Daniel Brotherston

Unfortunately the experience of taking a bike on NS has not been good. We ended up getting left behind because of full trains 4 times this weekend. Seems they do not account for increased demand in the summer months, and don't run longer trains with more space. Very frustrating experience. Just another way in which trying to run the system at 100% capacity breaks things and leads to bad experience. Have @BicycleDutch@mastodon.social or @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com had any experience with this? I'm not sure how technically possible it is to couple different types of trainsets together, but maybe now that they are retiring older trains, they could remove the interiors of some of the old trains and then couple them in the summer months to provide extra capacity for this.

@paninid@mastodon.world the worst part is the media “nobody has any idea why this is happening.”

@Daojoan I think most people are seduced by "passive income" not as in they don't want to contribute, but instead as a form of security. If income is passive, then you cannot be fired. It of course isn't true, but I suspect this is the underlying motivation for most. Or well, it would be for me, maybe I'm weird, but I do think I'm still pretty human.

@BicycleDutch@mastodon.social it’s amazing how cities evolve. Slowly, gradually and utterly. And yet suburban tracts (in Canada and the US at least) are argued to be set in amber by NIMBYs. It’s not a healthy situation.

@juergen_hubert "The investors have moved to the next scam". Well, by this logic, there is no ethical existence in our current society.

@ubi @PermaSolarPotter @gardening I think this whole thing is an understandable rejection of modern capitalism, but subsistence farming is not an ideal. Working together in communities is what makes us human, it’s what makes us capable of doing incredible things.

@verge@mastodon.social they’re acting the same way every other wealthy person acts. It’s the same reason Epstein and his associates were never punished.

@timbray@cosocial.ca I'm not quite sure how it relates to their employers, but it's also shit...they should be putting this on the air waves. That said, this is very much the BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOME here. This is the insane thing, and the reason I will not risk travelling to the US under any circumstances right now. Prior to this year, travelling to any developed nation was 100% safe for basically everyone. If you were turned back, that sucks and is a huge PITA...but you remain a free person. This is no longer the case in the US. People are not being turned away, they are being detained, indefinitely, without trial or recourse, in inhumane conditions, and without any idea when they will get out. At worst they are shipped to a forced labour camp in some foreign country. Don't risk travelling to the US, it isn't worth the risk. If you must try to enter through the pre-clearance area of an airport on foreign soil. It is much harder for the US to disappear you there. I'd say it's like travelling to North Korea, but it's actually worse than that. If you are detained by the North Korean government, your government will be able to put pressure on the Kim regime to release you. Not so with the US. Nobody is even challenging the US on these detainments.

@alatiera I know nothing of this person, or the issues at play. But like 99% of the time I end up on the right side of things when I side against the person whining about freedom and for the people objecting to racism and transphobia. Sooooo....

@geerlingguy As a viewer in the EU...Yay. Also, I was excited for this review, but I was disappointed by the product. I have a Framework 13 with the original mainboard so I'm at the point where I am considering upgrades. The thing I'd want most is a cooler, more power efficient chip. I no longer use the thing as a work machine, it's just for surfing/yt/video chat, and the battery life and heat/fan noise are a bit annoying. I was hoping ARM would be a compelling option there, but I'll be waiting longer it seems. As is the case with a lot of modern tech, it's just good enough, and there's not a compelling reason to upgrade.

@atomicker Yeah, hes' pretty disappointing as an environmentalist.

@atomicker would be nice but it would require a federal gov willing to tolerate the tantrums that Alberta is already throwing anyway. Or it would require Alberta’s to elect something other than the oil industry as a government. But maybe I’m to cynical. There is oil and gas extraction in other provinces as well.

@TechConnectify Well that was a delightful and rambling rant. FWIW...literally the ONLY thing better about the trains around Toronto than the trains here in the Netherlands is the closing door chime. The Dutch NS single beep is so boring. I was so glad (legitimately, and not sarcastically like most of my neighbours) when Waterloo region adopted it for their trains and I got to listen to it all day long at my previous house.

@Techaltar Don't bring reMarkable into this. 😆 .... 🤣 .... 😢 Yeah, that's crazy, but well deserved. I imagine the same is probably true in Canada. Tends to happen when a super power threatens you militarily. The crazy thing is, so many Americans are still surprised and confused that Canadians are angry. Can you imagine the response if someone treated Americans the same way.

@henk@waag.social You know...lawyers do this in the name of "protection"...I wonder if anyone with an MBA or a Law degree is even capable of understanding the absolute destruction this change brings to their brand.

@BicycleDutch@mastodon.social Lol...I used to ride all winter in Canada. I've missed this a bit. It was fun...but I'm very glad that it will (likely) only be one week, and that these continues won't be continuing till April. But yeah, it's amazing how "impossible" some people think riding in the winter is. It really isn't that difficult, everyone slows down and rides carefully. In Canada I had studded tires that were great on ice, here, I just went super slow. It's riskier when it's cold out in the mornings and there's no snow because you can have black ice which is hard to spot.

@vitekorre@mastodon.social @domo@pizza.enby.city @Techaltar@mas.to fair point, I missed that. Sorry @domo@pizza.enby.city

@ednl@mastodon.social @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I don't want the EV versions of these monstrosities either. Like, it's nice that the cybertruck isn't legal on EU roads. I don't want that to change.

@ThistleArts@mastodon.art I don't disagree...I'm just pointing it out...I really wish there was a good solution. Ultimately, this isn't a new problem, but misleading people in person is much harder to scale.

@TechConnectify@mas.to Are all cars capable of this? I would expect this would require special equipment? Inverters aren't usually...reversible AFAIK?

@shadows @Daojoan like I think most “capitalist” you know, CEOs, board members, Silicon Valley bros, etc are interested in power. But I think average people doing the “passive income” thing are mostly interested in stability.

@avilewis Alternative headline: "Israel breaks Iran ceasefire" Byline: "Israel makes it very difficult to negotiate for peace, as they cannot be trusted to uphold peace agreements".

@Techaltar@mas.to It's funny because this used to be the kind of thing we mocked in the early 2000s...now it's just every site. Did I say funny...I mean depressing :(

@domo@pizza.enby.city @Techaltar@mas.to did you read the comment. Because that’s not what he said. Unless you are arguing that there are zero big tech companies that don’t sell your data.

@ThistleArts@mastodon.art I mean, accounts that claim to be selling home made or small batch small business items (crafts, bags, widgets, whatever), but are actually just selling mass manufactured stuff of aliexpress. Some of these might actually be individuals who are basically brokering, but it's difficult to tell exactly who or what it is. Mostly I see this in ads on twitter...which is....on brand for twitter. Astroturf isn't exactly the right word, it's typically means a large moneyed interest (lobbyist) pretending to be local activism. We see the fossil fuel companies do this all the time. But I think the concept is the same, a large businesses/mass production acting like small scale local production.

@peteorrall see, this is my problem. I don’t want a mobile GIS tool, nor do I want configuability. I just want a convenient accurate map. Apple Maps isn’t great but it’s closer than OSMAnd.

@fgbjr@indieweb.social @notjustbikes@social.notjustbikes.com I don't get much satisfaction from this idea. Nor do I actually believe it all that much. There are lots of robber barons who still have their names on buildings.

@csgraves @juergen_hubert I disagree that these things are intrinsically linked. And more, the "steal the work of others" is an inherently capitalist concept. But there really no point in arguing over it I feel.

@spocko@mastodon.online @greg_doucette@mastodon.sdf.org That's a great idea....if Dems had any interest whatsoever in winning.

@whitequark @smutmag Not sure, but I've been convinced for a while that groups like Sierra Club have never been environmentalists...they've only ever been conservatives.

@_elena@mastodon.social What does become clear is that the people involved have no actual values...only money.

@dalias @shadows @Daojoan residuals are passive income but are not based on the premise ownership its based on creator ship.

@paige@masto.canadiancivil.com I think Canadians are kidding themselves a bit. Between Alberta separatists, NIMBYs in Ontario, and the "anti-religious-symbols-no-totally-not-specifically-muslim-ones" crowd in Quebec. I mean, I think the average MAGA is stupider...more easily fooled...but not ultimately less moral than the worst Canada has to offer either.

@arstechnica@mastodon.social They didn't care when North Americans weren't interested either. The auto industry knows something that the Democrats cannot possibly fathom...it is possible to influence what people think and believe.

@TechConnectify@mas.to cool. Neat feature indeed. Just seems a strange implementation. Why reuse the port instead of just having an standard electrical socket.

@ThistleArts@mastodon.art I agree fully... The problem is that there is a huge grey area, and there is an issue off trust...how do we know that it isn't an astroturf situation. I don't point this out because I don't agree, but because I want answers or solutions, but I don't have any.

@masto@masto.masto.com @TechConnectify@mas.to Great video, thanks! More or less matches my understanding that hardware has to be specifically designed to be reversible. It makes sense to make that investment from a broad social standpoint, but vehicle manufacturers may not find it specifically valuable for their product line.

@paige @carastern this is just a cynical and very weird take. The whole point of proportional representation is to give you a reason to vote beyond “I hate the other guy”. But even leaving that aside the rest is just incoherent. It really makes you question democracy itself sometimes.

@dalias @shadows @Daojoan just because you can sell it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist because you created something vs own it.

@jensorensen@mastodon.social It's a more fundamental issue. It's toxic masculinity vs. masculinity. Unfortunately, toxic masculinity has been the brand for a long time.

@csgraves @juergen_hubert Do you think that "ownership of a story" is not a concept created by capitalism for the purpose of financializing human creativity? Because I have a few oral traditions to sell you if you think otherwise. If I create a story, the idea that you should not be able to retell it because I own it and I am granted a monopoly on it, is an inherently capitalist concept. By the way, if you want to have an actual conversation, I recommend you don't begin by calling my position "absolutely incorrect, immoral, and unethical" and "idiotic". Because if you're opening with that, then you really suggest that there is no point in me continuing a discussion with someone who has a firmly closed mind, and someone who isn't interested in a discussion. It's doubly so because you have ended with a straw man...because I certainly didn't say anything you claimed. Plagerism is not what LLMs do, nor have I proposed that (or anything even remotely like it).

@PermaSolarPotter @gardening why is your goal to become a subsistence farmer?

@csgraves @juergen_hubert and why do you equate LLMs, AI, and capitalism? Even if I agreed with you on capitalism (which I’m closer than you think but I think you oversimplify things) LLMs and AI are not inherently investments. The business around them is the problem today.

@mhoye@cosocial.ca That's entirely unfair...the statement is largely true, this cut isn't about cost cutting...that's totally incidental side benefit. And it's about defining how a world-class, high-growth company and creates value... The only note I have is that there is a passive voice in the second part. I would reword: "The are about aligning with how investors (the VC or "Epstein" class) believe high-growth companies should create value. Sorry, but your sacrifice will generate significant short term growth on the stock exchange."

@csgraves @juergen_hubert All this comment has done is shown that you haven't listened to anything I've said. You don't really understand LLMs either for that matter.