Good to know, thanks for the PSA.

OpenWebUI is pretty much exactly what you’re looking for. It can start up an ollama instance that you can use for your other applications over the network, and chat with it as you see fit. If you have an API key from an outside subscription like OpenRouter or Anthropic, you can enter it and use the models avaialable there if the local ones you’ve downloaded aren’t up to the task.

Somewhere, sometime, ChatGPT is telling the stupidest person in the world “Yes, you are absolutely correct!”

Was that supposed to make sense?

China has no hesitancy of kicking Canada while it’s down and using unfair trade practices to negotiate better terms for their exports. They subsidize the shit out of products they want to build market share for, and dump them until the competition from local and other foreign producers (Europe especially) playing by the rules is gone.

Rona bought Totem, an actual Canadian company, and tried to run them, terribly, until they got swallowed up by their shit brand and are now all gone. I’m so pissed about that, I loved how Totem worked. It had a drive-in lumber yard and staff that cared.

That I could accept as a good reason.

My threat model isn’t having someone take my computer and log into stuff so my concern when using 2FA is more about them having gotten hold of a password remotely. But a TOTP makes that password pretty hard to use, no matter where it’s stored. And my BW is also protected by a Yubi/password combo, so I guess I’m just vulnerable to having that beaten out of me.

Probably not.

Right under Password in the edit screen of an item: Authenticator Key. You put in the auth key the target site provides you when you enable TOTP and it will start generating timed tokens. Usually you’ll also get a one-time pad of backup keys, I usually toss those in the Notes of the edit screen there as well in case something goes wrong.

Yah, I can’t see a point to have another app/extension when Bitwarden has it built in, and it’s a great password manager.

This exact thing is why there is no battery industry worth talking about in NA. Battery exports were heavily subsidized by the Chinese govt and this is where we ended up.

This also happened in solar panels, but even with 165% anti dumping tariffs, no Canadian company could make it work because there was always a route around them.

This willingness to do let them do exactly the same thing in EVs will hurt not only NA manufacturers but the many other countries other than China that are trying to build an EV and compete in a fair market

userns-remap I remember seeing another method that was more manual that would have worked for Podman, but I can’t seem to find it now.

I’ve seen this done with namespaces as well. Which should work for podman.

Serious question; how much does China subsidize EV sales to glut markets and buy market share? I’m guessing it’s non-zero.

I’d love to see canola embargoes open because I have a bunch of bins full, but is this fair to other vendors, domestic and other foreign makers?

Drambuie. Irish Mist.

Plus the FF extension is really full-featured. I can clip in different formats or even take a screenshot if the webpage makes clipping hard.

Man, I like Quillpad but I can’t use the sync. If I enable that, I have to go to NC to delete notes, if I delete them locally they just come back. I guess that’s fine, I only use it for temporary notes anyway, stuff I want to save and organize goes into Joplin.

counter-tariffs on American products that can be replaced with made-in-Canada products works and helps keep jobs in Canada.

Well, you and I and most economists will have to disagree about how tariffs “work”. The local industries they were supposedly protecting either don’t exist or actively dislike tariffs that are supposed to help them. Because a falling tide sinks all boats. Tariffs are inflationary, end of message.

Repealing or delaying the DST was part of the OECD treaty obligations that most of the other countries involved had been doing since it was set up in 2021 with the revamping of the multinational tax treaties. Maybe Trump’s bullshit was the nail in the coffin, but it sure wasn’t the first and they just followed the other 140 countries involved that shut that down last year if they even still had them.

And solar panels have had the 165% tariff (not 100%) from China on them since sometime in the mid teens (https://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/sima-lmsi/mif-mev/sml-eng.html) and we see the incredible effect that has had on the growth of our burgeoning home-grown solar panels industry in Canada, have we not? Because tariffs work, amirite? I hate this tariff with a passion because I’m entirely offgrid and have tried to jump through all the hoops to get my panels at the prices I see on Alibaba, but they aren’t going anywhere because China subsidizes their panels so heavily.

There’s a drummer that has a different beat running through his head than anyone else.