fwiw it does actually tell you where your polling station is, which I was confused about after finding conflicting info online.

Reminds me of when I was up in Iqaluit (far north in Canada). The best way I could describe it is imagine Mos Eisley if it were on the planet Hoth.

If you didn’t get a voter card, you can get an electronic one by downloading the app. I did that and it was pretty painless. You still need to go to the polling station with a piece of ID but the app generates a bar code they scan and you’re in and out of there pretty quick.

Ah ok, thanks!

Thanks, it makes me feel relieved to hear I’m not the only one finding it a little overwhelming! Previously, I had been using chatgpt and the like where I would be hunting for the answer to a particularly esoteric programming question. I’ve had a fair amount of success with that, though occasionally I would catch it in the act of contradicting itself, so I’ve learned you have to follow up on it a bit.

I turned on copilot in VSCode for the first time this week. The results so far have been less than stellar. It’s batting about .100 in terms of completing code the way I intended. Now, people tell me it needs to learn your ways, so I’m going to give it a chance. But one thing it has done is replaced the normal auto-completion which showed you what sort of arguments a function takes with something that is sometimes dead wrong. Like the code will not even compile with the suggested args.

It also has a knack for making me forget what I was trying to do. It will show me something like the left side picture with a nice rail stretching off into the distance when I had intended it to turn, and then I can’t remember whether I wanted to go left or right? I guess it’s just something you need to adjust to. Like you need to have a thought fairly firmly in your mind before you begin typing so that you can react to the AI code in a reasonable way? It may occasionally be better than what you have it mind, but you need to keep the original idea in your head for comparison purposes. I’m not good at that yet.

Pride Toronto, the non-profit organization behind the annual 2SLGBTQI+ parade, did not disclose the names of the sponsors as it hopes to persuade them to continue their funding.

Well if they don’t, please do drag their names through the mud.

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What caused the jump in the first place? I only just opened an account myself because the folks who run my home instance lemmy.ca started up pixelfed.ca about a week ago and I decided to check it out.

I downloaded it and have been playing around. Looks like it’s Chromium-based?

Interesting. They have a browser as well. We do we know about it?

I switched from Shoppers to Pharmasave, mainly because a branch opened up right down the street from me and was therefore closer than Shoppers. But I’m super happy I did so. I’m on a first name basis with the pharmacist and he’s really good. I bring in an empty and he’s got it refilled in like a minute and a half. And when I had problems with an insurance claim for a prescription, he actually called the company for me and sorted it out.

I think Rob was the user and Doug was the dealer right? Or am I getting that mixed up?

I was actually in both the Bay Area and Portland last month and have to agree. Let Oregon have this one. Even the people in Portland had bigfoot energy. Big scruffy men with tons of facial hair, flannel, and those longshoreman beanies. And I actually picked up a Sasquatch field guide someplace that was the most amazingly detailed document on a cryptid I’d ever seen.

Yeah and she really loves her uke she bought from them. I think it’s her favourite instrument these days! It has a great tone.

My wife plays a Honolua uke at our gigs pretty often. They are a Canadian company, though I just asked her and she said not everything in their catalog was homegrown back when she bought it, so you might want to check with them before ordering?

Digital services tend to be an area where the US enjoys huge trade surpluses. If that pandora’s box is opened, it’s going to be really bad for the tech giants when retaliatory steps are inevitably taken. I thought this was why Trump was trying to keep the tariff war focused on material goods?

I know in Canada, FB stopped serving news when they refused to contribute to a government fund to help the struggling domestic journalism industry which they were scraping content from with reckless abandon. Personally, I’m happy to see one less stifling algorithm-fed echo chamber. It’s like a breath of fresh air.

I’m so looking forward to what JUICE uncovers! Europa has been centre stage and is getting its own dedicated mission, but the more we find out about those outer moons, the more fascinating they get. Ganymede is the largest in the solar system and has its own magnetic field. And Callisto being an ocean world? It wouldn’t surprise me if Ganymede is also.

I guess I’m mostly a Harvey’s guy as far as Canadian fast food chains are concerned. Pizza, subs, shawarma, etc. are up there too, though there are too many of those to list.

My daughter took me to Odd Burger when I was up in Ottawa and I could totally get into that if only we had one where I am.

The situation is not great in that those instances that are Canadian-oriented don’t seem to have open membership. I wound up going with freediverse which is at least hosted in Canada and subscribed to Canadian channels I follow on those other instances.