Why spend the money up front? That’s just bad business. They’ll only do it if there’s real traction in the rest of the verse blocking their shit.

I’m worried that what they’ll do is just set up hundreds of instances on various domains (not even necessarily *.facebook.com, or similar) in order to connect and scrape. Banning them would require resources and time people just can’t dedicate in the way a megacorp can.

I wrote my MP once in 2021 regarding the reversal of the wholesale broadband rates. Specifically, about how the Vice-Chair of Telecommunications sat down with the President of Bell Media for some beers at a sports game to discuss things after the 2019 court rulings upheld the existing rules set by the Commission.

The result, of course, was a change to the rules.

You’re not going to get a real answer from your MPP, just a staffer tasked with boilerplating out an email that could conceivably be construed as an answer to your question/complaint.

If he wanted to live, he should’ve bought a new heart before flying!

If I had been in his position, given the results of the survey, I wouldn’t have changed the system, either.

It was a dead split among the possible choices, and any selection would’ve been attacked for it’s strategic political consequences, so he did the only fair thing which was nothing.

Also, “counting promises as equal” is value projection. The severity or weight of each promise is subjective to each of us (single-issue voters are still a thing after all), so an unbiased, matter-of-fact counting is not a way of equally weighting them.

I’m not a fan of LPC either, but I wouldn’t say he broke all of his promises.

https://www.polimeter.org/en/trudeau

He didn’t keep them all, either.

Copyright won’t help here. Extending it to allow the protection of concepts as well as literal implementation is what Oracle tried to do, and would’ve resulted in a few megacorps demanding licensing for core concepts that no one can really make quality, functional software without.

Of course, software patents are also stupid, even if the general intent of patents seems reasonable.

I made the switch to Manjaro in January, haven’t needed Windows once for gaming.

Most difficulty I’ve had was with Cyberpunk 2077, but that’s because GOG broke some shit on their end that requires a workaround hack to stub some phone-home code that checks what DLC you have or whatever.

For the most part, shit just works now.

Gotta practice that passive language to avoid laying blame anywhere. Wouldn’t want to step in it themselves, right?

I hope so. Room temperature superconductivity would make so many things economically viable overnight…

I can’t wait to overhear people sharing conspiracies about it, like they did with Tim Hortons and nicotine-lined coffee cups.

“The government is printing circuits in the warning messages so they can spy on you while you talk during your smoke break!”
“I heard it’s full of chemicals to make you compliant!”
“I bet the only reason you really get cancer from these is because of the ink!”