I mean it’s safe to say it was probably the last opportunity to do a protest on that scale even before these changes. Maybe they can still do “remove any post on wellthatsucks that isn’t a vacuum” type of change.

Probably old Reddit imploding will bring a few more this way, but safe to say that most people who left Reddit because it’s changed for the worse since 5-15 years ago have already left. Still, I have seen a few new users join Lemmy after TechLinked mentioned the site and a continuous trickle would be welcome.

On another note, hearing the “council of Reddit moderators” makes me imagine a cringeworthy meetup in someone’s basement.

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying “anything goes if you agree to it” this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

Ok thank you CBC for not bending over backwards for the Conservatives. This is a proper title.

I’m expecting PostMedia oligarchs to publish “Trudeau just barely squeaks by relentless motions of non-confidence”

Thank you to everyone in this community that filled out ISED’s consulatation survey I posted last month

Yeah media outlets need to start saying “Conservatives bring up this week’s false outrage, moral panic and pearl clutching”

“The remote shutdown did not affect these vehicles. They are operating normally, without any failures,” he said Friday on Telegram, per CNN. “You couldn’t ask for better advertising for the Cybertruck.”

Buy a Cybertruck today! Only 1 in 3 chance it stops working after 2 months!

His late brother Rob would say dumb shit like this all the time.

I’ve been saying this is an absolutely bullshit fee, they just put it in without any change to their site. Last time I went to the theatre early to book at the box office just to avoid it.

If Trump wins, we’re gonna be completely fucked in Canada. If Harris wins and the political noise from there starts to quiet down, people will hear Poilievre’s antics more clearly.

Trudeau pleass usurp the Britsh Monarch so we can have your handsome face on our coins thanks.

Sure on the surface going with Elon’s plan may be less costly. But like a deal with the devil, you realize the cost is more than money.

The cost is Elon deciding when his system will actually work for customers

The cost is Elon flouting laws and courts as it suits him

The cost is Elon considering himself above all laws internationally

He is going to put himself over Canadians every single time if we allow ourselves to rely on him. Sure you can have a contract that says keep the price fixed or whatever, but Elon will need to be dragged kicking and screaming to enforce anything.

Let’s save money and have AI control the Nuclear Power Plant, see what happens >:]

The Bloc knows they are in a far better negotiating position now then if an election were to be called immediately. If Cons get a majority as 338 predicts, they will give zero fucks about the other parties.

That’s part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

Imagine if they pulled that on the idle timeout pause screen too…

Honestly we (Canadian media + the public) should just take the nonsense Trump is saying and question the Conservatives here about it.

“Tell me about your concepts of a plan for healthcare.”

“Are immigrants to Canada eating the dogs, eating the cats, and eating the pets of the people that live there?”

“What are your thoughts on Project 2025?”

Welcome to the club!

I really feel this especially related to mobile (cellphone and tablet) communications: (Google Pixel is the only device offering substantial support for alternative OSes, Mobile Payment Processors rely on one of the big names like Google, Apple, Samsung etc., other projects becoming unmaintained and supporting 10 year old phones, etc.)

In the personal (laptop and desktop) computing space we are in a much better place. You are much less beholden to companies’ interest in harvesting data on every aspect of your life.

Sure, we can lament that most people don’t care. But look where we are now: I have daily driven my Linux box for a year to play all the games that are in style with my friends without Microsoft constantly over my shoulder. I’m on Lemmy and other Fediverse platforms, unbeholden to specific corporate policies. I use Beeper which means I don’t have to have Meta apps harvesting interaction behaviour directly on my primary cellphone. I can’t win every battle for my privacy and freedom, but each conscious choice I have that I make is a statement of resistance, and one step of many towards my ideal of the computer world I wish to be in.

It took 4-8 years of US rural voters not caring about things until it affected them before they even started considering that Trump doesn’t care for any American besides himself. In the UK I don’t even know how they lasted in that trance for so long.

My cynical take is that people are going to recognize the destructive effects of a Conservative government only after 5-10 years at the least. If the political blocs don’t change, then we’ll get milquetoast Liberals again. Conservative media will continue to repeat “Liberals bad” enough for people to believe it again.

I have no experience in political strategy, but the only few ways I see of breaking out of this cycle is to

A: adopt a fairer voting system

B: Link the Canadian Conservative Party to the US Republican party, Project 2025 etc.

C: Announce progressive action so bold with near-immediate effects that it makes a difference to their electoral prospects, without appearing like an electoral bribe/promise.

I have heard little interest in A from government, grits and NDP might be waiting until November to do B so they don’t slander people they may be forced to work with, and C is nigh impossible, at least I can’t think of any realistic policy example that could achieve that. A proper UBI might be close.

If you still have Best Before Aug 10 in your fridge I don’t think you would have wanted to eat that anyway.

Um… just put 3 of them layered in each other. -15°C tripled is -45°C, right?