What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    I had the same experience with OSM maps years ago, but you've convinced me to give it another chance. I'm looking forward to seeing if it handles public transport in Vancouver as well as Google Maps does.

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  • Is lemmy.ml partially blocking /kbin instances?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Could be, for sure. I may try to post some things from Lemmy.ca to Kbin later. I was successful in posting from Kbin to Lemmy.ca a few hours ago, so I wonder if there's a problem in the other direction.

    UPDATE: I was able to successfully post an article to kbin.social from my lemmy.ca account. It did take about an hour for the article to show up on kbin (when not viewed from my lemmy.ca account), but it did eventually show up.

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  • Is lemmy.ml partially blocking /kbin instances?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    I'm not particularly concerned with how "the kbin user base" looks or any silly tribalism like that tbh. I'm just wondering if/why the issue might be happening. If the string doesn't appear in the git repo, that's a useful data point for sure. But plenty of people are confirming that something is going on, so the questions as to 1) what is causing it and 2) why are still out there.

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  • A post on kbinMeta states that "Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances." More details [here](https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/104218/Lemmy-ml-is-blocking-all-requests-from-kbin-Instances#comments), but the theory is that -- rather than defederating -- lemmy.ml returns a 403 'access denied' message in response to any inbound requests from a user agent with "kbinBot" in the string. Upvotes, comments, and boosts don't seem to be going through. However, it appears that lemmy.ml still federates information outbound to kbin instances. I'm wondering if anyone here knows what is going on and why it might be happening? Federation between Lemmy instances and Kbin instances seems to be a selling point for both, so I'm sure others using both services are curious as to what's going on.

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    Best Doughnuts in Vancouver
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Lee's is basically the sweet spot of flavour vs affordability for me. I can't speak to Cartem's, I don't have the money to justify the cost.

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  • Feature Requests
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Right on, all of that makes sense. The issue with #2 is that when I went to Kbin mags via Lemmy, the upper-right menu continued to give a "Subscribe" option (instead of "Unsubscribe" for my subbed Lemmy communities). But I think that might have happened when I'd visit some Lemmy subs as well. Either way, it's early days, and this is a great new Fediverse app that I plan to use a ton. Thanks again!

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  • Feature Requests
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Solid start! Questions re subscribed communities:

    1. Does Connect only display 10 communities under "subscribed" in the left-hand menu? There are a LOT of subscribed communities missing from mine. (Also, I believe that only communities from my home instance are showing up, but not 100% sure of that.
    2. Does Connect understand subscriptions to Kbin magazines that one subscribes to thru Lemmy? I don't think it recognizes my Kbin magazine subs, but I may be wrong.

    Either way, this strikes me as an improvement over Jerboa, so I will be using it. Thanks for your hard work on this!

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  • Do you listen to music while cycling?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Nope, I can't risk not being fully aware of my surroundings.

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  • News postings
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Or -- and I hope this sinks in one day -- it could be that using terms like "delusional" and "coward" to describe people you disagree with is a great way to convince people that you're not a jerk worth engaging with. Which is why they block you. Like I am now.

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  • Man shot dead outside Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara temple in Surrey, B.C. | CBC News
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Interesting background to the facts of the deceased person, which leads me to suspect that the story of his death will also be of some interest.

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  • News postings
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    If all you can do with an honest answer to your question is insult the other person for their perspective, then don't be surprised to find yourself blocked on here by a lot of folks pretty quickly.

    EDIT: So I peeked into your very brief post history, and sure enough you're already complaining about people being "quick to ban or block" and "debate meeeeee." So while I know you won't accept this criticism, let me assure you that your comment above provides nothing of substance to debate. You're being blocked by people because (1) you're being rude, and (2) no one owes you their attention, much less their content.

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  • News postings
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Personally, I mostly post from CBC because I find it to be a regularly published source of reliable news. If you like others, post others and see how they're received.

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  • bc.ctvnews.ca

    A “motor vehicle incident” that occurred in Surrey Sunday morning is being investigated by the Independent Investigations Office of B.C., the police oversight agency confirmed. [Looks like an RCMP vehicle was involved in a crash, as were two sedans and a minivan.)

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    Electric bikes are the most climate-friendly way to travel - Triangle Blog Blog
    triangleblogblog.com

    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/565171 > Electric bikes make it possible to easily travel around town for less than a penny per day — literally.

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    I've Joined The Ducknana Cult
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    I know avocato is all the rage this year but I'll always find ducknana more appealing.

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  • https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/marmot-engine-common-1.6877896

    While it might seem unusual to find a marmot in an engine compartment, a wildlife expert says this is actually a pretty common occurrence in many parts of B.C.

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    Pulling news from Reddit and posting it here
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    I don't know. There seems to be some openness on Mastodon to bots that are properly labelled as such, in my experience. I'd say open a bot account here and use it to give the crossposting a shot. Anyone who doesn't like it can easily block the bot account and move on with their day.

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  • Surrey will keep RCMP as its police force, mayor announces | CBC News
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Yeah yeah. My only point is that this is messy as hell, and not about to get any tidier.

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  • What is a useful tip a new lemmy/kbin users should know?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Don't forget to hit the CTRL button when clicking on any external links so they open in a new tab. Basically pretend it's 2012 again.

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  • Surrey will keep RCMP as its police force, mayor announces | CBC News
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    This whole thing has become such a mess. It made sense to me to keep RCMP to begin with, but either way, at this point I'd just love for the whole mess to be over one way or the other.

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  • US supreme court upholds protections for Native American children
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Gorsuch is a mixed bag at best on a lot of issues, but he has been as good as anyone could expect on Indigenous issues. Check out his concurrence in this case (starting on PDF page 43), which straightforwardly grapples with the history of forced family separations and residential schools.

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  • How much do people tip?
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    For sit-down or coffee, generally 20%, as I've done for years. Not going to go up to 25%, and it'll take bad service for me to dip below 18%.

    Slightly different for delivery - I'll usually do a flat $5 if they're nearby and I'm just ordering a meal for me and my partner. If we're getting a lot of food, I'll add to that.

    If I order takeout food (not coffee), I don't tip at all.

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  • TransLink studying platform screen doors for SkyTrain stations | Urbanized
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    There's a pretty good YouTube video from this guy out of Toronto (I think) who talked about these a week or so ago.

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    Can someone make poutinecrimes and Tim Horrortons communities? Thank you!
  • IntlLawGnome IntlLawGnome Now 100%

    Ah, I see. I mean, I don't know that you really need to create it on this instance. Though I get why this would be a natural home for it!

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  • bc.ctvnews.ca

    When Heidi Starr went to her daughter’s track and field meet in Kelowna last week, she thought she’d be cheering her child on—not shielding her from misdirected transphobia.

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearAW
    Katla says good morning, and also, where's the peanut butter?
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    Katla says good morning, and also, where's the peanut butter?

    ![](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/9e863168-fbcf-4e07-911a-0b75a8324000.jpeg)

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/langley-wetlands-rezoning-proposal-opposition-1.6872710?cmp=rss

    Some Langley, B.C. residents and environmental organizations are pushing back against a proposed expansion of an industrial development into a protected wetland area they say is being slowly destroyed.

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    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/clean-fuel-regulations-carbon-tax-climate-change-1.6871116

    "The new regulations are meant to cut the "carbon intensity" of automotive fuels sold on the Canadian market — how much they generate in emissions for a given amount of energy. Unlike the current rules, the new ones cover the entire life cycle of fuels, from production and transport to consumption. The goal is to push companies that produce or import fuel to gradually reduce the emissions intensity of that process by setting a ceiling and dropping it each year. By 2030, the rules will require a 15 per cent cut in emissions intensity compared to 2016 levels."

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