As usual the UCP is all talk and fluff. They’ve been talking about improving this for a long time because it keeps happening and making the news, but they know all they need to do is say they’re working on it and people will forget.
We need to tax these companies more and we need to make them pay for cleanup up front, as other have said. Anything less is doing nothing.
to anyone who wants to argue about how language changes and how words get retired and if we retire this word another will come along: First of all, I don’t believe you in this case. In the past 10-15 years, the word has fallen off in use, and the words that replaced it weren’t offensive in the same way.
I don’t understand why you think this argument, which I’ve heard described as the Euphemism Treadmill, doesn’t apply to this word. Retard is used to describe the slowing of something, like fire, without any insult to people. It’s just a word. As you point out, that word can be, and is, used as an insult which causes harm. However, any word can do that. Take “slow”, which I used above as an example. If it became the new slang insult for people of below average intelligence would you ask that people stop using it? It sounds silly to think of today, but that’s just because we aren’t used to hearing it that way. There’s nothing stopping a new word from taking the place of an old one, and retarded is not special. I guarantee you if people used it to laugh at others or said it sharply it would become just as hurtful.
We used to call people without jobs or shelter bums, then homeless, then housless, now temporarily unhoused. Once everyone is saying temporarily unhoused what will the next word be?
We’re absolutely in agreement that slower people are people too and deserve to be treated with respect. However, the fact that intelligence is a sought after trait that you are ridiculed for not having is the root of the problem, not the word used, and I don’t think this word has some special ability to get around the euphemism treadmill.
I’ll agree that their mobile experience is not great, they don’t support tablet layouts for example, but it still has the best support for ad blocking. I consider that essential for the modern internet.
My big concern is that we’re repeating the Internet Explorer issue all over again, where the web is coded for it instead of standards. Now Google has the ability to strong arm the Internet by not adopting standards, pushing their preferences, etc. Web sites are being coded coded to run on better on Blink than Gecko so it gets worse all the time. If we give up on Mozilla the Internet will fall even further into the hands of big tech.
I don’t get this argument. Mozilla and Firefox is the best we have. Are they perfect, no, but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. They are still a lot better than the alternatives.
It’s obviously important to hold Mozilla accountable, but I worry that all the negativity makes people just stick with Chrome or Edge because they think it’s all the same.
Immigrants are brown people 🙃
Sure, but most people don’t need encode. The start of this thread talks about encoding, but the person you replied to didn’t specify. My guess is they’re just talking about playback.
You don’t need HW acceleration to playback AV1. Maybe they watch most of their content at 720p and are software decoding and it’s been good enough.
While no system is perfect, technology has improved a lot since you were a kid.
For one, like it or not, many phones no longer allow custom ROMs or tampering. But even that aside, network inspection takes way less processing power now so a basic gateway can now handle dynamic block lists, DNS filtering, VPN detection, etc. If properly implemented it could ensure your parent’s use a password with good complexity and require MFA in order to turn it off.
Now, circumvention techniques have improved as well, but cheap cryptography really changes things and it can be used to make a very secure system. I think this is where our effort should be focused, on making sure ISP provided hardware has these options available to parents. It makes much more sense than trying to force this on all endpoints.
If you have a firewall then make yourself a new network and block it from accessing the internet. Then you can use the smart features that your TV might have, such as powering it on/off, controlling it with Home Assistant, etc and also feel safe knowing that can’t happen again. Hope your replacement TV comes with the older firmware and you get another go at it.
If you ever decide to set aside time to tackle a re-install, you should consider setting up a file system that supports snapshots, or since you’re used to only using flatpaks, an immutable distro. Then you won’t fear updates because you can easily roll back as if they didn’t happen.
I don’t understand how people are able to separate livestock from their pets. No one would tolerate their dog being in this picture.
Don’t forget to convert the currency. $5 USD /gal is about $1.50 CAD /L, which is bang for Western Canada and cheaper than gas prices right now in Eastern Canada.
You’re right though, those aren’t the insane prices the original poster thinks they are for countries outside the US.
Again, stop giving them devices that they have full control over. They either shouldn’t have a smartphone or they should have one that you control.
Right, so use them to your advantage? Don’t allow unfettered internet access on the device you give your child. Use MDM/Parental controls to lock its internet access to a proxy or VPN that blocks adult websites, as well as other anonymizers. Business have been doing this since forever.
It’s not on you to know every single website and what it does. All major security providers maintain a classification database of websites that they use to filter the internet. Most major corporations subscribe to those lists, as do schools (I think by law). All you would do is buy one of these services and the blacklist would be managed by them. They’re not 100% perfect, and you child will be able to find a picture of boobs if they try hard enough, but that has always been the case.
One quick and easy way is to change your DNS to 1.1.1.3, which is a public resolver Cloudflare runs which filters out adult domains. This doesn’t scale if you’ve given your child a cellular device that can connect to other networks, but in that case you shouldn’t have done that, or should secure that device with a security solution that can enforce polices across the OS.
Personally I think it should be easier for parents to be able to do this kind of thing without having to learn too much about the tech, but deciding how to raise your child and what to shelter them from is your responsibility. These products have existed for decades. Instead of forcing OS manufactures to confirm ages and identities, we should focus on making sure parents have access to easy to use parental controls.
You’re so close. It’s like you read 1/2 of the detective novel, thought you knew who did it, then got bored and closed it without finding out you were wrong.
It was disingenuous to infer that the minor tax increase you linked to above had any meaningful impact on affordability.
If your second link is accurate then your bigger beef is with the provincial liquor boards as they are levying a tax that is certainly notable.
And then to blame immigrants for unaffordability with the old debunked “taking our jobs” argument is just sad. I hope you eventually step out of your conservative bubble and see that it’s capitalism and class inequality that are the problem, not government and your fellow man.
Charlebois predicts the tax will increase the price of a single beer by one cent, while the finance ministry told Global News in a statement that the amount would be three-quarters of a cent.
Oh no? Even in the worst case the taxes are clearly not the issue.
Beer Canada said since the tax is a production tax imposed on the brewer at the point and time of production, “it is then magnified by other fees and taxes imposed by distributors, retailers, and provinces, including sales taxes,” making the impact on a 12-pack likely closer to 20 cents.
Wow! This one wasn’t on my radar. I had been using Action Launcher as it seemed to be the only other one that could do the swipe folders, but it seems to have been abandoned. I’ll give this a go.