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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • The same cyclists that stick up their nose at signed and designed cycle routes and instead choose roads with highway speeds, narrow infrastructure and excessive traffic?

    The cycling infrastructure is pitiful in many popular areas, and enforcement can only do so much. “Share the road” signs have no place outside of residential low-speed areas (looking at you, Mary Hill Bypass) and cyclists plowing down main drags at half speed are selfishly putting themselves at huge risk. The whole dynamic is a hot mess.

    That’s not even getting into the cyclist-on-cyclist viscousness I’ve experienced when I was cycle commuting and following silly rules like stopping at red lights.








  • I can’t give you more information because I literally don’t know more than that.

    I’m a bitch basic internet user, and I’ve never had a site do this before, and I don’t have 3 hours to teach myself everything on the subject just for one shitty site, or to research and install whatever the current best suite of un-enshittified extensions is. I have Ublock origin running in Firefox already, so for all I know the cookies are already auto-deleting, but I really couldn’t tell you.

    If it was my card instead of someone else’s, I would have cancelled the whole thing and just picked up the tickets in person on the way home or something. Or just not given them my business (so just not seen the movie, because they have a near monopoly out here).

    I’m a mechanic, not a programmer, and at this point probably not a moviegoer again, either, because the fuss of dealing with their crap now isn’t worth seeing movies, just like we’ve basically stopped streaming anything in my household and cancelled most of the subs. Now my money can go to renovations and hobbies instead!

    In fact, the internet in general is getting to be such a pain in the ass, my usage is probably going to drop off to avoid all these headaches.


  • Their online ticket buying is atrocious.

    From last night, on a PC using Firefox:

    • crashes log in to account unless you enable all cookies for the site
    • forced 2FA to a phone number (I just hate these, it’s a way for them to steal your phone number)
    • refuses to let you buy tickets unless you re-enable all cookies for the site (and puts a countdown on that page)
    • fees are at the end of the page scroll on the 3rd or 4th page in
    • refuses to let you pay unless you add a whole-ass credit card to your account, while cookies and trackers are enabled, again with a counter

    Never have I had to disable Firefox’s onboard blocking to simply pay for something with a credit card online, I’m highly suspicious of Cineplex’s back end and the second any weird activity happens on that credit card, or email address, I’m going after them.

    They should be legally forced to use an existing well-regarded payment vendor, because whatever is going on now, they’re doing something either very incompetent, or very fishy.




  • The snippet “if the batteries have a shorter lifetime than the appliance” worries me. Seems to me that modern engineers are capable of making their crap’s lifespan just barely shorter than the projected batty lifespan, and people might just be stupid enough to still buy it.

    I mean, the disposable vape market is an extreme example, but somewhat relevant I think.

    That being said, if the processor on the LG G5 had kept up with the market better, I don’t see how that couldn’t have been a starting point.

    As for waterproofing, my GoPro stays waterproof but the side door opens to give access to the SD card, battery, etc, so it’s absolutely possible.