And also, finally, coalitions in our government are a reality. In Canada, minority/parliament dynamics make “vote + apply pressure” a real lever.

A-fucking-men to that. It frustrates me to no end that people (conservatives) don’t understand that that’s precisely how a minority goverment is supposed to function.

You’d watch Pierre Poppinfresh get on his stump about “collusion” between the NDP and the Liberals like it’s some kind of conspiracy when in reality it’s just how shit gets done. Negotiation and compromise.

The conservative party (at least those that are on the MapleMAGA spectrum) have a binary view of governning; if they’re not the ones in power, they would rather not contribute to the government by negotiating and having a hand in shaping policy, because doing so would give the Liberals a “win” and that is anathema to a modern hard-C Conservative.

So instead of actually actively taking part in government, they stump around shouting at the other parties that do.

It legitimately took me a second for my brain to un-break itself when I looked at the photo. First thinking…something’s not right here…and not for even a moment thinking it would be something as stupid as putting the heat-sink on the case fan… Then the realisation that yes…it really is something that stupid.

Which bridge are we talking about? Is it the soon to be renamed ‘Epstein-Trump Memorial Bridge’?

Breezy. Because AsteroidOS and Gadgetbridge.

That’s a loooong way down to get to:

“Named after a dance.”

That being said, being named after a dance is just one theory. Truth is no one remembers anymore.

Growing up in Saskatchewan, my brain almost naturally began to delineate a difference between hooded sweaters with a zipper (hoodie) and hooded sweaters without a zipper (bunny hug). It’s a completely arbitrary naming convention that my brain decided to pull from its ass one day. But it stuck and I continue to use it.

I get that government use needs to be stringently tested for security, and so things take a little longer. But really, there are PLENTY of good FOSS products in existence that can be used as a base framework and a head-start to things like this.

You don’t have to re-invent the wheel when you could easily fork Jitsi-meet and harden it/secure it to your needs in the government.

Jitsi is one of my top 5 FOSS projects that are basically already mature enough to be used in a professional setting

I’m intelligent, but not nearly intelligent enough for whatever this is…

Is this just another way of talking about the Teleological framework of time (like the heptapods in Arrival)?

Yes.

After god knows how many years now of being on Linux exclusively, I tend to look at the terminal (commands in general) as a convenience more than a necessity. Meaning that in a lot of cases, knowing a command and quickly typing it to start an update (for example) is just faster and easier than pulling up the GUI every time.

“Industrial Resilience” is important. But its something that can be built over time as long as there continues to be the will to do so.

The far bigger threat right now isn’t there fact that we are dependent on foreign manufacturing, its WHICH foreign manufacturing.

Right now we are subjugated economically by a psychopathic autocracy to the south. Wev need to take whatever measures necessary to get out of that and with about after, after.

Real answer: Because ghost’s aren’t real, of course.

Hippie bullshit answer: Because ghost’s have unfinished business, and since dinosaurs weren’t sentient in the way humans are, they won’t have any unfinished business.

Good luck with your vast reserves of domestic Potash, Donny.

Cool. Thanks for the info. I must have been on the Flatpak for so long that I just never noticed.

Which version of the plugin did you install. There’s a whole bunch of them when you type flatpak install gimp. The resynthesizer version that works with gimp3 flatpak is number 20 in my screenshot. The one that has the 3

I don’t disagree. Just saying that the price for that sacrifice was to make themselves politically irrelevant. at least in the short term.

Not sure. I’d assume its the same as the flatpak with a bit more work involved in deconstructing the apk file, adding the plugin to the proper folder and then recompiling.

Unless this has been fixed in newer versions, it should be pointed out that ReSynthesizer relies on an older version of Python that most distrobutions don’t have anymore, so unless your using the flatpak, which has all of those dependencies still built in, it won’t work.

I agree. I’m disappointed in the fact that we ended up just voting in a Red Conservative. However, the alternative wasn’t a Blue Conservative…it was MAGA. And quite honestly if the choice were to be made again, even KNOWING FULL WELL that Carney is more Conservative than he let on, I’d do it again to prevent Poppingfresh from turning the country into MapleMAGA land.

Is anyone paying attention?

Lol…no.

As a party you willingly sold yourselves down the river to prevent a Pollievre disaster. While many believed it was necessary (myself included), the consequence of that is that the NDP aren’t even an official party anymore.

We are now effectively a two-party country, and people give the NDP leadership race as much attention as the Green Party.

warranties on those devices can be invalidated due to no longer being within the provider’s control.

I don’t know if it’s different in the rest of the world. And I don’t know if it’s changed in the 7 years since I last worked in the industry, but in Canada, you cannot invalidate a hardware warranty based on the software that’s installed. If your phone’s speaker dies, it’s a hardware issue and the warranty is impelled to cover it.

Apple Accused of Running a ‘Walled Garden’ by Canadian Legal Watchdog CIPPIC

I mean, welcome to 2008, CIPPIC… Thanks for catching up.