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Valve removes arbitration from its Steam agreements — here’s what that means for you
  • So why would Valve do this? It may be a response to several law firms’ attempt to file “mass arbitrations,” wherein “hundreds or thousands of consumers bringing individual arbitration claims against the same company at the same time and over the same issue,” according to ClassAction.org. It’s essentially a loophole for class action waivers and arbitration clauses, though it still won’t end up in court.

    Hit em right in the pocket book.

  • Le 25 septembre : une journée de célébrations pour les Franco-Ontariens

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29724681

    > Bonne fête des franco-ontariennes et franco-ontariens! > > L’origine de cette journée remonte au 25 septembre 1975, date à laquelle le drapeau franco-ontarien a été levé pour la première fois à l’Université de Sudbury. Conçu par Gaétan Gervais et Michel Dupuis, ce drapeau est rapidement devenu un puissant symbole d’identité pour les Franco-Ontariens. Ses couleurs et ses symboles racontent l’histoire et l’environnement de cette communauté : le vert représente les forêts d’été du Nord de l’Ontario, tandis que le blanc évoque les hivers enneigés. La fleur de lys rappelle les racines françaises, et le trille blanc, fleur emblématique de l’Ontario, souligne l’appartenance à cette province.

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    Le 25 septembre : une journée de célébrations pour les Franco-Ontariens

    Bonne fête des franco-ontariennes et franco-ontariens!

    > L’origine de cette journée remonte au 25 septembre 1975, date à laquelle le drapeau franco-ontarien a été levé pour la première fois à l’Université de Sudbury. Conçu par Gaétan Gervais et Michel Dupuis, ce drapeau est rapidement devenu un puissant symbole d’identité pour les Franco-Ontariens. Ses couleurs et ses symboles racontent l’histoire et l’environnement de cette communauté : le vert représente les forêts d’été du Nord de l’Ontario, tandis que le blanc évoque les hivers enneigés. La fleur de lys rappelle les racines françaises, et le trille blanc, fleur emblématique de l’Ontario, souligne l’appartenance à cette province.

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    Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill
    www.eff.org Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill

    Canadian lawmakers are considering a bill, S-210, that’s meant to benefit children, but would sacrifice the security, privacy, and free speech of all internet users. First introduced in 2023, S-210 seeks to prevent young people from encountering sexually explicit material by requiring all...

    Canada’s Leaders Must Reject Overbroad Age Verification Bill

    > Canada’s S-210 is part of a wave of proposals worldwide seeking to gate access to sexual content online. Many of the proposals have similar flaws. Canada’s S-210 is up there with the worst. Both Australia and France have paused the rollout of age verification systems, because both countries found that these systems could not sufficiently protect individuals’ data or address the issues of online harms alone. Canada should take note of these concerns.

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    What's up with financial sites refusing to delete your account?
  • The answer depends on the country. In the US, review the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. In Canada, there is the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) regulations and also the CRA requiring the individuals and businesses retain their records for up to six years.

    if there’s some sort of way around this either with a lawyer or federal form or something. Very unlikely.

  • Whats your favorite color of light, why?
  • #FF00FF

    In terms of physiology, the color is stimulated in the brain when the eye reports input from short wave blue cone cells along with a sub-sensitivity of the long wave cones which respond secondarily to that same deep blue color, but with little or no input from the middle wave cones. The brain interprets that combination as some hue of magenta or purple, depending on the relative strengths of the cone responses.

    In other words, our brains are like "🤷‍♂️, here's a thing"

  • It's time for change, it's time for Linux. | DankPods
  • Terminal is life!

    But also, easy mode Linux distro for the technically challenged would be great

  • The next best thing
  • And remember: keep your stick on the ice

  • Grab eight fantastic Steam Deck games for just $12, saving over $190 [Humble Choice]
    • Sifu – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Gotham Knights – Steam Deck Playable – Mixed Rating
    • High on Life – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Blacktail – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Astral Ascent – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Diluvian Ultra – Not Steam Deck Rated (but works great!) – Very Positive Rating
    • Universe For Sale – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • This Means Warp – Steam Deck Playable – Mostly Positive Rating
  • Explaining software development methods by flying to Mars
  • It's a feature, not a bug

  • What is/was your distrohopping journey?
  • Windows 98 -> Slackware dual boot (with big ol' red grub screen) -> windows up to win 10 -> debian(laptop) win10 (pc)

    Gonna try getting a new m.2 drive and dual booting soon to test playing the games I like on Linux. If all goes well, I'll be moving away from windows

  • Can we try something? Upvote the best captain! Not necessarily the one you liked the best.
  • Emergency Command Hologram aka EMH Mark 1

  • I can only hope people continue to love the truly old ones for a long time.
  • But if you are 39 now, you were 10 when it aired.

  • Describe an episode in the worst possible way
  • Man visits childhood home to reconcile with himself after being forced to harm coworkers.

  • Trying to ditch windows
  • (theres a mac version but isn’t the same)

    There was a mac version. But it is hitting EOL in August

  • Dislike Copilot's responses? Make better prompts, says Microsoft
  • After using AI chat stuff like this and chatgpt, ive come to the conclusion that building prompts is akin to building search queries for search engines. Wherein using the right terms leads to better results.

  • Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin
    www.mlb.com Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin

    ST. PETERSBURG -- Last October, they started their teams’ final games of the postseason. Now, José Berríos and Zach Eflin will set the tone for a new year. Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host

    Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin

    > Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host Toronto at 4:10 p.m. ET on March 28 at Tropicana Field. It will be the fourth Opening Day start for Berríos and the first for Eflin.

    March 28th, I'm pumped, are you pumped?

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    Intel awarded $20 billion by US government, advanced CPUs incoming
  • Without any legal penalties.

    But doing so, would surely risk intels reputation and future contracts with the government. The government could also impose other restriction or penalties on intel for non compliance.

    But like you say, if intel does come up short, likely nothing will happen (unless some form of negligence is discovered)

  • War. What is it good for?
  • We know its you
  • I also though it was kind of weird that when they find the Founders they all have the same style of face like Odo. But I guess they didn't have a face in their garden 🤷‍♂️

  • 'Freedom Convoy' organizer from Sask. suing federal government for using Emergencies Act to freeze accounts
  • Ok, now I'm confused, the article you linked says:

    1. Federal government was justified in using the Emergencies Act

    But in this (OP) article, it says:

    Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled it was unreasonable for the federal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell the protests.

    And then this article says:

    Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unjustified.

    Anyone out there want to loop me in?

  • CRA now allows 2FA apps
  • why is it 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds? I’m pretty sure every other TOTP I’ve seen is 60 seconds. My jaded take: the blind pursuit of “better security” even though… what does this even imply? Someone has 30 fewer seconds to read the code over your shoulder and log in on their device?

    30 seconds is the default for TOTP implementations.

    I’m curious to know what CRA does, but I’m away from my PC right now.

    Yes, you can stop getting SMS messages.

    edit: formatting

  • Saw this neat guy at the hobby store today

    Met a couple of really neat dudes at the store looking for parts for this guy. I really liked the uniqueness of it.

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    Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act
    www.michaelgeist.ca Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act - Michael Geist

    The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada. To be clear, this is good news for all given that the alternative was bad ...

    Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act - Michael Geist

    > The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada.

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    Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee
    www.michaelgeist.ca Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee - Michael Geist

    The government has taken the first step to creating a bailout for its disastrous Bill C-18 by agreeing to News Media Canada demands to increase the support under the Labour Journalism Tax Credit. While the current system covers 25% of the journalist costs up to $55,000 per employee (or $13,750), the...

    Bill C-18 Bailout: Government Announces Plans to Pay For 35% of Journalist Costs for News Outlets as It More Than Doubles Tax Credit Per Employee - Michael Geist

    Of course they would, what a crapshoot.

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    My first "successful" project results
    pixelfed.social Mattyventures (@mrbn@pixelfed.social)

    A few handcrafted creatures. #whittling #handmade #learning

    I'm new to whittling and these are the first things I completed that don't look like trash.

    I followed one of those "make a fox" youtube guides for the first one.

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