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TheDudeV2

@ TheDudeV2 @lemmy.ca

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  • Nearly a third of Canadians believe U.S. may try to invade Canada: poll

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  • I’ve started preparing for my HAM radio license. Figure communications might become very important at some point in the future. License because I’ll be able to learn things before… well, before I won’t be concerned about a license.

  • So this just happened in Alberta, Canada 🇨🇦. A driver hit a 17-year-old girl in a marked crosswalk, got out of his vehicle, got upset at her, before leaving the scene

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  • What do you do? You can’t detain the girl. So she leaves and what? You call the cops and say “I fucked up and hit someone with my van.” Who does that help? Now shes lost in the crowd. You can’t just stay there, so you drive away. What else is there to do?

    Even if every charitable assumption you've made is correct, you and every reasonable person knows exactly what he should have done.

    You said it yourself. You man up, you call the cops, you tell them “I fucked up and hit someone with my van”, and that there is a human being that needs help. That's it. That's what you do. That's what every single person should have done.

    It seems to me you're trying to engage in healthy dialogue, but "That's a ragebait title" is just not true; the headline does, in fact, summarize events rather well.

    The adult, the driver of the car, that hit and injured another human, let alone a kid, bears 100% of blame and took none of the responsibility.

  • Jimmy Kimmel Pulled “Indefinitely” By ABC After Over Charlie Kirk Comments

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  • Someone needs to DM to remind me (if you’re interested), but I built a pretty clever stack with all the arrs, a failsafe vpn network tunnel, dynamic dns, deluge, Jellyfin, jellyseer, reverse proxy. The works.

    It’s dead simple to use (my mother runs it no problem). There is a semi-manual setup process, but a few mildly tech literate friends got it running in a couple hours.

    Built for Windows, all deployed on docker. Works fine on Linux/Mac also.

    The reason I’m not sharing it in this comment is I never intended to share it publicly and want to ensure my repo is sanitized of any PII.

    If you’d like, hit me up sometime.

  • You can literally just see where any ship in the world is

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  • What a blast from the past!!!!! I worked on that ship for 4.5 months back in 2003 when it was the MSY Windsurf. Played the piano in the Lounge. Thanks for the smiles my friend!!! :)

  • Poilievre may lose his Ottawa-area riding as Liberals poised to sweep the region

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  • Not only are there other candidates in PP’s riding, there happens to be about 90 of them!

    That’s right, there’s about 90 people running for MP in Ottawa-Carleton. And I find that to be rather funny.

    The advocacy group Longest Ballot, which tries to get as many candidates as possible on a ballot to call attention to the idea of an independent electoral reform process, told CBC News it is targeting Carleton.

    Because of this, there are about 90 candidates on the final ballot.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canada-votes-2025-riding-profile-carleton-1.7482819

  • New poll says 27% of Canadians view the United States as an 'enemy' country

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  • Believe it or not, it’s a Sobey’s, so big chain. I was pleasantly surprised that it happened so quickly. I don’t know if my local store is representative of the chain though.

  • New poll says 27% of Canadians view the United States as an 'enemy' country

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  • At my grocery store in Canada each Canadian product has a Canadian Flag next to each shelf price sticker. Makes it easy to know what to grab.

  • JD Vance falsely claims Donald Trump didn’t lose 2020 election

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  • This dude most certainly does not abide.

    Like, most of the time I do.

    Just not in this particular instance.

  • Miss me with that low bitrate

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  • Depending on your threat model you’re almost certainly fine.

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    Murder conviction remains reinstated for Adnan Syed in ‘Serial’ case as court orders new hearing

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  • I don’t really have an opinion on this case (in terms of Syed’s guilt or innocence), but it all just seems like such a shit show. If this guy is innocent he’s been repeatedly screwed by the system.

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    The State Fair of Texas is banning firearms, drawing threats of legal action from Republican AG

    apnews.com /article/state-fair-texas-gun-ban-da8b22f018f46dd770f65e799a6d3e6e

  • Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

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  • Thanks for providing this update. You added some sources and data that I didn't know, and your last point clearly articulates the set of likely causes of this misstep.

    When I first became aware of this story my gut-reaction was "I fucking hate unforced errors like this!"; I'm now very curious why this happened the way it did. Mind you, in the grand scheme of things I suspect this is nothing more than a fleeting political blip.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Plea deal with accused 9/11 plotters revoked - US government

    www.bbc.com /news/articles/c7202593k0xo
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    Trump's answer today reminded me of his infamous "Nuclear" quote.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Trump's answer today reminded me of his infamous "Nuclear" quote.

  • The likes the upvotes

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  • I got 2.7k on a post, but I just got lucky.

  • TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

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  • That isn't true though. Most convicted felons can't vote, but they can run for office.

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    TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

    www.bbc.com /news/live/world-us-canada-69069142

  • Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem

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  • I can try to explain, but there are people who know much more about this stuff than I do, so hopefully someone more knowledgeable steps in to check my work.

    What does ‘random’ or ‘noise’ mean? In this context, random means that any given bit of information is equally as likely to be a 1 or a 0. Noise means a collection of information that is either random or unimportant/non-useful.

    So, you say “Compression saves on redundant data”. Well, if we think that through, and consider the definitions I’ve given above, we will reason that ‘random noise’ either doesn’t have redundant information (due to the randomness), or that much of the information is not useful (due to its characteristic as noise).

    I think that’s what the person is describing. Does that help?

  • Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem

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  • I’m not an Information Theory guy, but I am aware that, regardless of how clever one might hope to be, there is a theoretical limit on how compressed any given set of information could possibly be; and this is particularly true for the lossless compression demanded by this challenge.

    Quote from the article:

    The skepticism is well-founded, said Karl Martin, chief technology officer of data science company Integrate.ai. Martin's PhD thesis at the University of Toronto focused on data compression and security.

    Neuralink's brainwave signals are compressible at ratios of around 2 to 1 and up to 7 to 1, he said in an email. But 200 to 1 "is far beyond what we expect to be the fundamental limit of possibility."

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    Neuralink looks to the public to solve a seemingly impossible problem

    www.cbc.ca /news/science/neuralink-compression-challenge-1.7216667
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Fort McMurray residents told to be ready to evacuate on short notice due to wildfire threat

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuation-alert-1.7201442

  • Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear

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  • Michael Lewis wrote an interesting book on this, published as an audio-book in 2018, called The Coming Storm (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41016100-the-coming-storm). It's well worth the listen:

    In his first Audible Original feature, New York Times best-selling author and journalist Michael Lewis delivers hard-hitting research on not-so-random weather data — and how Washington plans to release it. He also digs deep into the lives of two scientists who revolutionized climate predictions, bringing warning systems to previously unimaginable levels of accuracy. One is Kathy Sullivan, a gifted scientist among the first women in space; the other, D.J. Patil, is a trickster-turned-mathematician and a political adviser.

    Most urgently, Lewis's narrative reveals the potential cost of putting a price tag on information with the potential to save lives, raising questions about balancing public service with profits in an ethically-ambiguous atmosphere.

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    Gunfire and blaze at Moscow concert hall, reports say

    www.bbc.com /news/world-europe-68642162

  • C++ Moment

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  • https://www.youtube.com/@TsodingDaily

    If you're a programmer, or think you might want to be one, I highly recommend this channel. He's a savant at all sorts of low level things, quite funny and entertaining, and does a fantastic job of explaining what's going on.

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    Private lander makes first US moon landing in more than 50 years, but signal weak

    apnews.com /article/moon-landing-private-company-intuitive-machines-9c896bfca61582773d381f4045fd35d7
  • World News @lemmy.world
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    Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say

    www.npr.org /2024/02/20/1232789953/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-biden-hunter-ukraine
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    Ex-FBI source charged with Biden lies is tied to Russian intelligence, prosecutors say

    www.npr.org /2024/02/20/1232789953/alexander-smirnov-fbi-informant-biden-hunter-ukraine
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    Trump seeks Supreme Court pause in 2020 election case

    www.bbc.com /news/world-us-canada-68277167