Lol this is ridiculous after last week's comment from trump

“Well, it’s OK. That’s what he should be doing,” Trump told reporters Friday at the White House. “If you can get a deal with China, you should do that.”

https://www.ctvnews.ca/...

I'm worried our multiple parties could disappear after this election :( I understand why it happened but I hope the trend doesn't continue to a two party liberal vs conservative system in Canada

I think he's referring just to the letters OGC in the font they chose.

Last year I moved from Ontario to Spain so avoiding American products has been pretty easy at the grocery store. The main thing has been cancelling online American services like Netflix, Amazon, Google one, Youtube Premium, etc.

Why can't we just use banking websites? You don't need an app ecosystem for that. They just need to build a responsive website that will work on a computer or phone. If you have bank to bank transfer (like e-transfer in Canada) that can be done from the mobile website as well.

Payment like NFC payment is a different story. I suspect its unlikely we ever see that.

I thought that was strange to but here's what they say on their website that makes it sound like you wont be charged for DDoS or bots

How We Count unique IPs (UIP)

The total number of unique IPs is tallied based on total number of legitimate individual IP addresses at the end of the calendar month. If a reader visits your website every day from the same IP address, that will equal 1 unique visitor for that calendar month, no matter how often they visit your website.

Unique is fair

Other providers might charge you based on website hits, website visits, megabytes of bandwidth, services offered and many other metrics. Some providers charge premiums during attacks. We opt for fair, consistent and predictable low-cost pricing that serves our clients fairly. Malicious bots or traffic generated during an attack are not something that you will pay for either, as these IPs will not be counted in your monthly pricing.

Just had this recommended the video of the presentation recommended to me in my youtube feed this morning. Cory brings up a lot of good ideas in his presentation. Countries like Canada and the member states of the EU should really look at removing laws forced upon them by US free trade agreements. Free trade with the US is gone so why should we keep laws like copyright anti circumvention.

I really hope this idea takes hold a countries start selling that a future without the US as a superpower is inevitable. We can't rely on the US or US business for any of our critical infrastructure.

I think he's just a capitalist banker with agenda to push capitalist friendly policies but in the context of how he compares it to rules based order (a potentially good thing) I don't think this is what he meant. He says we pretend we have rules based order because it was a good thing even though we know at heart that strong powers can act outside the rules. The shop owners pretend the workers are united (a good thing) even though they know the government is corrupt and does not support the workers.

100% Agree, I thankfully have a local grocery store close to me so I can avoid the big 3, but this isn't a realistic option for everyone. I'm hesitant to just buy online for things like produce as my experience with them has been mediocre (I haven't tried costco though).

This really isn't a problem the everyday Canadian can fix without the government stepping in and breaking up the monopoly of Loblaws, Sobey's and Metro.

I'd love to see a future Canada where there was more local grocery chains, with the same access to product that the big three have. Also would be great if they were closer to where people lives so people wouldn't feel like the need to drive to get their groceries.

Its a stretch but I'm hoping with a liberal minority there is chance the NDP could advocate for electoral reform as negotiation point. Its a stretch but I feel like its the only way it could happen.

Would be really happy if Canada was a future EU member 🤞 but this doesn't instill much confidence https://www.politico.eu/... 😔

I agree that having all the commentary in private by default is not ideal for open source. the email verification idea is interesting since it gives you the benefits of not having to create an account.

To me the article was interesting because it points out ways that git "just works" that people might not realize. Like that you can just create a bare repo and upload to that.

It would be great if it did have “weeooo weeooo” to drown out the propeller noises 😂

Very coincidental that you just posted this. I've been looking into p2p apps and Nostr caught my attention. Unfortunately like most p2p stuff it seems that most people using it are crypto affliated which is a big turn off.

The more I looked at it though nostr didn't seem that interesting to me as a protocol compared to other p2p protocols like ipfs, Yggdrasil, i2p. Manly because it still seems to centralize around relays and the effectively ended up being your server. From my understanding its easier to move from relay to another since you can publish to multiple relays and your identify is just a key pair so your ID is "portable". The big thing I see from Nostr is a priority to build apps on top of their protocol, compared to the other p2p protocols.

I think it would be neat if there was a non crypto affiliated social media platform built on top of a p2p protocol that did the following

• Use key identify system so your ID is portable and not tied to a single identity server
• All data is locally stored on your machine by default with the option to pin it to a server similar to the ipfs pinning servers
• Since it p2p, built with the idea that your peer maybe offline and queue sharing posts until they are online. The pinning servers could also act as an always online client for you to store messages. Like a bouncer in IRC
• No public feed, since it would be a moderation nightmare, you can only see what your followers post and what they reshare. Probably there would be feeds from trusted people you could subscribe to. This shared feeds could be a great way to build communities like in the fediverse
• Built on a p2p protocol that handles thing like NAT punch through and peer connection so anyone's device can act like a peer without needing some server to relay messages to them, or having to port forward on their home connection. Nostr doesn't appear to do this, since it relies on all messages passing through (and hosted by) relay servers. So your own device can't act as a peer on Nostr.

These are the things that would make p2p social media more interesting to me than activitypub. Sadly as far as I can tell Nostr isn't really this, and I'm pretty sure none of the other protocols I mentioned have build an app like this on top of them.

off topic but I wonder where that radar picture came from that it has the canary islands on them 😅

IIRC only Synapse supports video/voice calls and only Element & Element X reliably work for video/voice calls.

So just sync over local wifi basically? I'm pretty sure you can do thing with syncthing if you just disable "global discovery". You can read the local discovery protocol here https://docs.syncthing.net/... but afaiu there is no cloud sync involved at that point and just device to device sync.

you're probably right as to why.

I'll note that on my gaming desktop I decided to try out Debian instead of my usual choice of Fedora and its worked fine for gaming with latest gen CPU and GPU. I did install the steam flatpak which will have a newer version of Mesa. I think this is a good middle ground for a system you don't want to mess with too much.

Yeah I didn't hear about it at all. Too bad it seems it was only for high schoolers.

Do you know if there is a more up to date description of xmpp e2ee without having to read the spec. Specifically interested in stuff like how much metadata is leaked.