I feel like Loblaws and the other stores they run always play stupid games with prices. They didn’t really show that this was anything different than say, the same month a year ago. The article and methodology just feels kinda shoddy and empty. “We did a shit analysis and came up with weird results, now here’s some experts saying random things.”

Yikes, OK, thanks for sharing that

Are we talking about getting a nastygram because you were torrenting? Because Bittorrent just broadcast’s your IP to everyone in the swarm. Your ISP doesn’t have anything to do with that. Your ISP does have an obligation in Canada to forward the nastygram to you from the copyright owner’s lawyer though. Like you said though, I’m not sure that this actually still happens anymore. (how sure are you that it was just because you “visited a website”, which a DNS lookup isn’t even proof of?)

Your DNS provider used to just be your ISP, but unfortunately Chrome and Firefox’s stupid DoH-by-default means an American company is your DNS provider, which is the worst possible option. (Chrome default’s to Google’s DNS servers - the company that makes money by tracking and selling ads. Firefox default’s to Cloudflare, which is the NSA’s dream.)

Those defaults make DoH worse for Canadians, so I can see an argument for using CIRA + DoH being better than the default.

However, in Canada, your ISP won’t tip off the authorities for you pirating anything. That’s complete FUD. If you’re going to make an argument that CIRA is more trustworthy than my ISP, you have to do better than that.

I will say that the privacy policy and terms of use for CIRA’s Canadian Shield DNS seem to be reasonable with regards to privacy. The main issue I see is that they both say they can change the terms at any time, with no notice to you, so basically they can do whatever the hell they want at any time in the future.

How does letting CIRA spy on me give me any additional privacy over my ISP?

I wish I could give a shit about the Green party but after like a decade of infighting, I couldn’t care less. We live in a time of global environmental emergencies and they’ve completely failed to capitalize on that.

I was talking to a friend and we both mentioned how we saw Elizabeth May on TV talking beside someone and we weren’t sure whether it was her or the other guy who was the leader.

Are they still fiscal conservatives? What stupid combination of policies.

At my local grocery store, all canned soup comes from the US. There’s some alternatives that are made in Canada, but they’re all in different packages (Happy Planet comes in pouches, Soups On comes in these massive jars) - none available in cans.

This guy already can see Russia from his house. He runs our local Russian propaganda sub on Lemmy.ca lol

Maybe email the people at refurb.io and tell them to get on it. We have loads of datacenters here in Canada and I’m sure companies are liquidating old hardware regularly. I wonder where it ends up here.

Also, Canada has nice perks such as:

✅ Rule of law

✅ The most educated workforce in the world

✅ Not having foreign and trade policy go in a completely different direction every 4 years

✅ Giving a shit about diversity, equity, and inclusion to get the best workforce possible

✅ Easier to attract foreign talent, no chance of them getting abducted by ICE for having political views the government of the day doesn’t like.

Anyone tried their laundry detergent? Looking for a Tide Free replacement and the Eco-Max hypoallergenic one looks like a good fit.

US foreign policy is completely incoherent right now. The answers don’t really matter. They’re just making these individual policy decisions based on trying to bully their allies/enemies to test the water as to how far they can impose their will on the rest of the world and be unpredictable.

Why does the US need critical minerals from Ukraine if there’s no global heating and therefore we wouldn’t need Elon Musk’s EVs? Their positions make sense (to them) individually, but don’t make any sense when you put them together. But when your electorate has the memory of a squirrel and is glued to social media propaganda feeds, you don’t need coherent policy to stay in power.

ycombinator is shit lol

Some kind of crowd-sourced tagging would be a cool anti-troll technique. A lot of less experienced websurfers struggle to spot “inauthentic behaviour” (bots, astroturfing, etc) so it could be beneficial. Reddit has a huge problem with sleeper accounts though, where they build up reputation with low-effort comments over years, then activate when a campaign needs them. The social media marketers seem to sometimes use the same techniques as the state-sponsored troll farms.

I’m going to test out Lunanode, thanks for the recommendation. I’m currently playing around with Xenyth Cloud too and so far so good. I’m keeping a spreadsheet of the sysbench scores of all the Canadian VPSes I’ve tried and I’ll try to post it once I have a decent set of data to share.

Does anyone know of any other Canadian VPS providers? (from companies based in Canada)

The pricing seems super reasonable. It looks like it supports a calendar too. Anyone know if their webmail client is decent?

this is the saddest, stupidest, low effort troll account - see comment history

If we can somehow entice Chinese car companies manufacture here

I think that’s part of the point of auto tariffs.

It’s not about software or data. It’s about control over the supply chain - cars are essential to our economy and way of life in North America (like it or not). It’s the same reason we protect the milk supply. You don’t want another country to be able to turn it off in a conflict.

The thing is, if Trump wants to kill Canada’s role in US car manufacturing, then it will cost him the car markets in Mexico and Canada. If there’s no jobs here to protect, then we’ll just drop the tariffs on Chinese EVs. (This is speaking like 20 years down the road). We’ll all be driving Chinese cars in that scenario. The tariffs are a total lose-lose situation, so dumb.