kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There's legalism, and then there's legalism. There are intricate and restrictive laws that make it impossible for people to get both good and bad things done, and then there are intricate and restrictive traditions that form the basis for our system of government by keeping parliament from ending up with only the power to put a rubber stamp on whatever diktats came out of the PMO this week. Putting Poilievre and Trudeau so near the opposite extremes of your scale leaves very little room for anyone more legalistic or more autocratic than them.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Perhaps the prime minister could take a moment out of his busy schedule to tell us what the fuck he was thinking if it's anything other than "we're absolutely desperate to make a deal and have no choice but to give them whatever they want."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago

brb I'm just going to take a few minutes to go through my records and see if any of my recent upvotes need revising in light of your latest comment.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 49 points 4 days ago

In Canada I assume the vast majority of the increase goes to corporate profits because that's what our economy seems designed to maximise, but it's also worth noting that world food prices are back up to levels not seen since the 1970s: https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 4 days ago

Worst of all, root access is often granted to humans — a species known to be vulnerable to the most idiotic phishing scams you could imagine.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 43 points 5 days ago

Debian is still the best at being Debian. I rate it the least likely to give me any unpleasant surprises.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah making jam is quite easy. Basically just add some sugar and pectin and put it on the stove until it's jam.

Otherwise, put them in the freezer.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 5 days ago

It's nice to have ntsync, I've been using it for a few weeks. Knowing that the thread sync api is solid means one less thing to worry about when debugging modded skyrim.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I assume they do sometimes have feelings but it's pretty hard to imagine how people who'd agree to work for Palantir would feel about literally anything other than being highly paid which they presumably enjoy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 6 days ago

If there's a sign saying "do not feed the alligators" you can guess that it's probably because they had a problem with too many people feeding the alligators. There's no reason to ask if that means it's okay to feed the crocodiles.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 12 points 6 days ago (8 children)

For a serious answer I suppose you'd need to read several books about the history of Israel and its relationship with Europe, the semiotic position of the term Zionism in contemporary political discourse, and methodologies for dealing with problematic topics in online communities.

But in short I'd say that the more evil is done in the name of Zionism, the more the name itself becomes perceived as synonymous with it, and there's a lot of that going on these days.

 

I have cut my hair. It was a little bit overdue.

 

Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can predict their future.

 

PEN Canada joins 39 organizations and 132 individuals in a joint letter demanding a complete withdrawal of Bill C-2. The following letter was sent this week to Canadian authorities…

 

On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada for migrants and asylum seekers. Our preliminary analysis of Bill C-2 situates the legislation within the context of existing research by the Citizen Lab about two potential data-sharing treaties that are most relevant to the new proposed powers being introduced in Bill C-2: the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention (2AP) and the CLOUD Act. Both of which carry significant constitutional and human rights risks.

 

My thumb is itchy.

 

Fedia.io no longer federates with lemmy.ml for some reason. It's by choice, apparently. Since .ml is such a large and widely used instance, this causes some confusion. If you go to search for magazines, it often comes up. Searching on 'linux' for example turns up the largest linux community at the top of the results, which is the lemmy.ml one.

Users are not stopped from or warned about posting to communities on the now-defederated instance, so you get people posting there without realizing that lemmy.ml and the vast majority of users of that community will never see it. I've done it myself by accident.

Is this by design? Could we get a warning about it or something, when a defederated instance comes up in the magazine search results? Should it come up at all? Can we get a notification when communities we're subscribed to get defederated?

 

30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things.

 

If anyone has a debian/windows dual-boot laptop and has been waiting until Microsoft's secureboot surprise is defused before booting into Windows, and you don't want to wait any longer, what you need is shim-signed_1.39+15.7-1_amd64.deb from bookworm-proposed-updates.

 

Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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