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Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserve running dry amid high demand
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Or is a good sweetener for Matcha Lattes.
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Quebec's strategic maple syrup reserve running dry amid high demand
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Or is a good sweetener for Matcha Lattes.
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Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions.
Sounds like a great way to make an insurance claim on a bunch of NFTs worth "millions" that you could not convince anyone to buy.
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"Police guarding grocery stores while folks are denied the opportunity to purchase baby formula after losing everything is pretty indicative of where we are as a country."
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What, cops do useful work? Don't be absurd.
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Everything has LEDs now and they drive me nuts
I regularly take nail polish and paint over these infernal LEDs in layers until they are at a brightness that I find acceptable. Red are not so bad, but blue LEDs area nightmare. I have a cheap Chinese headlamp were the blue battery indicator is brighter than the red led for illumination, and the blue reflects off my glasses into my eyes.
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Those free USB sticks in your drawer are somehow crappier than you thought
Steve Gibson recently created a small utility to test USB drives to see if they work and actually give you the store space they claim.
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Granny Fells A Tree
Totally oblivious that she almost died.
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Does anyone actually use LibreOffice?
I have it deployed at work for my 55 users instead of getting Microsoft Office licenses for all of them. They are not sophisticated users and it suits their needs. I probably field a few more questions for it than MS Office but they would call about that too since they think I am Google.
I personally think that Calc does a better job handling various CSV files than Excel.
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The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics
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The cloud act requires a warrant, this is them just demanding access.
"The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil."
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FreeCAD 1.1 is out
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With Onshape unless you pay them money your files are public. You can't use the free version for commercial use. Some advanced features are blocked like simulations.
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The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
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Yes a realtor can be useful, but 99% of the time they do not deserve 3-6% of the purchase price of the house for the 10-20 hours of work they do for the typical house purchase.
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How Boston's first Joro spider likely got here — and why you shouldn't freak out
Invasive species, spider, kill on sight, got it.
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Steam Deck and Dock Are On Sale for Steam's 20th Anniversary
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It does have a micro SD card slot. It is also possible to replace the main M.2 drive with a larger one, I have 2TB in my Steam Deck.
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US Broadband Monopolies Once Again Push Idea That Tech Giants Should Pay Them Billions For No Reason
This isn't even double dipping, it is triple dipping. They already get paid for both ends of the connection. They want more because greed.
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Watch Reddit go dark: A website that updates live 24/7
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Tildes is a Reddit like site, I have not used it enough to tell you more, but here is the address. https://tildes.net/