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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Imagine driving along a Canadian road soon after a snowfall — but there's no snow or ice on the pavement. The salt trucks and plows have not passed. Yet the roads are already clear. The technology exists to make this possible, with a system hidden beneath the pavement.

"[The] system captures solar heat during the summer months and stores it underground. Then, when winter arrives, the stored heat is transferred through pipes beneath the road surface, warming the pavement and preventing ice formation — in essence, a solar powered underfloor heating system," engineering researchers explain.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Mohammadamin Ahmadfard and Seth Dworkin from Toronto Metropolitan University discuss how this technology, known as Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES), could be a solution to Canada’s winter woes.

"Canada has the potential to lead the way by adopting BTES systems on its most treacherous roads, steep inclines and vulnerable bridges," they write.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On mine, I can press the info icon (i) -> Remove EXIF

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That was my thought too!

Out of curiosity, how much did it sell for? I can see something like this going for a lot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Your post may have some broken formatting. There are some repeated sections and the installation instructions are missing currently

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I once won a promotion and I was sent some items for free. When I went to pick them up, I had to pay more than I would have been willing to pay if I bought the items, because of 'duties and taxes'.

I probably should have just refused the delivery, but I was young and didn't know any better so I paid for my package. There was a receipt inside the box that listed the items as being somewhat expensive, so I assumed there was some weird accounting where I still had to pay the taxes despite getting them for free.

I've bought and shipped a lot of items since then without ever having to pay upon pickup.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

Please use the original title of the article. You can add additional commentary in the body of the post or in the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

While it's supported by one of the donation platforms we are using, we haven't set it up yet

I'll pass this along to the team for more discussion :)

and thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I didn't mind Proton's as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The balance I've found is

  • if it's important and I have time: read it myself
  • if it's important and I don't have time: save it for later
  • if it's not important (and I'm fine with reading someone else's summary of it, knowing that their summary might be wrong), and curious enough, I'll get a quick AI summary of it. Afterwards I might go back to read it properly if it sounds interesting, or skipping it happy I didn't waste time on it

That's actually why I liked having those summary bots in the comments.

  • only generated once, so it saves some resources compared to many users generating it for themselves
  • people who read the piece or know about the topic can call out issues
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Cool!

  • use “gentle update” API so apps don’t get killed while in use
  • experimental support for un-archiving apps on Android 15
  • separate share link and share file actions in app details (so you can share the link to the app page or the installed APK)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one is amazing as well 😄

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34778760

I'm not familiar with them personally, and don't plan to switch away from Signal anytime soon, but this might help anyone that was looking into Threema :)

Some discussion about it:

TLDR, it looks good from a technical aspect but being a paid app makes it harder to recommend, and it doesn't do well with the network effect as a result

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I'm not familiar with them personally, and don't plan to switch away from Signal anytime soon, but this might help anyone that was looking into Threema :)

Some discussion about it:

TLDR, it looks good from a technical aspect but being a paid app makes it harder to recommend, and it doesn't do well with the network effect as a result

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Link to release notes: https://zen-browser.app/release-notes/

I saw that the icon and UI changed, so I looked up the release information. They're preparing for the first stable release!

If you encounter any issues, please report them on the issues page. Thanks everyone for your feedback! ❤️

This release introduces a new stage for Zen Browser, the beta stage! This means that we are getting closer to a stable release, and we are now focusing on fixing bugs and improving the overall experience. We've made some significant changes to the UI, including a new layout for the browser called single toolbar and much more!

Fixes

  • Various fixes in version 20
  • Fix pinned tab state and favicon handling #2853
  • Prevent pins deletion from database on non explicit tab closes (window closing) #2875
  • [...]

Features

  • New branding and logos!
  • Updated zen glance animations for smoother transitions and adjust timing (Still in development)
  • Add reset to pinned URL button to pinned tabs
  • Made the URL bar background more rounded
  • Updated to Firefox 133.0
  • Added support for -moz-gtk-csd-reversed-placement on Linux
  • Enhance workspace deactivation styles with grayscale filter for better visibility
  • Windows and linux ARM64 builds are now available on the github for testing!
  • Hide container label when URL bar is narrow
  • Macos ARM64 builds will now ship with PGO, performance increase!
  • Added different layouts for zen: single toolbar, multiple toolbars, and no toolbar
  • The URL bar will now be floating on the top of the page
  • Added native mica support for Windows 11
  • Added hiding window controls support
  • Created new animations for glance
  • Added context aware animations for workspace switching
  • New onboarding experience for new users!
  • Started experimenting with horizontal tabs
 

I wanted to pick a name that's generic and not specific to any particular platform. For example, [email protected] instead of [email protected]

I don't see a community for that yet, aside from [email protected], which is specific to Loops.

Some sources of the content could be:

  • Fediverse Loops
  • Tiktok
  • Instagram Reels
  • YouTube Shorts

The sidebar could include guides on how to link to the content in a more accessible way (ex. alternate front-ends or re-posting).

 

Overall, B.C. was given a “B” grade by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business in its annual report, released in July, on the status of interprovincial trade, but a dispute with Alberta over direct-to-consumer wine sales earlier this year indicates there is still room for improvement.

Jairo Yunis, a B.C. Business Council policy director and former director of B.C. and western economic policy at CFIB, said one example is that trucking in the province is essentially facing a five-per-cent tariff to bring goods into Alberta or other jurisdictions in Canada.

“There was an analysis done by the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, months ago, that calculated the average internal trade cost for the trucking industry in B.C. was around five per cent,” said Yunis.

“I know that there is a working group looking at a pilot project to mutually recognize all these standards and regulations across all provinces. So that’s definitely something that would remove some of these internal trade barriers in some of those sectors, specifically trucking.”

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It's a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.

In particular, it's a response to this article:

'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls (NBCNews)

The game in this case being AmongUs...

Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/72744

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/34674387

Toronto's Michael Jarman wins 2024 Microsoft Excel World Championships in Las Vegas

Archive/mirror: https://archive.ph/vrr89

 
 

[...] Many users are complaining of hallucinated artists' stats, songs they've never heard appearing in most listened lists, and more. Some users aren't happy with the way that Spotify Wrapped looked this year, complaining that it was boring, and not as creative as previous years. [...]

One of the most common complaints seems to be that Spotify Wrapped has misreported on the stats in claims to represent. Now, while this has happened in previous years, this year it seems to be a whole lot more prevalent — as you can see in this Spotify support thread. It's filled with users complaining about top artists they've never listened to, songs appearing in at the top of their lists that they didn't even know existed, or a mixture of the two.

Just anecdotally talking with people outside the internet-o-sphere and you'll quickly find people with iffy Spotify Wrapped statistics. I have friends who listen exclusively to bizarre, underground punk acts, and their Wrappeds were topped by the likes of The Weeknd and Taylor Swift. Even on the Tom's Guide team, we've seen strangeness — our own Millie Fender discovered Swift among her top artists, yet her songs didn't appear in her top 100.

Just read people's reactions online, especially in the trending topic on X or even the announcement thread on Reddit. Many are blaming Spotify's pivot to AI this year for the lack of personality, and some even hold it responsible for their weird Spotify statistics. I have reached out to Spotify for comment, but I am yet to hear a response.

What can we do?

First off, there are other streaming platforms with year-end roundups. Deezer, for example, has unleashed My Deezer Year, and like everything the French streamer does, it's filled with creativity and personality. That's a streaming service with better sound quality too. Apple Music has its Replay feature, which similarly takes you through your year. There are options.

If you're duty-bound to Spotify, then there is a way to really check your most-listened-to artists, songs, and genres — Track your listening with Last.FM, for example, which gives you breakdowns over the course of the year. Whatever happens, I (and many others) are hoping that Spotify Wrapped is a whole lot better next year.

 
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Welcome to release v1.122.0 of Immich. After a long release break, Immich is back and brings many new features with loads of bug fixes to enhance the user experience further and make Immich more delightful to use. Some of the highlights below:

  • HDR video support in the mobile app
  • Multiple URLs for machine learning service
  • Automatic switching between server URLs in the mobile app
  • Ability to hide users when searching in an Immich instance
  • Access the most recent albums through the web navigation bar
  • Custom email templates
  • Automatically clean up files left behind by interrupted uploads
  • More responsive hosted maps for users in Oceania
  • Notable fix: swiping between videos failing on older Android devices
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