Google Contacts, like most of their products, keeps changing and getting worse. Somewhere along the way it deleted all of the street address information from my contacts!

Ideally looking for a tool that checks these boxes:

• Open-source
• Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients
• Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)
• Stores contact info securely (encrypted)
• Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

It seems like a tall order, but KeePass has managed to do that with their password vault, so why not contact info?

Any success stories out there?

Openly sold in ads posted on LinkedIn, X, Adobe and Indian e-commerce sites, before many taken down

The official provider is once again Flobikes - as shitty of a company as ever existed.

Even if they weren't so terrible, they charge $210/year, and that's the minimum subscription window.

So VPNs? Restreaming? Or do we just ignore the greatest bike race on earth again?

Canada should ‘move on’ from Trump’s 51st state remarks, says Pete Hoekstra

Canada should ‘move on’ from Trump’s 51st state remarks, says Pete Hoekstra

So I've got a Ducky One RGB Tenkeyless keyboard, and the doubleshot caps are pretty much worn out. (the homing bars on F and J are undetectable by feel).

I'm looking for a pudding version of the same. Namely:

• OEM profile
• 87 key ANSII TKL layout
• double-shot PBT
• black-capped pudding
• Works with Cherry switches (cherry red, FWIW)

As an added bonus, I'd like to replace the Windows key with something fun - maybe Tux the penguin or Lemmy the lemming, a motorcycle, something other than "We are the Microsoft Borg."

Best I can find so far is the enormous (145 key?!) set from Ducky, which is out of stock everywhere.

In response to the US going off the rails, I'm seeing lots of push to buy Canadian products as much as possible and I love it.

But it's never that simple, is it?

Easiest case: You can buy leather bags and wallets from Adrian Klis. These are made in Canada, by a Canadian company, from Canadian materials (Buffalo hide leather).

Unfortunately, neither manufacturing or ownership are that straightforward most of the time.

• Creemore Springs is a small brewery in Ontario, using local product and brewing locally. AND they're owned by the Molson Coors Beverage Company - a cross-border multinational.
• Likewise, Canada Goose (winter jackets) is now owned by Bain Capital in the USA.
• A lot of us use Melitta filters in our drip coffee makers. Melitta is a German company that manufactures in the USA. (FYI, Technivorm filters are manufactured and headquarted in The Netherlands.)
• Coca Cola is unabashedly American, and has backed militant extremists in other countries; but the bottle of coke you buy in the store likely came from one of their five bottling plants in Canada, bottled by a Canadian.
• Aylmer's soups are Canadian through-and-through. Everything other than soup under the Aylmer brand and logo is now owned by Conagra.
• Everyone knows that Costco is American, but they've also got a long history of paying above average, giving better than average benefits, and standing up to the excesses of capitalism and fascism.
• Of course, "Canadian" is no guarantee of "good" either for products or for companies. Loblaws has spent decades gouging customers (often illegally) and Shopify's executives are advocating for a Canadian DOGE.

I'm not suggesting for a second we throw our hands up in the air and give up, but I'd like to see a bit more clarity on all of the "Buy Canadian" lists.

• Country of manufacture.
• Country of components.
• Company headquarters.
• Ultimate company ownership.

None of this is going to be as easy as "buy the thing with a maple leaf" but we need to be more aware of how we're supporting the US or other economies, either deliberately or inadvertently.

A man convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was arrested in Whistler, B.C., four years to the day after the riot.

Rather than reporting to jail in the U.S., Antony Vo headed north to seek asylum in Canada.

He told CBC News last week that he was hoping U.S. president-elect Donald Trump would pardon him.

CBC has chosen their 15 best Canadian albums of 2025. What do y'all think? What albums would you add to the list?

OK, I had a hard time coming up with a single sentence title, so please bear with me.

Let's assume I have a computer with a perfect random number generator. I want to draw from a (electronic) deck of cards that have been shuffled. I can see two distinct algorithms to accomplish this:

1. Fill a list with the 52 cards in random order, and then pull cards from the list in sequence. That is, defining the (random) sequence of cards before getting them. This is analogous to flipping over cards from a the top of a well-shuffled deck.

2. Generate a random card from the set that hasn't been selected yet. In other words, you don't keep track of what card is going to come up next, you do a random select each time.

Programattically I can see advantages to both systems, but I'm wondering if there's any mathematical or statistical difference between them.

This game...

I love it. I love how true it is to the (Bethesda, et al) spirit of the Fallout series. I love the humour, the clever touches, the obvious love with which it was crafted.

But holy fuck, the bugs. The bugs, the bugs, the fucking quest-breaking BUGS!!!

Also, the "FO4 too easy? We're going to make this incomprehensible" attitude.

Let's consider companions. First companion was Churchill, followed shortly by Archie then Arthur. I was travelling with Arthur when I finished Archie's questline, and then shortly after, I finished Arthur's as well. Then Arthur swapped his massive gun for melee, so I dumped him.

Unfortunately, I couldn't re-join with Archie. After every interaction, he goes into an unclickable merchant menu, and you can't get him to join you no matter what.

Back to Arthur then. I sent him to Biggs Airport, and...he's not there! FUCK!

Kiera? As soon as I didn't sign on, she went to a location I can't yet reach!

Fine, I'll solo it. Except that the Roundels are stuck in the basement of the bar, which breaks THREE SEPARATE QUESTS!

We'll see if 1.02 fixes any of this shit, but I honestly can't play anymore. Everything - EVERYTHING - in the game is broken for me now.