Disgusted, but absolutely not surprised.

With Charlie Angus leaving, I’m curious if North Eastern Ontario will stay NDP.

It’s really, really hard to say. Charlie Angus’ riding and the other NDP-held riding up here have been redrawn by the last redistricting. The other current NDP MP in the area, Carol Hughes, is also not running for re-election. Both of them have held their posts for quite a long time, so there may be enough lingering pro-NDP sentiment in the far north to get their successors elected.

Most of the other ridings are currently Liberal-held, with at least one of those incumbents not running for re-election either. I have no idea what direction anything’s going to jump in. It may come down to who the candidates are, as much as anything about the parties.

Doesn’t fully capture usage of the service (visitors to Canada are not counted, but citizens who are absent from the country more than half the year may be). Are bilingual individuals counted as belonging to both sides, or do they have to add a rider to the census asking us which language we want to support? If someone, for whatever reason, wants to throw their support behind the language they don’t speak, are they allowed? If not, why not? And what are you going to give Quebec to keep them from throwing a political hissy-fit over getting short-changed?

Dividing the money in half keeps the lid firmly on all those cans of worms.

I get the impression that you’re the kind of person who complains about their tax money going to services they don’t use. By that logic, my taxes shouldn’t go to funding child care or primary-school education, because I don’t, and won’t, have any children. Thing is, both of those are general public goods, and I support them even if they don’t benefit me personally, because having them makes Canada a better place to be. And yes, French-language public radio is also a public good.

Shouldn’t this be split proportionately between French and English? That seems more equitable to me.

It depends—in proportion to what, exactly? Some things cost the same amount whether you’re using them 100% of the time or only 10%. Some costs may be shared between the French and English sides. Others scale with the amount of material being produced. Very few scale with the number of listeners, and French Radio-Canada is broadcast in large areas outside of Quebec. Splitting the money into even halves makes for simpler bookkeeping, and simplifying the bookkeeping saves money.

The purpose of a locked boot system is privacy.

No. Once you strip away all the rhetoric, the purpose of a locked boot system is control (over who or what can boot the system).

Current secure boot implementations are like a door lock installed by someone else, which you are not allowed to replace and that may or may not allow you to cut your own duplicate keys for it. You have no control whatsoever over who the people who installed the lock may have given keys to, and if it turns out that the lock has a fundamental design flaw that means it can’t do its job properly, well, sucks to be you. You can’t even guarantee that the lock won’t morph into a new shape randomly or under the control of the installer, invalidating your existing keys in the process.

Rooting a device is a tradeoff. An unreliable door lock that you don’t entirely control may be better than none, but if you know you’re leaving the door unlocked, you also know you need to take other precautions to safeguard what’s inside (or simply not leave anything of value there in the first place).

The ideal would be a locked boot system that is installed by the user and is fully under their control, but I have yet to encounter one.

To me, that look seems more like “Pardon me, sir/madam/other, but we do not accept canines as patients.” 😅

It isn’t in their best interests to threaten the loony Christian sects that are one of the right wing’s favourite brainwashing tools. Members of those sects rely on authority figures to “interpret” the Bible for them instead of actually paying attention to its content, but if you try to take it away from them, they’ll throw a fit like a toddler does when you take away a toy they’ve been ignoring. Restricting access to the Bible in the present day would make religious brainwashing more difficult and create more people who actually think for themselves, which is anathema to bad governments like Texas’.

That can be weaponized, though. US government publications are public domain. So is the Bible. We’d at least get to watch members of the Texas government tie themselves into knots worthy of a game of Twister as they try to argue that those texts are harmful on a porn site but not anywhere else.

That only leaves “is a mess”, though. You need at least one more word, possibly “Google” or “everything” (depending on your level of cynicism).

I don’t get why people rush to the next replica platform that will go down the exact same path of overstimulating you / mentally harming you.

I think they get used to the level of stimulation and now feel “wrong” without it. It takes a certain self-awareness to realize that it would be healthier to recalibrate your expectations. (I don’t think Pixelfed is a comparatively harmful platform at the moment anyway, although I suppose it could someday become one.)

It passed through my mind at one point that unless the prince is even more clueless than he seems, he is one cruel bastard. “I won’t let anyone but you be the mother of my heirs . . . so you have to marry me or else you might cause a civil war.” That is entrapment, and absolutely Not Funny. I could tolerate the stage-play-like exposition, but the repetition of the flashback footage from the ball was beyond tedious. If this doesn’t improve a lot in the next episode, I may be dropping it.

Distant-future apocalypse with child soldiers and a scenery-chewing madman (not of the fun type) in charge. The adjective that comes to mind for me is “grim”, but “sad” works too—no one escapes the story unscathed. I have the original DVDs around here somewhere.

Four, but I remember almost nothing about it beyond the fact I watched it.

It’s been more than 25 years for me. That movie is like a punch to the gut. And I don’t even like kids.

Apparently it was Totoro (or so I recall from a really old Usenet post). Makes you wonder about the thought process involved.

On a related note, what happens when the number of different CMS’s exceeds the number of devs?

You mean they haven’t already?

Betteridge’s law of headlines strikes again.

Yeah, I suspect that at some point, we’ll move an appliance or a piece of furniture and then have to explain to whoever’s helping with the moving why a massive number of brightly-coloured toy mice just exploded out at them. 😅

I can just hear Maomao reading that book aloud to the other girls . . . in her totally deadpan inner-narration voice 🤣 . It’s nice to have her back.

Given how well received it was here, Zenshu being down at 25th was probably the biggest.

The truncated description showing up on several major sites probably didn’t help it any—I’d bet that a lot of people who might have been interested simply didn’t find it, and some of the people who did watch it weren’t looking for the genre it turned out to be.

The surprising thing for me, though, is that Ameku MD got onto the chart. I mean, it’s an okay series, but the mystery side of the plotting has been kind of weak so far. In a season where the premieres of the good shows were more evenly spread out, I think it would have gotten outcompeted.