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  • Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? – Terence Eden’s Blog

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  • I've got a decade old Sony ereader that's still good as new. Battery lasts a couple weeks too, I love it.

  • Gemini will now automatically summarize your emails unless you opt out

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  • Unfortunately not. That's like saying "A burglar put a spycam in my house once. I simply said no and he removed it. So hopefully it stays that way". It's there, you just can't see it now.

  • Chiefs remind King Charles about his treaty obligations

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  • If Canada became fully independent from the Crown we'd have to draw up a completely new constitution as the current one is tightly tied to the Crown. Personally, I don't trust anyone these days to create a new constitution, as an unfortunate chunk of the country seems to want to eliminate current rights as it is. For as much as some Canadians want or demand to remove the Crown from Canada, it's really not feasible, and could potentially (probably) completely destroy the country.

  • Chiefs remind King Charles about his treaty obligations

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  • There's no point in saying technically, he is the King of Canada. That being said the Crown is mostly symbolic like the UK, however symbols can be very powerful. By inviting the King to open Parliament, Carney is symbolically reminding Trump that Canada is much bigger than just one country. Likewise the Chiefs are reminding Canada, specifically Alberta, that the Crown holds the treaties, not Canada.

    Basically this is like getting picked on in school then bringing your big brother to lunch. He doesn't have to do anything, the point is to remind your bullies you have some pretty strong support, and they should think again about continuing to bully you.

  • Better music management

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  • First, I made 'Album Artists' my landing page. 'Artists" includes everyone tagged in the metadata, 'Album Artists' only contains the primary artists. For me, the difference is 350 album artists vs 1412 artists.

    I run everything through Picard when I add something to the server. Sometimes I have to change the metadata (for example I hate having an entry for '&' like Elton John & Hans Zimmer and I'll change it so the album is included in both Elton John and Hans Zimmer but theres no entry for them together). But generally it's pretty simple and smooth.

    Looks like this:

  • Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department

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  • The rights and freedoms of Americans has always been a gentleman's agreement, and they've run out of gentlemen.

  • Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?

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  • Kagi has a lens that only searches the Fediverse.

  • Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse?

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  • Absolutely. I never imagined I'd pay for search but Kagi is leaps and bounds better than other search engines. I decided to pay when I realized how much I search every day after getting the free trial. Went through 100 searches in four days. If I search that much, paying for an engine that has no ads, uses useful lenses, and lets me block results from sites like Facebook was a no-brainer.

  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • This is what I don't get from a business standpoint. Why would anyone buy an AI read audiobook for $20 when they can get the exact same audio by buying the ebook for $0.99 and running it through AI?

  • Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model

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  • Of course they don't click anything. Google search has just become a front-end for Gemini, the answer is "served" up right at the top and most people will just take that for Gospel.

  • New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

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  • I agree, this was always the plan. I think they had to kick it off sooner than they wanted. Ducks were almost in a row, one more term would have had it all mapped proper, and now they have to rush which makes them look stupid.

  • New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.

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  • I've been saying this for awhile; I think Trump wasn't supposed to win this term. He looked legit surprised when he won, and I think the Republicans were planning for four more years to really solidify their plans, and get more right wing gov'ts in power first (like Canada). Trump winning pushed everything up four years early, and made them basically have to speed-run to the goal. They went mask off so fast, and they're driving everything through before it would have been ideal. It's now or never.

  • Kagi (paid search engine): "Peertube results now show up in regular searches, plus you can filter by "source" to see more Peertube content."

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  • This is how I discovered I search around 20 times a day. Burned through it pretty quick haha

  • North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

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  • Oh dude, no worries. I was wrong about the totals too. There's way more cases in Canada than I was aware of. It's weirdly difficult to find the specifics. Actually really surprised there's fewer than 1000 in the US overall as well.

  • North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

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  • This is strange. I'm trying to find the full stats, however this says as of Nov 9 2024, Canada had a total of 130 cases. Granted this was only 6 provinces, but the 6 most populated.

    The spike lately is certainly way more than I was aware of, though everything I could find about MB specifically has 20 total in 2025 so far.

  • North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

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  • North Dakota is 11th US state with a measles outbreak. Here's what to know

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  • Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Carney didn’t reach Zelensky-level tension. But it wasn’t all neighborliness

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  • Haha yup, just one of the quips Carney made that went over Trump's head. Referring to Canada being owned by Canadians to a man who believes he owns his country himself was really well done.

  • Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Carney didn’t reach Zelensky-level tension. But it wasn’t all neighborliness

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  • I love that Trump was probably wondering who the "owners of Canada" are and how he can contact them.