I love how Radio-Canada's baseline assumption is that you would never even think of going to watch a huge prestigious international event happening in your city and that your only interest in life is knowing where you can go vroom vroom with your car.
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Into the face of the young man there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney addresses European Parliament in Strasbourg the day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed opening door to Canada becoming first associate EU member.
Featuring English, French and a smattering of German
Mark Carney apparently had the time and energy, between today's EU state of the union in Strasbourg and his own speech in Strasbourg tomorrow, to leg it up to Liverpool to meet with the British PM and take in a bit of the footie. Seems like quite the character, this prime minister of ours 😮
#cdnpoli
@heliomass@cosocial.ca this has been a minor ongoing controversy since he got into office. Although I personally prefer standard Canadian English, there are so many alien American spellings that have crept into everyday life in Canada that I am very happy for the prime minister to go #FullBritish, if only to balance things out a bit.
It's quite something to behold that the current wave of Alberta separatism kicked off the day after the federal election, when the country chose a prime minister from Edmonton instead of a prime minister from Calgary. Truly, the new crybabies of confederation. #cdnpoli
Against all odds, I've somehow managed to write a second post over at @journal.
It turns out I'd been so thoroughly absorbed by the endlessly compelling #TapestryApp from @Iconfactory@iconfactory.world that I forgot I was supposed to be writing 😅
So I decided to write about it
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@dt@mastodon.top pour mon travail je «surfe le web» à temps plein, et l'omniprésence des drapeaux pour désigner un choix de langue me rend fou!
quand un site québécois utilise le tricolore 🇫🇷 et le union jack 🇬🇧 pour désigner nos langues officielles au moins c'est drôle, mais quand c'est le drapeau québécois pour le français à côté du drapeau canadien pour l'anglais… ça me tue ☠️
le drapeau mexicain sur un site américain pour désigner l'espagnol c'est pas idéal, mais celui de l'espagne est juste ridicule 😅
I am going to see a talk with @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Astra Taylor and Yoshua Bengio in #Montréal on April 10, and you can too!
https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/channels/event/artificial-intelligence-ultimate-disrupter-370208
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@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com will almost certainly be just as onerous as ever. I just read through the whole thing and, besides the glorified wealthsimple ad campaign, the only change seems to be 45 minutes of electric bixi as a reward for rebalancing (instead of 30)
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@reece I hope you've got a European textbook, otherwise you might not even learn the word «le train» 🙃
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@heliomass@mstdn.ca it's all just car-brained concern trolling, it always was. The lanes they want to remove in Ahuntsic are in places where I am regularly nearly run over by cars, only still alive due to extreme vigilance and mistrust of any & all Montreal drivers.
Martinez Ferrada was on Port-Royal last summer talking about bike lanes creating safety issues for drivers, while those same drivers will distractedly mow you down should you have the temerity to walk there & attempt to cross a side street.
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social I think it's a Linux convention, and even they get confused sometimes https://itsfoss.com/apt-update-vs-upgrade/
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@marcoarment@mastodon.social You should. The Apple Watch is boring, and life is too short for boring watches. As you well know as a certified watch guy.
For many years now I've been Garmin for workouts and literally any other watch for everything else
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@marcoarment I noticed this too a couple weeks ago and ended up here:
'When Apple will release the next Mac mini is less clear, but an early to mid 2026 launch is expected, with a date around WWDC in June most likely. However, with the Mac mini currently out of stock at Amazon U.S. and delivery delays for Apple in the U.S. and U.K. it is possible that we could see a new Mac mini very soon.'
https://www.macworld.com/article/2964754/2026-mac-mini-m5-pro-design-specs-release-date.html
I enjoy breathless tech coverage as much as the next person, but some would say athletes have been 'integrating wearables into their training' since the advent of the wristwatch. I know I would https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/916744/oura-us-soccer
Apple Maps has followed suit and is now showing Lake America. The absolute Quislings
In this, the first day of the post 'Tim Apple' era, new CEO John Ternus has a chance to make his mark and move on from the inauguration donations, golden trophies and Melania screenings. What will he decide, I wonder?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-apple-lake-ontario-9.7327014
A day that will go down in infamy — getting this country off American tech has never been more urgent https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-updates-maps-lake-ontario-9.7325922
Que Dieu blesse l'Amérique, as the old saying goes
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@NetNewsWire@indieweb.social Hello! As a brand new user, I think I accidentally stumbled into the 7.0.1 beta over the weekend because I'm still running macOS 15. It works great as far as I can tell!
I was wondering, will the equivalent iPad release support iPadOS 18? At present, I am unable to install it due to it requiring iPadOS 26.
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@NetNewsWire@indieweb.social ah ok, thanks for the reply and for letting me know!
For now I'm clinging to a particular iPad multitasking workflow that isn't supported on 26, but one day I'll eventually have to upgrade
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@Lenora256@mastodon.social to be honest, I haven't tried Bevel. I only use Garmin Connect and Strava. I feel getting the most out of something like that would require me to wear a smartwatch full-time, which is something I don't really want to do
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@castropodcasts@mastodon.social hello, I just wanted to report that side loading from YouTube stopped working for me a few days ago