lautan

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Failed Attempt at Creating a Video Search Engine in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

Searxng has it's own issues like scaling and getting good results. It can still be a good option.

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Failed Attempt at Creating a Video Search Engine (www.bendangelo.me)
 

I detail how I created a search engine. In the end I recommend self-hosting spyglass for finding information online.

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Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled (www.tomshardware.com)
 

Kevin Bankston, a Senior Advisor on AI Governance, discusses this concerning Google Gemini behavior.

‘Save the Children Convoy’ Finally Ends, Leaving Farmer With Piles of Garbage, Rancid Food and Unpaid Bills in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How is this getting upvoted? Totally ridiculous statement.

How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the info

How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton in c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

100%. They'll eventually turn evil. I self-host as much as I can.

What's the best affordable pre-built mini server? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

Prebuilt like a traditional server? I personally use an orange pi and it's pretty good. Just make sure to use the open source arm OS.

Amazon, Walmart, and Target finally realize their colossal pricing mistake—now they’re slashing costs to win back customers in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just don't shop there

Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 months ago

Walmart sells Classico pasta sauce for $2.97 in my area or 4/$10. Or I could go to zerhs and buy 1 for $7.99..

Ridiculous markup.

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Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
 

A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.

Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 49 points 5 months ago (15 children)

If you need to have a home to afford to retire;

And most young people will never own a home;

How do we expect this to play out?

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Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling (betterdwelling.com)
 

Canadian real estate prices have surged in almost every market, with a typical home price doubling in many regions. A median household in major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would need to save over 20 years for just the down payment, more than 3x the historic average. Seems absurd? The outlandish scenario was apparently a […]

Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Honestly this is valid. I wouldn't take this immediately. I would wait a few years to see if there are any side effects, too much money to be made.

Refugee board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca -1 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I think the argument is to deter other immigrants from committing such crimes.

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Refugee board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

Jaskirat Singh Sidhu’s lawyer has said there are still numerous other legal procedures to come, and the deportation process could take months or years.

Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much. Is there an alternative?

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Canada will reinstate citizenship rights to ‘lost Canadians’ - National | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
 

Immigration Minister Marc Miller tabled legislation Thursday that would extend citizenship to some children born outside of Canada.

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Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

The group says food security is rising in all 10 provinces and one in four Canadians have inadequate access to food

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Abusing url handling in iTerm2 and Hyper for code execution (vin01.github.io)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.smeargle.fans/post/168017

HN Discussion

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How (and why) to de-Google your life and protect your privacy | Proton (proton.me)
 

Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. This article will explore how and why to de-Google yourself to reclaim and protect your digital privacy.

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3 teen girls expected to plead guilty in swarming death of Kenneth Lee in Toronto, court hears (www.cbc.ca)
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Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)
 

The authors of the study said the figures should serve as a ‘wake-up call’ for the country’s Liberal government

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Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters (www.theglobeandmail.com)
 

Immigration lawyers say the screening questions go ‘above and beyond what is asked in a normal immigration application’

Canada Post was wrong to suspend unvaccinated remote workers during COVID, arbitrator rules in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] lautan@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I would say that's not Canada Post's responsibility.

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