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  • A Homegrown Cloud: Bell and SAP Double Down on Canada’s Digital Sovereignty

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  • Fuuuuuuuuuck Bell. They hand internet usage data to the US, in bulk, so bottom feeding lawyers can send copyright infringement notices. The only think they are interested in is monetizing yet another shitty situation for Canadians.

    Also, fuck SAP. It has all the features anyone could ever want in the year 1995. Thanks to their wonderful software they only way for me to find inventory is to Ctrl-f a 40K line xlsx and I can't submit work orders between midnight at the head office in Europe and midnight local time.

  • More than 400 RCMP members accused of misconduct

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  • Is your phone listening to you? Ryan George Extra Plus explains

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  • You've never requested your data from google. I did a while ago and found a dozen recordings of my voice from my pocket despite having the voice assistant turned off.

  • Is your phone listening to you? Ryan George Extra Plus explains

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  • No, because I run GrapheneOS.

  • The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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  • I have seen a lot of online chatter that starts with 'but he was a white guy'. Tells you a lot about the average american's view of the world.

  • The calls for a nationwide (US) shutdown this Friday (Jan 30) are growing louder

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  • WTF, I've been doing this for years. I buy a new pc every 10 years, shoes when you can see through them and clothes when mothers start covering their children's eyes as I mow the lawn.

  • Latest ChatGPT model uses Elon Musk’s Grokipedia as source, tests reveal

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  • ‘We miss our best friends’: Las Vegas hotels accepting Canadian dollar at par to spark tourism

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  • "Eat sand, assholes?" Or "Eat sand-assholes?"

    I'm ok with either one.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • China does not want a strong Canada. A strong Canada might speak out about Taiwan and demand change before making trade deals. A strong Canada will look for more ethical but expensive trade partners in Europe.

    The US wants Canada directly for resources, China wants a scared Canada who is willing to take any deal just to get some stability.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • Remember that whole thing where they interfered with elections and were policing expats from China? That never stopped.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • I do around town but a 30km commute to a 12hr shift is not really viable.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • The US could conceivably do the same as I suspect China is doing, but the US government has to approach each manufacture and request or just take the data. Then they have to correlate it and so on. There was a recent writeup where someone found they could make themselves an admin (oops forgot to finish a sentence) on a US manufactures dealer network and use it to locate any vehicle sold since ~2015.

    China has full access to any data collected by any business without red tape, and they are able to compel manufactures to include any feature they want.

    Sure we can trade in raw materials and simple manufacturing but we need to stick to importing technology that was not designed by a country that has and will continue to be hostile to Canada.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • Europe, Japan, Korea. They have their own problems too but it's the USA and China that are actively threatening Canada.

  • way to out BYD yourself

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  • Copypasta:

    We should be reducing our import of Chinese developed technology, “smart” devices, phones, and EVs in particular. Every Chinese business big enough to play at the global scale has the government in it’s power structure. They don’t necessarily dictate business decisions but every bit of data collected is by default accessible by the government.

    Having a significant fraction of a country driving around in Chinese EVs gives an insane amount of information to the Chinese government for free. And it’s not just direct information either like the driver’s identity, with millions of cars on the road a lot can be inferred, like if the parking lots at military bases suddenly fill up on a Tuesday afternoon or traffic between a high value person’s home and an airport gets unusually slow.

    Cars have cellular modems, they have wifi and bluetooth hardware, if a particular person’s device was identified, for example, at a political meeting then that person could be trivially tracked by the dozens of Chinese cars and “smart” devices that they pass in a day. The information could be smuggled home along with all the normal diagnostic, update and service info. It is not in our best interest to let the Chinese government track individuals, be it politicians, expats, or activists.

    This could be done today by the our government, and it is to some extent, to identify, and locate, protesters and criminals by their mobile devices but it takes time and access to equipment and logs that the government does not always own. A competent adversary who owns millions of devices in your country can do in seconds what takes law enforcement weeks to accomplish via conventional means.

    Remember that China was caught operating their own “police” force around the world not long ago, they will take advantage of any opportunity they are given to spy on other countries and gain political control.

    China doesn’t plan for the next fiscal quarter they plan for the next quarter century, and Canada’s resources are in their sights.

  • Quebec says police need power to randomly stop people. Can it convince Supreme Court?

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  • Random auditing of politicians and police. Any politician or police officer caught on their personal phone or otherwise wasting pubic funds should be reprimanded and fined.

    If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to worry about.

  • Russian propaganda outlet RT falsely claims “Canada will declare war on USA for Greenland — Carney”

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  • I would settle for a casual impalement as long as it is slow and televised.

  • Doug Ford slams Canada’s 'lopsided' new EV deal with China

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  • coupling our industry to a burgeoning fascist state

    So instead, we choose to buy from an established dictatorship?

  • Canadian rights group joins international community calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to place human rights at the core of Canada–China relations

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  • We should be reducing our import of Chinese developed technology, “smart” devices, phones, and EVs in particular. Every Chinese business big enough to play at the global scale has the government in it's power structure. They don't necessarily dictate business decisions but every bit of data collected is by default accessible by the government.

    Having a significant fraction of a country driving around in Chinese EVs gives an insane amount of information to the Chinese government for free. And it's not just direct information either like the driver's identity, with millions of cars on the road a lot can be inferred, like if the parking lots at military bases suddenly fill up on a Tuesday afternoon or traffic between a high value person's home and an airport gets unusually slow.

    Cars have cellular modems, they have wifi and bluetooth hardware, if a particular person's device was identified, for example, at a political meeting then that person could be trivially tracked by the dozens of Chinese cars and “smart” devices that they pass in a day. The information could be smuggled home along with all the normal diagnostic, update and service info. It is not in our best interest to let the Chinese government track individuals, be it politicians, expats, or activists.

    This could be done today by the our government, and it is to some extent, to identify, and locate, protesters and criminals by their mobile devices but it takes time and access to equipment and logs that the government does not always own. A competent adversary who owns millions of devices in your country can do in seconds what takes law enforcement weeks to accomplish via conventional means.

    It sounds paranoid but remember that China was caught operating their own "police" force around the world not long ago, they will take advantage of any opportunity they are given to spy on other countries and gain political control.

    China doesn't plan for the next fiscal quarter they plan for the next quarter century, and Canada's resources are in their sights.

    I have made this rant before, I will make it again

  • Ford's permit approvals have driven Waterloo to its water-taking limit

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  • Give it 2 years, when the AI bubble bursts the data centers wont need all that water.

  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world
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    March 14 Lunar Eclipse

    www.flickr.com /photos/nicholas_m/54386723940/
  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    My cat in a running wheel.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Self Built Home Monitoring System

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    First Functional Print

    www.thingiverse.com /thing:6736146
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    First Functional Print

  • Steam Deck @lemmy.ml
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    "Why don't you go outside and play?"

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Repaired and repainted a curbside CRT to match my NES.