Thanks. I’ve been going through the site, but it’s a painful process. IF a vendor’s fanexpo page was archived, and IF they listed a website, then I have to copy it and manually strip out the wayback headers to get to the site - if it still exists. I’m getting successes on maybe half of the vendors listed.

It’ll be a race to see if I can find it online before the next comic expo. :-)

Because the Flames’ owners wanted a new stadium.

Take a look for videos. Some are relatively straightforward. Unfortunately, we had one that wasn’t.

Honestly, a new one was only 65 bucks CDN. The profit is all in the heads now, just like razor blade cartridges.

It’s not the battery (although it does take an uncommon battery, a 14500), it’s the disassembly.

You need to soak the base in hot water to soften the plastic clip, then use the charging stand to break the seal and open it up. Once open, there’s a delicate metal brackets to unclip and remove. At that point, you need to desolder the battery and the motor, and then start to work on the plastic brackets. This is less than halfway through the process, and it’s likely broken.

Some things are extremely repair-hostile. I’m not happy about it, but I’m not going to spend half a day attempting a very unlikely repair.

Hah! I carefully looked at the models available to find out which was the highest-end that didn’t have “AI,” Bluetooth, a phone app, or any of the other garbage.

Fuck that.

Alberta has a traitor problem.

Yes, but this is RBC. The nicest and least competent of the big five banks in Canada.

Smith doesn’t need a mandate to fuck over Alberta. It’s fascinating that she didn’t hold a referendum oh publicly funding charter and private schools, or on introducing two-tier for-profit healthcare. No, she just decided that she wanted to flaunt Alberta’s hatred of Ottawa and brown people. Because let’s be honest, anti-immigration sentiment is all about people who look and dress differently. Nobody’s going bat an eyelash at Aussies coming over to work the ski hills, unless they’re pointed to as the “See, I’m not racist” example.

So we’re racist, but we’re racist Canadians. Yay us?

To be clear: The questions were deliberately crafted to drive people to the ‘yes’ vote; and the UCP spent millions of dollars in advertising propaganda telling us which way to vote on the referendum intended to tell them which which way to govern.

That doesn’t excuse the fact that this province is racist (and queer-phobic) as fuck, and getting worse all the time.

Then take out the AI, the telemetry, and the bloat like it was the mid-2000s.

Oh wait -that’s what Waterfox did.

“Meta lies about, denies Brazillian election interference.”

Ooh, I know this one.

Because the US is interfering with their election.

Desperation becomes him.

Meanwhile, we’ll continue along.

There are two parts to this answer.

First, as many have pointed out, eMudhra as a trusted certificate authority has issued eight high-level certificates with a key length of onle 3-8 bits, when they should be 384 bits long. And yes, the smallest key was ‘4’.

But the other point is tha xkcd predicted using 4 as a random number, decades ago. It was supposed to be a joke.

https://xkcd.com/221/

You decide.

And you work at it.

Change your mind? Fine . Then work at it.

Don’t give up because it’s hard. Change only because it’s wrong for you.

And work at it.

Albertans also voted in favour of five racist questions, and four ‘stick it to the east’ ones as well. It wasn’t that proud of a day for this province.

Honestly, not really.

That 25% includes both the shitstain separatists who have always been here, as well as the none-too-bright “send Ottawa a message!” idiots who wouldn’t actually vote for separation.

For decades I’ve heard numbers of 5-15% of the province are actively separatists. Seems pretty consistent.

Doom, head-to-head, while talking on the phone.

You’re obsessed with this stuff. Maybe find (or create) a more appropriate group for it.

That was unexpectedly charming and informative. And funny.