jbeales

> It feels entirely like a thou doth protest too much situation.

I can't disagree here. Of the labels described on the Twitter help page, "government-funded" fits the best. The CBC isn't funded by license fees of donations!

Affiliated by name only ;) It's a private corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Canadian_Press

Unfortunately, that "government-funded media" tag implies a lack of editorial independence:

> Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. [https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/government-me...]

Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on. Twitter also has a "publicly-funded media" label which, in spirit, is probably more applicable, but the way the definition has been written, (I suspect it was written exclusively for the BBC), it doesn't apply to the CBC:

> Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.

Twitter should remove "may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content" from the government-funded media label and call it a day.

From the Globe & Mail article[1] about the "government-funded media" label:

> The Canadian Press e-mailed Twitter asking for an explanation of the added tag, and the company responded with a poop emoji.

1. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-twitter-adds-...

The American Association of Private Railcar Owners has a page on their website listing cars available for charter: https://www.aaprco.com/travel/cars-for-charter/

> A breakthrough study by University of Alberta researchers has shown the fat cells that lie just beneath our skin shrink when exposed to the blue light emitted by the sun.

I'm going to guess no. Blue light therapy maybe, if that's a thing.

I feel like there have to be actual hackers out there thinking "You think that's hacking? I'll show you hacking!"

My recovery plan: tarball & upload to Object Store. I'm going to check out exactly how much replication the OVH object store offers, and see about adding a second geographic location, and maybe even a second provider, tomorrow.

(My servers aren't in SBG either - phew!)

> If your production is in Strasbourg, we recommend to activate your Disaster Recovery Plan.

Ouf.

ATC warning of a jetpack reported at 14:36 here: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX-Final-Oct-14-20...

Edit: The incoming report from the pilot is at 7:23 of this file: https://archive-server.liveatc.net/klax/KLAX4N-Final-North-O...

Looks like it's only the cosmic bodies formerly known as "Eskimo Nebula" (NCG 2392 [1]) and "Siamese Twin Galaxies" (NCG 4567 [2] and NCG 4568 [2] that are changing right now, but if anything else comes up, or if they have to refer to something with an offensive name they won't use the name.

[1] https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2000/07/940-Ima... [2] https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190201.html

Seems pretty big, I can't log in to my account and it seems like no email is being sent.

Hopefully this isn't another Garmin.

I would think so too, (that batteries may not have enough energy).

On the other hand, it looks like some are about to be used in New Jersey: https://www.government-fleet.com/10122076/jersey-city-to-rec...

I guess when it comes down to it a fuel tank only holds so much energy, and if we think we can replace a fuel tank with batteries on another kind of truck with an acceptable loss in range, then maybe we can do the same on a garbage truck. They were burning diesel to run the compactor before, so it may not be much difference.

Vocational trucks, (think garbage trucks & dump trucks), are the ones that I'd love to electrify. Those can wake you up even if you're indoors.

Mixing with livestock isn't really new either. So long as the animal doesn't kill the trees orchards are pretty great places for animals. I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.

I guess if we get into something more mixed then that they haven't really rediscovered orchards, they've rediscovered permaculture!

So they rediscovered orchards?

A squirrel did the same thing and brought down the computer systems of a 3-year-old, CA$1.3B super hospital complex in one of Canada's biggest cities: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/how-a-squirrel-broug...

Don't rely on systems being redundant just because you're somewhere they should be!

Looks like Pi Hole on a larger scale. Maybe I'll test it out as the upstream provider for my Pi Hole.

PhpStorm = Big, Java-based IDE. It's not some simple text editor.

PHP Dev often means some sort of local server running too.

> This is very misleading reporting. ... Slightly less than one-fifth were employed before but unemployed during the pilot (17%)

From the article:

> The report shows nearly three-quarters of respondents who were working when the pilot project began kept at it despite receiving basic income.

While they didn't say "83% of people kept working" saying "nearly three quarters" is much easier to read. The article under-reports the number of people who kept working, if anything.

Edit: formatting.

Not really demographics, but from the article:

> while some people did stop working, about half of them headed back to school in hopes of coming back to a better job.

People rob trucks all the time. It's actually a pretty big deal, especially in Canada for some reason.

See https://globalnews.ca/news/6419141/cargo-crime-greater-toron... and https://www.todaystrucking.com/canadian-cargo-theft-surpasse...

20 palettes of asian pears, (or any food item), is surprisingly easy to unload.

We have trouble in our org with autofill on our New Customer forms. Depending on the browser it can be very difficult to remove the saved autocomplete values.

The article _does_ say that the guy is planning on examining the funding on the other side of the movement, so we should get to see the pie chart for the other side eventually.

Leaflet doesn't provide tiles, but lets you get tiles from a variety of sources including OSM, & Mapbox, so you still need a tile provider, or need to render your own tiles.

Thought you were on Kobo for some reason. Might be worth grabbing a cheap one as a Pocket + Overdrive device, it's a pretty great combo ;)

On your Kobo go to Hamburger Menu > Settings > Accounts, then do what it asks to sign in to Pocket.

Once that's done you get a "My Articles" option in the hamburger menu, and that's your Pocket content.

Excellent, thanks!

I Google Translated the federal law, and it seems to be mostly about how leases are dealt with. I also did some Googling and found what I think is the garden in the article, although there seems to be a few gardens in Wedding. They're big compared to what we have here in Montreal.

Thanks for the link. I may be able to convince someone to translate if Google isn't good enough.

If that page is the whole set of laws then it's really not so many rules as the article makes out - our rules in Montreal are probably just as long. I'm going to see if I can cherry-pick the best parts for my little corner of Montreal.

Does anyone know where I can get an English copy of Berlin's Bundeskleingartengesetz?

I manage a community garden in Montreal and love the idea of BBQ and beers in the evening, but the city, (who owns the land), is not ok with drinking at the garden, (or cooking, in general).