pro-China

Weird how a very vocal population of Lemmy and Reddit will shout “China is good now!” When I mention that they are actively and openly trying to manipulate Canadian politics. And how importing boatloads of Chinese developed tech is like putting a spy in every home and business network.

“AI” companies are bleeding money at an ungodly rate. The only people making money ARE the hardware vendors. But also fuck anyone supporting this bubble by using LLMs as a replacement for just fucking thinking.

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Why not add another layer of encryption and authentication on top of existing web platforms. Kind of a wireguard-per-server model that obscures all inspection by unauthenticated users?

You can’t demand metadata from a service if you can’t even tell it’s a service.

Yes, because gamers are ever so slightly more tech savvy than your average project manager. They are fully aware that LLMs and diffusion models are just expensive plagiarism engines at best and slop factories the rest of the time.

Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire.

Tim Hortons pimps that “we are your national identity” shit so hard while using imported labour to sell substandard product at an inflated price.

Canadian Tire is still a Canadian company but the products sure aren’t. The time their inventory spends on the shelf is just a layover between a sweat shop and a landfill.

Alice and Bob both use encrypted email -> communication is safe.

Alice uses encrypted email, Bob is in a country over which Alice’s adversary has no jurisdiction and Bob uses a regular email service -> communication is safe.

Alice uses encrypted email, Bob uses regular email but Alice’s adversary has no idea that Alice talks with Bob because she is the only one being watched -> communication is safe.

The Government of Canada does not respect your rights as a human, in turn, I do not respect their authority to govern my use of technology.

Move to an encrypted email provider that does not have servers in Canada. Set up an account with a VPN that does not have servers in Canada. Plan ahead for a way to pay for these services that do no use Canadian currency.

As long as it is televised on CBC.

He’s a banker. Bankers tell poor people “give us your money, we will keep it safe!” Did you ever trust a kid who tells you “hey, give me your candy, I’ll keep it safe?”

Take the money out of the >20 billion in subsidies for oil an gas, take it by taxing the ultra-rich who are fucking this country over. If the only “reasonable” reaction to pressure by the US is to double down on oil and fuck over the next guy then we already are a US state.

To afford to raise kids I’ll have to work so many hours that I won’t be home to actually raise them, thus producing another tv/ipad raised monster.

NDP would be like a dog with 2 dicks, they would have no idea what to do once elected to power. Though a totally overwhelmed party paralyzed by indecision would still be better than what we god.

I’m mad that the ONLY choices available in Canada are bigots and corporate shills.

You can make an argument that pirating content is morally wrong.

Nothing you can personally do is a crime compared to what a CEO does between his morning coffee and morning shit. Rogers is in the process of laying off 12K employees, that’s 500 days of work hours PER HOUR of employment being eliminated.

Unless you think you can pirate TV at that scale, you are morally justified in pirating from Rogers.

The prices are pretty depressing for being in the most densely populated part of Canada.

Someone is about to get a wicked fine for not making sure that the railing and walking surface was not bonded.

There’s a queuing area at the bottom of that ride with railing and when they made contact with that, that’s where the incident occurred for a brief time

There is a whole chapter of the Canadian Electrical Code dedicated to pools, tubs, and spas. And I would put my money on 68-058 1)

The metal parts of the pool and of other non-electrical equipment associated with the pool, such as piping, pool reinforcing steel, ladders, diving board supports, and conductive infrastructure within 1.5 m of the pool, shall be bonded together and to non-current-carrying metal parts of electrical equipment such as decorative-type pool luminaires and lighting equipment not located in a forming shell, forming shells, metal screens of shields for underwater speakers, conduit, junction boxes, and the like by a copper bonding conductor.

While everything may have been bonded at the time of construction, water corrodes metal, particularly when there is current flowing though it due to moisture.

He was allowed to give up at any time. He kept pushing the rock because he had pride and thought he could do an impossible task.

Charge the parents. These parents created this kid and whatever fucked up problems that lead to this.

There aren’t enough mouth breathers with radar guns to cover every street in Ontario. Photo tickets worked, not instantly, but over time seeding was reduced.