That tracks with my experience

You have to very carefully scope things for them and have a plan for when they inevitably screw up.

No, not I don’t self host my email which is where a lot of the trouble comes from

I don’t remember having any issues with it ever. That was a concern so I did slowly transition to the custom domain

I will say it is fantastic you can run deepseek models locally

Some of the deepseek r1 distills are still the best small models. The 8b ones are good and can run on a lot of devices.

That’s pretty much my setup, it is not super hard to get working, it’s basically just copying and pasting the magic numbers they give you

I don’t want him as PM, but I do applaud him taking the time to learn something new.

Three R’s to deGoogling: Reduce, replace, remove.

I would say start by changing your browser and search engine (lots of options out there today), and then set up your own domain for email hosting so you can try different providers.

There isn’t another YouTube with all that content out there, so that one is tough, but you don’t have to 100% de google, 50% is still good. 15% is still good.

From what I remember they were losing a lot of money, so they’ve mostly switched to opinion pieces that are more likely to go viral and drive subscriptions

No idea of that changed the bias

The star went private a few years ago, the new owners broke up and then the sole owner fired the head editor.

I think it’s still Canadian.

1 mil per house is well above average too.

You can house way more for that price tag.

But hey, we’re spending billions for a spa owned by a foreign company that lied about how many spas they actually run and is definitely lying about how many visitors it can handle

I don’t disagree, but we’re also bent over a barrel right now so I think we do need to do something asap.

Ideally we would have diversified and built a decade ago, but we chose to whine and drag our feet and underinvest in literally everything.

I would be okay with being in the EU

The only drawback would be US tech companies fucking us over — but that’s also a feature since we should be building our own tech anyways.

Sorry the budget is 5.5 times higher than estimated?

What the fuck? That’s fucking massive incompetence

Finally someone thinking of those poor unhoused cars.

OSAP is an Ontario program, Stat Can is federal.

Stat can has been modernizing but they’re still like 10 years behind industry.

Though your point still stands, I’m hetero and still would not want to provide the government a list of my sexual orientation under any circumstances.

It’s been so nice not hearing or thinking about this half flushed angry turd.

A lot of DDOS attacks nowadays are from a DDOS for hire service.

So there could be hacking done, or just a bitcoin transfer.

I switched to Kagi for this and they have “small web” and fediverse search.

They are a US based paid search engine and so far have not enshittified.

They’re one of the few US services I kept (low switching costs, low lock in, and a company I like) despite otherwise boycotting most other US products.

People have been talking about it since Google debuted their instant answers years ago.

Nobody listened or cared.

Weirdly I’m polite to all LLMs, but Gemini sets me off and I end up yelling at it.

Open webui lets you install a ton of different search providers out of the box, but you do need sn API key for most and I haven’t vetted them

I’m trying to get Kagi to work with Phi4 and not having success.