m0darn @ m0darn @lemmy.ca

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To save some googling for other people: Rayhunter is an initiative to identify when simulated cell towers are being used for surveillance.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying?language=en

I would be surprised if there are other devices for it. I think you'll want to look at what network bands Verizon uses and see what that corresponds to in Canada. But I really don't know.

100%. Maybe the tower thought it was an ultralight because no radio contact/transponder and conveyed that to the pilots.

If you can see that it is a 172 it's like mistaking an F150 for a Model T pickup. Not a mistake that would happen when you can clearly see it.

The book of Acts properly contains a mistranslation in its retelling of the first council of Jerusalem. In it James (I think it was) quotes the Septuagint as justification for converting the gentiles. That passage of the Septuagint is a mistranslation and is quite irrelevant if properly translated.

Helping constituents navigate federal agencies and processes is a core function of Senator Hassan’s office.

...He's not a constituent though he's a greencard holder.

Hopefully the citywide speedlimit reduction on residential streets can help this city implement needed changes to physical infrastructure and traffic law enforcement.

Suburbs are awful for non-drivers, and will be a ton of work to improve, but Culloden(/Knight) and 41st is not a suburb. It's where two major thoroughfares (41st and Knight) pass through a low density residential neighbourhood. We need an investigation with recommendations, but I suspect civil/traffic engineers know what's needed and the problem is really too many carbrained voters to make serious widespread progress.

LBM

Little Brown Mushrooms, the most important guideline to amateur mushroom tasting is to only eat half of each mushroom, so that the coroner can figure out which ones are toxic.

Very sad. I drive through there (1 block west of 41st and Knight) often. Hopefully the citywide speedlimit reduction on residential streets can help this city implement needed changes to physical infrastructure and traffic law enforcement.

Rage Against the Machine?

Canadians should mail letters, ring them up, fax them if they can, to let them know that any reasonable person would consider this goal post shifting a complete abdication of their responsibilities.

National Office Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation 700 Montreal Road Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0P7

Reception/Main number: 613-748-2000 Fax: 613-748-2098

Everyone likes to believe they’re thinking independently.

Can you elaborate on that claim?

I exercise some critical analysis, but for the most part I just have trust in human ambition. For example: the reason I believe human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is not because I've looked at the evidence and evaluated it for myself.

The reason I believe that human CO2 emissions are driving climate change is: that seems to be the consensus of people that have worked hard to impartially develop expertise and gather data to understand climate science.

There are two important systems at play

1: Scientific research, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial research and discoveries which overturn old assumptions/paradigms.

2: Journalism, which harnesses human ambition by rewarding impartial reporting on various fields of human interest. (Reporting is why it seems to be the consensus of the scientific community)

The impartiality of these systems is (has always been) under assault by capitalism (which also derives its power by harnessing human ambition) and so one must, to an increasing degree, evaluate the appropriate level of personal mental effort to allocate to identifying biases in the reporting.

we'll do everything we can to make sure approvals happen quickly... ...and routinely

So you'll do nothing because that would change the routine?

Seems crazy to me that the article would skip Paul's abolition of gender in his letter to the Galatians.

Presumably anybody that does this gets their code integrated into the training data right?

Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for "huge variety" for so long that people don't know that anymore.

I'm basically a secular humanist, and I've heard the statement that Catholics aren't Christians, in person, a few times. The two times that come to mind were from very different people (a Chinese Christian that lives in Beijing, and a Canadian Christian that lives on an apple orchard in southern Ontario). Both of whom were coworkers I spent some time with while travelling for work (different jobs, about 10 years apart).

I've always shut it down as a wildly offensive thing to say, and not worthy of discussing. So I've never gotten a real explantion for why some Christians believe it. Is it a common opinion?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_responses_to_the_problem_of_evil

This link is probably more helpful to OP.

This is garbage journalism.

Man that distrusts the Scots wears kilt and decides that it's as drafty as he always expected. "You just have to get used to it" says his bagpiping friend. "No thanks" he thinks smugly.

Glee?

Suspend the site's permit until the organization shows that it takes its obligations seriously.

I 100% agree they should be flipped. Also, Don Draper was lying when he said that, so it's like doubly apt. Canada feels bad for the US but also is living in their shadow. The USA does think of Canada and has an irrational need to put us down.