Akuchimoya

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[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

ISPs will provide service so long as it is profitable. It is not profitable to go to northern, remote areas through all the trees and terrain for the relatively few people who would be customers, even at 100% market share. If there was profit to be made by expanding to remote places, they'd be there already.

Although this thread is about Internet, this is also why it's incredibly stupid for people to whine about Canada Post not being profitable. Of course its not profitable, its a national service that services literally every unprofitable community and person in the country. Even with the recent price increase, it definitely costs a lot more than $1.24 for Canada Post to deliver a letter from Windsor to Iqaluit.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Carney's win was not a surprise, but I think the margin that he won by was a surprise for many.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be slightly more specific, we accumulate PFAS, carcinogenic "forever" chemicals, in our blood, and our bodies have no way to process or rid ourselves of it. Emerging research suggests that blood donations reduce the amount of PFAS in our blood because, well, we're basically bloodletting it out.

PFAS is in both everyday things from Teflon cookware to fire storeroom foam and its worked is way everywhere in the environment due to human activity, of course. Everyone has PFAS in their blood, even newborn infants.

Search "PFAS blood" or "PFAS newborn" to be disappointed in life 🙁

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The best use, for me, is asking ChatGPT to give me five (or however many) scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on a topic. Then I search for said articles by title and author name on my school library database.

It saves me so much time compared to doing a keyword search on said same database and reading a ton of abstracts to find a few articles. I can get to actually reading them and working on my assignment way faster.

AI is a great tool for people who use it properly.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

I don't understand what you mean by Firefox's development is driven by the community? It's not a community contributed open source software; my friend worka on Firefox and is a Mozilla employee.

[–] Akuchimoya@startrek.website 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am very displeased that they left the Rutherford and Tendi relationship hanging.

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