Arghblarg

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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 105 points 23 hours ago

Data analytics firm doesn't like ... data on itself being analyzed. huh.

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

Add a removable battery, make sure it has a headphone jack and can be fully unlocked/rooted and I'll buy 3 right bloody now.

Document it well enough to run real Linux and I'll shout about it from the street like a crazy person for free advertising.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the info.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Paywalled, can't read it.

Does this mean I would pay taxes just for holding US securities (eg., stocks in US companies)? Or only when selling? Does it make any difference which brokers are used?

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

There's another post stating the exact opposite in my lemmy 'new' feed here today... so which is it?

2nd time I've gotten to use this meme today!

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed... that's why I posted it, not in any way to support it. I'm fine with the post being downvoted into oblivion; but Canadians need to know this stuff is out there and people are unfortunately viewing it.

 

No comment other than the phrase in title is prominent on the hats intentionally shown behind the young man being interviewed here. I'll let everyone reading this decide for themselves whether this is a problem or not.


EDIT: For the record, perhaps my original commentary on this post was attempting to be too 'clever'. I was most definitely * not * trying to promote these chuckleheads. It was posted in order to ensure people know the enemy -- there are some scary forces working in Canada to instill the horrors we are seeing down south, right here, right now.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

It's not the EU, or anyone outside of Russia, who would 'unleash WWIII'. It's the aggressor's choice, since they started ALL of this, whether that occurs. They could definitively stop this RIGHT NOW by just telling their troops to go home.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 41 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

He is right. No other nation with self-respect should be granting any state visit from the FOTUS (Felon Of The United States). He is an adversary to us all and should be shunned on the international stage, period.

Tell your US Embassy representatives that you will be happy to reconsider engaging once the leadership has changed.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

I do not assert that merely swallowing water with fluoride offers any benefit to do with dental health.

It should be obvious that the act of directly swallowing water containing fluoride would give the water little to no opportunity to interact with one's teeth, which would be required for the intended preventative effect.

This is very similar to the decision by most nations to put low base levels of iodine in table salt. Given peoples' daily habits and diet, it was determined to be a safe and reliable way of ensuring exposure to a needed substance for general health. Not everyone has or will have the discipline to apply fluoridated paste to their teeth regularly (hell, many people don't even brush their teeth regularly!). Nor would many people take steps to ensure they had a recommended dose of iodine if they had to think about it, rather than just getting it through their daily meal ...

It should be clear to anyone that it's the incidental daily, weekly, monthly, yearly cumulative effect of fluoridated water, even in the brief interval before it is swallowed, swishing in the mouth and in direct contact with teeth, that can be of benefit.

Explain to me the science of how municipal fluoridation causes health issues so severe that it should be discontinued.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 233 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (47 children)

This is even more nuts than removing fluoride from municipal water systems. At least with that, parents who believe the science that their kids' teeth will be better off with targeted fluoride treatment can buy the drops and tablets, and those who are afraid for some reason can choose to just not use it.

This is just trying to ban access to fluoride entirely, despite research showing its benefits and the distinct lack of significant harm. Madness.

What next, are they going to criminalize sending fluoride drops/pills through the mail, like mifepristone?

Calgary, AB Canada removed fluoride and a decade later added it back after seeing the effects of its absence.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 48 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Beat me to it. Anand Giridharadas has spoken on the general scam of billionaires white-washing their legacies like this... their philanthropy seldom approaches, much less exceeds, the harm they did in getting so rich in the first place.

 

As most have predicted and feared, the US Administration appears to now be testing if they can push one step further towards enforcing an authoritarian ethno-state: threatening a full-on US citizen by-birth with detainment and deportation (to where, exactly, if they are a born US citizen?). Someone who, "coincidentally", is an immigration lawyer, someone who might defend other targets of their deportation agenda.

First they came for ...


EDIT: a thread indicating this has been a mass email to others https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lmljpkrdj22h

 

In response to suggestions by a lunatic in the US Oval Office, Green Party Canada's leader Elizabeth May suggested Canada should invite western states Washington, Oregon and California join B.C and split from Canada to form the 'Cascadia' eco-state.

(Note this article is from Jan 8, 2025 and Elizabeth May has since become co-leader of the party alongside Jonathan Pedneault).

 

EDIT see my comment below which uses a much cleaner method that avoids the noisy multple udev events and doesn't require udev/eudev at all


This activates/de-activates the secondary display underneath the removeable keyboard properly. Note though that the keyboard is a composite unit and causes a whole train of udev events, rather than a single one, which means the desktop will flicker multiple times on each re-attachment of the keyboard :(. If anyone knows how to just run the scripts on the 'last' udev event, it would make for a cleaner experience. (XFCE sometimes crashes out on me due to the rapid xrandr reconfigs but it's mostly usable).

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in]

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -gt "2" ]; then

#logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REPLACED ==="

xrandr --output eDP-2 --off

fi

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev]

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in &

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out]

#!/bin/bash

if [ "$(xrandr --listmonitors | wc -l)" -lt "3" ]; then

#logger -p user.info "=== KEYBOARD REMOVED ==="

xrandr --auto && xrandr --output eDP-2 --below eDP-1

fi

[/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev]

#!/bin/bash

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out &

[/etc/udev/rules.d/99-zbduo2024-kbd.rules]

ACTION=="add", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0b05", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1b2c", ENV{XAUTHORITY}="/home/username/.Xauthority", ENV{DISPLAY}=":0", OWNER="username", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-in_udev"

ACTION=="remove", ENV{ID_MODEL}="ASUS_Zenbook_Duo_Keyboard", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/usb-0b05_1b2c-out_udev"

Now, to get your laptop keyboard working when removed, in bluetooth mode, one must

  1. Ensure bluetooth-ctl is running and initiate 'pair' in Bluetooth by clicking 'Create pairing with this device' (key icon in the 'Blueman-Manager' window)
  2. Turn on bluetooth (switch on the left of the keyboard)
  3. Remove the keyboard
  4. Hold F10 for 4-5 seconds until its blue LED starts blinking rapidly (kbd in pairing mode)
  5. Watch your desktop notifications for the connection message with the BT challenge pin code (6 digits)
  6. type the challenge PIN code on the keyboard
  7. Now the keyboard should be paired.

... now if only I could get the sound device (Intel HD Audio) and brightness control working for both screens!

 

If you haven't heard of it, this island has a population that the world has collectively decided to leave alone, mostly because they have proven, on multiple occasions, that they absolutely do not want visitors. Like, arrow-to-death anyone attempting to land or even visit near their shores.

This probably cannot go on forever... but maybe, it could. Essentially, we are already implementing a 'Prime Directive' of sorts here. Would the 23rd, 24th, ... centuries in Star Trek canon still have this little island on Earth, isolated from not just from Earth's own unified Federation society, but from the greater Federation races? What steps would the Federation and Earth take to maintain their isolation and the ecosystem on which they depend?

Would make for an interesting episode, or at least a cool side-note reference in one :)

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