I think the window for having that debate was some time around 1992.

Saying “on the count of three” before you start counting is optimal, in timelines where that tradition is widely known. It’s more words the first time but many people need the time provided by saying them to mentally prepare, and then if you need repeated counts no such preparation is necessary and each one takes only three beats.

To see that this is the end of that regime

Its end is overdue but seems to have been delayed somewhat by an unfortunate American bombing campaign.

Wikipedia: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is a Canadian public policy think tank founded in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Among the positions promoted by the Centre are “free markets” and climate change denial. They are part of the Atlas Network of neoliberal think tanks.

Yes, it’s another attempt to blame everything on the handful of idiots loudly complaining about “woke” ideas. Add it to the pile, I guess?

Hooray! Encryption for everyone Encryption for client-side encryption (CSE) users with Enterprise Plus licenses and the Assured Controls or Assured Controls Plus add-on after admins enable the Android and iOS clients in the CSE admin interface who remember to turn on “additional encryption” option when sending an email.

No mention as to whether it follows any standards or is interoperable with anything else in the world.

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Yeah, I was somewhat dismayed to see Little Snitch getting so much attention on mastodon despite it not being free software. I don’t see the appeal.

OpenSnitch does the job quite well. Things in debian are mostly well-behaved, but it’s caught quite a few games running under wine that were up to no good.

Far behind what, exactly? This question arising from the headline isn’t answered in the article except by saying it’s far behind what the most hawkish war nerds they could find would like to see. The CBC here simply repeats uncritically everything they are told, including that we are already at war with China, and calls it news.

changes introduced in the 2025 federal budget granting Ottawa explicit authority to disband organizations designated as “terrorist entities.”

It seemed inevitable that if that legislation was ever used, it would be abused. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that participating in terrorism was already illegal, and so this can serve only to harass people who are not doing so. Sure enough it appears to be the case — although if they have credible evidence to the contrary I’d like to see it.

That they snuck it in through the budget document is adding insult to injury. This new government has repeatedly shown complete indifference to the principles of good government that made Canada what it was.

Spoiler: The superpower is the power of friendship and investment in renewable energy.

I am all for giving up oil, in fact I insist on it. I do not think it will give us economic superpowers. It’s going to be costly and difficult, although obviously less so than not doing it.

Linux vs Windows? One is a popular computer operating system, the other is some kind of advertising and data collection tool from Microsoft.

It used to be the largest, a few years ago. It used to be among the best, a few years before that. It’s still pretty good, but no longer suitable for everyone like it was in the old days.

If the problem with your old laptop is just that the fan broke, you might be better off just getting a new fan. If you’re near a big city there’s probably a repair shop that will do it.

… although I guess 15 years is a pretty old in computer years. When my laptop died recently I went with a second-hand thinkpad for $300 (edit: not as old as I thought it was, it’s from 2021.) But that was a year ago before prices for everything went crazy.

What you were trying to say and how it pertains to bicycles was very unclear but I think I deciphered it. But there are lots of Mac users who ride bicycles, I know one or two of them myself.

Much as people would like them to, both upvotes and downvotes mean very little. I learned this on reddit but it seems equally true here.

“I dislike social commentary … I just want to watch Romulans and the Federation shoot at each other” does not seem to appear in the current version of article that’s linked to. The source appears to be vocal.media / futurism. In context it does look plausible that he might’ve really said it — but it was 8 years ago.

I remember admiring its art style when it first came out — it seemed to capture something beautiful about the landscape that reminded me of real Canadian wilderness. Now seems like a good time to try playing it.

Lorde’s “master’s tools” speech is routinely misread in tech discourse

Can confirm. As a person with a “tech” background I certainly misread it that way the first time I saw it quoted and went to learn more. It took some amount of actual thinking to understand what she was getting at and how it could be engaged with more fairly in contexts so far from that of the original.

You say “smart move that helps manage risk while having no real impact on anything”, I say “foolishly craven gesture that demonstrates incompetent leadership while having no real impact on anything.”