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.

That whole country deserves to exclusively fly on Boeing 747Max planes.

Far from impossible, I’m doing it. Living in the UK, everyone uses WhatsApp, but lots of people are also on Signal. When they hear that I won’t use Meta products, everyone always says: “I understand, good for you” and about 20% of them will either find me on Signal or install it it find me there. The other 80% talk to me via text or email. It’s inconvenient, but still quite doable.

Defeatism is how you cede ground to the bad guys.

“Now you too can make it easier to pay big tech companies to sell your work back to you!”. No thanks.

I understand why you’d want to avoid MIT, but as someone who generally favours the AGPL for everything I do, I’m curious why you opted for the EUPL instead.

Just get one of these and set everything up in a few browser tabs. Either that or use an OS with workspace support and put the different apps you want on separate workspaces.

In our livingroom, our old laptop runs Arch Linux with GNOME. Jellyfin is on desktop 1, and Firefox is on desktop 2. Firefox runs Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube in separate tabs and switching between all of these is a keyboard shortcut on the above remote. Frankly, it’s simpler than most “smart” TVs I’ve had to work with.

Or just a cheap laptop.

I hadn’t noticed, but now I can’t unsee it.

Given that sort of description I’d bet that it is DNS actually. If you run a DNS lookup from your LAN for your domain, do you get the external IP or the internal one? You can try this with dig in Linux or nslookup in Windows (I think).

If I’m right and you’re getting the external IP even when querying from your LAN, then what you need is either a separate DNS for your LAN or what they call a “split DNS” whe are a your domain server returns a different value depending on the originating IP.

You can check for this by editing your hosts file. If you add your domain and local IP there and then try to ping that domain on that machine, it should work. If you’ve got a small network, you might even just copy the hosts lines between machines (this is what I do for example).

We should rename the entire US “South Canada” or “Lesser Canada”.

For anyone interested, I recently switched from using ty to Pyrefly and so far I’m very happy with the results. Mypy is more comprehensive, but painfully slow. ty delightfully fast, but lacking Django support is a deal-breaker.

Pyrefly mostly supports Django (unless you get creative with custom querysets) and for me, the trade-off is worth it for the performance.

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TIL! This is very cool looking. Thank you!