The surprising part is that this government is so eager to trample all over moral principles and constitutional rights in order to give cops and spies literally everything they want.

Proposing a bill including new powers to open everyone’s mail and everyone’s computers too was the first thing they did when this session of parliament opened, which bill seemed as if it might’ve been written by the Trump CIA or something. But no, it looks like our new prime minister himself really is into that sort of thing. Too bad nobody found out about it before he got elected.

Our strategy is guided by four pillars:

• There is no credible path to net zero

• Burning fossil fuels is strength

• Strength is power

• We have the power so fuck you

Okay I hate the “grid view” so much that I actually figured it out. You have to add “pref_key_tab_view_grid” in fenix_preferences.xml and set it to false.

Between that and realizing that you can configure it to show visited links in a different colour like normal, Ironfox is my new favourite android browser. Maybe the only acceptable one I’ve found.

“When it comes to genomics and understanding the aesthetics of crops …”

Um… aesthetics? Did he say something else and get misheard?

You are not authorized to access bug 2038575

Wow, they finally fixed “other issue in the JavaScript Engine component.” Good job everyone. I wonder what it was.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.

On that small detail — I was calculating the % change from December 2025 to the latest month.

The official numbers aren’t hard to find, so why not use ones that are directly comparable to the (probably wrong) claim you’re responding to?

So far this year the CPI is up by 1.5% (or 0.7% seasonally adjusted which would be a 2.8% annualized rate) over the three months they’ve measured so far as of the latest from statcan. The “shelter” component is up by 0.2%. The correspondence of those figures with the actual “cost of living” is somewhat dubious of course, and I too am curious where the 6.1% came from.

Edit: Had to correct the annualized rate because I am bad at numbers.

What a headline. Average rent fell by 5% in the year ending April which is a pretty big decline. It did not fall by 5% in April which had me wondering for a moment if I’d missed some catastrophic event putting an end to life as we know it much more quickly than expected.

You see Lemmy, when a cabinet minister and an oil company love each other very very much, sometimes they just want to start laying pipe without worrying about the consequences.

In addition to doing serious harm to Canada’s security and its international standing, this bill would do lasting injury to the reputation and legacy of this government and its prime minister. If it passes, we could be stuck with the results for a very long time. This is not one that will be quickly forgotten; the disaster will take years to play out.

If your MP is Liberal, perhaps they can be persuaded to help spread the word about it among their fellows if not in public, for the good of their own party.

When The Witcher 3 came out I had the money and bought it shortly after release at a local shop, because my net connection then was way too slow to download anything measured in gigabytes.

I think it was a set of 3 CDs. I took them home, started installing, and then found out that 3 CDs was nowhere near enough and it wanted to download somewhere in the 10s of gigabytes before I could play. It took about three days.

Remember, just because the USA and Russia are all in favour of it that doesn’t mean Alberta separatism is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea no matter what they say.

An X.com link to someone blathering about an imaginary “partnership with China”? I can’t be bothered to dig for anything meaningful in this puddle of murky effluent.

A quick grep | wc of the Wikipedia list of Toy Story characters suggests that they’ll run out somewhere around the year 2120 if no new Toy Story movies are made. Perhaps Debian should start getting its movie studio department working on a new one before then, just in case.

Storing data in Canada won’t make it any safer if Bill C-22 (formerly part of C-2) passes and leads to a data-sharing agreement with the United States.

One thing you might want to mention in your letter to your member of parliament is that this bill would not only endanger Canadians, it would hurt Canada’s international reputation as well. The whole world would have good reason to think of Canadian electronic service providers as less trustworthy.

It may be true that Canada is behind some of its peers when it comes to spying on its own citizens and making secure communications illegal, but this bill would go beyond “catching up” and would put our country near the top of the list of the worst offenders among countries normally thought of as democracies.

What could possibly go wrong?

Noise? Traffic? Parking? Endless construction? Corruption? Wasted investment? Climate change? Opportunity cost of not doing something more useful with waterfront property? All I know is Doug Ford’s in favour of it, so it must be a bad idea.

Congrats to GameStop on being described as “struggling” when I would’ve expected “defunct” by now.

Them going “retro” makes sense to me. I happened to be near one of their locations the other day and remembered that the last time I went in there it was to ask if they still had a bin full of second-hand PS3 discs somewhere. All I got was a succinct “no.”