Im using Teksavvy, it’s about $65 bucks for 40/10 dsl, no bandwidth limit, for the past 7 years. It’s not fast, it’s not cheap, but they don’t block incoming, and they don’t change the price. It’s worth it to not have to deal with bell or rogers.

Oh boy, a whole 4 million. Hey didn’t Canada dump more than 20 billion into oil and gas last year?

To be fair, no one asked for businesses to pump billions into the crypto-bros who had piles of GPUs laying around after their first grift fell through.

And stop trying to 1984 the internet.

Good. AFAIK the screwworm fly doesn’t reproduce in cold climates, maybe Canada can put some pressure on the US by cranking up the price of exported beef.

i know people like this. they don’t have a clue how terrible AI is for everything

They’re called management.

Canada was created to, and will always be, an economic machine to extract resources and labour from North America.

I was never trained on the operation of that machine.

Paywalled shit source.

At least 3 times a week I hear some middle manager tell me that “AI is going to replace everything!” I 100% agree that LLMs can replace micro-managing money-holes but that’s only because those are parasitic non-jobs to begin with. A middle manger is someone who can not DO anything useful but also can not make any decisions without their boss’ approval.

Actual productive Canadians, who have to do something with their hands or create something with their minds are not replaceable. They are not machines who generate easy to read e-mails or nicely formatted document summaries. They are skilled humans who have years of experience that has not been included in an LLM, because it has never been included in some publicly accessible website or database.

Yeah, they are thinking of 2000s xbox live chat. It’s been a while since then.

The Epic store sucks ass, the EA store sucks ass, Nintendo hates it’s fans more than Trump hates women.

As a counter example, Mincraft is a stand alone game, it came out long after Steam was established and it runs on Linux as well at it does on Windows.

If independent games came with a launcher/update experience as good as Minecraft I would have no problem buying outside of the Steam ecosystem.

Have you met middle management? I’d take an LLM running on a Core 2 Duo over the decision making skills of someone who thinks an A3 sheet of paper can solve every problem.

LLMs can not replace actual productive humans but I will not shed a single tear if they wipe out the e-mail spamming, bean counting, micro-managing twits, who desperately want “AI” to improve their “workforce.”

Creating tons of needless ewaste and forcing users to re-buy otherwise working devices.

To be 100% un-trackable you need to put your phone in airplane mode or turn it off entirely.

His hobby is yachts, which tells you how well Steam is doing for him.

Chinese law mandates that Chinese auto manufactures participate in international espionage, collect and and all data required by the Chinese administration and to not admit to any of it for any reason

The US government can compel US automakers hand over data but they can’t compel them to collect specific data or to track an individual in Canada.

China is an adversarial nation, they have interfered in Canadian elections, they installed secret police in Canada, they take Canadians hostage when we refuse to comply with their demands. It’s incredible that we have basically put all of our manufacturing eggs in the basket of a man with a penchant for extorting and murdering his neighbours.

They can correlate data from many cars to track a person who does not own or use a Chinese car. When you have 100k war drivers you look for a particular mac address being pinged over and over by your fleet.

So you get close to your target at some social or diplomatic event, record all the macs you see then look for them to show up on your war driving fleet’s logs. Each car will only collect a few MB of data per day, so little that it won’t be significant compared to normal useage.

You can track phones by their bluetooth mac even if you dont connect to anything.

You’ve never worked construction.

Isn’t that how it’s always been?