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Daniel Quinn

@ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

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Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

  • More than 135,000 OpenClaw instances exposed to internet in latest vibe-coded disaster

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  • Is this the same service where someone pointed out that the skills library was riddled with malicious code, and the response was akin to "yeah, nothing we can do about that"?

  • The City of Chicago will allow residents to issue parking tickets

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  • ‘First Nations Would Not Exist Without Canada,’ Rustad Tells Crowd

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  • I think he meant that if the US had just taken the entire continent rather than having to share it with Canada, they would have been even more ruthless in their genocide than we were.

    He's probably right, but saying it that way betrays how truly broken his worldview is.

  • London's Most Controversial Cyclist - Lemmy: Bestiverse

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  • Absolute hero.

  • Canada’s 10x funding increase to the European Space Agency builds bridges across the Atlantic and the solar system

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  • FUCK YEAH! LET'S DO SOME MOTHERFUCKING SPACE STUFF!*

    *To be clear, I say this unironically.

  • Goodbye EV sales mandate. Hello purchase rebates. Carney shakes up Canada's auto industry

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  • Lemme guess: still no assistance for purchasing e-bikes or cargo bikes?

  • Are there any lightweight linux video editors?

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  • A thing

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  • Alternatives to Mattermost

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  • I keep seeing Zulip tossed around as an alternative, but I don't know what's up with their licencing. There's also Framateam, but I think that might just be Mattermost as a service.

    Matrix would be great if it wasnt so user-hostile, but it is :-(

  • New federal grocery rebate will cost $12.4 billion, PBO estimates

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  • A rebate sounds like a positively insane idea. It's just a corporate subsidy with extra steps.

    If you want to lower prices, you can't give people money to give to the oligopolies. You have to break up the oligopolies, regulate the hell out of them, and send some people to prison for price fixing.

  • Ottawa is giving greenhouses a tax break. Will it help lower food prices?

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  • No. It will not help. Maybe in a competitive market it might, but Canada has been nursing an oligopoly for decades now, and oligopolies set their own prices based on what the public will tolerate.

    Lowering prices requires either (a) breaking up the giants, or (b) offering a publicly-run alternative that somehow bypasses the vertically integrated supply chain.

  • Microsoft stock plunges as Wall Street questions AI investments

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  • Thinking that the headline might be a bit hyperbolic, I thought I'd check and...

    The Redmond, Washington-based tech giant is on track Thursday to finish at its worst day since March 2020 and has seen approximately $400bn in valuation wiped out.

    Holy shit.

  • Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x04 "Vox in Excelso"

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  • I really didn't care for this one.

    The premise of the debate was flawed from the start. The Federation has an obligation to offer help, but there's no requirement anywhere that it must compel another race to accept that help. Indeed many, many episodes have gone out of their way to point this out. So the whole idea of a "debate" was pointless. Of course they should offer the help, but that's the end of any moral or legal responsibility. Doing anything more would itself be unethical.

    Interestingly as an aside, I found this whole prospect very American at its root. Not only should we accept that we must offer help, but of course we must compel these people to accept our idea of help. It stinks of regime change from without and I find the idea that the Federation would ever work this way ridiculous.

    On top of that, we're somehow supposed to pretend we didn't all watch Esri Dax's excellent critique of the Klingon Empire back on DS9 and instead accept that this lie of "conquest" is supposed to prop up the Klingon culture. Are we to believe that it's been hundreds of years and the Empire is still built in lies they tell each other about honour and battle? Instead of showing any hint of evolution (and potentially stoking internal conflict at the idea of accepting charity from an enemy), we just had a 5 minute "battle" and it's all ok now.

    This wasn't even a respectful battle. No blood was spilt by either side, no sacrifices made. Where is the honour in that? It was a mock battle to preserve a lie. Esri would not be amused.

  • View from Europe: The Increasingly Convincing Case for Canada Joining the EU

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  • Installing old windows games on Linux through Lutris is easy!

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  • Hooray! I actually bought a legit CD on eBay and couldn't get it to work some years ago. I shall try again with Heroic. Thanks!

  • Installing old windows games on Linux through Lutris is easy!

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  • Has anyone managed to play "Black & White" this way? Ive tried so many ways I'm not sure I have it in me to do it again.

  • Canadian Mastodon is Growing!

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  • Emily Lowan has a great hashtag she's running called the #FightTheOligarchs tour and it's really well done. Never in a million years would I have expected a media game so smooth from the BC Greens.

    Avi Lewis's account is pretty new, but honestly from what I'm setting, he could learn a thing or two from Lowan's feed.

  • When Evidence Can Be Deepfaked, How Do Courts Decide What’s Real?

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  • United Kingdom @feddit.uk
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    Asbestos found in children’s play sand sold in UK

    www.theguardian.com /business/2026/jan/24/childrens-play-sand-hobbycraft-asbestos-removed-recall

  • UK government targets VPNs in new online safety consultation as Lords vote for ban

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  • I will never get used to the comfort Britons appear to have with surveillance. I guess it's time to set up a Wireguard instance of my own in the Netherlands to proxy everything through.

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Happy New Year

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI is destroying your brain and everything else

  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    CNBC Went To Canada To See The U.S. Product Boycotts — And What They Found Was Striking

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    The rise of Whatever

    eev.ee /blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI Agents: A Pox on Free Society

    danielquinn.org /blog/ai-agents-a-pox-on-free-society/
  • Steam Hardware @sopuli.xyz
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    Has the Deck turned off any other Steam users?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Can you configure tmux to use "normal" modifier keys?

  • Android @lemmy.world
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    An app to post to an arbitrary URL?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.

    mastodon.social /@danielquinn/113494110913993635
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    How to find what's eating 100% of just one core?

  • macOS @lemmy.world
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    What's the best way to remote into a Mac?

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What're some of the dumbest things you've done to yourself in Linux?

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    Some dude 3D printed a little house for his local frog

    mastodon.social /@MaaikeV/109937773609995007
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    9 days after writing in defence of a Free Palestine, Paul Biggar is dropped from his director role at CircleCI

    hachyderm.io /@paulbiggar/111627367674590120
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Ash Vs Bash

  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    Daniel Quinn @lemmy.ca

    I made a thing to make playing YouTube videos locally from your browser easier

    gitlab.com /danielquinn/video-bypass