Apparently horses sometimes eat small birds. They shouldn’t but it seems it can happen if they are hungry, or bored and/or curious.

Cycling on rail trails and long isolated bike paths. Getting from A to B without burning any fossil fuel. I live in an archipelago and pull my inflatable kayak to the river and the lakes nearby using a bike trailer.

Text is not ASCII only :)

If you want to be technical, IRC supports Unicode so it’s just not ASCII only. Convos is also supposed to support voice chats.

It’s much easier to code this way and it’s cross platform. There are some experimental programs like Srain based on GTK. I tried it and it’s promising but it’s unfortunately too experimental for me so far and it’s lacking some features like persistent chat, so one would still need a bouncer which is an additional layer to setup.

He mentioned IRC but skipped it, probably thinking it’s still text only. However there are now web clients that can display inline images, url preview, persistent chat and push notifications. To me it’s the most KISS solution, as it’s super easy to setup and self-host.

In order for this to work, one needs an IRC server and a place to host the web client’s server. That’s it. I use The Lounge but there are others like Convos or ObsidianIRC.

With this obsession for oil, surely climate change is not going to be a problem later.

Let’s not try to be less dependent on oil and just continue to sponsor death and destruction to quench our thirst for it. After all, there is simply no other choice but to continue the consumption.

It’s obvious when you listen to their dictator.

Sad. How disgraceful. Total disaster. Tremendous disgrace.

EDIT: Seriously, I’m not a native speaker and recently someone asked me my level of English compared to one. I wasn’t sure how ro reply. It depends which native speaker. Do we count the accent? Because I’m pretty sure the president of France has a better English vocabulary than the US dictator.

Yeah. Every time I hear someone say they don’t have kids and complain about paying taxes for the education of their neighbours, I like to remind them that having those kids not being as dumb as a rock is also an advantage for them.

I don’t have kids, and even though I went through public school in Quebec, I can confidently say that I’m more educated than my parents, and I’d prefer my neighbours’ kids to be also more educated than their parents. I hate capitalism but even from that point of view, it’s an investment. Educated people usually earn more and it will prevent the neighbourhood to become overrun by rednecks. Apply the same logic to a city, region, country. I want my neighbours to be intelligent enough to avoid polluting their/my water and air. I want them to be intellectually curious instead of plunging us straight down into another “dark ages”.

Unfortunately…

I know this is a technicality but AFAIK neither the former prince Andrew nor Peter Mandelson were arrested for the pedo stuff. They were arrested because they leaked state secrets to a person that happens to be a pedo.

Voter ID and registration laws are pure voter suppression!

Indeed. I’m in Canada too so that’s why this is familiar to you. As an anecdote, I don’t drive and have no license. Once, a long time ago, an election worker was kind of insisting that I had to show one to vote. I had the other required documents and was able to vote but not having a diver’s license apparently made them suspicious. And that was my biggest hurdle with providing ID at an election!

Lots of comments can be read about people not going to vote, some even blaming them for the election results, but it’s just incredible how difficult they seem to make voting in the US.

Posing in front of a gas guzzler whining about the high price of gas. Maybe if the US mercenaries bomb and kill more people the price will hopefully go down!

Not being from the US, I was flabbergasted when I learned how voting laws are working there. Where I live we’re all automatically registered by the government. They send a card with your name and your address. If there is an error, or if people don’t get a card, they can manually register or correct the error. And we all stay registered unless we move or there is an error. That’s it.

I’m in my mid life and had to register once in my 20ies because I moved a lot. Otherwise the government just automatically registers me. Nobody can challenge that except the election’s office. They decide who meets the requirements to vote or not. Not some random conservative asshole that thinks people are not white enough. Democracy in the US seems like a joke.

Let’s continue to be dependant on fossil fuel.

Let’s keep using fossil fuels.

So, mass surveillance for everyone under the guise of “think of the children!” while billionaires are trafficking and raping them.

Thanks.

So it’s mainly for costs and money. It’s an entirely valid reason. What’s a bit disappointing is that some are delaying the purchase of a car now to save money, but still want one eventually. It’s still a good thing, but kind of still perpetuates car dependency on the long term.

I never owned a car but it’s mainly because I don’t want to drive a gas burning vehicle that can kill other people around me. I wouldn’t drive one if they were electric and free, unless they’re the size of a golf cart.

The financial side is obviously a plus. It allows me to spend more on housing, because it’s important to live in a place with services nearby.

It’s also keeping me somewhat fit. I can walk a few km, or can easily cycle a few dozen km. And I’m just mentioning the environment but it’s obviously better for it if we avoid using cars.

Yet as mentioned in my previous comment, it often feels like society is pressuring me and people without cars to join the trafic and the race to find parking. Like the vibe of the article, everyone with a car around me tells me that one day I’ll have no choice but to give up and get one. It’s just a matter of time and inevitable. Some have told me I’m not even a real adult as long as I don’t have a car.

Apparently I can’t read this without a subscription.

However as someone that lived more than 20 years car free in Quebec, I wish them good luck and lots of patience.

Living without a car in a city, town or village is easy but to me the biggest hurdle is intercity transit. Trying to visit my friends and family is an exercise in patience that often ends up with me telling myself that society really wants people to buy cars. In a way, it shows that young people don’t want cars, because the buses are full of them, literally. The bus line that I use more frequently is saturated and there’s people standing from the back to the door. Meanwhile there is a railway going parallel to this route with infrequent and underfunded commuter trains.

Every time I need to go in another city or town without a car and it’s outside of my metropolitan area, I feel like nobody gives a fuck about transit and intercities. I feel like a second class citizen and after decades of being car free, I’m often thinking of giving up and drive a fucking car.

It’s also getting worse with coaches. I can’t go to places where I could go without a car 20 years ago because routes are cancelled. The town that I grew up in had passenger trains and coaches until the 90ies. Now there’s nothing in a radius of 40 km.

The ministry of transportation from the current government in Quebec once said that it wasn’t the responsibility of that ministry to offer public transit to the citizens.

The message from our provincial and federal governments is clear: get a car.

So to all the car free Canadians, thank you for your patience and sacrifice. Thank you for sometimes putting your life in danger by cycling or walking in places dominated by cars. Thank you for showing the example even if it’s not always easy.

It’s proprietary software and it seems doubtful the company will port it to Linux. However it seems there’s a workaround using AES67, or a reversed engineered implementation called teodly.

As someone that is using RTP to send audio from and to different Linux computers, this is unfortunately an option that is getting more difficult to use as time passes. A few years ago when pulseaudio was dominating, it was trivial to just tick a few boxes, enable RTP, see a lit of devices in pasystray, and choose it with a few clicks. Now since pipewire, this is no longer possible. Sure, RTP still works, but using the command line is now mandatory, as all the GUI options have disappeared.

I still find myself reinstalling pulseaudio on most of my computers running Linux because I need RTP audio and it’s disappointing that it’s getting harder and harder to get it to work on Linux.

Of course. I just haven’t got over how bad of a slogan it is.