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Ottawa couple out $13k after scammer posing as TD Bank steals credit card info
  • Once I lost my wallet. Another time my partner had her card skimmed. In both cases the charges were less than $13 000, but both times the process was pretty quick and painless. "Do you solemnly swear this wasn't you? Yes. Okay, please cut up your card; we've reversed the charges and sent you a new one."

  • Don't think my phone runs Nvidia... or Wayland 🤔
  • Strangely topical for me. I wasted yesterday telling myself I was smart enough to make SwayWM on Wayland work well with my 1070. Should have trusted the warnings in the documentation; hubris cost me a weekend day!

  • Why is installing a different OS/Custom Rom on phones a huge hassle?
  • If you don't mind me polling your opinion: do you recommend Graphene for someone previously used to Cyanogen / Lineage? I recently upgraded to a Pixel 8 from quite an old handset and I'm not particularly fond of the stock ROM. Much has changed since the last time I had to think about this stuff! I primarily care about privacy, and use my cell for little more than phone calls, messaging, and its camera.

  • VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough
  • I was with you up until the climate controls.

    Any control you can find in a 1997 Hyundai Accent should be physical.

    Anything else can be hidden behind a touchscreen because I'm not going to use it while driving anyway.

    My big request would be to drop the USB cable. I don't know why I need to connect both USB and Bluetooth. I'd love to just leave my cell in my bag where it belongs instead of advertising yet another reason why someone should smash my windows in!

  • Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts
  • Yeah, it certainly can go that way unfortunately. I'm in favour of digitisation generally, but at a minimum it relies on:

    1. Redundant storage (always), hosted and paid for by the government (in this case).
    2. Published and documented open file formats.

    I believe that, in general, things lost to time on the net violate one of those two rules. They either resided on a single privately held server which was discontinued, or the data was locked up in some proprietary file format which was inevitably replaced for the sake of selling the new software product.

    The benefits of pulling this off correctly are enormous:

    1. Data lasts a very long time.
    2. Documents can be authenticated and change-controlled.
    3. Documents can be shared with any number of users simultaneously.
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    What irritates you the most with your own language?
  • Problem: ambiguity of date terms like saying "this Wednesday" on a Thursday. Is the speaker referring to yesterday or the coming Wednesday six days from now? Not always clear.

    Solution: I propose standardising our understanding of the week as beginning Monday, ending Sunday. At any point in the current week, "this whateverday" refers to that day in the current week, no matter if it's past or future. "Next whateverday" refers to that day in the upcoming Monday through Sunday week.

    "This Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to yesterday.

    "Next Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to a day six days from now.

    (I also suggest adopting ISO 8601, writing dates in year-month-day order to avoid that ugly ambiguity.)

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    What irritates you the most with your own language?
  • Problem: ambiguity of date terms like saying "this Wednesday" on a Thursday. Is the speaker referring to yesterday or the coming Wednesday six days from now? Not always clear.

    Solution: I propose standardising our understanding of the week as beginning Monday, ending Sunday. At any point in the current week, "this whateverday" refers to that day in the current week, no matter if it's past or future. "Next whateverday" refers to that day in the upcoming Monday through Sunday week.

    "This Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to yesterday.

    "Next Wednesday", on a Thursday, is referring to a day six days from now.

    (I also suggest adopting ISO 8601, writing dates in year-month-day order to avoid that ugly ambiguity.)

  • Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them
  • I bought a popcorn bowl that turned out to be terrible. It came with a leaflet coupon saying if I left a 5-star review, they would send me another bowl for free.

    The comment I tried to leave was a short, fair, polite statement along the lines of 'this bowl doesn't meet the claims X and Y on the description, and came with an offer to trade a good review for another bowl for free." That review got flagged by the automod and was ultimately rejected. If I recall, the rejection message wasn't even specific on what rule my review broke.

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