bc.ctvnews.ca Air Canada's chatbot gave a B.C. man the wrong information. Now, the airline has to pay for the mistake
Air Canada has been ordered to compensate a B.C. man because its chatbot gave him inaccurate information.
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I read this, thought "that's gotta be something you can do in Termux", searched it, and sure enough; that's something you can do in Termux.
I can't speak for it as I've never used it (I don't have any spam call issues, fortunately) but SpamBlocker sounds like it would fit the bill. It's FOSS, available on F-Droid.
They do have online features that contact APIs, but they release a build without internet privileges if you so desire.
More then a few made the mistake back than, too.
It's one of those ones that bother me too as a non-native speaker, they're such different words from each other when you learn them more from reading than oral exposure. The they're/their/there trio is another one where I can't fathom how people have issues distinguishing them.
Hey sorry for the late reply, I just wanted to say I really appreciate your perspective here! It's definitely made me simmer down a bit instead of jumping in head first. I'll try it out for myself and a few friends first before trying to recruit everyone I know :P
Part of why I want to do this is that I do want to learn more about all the stuff you mentioned (except Kubernetes, gosh everytime I look up documentation for it I drown in a swarm of terminology).
As who very much doesn't work in IT, computer stuff is a fun hobby for me. I can see how assuming the responsibilities for hosting an instance could make it less fun and more work, though.
None of my selfhosted stuff is available to the public internet, I run everything through Wireguard. However I do know how to get SSL certificates from Let's Encrypt because of previous messing around.
Backups is definitely something that I'm lazy about with my selfhosting that I'd need to address for a public service. I currently just manually copy over the few essential files I have to my server, my desktop and my phone. If I commit to hosting stuff for others, proper backups are definitely at the top of the priority list.
Governance is something I've already thought a lot about, since these services would be aimed at a specific minority community.
Thanks for your comment! I'm currently messing about with Hugo to build a landing page to explain decentralized, federated servers and link to services I might host in the future. I really want to do this, I don't want to just accept that the common communication platforms are controlled by American fascists.
What tech skills are needed to host Fediverse platforms for a community of people?
I'm ready to completely jump in to using decentralized, federated platforms, however most people I know aren't fully there. It strikes me that this moment in time, where a lot of people are newly actively aware and frustrated by Meta and Twitter's actions, is ideal to get people to switch over to new platforms.
To encourage people in my community to join platforms on the Fediverse, I want to host instances of various platforms (probably Mastodon and Pixelfed to start with). Having a specific instance on these platforms to point people towards would probably help a lot of the folks I know get on board.
However, I'm scared I'm not knowledgeable enough to admin these public instances for others. I know some basic networking, I self-host a bunch of stuff with Docker on an old laptop, and I definitely am smart enough to figure out how to start up instances of these platforms. However, I'm mostly concerned with whether I'd be able to properly maintain and secure these instances. I wouldn't
A lemmy instance hosted behind Tailscale would be unable to federate, no?
I'm not the person you replied to, but they say in their comment they use Get RSS Feed URL.
Here's a short blog post that summarizes how to use Full-Text RSS with FreshRSS. It's a bit of a pain to add new feeds but it makes for a smooth experience afterwards.
Otherwise, you could always just use RSS clients that have the ability to fetch full articles, Read You on Android and Fluent Reader on desktop both can do this.
I really don't understand why his base tolerates it.
Because the relationship between him and his "base" isn't one between citizens and politician, it's a literally a cult following their leader.
I feel like TV is inherently a shit medium for news.
Get ready for their radio and print journalism to go down the shitter as well when PP defunds the CBC 🫠
We got a ton of snow today and for some reason my boss decided not to close the café I work at. We served fewer customers today (from 7:30 to 16:30) than we'd serve in an hour on a typical day.
All day the staff kept looking at him like "None of us wanted to come in and you're just bleeding money, why are we doing this"
You gotta get your gooch!!
That's really odd, I bring up piracy in conversation decently often (usually if I'm talking about a show and someone asks me if that's on Netflix/Prime/Disney+/Hulu or whatever and I have to tell them I haven't a clue)
The reaction had never been judgement, more so curiosity about how I go about my piracy.
Although I guess that's really more of an indication of the poor, anti-capitalist leftist types I tend to associate with than anything else :P
I feel like running grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg would probably fix that.
Disclaimer: I mostly have no idea what I'm talking about.
It depends on if you want to access it from anywhere (or give others access), or if you're only accessing your server from specific devices.
Since I only ever access my server from my phone or my desktop, I use Wireguard via wg-easy. You set it up as a docker container on your server and it gives you a neat web UI (defaults to port 51821) from which to add Wireguard clients. Once connected through Wireguard, you can access your services as if you're on the server's local network.
Note, you'll of course have to open up a port for Wireguard on your router for this to work, the default being 51820.
No, it’s not like stealing a physical item from a store.
I'd argue stealing physical items from massive corporations is also morally acceptable. If you shoplift from a small mom & pop store, you're actively hurting your community, however, if you shoplift from Wal-Mart, you're actively hurting an entity which is hurting your community, therefore helping your community.
The difference is, if the app were open-source someone could continue developing it.
If it's proprietary, you're shit out of luck.
There's many things I dislike about how Mozilla operates, they are however completely outweighed by the massive list of things I dislike about Google.
Seeing as the only realistic options for browsers use either Blink or Gecko as their engine, I'd much rather use Mozilla's offering than contribute (even if ever so slightly) to Google's monopolizing of the web.
Archived link for bypassing the paywall.
though if a sane Arch-based alternative arises (think Manjaro done right)
If ever you get the Arch itch, check out EndeavourOS. It's basically vanilla Arch but with a GUI installer and basic defaults/programs preconfigured. They use the main Arch repos, so no weirdness with AUR stuff like in Manjaro.
Quad9 DNS randomly stopped working
I have been using Quad9 for my DNS, setup at the router level, for months without issue. Today, I woke up and the internet wasn't working, and as the one in the house who self-hosts a couple things on an old laptop and thus tinkers with the router, I was the one my roommates looked at in a panic.
I figured I'd just do a factory reset, and it worked! And then stopped working when I changed the DNS from my ISP's servers to Quad9's. I can't even ping their servers from my home network.
Could my home IP have been banned from Quad9 for some reason? I truly can't imagine why.
EDIT: Update if anyone cares, it works now. I assume it was a problem somewhere between my network and Quad9's servers, since I didn't change any configurations to make it work.
NB Elections: Susan Holt leads Liberals to majority victory, Blaine Higgs loses seat
Article en français (La Presse)
The Liberals under Susan Holt have won the majority of seats in the New Brunswick election.
At 9 p.m., with 80 per cent of the polls reporting, the Liberals were leading 31 ridings, the Progressive Conservatives were leading in 16 and the Greens were leading in two ridings.
Just before 9 p.m., CBC projected wins for Holt and Green Party Leader David Coon, who both ran for Fredericton seats, but PC Leader Blaine Higgs lost his Quispamsis riding to Liberal Aaron Kennedy.
Susan Holt leads Liberals to majority victory, Blaine Higgs loses seat
Article en français (La Presse)
The Liberals under Susan Holt have won the majority of seats in the New Brunswick election.
At 9 p.m., with 80 per cent of the polls reporting, the Liberals were leading 31 ridings, the Progressive Conservatives were leading in 16 and the Greens were leading in two ridings.
Just before 9 p.m., CBC projected wins for Holt and Green Party Leader David Coon, who both ran for Fredericton seats, but PC Leader Blaine Higgs lost his Quispamsis riding to Liberal Aaron Kennedy.
Jake Moffatt was booking a flight to Toronto and asked the bot about the airline's bereavement rates – reduced fares provided in the event someone needs to travel due to the death of an immediate family member.
Moffatt said he was told that these fares could be claimed retroactively by completing a refund application within 90 days of the date the ticket was issued, and submitted a screenshot of his conversation with the bot as evidence supporting this claim.
The airline refused the refund because it said its policy was that bereavement fare could not, in fact, be claimed retroactively.
Air Canada argued that it could not be held liable for information provided by the bot.
Federal cap on international students is unfair, N.B. says
New Brunswick universities are scrambling for information after the federal government announced new caps on international students, set to come into effect for the next school year.
Article en français (Acadie Nouvelle)
Audio devices disappear after reboot (EndeavourOS, Pipewire)
Hello! I've posted this a few weeks ago on /c/linux4noobs@programming.dev but I didn't get much of an answer, I hope it's okay to post it here as well.
I use 3 audio devices on my computer: my monitor's speakers (through HDMI), my headphones (through line-out/built-in audio) and my microphone (line-in/built-in audio). They all work fine, but when I reboot my headphones / line-out don't seem to get recognized at all.
The only solution I've found thus far is to re-install alsa-utils twice after rebooting. Upon the first reinstall, my line-out / headphones reappear but my line-in mic disappears, only to come back after the second reinstall. Technically my sound works perfectly fine after this, but it feels extremely dumb to reinstall a package twice after every reboot.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance :)
My audio device configuration disappears after boot-up
Hi there! For context, I'm on EndeavourOS using Pipewire.
So like the title says, my audio configuration works until I reboot my PC and then I need to fix it. I'm using both my CPU's internal audio (to power a microphone and headphones through 3.5mm audio jacks) as well as my GPU (to send audio to my monitor through HDMI). I never use the headphones and monitor speakers concurrently, I switch between them in the device manager as needed.
When I reboot, only my HDMI audio and microphone appear in my device manager. The only fix I've found so far is to sudo pacman -S alsa-utils, which makes my internal audio reappear but makes my microphone disappear. I then re-reinstall alsa-utils which makes the microphone reappear, giving me access to all three of my devices.
Anyone have any leads on how to permanently fix this? My system still works, but it feels really silly re-installing alsa-utils twice after every reboot.
P'tit Belliveau Tour Dates just dropped
L'nouvel album va sortir le 26 avril! J'suis déjà ben hyped pis j'ai mes tickets pour le premier soir à Moncton!
Blaine Higgs's election musings to cost taxpayers up to $1M
N.B. Power lost $43M last year, saw total debt increase to $5.4B
Does anyone still burn their movies to DVD?
Okay I'm fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me.
I have a wonderful neighbour, Jackie. She's in her mid-sixties, and ever since she moved in we have become very good friends, she's like a second mom to me.
Jackie loves movies and has an enormous DVD collection. One day, she was talking about how she couldn't find a particular movie, and I said "I can probably download that for you!" Her immediate reply was "Can you put it on a DVD?" I tried telling her the many reasons it would be better to use a myriad of other solutions, but she insists on DVDs.
I did them for a while using DVDStyler on Windows, and it worked fine. But then I installed EndeavourOS on a new partition on my hard drive, tried using Brasero and Devede but it wouldn't read on her DVD player. Then I tried DVDStyler on my Linux partition, and it didn't work on her DVD player, despite saying the operation was successful on my end. I then tried booting up into Windows and using DVDStyler, a
N.B. urged to consider interprovincial licensing of pathologists to deal with 'critical' shortage
Any recommendations for an open-source RSS widget?
I've been using Feeder on my phone, and while I quite like the app, I would love a widget for my RSS feeds on my launcher.
Are there any apps that include a widget, or standalone widgets, but that are also FOSS?
Quel est votre accent français préféré?
Une des choses que j'adore du français, c'est d'entendre l'immense diversité dans la façon dont nous parlons. Quel accent vous a le plus marqué? Perso, j'avais un prof du Cameroun à l'université et je n'ai jamais écouté autant attentivement dans un cours, son accent était similaire à celui dans ce vidéo.
Un autre préféré c'est l'accent cajun de la Louisiane, en voici un exemple qui parle aussi de la culture de la francophonie en Louisiane. Je suis francophone de l'Acadie (Nouveau-Brunswick) et c'est intéressant de voir les similarités entre nos accents malgré l'influence intense de l'anglais en Louisiane.
Want a more accurate number of Canada's homeless population? Try counting health data
A new method for counting homeless people is offering a clearer look at the magnitude of the social issue, with preliminary results indicating the country's homeless population could be three times higher than current estimates.
Bikes and beer, name a better combo
Bike on a beer can on a bike.
Fun fact: Radler is the Bavarian dialect word for Radfahrer (“cyclist”)
N.B. government reveals housing strategy, and rent cap isn't part of it