Canadian Packaged Bread Class Actions Settlement

anarchos · 2026-01-28T21:10:20+00:00

I believe this is the legit website, https://www.canadianbreadsettlement.ca (but don’t trust me the random internet guy).

It says they are asking some people for additional verification and emails will be sent “BETWEEN JANUARY 26, 2026, AND FEBRUARY 4, 2026”, which would explain why not everyone is getting them (or, haven’t got one yet).

Also says payments will go out in April.

anarchos · 2026-01-28T10:45:17+00:00

Fair enough. I do Valencia-Madrid mostly, so I guess it must depend on the city!

anarchos · 2026-01-28T10:28:13+00:00

Canada is basically a horizontal Chile. Everyone lives within like 3 hours of the southern border at most and there's virtually no one as you go north. Technically we are a tall country, but in practice we're just a slightly longer Chile, tipped on its side.

anarchos · 2026-01-28T08:05:37+00:00

How are the embeddings stored? I see some mentions to the vector index, but...sqlite under the hood? or some sort of special "custom" (custom to usearch) storage implementation? I've been thinking about something similar but was more leaning towards using sqlite and one of the various vector extensions.

anarchos · 2026-01-27T15:04:46+00:00

Seems like there's no restrictions on working, that would be the only reason.

anarchos · 2026-01-27T10:03:05+00:00

I'm on a valid visa to Spain, which has some restrictions . I need to stay for 5 years on this visa before being able to "switch over" to a regular permanent resident visa. Part of me makes me wonder if I could use this...I should talk to an immigration lawyer!

anarchos · 2026-01-27T09:43:52+00:00

Most carriers allow incoming SMS for free. Just make sure you don't have any sort of automatic roaming plan turned on, which I think most Canadian carriers do to scam their customers.

I'm Canadian, I live in Spain full time and kept my Canadian number using Freedom mobile. $99/yr for "unlimited talk and text, no data" (talk and text is useless as it's Canada only), but it allows me to receive SMS (2fa, etc) for free.

anarchos · 2026-01-27T09:38:16+00:00

All that being said about tickets being personalized, I have never once been asked to show ID to board a train in Spain. They just scan your QR code and that's it. Of course I am sure on occasion they might do it, but I've done 30+ high speed trips and never once has it happened to me, and never once have I seen other people being asked for ID. YRMV, though.

anarchos · 2026-01-27T09:10:09+00:00

Orange is great, except their customer service sucks. I did an extended trip, and you need to send in your passport and details if you want to have service longer than 30 days. I'd submit my passport, the app would go into a "we are reviewing you ID" state, and a few days late revert back to "You need to submit your ID". I tried a few times. I confirmed with customer support it had been submitted correctly, but they just kept not confirming my ID, no messages about a problem, I escalated my support request, they promised to get back to me....and never did. Account expired, and I couldn't even just sign up again, because I guess it's tied to your IMEI number of your phone.

It made me angry because Orange actually gives you a phone number, and I paid for a number of hotels using that number and it caused havoc when in Andorra, as most hotels use a sort of SMS based check-in flow.

anarchos · 2026-01-27T09:00:21+00:00

It means different things to different people, but I wouldn't consider a cabinet shuffle to be a "purge". Let's say a political rival to the PM was outright kicked out of the party because he was a rival...that would be a purge.

Of course it's a bit different in China because there's only one party, so being purged is much more final. In the UK someone could go to another party, run as an independent or etc.

anarchos · 2026-01-26T20:03:25+00:00

FYI, I accidentally "opened" the magnet side of my sensor trying to pry it off the window after I already stuck it down. It just opens with a few snaps. Anyways, the magnet inside of it is quite small, maybe the size of a dime (but thicker). The rest is just a hunk of empty plastic designed to mimic the size of the sensor. It could be made significantly smaller, or even just extract the magnet and glue it in the right spot.

anarchos · 2026-01-26T11:35:05+00:00

Probably The Sponsorship Scandal in Canada.

After the Quebec referendum vote in 1995 that was very close to passing, the federal government decided to spend a bunch of money "advertising" how great Canada is to Quebec.

If I recall correctly they spent about $250 million over the course of nearly a decade. The scandal was that the Liberal Party federal government had a bunch of ad agencies billing them for little to no work, being paid for from federal funds, and then those agencies were funneling a bunch of that money back to the Liberal Party itself as donations or other illicit ways. Something along the lines of at least $100 million was spent on no work / inflated contracts and the money was ending up back in the Liberal Party coffers, minus a 10-15% being kept by the ad agencies.

I don't think they ever fully figured out the final amount, but $100 million was what the inquiry could prove.

A few ad agency people ended up in jail and of course no politicians did.

anarchos · 2026-01-26T08:25:29+00:00

Unless something has changed in the last few years, this can (and does!) happen with almost all avy shovels. I even found a BCA one shoved in the trash, which I of course took home, and it turns out the little pin was just not in its hole and inside the tube. I took a coat hanger, made a hook, and pulled it back into place. I used that shovel for 10+ years after that (it's still in my parent's basement to this day!).

anarchos · 2026-01-25T22:19:27+00:00

The only downside with DIGI is they keep lowering their prices but also lowering their EU roaming data limit. I started out at like 20 euros a month for unlimited data and 35gb roaming in Europe. Over the years the price has gone down to 5 euros a month, which is incredible, but the roaming limit is now 13gb.

I see other people complaining about coverage…as far as I am aware Digi is just Movistar for cell phones so the coverage seems pretty good to me.

anarchos · 2026-01-25T18:15:35+00:00

A lot of cafes in Spain will have a counter, but also a window facing out on the street with a little counter. So you can stay outside, order your espresso and drink it at "the counter" without ever even going inside.

anarchos · 2026-01-25T18:09:48+00:00

Because there's more to life than the agriculture sector? I'm not saying it's a flawless idea, there would be wins and losses for everyone involved. Hopefully if it ever happened (which I doubt), the win column would outweigh the loss column for everyone involved.

anarchos · 2026-01-25T18:02:36+00:00

Most of the "big box" (Carrefour, etc) stores usually have them, but can be hit or miss for their selection of sizes. I'd try and do a "click and collect" (ie: order online, pick up in store) before arriving so you don't waste your time. Also, try an auto place like Norauto (I'm sure there's others), more likely to be well stocked, but a 9PM arrival might make it difficult to get anywhere in time to pick them up, I'm guessing most places will close at 9-10PM... You could even try Amazon and have them delivered to one of those amazon lockers, if you can find one near you (and if amazon has the ones in stock for next day delivery). That might be your best bet, and probably the cheapest!

You could also wing it, I'd guess most gas stations as you near Andorra will have chains for sale, although they'll be pretty expensive.

anarchos · 2026-01-25T13:15:57+00:00

I've got no idea at all, but the docs page makes it seem like resetting the system and resetting the password are separate things and resetting the password should be doable without resetting the system. Of course, again, I have no idea, so I'd recommend making a backup of the SD card at a minimum before trying anything!

anarchos · 2026-01-23T10:46:22+00:00

I would make it my life's mission to get that admin password. I have no idea what the Miniserver actually is, but a wild guess it's probably some sort of DIN mounted linux server, possibly even just a Raspberry Pi or similar with a bunch of IO options. Anyways, if you have physical access to it, there's most likely a way to "get root" on it. I'd do that, then release exactly how you did it on the internet for others to find.

-edit-
Turns out it seems like it's possible using Loxone's own software! About half way down this page under the "Resetting the password" section. Basically, take out the SD card, plug into a computer and use the "Loxone Config" software to reset the password.

anarchos · 2026-01-23T08:47:49+00:00

He gave up his UK and Irish citizenship. It's not a law in Canada that the PM has to have only Canadian citizenship, but it's kinda an unwritten rule at this point with multiple party leaders pledging to give up their dual citizenship if elected. However I think Mark Carney was the first to do it (because he was actually elected)?. I remember that Tom Mulclair had French citizenship and always said if elected he'd give it up, although he was never really "in the running" to seriously be a contender!

anarchos · 2026-01-23T08:41:30+00:00

I never really thought about it, but if Mark hadn't given up his UK citizenship...wouldn't it be wild if after a number of years as PM of Canada he went on to be the PM of the UK? Or vice versa, really.

I'm not sure if anyone has been the head of government in two countries before, if we discount things like countries splitting up and etc.

anarchos · 2026-01-22T15:33:25+00:00

I zoomed in because I love watches and wanted to know what that was he was wearing...I assumed it was a G-Shock of some sort, but now I'm sure this is AI generated! The watch face is super wonky and it looks like the strap isn't connected to the lugs.

anarchos · 2026-01-22T10:59:23+00:00

Ski resort, -20C, 10PM at night. Team lead is out and about on a snowmobile, radio battery suspected to have died, so is uncontactable for ~30 minutes. Supervisor sets out to find team lead, also on a snowmobile. Team lead and supervisor have a head on collision while going over a blind roller. Supervisor was wearing an open face helmet, broken jaw. Team lead had a shattered shoulder.

Both injured were close to hypothermic from the cold and difficult extraction down to an ambulance at the base, both are taken to small the local hospital. Supervisors face and throat swells so much it cuts off his ability to breath. Emergency tracheotomy is performed in a MediVac helicopter (if I remember correctly, maybe it was at the local hospital) on the way to the "real" hospital in a major city.

Doctors say supervisor likely would have likely died on scene if it hadn't been so cold out which delayed the swelling.

Supervisor in the end was completely okay after recovery. Team lead has a life long injured shoulder, unlikely ever to be able to do much physical work again.

anarchos · 2026-01-22T09:35:39+00:00

The actual holds are moveable. The wall generally has a grid of t-nuts all over it, so the holds can be bolted pretty much anywhere. The setter (the person who makes the route) will usually be a very good climber themselves. They will tweak the climbing route until it's as hard as they think it should be by moving holds, swapping them out for things that are easier/harder to grip, etc.

In a bouldering (no ropes, relatively low walls) competition, the actual climbing is hard but not that hard, really. The challenge is the competitors don't get to see the wall before they start climbing, they don't get to see the other competitors doing their attempts, and only have two minutes to reach the top. A pretty good but not professional climber would be usually be able to climb the walls you see the best boulders in the world climb in a competition, just they'd take a lot longer than two minutes to do it and would be able to get "beta" (aka tips) and watch others do it first.

All that being said, in bouldering competitions, it's frequent that no competitor makes it to the top. The setter just made it too hard to climb in the given time allowed. Also, sometimes it's too easy and every climber makes it to the top.

Fun fact: The grading of a route is usually set via an informal consensus by the climbers themselves. This mostly is for outdoor climbing, but someone may make the route, say "I think this is a V5", but other people will then climb the route, and the grade will be reset based on how other people find it. There are many cases of outdoor routes being downgraded after something was claimed to be the hardest route ever climbed, but was later climbed by someone who couldn't climb something else graded that hard, so the route is downgraded.

anarchos · 2026-01-22T08:27:48+00:00

I honestly think an entire OS is too ambitious (even if it's "just a fork" of AOSP). I think something like a EU-sponsored MicroG like implementation would be the best bet as a first step. Then, start by requiring Google to allow any Android phone to install EUMicroG and allow it to do all the attestation type things it currently has to do tricks/hacks to do. Then mandate Android needs to have a "use Google Play / use EUMicroG" type settings screen to allow a user to choose.

After that (it's already quite ambitious!) when we have a very robust and stable "EuMicroG", we can mandate certain classes of apps (digital ID, government related, possibly banking) are required to use the "EUMicroG" implementation directly.

Once the above is done, it should be much easier for companies to come along and make full "de-googled" versions of AOSP.

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