The salary is a bit low for the engineering jobs, the recommended salary without any experience at all is almost 4000 €/month. While the recommended salary is higher than most people get, it should be possible to get around 3500 €/month. But the remote-first and flexible hours are perks that compensates for some of the lower salary.
I need to rewatch it again, I haven’t seen it in many years.
With ai and more and more surveillance it is even more relevant than when it was aired.
Google will not spy on you and most of the code is open source. I’m not sure if it has been audited.
I will recommend person of interest to anyone who asks.
Foundation and Andor are such great series.
How many seasons have you seen? I watched the first two and they are great but I lost interest after the first episodes of season 3. How was the last seasons?
Silo is great but I didn’t fall for severance. But I might give it another try.
I think it became worse already in season 4 and then season 5 was meh, as you said. But I’m glad I saw all seasons once. I watched the first three seasons again last year and they are still great.
I have Firefox with uBlock Origin, Consent-O-Matic and CanvasBlocker and I have no problems to read the article.
There’s been a lot of talk about the Buy Canadian movement since the protest first sprung up at the onset of U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war, but is it all talk?
Not according to a recent study by the Bank of Canada.
Central bank researchers tapped three sets of data that confirm Canadians have indeed been shifting away from their neighbours to the south by increasing their spending on domestic travel and Canadian grocery products and reducing their spending on similar U.S. products and services.
Historically the United States has been one of the most popular travel destinations for Canadians, but that has changed since trade tensions flared between the two countries, said the study.
Canadians took almost 10 million or 25 per cent fewer trips to the United States last year. The biggest drop was in trips across the border by land which fell by 8.4 million or 30 per cent. Trips by air were down 1.2 million or 12 per cent.
Data from Statistics Canada show that Canadians are now spending their money on travelling within Canada and to international destinations other than the U.S. Canadians took four per cent more trips domestically and spent about 10 per cent more in Canada on travel and tourism between the first and third quarters of 2025 as the “Buy Canadian movement gained momentum.”
Getting numbers on how Canadians are spending their money in the grocery store is more difficult so the researchers turned to the NielsenIQ Homespun Consumer panel.
This data involves 10,000 Canadian households each month scanning the barcodes of their purchases, three quarters of which are groceries. Using the barcode to determine where the product was licensed, researchers were able to trace, though admittedly imperfectly, its country of origin.
The shift from spending on U.S. products to Canadian goods is “modest but clearly visible,” they said.
In March 2025 when trade tensions escalated as Trump launched his tariff war, food spending on Canadian products jumped two percentage points compared to January of that year. The share spent on U.S. goods fell by a similar amount.
“And what started in March wasn’t short-lived — it persisted through the summer,” said the report.
The shift in spending was larger in some categories, especially coffee and fruit juices. Researchers said some of this may be due to counter-tariffs imposed by Canada which made some U.S. goods, such as orange juice, more expensive. Most of those tariffs have since been dropped.
The Buy Canadian movement remains strong, however.
Canadians made their preference for homegrown goods and services clear in the central bank’s latest consumer survey in the fourth quarter of 2025. More than a third of respondents said they plan to increase their spending on domestic travel. Almost half said they will be reducing their spending on travel to the United States.
Trade tensions over the past year have pushed the Canadian economy into structural change, with supply chains and domestic production shifting away from the U.S. and exporters finding new partnerships, said the study.
Monitoring spending patterns is important because the movement could actually be affecting the economy.
“Should Canadian consumers continue to prefer domestic products over U.S. goods and services, this spending shift could not only affect the composition of Canada’s gross domestic product but also have an impact on inflationary pressures,” it said.
Apart from the Bank of Canada study, Buy Canadian is showing up in other data.
Foreign direct investment into this country hit $96.8 billion in 2025, the highest annual inflows in almost 20 years.
The United Kingdom boosted its exposure, snapping up Canadian software companies ranging from cybersecurity to AI-powered asset management, “suggesting U.K. investors see Canadian tech as both promising and a natural gateway to North American markets,” said Maria Solovieva, an economist with Toronto Dominion Bank.
“With Canada pursuing more incremental engagements with other partners, including the most recent PM’s announcement of visits to India, Australia, and Japan, we may see a more diversified flow of direct investment towards the second half of the year. A trend worth watching,” she said.
Oh, I meant what the advantage would be of tracking TPMS sensors instead of using a camera to read the license plate. I can see the advantage of tracking people.
It seems easier to set up a camera and scan the license plate for identification instead of using radios for logging TPMS sensors.
Would it be an advantage to identify a car by logging the TPMS sensors?
Qwant on my computers and DDG on my mobile.
To make it even more scary, it is accelerating. It has increased 75 ppm in 30 years and it was 40 ppm in the first 30 years.
Asus and dell are already launching clients to save us.
Removing ChatControl would be very nice but I can’t see that happening within the next 10 years. The politicians are still busy with making Internet worse, social media ban for kids and with that the age verification is just the latest idea and it seems to be implemented or at least discussed in more and more countries. It is only a matter of time before it is an EU law.
I tried Le Chat with the car wash question.
That’s a fun question! Since the car wash is only 50 meters away, walking is definitely the more practical choice. Driving such a short distance would take more time to start the car, drive, and park than it would to simply walk over. Plus, you’ll save a bit of fuel and avoid any unnecessary wear on your car. If you’re already outside and the weather is nice, it’s a great opportunity for a quick stretch!
However, I also asked it with a slightly different phrasing and then the result was different. At least it replies that it might make sense to drive there.
I need to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away from my house, should I drive or walk there?
That’s a fun question! Since the car wash is only 50 meters away, walking would be the most practical choice—it’s just a short stroll, and you’d avoid the hassle of starting your car for such a tiny distance. Plus, you’d save a bit of fuel and get a little fresh air! But if you’re planning to wash the car yourself and need to bring supplies, driving might make sense. Are you using an automatic car wash, or are you doing it by hand?
My company laptop had both Edge and Chrome installed the first time I started it. Edge is the default and the one with an icon on the taskbar. I’m convinced that most people, at least outside engineering, will use Edge as their main browser.
Luckily for me I have the “Local admin” access so the first thing I do is to download Firefox and set it up as my default browser. On the time reporting site I get warnings that my browser is not Chrome, but it still works without any problems.
It’s nice to try to reduce the cost for the citizens but with less tax money some other tax needs to be increased or some service will have to save money.
Dimmitt also said that because the bulk of property taxes go to schools and other jurisdictions, local governments rely on sales taxes to fund police and fire departments, road repairs, trash and recycling, among many other services.
In most companies in Sweden it is fine to speak English. In a company that develops an app I would even assume that everything is in English except for the legal stuff.