It’s really amazing this talent Doug Ford has to be absolutely wrong about every single thing.

Somebody needs to set up a company that charges double the price of Uber but exists only to give all of the money directly to the drivers. Pretty soon Uber would not have any drivers.

If they make the fediverse illegal, then it will be illegal. There’s not much that can be done about it. Obviously we cannot do “age verification.”

It would look really bad, politically, so they probably won’t go that far right now — they’ll just slowly push things in that direction until it seems feasible.

Those licenses are not free or open source, and thus it is not relevant to this community.

Even if they succeed in temporarily nudging the price below equilibrium all it will do is result in shortages.

Better things they could do include taking 10% of the money that’s spent on highways and putting it towards restoring passenger rail service in this country, creating a crown corporation that makes and sells utilitarian electric bicycles, having the civil service and everyone else work from home as much as possible, prohibiting the sale of new vehicles powered fully or partly by internal combustion engines, and taking six months off to re-evaluate their life choices.

It’s a bad move, even on a temporary short-term basis. In the short run the amount of oil available will be the same, the amount of oil products people want will be the same, and thus the amount of “price rationing” required and therefore the price will be the same, whether the money goes to the federal government or to the oil companies.

I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.

Saying “on the count of three” before you start counting is optimal, in timelines where that tradition is widely known. It’s more words the first time but many people need the time provided by saying them to mentally prepare, and then if you need repeated counts no such preparation is necessary and each one takes only three beats.

To see that this is the end of that regime

Its end is overdue but seems to have been delayed somewhat by an unfortunate American bombing campaign.

Wikipedia: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a Canadian public policy think tank founded in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Among the positions promoted by the Centre are “free markets” and climate change denial. They are part of the Atlas Network of neoliberal think tanks.

Yes, it’s another attempt to blame everything on the handful of idiots loudly complaining about “woke” ideas. Add it to the pile, I guess?

Hooray! Encryption for everyone Encryption for client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface who remember to turn on “additional encryption” option when sending an email.

No mention as to whether it follows any standards or is interoperable with anything else in the world.

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Yeah, I was somewhat dismayed to see Little Snitch getting so much attention on mastodon despite it not being free software. I don’t see the appeal.

OpenSnitch does the job quite well. Things in debian are mostly well-behaved, but it’s caught quite a few games running under wine that were up to no good.

Far behind what, exactly? This question arising from the headline isn’t answered in the article except by saying it’s far behind what the most hawkish war nerds they could find would like to see. The CBC here simply repeats uncritically everything they are told, including that we are already at war with China, and calls it news.

changes introduced in the 2025 federal budget granting Ottawa explicit authority to disband organizations designated as “terrorist entities.”

It seemed inevitable that if that legislation was ever used, it would be abused. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that participating in terrorism was already illegal, and so this can serve only to harass people who are not doing so. Sure enough it appears to be the case — although if they have credible evidence to the contrary I’d like to see it.

That they snuck it in through the budget document is adding insult to injury. This new government has repeatedly shown complete indifference to the principles of good government that made Canada what it was.

Spoiler: The superpower is the power of friendship and investment in renewable energy.

I am all for giving up oil, in fact I insist on it. I do not think it will give us economic superpowers. It’s going to be costly and difficult, although obviously less so than not doing it.

Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.

If the problem with your old laptop is just that the fan broke, you might be better off just getting a new fan. If you’re near a big city there’s probably a repair shop that will do it.

… although I guess 15 years is a pretty old in computer years. When my laptop died recently I went with a second-hand thinkpad for $300 (edit: not as old as I thought it was, it’s from 2021.) But that was a year ago before prices for everything went crazy.