hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 15/10/2026The three should be impeached. This is stark proof of corruption. And one of the six ignored the 14th and only concurred due to legislation. 1340 34
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 12/10/2026That's US law. How does that work in other jurisdictions? 220 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 29/09/2026As I understand it, NK will severely punish the deflectors' families (three generations). 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Data centres are horrible placed for training. They are mostly "lights out" -- no people, only noisy hot machines. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What's an Algorithmic Immigrant? I cannot tell from the article. Instead I propose "Artificial Immigrant" for symmetry but don't know what it would mean either. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Invitation for an invasion. People forget that Pearl Harbor was a response to a US/UK/Dutch oil embargo. 310 3
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Maybe. One has to look at each job. I would guess that most unskilled jobs are automated to keep the precision high and contamination low. 001 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Apparently this has worked well for Iran, possibly under Russian guidance. 001 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Nice that you remember Canada, but Australia and some other non-European countries also contribute. Trump is shameless, terminating most support yet claiming credit. 110 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 26/08/2026What parts? On the surface, Windows, MacOS, and many Linux desktops are kind of similar. At a different level, you can use a POSIX CLI on each. 110 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I find it hard to argue with the term "traitor". Fairly consistent with many of her other positions. 070 7
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 13/08/2026The second picture would not be of a production IBM PC component. Too many wires. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 13/08/2026International students are valuable but not as livestock. 110 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yes, the diploma mills should be turned off. And those include public institutions that have overdone it. Two examples that come to mind: Memorial University and Conestoga College, but there are many others. Provincial funding shortfalls must be fixed. 210 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 13/08/2026One incentive for foreign students was an enhanced path to Permanent Residency. The Federal Government grasped at straws and abruptly cut this way back. Very unfair to the institutions and to the international students in the pipeline. Apparently very popular with the public. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My perception is a little different. Not that the article is wrong, just incomplete. Provincial governments don't fund tertiary education sufficiently. They encouraged the institutions to farm foreign students to make up the shortfall. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 05/08/2026This is an IBM 2250. Vector graphics. Light pen. From mid-1960s. Cost like a house. The two I knew were directly connected to IBM System/360 mainframes. So even the computer time to run them was expensive. NASA used them. 191 9
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I seem to remember stingers etc. being important on day one. And Obama refused to supply them. Trump supplied them. Of course Trump denies support now. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 04/08/2026In my neighborhood there seem to be about two Lucids and two Cyber trucks. And Lucids are not as obvious so may be undercounter. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Leak came after toilet flush didn't empty properly? Reproduce and observe? 030 3
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The Russian military apparently has staffing fraud - soldiers on the rolls but not active. Do we suspect the same in the Ukrainian military? Would this exercise uncover it? 010 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Nit pick: In the free part: "Alex Jones, who once frequently hosted Loomer on InfoWars,". You cannot do something once frequently: they are kind of opposites. Perhaps "used to frequently". 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 28/07/2026What text editor do you use? What is your essay checking software? Is it off the shelf free/libre? 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Interesting. How did 4 years of tuition add up to this sum? 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 27/06/2026It's what you get if you want timely fixes. Look at the dnf flag --security if you only want security fixes. 010 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Kernel bugs get fixed more promptly in Fedora than in Win11. No waiting until Patch Tuesday. So more reb9ts. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 21/06/2026"(In Canada, complaints about federal land are still addressed to the British sovereign.) " The Canadian sovereign! Same person, different office. First nations treaties were made with the Crown and some nations appeal to the "honour of the Crown", a constitutional principle supporting fairness. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 11/06/2026So this is under MacOS, not Asahi Linux. What would the figures be like if you used Asahi? It runs on M1, M2, and perhaps M3. 110 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026On the other hand, Germans were not interned en masse, so the internment policy must not have been purely geographic. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026As I understand it, the males who came from Austrian Galicia, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, were interned. They were often Ruthenians. Ruthenians from areas not part of the Central Powers were not subject to internment. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026That sounds like a "blame the Jews" thing. As I understand it, most Jews were poor farmers, living in small villages. But that too might be a stereotype. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vodka#R... seems to suggest that alcohol production in the Russian Empire was a state monopoly. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Other imperial powers lost their empires as a result of WWII: France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Japan. USA's and USSR's empires grew. 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026The British Empire and USA were not completely aligned. One war aim of the US was to break up the Empire and supplant it. The US bled the Empire dry before joining the war. The US was a late joiner to WWI and WWII, shifting more of the costs to the other alies. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026I think that there were several wrong sides to the war. The Axis (which wasn't exactly unified) was one or perhaps two if you include Japan. The USSR was also a wrong side. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Apologies for any mistakes. I'm not Ukrainian and I haven't checked the things I just mentioned. @timothysnyder.bsky.social's book "Bloodlands" is a fascinating and horrifying discussion of the forces at play in Eastern Europe during WWI. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026A lot of Ukrainians migrated from the Russian Empire to the Canadian west. Given the Holodomor and Nazi predations, it was a very good decision. 100 1
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Many Many Jews were in Ukraine because the Russian empire required Jews to live in the Pale of Settlement, which was mostly in Ukraine. During WWII, the Germans (with help from Ukrainians etc.) wiped out most of them so they are a much smaller minority now. 201 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026In Canada, many Galician men were interned during WWI as enemy aliens. In discussions of that, they are now called Ukrainians. This kind of muddies the waters since what was then Ukraine was not at war with us. 200 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/06/2026Wikipedia says 16 days en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_... Ukraine's history as a country is pretty complicated. Before WWII, the western part was "Galicia", part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Eastern part was part of the Russian Empire, called Ukraine. The borders were more complicated.en.wikipedia.orgSoviet invasion of Poland - Wikipedia 410 4
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Englebart's group at SRI is considered the fountainhead. Some of those people went on to Xerox PARC. PARC, in CA, had nothing to do with Xerography, in Rochester NY. So: lots of misinformation in this message. 160 6
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 11/05/2026MS Edge uses Google Chrome's Blink. So the two browsers share a lot of code. Firefox is different, and open source. It is good to support actually diverse browsers. It prevents browser makers imposing de facto standards. MS Explorer was dominant and terrible and non-compliant. 120 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 11/04/2026I'd love an explanation of how RCV threatens democracy. Here in Canada, we have three national parties, each in favour of a different system for electing MPs: First-Past-the-Post (existing system), Ranked Ballot, and Proportional Representation (vote for a party, not a representative). 000 0
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The US electorate elected him TWICE. You guys cannot be trusted. You are also to important to ignore. On the "good side", this administration is so bad that we kind of forget how bad the ones that preceded it were. 040 4
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 04/04/2026FDR did engineer the technical bankruptcy of Britain before helping pay for the war with lend-lease. Arms were sold for cash-only, no credit. And lend-lease did involve giving the US bases. 021 2
hugh1620.bsky.social @hugh1620.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Windows PCs are a lot cheaper than Mac's. Some of us think Linux improves them. 010 1
