Honestly? Gentoo. It’s got a steep learning curve, but the docs are great and after your first install, you’ll know more about Linux than most users.

I really enjoyed Elizabeth May’s “Losing Confidence” if you’re into nonfiction.

I’d be more upset about this if cars were also fitted with speed limiters.

and I don’t see any value in limiting classification to the domain level. How would one classify wikipedia.org in this scenario? Would it not make more sense to define an open standard that’d leverage this system but allow domain managers to define it themselves?

To take my university.tld as the example, that university might host a file called at https://university.tld/ocs.json that looks something like this:

{
  "/": "EDU"
  "/math": "MAT",
  "/journalism": "JOU",
}

(Heads up to OP: there’s no journalism in your current spec. That feels like an oversight.)

This would allow the high-content site admins to classify parts of the site differently. The /ocs.json file might even be dynamically generated for complex sites like Wikipedia.

I’m curious as to why you’d limit this to the domain level. A university for example might have thousands of URLs in it with wildly different subjects:

• university.tld/math/student-name/thesis-on-mathy-subject/
• university.tld/journalism/student-name/big-story-about-politics

How would your system account for this?

You’re making a lot of assumptions that have yet to be backed up with evidence. There have been a lot of inventions that people claimed were revolutionary and “here to stay” that have since been confined to history has a bad idea: blockchain and NFTs most recently, asbestos & DDT somewhat further back. Just because boosters like yourself have drunk the kool-aid is not sufficient evidence for your claim.

But that’s beside the point. The Canadian government doesn’t need to pour public funds into “AI” for it to succeed. Indeed if it’s as revolutionary as you claim, the public will spend their own funds or demand their taxes cover it… but they aren’t, are they? The public overwhelmingly hate it save for base entertainment. That’s not revolution, it’s very expensive porn, temporarily subsided by billionaires.

The cost of “AI” is astronomical, and I’m not just talking about the finances. The environmental cost is civilisation-crippling, and the benefits produced so far amount to [checks notes] a net loss in the hundreds of billions of dollars, stolen culture, skill atrophy, loss of agency, oh! and psychosis.

Put the kool-aid down friend and try looking at this more objectively. It’s a non-solution for a problem we don’t have that’s causing incalculable harm. Public money should not be funding it.

Back in the days when WordPress started out, 1GB of RAM was a lot! You’d be surprised what you can do when you’re just running a server.

Coffee of Doom!

It sounds like a pretty cool project, thanks for sharing! As a browser-based project designed to run offline, you might want to consider shipping it as an electron app.

She’s 100% correct here, I’ve seen it myself in discussions here on Lemmy too. Any criticisms of Carney and his policies are met with accusations of American support by people who appear to view politics like a zero-sum game.

Autocracy and surveillance are not requirements for socialism. Indeed FLOSS is basically communism for software of you think about it.

This community has a lot of China boosters who like to paint the country as some sort of idealised socialist utopia, but you’re right: it’s an autocratic surveillance state. As Free software is essentially incompatible with the demands of such a state, I wouldn’t say it’s compatible with China. That doesn’t mean it’s incompatible with socialism though.

[LLM executes it to test]

I don’t understand. The DDS is old enough to be out of copyright and patents aren’t nearly as long-lived, so what are these people using to restrict your right to it?

I do appreciate a good recommendation. Thanks, I’ll check it out.

I love this so much. It has very “if nothing you do matters, all that matters is what you do” vibes. Thanks for sharing <3

Weird. You explicitly asked what I thought. Twice in fact. So I guess at least one person does!

I’m not upset. I never suggested that this too expensive for a government spend. I’m pointing out that this is blatant manipulation. I cite the cost of this video as evidence that they wanted to obfuscate their intent while providing the illusion of transparency. I thought I communicated that clearly, but if you didn’t get that, I’ll accept the blame.

Your last comment is ridiculous though. The fact that the Americans want to annex us has absolutely no bearing on whether it makes sense to burn the planet or cripple our economy by throwing billions into the pockets of weapons companies. There is zero long-term benefit to these policies, and incalculable long-term disaster.

What would I have him do? Well I conveniently have a list I’ve been maintaining for a while now. The TL;DR though is to:

• Divest from fossils & embrace renewables
• Stop blowing money on AI
• Form a national housing agency for the federal government to start building homes again.
• Build an alliance of other nations to operate as a trading bloc for countries living up to their climate agreements. Membership in the bloc awards reduced trading friction, while non-members are hit with tariffs.

Or, you know, we can just double down on fossils and ensure that our grandkids live in a hellscape.

The bulk of his plan to build “Canada Strong” (this sort of thing used to be called “propaganda”, now we just call it “marketing”) is to invest in energy oil and gas infrastructure. This in an economic and ecological climate that cannot tolerate further dependence on fossil fuels. It’s been less than a month since Kelowna and Peachland were directly threatened by wildfires, since the country was blanketed in smoke, but by all means, lets burn more oil.

Embracing of AI is another key component of what he’s proposing: a non-solution to a variety of non-problems and a classic example of the decoupling of the economy from what we actually produce. There is no path to a successful economy that runs through such massive investments in snake oil and yet, here we have Carney talking about it like it’s a critical part of our future.

Expanding our military economy is another big part of “Canada Strong”, which sounds like good financial planning until you realise that the return on investment and job creation around military spending pales in comparison to similar investment in things like health care and education.

This video was not cheap to produce. It was shot on-location with talented staff. It was scripted (just look at those subtitles), shot from multiple angles, with professional lighting. It was then run through post production that included charts, graphs, and animation.

This sort of thing is not cheap. If the intent was merely to keep the public informed about the government’s plans, all of it could have been a simple press release. The fact that they spent so much money to produce it tells you that there is intention here beyond merely providing information. Obfuscating that intention has a price tag, and Canadians paid it.

So, for the 2 people who were actually interested in being critical about government messaging and honestly wanted me to elaborate, hopefully this will help. Carney is not here for Canadians. He is here to enrich his friends in the same industries that are literally destroying the world. His careful choice of language to obfuscate this fact, and the heavy spend on production, tell you that he knows that this is unpopular, but that he’s chosen manipulation over better policy.

I’m not trying to be cool,. This is straight up propaganda. He has an agenda of his own which he is intentionally obfuscating. This video has had a lot of effort (and your money) poured into it, attempting to convince you that he is on your side, that he has your interests at heart… which is blatantly false.

Excellent production quality. This is A-tier propaganda. He’s even careful to obfuscate how much of this new development is cooking the planet.