privacy Privacy What's up with financial sites refusing to delete your account?
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  • mrbn mrbn 2 days ago 100%

    The answer depends on the country. In the US, review the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. In Canada, there is the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) regulations and also the CRA requiring the individuals and businesses retain their records for up to six years.

    if there’s some sort of way around this either with a lawyer or federal form or something.

    Very unlikely.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Whats your favorite color of light, why?
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  • mrbn mrbn 2 weeks ago 100%

    #FF00FF

    In terms of physiology, the color is stimulated in the brain when the eye reports input from short wave blue cone cells along with a sub-sensitivity of the long wave cones which respond secondarily to that same deep blue color, but with little or no input from the middle wave cones. The brain interprets that combination as some hue of magenta or purple, depending on the relative strengths of the cone responses.

    In other words, our brains are like "🤷‍♂️, here's a thing"

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  • videos Videos It's time for change, it's time for Linux. | DankPods
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  • mrbn mrbn 3 weeks ago 91%

    Terminal is life!

    But also, easy mode Linux distro for the technically challenged would be great

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  • pcgaming PC Gaming Grab eight fantastic Steam Deck games for just $12, saving over $190 [Humble Choice]
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    • Sifu – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Gotham Knights – Steam Deck Playable – Mixed Rating
    • High on Life – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Blacktail – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Astral Ascent – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Diluvian Ultra – Not Steam Deck Rated (but works great!) – Very Positive Rating
    • Universe For Sale – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • This Means Warp – Steam Deck Playable – Mostly Positive Rating
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  • programmer_humor Programmer Humor Explaining software development methods by flying to Mars
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  • mrbn mrbn 3 months ago 100%

    It's a feature, not a bug

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  • linux Linux What is/was your distrohopping journey?
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  • mrbn mrbn 4 months ago 100%

    Windows 98 -> Slackware dual boot (with big ol' red grub screen) -> windows up to win 10 -> debian(laptop) win10 (pc)

    Gonna try getting a new m.2 drive and dual booting soon to test playing the games I like on Linux. If all goes well, I'll be moving away from windows

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  • risa Risa Describe an episode in the worst possible way
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  • mrbn mrbn 4 months ago 100%

    Man visits childhood home to reconcile with himself after being forced to harm coworkers.

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  • linux Linux Trying to ditch windows
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  • mrbn mrbn 5 months ago 100%

    (theres a mac version but isn’t the same)

    There was a mac version. But it is hitting EOL in August

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  • helldivers2 Helldivers 2 So the customizable voices for my helldiver(s) implies there will be voices in a future warbond, right? In that case…
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  • mrbn mrbn 6 months ago 100%

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  • technology Technology Dislike Copilot's responses? Make better prompts, says Microsoft
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  • mrbn mrbn 6 months ago 100%

    After using AI chat stuff like this and chatgpt, ive come to the conclusion that building prompts is akin to building search queries for search engines. Wherein using the right terms leads to better results.

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  • privacyguides Privacy Guides Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
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  • mrbn mrbn 6 months ago 100%

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    Toronto Blue Jays mrbn 6 months ago 100%
    Blue Jays-Rays Opening Day starting pitchers: Berríos vs. Eflin https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/blue-jays-rays-2024-opening-day-starting-pitchers

    > Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host Toronto at 4:10 p.m. ET on March 28 at Tropicana Field. It will be the fourth Opening Day start for Berríos and the first for Eflin. March 28th, I'm pumped, are you pumped?

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    pcgaming PC Gaming Intel awarded $20 billion by US government, advanced CPUs incoming
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  • mrbn mrbn 6 months ago 100%

    Without any legal penalties.

    But doing so, would surely risk intels reputation and future contracts with the government. The government could also impose other restriction or penalties on intel for non compliance.

    But like you say, if intel does come up short, likely nothing will happen (unless some form of negligence is discovered)

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  • risa Risa War. What is it good for?
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  • mrbn mrbn 6 months ago 100%

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  • vancouver Vancouver [HELP] Chess Programmes for Kids
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    If you cant find anything in your area, I would also suggest looking for online lessons. You can find coaches on chess.com and lichess.org with different price points and there are no obligations to continue with the same coach if you find them to not be up to your standards.

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  • canada Canada 'Freedom Convoy' organizer from Sask. suing federal government for using Emergencies Act to freeze accounts
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    Ok, now I'm confused, the article you linked says:

    1. Federal government was justified in using the Emergencies Act

    But in this (OP) article, it says:

    Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled it was unreasonable for the federal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell the protests.

    And then this article says:

    Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unjustified.

    Anyone out there want to loop me in?

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  • canada Canada CRA now allows 2FA apps
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    why is it 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds? I’m pretty sure every other TOTP I’ve seen is 60 seconds. My jaded take: the blind pursuit of “better security” even though… what does this even imply? Someone has 30 fewer seconds to read the code over your shoulder and log in on their device?

    30 seconds is the default for TOTP implementations.

    I’m curious to know what CRA does, but I’m away from my PC right now.

    Yes, you can stop getting SMS messages.

    edit: formatting

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  • offbeat Offbeat ‘I was just really in shock’: Kilt-clad man seen sticking antiques ‘in his rectum’ then ‘placing them back on the shelves,’ cops say
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    Ah, this reminds me of the old adage: Try before you buy.

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  • unpopularopinion Unpopular Opinion *Permanently Deleted*
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 38%

    Unpopular opinion? More like controversial opinion amiright? At the time of my comment, almost as many people agree with you (downvotes), as disagree with you (upvotes).

    All I can say on the subject is that if you choose to speak about your views, you should do it with respect to others. You wont change anyones view point by shitting on their beliefs, athiest or otherwise.

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  • linux Linux Neovim - White Space on demand in Visual Block mode?
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%
    command! -range -nargs=1 PadColumns call PadColumns(<line1>, <line2>, <args>)
    
    function! PadColumns(start, end, columns)
        execute a:start.','.a:end.'s/\(.*\)\zs\s*$/\='.'repeat(" ", a:columns - len(submatch(1)))'
    endfunction
    

    Use by typing in Normal mode :PadColumns 20. This will add spaces after the line or selected lines to the column you specify (in this case, 20).

    You could probably improve this by getting the length of the longest line and so you dont need to specify the specific column to add spaces to (20), and instead just add say 5 spaces after longest line for all lines.

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  • linux Linux Neovim - White Space on demand in Visual Block mode?
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    I do not think that this is an existing feature in neovim, however this seems to work :%s/\(.*\)\zs\s*$/\=repeat(' ', 15 - len(submatch(1)))

    Change 15 to the column desired. You could probably create a function where you pass the column number you want so that you dont have to type this string all the time.

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  • canada Canada Grieving parents said they were told to pay $200 to meet Quebec minister
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  • mrbn mrbn 7 months ago 100%

    During a legislature hearing on Thursday, Antoine Bittar said he had been advocating for tougher drinking and driving legislation when the CAQ offered an opportunity for him and his partner, Élizabeth Rivera, to meet minister Geneviève Guilbault at an October 2023 fundraising cocktail.

    Bittar said he and Rivera each paid $100 — the maximum annual political donation — because he felt it was a chance to press their cause and keep it from stagnating. The couple said they were offered four minutes with the minister, two minutes per person.

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  • askmen Ask Men What improved your life so much, you wished you did sooner?
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  • mrbn mrbn 8 months ago 100%

    Cleaning up after myself at home by:

    • reducing the amount of things i have which i dont use (i had like 30 plates, 15 cups, etc at one time, now i have 4 of each type)
    • house cleaning weekly and tidying up here and there in between (so things dont pile up)
    • cooking my own meals instead of having take out all the time (this improved my overall health)
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  • canada Canada When you drink bottled water, you're drinking lots and lots of plastic particles
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  • mrbn mrbn 8 months ago 75%

    I am commenting on this section of the article:

    "We and others have shown that these nanoplastics can be internalized into cells and we know that nanoplastics carry all kinds of chemical additives that could cause cell stress, DNA damage and change metabolism or cell function."

    Somarelli said his own, yet-to-be-published work has found more than 100 "known cancer-causing chemicals in these plastics."

    And also

    What's disturbing, said University of Toronto evolutionary biologist Zoie Diana, is that "small particles can appear in different organs and may cross membranes that they aren't meant to cross, such as the blood-brain barrier."

    My point being that it's unlikely that bottled water is the only source of these plastics.

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  • canada Canada When you drink bottled water, you're drinking lots and lots of plastic particles
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  • mrbn mrbn 8 months ago 100%

    I wouldnt be so quick to blame all of this on water bottles when a high percentage of all the food we consume is packaged in plastic and also the left overs sitting in the fridge.

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    RC Cars mrbn 9 months ago 95%
    Saw this neat guy at the hobby store today

    Met a couple of really neat dudes at the store looking for parts for this guy. I really liked the uniqueness of it.

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    rc_cars RC Cars What did Santa bring you?
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  • mrbn mrbn 9 months ago 100%

    I picked up an Aarma Vorteks after paying with my brother's granite.

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  • canadapolitics CanadaPolitics Canada to announce all new cars must be zero emissions by 2035
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  • mrbn mrbn 9 months ago 96%

    I hope the gov (fed, prov, muni) are prepared to invest big time in infrastructure.

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  • canada Canada Amazon gives customer runaround after $2,100 watch missing from delivered package
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  • mrbn mrbn 10 months ago 100%

    He'll probably get better service if he calls his credit card company (hopefully he ordered using a credit card) and having them reverse the charges. He'll maybe have to wait 30 days, but since he has a police report and amazon isn't cooperating, I think the cc company will go ahead and do it.

    Sure, he wont have a watch but at least he wont be out $2k

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  • quebec Québec VIDÉO. « Gardez-le votre anglais ! » : le coup de gueule d’un sportif relance le débat sur le français au Canada
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    CanadaPolitics mrbn 10 months ago 66%
    Salvaging Bill C-18: Government Upends Legislation To Bring Google Onside the Online News Act www.michaelgeist.ca

    > The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada.

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  • mrbn mrbn 10 months ago 100%

    Reminds me of the "Op" wars on IRC. All users would be given @ status and the point was to kick everyone before you got kicked. Writing scripts for this was my first "taste" at programming.

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  • mrbn mrbn 10 months ago 100%

    I would think it was pretty obvious... THEY'RE JERKS.

    But what can you expect from a species that's always looking down on others?

    Thank you, i will see myself out.

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  • risa Risa one please
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  • mrbn mrbn 10 months ago 100%

    It's the computer's job up to the point where you get on Picard's "shit list". That's when the person being punished is responsible for beaming the poop out.

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  • hockey Hockey Canada and the United States renew historic rivalry with top PWHL talents
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  • mrbn mrbn 11 months ago 100%
  • canada Canada Canadian Podcasts?
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  • mrbn mrbn 11 months ago 100%

    The Law Bytes Podcast where Michael Geist and guests talk about tech policy and laws. He covers stuff like the online news act, privacy, how badly the CRTC and government handle themselves in tech policy :D

    His blog is also worth the read if you are looking for a good breakdown of current bills that affect tech (and internet).

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  • mrbn mrbn 12 months ago 100%

    Good one, let me try!

    Knock knock

    Who's there?

    Race Condition

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  • risa Risa WTF is a risa!?
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  • mrbn mrbn 12 months ago 100%

    If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, the meal was cooked a long time ago.

    Wait a minute, that's not star trek!

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  • canada Canada [CBC News] She says her boss told her she can’t wear a mask, so she quit
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  • mrbn mrbn 1 year ago 100%

    Huh, TIL... I knew you couldn't be blamed for injuring someone while trying to help (for example, crack a rib while attempting CPR), but I did not know you absolutely had to help. I also learned that if you get injured helping someone, you can take that person to court for compensation.

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  • canada Canada Decision coming in Jordan Peterson's court battle with Ontario college of psychologists
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  • mrbn mrbn 1 year ago 100%

    He wont have to:

    1. On July 27, 2022, the Panel released decisions recommending no further action be taken regarding Dr. Peterson’s tweet in which it was alleged he encouraged people to commit suicide (“you’re free to leave at any point”), finding that, while “provocative and inflammatory” it “could be interpreted as innuendo, a joke, or parody”, and did not “rise to the level of disgraceful, dishonourable, or unprofessional conduct.” Additionally, a tweet critical of the involvement of the Children’s Aid Society in removing children from the Ottawa trucker protest was also found to require no further action.

    The panel here is the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (“ICRC”) of the College of Psychologists of Ontario

    But it sure doesn't sound like he's off the hook for all the other shit he said.

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  • montreal Montréal Recharge de la carte OPUS | Un étudiant dame le pion à l’ARTM
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  • mrbn mrbn 1 year ago 100%

    Oui, exact. Je ne crois pas que la personne en question volait de l'ARTM. Mais fais son achat en ligne et passait les information nécessaire (no de cartes par example) sur sa prope carte

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  • montreal Montréal Recharge de la carte OPUS | Un étudiant dame le pion à l’ARTM
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  • mrbn mrbn 1 year ago 100%

    Je croix que c'est un simple copy/paste. Si y'a de l'encryption, c'est fais avant de l'envoyer au utilisateur. Il a simplement a ecrire ce qu'y recoit de ARTM direct sur la carte (Ce que je crois que le lecteur officiel fais).

    N'importe quel appareil NFC peut lire les details sur les cartes, puces, etc. C'est asser facile a les cloners.

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    Whittling mrbn 1 year ago 100%
    My first "successful" project results https://pixelfed.social/p/mrbn/595963561913114579

    I'm new to whittling and these are the first things I completed that don't look like trash. I followed one of those "make a fox" youtube guides for the first one.

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    technology Technology Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser
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  • mrbn mrbn 1 year ago 100%

    Changing links to add their affiliate codes was enough of a shady thing for me to swear off this browser. No telling what kind of a fast one the company will try to pull in the future.

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