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Rails World 2024 Opening Keynote - David Heinemeier Hansson (www.youtube.com)
Failed Attempt at Creating a Video Search Engine in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Searxng has it's own issues like scaling and getting good results. It can still be a good option.

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Failed Attempt at Creating a Video Search Engine (www.bendangelo.me)
 

I detail how I created a search engine. In the end I recommend self-hosting spyglass for finding information online.

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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)
 

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

‘Save the Children Convoy’ Finally Ends, Leaving Farmer With Piles of Garbage, Rancid Food and Unpaid Bills in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is this getting upvoted? Totally ridiculous statement.

How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the info

How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

100%. They'll eventually turn evil. I self-host as much as I can.

What's the best affordable pre-built mini server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Prebuilt like a traditional server? I personally use an orange pi and it's pretty good. Just make sure to use the open source arm OS.

Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just don't shop there

Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago

Walmart sells Classico pasta sauce for $2.97 in my area or 4/$10. Or I could go to zerhs and buy 1 for $7.99..

Ridiculous markup.

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Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
 

A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.

Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 months ago (15 children)

If you need to have a home to afford to retire;

And most young people will never own a home;

How do we expect this to play out?

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Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling (betterdwelling.com)
 

Canadian real estate prices have surged in almost every market, with a typical home price doubling in many regions. A median household in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would need to save over 20 years for just the down payment, more than 3x the historic average. Seems absurd? The outlandish scenario was apparently a […]

Linux is still not ready to replace Windows in c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Have you tried popos?

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Loblaws and Sobeys are now under formal investigation for 'anticompetitive conduct' (www.blogto.com)
 

Canada's Competition Bureau, which has already concluded that the nation needs more supermarket players to foster a healthy market for consumers, i...

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Honestly this is valid. I wouldn't take this immediately. I would wait a few years to see if there are any side effects, too much money to be made.

Refugee board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think the argument is to deter other immigrants from committing such crimes.

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Refugee board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu’s lawyer has said there are still numerous other legal procedures to come, and the deportation process could take months or years.

Using Lemmy make me hate Windows (or any proprietary softwares) and finally make me fully switched to Linux in c/general@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 13 points 5 months ago

Welcome aboard.

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Canada will reinstate citizenship rights to ‘lost Canadians’ - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
 

Immigration Minister Marc Miller tabled legislation Thursday that would extend citizenship to some children born outside of Canada.

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Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

The group says food security is rising in all 10 provinces and one in four Canadians have inadequate access to food

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Demolition begins for final blocks of Toronto's original Regent Park neighbourhood (www.blogto.com)
 

It's the end of an era for Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, as the final blocks constructed in the late 1940s for what was Canada's largest and...

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Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution (vin01.github.io)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/168017

HN Discussion

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From Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square: new signage expected by end of year (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
 

The City of Toronto says signage for Yonge-Dundas Square was decommissioned earlier this month and signage reflecting the site's new name is expected to be installed by the end of the year.

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