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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

Hah, LOL no. Sadly, I have no illusions there will be any accountability in this regime.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps his admiration of despots like Putin, and his seemingly desperate desire to become like them, to be considered an equal by them, is the thing that drives him. It could be that he just truly, truly wants to be like Putin, so does anything he can to impress or aid him.

If that's true, then there's really nothing anyone can do. (Well, nothing I can mention, that we all know full well, without being on some lists).

[–] [email protected] 140 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Never mind the reasons -- this is patently illegal and violates security clearances. Yet another reason, as if more were needed, to oust him and then prosecute him.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The Americans do not even let their existing citizens vote when demographics are unsuitable to Republican successes, such as in Puerto Rico or Washington DC

This, 1000%. Anyone who thinks they would let a new "51st" state, especially one with so many 'left-leaning' (compared to US metrics on political views) people living there, have full statehood, is hopelessly naive.

We'd end up being some second-class territory without full voting rights, a true vassal state, enslaved and disenfranchised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Maybe they've got something really, really big on him. Something he values beyond all else -- even money, even fame, even attention, even power, since those seem to be all he loves.

Maybe Putin convinced him years ago he will bump off Ivanka if he doesn't obey, or something.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Like father, like son. Jeebus what a horrible being (I skipped a word on purpose). And the HOA who've taken his signalling/direction are, of course, horrible as well.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Sounds great, if it's non-allergenic too it would be a great product.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Let's see how committed they are to "Free Speech". Bets on how long until Florida or D.C. bans these ads? (They'll call it "foreign interference").

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hmm, guess that's tacit permission for Canada to do the same with our southbound water then eh? >:(

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It does matter, if nothing else in that you voted, and if not PC, then it is recorded that not 100% in your riding want PC. Don't please let FPTP dissuade you from voting at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yup that's pretty much it, I wish it came with the original instructions, but I found this online:

https://www.timelesstailors.com/p-15441-pewter-astrology-sundial-ring-pendant.aspx

How it works... Crafted of pewter and brass and available in several design motifs, these bold sundial replicas use a unique "Bead of Light" to tell time. First, adjust the brass band for the correct month. Then suspend the dial by its black satin cord with the hole facing the sun. A ray of sunshine will shine and a bead of light will illuminate a number on the inside of the dial, showing the time of day Nicely packaged, all sundials come with instructions. Calibrated to work best near latitude 40 degrees north.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I would totally buy a modern reproduction of this. So cool.

I found a sundial ring somewhere a few years ago, I think it was one of these ...Pewter sundial ring

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Best book for learning the ins and outs of MIDI I've ever encountered. Relatively obscure, but an invaluable reference book for anyone wanting to dig into the details of how MIDI works.

 

A wire broke off the ignitor element in our Harman unit. I have ordered a replacement and it looks simple enough to fix myself. But before sourcing the part I had called about 5 different fireplace companies in the area, and it seems everyone has dropped all support for pellet stoves in recent years! Not only does no one sell them any more (other than Canadian Tire), but they all outright refused to even consider sending a repairperson to help.

It's a bit infuriating. I am calling them, literally saying "please come take my money at your standard hourly rate". One would think "struggling businesses" would be more willing to take on what should be profitable work.

Is it such a liability issue for them that they're actually afraid to take on the work?

What if something bigger fails someday on my pellet stove? Why is no one on the island now willing to work on one?

If you know of someone who does still service wood pellet stoves on the island (Courtenay/Comox), please reply here or DM me. Thanks.

EDIT: formatting

 

What does this mean? New levels of ass-covering for bank malfeasance, or just the regular sort of opacity?

Also see the original 'interim' declaration: https://www.osc.ca/en/securities-law/instruments-rules-policies/5/52-502/ontario-instrument-52-502-exemption-national-instrument-52-112-non-gaap-and-other-financial

and

https://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/osfi-bsif/rep-rap/blueprint-plan-directeur/Pages/supervision-surveillance-let.aspx

Thanks to re⊃⊃it user JackTheTranscoder for links.

 

Good video by Richard Newton updating the whole GME story from the start up to today.

 

This occurred today when I tried updating/deleting old comments via the Redact tool, on the old super-stonk sub.

Guess they're afraid of losing their captive Apes!

 

See linked posting. I've commented there with a link to a CLI tool in Python that allows downloading of IA collections. I've submitted a patch to enable specifying start and end points so that it's easier to resume downloading a huge collection, or to allow multiple people to split up the work.

https://archive.org/details/georgeblood

https://archive.org/details/78rpm_bowling_green

F*ck the RIAA and absurdly long copyright.


EDIT: There is more than one collection of 78s on IA, so I updated the title.


The issue with these collections are that they're absolutely HUGE. And yes, IA offers torrents for them, but as a separate torrent for every. single. album. And the torrents have all data in them -- FLAC, fixed-rate MP3, VBR MP3, PDF liner notes, etc. etc... there may be some extremely hardcore data-hoarders out there who want everything, but IMHO as these are scratchy old 78 records, FLAC is overkill to just save the audio in a listenable format. The George Blood collection, just the VBR MP3s, is looking to be about 6TB. With ALL data it might be over 40TB! I can't afford that many hard drives :)


So, my approach at the moment is to save just the VBR MP3s (they seem to be done at up to 320kbps VBR) and the JPEG album cover. If I have a chance and any storage left afterwards, I can make a separate pass to get the album liner PDFs...


Tool used: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive


Patch to allow setting start and end item indices for downloads: https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive/pull/605


Example usage to grab just the VBR MP3 and record label JPG for each (note the --start-idx and --end-idx arguments):

#ia download --start-idx=4001 --end-idx=8000 -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --format="JPEG" --search collection:georgeblood

I'm going to concentrate on the George Blood collection for now.. I'm starting at item 1. It would be great if others started at index 50,000, 100,000, 150,000, ... and others started at the end and worked backwards in similarly-sized chunks, so that it's assured someone gets each of them.

 

Found this community, saw no posts. Why not start off by letting us know what FORTH you use in the modern day?

I know there's GNU FORTH, and variants like 8th, which I downloaded ages ago but haven't really used. I like the idea of FORTH but haven't had the itch to write anything in it (I need to get over my current fascination with APL first, I guess, so I can try out FORTH again someday 😀 )

 

(Credit to rexxit user u/JackTheTranscoder)

Could this be the start of a big foreign ownership dump?

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