You or I might not get a ton of mail, but there are still plenty of people who depend on the service. Not everyone has reliable internet access or wants to put everything online. But yes, lettermail is essentially a relic. Parcels are where the money is. Canada Post is still the cheapest and safest option (except during a labour dispute) when it comes to shipping parcels, not to mention the only option if you don’t live in a city.

The problem is with the private couriers – who aren’t legally mandated to sink money into lettermail or rural delivery, and who exploit the hell out of their workers – using that unfair advantage to capture more and more of the parcel market.

And the funniest part: Canada Post owns Purolator. They’ve been quietly doing an end run around CUPW’s bargaining power this whole time.

Yeah, paper flyers are absurdly wasteful. We as a society should really try to find a way to eliminate them. Unfortunately right now they make up a significant chunk of Canada Post’s revenue, thanks to a bunch of unfair competition in the parcel market, where they should be making their money.

Which is why this is going to be so effective as a strike action. The company’s income stream gets blown up while the essential service continues to deliver the stuff people actually want in their mailboxes.

You could’ve left it as “South nor Africa” but I see you decided to spiff it up a notch.

I can appreciate the tasteful use of De Mandela’s law when I see it.

The “stay in Canada” petition is not a trick. Do you really think they would phrase thier referendum question in a way that would risk having a negative result be interpreted as a call for separation? Even if they did leave that door open, I think this petition has showed that there is overwhelming support for staying in Canada, and I’m not worried.

The separatist movement is little more than a phantom created by Danielle Smith to use as leverage against Ottawa.

Looks like Danielle Smith to me. The current premier of Alberta. Not sure if you can tell from the photo, but she’s a butthead.

Ice Cold Beer. While he’s distracted, the rest of our tokens are going in the ice cold beer machine.

Something being borked by the official Fedora packagers versus something being borked by some random AUR user are not even remotely similar.

Firstly, the AUR is officially unsupported by Arch, so it’s not really their fault or problem. Secondly, I would guess a majority of AUR packages are not officially supported by software devs either, so the dev in question can go ahead and drop support if it’ll give them a good enough reason to start filtering out the low-effort bug reports. It just seems like an overreaction over something that amounts to a miscommunication.

I’d like to add that batteries might only last 3 years if you live in a cold climate.

Check in alsamixer and see if maybe it’s muted. Alsa will sometimes mute things randomly when configurations change.

Work yard plale sale

For the low low price of $2000

Nepenthes

One link on your website leads to a neverending labyrinth of nonesense to slowly poison a LLM.

100 GB of emails? The heck are these people sending?

Time to axe the section of our law that mirrors DMCA 1201 (the anti circumvention section). We were forced to put it in place to maintain tariff-free trade with the US, but I don’t see a reason to keep it in place anymore.

US tech oligarch would sure hold a lot fewer cards if that happened.

I think I have to disagree on this one. Whether or not you believed it would work is irrelevant. The malicious intent is what matters here. You happened to find a supernaturally accursed notebook titled “Death Note” and you decide to write someone’s name in it? That already crosses the moral line imo, independent of any actual effects.

Counterarguments welcome.

GPUs are specialized to be able to very quickly manipulate vectors, by using a principle called Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD). Where a CPU would have to individually operate on each element of a vector, a GPU can operate on all the elements in one go.

So maybe you could call it a SIMD card or Vector Accelerator or something like that.

I wonder how many of those “empty” condos are listed on airbnb right now.

Trek you yourself wreck before yourself.

Got a nice ring to it. Very logical.

10:30pm on a wednesday and downtown is more lit than I’ve ever seen. LFG!!

Fair, but then again, iOS autocorrect isn’t exactly not AI.