brimwats

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by brimwats 25d ago
They wanted to prevent Canada from signing any trade deals with anyone else (i.e. giving US a veto over deals)
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by brimwats 3mo ago
-20°C or more winters
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by brimwats 4mo ago
largely/generally this is how it's done for NAFTA visas
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by brimwats 4mo ago
you can renew the same permit without, but you can't go from one type of permit to another (student to working prof in my case) without flagpoling; you also can't go from a visa to a permit without flagpoling
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by brimwats 4mo ago
it's a great last line; when trying to explain something to someone it behooves someone to ask a follow-up so they can clarify anything not yet answered.
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by brimwats 5mo ago
Political violence created and has sustained democracy, democracy is what happens when the violence fails and violence is what happens when the democracy fails.
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by brimwats 5mo ago
This seems like fantastic fantasy or fanfic, but unless you have a citation or some actual names, I think I'll put it down to fiction
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by brimwats 5mo ago
I am an archivist; please don't use flash drives because they lose data to the air; use hard disk drives.
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by brimwats 7mo ago
Brazil and South Korea offer two relatively recent examples
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by brimwats 1y ago
I mean, the CEO of bsky used skeet unironically in interviews so I'd say it's a-ok
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by brimwats 2y ago
Canada is the source of more than 80% of the US's potash, the source of fertilizer. Without that, the entire farming industry and its crops withers and dies. It is not something easily sourced and not something easily replaced, and the
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by brimwats 2y ago
OP, I love your passion, but as someone who's been in these trenches for a long time as a visibily queer person, you are a Titanic heading for an iceberg of legal issues in the US, UK,and a few other places. You are putting yourself an
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by brimwats 2y ago
Yes, huge +1 to this OP, especially if you're American bc you are heading for a big collision with FOSTA-SESTA and other legal issues that could put you and your users at risk of harm.
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by brimwats 2y ago
No they're not; their roots are in the YMCA and the British society for the suppression of vice and earlier societies dating back to the 1700s. They originated when the church courts were shut down and are a feature of British evangeli
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by brimwats 2y ago
I've found mousemaster (windows) to be excellent and the dev incredibly nice and responsive https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster
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by brimwats 2y ago
> Why didn't other people, other national archives, other commercial concerns or non-profits join in this work? I'm very confused by this statement and I don't understand if it comes from you not working in library and in
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by brimwats 2y ago
I think pointing just to Wikipedia ignores the growing use adoption and massive impact of Wikidata. perhaps I'm biased because of my field but everything I see indicates the growing and not shrinking power of it, I would categorize it
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by brimwats 2y ago
I would happily bite on that; I mostly deal with archives, libraries, museums and how they deal with people and communities. Because of that there is a ton of nuance when it comes to identities (there is a lot of gradation in meaning betwee
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by brimwats 2y ago
it's more likely in cochlear implant territory (there are different laws and regulations for implants vs aids depending on locale)
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by brimwats 2y ago
> enough publicized cases of Chinese CCP operatives gaining Like? not doubting you, just not aware of multiple cases beyond the big near-miss earlier this year
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by brimwats 2y ago
Where can we follow up on this when you're done--do you have a blog or social media?
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by brimwats 2y ago
this one is maintained https://github.com/johnalanwoods/maintained-modern-unix
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by brimwats 2y ago
They don't, OCLC is largely funded by the exorbitant prices they charge libraries for various things, including DDC.
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by brimwats 2y ago
yeah I'll definitely try out ecode when auto save is implemented!
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by brimwats 2y ago
you can have rows between the columns is the key difference
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by brimwats 3y ago
And hopefully the massive towers push the council to start rezoning those single story residential areas into something more realistic
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by brimwats 3y ago
Yeah it's hardly an inactive place; I'm sure as the towers go up some of the single story houses will sell and Broadway will expand. Especially as the new skytrain stations go in
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by brimwats 3y ago
I never found a good setup / getting started guide on using xpath with FreshRSS, so I'd love to hear how you're using it
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by brimwats 3y ago
Sabre Notes is aiming to get there sooner rather than later. incredible progress last year from basically nothing https://github.com/saber-notes/saber
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by brimwats 3y ago
as an archivist 3-2-2-1 is better. The second 2 indicates that the two backups should be on two different brands of media in case of a catastrophic design flaw.

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