kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

There's legalism, and then there's legalism. There are intricate and restrictive laws that make it impossible for people to get both good and bad things done, and then there are intricate and restrictive traditions that form the basis for our system of government by keeping parliament from ending up with only the power to put a rubber stamp on whatever diktats came out of the PMO this week. Putting Poilievre and Trudeau so near the opposite extremes of your scale leaves very little room for anyone more legalistic or more autocratic than them.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 27 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Perhaps the prime minister could take a moment out of his busy schedule to tell us what the fuck he was thinking if it's anything other than "we're absolutely desperate to make a deal and have no choice but to give them whatever they want."

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 1 day ago

brb I'm just going to take a few minutes to go through my records and see if any of my recent upvotes need revising in light of your latest comment.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 48 points 1 day ago

In Canada I assume the vast majority of the increase goes to corporate profits because that's what our economy seems designed to maximise, but it's also worth noting that world food prices are back up to levels not seen since the 1970s: https://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/

[–] kbal@fedia.io 15 points 1 day ago

Worst of all, root access is often granted to humans — a species known to be vulnerable to the most idiotic phishing scams you could imagine.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 43 points 2 days ago

Debian is still the best at being Debian. I rate it the least likely to give me any unpleasant surprises.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah making jam is quite easy. Basically just add some sugar and pectin and put it on the stove until it's jam.

Otherwise, put them in the freezer.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

It's nice to have ntsync, I've been using it for a few weeks. Knowing that the thread sync api is solid means one less thing to worry about when debugging modded skyrim.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I assume they do sometimes have feelings but it's pretty hard to imagine how people who'd agree to work for Palantir would feel about literally anything other than being highly paid which they presumably enjoy.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

If there's a sign saying "do not feed the alligators" you can guess that it's probably because they had a problem with too many people feeding the alligators. There's no reason to ask if that means it's okay to feed the crocodiles.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (8 children)

For a serious answer I suppose you'd need to read several books about the history of Israel and its relationship with Europe, the semiotic position of the term Zionism in contemporary political discourse, and methodologies for dealing with problematic topics in online communities.

But in short I'd say that the more evil is done in the name of Zionism, the more the name itself becomes perceived as synonymous with it, and there's a lot of that going on these days.

 

I have cut my hair. It was a little bit overdue.

 

Cyberastrology: The theory that if you know the exact network conditions at the time someone first connected to the Internet, such as ping times to the major servers of the cyberzodiac, you can predict their future.

 

PEN Canada joins 39 organizations and 132 individuals in a joint letter demanding a complete withdrawal of Bill C-2. The following letter was sent this week to Canadian authorities…

 

On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada for migrants and asylum seekers. Our preliminary analysis of Bill C-2 situates the legislation within the context of existing research by the Citizen Lab about two potential data-sharing treaties that are most relevant to the new proposed powers being introduced in Bill C-2: the Second Additional Protocol to the Budapest Convention (2AP) and the CLOUD Act. Both of which carry significant constitutional and human rights risks.

 

My thumb is itchy.

 

30 years ago somebody told me their opinion about "Changes" but I didn't know what Changes was. I just remembered to look it up, and according to Wikipedia it could've been any of about 50 things.

 

Browsers should probably just stop sending user-agent header at all, ideally.

If anyone else was wondering why some websites and the "Alternate Player for Twitch.tv" extension stopped working in the latest Librewolf update, it's because they changed the userAgent string from Firefox to LibreWolf and way too much shitty code is confused by it looking like firefox but then not being firefox.

 

I am enjoying the Oblivion remaster except for one thing: Lockpicking. I was good at the old Oblivion lock picking. There was a clear audio cue, I have good ears I guess, and it was both easy and satisfying. Many found it impossible, but I had the gift.

In the remaster they've removed that audio cue and now there is only the visual motion of the tumblers to react to. I do not have fast eyes, only fast ears as it turns out. I am bad at the new lockpicking. Curse your laziness, anonymous Virtuos programmer who chose to take that shortcut.

 

Wishing a happy International Bat Appreciation Day to all who celebrate.

 

Even before the election was called, the Greens unveiled their plan to counter the global and domestic challenges posed by Donald Trump’s chaotic government. It’s chock full of good ideas, including many you wouldn’t normally expect: Improving the east-west energy grid to beef up national energy sovereignty; ramping up domestic artillery production; the stoppage of observing U.S-imposed intellectual property laws; and integrating more closely with the European, Australian, and Ukrainian defence industries.

 

Well I decided to upgrade to Debian testing last night on my desktop here, just for fun. It seems fine.

Xfce4-screensaver wasn't in bullseye so I had an old locally compiled version installed, which may have been the cause of some video problems. Replaced with the debian build.

A broken bash completion script I had removed came back and was annoying until I remembered what I'd done.

Old searx install didn't work, neither did latest searxng install script from git. Too many python errors for me, so I gave up and ran the docker container instead. That was the only frustrating part.

Skyrim runs more smoothly and amdgpu hasn't crashed yet. It had been getting bad lately, locking up during video playback sometimes (maybe once a week) in the past month or two. I think perhaps running the newest kernels with the old mesa was a bad combination.

I ran out of disk space on the EFI partition during install, but it recovered no problem.

Other than that no problems so far.

 

They're talking about closing the main support office for the Mauna Loa Observatory — which is "recognised as the birthplace of global carbon dioxide monitoring and maintains the world's longest record of measurements of atmospheric CO2."

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