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5 years after promising to restrict vaping flavours, it's unclear whether Canada will
The federal Liberals have said since 2021 they'll restrict vaping flavours nationwide, but now Canadas health minister wont say when or even if it will still happen despite widespread expert advice a ban could help curb the country's staggering youth vaping rate.

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New Brunswick should be required to revisit its drinking water guidelines every time Health Canada issues new advice, a witness told a legislative committee on Thursday.

B.C. medical regulator heads to court to stop 'Cancer Guy' from dispensing medical advice
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. is seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the founder of a popular online "personalized cancer care and precision oncology service" from assessing patients and dispensing medical advice.

A asked me for the one piece of I wished Id gotten. I didnt have a good answer, so I asked my friends. Heres what they said:

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But not having a backdoor is not the only issue that breaks this security. You also have to make sure that your system isn't going to snitch on you. You should avoid having any closed source software, and also avoid having any Chromium-based programs or browsers installed (such as Google Chrome, Google Chromium, Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Microsoft Edge, React, etc) outside of a locked down virtual machine, as not all open source software is safe for this. There is a level of privacy and safety needed. If partially closed source software (such as Firefox, a few of its components out of its control are closed source) can't be avoided, choose the software with the least closed source components, and go for trust (Firefox is falling out here, I will need to replace with Waterfox, or another browser soon)

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Naeema's family can't receive donations for now because its on hold on GoFundMe

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Pedro Gonzalez: "Democrats could and probably should do in Virginia what Republicans did in Ohio after the Ohio Supreme Court ruled its congressional map was an unconstitutional gerrymander: do it anyway."

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The good people at Lenovo didn't see fit to put any USB-A 3.x ports on the back of this machine, and only one USB-C port on the front bezel. This is one of those LOQ Towers, so it's actually quite something to behold, and I hate the way cables coming out of the front of it looks.
If I wanted to solve this very decidedly first world problem, and I haven't had my hands inside a computer since the early 2000's (except to bust dust), I would need some advice.

It's PCIe now, I know that much looking at Windows device manager. What version is relevant to my purpose and how do I figure that out
The only other thing in the stupid thing is a NVIDIA RTX 3050, which is a bit of a chonker. It doesn't look like there's another PCIe slot that it's obscuring. Even if there were, it doesn't look like I could move the support bar for it down any further. This seems to foreclose expanding the USB port situation altogether
I found an empty four-pin connector on the board labeled USB. Is this another way to the USB hub on the motherboard What does that rabbit hole look like

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I've got to have a new powered, table-top USB hub, regardless of the outcome with the port expansion in the tower. I like Anker. I'd love some thoughts on that.

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What on earth makes a USB PCIe card so expensive
I though port austerity was a Mac thing. What is the rationale behind putting zero USB 3, a paltry four USB 2, and no USB-C ports on an ostensibly full-size tower in 2023

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Advice from the radio: If people notice that you don't have enough brains, a forehead that's like a knurled, and two fingers long, you can eat a couple of chins, grow a beard, and it will seem that you have a very big head, and then they can forget about both brains and foreheads (the photos are illustrative - the first thing that came to the authors' attention, and do not relate to the personalities depicted in them)

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Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for allowing a (user created) chatbot to represent itself as a licensed doctor Character.AI sued over chatbot that claims to be a real doctor with a license

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AVOID SMOKE - Bouldercombe (near Rockhampton) - fire as at 1:05pm Friday, 8 May 2026 (IF39-5714921)

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"Groundbreaking" from the prophets: stop installing software! But wait... isn't standing still in the like asking a shark to take a nap Congrats on the revolutionary idea, surely the hackers will just... give up

Via : "Pennsylvania has sued an chatbot maker, saying its chatbots illegally hold themselves out as doctors and are deceiving the system's users into thinking they are getting from a licensed professional."

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What Writers Can Learn From The Short Film That Launched a $1 Billion Franchise

Selling, Not Selling Out Write me a low-budget screenplay that launches a $1 billion dollar franchise. A producer said this in a room full of writers I was in, back at the very beginning of my career. To say it landed with me BIG TIME is an understatement. It made me realise that story is Read More What Writers Can Learn From The Short Film That Launched a $1 Billion Franchise
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