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  • But you're not wrong. It's a sampling bias.

    I only know like 2 dozen cops. One's an absolute blowhard, but the rest are decent people. I don't expect them all to be nice, because I've seen reports on TV otherwise; it'd be foolish.

    The cherry-picking starts with US newsmedia. I'm glad our cops are different, at least.

  • Divorce rates are falling: Are Canadians too poor to break up?
  • A dear friend divorced his adulterous wife. Finally.

    Laws here are weird, and they can be biased. Because he then met and married a very successful woman, his ex was able to get a new support agreement for her and their grown(!) kids that ensured they were kept "to a level commensurate with his current status" that had him donating the entirety of his pay toward support because his new spouse made more and his old spouse wasnt reporting income (cash only, sob story).

    To be clear: grown kids, spouse met and married long after the first divorce and settlement, lawyer and judge combo awarded her a new settlement that left him with no income and entirely dependent on his new spouse.

    The Chilliwack was both chilly and a whack.

  • Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame
  • A buddy did this at Best Buy when they started this shit.

    1. Straight to the returns
    2. Pointed at that guy when asked why
    3. Ensured it was cash refund because "while I'm here every week for new tech stuff, I don't need to come HERE. I'm never comin' back."

    He's not responsible for that store closing, but we like to say so. ;-)

  • Customers are fed up with anti-theft measures at stores. Retailers say organized crime is to blame
  • This isn't how we solve this problem.

    (Don't do the crime if you can't do the crime, as they say)

    Yes. Loblaws look like dicks all the time. But when we steal from them, it's still a reflection on ourselves and not them. We're better than looters coat-tailing a protest to get a new TV.

  • Jimmy Carter: Grandson says former president is ‘coming to the end’
  • ... And that the current president is BY FAR the better of the two potential options offered; and that people still say "I don't care if the absolutely terrible guy gets in as long as I show my displeasure for the incumbent by not voting. That'll stick it to everyone."

  • What good/positive habits have you taken away from your time in Covid lockdown and kept up since then?
  • I kept working two jobs. You people had spare time?

    (let's be clear: I was relieved I could work remotely for my newest job, the same as I've been doing for my oldest job for decades. I worried about my friends and family who could not, but none of my peer group understands the "I was out of work and didn't start so I took up an expensive new hobby" people!)

  • Air Canada customers kicked off plane for refusing vomit-covered seat

    Pay-wall link: https://globalnews.ca/news/9938774/air-canada-vomit-seat-passenger-apology/

    Air Canada has apologized to customers who were allegedly escorted off a plane for refusing to sit in a chair covered with vomit for the duration of their over four-hour flight.

    The airline issued a statement after a viral Facebook post claimed two as-yet unidentified female flyers were told there was nothing to be done about the visible vomit on their soiled seats.

    Oh! AirCanada!

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    Ah, RedHat (rpmdb failure)

    We've been using Yum (and now its "differenter name is betterer" dnf) for what, 20 years?

    error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 13664/139968089683776 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley DB library error: db5 error(-30973) from dbenv->failchk: BDB0087 DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery error: cannot open Packages index using db5 - (-30973) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

    You think we'll ever get someone with a clue to fix this? Will RedHat going all IBM about source code help?

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    Screen width and web dev

    Okay, so what's with Gitlab and ServiceNow getting so fat on whitespace that they no longer fit in half a 1920x1200 screen properly?

    What's the standard width that actual professional webdevs are building toward? Is there a standard, or like app dependendencies are they back to pre-y2k "moar moar nom nom" methodologies?

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    Where's the "Did MSFT sharepoint just go down again today" posting space?

    Look. It happens a few times a week, where reps in 3 time-zones will be fucked by an interruption to azure services like o341 or sharepoint (we don't do VMs in azure; not secure enough).

    I'm used to shadenfreuding Reddit over that, or at least finding it's not just our company firewall and VPN taking the Proverbial.

    Is there a sub I can join to get the topical junk like that? I'm too indolent - like a fox! - to go to twitter (or ideally mastodon) for a more suitable location; but will I find it there if I do? Can it be here too?

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    #174 Fedora Linux With The Project Leader | Matthew Miller, in which RedHat stabbing the GPL in the back may or may not affect Fedora

    I didn't find this yet, but please downvote to hell itself and drop a link to the proper prior post in comments if you find it.

    In here, eventually, are some comments from the Fedora project leader about how RHEL trying to kill open access to source and packaging source code is potentially going to affect Fedora, RedHat's ginger adopted stepchild which it usually overlooks.

    I must say there's a LOT to wait through and one of them has a mic with a bad level at times, and I didn't sit all the way through. Tell me if I've been scammed, but I thought this may have value and I'm hoping to hear confirmation of that too.

    Enjoy? Or flame me. Happy Friday.

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