Cory Doctorow thought that through: https://pluralistic.net/...

Good. This law is ridiculous and I'm glad it won't give the result they intended. Being able to link to things freely is a very basic part of the web, we really shouldn't mess with that. And Facebook is a ridiculous place to get news from so it may have ancillary benefits as well in terms of maybe slightly improving public discourse and encouraging people onto other platforms with more transparency around their content weighting and data use practices.

The proposed changes follow the government’s loss of a court battle, initially launched by Global News, over the call logs for Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business.

They published this in Popular Mechanics in 1912, we've been ignoring this for a long time:

The furnaces of the world are now burning about 2,000,000,000 tons of coal a year,” the article reads. “When this is burned, uniting with oxygen, it adds about 7,000,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere yearly. This tends to make the air a more effective blanket for the earth and to raise its temperature. The effect may be considerable in a few centuries.

https://books.google.ca/...

Also, this Wikipedia article has a good summary on the overall arc of our understanding: https://en.wikipedia.org/...

And we're happy to cooperate by signing our own version of that into law since there's an underlying treaty behind this warrantless data sharing: https://citizenlab.ca/...

I hope we can find a way to fulfill our treaty obligations with something that's not as terrible as the current one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/...

And not just any Americans. They're owned by Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund associated with the Republican party that also owns a notably Postmedia-like publication: The National Enquirer (via a360) https://en.wikipedia.org/...

https://explainshell.com/

The new version of Recall is now opt-in rather than opt-out – I got prompted to enable Recall immediately after installing the Insider Build.

This seems to be the important bit, hopefully it stays opt in.

It's just the building, seems fine really but like, maybe less of a non-event than the almost no attention it appears to be getting.

Or you mean the part where Bell unnecessarily routes Canadian traffic through the US just cause they can get paid more that way? Ya that doesn't seem good to me either but has been widely known for years now and apparently we're okay with it.

Don't pilots need to keep up their skills by getting in flight hours? So perhaps this expense is somewhat offset by fewer practice flights?

I got a nice deal on the x280 and am happy with it, was also looking at the various X1 carbon. Two criteria I had were I wanted USB-C charging (since I have those chargers around and they can handle these laptops) and a single battery (eg. the T470s I have from work is nice but it has two small capacity batteries that each cost the same to replace as the full size single ones in the carbon and x280). One thing to keep in mind is some of the earlier X1 carbon don't support NVME SSD (I think it started with 5th gen?)

Edit: another thing to consider is soldered RAM. Part of why my x280 was cheap was it's only 8gb and can't be upgraded. Since you're looking at lighter weight things and using FOSS (and perhaps open to tinkering with things like ZRAM) that might be a useful aspect to focus on because there is probably a glut of such machines given how memory inefficient things are lately with every trivial app running a whole browser engine. OTOH, depending how many tabs you tend to have open and how many electron apps you tend to keep floating around, 8gb might start to feel cramped. Especially if you think you might want some VMs around.

Thanks, that's encouraging and very relevant. Looks like it was introduced in Android 10 and aside from "Project Mainline" is referred to as "modular system components": https://source.android.com/...

Can you shed more light on what someone would be risking by continuing to use an EOL device? You say you don't advise it, but it'd be helpful to elaborate on why.

It seems like the increased vulnerability would be relatively limited: I presume the browser and messaging are by far the most common vectors and those would be as up to date as ever but I can see how exploiting an unpatched vuln there on an unsupported device could have more impact as it would give more options for privilege escalation.

Otherwise it'd be something RF based. Aside from widely publicised things like BlueBorne (that we should be keeping an eye out for anyway), is it a reasonable concern that there are identify theft rings employing people with modified hardware wandering around subway systems trying to exfiltrate credentials from devices with specific vulnerable basebands? Seems like Android also offers some defence in depth there that'd make it unlikely enough to ensure it wouldn't be worth their while?

There are a few technologically disinterested people in my life that I advise (as is no doubt the case for many here) and I don't know how strongly to push for them to get new devices once theirs fall out of support. Most of them are quite content with what they're using and are not in the habit of installing apps (and will reliably ask me first) so they really would be replacing the device solely for the updates. In some cases it's not only the time and effort to decide on a replacement and get things transferred over but the expense can also be a burden. So I don't want to raise the alarm lightly.

they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS

Whoa. Anywhere to read more about this? Had not been paying close attention, didn't realise that was so starkly the case.

Sure, and this is a Canadian company roasting Ethiopian beans (as far as I know we don't grow coffee). There are many things we don't make here and even for those we do the supply chain likely intersects with the US.

Another example this had me thinking about is close to your goals: a Canadian baker making bread from Canadian wheat might use a mixer or an oven or whatever as part of that where the only way to get parts is from a US distributor because it's too niche a thing to have a Canadian presence.

Great, thanks for this. I did glance there but saw the migrations and blithely presumed I'd have to run them to see the resulting schema.

And ya, there's no way I can connect to an instance without revealing my IP to whoever controls that host, I'd be on a VPN if I was that concerned. Mostly just wanted to confirm someone with a self-hosted instance and a script kiddie hobby wouldn't be able to directly mess with the system of whichever hapless commentor says something they take umbrage at.

More detail / similar concepts if you're not a video person: https://www.centerforbuilding.org/...

Just because we want thoughtful regulation does not mean we support Meta and Alphabet. Why is this fascinating or surprising? Do you think the EFF is a huge fan of link taxes or Facebook?

Why can't both be true? Inequality is increasing and one tech/finance/etc. person expensing delivery near daily offsets quite a few people who might have put in an order every month or two and can no longer afford the luxury.

neutrality/cooperation with China and Russia,

the reality of Russia’s claims of self defense

...WTF? There are way too many Canadians with ties to Ukraine, myself included, that would be offended at the very idea of anything but utter condemnation of Russia's inhumanly brutal invasion. How can an invasion ever be "self defense", that's absurd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/...

How can abducting children, laying siege to residential areas, rape, torture, etc. be self defense? It's not. It's abhorrent. Russia is worse than Trump.

To my understanding the bill is about payment for links.