Valve removes arbitration from its Steam agreements — here’s what that means for you
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    So why would Valve do this? It may be a response to several law firms’ attempt to file “mass arbitrations,” wherein “hundreds or thousands of consumers bringing individual arbitration claims against the same company at the same time and over the same issue,” according to ClassAction.org. It’s essentially a loophole for class action waivers and arbitration clauses, though it still won’t end up in court.

    Hit em right in the pocket book.

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  • cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/29724681 > Bonne fête des franco-ontariennes et franco-ontariens! > > L’origine de cette journée remonte au 25 septembre 1975, date à laquelle le drapeau franco-ontarien a été levé pour la première fois à l’Université de Sudbury. Conçu par Gaétan Gervais et Michel Dupuis, ce drapeau est rapidement devenu un puissant symbole d’identité pour les Franco-Ontariens. Ses couleurs et ses symboles racontent l’histoire et l’environnement de cette communauté : le vert représente les forêts d’été du Nord de l’Ontario, tandis que le blanc évoque les hivers enneigés. La fleur de lys rappelle les racines françaises, et le trille blanc, fleur emblématique de l’Ontario, souligne l’appartenance à cette province.

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    https://leregional.com/le-25-septembre-une-journee-de-celebrations-pour-les-franco-ontariens/

    Bonne fête des franco-ontariennes et franco-ontariens! > L’origine de cette journée remonte au 25 septembre 1975, date à laquelle le drapeau franco-ontarien a été levé pour la première fois à l’Université de Sudbury. Conçu par Gaétan Gervais et Michel Dupuis, ce drapeau est rapidement devenu un puissant symbole d’identité pour les Franco-Ontariens. Ses couleurs et ses symboles racontent l’histoire et l’environnement de cette communauté : le vert représente les forêts d’été du Nord de l’Ontario, tandis que le blanc évoque les hivers enneigés. La fleur de lys rappelle les racines françaises, et le trille blanc, fleur emblématique de l’Ontario, souligne l’appartenance à cette province.

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    thewalrus.ca

    [Is Quebec a Traitor to Canada’s Francophone Minorities?](https://thewalrus.ca/is-quebec-a-traitor-to-canadas-francophone-minorities/)

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    www.eff.org

    > Canada’s S-210 is part of a wave of proposals worldwide seeking to gate access to sexual content online. Many of the proposals have similar flaws. Canada’s S-210 is up there with the worst. Both Australia and France have paused the rollout of age verification systems, because both countries found that these systems could not sufficiently protect individuals’ data or address the issues of online harms alone. Canada should take note of these concerns.

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    What's up with financial sites refusing to delete your account?
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    The answer depends on the country. In the US, review the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. In Canada, there is the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) regulations and also the CRA requiring the individuals and businesses retain their records for up to six years.

    if there’s some sort of way around this either with a lawyer or federal form or something.

    Very unlikely.

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  • Whats your favorite color of light, why?
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    #FF00FF

    In terms of physiology, the color is stimulated in the brain when the eye reports input from short wave blue cone cells along with a sub-sensitivity of the long wave cones which respond secondarily to that same deep blue color, but with little or no input from the middle wave cones. The brain interprets that combination as some hue of magenta or purple, depending on the relative strengths of the cone responses.

    In other words, our brains are like "🤷‍♂️, here's a thing"

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  • It's time for change, it's time for Linux. | DankPods
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    Terminal is life!

    But also, easy mode Linux distro for the technically challenged would be great

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  • Grab eight fantastic Steam Deck games for just $12, saving over $190 [Humble Choice]
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    • Sifu – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Gotham Knights – Steam Deck Playable – Mixed Rating
    • High on Life – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Blacktail – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Astral Ascent – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • Diluvian Ultra – Not Steam Deck Rated (but works great!) – Very Positive Rating
    • Universe For Sale – Steam Deck Verified – Very Positive Rating
    • This Means Warp – Steam Deck Playable – Mostly Positive Rating
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  • What is/was your distrohopping journey?
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    Windows 98 -> Slackware dual boot (with big ol' red grub screen) -> windows up to win 10 -> debian(laptop) win10 (pc)

    Gonna try getting a new m.2 drive and dual booting soon to test playing the games I like on Linux. If all goes well, I'll be moving away from windows

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  • Describe an episode in the worst possible way
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    Man visits childhood home to reconcile with himself after being forced to harm coworkers.

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  • Trying to ditch windows
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    (theres a mac version but isn’t the same)

    There was a mac version. But it is hitting EOL in August

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  • Dislike Copilot's responses? Make better prompts, says Microsoft
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    After using AI chat stuff like this and chatgpt, ive come to the conclusion that building prompts is akin to building search queries for search engines. Wherein using the right terms leads to better results.

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  • https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/blue-jays-rays-2024-opening-day-starting-pitchers

    > Berríos will start for the Blue Jays on Opening Day, and Eflin will take the mound for the Rays as they host Toronto at 4:10 p.m. ET on March 28 at Tropicana Field. It will be the fourth Opening Day start for Berríos and the first for Eflin. March 28th, I'm pumped, are you pumped?

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    Intel awarded $20 billion by US government, advanced CPUs incoming
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    Without any legal penalties.

    But doing so, would surely risk intels reputation and future contracts with the government. The government could also impose other restriction or penalties on intel for non compliance.

    But like you say, if intel does come up short, likely nothing will happen (unless some form of negligence is discovered)

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  • [HELP] Chess Programmes for Kids
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    If you cant find anything in your area, I would also suggest looking for online lessons. You can find coaches on chess.com and lichess.org with different price points and there are no obligations to continue with the same coach if you find them to not be up to your standards.

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  • 'Freedom Convoy' organizer from Sask. suing federal government for using Emergencies Act to freeze accounts
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    Ok, now I'm confused, the article you linked says:

    1. Federal government was justified in using the Emergencies Act

    But in this (OP) article, it says:

    Federal Court Judge Richard Mosley ruled it was unreasonable for the federal government to use the Emergencies Act to quell the protests.

    And then this article says:

    Ottawa has filed to appeal a Federal Court decision that found its invocation of the Emergencies Act in response to the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests was unjustified.

    Anyone out there want to loop me in?

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  • CRA now allows 2FA apps
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    why is it 30 seconds instead of 60 seconds? I’m pretty sure every other TOTP I’ve seen is 60 seconds. My jaded take: the blind pursuit of “better security” even though… what does this even imply? Someone has 30 fewer seconds to read the code over your shoulder and log in on their device?

    30 seconds is the default for TOTP implementations.

    I’m curious to know what CRA does, but I’m away from my PC right now.

    Yes, you can stop getting SMS messages.

    edit: formatting

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    Unpopular opinion? More like controversial opinion amiright? At the time of my comment, almost as many people agree with you (downvotes), as disagree with you (upvotes).

    All I can say on the subject is that if you choose to speak about your views, you should do it with respect to others. You wont change anyones view point by shitting on their beliefs, athiest or otherwise.

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  • Neovim - White Space on demand in Visual Block mode?
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    command! -range -nargs=1 PadColumns call PadColumns(<line1>, <line2>, <args>)
    
    function! PadColumns(start, end, columns)
        execute a:start.','.a:end.'s/\(.*\)\zs\s*$/\='.'repeat(" ", a:columns - len(submatch(1)))'
    endfunction
    

    Use by typing in Normal mode :PadColumns 20. This will add spaces after the line or selected lines to the column you specify (in this case, 20).

    You could probably improve this by getting the length of the longest line and so you dont need to specify the specific column to add spaces to (20), and instead just add say 5 spaces after longest line for all lines.

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  • Met a couple of really neat dudes at the store looking for parts for this guy. I really liked the uniqueness of it.

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    www.michaelgeist.ca

    > The government has announced that it has reached agreement with Google on deal that will ensure that news links are not blocked on the search engine and that the company pays $100 million to support the news sector in Canada.

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    pixelfed.social

    I'm new to whittling and these are the first things I completed that don't look like trash. I followed one of those "make a fox" youtube guides for the first one.

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