation.

All he people I’ve known over the years with alcohol problems weren’t fretting over 5 ‘standard drinks’, they were drinking well over 15 drinks every single day. Also, they didn’t think they had a problem. Except with sleeping, a couple ounces for a nightcap, or shakes in the morning, a quick swig or so for that.

Someone has a drinking problem when they can’t stop. Doesn’t matter how much someone drinks in one sitting or even during some horrible week at work.

Not knowing about Incus (LXD). It’s a life changer. Would never run any service on bare metal again.

Using GenAI to develop my Terraform and Ansible playbooks is magical. Also, use it to document everything in beautiful HTML docs from the outputs. Amazing.

Would you believe Oracle OCI? They have an always free tier, as in you never pay. You need a valid regular credit card. At first I thought it was for a slow x86 instance, but it includes Arm hours equivalent to 4 cores, 24 GB RAM, 10TB of transfer a month, I think 200GB storage. Divide it up for an nginx reverse proxy in front of it, or HA Proxy if you are feeling ambitious.

Trump and Doge cuts have done such great harm to US government institutions, eliminating competent leadership for dipshit sycophants, that it is clear they are no longer capable of monitoring domestic terrorism. In 6 months of this insanity, America is already defenseless against a Groyper army that was probably dreamed up on 4chan.

FBI Patel looks like a scared kitten on meth. They had no idea this is coming and clearly clueless about any of the memes. They guessed Trans Antifa activist something rather down arrow down arrow.

It was actually mocking Kirk for being a sellout to proper right wing ideas. Full civil war between the extreme right and the pedophile supporters. Unsurprising, except how quickly this has spun out of control.

I’d say the cat is out of the bag now.

Consistency between devices. Android isn’t android, everyone mucks with it, especially Samsung.

Rebates shouldn’t be on vehicles, but on charging infrastructure. The current infrastructure is woefully inadequate, and the infrastructure will last many decades, a car lasts maybe 1 to 2 decades.
Electric charging being cheaper than fuel should be the primary financial incentive. HOV Lane access, and other benefits should be enough to bolster demand.
The subsidies on luxury vehicles, Tesla’s specifically, were a harmful policy mistake that have given idiots talking points that will be used years from now.

Trump definitely has visions, but TACO!

My work PC has W11. Microsoft ruined the start menu. I removed all the icons off the Start menu as it is simply useless and has zero practical functional except to shutdown the PC because Shutdown can’t be found with search.

Golden dome, regardless of what it is, whether upgraded NORAD monitoring or an actual shield would be magnitudes more expensive without Canada’s cooperation.

Another 5-D chess move. The administration’s strategy is so sophisticated, no one will ever figure it out!

No one knows, but here is a click bait article headline for some ad impressions!

I think this is misleading. The exchange from with most currencies with CAD look stable.

The US dollar is dropping against basically everything and is how the administration knows they are winning.
Check out this sexy 30 year Treasury rate. The best in 18 years!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/30-year-us-treasury-yield-nears-18-year-high-as-trump-tax-bill-triggers-global-bond-selloff/ar-AA1FiOKw

Take that losers!

I use Linux, so encryption is easy with LUKS, and Free File Sync to drives that rotate to a safety deposit box at the bank for catastrophic event, such as a house fire. Usually anything from the last few months are still on my mobile devices.

It’s a distraction from all the things for which she should fry for.

Not at all. Another ‘coalition government’, which wasn’t a coalition govt, is rage fodder for the lunatics.

LOL! I grew up around these dimwits, this will go nowhere. Also, Western separation in the past was predicated on BC also leaving. A landlocked and water strapped ‘country’ lead by one of the most stupid and also corrupt people on Earth is laughable.

Windows already takes far to long to load. I turn on my Linux PC and by time I stand up to get a coffee it’s ready to go, then I remember it’s Saturday and I won’t be using Windows 11 all blessed day!

Trudeau made several major mistakes including appointing a journalist to be finance minister. He overstayed his welcome since 2021 and conspiracy theorists made hay with the idea that he was never going to step down, that there would never be an election, or that he would somehow make himself a dictator. None of these things happened, but the brainwashed now think that Trudeau is controlling Mark Carney with fluoride, chemtrails and a 5G cell phone. Or maybe its been the other way the whole time!!! So stupid, but that doesn’t explain the high number of Canadians that voted for Polievre.

Trudeau isn’t the king of the Liberal party, but for a while he was running it as though he was. Reality sunk in, he finally stepped down, but many people want to punish the Liberals and it’s understandable. Assuming this government lasts 2-4 years, Trudeau will be ancient history.

Carney is not Trudeau, and if his ideas work, then he’ll bring people around. The NDP will find a new leader, they have firm roots and will regain their footing.

The CPC will hopefully realize the reason it has Multiple Personality Disorder is because it is a group of people with conflicting values and ideals.that agreed to bind themselves together to defeat the Liberal party in our first past the post system. Strapping the fanatical right wing fringe of the country to the PC party has failed to win over and over. Its time to give up, perhaps this latest loss will finally tear apart their unnatural abomination.

And if I were to dream a little dream, we’d have proportional representation and never have another majority government ever again.

Koch Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch,_Inc.

No one can touch them