MrGG

joined 2 years ago
[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really like this art style for Data / Lore!

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Oh a Newfie! 😀 I'm in / from Toronto but my dad's side of the family are all Acadian from Nova Scotia. (That's not me being an ignorant Torontonian assuming NS and Newfoundland are the same thing, just acknowledging they're both that side of Canada 😂)

You're being recognised for providing people with entertainment and joy. I'd say that's a good thing! You've certainly provided me (and my friends by extension) with a ton of entertainment. To that point, if you message me your details I'll e-transfer you $50 as thanks for all your good works.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

I agree our far right is absolutely dangerous for us domestically, but we do not control a plethora of nukes or have the largest army in the world, our courts are not packed with Christian Supremacists, and our political right has historically flirted with extremist factions but actual policy is usually somewhere closer to the centre, so yeah it's absolutely dangerous but nowhere near the scale that it is in America. One dementia-induced order from that con-man former president (assuming he wins again) can literally end civilisation as we know it. 100% on board with what you're saying domestically though, PP absolutely cannot be allowed to form government.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Under His eye.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Total tangent, but: the famous Stamets from Risa is also Canadian? 😀

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Heh "far right" in Canada would be America's Democratic party. America's "far right" is straight up blossoming fascism.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 76 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As always, if a headline is in the form of a question, the answer is: No.

As it was a few years ago, the only "cure" is bone marrow transplants from somebody with the gene variant that is resistant to HIV. And bone marrow transplants, since in their application need to wipe out your existing immune system, are riskier than just continuing to be on ART.

The other potential cures in the article have only been tested on monkeys and mice, and even if they end up working on humans that's many, many years away.

The article is kind of a waste of time if you already know about the bone marrow application, as expected. Actually, that's kind of harsh, it's mostly positive, which we need more of, but from a science news perspective there's not much there.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

I am also interested in alternatives as I still use Clockify. But I also need to rant about Clockify: oh my God it is so damn buggy. Whenever I use my VPN on Windows to connect to the office (split routing, so only traffic destined for the office goes over the VPN, not all traffic) Clockify goes in and out of "No internet connection..." for 5-10 seconds. It's also constantly logging me out, and will sometimes pop up a ton of "new update available" dialogue windows at the same time.

It also doesn't have great rounding options. And one of my clients has a tiered billing structure (X dollars up to a certain number of hours, Y dollars for anything over that in the month) which I don't think I can track in Clockify at all, so I end up doing all of that manually every month.

I thought about looking for FOSS alternatives but haven't gotten around to it yet. Also thought about doing my own FOSS thing with a paid hosted / support component, but I don't have much cross-platform GUI dev experience.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

That's actually pretty neat!

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I said a few, friend 😛 I agree it's not a big deal, but for developers that are totally entrenched in that ecosystem it might be alarming. Hence OP's post.

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That is disturbing. From my perspective, anyway. There are already so many great (and more appropriate) stacks for web backends, why Frankenstein a Frankenstein into it?

[–] MrGG@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 years ago (5 children)

PP actually lucked out there and doesn't need to plan to take action on it because the provinces are already doing a fine job of dismantling their respective healthcare systems

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