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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 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Do you mind elaborating on your rationale? 🙂

Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
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 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You know that New Brunswick and Ontario have a bunch of francophone right ?

Yes: 30.3% of New Brunswickers are French-speaking ^[1.1.1]^ (34.0% bilingual ^[1.1.3]^), which is 0.6% of the Canadian population ^[3]^, and 3.8% of Ontarians are French-speaking ^[1.1.2]^ (10.8% bilingual ^[1.1.4]^), which is 1.3% of the total Canadian population ^[4]^.

References

  1. Type: Website. Title: "Statistics on official languages in Canada". Publisher: "Government of Canada". Published (Edited): 20240814. Accessed: 2025-12-03T02:10Z. URI: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/official-languages-bilingualism/publications/statistics.html.
    1. Type: Table. Location: Table 1.
      1. 30.3% (231 850 Canadians) of New Brunswickers are French-speaking.
      2. 3.8% (533 560 Canadians) of Ontarians are French-speaking.
      3. 34.0% (250 120 Canadians) of New Brunswickers are bilingual.
      4. 10.8% (1 519 365 Canadians) of Ontarians are bilingual.
  2. Type: Article. Title: "Canada's population clock (real-time model)". Publisher: "Statistics Canada". Accessed: 2025-12-03T02:16Z. URI: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/71-607-x/71-607-x2018005-eng.htm.
    • The population of Canada is 41 744 210.
  3. Type: Meta.
    • 231 850 New Brunswickers are French-speaking ^[1.1.1]^. The population of Canada is 41 744 210 ^[2]^. Therefore, French-speaking New Brunswickers account for approximately 0.6% ((231 850/41 744 210)×100 ~= 0.6%) of Canadians.
  4. Type: Meta.
    • 533 560 Ontarians are French-speaking ^[1.1.2]^. The population of Canada is 41 744 210 ^[2]^. Therefore, French-speaking Ontarians account for approximately 1.3% ((533 560/41 744 210)×100 ~= 1.3%) of Canadians.
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Hypothetically, if Quebec were to separate from Canada, do you think that Canada should remain bilingual? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.
Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

How do you know?

3 consecutive LLMs all replying to each other in c/reddit@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

[…] even lemmy seems to have fallen off quite a bit

Do you have an example of what you mean?

Wrong turn after Tatooine in c/starwarsmemes@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Cuts off Frodos [~~legs and arms~~] [finger] anyway

ContextIn The Lord of The Rings movie, Gollum bites off Frodo's finger ^[1]^.
References

  1. Type: Movie. Title: "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King". Released: 2003.
TIL How To Make a Bushcraft Window and Door in c/til@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I think this post violates Rule 1 (I don't think it counts as a fact).

What is your favorite way to browse lemmy? in c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

All + Active and Subscriptions + Scaled

Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There is already the Conservapedia doing the same thing. […]

Interestingly, the site is timing out for me right now ^[1]^, but I've been able to find some interesting archived information: for example, they have a page titled "Conservapedia:How Conservapedia Differs from Wikipedia" ^[2]^. To say the least, I take issue with some of their rationale.

References

  1. Type: Anecdote (Screenshot). Accessed: 2025-10-29T03:51Z.

  2. Type: Archive (Webpage). Title: "https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_Conservapedia_Differs_from_Wikipedia". Publisher: "Internet Archive". Published: 2025-08-06T17:43:23. Accessed: 2025-10-28T03:56Z. URI: https://web.archive.org/web/20250806174323/https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:How_Conservapedia_Differs_from_Wikipedia#expand.
    • Type: Meta. Published: 2025-10-29T03:57Z.
      • This is presumed to be an official page as it was linked to from Conservapedia's about page ^[3]^.
  3. Type: Archive (Webpage). Title: "https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:About". Publisher: "Internet Archive". Published: 2025-09-09T00:19:42. Accessed: 2025-10-19T03:59Z. URI: https://web.archive.org/web/20250909001942/https://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:About.

Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (18 children)

I don't understand what exact problem Grokipedia ^[1]^ is even trying to solve.

References

  1. Type: Text. Publisher: [Type: Article. Title: "Elon Musk's version of Wikipedia is 'cribbing' information from the real one: report". Author: "Robert Davis". Publisher: "Raw Story Media, Inc.". Published: 2025-10-27T22:23-05:00. Accessed: 2025-10-28T02:57Z. URI: https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2674238153/.]. Location: ¶1.

    […]"Grokipedia"[…]

Based osk in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you able to read the alt-text that I wrote for it?

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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 2 months ago* (last edited 2 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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::: spoiler References

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"I installed Linux (so should you)" by PewDiePie (www.youtube.com)
 

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Share your Bash prompts! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm looking for inspiration for a custom Bash prompt^[1]^. I'd love to see yours! 😊 If possible, include both the prompt's PS1, and a screenshot/example of what it looks like.

References

  1. Type: Documentation. Title: "Bash Reference Manual". Publisher: Gnu Project. Edition: 5.2. Published: 2022-09-19. Accessed: 2025-03-21T02:46Z. URI: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/index.html.

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