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  • As much as I can't stand Poilievre, and think he would have sold us up the river, if he's in parliament doing his one-trick attack dog stunts, then Carney will be forced into defending anything that isn't "elbows up." So far, I think many of us have given him the benefit of the doubt with things like the digital services tax and various tariff concessions - it's possible he is acting strategically there - but it's about time he either starts dropping the other shoe or defending himself.

  • Lead was out of most gasoline in the 70s. It is still available in some, for example airports. The big thing about the 90s was that was when teens and young adults didn’t grow up around it. It’s a long term poison.

  • I’ve come to equate AI doomerism with just being cloaked AI boosting. It’s just another way to convince people investors that AI is as powerful as claimed. It’s not.

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  • Lots of interesting discussion, but I’ll add I’ve been plying with https://www.music-assistant.io/

    Integrates all sorts of backends, including everything mentioned here, with streaming to just about any device. Reminds me of MPD back in the day, or at least the promise of it.

  • It makes these kids easy marks for malware.

  • This is a lot bigger than the entertainment industry now. Creeping fascism and the trillion dollar surveillance capitalism industry are hellish bed buddies.

  • Good thing no one will ever think of gloves.

  • When a car is stolen, they typically get to sell another one, courtesy of the drivers insurance policy. They are incentivized to bad security.

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    1. No tracking. Context based ads instead of user profiles.
    2. You are responsible for the content on your pages. If you farm out to an ad network and expose users to malicious scripts, that’s on you.
    3. No pop-ups/overs, animated anything. If it’s taking over control of my screen, I’m not going to tolerate it.
  • Just funnels the data to different people.

  • Gender isn’t part of biology (as a social construct) but the complexity of sex absolutely is.

  • Computers themselves are still pretty fixable.

  • You are rare and these stereotypes are mostly false. Most people in every generation can’t fix a computer. Maybe the only slight echo of truth is that during the millennial childhood and youth, at least in terms of raw numbers, home computers peaked as the main “tech” children were exposed to, so there might be a little more people who are not professionals, but have some extra comfort with them. Still, that’s a stretch.

  • I mean, you don’t have to guess. He’s interfered in a war and turned a social network into his personal bullhorn.

  • If they have electricity, than fiber is practical. For the tiny few that don’t, fine. But even then, for the billions invested in launching these satellite clusters, it just might be cheaper to build a handful of crazy long terrestrial microwave links.

  • You are comparing a backbone to last mile? Starlink relies on that fiber backbone too. Cutting all the last mile fiber in America would be an insanely difficult attack. Satellites are comparatively vulnerable to a great many attacks. They literally fly over the enemy.

  • Isn’t there an army walking the national capital, and masked goons grabbing people off the street into unmarked vans paid for with a budget /almost/ as big as Canada’s entire military?

  • The trouble with starlink is that the actual amazingly practical use-cases for it are not a sufficiently profitable market for it given the insane investment. So they have to convince people it’s a better idea as a rural ISP than demanding fiber.

  • Fourth option: Municipal fiber, but open access to those lines for private ISPs of all types.