Probably worth distinguishing the cross-party ERRE survey from the LPC push-poll that was mydemocracy.ca.

Compare as an example the quality of questions and their inherent biases:

The former asked people to rate how much they agreed with statements like

• Independent candidates should be able to be elected to Parliament
• The current electoral system adequately reflects voters' intentions
• Seats should be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received by each political party
• Voters should elect local candidates to represent them in Parliament
• The current electoral system should be changed

Whereas the latter asked more loaded questions:

• There should be parties in Parliament that represent the views of all Canadians, even if some are radical or extreme.
• Governments should have to negotiate their policy decisions with other parties in Parliament, even if it is less clear who is accountable for the resulting policy.
• It is better for several parties to have to govern together than for one party to make all the decisions in government, even if it takes longer for government to get things done.

I'm actively working on building something for this. In the interim, most phones have something akin to a voice recorder with transcriptions.

Things that contain six pairs also contain two pairs. :P

You can ignore all games from publishers on Steam. I'd recommend doing this with any publisher with anti-consumer practices.

"When other people take notice of an individual's identity-related behavioral intention, this gives the individual a premature sense of possessing the aspired-to identity."

When Intentions Go Public, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24354628_When_Intentions_Go_Public

I've given thought to this one as a vegan in the game industry. It's strange. I'm happy to play games like Cyberpunk and murder just about everyone in my way. But when it comes to cozy games, there's something discordant about the "build a happy little farm" vibe and "kill all the fish you want". It just doesn't match the fantasy cottagecore games are selling for me. :shrug:

Likewise. Debian, installed Steam, updated my graphics driver, and everything runs smoothly. I'm surprised how well Linux gaming has come along!

Take a read through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures,_Inc.

Real shame this was terminated rather than extended to streaming platforms.

I have a Switch but have bought maybe 3 games for it tops. Where Steam has user reviews, a super simple refund policy, and frequent deep discounts, Nintendo's purchasing experience is clearly lacking in a customer-friendly approach.

Anyone asking for recommendations for their next gaming device, it's Steam Deck every time.

Want to sabotage a protest? Encourage advocacy for increasingly tangential issues. Focus splits, folks start disagreeing on new issues, folks start disagreeing on how issues get prioritized, everything falls apart.

Sadly, this doesn't even require a malicious actor encouraging it. Well-meaning folks see a potentially sympathetic audience for their pet issue and boom.

In some cases, PRs that have no merge conflicts can sit and languish for months on end. Example: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/pull/8914. I'm not suggesting cavalierly accepting all PRs, but the devs could do a better job of communicating with prospective contributors. My desire to contribute to Jellyfin was somewhat dampened by that initial experience.

Edit: To be more constructive, I'd recommend not just a call to action (the blog post), but explicitly reaching out to devs who submitted their first PRs within the past year and finding out what their experiences were. Discovering a leaky onboarding process that you lose potential devs through could be instrumental!