Doug Ransom

@PierrePoilievre Criminal charges and lawsuits please. Though who can investigate the crimes - the RCMP can’t.

Your tax dollars were used by the CBC to target, harass, and humiliate retired RCMP officers. This is a new low. The CBC must answer how this was allowed to happen, and apologize to the retired officers they involved.

@TELUS Just tells me there is some sort of error and to restart. Replaced the box - no change. I am on a business plan.

@jodyvance @TELUS I have to reboot my telus tv box regularly, only for the playback of ‘recorded’ shows. All the other apps like prime video work without rebooting the device.

I’m just a girl… Rebooting her @Telus modem for the umpteenth time today…after this cycle of BS. I pay hundreds of dollars each month for NOTHING to work?? Is it time to cut the cord? (There is nobody else in our house at the moment… So no drain on the Wi-Fi…poor service)

@bobmackin @BayCordova It really was a classless move on the part of Eby. And a real shame for our province.

Late ex-Premier John Horgan paused Site C construction. Twice. The megaproject doubled in price. The Auditor General also found it had no anti-corruption plan. Legacy? #bcpoli thebreaker.news/business/site-…

@JohnRustad4BC How about a defamation lawsuit and criminal charges?

BC United secretly funded the fake “firejohnrustad.ca” website and pamphlets in the final weeks of the 2024 campaign. They lied, pretended it was from “disgruntled Conservatives,” and actively worked to elect the NDP by sabotaging us while pretending to unite.This dirty trick suppressed turnout when we were just ONE seat short of forming government, we lost Surrey-Guildford by only 22 votes, with multiple ridings decided by dozens. Now their former VP Caroline Elliott wants to take over the BC Conservatives? And even Peter Milobar’s campaign manager was in the middle of this betrayal. The BC Conservatives need leadership that puts this province first, before disgusting old-guard politics. Remember this when choosing your next leader for the BC Conservatives.

@timescolonist Municipalities need to say no to new housing targets until the provincial services are available . We shouldn’t be building more housing units if there isn’t health care, transit, water, etc. for every resident.

Seniors dying in hospital beds waiting for long-term care as B.C. wait-lists span years dlvr.it/TSfNWS

@farnham_kim @IanRunkle You try throwing a package that far with that accuracy.

@IanRunkle Amazon deliver yesterday. Don't bother bringing it to the door or at least putting it on the covered walkway, dude. 🙄

Delivery driver just came with a very large package... And delivered it to the edge of my grass. Says he can't bring it to the door. Got real mad when I noted that on his signature form. "Sir, I am not room service!" ...no, you're the delivery guy. Fucking deliver.

@JimMcMurtry01 “wives”, as in consenting spouses?

Do academics at UBC who “decolonize” education want us to go back to polygamy? It was common in the Americas—Chief Powhatan had 100 wives.

@wyatt_claypool @NewWorldHominin @RGAME2 I think there is a criminal element to this.

There is a difference between a wacky character like Borat going around and being disruptive. That at least is in the open and no deception is involved past the fact that it’s a character being played by an actor. Hear the CBC and APTN are blatantly lying to participants to get them to let their guard down, deliberately waste their time, and it all culminates in what is basically a humiliation or harassment ritual with no humour or levity for the participant. People can claim that humour is subjective, but there quite literally is no punchline here past the nasty implication that the people they are “pranking” are racist based purely on the show runners suggesting it with no evidence. This would be the equivalent of just having a normal liberal person on a television show and then bringing out actors and pulling stunts to imply that they’re pedophiles or drug addicts.

The CBC "prank show" deception scandal is getting so much worse. The producers (operating under fake identities/fake company names with fake websites) told a number of RCMP veterans - people who dedicated their lives to serving on the frontlines - that they were invited to film for a show called "Life After Service." A ceremony to thank them for their service would follow, and they were told dignitaries would be present. This would take place at the CBC Vancouver studio. They were told to come in uniform. When the RCMP vets arrived at the CBC Vancouver studio on March 25th and 26th, the "pranksters" took their phones away, which they claimed was CBC Vancouver studio policy. The former RCMP officers were also placed in front of an audience of what they were told were about two dozen "journalists." And it was sprung on them that this was a "live broadcast", with "media availability" afterwards! Then the producers switched up the whole session to be not about life after service, but the historical wrongs committed by the RCMP against indigenous peoples - to berate these vets for being part of the RCMP. There is so much more but I am hoping the individuals targeted in this elaborate scheme will be able to share their stories themselves. Seriously, what even sounds remotely funny or silly about this concept? It is just sick and cruel @CBCNews and @APTNNews... what are you thinking?

@kouta5429 @davepl1968 No.

@davepl1968 Doesn’t alloca crash if you forget to un-bump it? Or is that sbrk?

alloca() is fully automatic and MASSIVELY faster since it just bumps the stack pointer. char * buf = alloca(1024); It's not even a runtime call, it's just an intrinsic.

@dockevinmcleod @angelohikebike This is interesting because the solar should be producing during the evening demand peak depending on the time of year.

They’ve taken away net metering. You get 10 cents now for every kWh you send to the grid and you buy it back at retail pricing. Before if you generated 50 and used 75 you just paid for 25. Now you get a fixed amount for the generation and you buy it back at a higher price. The main benefit I saw to give a better ROI with solar was as a hedge against inflation. Now if the cost of power goes up you still just get the 10 cents and you’re buying it back at much more than that.

BC hydro has changed the rules when it comes to home solar. It’s most unfortunate. The payback time has gone from about 8 years to 20 ish for me. Kinda kills the ROI for solar in BC. I’ve been a huge advocate for solar. Probably not worth it now.

@davepl1968 @1ssve Also laundry.

@1ssve They probably just don't think you should get paid to sit at home, pretend to work, and doomscroll X.

Why Boomers hate remote work: 1. They hate their wives 2. Work is their identity 3. They hate their families 4. They love to gossip 5. Control

@timescolonist Very generous of Victoria to give cooling to folx with no increase in rents.

Victoria eyes bylaw to help keep apartments cool this summer dlvr.it/TSZBqf

@timescolonist Municipalities need to push back on housing targets. Only add enough units when there is sufficient medical, long term care, road infrastructure to support.

B.C. spent almost $100M on hospital, long-term care projects now on hold dlvr.it/TSTScK

@davepl1968 @TrisH0x2A Do you remember smartheap for windows?

@TrisH0x2A Cool, I just wrote a full episode on malloc. I start with a bump allocator and then slowly improve it...

Memory Allocators 101 - Write a simple memory allocator This article is about writing a simple memory allocator in C. You will implement malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free()

@its_bvisness Here is the thing. If someone accesses the pc after you close edge (ie stolen) they may be able to access ram or page files and see what bytes are in there, good candidates for passwords.

"An attacker who has already broken into your house and held you at gunpoint can TRIVIALLY access the contents of your fridge!"

@L1v1ng0ffTh3L4N Could passworda be left in RAM or pagefile after the process exits?

Microsoft Edge loads all your saved passwords into memory in cleartext — even when you’re not using them.

@LundukeJournal Remember c+@ ? predated both.

It’s true. The syntax (and many design decisions) of C# was heavily influenced by Java. In the 1990s Microsoft had their own Java IDE (Visual J++) which added a lot of Microsoft specific functionality. Sun took Microsoft to court, and Microsoft settled… agreeing to stop making Java dev tools. So Microsoft created a “Java-ish” language. C#. In essence, C# was a big “middle finger salute” to Sun. Fun tidbit: The code name for the C# language and project was “COOL” (C-like Object Oriented Language), and used the “.cool” file extension.

@wbic16 Why does it take a minute to log into windows and start one drive and google drive? Also a few progressive web apps and browser tabs consume 16G? For linked in and email?

100 MHz was more than adequate to run a GUI. At 100 fps, we had a budget of 1 million cycles per frame. At 4 GHz with 8 cores, no UI task should ever take more than 1 ms. We have 320 MHz per frame available. What the actual fuck is Microsoft doing these days?!

@DanPearseAuthor @timthielmann Why is it abhorrent? Are they making a lot of profit?

@timthielmann Privately owned companies are sucking the life savings out of seniors charging absorbent amounts for beds in retirement homes. This should be against the law and deserves a closer look. These facilities operate government funded beds and private beds in the same facility.

The wait time for long-term care homes in British Columbia is now up to 8 years long. 8 years. The NDP has failed its boomer base. Billions for environmental and reconciliation fantasies. Misery for seniors. Opposition should crush this next election.