It is a breath of fresh air when a politician is coherent.
His speech had some lighthearted humour sprinkled here and there. You could see his face when one of them landed.
Carney did not say the words “Union”, but the whole argument around countries in the middle joining forces with each other so they can negotiate rather than be coerced into unilateral agreements is the same for workers unions.
Cool. I wonder how it compares with the Moondrop Old fashioned.
I don’t have the exact commit anymore, but it was at the beginning of 2024. I remember going to suggest them to be more straightforward with their changelog, but someone beat me to it.
Yeah, I remember other project for epic, Legendary, that a bunch of people built on top, but it was discontinued recently.
Edit: nevermind, I found the mastodon comment, and the people reporting the problem with gog on github. From there it was easier to find the commit.
https://mastodon.social/@heroiclauncher/111824351634717227 (It was actually a reply to their own mastodon post where the “informed” about the change.
Scroll down to webview/index to see the change. The subsequent commits were all to fix issues caused by this.
I feel like people believe what they want to believe. And Carney being a sweet talker does not help.
I have some lovely neighbours, but they truly believe Carney words. Best way to help is to be sweet about it with some thought tickling questions.
Them: Oh poor Carney, had to do this bad stuff because of negotiations with Trump and the negotiations did not progress. Me: It might be tough being PM, all the information we don’t have access. I wonder why he did not make the bad stuff a condition to the negotiation, and bring back the good stuff in case it fails.
It helps to start some sharing of thoughts, but I don’t push harder than this because it always ends with the “UCP would have sold us by now”. And that is the reason I think makes the Liberals prevent PR. People will keep voting on them with fear of the other party.
That said, I often fall for Carney words as well. He does something bad, I get upset, he goes and does an interview, and midway I am falling for it. Wait a minute, let me check the data.
Nice, quite easy to get into development mode. https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamframe/setup
One day, Heroic stopped working for me, it was flagged and blocked by my network. They injected affiliated links that redirected to weird domains, with no warning on changelogs. I was worried of a man in the middle attack and I investigated the PRs. They did not even document it properly on the commits, but it was intentional, you could see the line changing in the code made by one of the main devs.
Nothing against them making some money, I would have opened a rule for them. But doing this kind of thing without notifying people is shady at least. Later I found a message from the devs in one social network(mastodon maybe?) about adding it, but that is hardly notifying your user base. Subsequently, more people reported the client not working and they addressed it. It was not only about network rule that blocked most users, Heroic could not reach some GOG services without https and for some reason the weird redirects were forcing the route through http.
With some wording, they made some users believe they had “team up with GOG”. But they just signed for the affiliated program that anyone can sign for, GOG had no idea who they were and were not officially endorsing them. Quite often you see on lemmy people arguing like GOG is behind Heroic, or that Heroic is an official GOG store.
Since then (early 2024), I stopped recommending Heroic to people and moved to other options (wine, lutris, bottles). I am sure it was an honest mistake. But it will take a while to recover the trust.
All problems aside, I still prefer an open-source solution that I can investigate this type of thing easily over a closed blob that I have to reverse engineer and sniff packages.
When they released Witcher 2 on Linux (CDPR) some top hat (sorry I don’t remember who) did not like the feedback from the players and used it as reasons to not support Linux on subsequent titles. One hope it is not the same guy that bought GOG.
This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.
I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.
Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost…
What I don’t find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.
They do already, and most of the comments on the noise are “please share promp”.
They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.
Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and “hire” half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).
The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.
What a cool series, thank you for sharing! I was not familiar with the channel and will take a look on the rest.
I did not know much beside the game and the IP stealing thing. It is sad what happened to them.
Brazil (R$ right?) used to have a lot of programs to send students to foreign countries, but around 10 years ago the numbers dwindled.
I don’t see many Brazilian undergrads anymore, some grads, but mostly post-docs.
If you shared your field and education level, I could point you to a more precise direction.
But for education, your best bets are:
Payment here is different, you pay by period X number of curses (Fall term, Winter Term, Spring/Summer) - some places in Europe it would be called semester) not by year, so that 20.000 CAD a year would be split in at least 2 periods. The university puts that so it is easier for you to plan your life. There is no monthly instalments payment like in some countries, but students can apply for awards, support, loans, etc… Check your university of choice for this information.
As others said, you need to take in account other costs too, from the visa process (a student visa will take longer and be pricier than a visitors visa), to housing and food. Some universities offer housing and food at a smaller cost than doing it all by yourself.
From your other comment in the thread, it sounds like you just want to leave the country for a while to experience life somewhere else.
Commonwealth countries and some places in Europe offer an easy to get work visa for under 30 years old. Check if you qualify for those. Usually, those visas lasts for a year, and you can renew if you meet some criteria.
While writing the book, I realized that the core constraints of the universe described in the text
Did you write the text? Why are you talking about the text like you are reading it for the first time? It might be when you “write” +200 pages in 2 weeks.
I suspect it’s actually a Game Engine specification.
No, it is not. Your text is a manifesto, even if you eventually figure out physics, it is still not what you need to build a physics simulation engine or the physics abstraction for a game engine. Your text helps to achieve neither.
Please stop preying on kids for free labour and to spread whatever your goals are.
Just literacy would be enough.
Without even counting the red flags of the account date, both here and GitHub, that you cannot find the author anywhere, that OP managed to write +200 pages of “physics” in 2 weeks (check changelogs, it went from 211 pages to whatever op is claiming now). The whole thing reads like LLM assisted manifesto.
I am not joking, people do not need to read the entire thing to see that is just dropping real names (physics, tech) without any support to their claims. And it is just claims as an absolute, there is no proof, logic, nothing.
I guess they would get a lot more goodwill if they were upfront about writing fiction, or some TempleOS kind of thing.
They are using this “game engine” excuse just to prey on kids.
First time I heard of Konek, I have been using Interact for a while but did not know they had this service.
As far as I am aware, a bunch of countries created something similar to get rid of American payment systems, like UPI in India.
My favourite so far is the Brazilian Pix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system), becoming the most used payment system in the country in the past few years. Not only because it is technically sound, but it also managed to get the Americans pissed. Credit card and tech lobbies pressuring the American government to do something about it. Meta tried to release a payment system in Brazil that failed miserable because of Pix.
plugged that into ghci as 5+2*(8-5), and it says 17.
You might want to report that error. Or, did you mean 2+5*(8-5)?
A while ago, I was looking to buy a “dumb tv”. In the end I narrowed it down to professional display, computer monitors, and projectors. And sadly, the prices are usually higher than a TV of the same size.
Professional Displays are those you find in fast food with the menu, or in offices with info, doctors etc… One of the reasons they are expensive is because they are made to be on 24x7.
Projectors are cool, but they work better in darker rooms. The cheaper ones also need more space from the wall.
I ended up going with a computer monitor, LG ultragear 48 inches, it is great. And it was cheaper than anything else, and I was lucky there was a price drop from the MSRP because they were restocking to a newer model. Usually they are a bit more expensive than the equivalent LG C model TV.
With a monitor, you will have to plug anything that you want to watch, there is no wifi and apps. Another constrain is size, the largest I could find were 48 inches. Anything bigger would fall into the professional display category and get expensive fast.
Sadly, I just checked online and neither Amazon or Best Buy are offering those here in Canada https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/lg-ultragear-48-uhd-138hz-0-1ms-gtg-oled-lcd-freesync-gaming-monitor-48gq900-b-black/16310839. LG was usually around 1k CAD, and BenQ was not that far off.
I hope it is just shortage rather than discontinuing those line of products.
Then some clueless person complains that Steam dominates the market. When Epic is constantly shooting their foot.
People like to make informed decisions and those labels help. In proper countries even beer have content labels to say if there is rice or corn with the barley.
A while ago, someone shared stories that happened during the golden days of Alberta, with the help of the oil sands. While not perfect and under a lot of abuse, able-bodied people could find a job and build a family with a modest life.
This “progress” was happening all over the world, not only in Alberta. But it was enough to cement the position of the conservative parties that hold the power for almost 100 years there, in special PC that hold control of the province for long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alberta_general_elections There is a nostalgia effect for people that lived there during those times.
Alberta used to be ahead of the curve, in 1920 they had proportional representation, but later the party in power realized they could have even more power if they ended PR. But they shot their foot with that, that is when Social Credit lost to PC. https://fairvoteedmonton.com/2025/06/17/alberta-had-proportional-representation-whyd-we-give-it-up/
PC eventually merged into UCP to make sure they would keep a majority in elections. I remember some people at the time not so happy they were joining the “crazies” but thought it was a necessary evil.
If you check the electorate map, you will see that some districts have almost half of the people than others, but the gerrymandering is not as bad as in USA. From there you will see the major cities rarely vote for conservatives from the past forever. And if you are in lemmy for a while, you might have seen some posts from Fair Vote Canada that while the UCP gets most seats, they do not get the majority of votes.
Back to cities and eroding the electorate. Destroying the education and healthcare is just a way to filter out people that do not vote for them. COVID and other diseases run rampant because they think it will hurt the cities more than their electorate.
If you searched top universities in 2016, Calgary and Edmonton would often appear on top 5 of some fields. We would send people to get training in Edmonton foreseeing the machine learning boom, as they were ahead of the curve and very affordable. In 2019 the province made it hard for many industries that were not oil, what lead to an exodus. It was common to some companies move from AB and BC, but this only got my attention when a friend moved to Montreal. I always heard about Quebec taxes, but I never thought some company would move there from Alberta, but it appears that Quebec offers huge tax rebates and investments if you fit some criteria. So a bunch of young folks, that never witnessed the “golden age” moved to other provinces too.
And of course, there is a lot of propaganda, but at this day and age is very easy to confirm those stuffs. Well, except when that province government makes the access to information harder.
tl;dr: it is not majority, it is a mix of district mapping, poor/unsecure electorate systems, and pushing away dissidents and smart people.
This electorate district shenanigans are not new, they did stuff like that with Toronto not so long ago. That is why more modern democracies have measures to combat this kind of thing. (also one of the reasons people are asking for the back of proportional representation).
I think Steam, GOG and Epic have API/SDK that anyone can use. It is not like they check what every single person is doing. Steam has a problem with gambling and grey market trading that uses their services, it is not like they are actively going after them.
Btw, Comet main dev is one of the devs behind Heroic. It seems imLinguin is also based in Poland and very active with the GOG community. GOG definitely knows about them. Maybe something changes since they are willing to invest on Linux now.