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avidamoeba , 12 hours ago

As someone who really wants to avoid a conservative majority, I am fairly hopeless at this point.

avidamoeba , 12 hours ago

Yeah. Emergency electoral reform has been on my mind but I don't see them doing it. :|

avidamoeba , 42 minutes ago

In a riding where LPC won by half a point in 2021, one could say something about vote split. It's given plenty of seats to the cons in the past even governments. That's not one of these elections. I don't believe that the LPC's strategy is to let the cons run us into the ground, at least not for now. I could see that being the case of were a month from the federal election with the same numbers. 🤷

avidamoeba , 21 hours ago (edited 21 hours ago)

The problem with smart light switches is that they sit on the AC path. This means they're capable of starting fires. As a result you might want units that don't have questionable designs or the cheapest relays inside. A proxy for that is being certified by a western certification organization. Something like UL, CSA, ETL, MET, TUF, etc. Both the certification and the grade of components used increase the price of such units. There are some cheaper certified switches too, but personally I wouldn't install something that doesn't carry the name of a North American (I'm in Canada) manufacturer on it. Leviton, Eaton, etc. And those are $50+. 😔

avidamoeba , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Just signed up after they announced the non-profit and migrated all my mail. So far so good.

I wouldn't go from Google to another for-profit though. I know how it ends.

avidamoeba , 1 day ago

For a moment I thought it might have GPS. 😅

avidamoeba , 1 day ago

To a central server via a cellular network. So GPS and a modem. There are such trackers, I thought this was one of them. 😊

avidamoeba , 2 days ago

Yeah, as someone who's fought against the RIAA/MPAA copyright lobbying in my country, I think I'm on their side on this one.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

"At least some of the acts and omissions alleged by South Africa to have been committed by Israel in Gaza appear to be capable of falling within the provisions of the (Genocide) Convention," the judges said.

You read this and your takeaway is that the ICJ concluded there was no genocide committed by Israeli? Interesting.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Israel has been a pushover? This is the mindset that will keep this insurgency alive forever.

I heard an ex MI6 head cite some numbers on the current state of Hamas. They said that about 60% of the current fighters were orphans from previous wars. There's gonna a whole lot more orphans from this one.

Israel is assured unsafe from another Oct 7 at least for a decade after this war, probably more. People won't stop fighting when they have nothing left to lose. This expectation that these people would do something different than what you would when your families are killed is delusional.

avidamoeba , 2 days ago

Of course it does. But I think what matters is the magnitudes and what do every one of those children have to lose. If you want security, you have to move to fewer and fewer children having this experience and to more of them having something to lose. Hamas made this equation markedly worse on Oct 7. Israel's leadership made way worse thereafter.

avidamoeba , 2 days ago

You need a RAM 1500 for that.

avidamoeba , 2 days ago

Pre-SUV era minivans entered the chat.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

I know it’s officially not cool to like Rick and Morty anymore

I'm sorry what?

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

Thanks for the recap. Yeah I think I was more or less aware of most of those bits. I guess I didn't get to the conclusion. 😅 Also I think they handled Justin Roiland's issues fairly unambiguously. Assuming he was a bastard, I didn't skip a beat watching the Justin-free season.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

The more infrastructure they lay and the more customers they connect, the harder to shut them down. The more bail-worthy they become.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

The Play Store is pretty good with keeping things up to date.

avidamoeba , 4 days ago

The labor law challenges have already started.

avidamoeba , 3 days ago

Any explanation that doesn't include the fallout from the Great Recession and the following years of austerity is grossly incomplete at best.

avidamoeba , 4 days ago

I guess that's a good thing?

avidamoeba OP , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Nope.. Fixed!

avidamoeba OP , 5 days ago

Different instance, perhaps federation isn't working well.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago

This is perfect and the various parties are surprisingly frank. For example:

Landlords in Quebec, however, feel they need to catch up to other provinces as Quebec is still one of the most affordable places to live in the country, said Jean-Olivier Reed, a spokesperson for the Quebec Landlord Association (APQ).

and:

"What we have built over the last years, the last months — it's mainly luxury condos or apartments because it's what we can afford to build right now," he said.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Those mean the same thing. Affordable for the developers = revenue - cost > 0. I think they said it explicitly a paragraph earlier, that they build what's profitable.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Often different groups, landlords and those who build, but yes.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Of course. But if the land/labor/materials have gone so high in price, it is possible that even with zero profit the final price for units goes beyond what is considered affordable housing. I don't know if that's the case in Montreal or not.

With that said, even if affordable housing is not profitable for land/building owner, it's still "profitable" for the community around and in that future building. So from that angle, even if it's unprofitable for the land/building owner, it should be "profitable" for the public/government. And if that's the case, then it's kinda pointless to rely on the market to find it profitable enough to build affordable housing.

But then someone would say that would mean some builders won't make as much as they otherwise could which means line won't go up as much, government bad, free market good, fml... ☠️

In any case, I think we should put the market in its place and build affordable housing without waiting for it to consider it profitable. That's a perfect example where even creating new money can be a net benefit.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

The assumption that they're freeing up other capacity isn't necessarily true. There are several counter samples on my mind and there are probably more.

In fact one of the main points of the article is that Montreal has been building faster than population growth and housing is still drastically going up in price.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago

Well I did not expect Hagari to tell it like it is.

avidamoeba , 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Err, I'm pretty sure most European car makers manufacturing their Chinese models in China. A tariff would be largely meaningless. The EU officials basically told Chinese makers to do the same - bring the manufacturing here to avoid tariffs. Sounds like this might be a political move on the Chinese side as to not appear weak.

avidamoeba , 7 days ago

Well at least his approval has dropped accordingly but he doesn't give a shit probably because it's his last term.

avidamoeba , 8 days ago

I have three hypotheses.

• There's a setting for remote streaming quality. It may be set to 720p.
• The port isn't open on your router and Plex streams via a Plex relay server which limits the quality.
• The CPU might not be fast enough to transcode beyond 720p and Plex might be transcoding for remote streaming.

avidamoeba , 8 days ago

I was talking about a server side setting under Remote Access. Check there.

avidamoeba , 8 days ago

I tested with my new Chipolo trackers. I left a tracker at home and went a block away. Marked the tracker as lost. Came home and waited and waited to get a notification that it was found. An hour later I opened the app and then I got it. So far not so good. 🥹 That said I believe it will improve over time. It has to, in order to be useful.

avidamoeba , 8 days ago

Well, assuming they want it to be useful.

avidamoeba , 8 days ago

The Surgeon General’s suggestion that speech be labeled as dangerous is extraordinary. Communications platforms are not comparable to unsafe food, unsafe cars, or cigarettes, all of which are physical products—rather than communications platforms—that can cause physical injury. Government warnings on speech implicate our fundamental rights to speak, to receive information, and to think. Murthy’s effort will harm teens, not help them, and the announcement puts the surgeon general in the same category as censorial public officials like Anthony Comstock.

Um what. I don't think it was about labeling speech. It's labeling the platform which includes a lot more than speech. Namely how and what speech is presented to a particular individual a.k.a. The Algorithm. This reads like a disingenuous interpretation to safeguard the interest of social media giants. I did not expect this take from the EFF.

Go home EFF, you're drunk.

avidamoeba , 7 days ago

Oh boy, this could be problematic.

avidamoeba , 7 days ago (edited 6 days ago)

Print and TV can't possibly compete with the amount of rage generated by the hyper personalized targeting machine that Facebook is. Add to that the fact that anyone can push their flavor of rage for a modest price. I don't know if you've used Facebook over the last few years but if you haven't, you should give it a spin. It's incredible.

Still the label applies well to all corporate media.

avidamoeba , 9 days ago

A bit slow but still awesome for folks who want to develop on RISC-V.

avidamoeba , 10 days ago

Elections have consequences.

avidamoeba , 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f716bd83-5a25-41e0-99d0-221b39e71f03.png

Well, it has to run in the background. That said I haven't noticed a significant uptick in battery consumption. The battery consumption you see might be from something else.

avidamoeba , 10 days ago

If you want to preserve privacy while utilizing Tailscale's functions beyond a VPN, one can deploy Headscale on their own infra and be free from any spying.

avidamoeba , 10 days ago

Could be anything. What I do to reduce the possibility of some app going haywire in the background, I restrict background usage to all apps that I'm sure I don't need to run in the background. Obviously Tailscale isn't one of them because I need it. 😅 Also I started using Shelter to put untrusted apps like WhatsApp into a work profile and completely disable them when not in use. I haven't had many battery drain incidents since then.

avidamoeba , 15 days ago

This is amazing. Unfortunately it's only viable for older builds for now:

These instructions will only work on devices that have not yet been updated past the February 2021 OTA.

You can check this in the Settings application under the “System”, “About” tab, labeled “Security Patch Level”.

If your device was updated past this build, it is not vulnerable to the unlock exploit utilized below, and you cannot run LineageOS on that device.

Downgrading to older builds is not a viable option.

If your device is on the February 2021 OTA, or a build that preceeds it, you can proceed.

avidamoeba , 15 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Apps don't necessarily stop running unless you do Force Stop. It's always been this way.

In addition, swiping apps away in order to stop them has always been counterproductive on Android. Not only because it doesn't necessarily stop all of the app components, but also because it wastes resources. Android will stop apps as needed when memory is needed. In all other cases it will maximize memory usage in order to minimize CPU and IO making things faster. Stopping apps is only useful in special circumstances like killing a misbehaving app, etc.

You could limit per-app background usage since Android something, but even then it doesn't matter if you close them from the app list. Shortly after the all is no longer in the foreground, it will stop running, all of its components. It might still be possible for it to wake up now and then but for the majority of the time it wouldn't run.

avidamoeba , 16 days ago

WTF. Where?