Kalcifer

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Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I encourage you to examine the references section at the bottom of the post. The references correspond to their relevant citations in the post.

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[…] We do “spirit of the law” here anyway and not “letter of the law” so if someone were convicted under this law for furry stuff it would go straight to appeal.

In this case, out of curiosity, how would "the spirit of the law" be determined?

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Two animals fucking is not beastiality. A person fucking an animal is.

For clarity, that is why my title specifies "in part" 🙂.

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[…] The media has to involve - or realistically appear to involve (to the point that a reasonable person would be fooled) - sexual contact with an animal. Not “cartoon rabbit.” Not “person in a fursuit.” Animal. […]

Couldn't there conceivably be some ambiguous grey area with this interpretation? How close to looking like an animal can an anthropomorphic animal get before it is captured?

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[…] It says “likely to be mistaken for a photographic” media. This immediately rules out all forms of hand drawn and CG furry art from being covered by this law. It has to be a photo, video (or some AI generated facsimile). […]

Are you interpreting "photographic" to mean "photorealistic"?

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[…] Furry artists, for all their flaws, […]

What flaws are you referring to?

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For clarity, the relevant reference is this one:

  • Type: Article. Title: "Canada overhauls Criminal Code to protect victims and keep kids safe from predators". Publisher: "Department of Justice Canada". Published: 2025-12-09. Accessed: 2025-12-09T22:46Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2025/12/canada-overhauls-criminal-code-to-protect-victims-and-keep-kids-safe-from-predators.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"Keep our kids safe from predators">§"Crack down on online sextortion".

      […] This legislation proposes stronger measures to address online sexploitation and child luring, including by criminalizing threatening to distribute child sexual abuse and exploitation material and distributing bestiality depictions, which are known to be used to manipulate children for sexual purposes. […]

Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Entendre les memes arguments contre le Français au Canada hors-Quebec pour 50 ans.

What argument was I making?

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago

It specifically says bestiality involves an “animal” not “a depiction of an animal”. […]

I think that's a good point.

Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The Department of Justice’s rationale is that it is “online sextortion” [2], and that it is known to be used to manipulate children for sexual purposes

None of what you quoted from the bill says that. Where are you getting this from?

The relevant citations are in the very text that you quoted — you can follow them in my references section at the bottom of the post 🙂

Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

I'm not sure about "above a high school level" specifically, but the population of Quebec who spoke French as their first official language is 84.1%, as of 2021 ^[1]^.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Statistics on official languages in Canada". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Published: 2021. Accessed: 2025-12-09T23:19Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/official-languages-bilingualism/publications/statistics.html.
    • Type: Table. Location: Table 1.
Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

[…] Given the […] feigned innocence of your question […]

What's driving this assumption of yours?

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Bill-C16, the Protecting Victims Act, appears, to me, to potentially, at least in part, criminalize furry porn (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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From the bill ^[1]^:

[…] It amends the Criminal Code to, among other things, […] (g) criminalize the distribution of visual representations of bestiality; […] ^[1.3]^

(3.‍1) Every person commits an offence who knowingly publishes, distributes, transmits, sells, makes available or advertises any visual representation that is or is likely to be mistaken for a photographic, film, video or other visual recording of a person committing bestiality. ^[1.1]^

(3.‍4) Every person who commits an offence under subsection (3.‍1)

(a) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to imprisonment for a term of not more than five years; or

(b) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. ^[1.2]^

For context, from the Criminal Code:

(7) In this section, bestiality means any contact, for a sexual purpose, with an animal. ^[3]^

The Department of Justice's rationale is that it is "online sextortion" ^[2]^, and that it is known to be used to manipulate children for sexual purposes ^[2]^.

References

  1. Type: Document. Title: "Protecting Victims Act". Publisher: "Parliament of Canada". Published: 2025-12-09. Accessed: 2025-12-09T22:48Z. URI: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-16/first-reading.
    1. Type: Text. Location: §"Criminal Code">§"Amendments to the Act">§"Representation of bestiality"
    2. Type: Text. Location: §"Criminal Code">§"Amendments to the Act">§"Punishment — representation of bestiality"
    3. Type: Text. Location: §"Summary">§"(g)"
  2. Type: Article. Title: "Canada overhauls Criminal Code to protect victims and keep kids safe from predators". Publisher: "Department of Justice Canada". Published: 2025-12-09. Accessed: 2025-12-09T22:46Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2025/12/canada-overhauls-criminal-code-to-protect-victims-and-keep-kids-safe-from-predators.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"Keep our kids safe from predators">§"Crack down on online sextortion".

      […] This legislation proposes stronger measures to address online sexploitation and child luring, including by criminalizing threatening to distribute child sexual abuse and exploitation material and distributing bestiality depictions, which are known to be used to manipulate children for sexual purposes. […]

  3. Type: Document (PDF). Title: "Criminal Code". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Published: 2025-11-20. Accessed: 2025-12-09T22:44Z. URI: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/PDF/C-46.pdf.
    • Type: Text. Location: §160>§7 ("Definition of bestiality")
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Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Disclaimer: This post is not an argument for nor against the separation of Quebec from Canada ^[1]^, nor the upholding of bilingualism in Canada ^[2]^.

For context, approximately 88% of French speaking Canadians are located in Quebec ^[3]^. Of the approximately 12% of French speaking Canadians who are not located in Quebec ^[6]^, 85% of them are bilingual ^[4.2]^. Approximately 1.8% of French speaking Canadians outside of Quebec don't also speak English ^[7]^.

References

  1. Type: Article. Title: "Learn about Quebec". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Published (Edited): 2025-02-06. Accessed: 2025-12-03T01:12Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada/provinces-territories/quebec.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: ¶1.

      Quebec is a French speaking province in north eastern Canada. It’s the largest of the 10 Canadian provinces. […]

  2. Type: Document. Title: "CONSTITUTION ACT, 1982". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Accessed: 202512030102Z. URI: https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/const/page-12.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: §16>§1.

      English and French are the official languages of Canada and have equality of status and equal rights and privileges as to their use in all institutions of the Parliament and government of Canada.

  3. Type: Meta. Published 202512030119Z.
    • There are 7 074 328 French speaking Canadians located in Quebec ^[4.1.1]^, and 8 066 633 French speaking Canadians in total ^[4.1.2]^. Therefore, the percentage of French speaking Canadians who are located in Quebec is 7074328/8066633*100% ^[5]^, which is approximately 88%.
  4. Type: Website. Title: "Statistics on official languages in Canada". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Published (Edited): 20240814. Accessed: 202512030122Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/official-languages-bilingualism/publications/statistics.html.
    1. Type: Table. Location: Table 1.
      1. French-speaking population in Quebec: 7 074 328.
      2. Total French-speaking population: 8 066 633.
    2. Type: Table. Location: Table 5.
      • In 2021, 85% of Canadians whose mother tongue was French were bilingual.
  5. Type: Article: Title: "Percentage". Publisher: "Wikipedia". Published (Edited): 2025-08-13T15:45Z. Accessed: 2025-12-03T01:30Z. URI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentage.
  6. Type: Meta. Published: 2025-12-03T01:31Z.
    • Approximately 88% of French-speaking Canadians are located in Quebec ^[3]^. Therefore, of the 100% of French speaking Canadians in total, there would approximately be 12% (ie 100% - 12%) Canadians outside of Quebec who speak French.
  7. Type: Meta. Published: 2025-12-03T01:43Z.
    • Approximately 12% of French-speaking Canadians are located outside of Quebec ^[6]^. 85% of them are bilingual ^[4.2]^, therefore 15% of them (100%-85%=15%) are not bilingual. Therefore, 1.8% (12*15%=1.8%) of French-speaking Canadians don't also speak English.
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Based osk (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
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Contextosk is the developer of TETR.IO ^[1]^ (from which the screenshot was taken ^[2]^).

References

  1. Type: Screenshot. Publisher: "TETR.IO". Accessed: 2025-10-23T00:08Z. URI: https://tetr.io/about/.

  2. Type: Screenshot. Publisher: "TETR.IO". Accessed: 2025-10-13.
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Minister of Justice, Sean Fraser, introduced Bill C-9, which, among other things, aims to criminalize the public display of certain "hate symbols" (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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Minister of Justice ^[5]^, Sean Fraser, introduced ^[3]^ Bill C-9 ^[6.1]^, titled "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)" ^[6.2]^, or the "Combatting Hate Act" ^[6.3]^, which, among other things ^[6]^, aims ^[7]^ to criminalize ^[6.4.3]^ the public display of symbols "principally used by, or principally associated with, a listed entity" ^[6.4.1]^, and the Nazi swastika ^[6.4.2]^.

Here is the text of the bill ^[6]^, and here is a video of the announcement ^[4]^.

References

  1. Type: Webpage. Title: "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)". Publisher: "Parliament of Canada". Published: 2025-09-19. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:23Z. URI: https://www.parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/45-1/C-9.
    1. Type: Text. Location (XPath): /html/body/main/div/section[1]/header/div/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/div[2]/a
    2. Type: Misc. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:58Z.

  2. Type: Document (File (Filetype: PDF)). Title: "WHAT’S IN A BILL?". Publisher: "Senate of Canada". Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:33Z. URI: https://sencanada.ca/media/367004/com_wksht_sengage_whats-in-a-bill_e.pdf.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"The Bill's Progress">§"WHO SPONSORED THE BILL?".

      The senator or MP who introduces a bill in their respective chamber is called the sponsor.

  3. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-20T02:52Z.
    • Bill C-9 was sponsored (ie introduced ^[2]^) by the Minister of Justice ^[1.1][4]^.
  4. Type: Video. Title: "Liberals’ new hate crime bill targets 'symbols' of hate". Author: "The Canadian Press". Publisher: "YouTube". Published: 2025-09-19T23:07:22Z. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:32Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if78GGwNyWQ.
  5. Type: Webpage. Title: "The Honourable Sean Fraser". Publisher: "Parliament of Canada". Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:37Z. URI: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/sean-fraser(88316).
    • Type: Text. Location: §"Offices and Roles as a Parliamentarian".

      […]Minister of Justice[…]

  6. Type: Document. Title: ["Bill C-9", "An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)", "Combatting Hate Act"]. Publisher: "Parliament of Canada". Published: 2025-09-19. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:39Z. URI: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1/bill/C-9/first-reading.
    1. Type: Text. Location: Title.

      BILL C-9

    2. Type: Text. Location: Title.

      An Act to amend the Criminal Code (hate propaganda, hate crime and access to religious or cultural places)

    3. Type: Text. Location: §"Short Title".

      […]This Act may be cited as the Combatting Hate Act.

    4. Type: Text. Location: §"Criminal Code".>§4.
      1. Type: Text.

        […] Everyone commits an offence who wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in any public place, […] a symbol that is principally used by, or principally associated with, a listed entity […]

      2. Type: Text.

        […] Everyone commits an offence who wilfully promotes hatred against any identifiable group by displaying, in any public place, […] the Nazi swastika […].

      3. Type: Text. Location: §"Punishment".
  7. Type: Meta. Accessed: 2025-09-20T01:56Z.
    • "Aims" is used as the bill has yet to be passed — it has only completed its first reading ^[1.2[8]]^.
  8. Type: Article. Title: "Legislative Process". Publisher: "Parliament of Canada". Accessed: 2025-09-20T02:02Z. URI: https://www.ourcommons.ca/procedure/our-procedure/LegislativeProcess/c_g_legislativeprocess-e.html.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"Stages in the Legislative Process".
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Where could I share music that I've transcribed? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/general@lemmy.world
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I would like to share music that I've transcribed for other people to collaborate on, reference, and use. Songsterr ^[1]^, for example, allows collaboration ^[1.1]^, but I don't like that it locks a lot of features behind a paywall ^[1.2.1.1]^, that it's a proprietary service ^[1.2.2]^, and how centralized it is ^[1.2.1.2]^. I'm leaning towards using Codeberg ^[2]^ to create a repository ^[3]^ for each transcription, or to put all transcriptions in one repository, but I don't feel that either of those options are ideal, and I'm not sure if it's a good idea to track compressed files in a Git repo (the project files for Musescore, for example, are compressed as Zip files ^[4]^).

References

  1. Type: Website. Name: "Songsterr". Publisher: "Guitar Tabs LLC". Accessed: 2025-09-12T07:42Z. URI: https://www.songsterr.com/.
    1. Type: Webpage (Article). Title: "Help". Location: "HELP">§"Contributing tabs". URI: https://www.songsterr.com/help.
    2. Type: Webpage (Article). Title: "Terms of Service". URI: https://www.songsterr.com/terms.
      1. Location: §"What Songsterr Offers"
        1. Location: ¶2.

        2. Songsterr is an archive of guitar, bass and drum tabs with more than 80,000 songs. […] all the content provided through our Service is licensed, and we pay a percentage of our revenue as royalties to support music creators.

      2. Location: [§"Content"]

        […] Content found on or through this Service are the property of Guitartabs LLC or used with permission. You may not distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, download, repost, copy, or use said Content, whether in whole or in part, for commercial purposes or for personal gain, without express advance written permission from us. […]

  2. Type: Website. Name: "Codeberg". Accessed: 2025-09-12T07:54Z. URI: https://codeberg.org/.
    1. Type: Webpage. URI: https://codeberg.org/about.

      Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.

  3. Type: Meta.
    • Codeberg is a Git repository hosting service ^[2.1]^.
  4. Type: Article. Title: "File formats". Publisher: "MuseScore Ltd". Published: ~2023. Accessed: 2025-09-12T08:07Z. URI: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/file-formats#musescore-native-format.
    • Type: Text. Location: §"MuseScore native format">§"MuseScore format (*.mscz)". URI: https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/file-formats#mscz.

      […] The format is a ZIP-compressed version of .mscx files and includes any images the score may contain and a thumbnail. […]

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PSA: If your controller rumble isn't working in Silksong, then try forcing Proton in the game's properties on Steam (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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I verified that my controller's rumble worked fine, yet I had no controller rumble in Silksong. I fixed it by forcing Proton 9.0-4 in Silksong's settings:

  1. Navigate to: Steam Library>Silksong>right-click>Properties>Compatibility
  2. Check "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool"
  3. Select "Proton 9.0-4" from the dropdown.

It seems that Silksong has inherited the same controller rumble issue as Hollow Knight with the native build ^[1]^.

References

  1. Type: Post. Author: "Cobwebblocks". Publisher: ["ProtonDB". "Howllow Knight".]. Published: ~2025-08. Accessed: 2025-09-05T06:41Z. URI: https://www.protondb.com/app/367520#q_spejhJmH.

    No rumble on native version

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What is the exact meaning of the "Banned" label next to a user? (sh.itjust.works)
 

For example, I've come across this:

^[1]^

References

  1. Type: User Page. Name: "CanadaRocks" ("@CanadaRocks@piefed.ca"). Publisher: ["Lemmy". "sh.itjust.works"]. Accessed: 2025-07-22T02:07Z. URI: https://sh.itjust.works/u/CanadaRocks@piefed.ca.
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Ohmywatt finally beats the Ender Dragon after 515 days of playing Minecraft for 1 minute a day (www.youtube.com)
 

References

  1. Type: Video. Title: "Playing Minecraft for 1 Minute Everyday - Day 515". Author: "Ohmywatt". Publisher: "YouTube". Published: 2025-07-16T00:37:42Z. Accessed: 2025-07-16T00:48Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3be20822S5g.
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I created this template for the 2025 Canvas (sh.itjust.works)
 

Location to work on is at X=430 Y=74.

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Ah yes, the most irrefutable of sources 😜 (lemmy.ml)
 

ReferencesType: Webpage. Title: "OpenStreetMap". Author: "Adam Dunn". Publisher: "OpenStreetMap". Published: 2025-06-03T20:13:15Z. Accessed: 2025-06-04T00:18Z. URI: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/167151314.

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NotJustBikes uses Linux! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@programming.dev
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"I installed Linux (so should you)" by PewDiePie (www.youtube.com)
 

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