not really. it was a natural progression. with any online movement it always goes undergound > cool > profitable > user blocked > forced. we’re at the forced stage of social media. What I mean by this is at one point we found social media and even LLMs cool. companies decided they needed to capitalize on this cool new tech and make a buck out of so they in turn hammered ads and tracking into everything. the user eventually gets wise and blocks all of this while still consuming the product. So said companies now demand that world governments prevent people from out right blocking them so they can continue marketing to them and selling their data for a profit. They then mask this as “protecting the children”. All you have to do is look at whose financially backing these movements. Surprise, Surprise one of the top backers/lobbyists is Meta.

It moved quickly because it needed to move quickly otherwise the potential for lost profit was massive. LLMs are getting on board with this too because they’re not making any money and their best bet is to “age restrict” their bots so they an sell the users data. and user data from an LLM is INSANELY more valuable than say Facebook user data. Users are more likely to tell a bot things that they wouldn’t admit on social media…and there’s money to be made off that.

but whose the “central authority” that you have to provide your ID to? and what happens when that central authority inevitably gets hacked?

they’re essentially security guards for the TPS. they do jobs that actual TPS officers don’t want to do. So you have special constables for TCHC, special constables for union station/GO transit, special constables that direct traffic, serve summons/warrants, drive people under arrest to court, medical facilities, etc. that’s all they do. it’s a waste of money.

So in this video the fire fighter telling these kids what to do tracks as technically the fire fighter out ranks them. They’re errand boys for the TPS.

nixos generations have saved my ass way more than I’m willing to admit.

because one of their responsibilities is being a glorified chauffeur for people in custody because TPS doesn’t want to do it. thus the reason they have handcuffs.

Special Constables in Toronto really should emphasis the “Special”. these clowns are a joke, wanna be cops that are slightly above security guard status. you see them CONSTANTLY “patrolling” around the low income high rise in City Place. that’s all they do. direct traffic, deliver documents, give rides to the court house.

They’re a collective waste of money which is sad considering TPS is itself a collective waste of money that constantly demands more.

This video needs to go to the media. Special Constables can’t arrest anyone, they’re just chauffeurs. If a TPS cop was there that’d be different as they’d just tell the specials to take them to like CAMH or something. These mouth breathers should not be A. arresting anyone and B. putting them in cuffs without someone on the sunshine list being present to tell them to do so.

ah so don’t buy a netgear router because the US Government will be listening in/watching. got it.

dumbass is just going to treat it like a twitch ban and is looking forward to 6 months from now on his first stream back where he’s going to get a shit ton of viewers and thus a lot of money.

as someone who loves me some Battletech/Mechwarrior please share.

the way I read it is this Raccoon guy A. sold the data to a single buyer but then B. also handed it over to have I been pwned.

cool, cool…hey how many of them will continue to take work from Paramount-Warner Bros when the merger does go through?

hint: all of them.

last time it was 500mil and it clearly didn’t change anything. And it’s also clear they make more than enough that they’re ok with another potential 500mil so I highly doubt 1billion is going to make them stop. Needs to be more. Much more.

Also fuck Loblaws and Metro and all the rest. Seriously if you ever see someone stealing food in any of these places then no the fuck you didn’t. if you steal food from these places, then I don’t believe you actually did. Just keep an eye out for plains clothes guys wear airpods walking the aisle with no cart or basket.

My parents live in the US, I’m in Canada. they’re dual Canadian-US Citizens but were both born in England and still have British accents, I’m a dual British-Canadian citizen. They moved a lot due to my dad’s work and eventually decided, for whatever reason, to settle in the US. They’re elderly and I’m afraid to travel there and I don’t want them travelling here to potentially/likely be hassled on their return. This sucks. I’m terrified that I’ll never see them in person again. I’m terrified that they’ll be grocery shopping one day and because of their accents they’ll get reported or come across some nazi ice agent and get detained.

So even though I’m Canadian I feel invested in all this crap in the US purely because of my parents. I wish, daily, deep down wish daily that the US People FINALLY do something to take their country back. I wish I could ask some random American to please look out for my parents and keep them safe. It haunts me. It’s almost like I’m waiting for some call from someone saying my parents are in some holding facility. But from all the stories I’ve read I’d likely never get that call so now I’m just calling my mom daily only to make sure she can still pick up the phone.

guess if it’s your cup of tea then cool. I remember watching the first episode a couple years ago and just found it boring and unfunny. reminded me of the whole ‘homestuck’ fad from the mid 2010s that seemed like only “american weebs” got.

I mean if I’m going to watch a cartoon about clowns I’ll go with Bigtop Burger any day over this show.

you know who else I’ve seen do shit like that? junkies. wouldn’t surprise me of RFK Jr has a plastic bag full of discarded coffee cups also.

Sorry we don’t review AI Slop.

then closes the ticket. classic. I’m a fan of Flathub more so than ever.

Oh surprise surprise the guy is from Mississauga and has his fingers in everything that is totally unrelated to each other in order to some how, some way, make a buck. Doesn’t surprise me. seems like every “tech person” from Mississauga is also a consultant for some medical crap and yup…that’s what it says on his site.

I also pirated it and spent most if not all my time building ships. naturally had to use console codes to bypass the restrictions but that’s all I did.

the game itself? boring. the characters? bunch of god damn nerds. Like seriously your party are some of the most whiny unlikable characters in gaming. I didn’t care for any of them. AND THEN if you decide “oh I want to be a pirate and do bad things” they just whine even more about it.

I normally use NixOS but recently tried out PikaOS on one of my machines and I love it. Sure it’s got a gaming focus but it’s fast. damn fast. makes my dev work a breeze. It feels like one of the most complete Linux distros I’ve ever used. takes all of 15min to install and you can be up and running with everything you need within 30min. And their Pikman package manager is one of the best I’ve ever used. has distrobox built into it so if I want to install something from Arch, or the AUR, or Fedora, or whatever I just do “pikman --aur install whatever” spins up a distrobox, automatically exports it, good to go. Also has one of the fastest startups I’ve ever experienced that it felt like I wasn’t on systemd. Like Void runit start up speed.

If there are people who want something like Bazzite or Nobara but want a lot more flexibility for packages than PikaOS is it.

as someone who uses NixOS I wouldn’t recommend NixOS. sure it makes the hard things easy but it makes the easy things hard.

Then you potentially fall into the trap of configuration hell where you’re just constantly tinkering to get that sweet spot. I have to take vacations from NixOS otherwise I wouldn’t get any work done. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE it but it’s not for everyone.