a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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let's say an apology is all well and good but maybe you should make an effort to establish the full details of what you're apologizing for, to the extent that living memory and whatever copies of officially destroyed files might be squirrelled away in peoples' attics will allow
like that episode the sirc was writing about, like evidently kearly was some kind of nut but what they took issue with (but evidently gave a pass to) was less than a dirty tricks campaign... the question is what are the ones they didn't write about
let's say one wonders if they'll be writing one of these in 40 years about the events of 2022
How investigating Indigenous activists became a CSIS priority for at least a decade | CBC News

Canada's spies subjected Indigenous activists to a series of “Native extremism” investigations for at least a decade beginning in 1988, in what internal documents show was a countrywide surveillance program that became more intrusive following the resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, or the Oka Crisis.

CBC
what's most interesting is the timeline; it seems like the replacement of mountie shenanigans with csis didn't change much (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_of_Inquiry_into_Certain_Activities_of_the_RCMP )
Royal Commission of Inquiry into Certain Activities of the RCMP - Wikipedia

https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2241953/dene-nation-rcmp-security-service-files

i wonder if an incompetently run clown shoes regional clandestine disruption program would be good fodder for a serial drama; like could you make some kind of dipshit informant going into the most infamous dive bar in the place and announcing to everybody what he's up to actually believable tv? :P

Why Mounties paid 5 informers to spy on Dene leaders: Inside a secret surveillance operation | RCI

Dene leaders say Mounties broke into and bugged office in Cold War-era disruption program

Radio-Canada.ca
for instance by lengthening the text area in some direction where it wasn't supposed to go, you then had to go back and manually fix it
To be clear I'm talking about what it's referring to in "The text workflow is too much of a PITA to do anything longer than a few pages;": pagemaker didn't have a concept of the layout of text separate from the actual text copy filling in those parts of the layout, so if you edited the actual text, pagemaker modified the text object positioning while you did it, which if that broke your layout,

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Traffic Violation! License Plate Reader Mission Creep Is Already Here

A new report from 404 Media sheds light on how automated license plate readers (ALPRs) could be used beyond the press releases and glossy marketing materials put out by law enforcement agencies and ALPR vendors.

Electronic Frontier Foundation