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  • Iran tells world to get ready for oil at $200 a barrel as it fires on commercial ships

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  • Don't forget to convert the currency. $5 USD /gal is about $1.50 CAD /L, which is bang for Western Canada and cheaper than gas prices right now in Eastern Canada.

    You're right though, those aren't the insane prices the original poster thinks they are for countries outside the US.

  • New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

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  • Again, stop giving them devices that they have full control over. They either shouldn't have a smartphone or they should have one that you control.

  • New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

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  • Right, so use them to your advantage? Don't allow unfettered internet access on the device you give your child. Use MDM/Parental controls to lock its internet access to a proxy or VPN that blocks adult websites, as well as other anonymizers. Business have been doing this since forever.

  • New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level

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  • It's not on you to know every single website and what it does. All major security providers maintain a classification database of websites that they use to filter the internet. Most major corporations subscribe to those lists, as do schools (I think by law). All you would do is buy one of these services and the blacklist would be managed by them. They're not 100% perfect, and you child will be able to find a picture of boobs if they try hard enough, but that has always been the case.

    One quick and easy way is to change your DNS to 1.1.1.3, which is a public resolver Cloudflare runs which filters out adult domains. This doesn't scale if you've given your child a cellular device that can connect to other networks, but in that case you shouldn't have done that, or should secure that device with a security solution that can enforce polices across the OS.

    Personally I think it should be easier for parents to be able to do this kind of thing without having to learn too much about the tech, but deciding how to raise your child and what to shelter them from is your responsibility. These products have existed for decades. Instead of forcing OS manufactures to confirm ages and identities, we should focus on making sure parents have access to easy to use parental controls.

  • Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan

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  • You're so close. It's like you read 1/2 of the detective novel, thought you knew who did it, then got bored and closed it without finding out you were wrong.

  • Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan

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  • It was disingenuous to infer that the minor tax increase you linked to above had any meaningful impact on affordability.

    If your second link is accurate then your bigger beef is with the provincial liquor boards as they are levying a tax that is certainly notable.

    And then to blame immigrants for unaffordability with the old debunked "taking our jobs" argument is just sad. I hope you eventually step out of your conservative bubble and see that it's capitalism and class inequality that are the problem, not government and your fellow man.

  • Canadians are drinking less, driving the biggest drop in alcohol sales in 20 years: StatsCan

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  • Charlebois predicts the tax will increase the price of a single beer by one cent, while the finance ministry told Global News in a statement that the amount would be three-quarters of a cent.

    Oh no? Even in the worst case the taxes are clearly not the issue.

    Beer Canada said since the tax is a production tax imposed on the brewer at the point and time of production, “it is then magnified by other fees and taxes imposed by distributors, retailers, and provinces, including sales taxes,” making the impact on a 12-pack likely closer to 20 cents.

  • Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre

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  • And all from natural gas. Literally a 24/7 365 burn. The environmental community never could have predicted the regressions of the last few years. There's no hope anymore.

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • My mistake, it always allowed PHEVs in Canada and I made the assumption it was similar elsewhere as a full blown EV mandate is a really though sell. Thanks for clarifying.

  • BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace

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  • While battery degradation is real, one thing people often overlook is that most of these mandates include PHEVs under the umbrella of electric vehicles. PHEVs have way smaller batteries which make them lighter, cheaper, and they aren't subject to range anxiety. The only downside is the extra cost and the continued maintenance required of an ICE (but ICE buyers are used to it and don't care about that).

  • Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”

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  • Windows itself already does this type of tracking to determine your time zone.

  • Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

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  • Totally different. Go take a look at one of these things. Many of them aren't even GPUs you can slot into anything, they're totally custom and integrated into the main board which expects special cooling and interconnects. Like I said, if youre the mad scientists type that has a dedicated space for loud enterprise server racks, yeah, I'm sure you could figure out something. But this isn't going to be like a bunch or RAM and GPUs that you or I can use.

  • Anyone have some good electric cars?

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  • I wouldn't knock it until you've tried it. I would never get an EV without 1 pedal drive. The only downside is it takes a few days to get used to, which isn't great when test driving and coming from 2 pedal. It feels weird at first.

  • Incel propaganda in my music app

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  • There's actually a simpler explanation. Companies will purposefully make their products worse to keep you using them longer. By prioritizing the algorithm over your search results you're staying in the app longer, seeing more algo suggestions, and more likely to give up on your search and click something else.

    Good examples of this are Google purposefully crippling their own search, or Netflix making it impossible to see what movies they actually have. So they kneecap the product. What are you going to do? Stop using it? If the answer is no, then there's room to make it just a little worse...

  • NVIDIA confirms GeForce RTX GPU shortage for 2026

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  • What bag? Gamer's are so small to NVIDIA now he's not accountable to them in the slightest. Even when the AI bubble pops it will have made some people filthy rich. Unless NVIDIA is bankrupted he'll be a hero.

  • Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece

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  • I know you put /S, but for other people that read this it will not be an option. These only work in specialised servers that you will not he able to run at home (unless you're a mad scientists type).

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • It's not even ECC RAM that's the issue, it's that they're not making DDR ram at all, it's HBM RAM which is totally different. That and the GPUs are custom solutions that slot into specialty liquid cooled server chassis with proprietary connecters and everything. It's simply not for anything except for it's current purpose in a server.

    I know how you feel, it's too bad this is impacting Valve. I really want their new controller which won't be hit by this, but I expect they're still going to wait and release it with the other products.

  • The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about

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  • The problem is it's manufacturing capacity that is being bought. They're going to use that capacity to build HBM modules and data centre GPUs that cannot run outside of specialized servers. There will be a lot of high end gear gathering dust, but nothing you or I can use.

    Maybe if you're a large business/enterprise you could get some hardware on the cheap during the crash, but it's not ot like those things are full of DDR5 DIMMs and RTX GPUs.

  • Europe Closes Ranks on Ukraine as Hesitation Gives Way to Urgency

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  • I'm apalled that the world has let Ukraine languish for so long doing the bare minimum. Anyone could see that the Russian invasion was a precedent setting moment that needed to be repelled swiftly.

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