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I’m a Toronto-based software developer specializing in Ruby on Rails / Crystal with game development experience, passionate about AI and open source. Join me as I share insights, best practices, and explore the intersections of technology, gaming, and AI.

> 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 Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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

Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled

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

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

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

Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives

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

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

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 outlandis...

Canadian Home Prices "Need" To Be High To Pay For Retirements: PM - Better Dwelling

> 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 […]

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Loblaws and Sobeys are now under formal investigation for 'anticompetitive conduct'
www.blogto.com Loblaws and Sobeys are now under formal investigation for 'anticompetitive conduct'

Canada's Competition Bureau, which has already concluded that the nation needs more supermarket players to foster a healthy market for consumers, i...

Loblaws and Sobeys are now under formal investigation for 'anticompetitive conduct'

> Canada's Competition Bureau, which has already concluded that the nation needs more supermarket players to foster a healthy market for consumers, i...

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

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.

Refugee board orders deportation for trucker in horrific Humboldt Broncos crash

> 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.

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

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

Canada will reinstate citizenship rights to ‘lost Canadians’ - National | 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 Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country

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

Food Banks Canada says food insecurity is worsening across the country

> 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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Demolition begins for final blocks of Toronto's original Regent Park neighbourhood
www.blogto.com Demolition begins for final blocks of Toronto's original Regent Park neighbourhood

It's the end of an era for Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, as the final blocks constructed in the late 1940s for what was Canada's largest and...

Demolition begins for final blocks of Toronto's original Regent Park neighbourhood

> It's the end of an era for Toronto's Regent Park neighbourhood, as the final blocks constructed in the late 1940s for what was Canada's largest and...

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From Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square: new signage expected by end of year
toronto.ctvnews.ca From Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square: new signage expected by end of year

The City of Toronto says signage for Yonge-Dundas Square was decommissioned earlier this month and signage reflecting the site's new name is expected to be installed by the end of the year.

From Yonge-Dundas Square to Sankofa Square: new signage expected by end of year

> The City of Toronto says signage for Yonge-Dundas Square was decommissioned earlier this month and signage reflecting the site's new name is expected to be installed by the end of the year.

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Doors Open Toronto This Weekend May 25th, 26th
www.toronto.ca Doors Open Toronto

Explore Toronto's Buildings and Sites May 25 & 26, 2024, at Doors Open Toronto

Doors Open Toronto
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The history of what was once Toronto's grandest mansion
www.blogto.com The history of what was once Toronto's grandest mansion

The Cawthra Family immigrated from Guiseley, Yorkshire, England and arrived in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1803. They lived in a brick house on the n...

The history of what was once Toronto's grandest mansion

> The Cawthra Family immigrated from Guiseley, Yorkshire, England and arrived in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1803. They lived in a brick house on the n...

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

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.

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

> 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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Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years
www.telegraph.co.uk Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years

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

Canada’s standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years

> 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 Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters

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

Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters

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

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Hundreds of Indian students in Canada face deportation, protest against new rule
www.indiatoday.in Hundreds of Indian students in Canada face deportation, protest against new rule

In Prince Edward Island, a province in Canada, hundreds of Indian students are facing deportation after it changed its provincial immigration rules. Around 300 students are protesting and have threatened to go on a hunger strike if the Canadian province doesn't review its latest immigration policy.

Hundreds of Indian students in Canada face deportation, protest against new rule

> In Prince Edward Island, a province in Canada, hundreds of Indian students are facing deportation after it changed its provincial immigration rules. Around 300 students are protesting and have threatened to go on a hunger strike if the Canadian province doesn't review its latest immigration policy.

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Toronto man's side hustle making calzones leads to new restaurant gig
www.blogto.com Toronto man's side hustle making calzones leads to new restaurant gig

A Toronto man has quit his job to pursue his side gig of creating some of the cheesiest, steamiest calzones the city's ever seen full time. Longtim...

Toronto man's side hustle making calzones leads to new restaurant gig

> A Toronto man has quit his job to pursue his side gig of creating some of the cheesiest, steamiest calzones the city's ever seen full time. > Longtim...

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Durham police say high-risk violent offender released into community poses 'significant risk'
  • Here's an article about the same guy getting released in 2014: https://www.thespec.com/news/stoney-creek-residents-fight-relocation-of-sex-offender-keith-theodore-constantin/article_589b5b81-454f-5beb-91be-2950d52dccd9.html

    Here's another article about him getting arrested again shortly after that: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/convicted-sex-offender-keith-constantin-arrested-again-1.2726024

    Here's another article about him getting released again a year later: https://www.yorkregion.com/news/schomberg-residents-on-edge-over-release-of-high-risk-offender/article_37eaeef3-e3ec-5110-bc53-706b6970e66c.html

    Obviously he got arrested again at least once at some point because here we are talking about him getting released again.

    Also from that 2nd article: "He was also convicted in 2000 of sexually assaulting a young boy and of sexually assaulting a 45-year-old blind woman in separate incidents." So this goes back even father than I what I can find just on google. Serial rapist catch-and-release for over two decades. Canada's legal system is a joke.

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