Unsurprising and good to know.

No, the average consumer has no idea what to do about it. Which is why the respinsibility has to shift to data holders. But that won’t ever happen without a hard push by people. It’s cheaper to put the responsibility on the peasants.

It’s how auaterity works. Save some cash at enormous real cost.

Some valid concerns about it being a private vendor and the possibility of Ford killing it.

Chromium was created by the KDE community which needed HTML rendering in… the 90s? Then it was taken up by MS competitors who wanted to make a rival of Internet Explorer and they “created” WebKit. Nokia, Apple, BlackBerry, later Google and many others contributed to WebKit which became Safari and eventually Chrome. At one point Google broke off from that codebase to create Blink.

I’ll give you that you’ve got a decent narrative and I wouldn’t have objected much if Google was the “Don’t be evil” company it used to be in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Which is also when they acquired Danger and released their src as Android. We’re not in that world anymore. I don’t give a flying fuck where the innovation is because I can rely on GCC being here 50 years from now, when the current corporate players be long gone.

Again, I really wish we lived in 2015 when people (and I) trusted Google enough to make it trivial for me to advocate for their projects and products.

We’re so cooked, aren’t we.

For sure. I’m considering corpo software as a liability by definition.

Kinda. But also kinda not. The cost of getting a phone made has decreased and there are many, many manufacturers who can make one for you these days. From that perspective, if you have small niche where people are alright with paying a bit of a premium, it may in fact be easier to make a phone for them than say in 2012.

The total device cost will be 499 EUR or 599~699 EUR as the “normal” price with the voucher deducting from the phone’s cost if/when available.

This price for a low volume device would have been completely unachievable in 2012.

Given how good American companies are at profit maximization, do we expect American military equipment to be anything but exorbitantly overpriced?

Indeed. The hard lesson that I learned over my 20 years of experience with FOSS is that the social infrastructure around a piece of software is more important than the exact details of the technology itself such as programming languages, frameworks, patterns, etc. And the license is a part of that social infrastructure.

On a technical level, that’s cool.

On a practical level MIT-licensed OS better not get much mindshare. Cue everything that happened with important projects under permissive licenses over the last decade. E.g. Android, Chromium. I used to dgaf and was even quite excited about stuff like Fuscia OS. Boy did we dodge a bullet there with Google abandoning it.

I imagine this is good for Eby?

Anyone from BC to speculate on the implications?

I don’t know Quebec enough but I feel that a leader with a genuine improve-the-lives message along with an apology for bad French might not do too badly. People like being honest and they tend to take note when your policy is about to make their lives better.

Australia decoupling eh?

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While that’s definitely a weakness, I think the NDP can be an effrctive delivery vehicle for material improvements for Canadians even with that weakness. If the NDP gets a significant part of the working class vote from the cons, they’ll be a major power holder in any configuration. That’s because the con vote would diminish, therefore eliminating the “NDP-LPC vote split gets the cons in” problem.

I’m not one to glaze Carney, but for the benefit of factuality - this bill was proposed by a senator, not a Liberal MP under Carney. We’ll see whether it goes further.

Hopefully, the EPS has their own server they load faces into domestically.

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How can Axon recognize Canadians?

Yes. We need all the cultural separation from the US we can get. Add indigenous languages too.