Modern social media: Feed algorithm bots curating and serving up bot-created content for other bots to create fake engagement on so that advertising bots can find the real humans that still exist in the desolate wastelands and market them bot-created ads.

Personally speaking: Fuck adding another app to my phone. Go visit justwatch.com

Good. Bus drivers are overworked, underpaid, and lack some basic standards that we all take for granted, like separate places to prepare food and take a shit.

We have Remembrance Day (Nov 11, similar to Veterans Day in the US).

After that (sometimes even right after Halloween) Christmas invades.

The short answer is: Because the Northern states that we share a land border with currently observe Daylight Saving Time and we've been waiting literally years for the States to figure their shit out.

Well, it's a full keypair being stored: Authenticators like Bitwarden need to first provide the public key to the relying party (RP) so the RP can issue the encrypted auth challenge. The challenge then is handed back to the authenticator, user verification happens, then the challenge is signed by the private key and sent back to the RP for verification to complete the auth ceremony.

Article links to 1Password's directory of passkey supported sites/apps.

You're thinking about "device-bound passkeys". Bitwarden and any other third-party credential manager leverages "synced passkeys" because they don't control the hardware.

Synced passkeys are actually called out in the FIDO Alliance's FAQs as preferred since they more closely align with the desired replacement of traditional passwords.

It's an interesting thought to consider that without access to centralized distribution platforms like app stores, something incredibly similar is created in its place: The so-called "super-app" (e.g. WeChat, Alipay).

I have no context about why NiceVancouver became its own subreddit, but IMHO community fragmentation is definitely what we don't need, especially with the user base so small.

No problem! Best of luck. 🙂

Have you looked at OXO's offering? Random sample linked

How the people of Saskatchewan keep these clowns employed as their leaders is a mystery. The province is rapidly becoming the Mississippi of Canada.

All bars, all the time.

Personally I don't see any benefits for the loops, and a couple major drawbacks IMHO:

• Loops are less stable and require more physical force exerted by the user in order to gain a minimal amount of stability by pulling the loop taught.
• Loops feel dirtier and far harder to clean. Of course given that it's public transit it's not going to be fully sanitized or anything, but I feel like users can more easily take steps to protect themselves using bars (wiping the bar quickly before grabbing it, or shielding themselves by holding it through a piece of clothing).

Isn't this the plot of The Lorax?

It's probably less wise to assume that someone is basing their vote entirely on a single grievance they express.

Very cool to see a fediverse alternative to r/place!

Personally I wouldn't be too dismissive upfront. Relevant part of the article:

But the more charitable — and, Shariff believes, more accurate — view could be related to the bystander effect.

The well-studied theory posits that people are less likely to offer help if there are many other people around. It could be because they think other people are better-positioned to help, or because they do not know what to do in an unfamiliar situation and look to others for cues to the acceptable social response.

Compare a car crash today vs in the years before everyone had a globally-connected computer with an attached high-definition camera in their pocket. Back then horrific car crashes still happened, and what did the majority of bystanders also do back then? Just stood and watched.

Clarity matters a lot in legal documents. Anyone else remember the case of the comma that cost millions?

You could potentially reach out to the planners of various climate-related strategic projects happening on campus. Many of them (like this one) have a component considering transportation and mobility that could be a vector for changes like what you're proposing.

...which should hopefully be consistent in future cases.

This was my main concern. Legal rulings are built on those that came before, however they can also be reversed by higher courts.

I found this complementary CBC article on this that provides a little bit of clarity:

But part of the immediate significance of the judgment, advocates say, is that it happened in a court that's relatively accessible; the law has been clarified that at the small-claims level, a contract for sexual services is enforceable.

That means that a sex worker who hasn't been paid by a client can now pursue that in small claims court without having to argue the law, so long as they have the supporting facts.

"Now they can bring this judgment and put it on the judges desk and say, 'here it is, there's precedent for it; I want my judgment,'" said Rose.

Note that this is a quote by the plaintiff's lawyer (Jessica Rose). I'm obviously no lawyer myself but I would read this as precedent-setting for the Small Claims Court of Nova Scotia, with the caveat that other provinces' small claims courts and all higher courts are still lacking their own ruling here. Ultimately the law itself needs to be tested in higher courts, which is also referenced in the article:

In 2021, the alliance sued the federal and Ontario provincial governments, arguing that the conditions of criminalization allow exploitation to flourish. That case had its first hearing in October 2022, and is awaiting a judgment. If successful, it could result in the law being struck down, paving the path to full decriminalization of sex work.

Don't get me wrong, this is a win and worthy of setting a legal precedent, however I am skeptical of the first line in the article:

Earlier this year in Halifax, a former sex worker won a precedent-setting case.

If this was Small Claims court, are there examples of rulings from this court actually setting precedent for other courts (e.g. Lower or Superior courts)?

They act like flying taxis then they should be treated as such.

You probably need a general "electronics repair" shop: A place that can source parts & tools, and has staff that can break down, solder, and rebuild things with circuit boards.

Put that into Google Maps for some nearby options. A lot will advertise their services in the context of more general home appliances like TVs or PCs. Give them a call first to check if they have the parts and knowledge for your Switch. If they don't, ask if they know someone who does. I suspect the hobby electronics DIY space around Vancouver is probably fairly close-knit.

Doc saw his opportunity to diversify out and pursue his lifelong desire to be a preacher 😂

I've also experienced this, as well as my settings not persisting between updates to the app.

What I did temporarily to get the settings to "stick" is right after saving them to quit the app via multitasking and restart it. Then my settings apply correctly.

Poe's law on full display

Ethnically Chinese Canadian citizens have as much connection to the Chinese government as ethnically Russian Canadian citizens do to Putin and his war crimes in Ukraine.

What sort of "moral connotations" are you referring to? The term "hate crime" is pretty clear cut in Canadian law, defined in sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code.

I, for one, welcome our new Supreme Rulers of Truth and Fact!

They do a damn fine job and after all, we can't resist. They told us!

It's always been up to instance admins to decide for themselves between the tradeoff of creating manual signup friction in order to reduce spam, or remove it in order to quickly scale for more users. This might remove a tool for now, but I think more tools will be added as alternatives.

Happy to see this community start up here! I was a big fan of the subreddit and the advice that was more often than not very helpful.

I also prefer "New" and "Top Day", but for different community lists:

• Local + New for what's going on around lemmy.ca communities
• Subscribed + Top Day for the wider Fediverse communities I'm subbed to as a sort of "daily digest"

Wow, that's some nice data visualization going on there. Thanks for linking!

You definitely own it to yourself to finish it! Now this comes down to personal opinion, but IMHO the campaign falls into the perfect "sweet spot" of length: ~6 hours.

IMHO Titanfall 2 has one of the best campaigns for a SP FPS.

There’s no such thing as “So hateful it’s harmful”, that is a facade or a tool of deception used to censor someone because the other side can’t prove it to be false.

You cherry-picked the comment you quoted, leaving out important context: "Their view is so hateful that even giving a platform by engaging with it can be harmful." My reading of this point is that giving a hateful idea a platform to spread is a reason to disengage with it, because by engaging with it you are giving validity to it in the mind of the author of that idea.

Even so, this is such a strange statement for you to make. So strange that I simply have to ask further: How do you reconcile this idea of yours with both the continued existence of antisemitism online, and being the mod for the !judaism@lemmy.ca community? Don't you see antisemitism as a hateful set of beliefs that should be eliminated? That it should not be given a platform to spread? Of course, by your definition that would be "censorship".

And there it is. You finally show your true colours. Please stop trying to think so highly of yourself and leave this forum. This isn't "censorship", by the way. You are just an asshole.

You do understand that when someone discusses their beliefs, and those beliefs are hateful, then they have actually caused harm and damage to others, right? They took the action of espousing those beliefs, and they should be accepting of the consequences of doing so.

Reading between the lines of your comment, you seem to be trying to bait others into saying something like "I want censorship of beliefs", in an attempt to then turn around and feel justified in your beliefs because others "want to censor you". If you are truly trying to do this, please have some dignity and stop. You are arguing like a child.

Why create a new community that's a directory of other communities? I would imagine that if someone is wondering "Is there a community for my specific city/town/area?" then they probably would either:

• Search the local community list of the instance
• Go to a community that seems to correlate to their catchment area (in your example, c/Ontario) and look there for a nested community that's more local

All told, IMHO the way to improve discoverability of regionalized communities is via making them more visible via the province-wide communities. After all, you found Ontario communities by coming to this Canadian-specific instance first, right?