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Aside from the sad news, as a Montrealer, the title confused me.

When I hear about the North Shore it's usually to describe the north of Montreal, as opposed to the south. I thought the title was lacking precision.

Then I read the article, saw Natashquan, and realized 'North Shore' in this context is about Côte-Nord (North COAST).

I didn't know it could be translated to 'North Shore'.

Tssk. It's gonna be Biden's fault. Isn't it obvious?

Just like it was Obama's fault for the invasion of Iraq. And just like it's Justin Trudeau's fault if Russia is not in the G7 anymore.

You gotta stay informed!

So far I considered myself lucky that google only added AI results in English but recently they also started doing it in other languages. I googled in French which train stations had elevated platforms in my city and the AI results were confidently wrong. Entirely false information.

It even added that one of the downtown stations was closed for renovations, which is also false as it has been reopened since December 2024.

And you can't disable it. It's so fucking bad.

I don't know the reference but the sentence reminded me of a stupid situation I was in. So gather round for an anecdote.

I wanted to travel a bit so I booked a hotel in Toronto and took a train from Montreal. However, the day before that, I went for a bike ride and took my health card out of my wallet to only bring this with me. And I left it in the pocket of my exercise shorts. So I didn't have it with me. Also, I don't drive and have no license.

So once in Toronto, it was impossible to get my hotel room because I had no valid ID with a picture. I tried to get another hotel room anywhere, checked with 4 or 5 others, but they all had the same answer. No ID with a picture means no room.

I ended up spending the night outside. I slept on cardboard like a homeless person. Just besides Union Station and the CN tower.

So I guess that if you travel under an alias, don't forget the fake IDs.

If you speak French you can consider Guadeloupe as a possibility.

Of course there's cars everywhere but it's entirely possible to travel there without a car.

There are municipal buses from the airport to multiple cities. There are also ferries to go to the multiple islands. The island of Marie-Galante can be cycled, and is very nice.

I spent a few days in Le Gosier, Pointe-à-Pitre and Grand-Bourg, and I never needed a car.

On the opposite side, avoid SXM.

I was using E16 years ago and liked it but eventually switched to Gnome (2, I think), after waiting for E17 for too long.

What made me quit was the wait. All the other DEs at the time were releasing new versions frequently but Enlightenment took forever.

I was working as a level 1 tech for a consulting company. I had to take calls and monitor the systems.

We had a ticketing system in place where we received alerts and various alarms in there. But because some of my coworkers didn't do anything with these and some systems (and clients) suffered from this, people in management thought it would be a marvelous idea to have those alerts and alarms make a notification in Teams.

So when some random location lost internet for a few minutes, we sometimes had hundreds of Teams notifications.

I quit last month. I couldn't take it any longer.

I hated school because there was a bunch of kids mocking and laughing at me for most of it.

I guess some popular kids had good times by pulling my pants down or constantly hitting my chair during class. They must reminisce and miss those times, when they were laughing with their peers.

That must be why Google’s greenhouse emissions went up 50% in five years. ChatGPT's legendary efficiency.

Keep defending those power wasting glorified autocomplete. In no way are we doomed as a species.

We can just continue tu pump more and more into the air. "AI" will surely find a solution for that anyway.

I usually do. This was from my google news feed, which opens in Chrome. I could have opened it with FF, which has uBlock origin, but it's not worth it.

I just got mildly infuriated when this crap appeared.

I though this was the place for this but apparently not. I'll delete the post and never try posting anything on lemmy again. Have a nice day.

Rice. I know it's common in Asian countries but absolutely not where I'm from.

I'm a francophone and tried to explain that France is not "dépaysant" enough for a vacation and the closest word I came up with is "exotic", but it's not exactly what I want to convey.