🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
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Rick d Card
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Pretty much retired Computer Graphics Guy
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Joined March 30, 2025
About me:
I started drawing at age 7. I enjoy being alone. Began signpainting and screenprinting. Next was computer graphics for signs and screenprinting. The last 20+ years I have been doing computer graphics for screenprinting and computer controlled embroidery.
Books:
I read about 3-6 books a week. Mostly fiction but some nonfiction too. Everything except fantasy.
Hobbies:
Computers especially Linux and other tech stuff. Some gaming. Keeping up on science and tech news. Movies and binging on TV series. Listening to music. Trying to learn guitar...ha. Pondering life, reality and the nature of existence.
Political:
A bit of an anarchist
Remember, it maybe the early bird that gets the worm but, it's the second mouse that gets the cheese.
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@aj I read it and can agree although I'm a different sort of character. I never had cable tv because I thought it was ridiculous to pay to be advertised to. A few times in my life I decided to do without a telephone (all together around 3 years) because they irritated me. I cancelled my internet because they were charging me too much money; I found a cheaper deal 2 years later and decided to get it again. I like technology but don't need it and all my tech I make sure is secure and private.
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@aj I didn't have room (only 500 keystrokes as a limit). I'm 67 years old and haven't had a tv since I was in my late 20's ( I gave it away). Corporations wrecked it with their commercials. I saw they now have popup ads during programs advertising other programs; and people still pay for it! I find that astounding, sad and sick. I can't comprehend how a person can decide to do that.
🚨 Bill C-22 would force every Canadian internet provider, messaging app, and cloud service to build surveillance backdoors & store a year of your private data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US — compromising up to a million people. Tell your MP: https://openmedia.org/StopC22-mast #BillC22 #cdnpoli @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! https://openmedia.org/C4Sunset-mtd @OpenMediaOrg@mastodon.social
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@mastosalo What I do with old computers is install Linux on them and give them away. Folks are hesitant because they only know windows so I start it up and show them. They're generally amazed.
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@theleftistlawyer@mastodon.social Maybe we should stop naming the particular people the're killing such as, Israel is killing people, US is killing people, white supremacists are killing people, etc. Just a thought off the cuff.
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@jeffowski
I believe it started during the "RED scare" in the 1950's (U.S.). capitalists and fascists continually make this association to the masses with propaganda from the media they own. This has been done so long that it is an automatic association for many people who don't bother to contemplate what they think or believe. In my opinion.
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@leoo That's right. Almost everyone I knew was a morning person and I wasn't. They'd trot out the old "early bird" nonsense so I got used to sayin the cheese thing back at 'em.
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@jezebelkat Yeah, the place I used to go to get my hair cut said I had to get their app to make appt's. I now get my hair cut elsewhere.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com Everytime I see your name and post in my feed, I smile. Congrats; Live Long and Prosper!
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@Louis28@mastodon.world He keeps threatening to leave NATO; I think NATO should leave him. All the countries in NATO should just make a new organisation and leave the US out of it.
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@jbond Well, I'm hoping there's nothing after I die because if there's some jerk intelligence responsible for all this why would it get suddenly better after I'm dead. If there is something responsible for all this I'd pound it flat with a hammer until there's just a wet spot.
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@jbond Well, howdy there! Yeah, I believe I'm going back to the same place I was from before I got here.
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@pre@boing.world I love the control it gives me. When I was first turning off all the apps I remember chuckling in glee as I shut them down. I installed it myself, not with playstore.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com and the Bible didn't catch fire? It must have been a fake Bible.
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@kagan People are more than just one thing. I enjoyed the book immensely. I don't like the right wing. These 2 things can inhabit the same space if you choose.
It's good to remember that there are not only tRumps in the world...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/bikes-and-trikes-for-everyone-2026-9.7185735
Remember this prediction of mine: the next election if the NDP doesn't win they will have the best showing they've ever had. There are many emotions because of the orange taint in the whitehouse and PP is just a MAGA idiot and Carney is showing he is against ordinary every day Canadians and is willing to continually cozy up to the orange taint and make corporations even richer. There have been many upsets in politics around the world that astounded people because they didn't see it coming.
I say this with complete sincerity; I believe that if a randomly selected Canadian with moderate intelligence were selected to be PM they'd do a much better job than any of the nincompoop PM's we generally get. For that matter close our eyes and open the phone book and point a finger and we'd get a better PM.
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@smaurizi @wikileaks Not sure if it helps but, Consortium News had awesome coverage of everything associated with Assange. Day by day courtroom reporting too. They were the only news source I could find that reported on it all. They have a lot of facts etc. to back it all up.
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@fdroidorg @marcprux Right from the start I would look up an app and then find a place I could download the apk file and install it myself. All you have to do to is find the android setting that says, "install from other sources" and yer set.
I have never felt the need for cloud storage. It actually puzzles me. I have USB sticks and external drives to store all my stuff. I understand Gov'ts, Institutions and business need cloud storage but not me personally.
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@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social It's a US medical Kit...first you have to have a patient so you shoot them and then try to save them!
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@davidakin Although I will vote NDP in a federal election, having whipped votes is directly against democratic principles.
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@mikepmoffatt Our politicians have lost the ability to think; they just stare blankly until some rich guy comes up and tells them what to say.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com an original thought and a cold glass of water would probably kill them.
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@fdroidorg Thank-you for your reply. I guess I was reading too fast and came to a wrong conclusion.
I hear inflation is so bad in the US that California is changing it's name to Cali-five-nia
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@furilabs I thought about buying one but learned they would have been better off making more FLX1's because in my opinion the FLX1s is a few steps backwards.
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@D64eV I have been suggesting to people since 1999 to always save as an RTF. Pretty much anything can open it. People used to send me .doc and I would call them up and tell them I couldn't open it so to save as .rtf.
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@BenjaminHCCarr Well, I think any corporation that lobbies against this should lose the right to be an incorporated company.
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@pre@boing.world Not sure if this helps but I use NetGuard to shut down stuff I don't want contacting the outside world. For each app you can shut down wifi and/or cell data.
https://netguard-noroot-firewall.en.softonic.com/android
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@existentialcomics And corporations can never be held accountable so they shouldn't have personhood.