Trump Wants to Tap Your Phone. Ottawa Might Let Him
Bill C-22 will lay the legal groundwork for giving the US warrantless access to our data
#canpoli https://thewalrus.ca/trump-wants-to-tap-your-phone-ottawa-might-let-him/
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Steve Wart
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mastodon 4.6.4Retired software engineer, formerly enthusiastic about all things computer, but now less so. Climate alarmist. Friend of old dogs, lifelong learner of new tricks.
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@ZebKing I tried many times, mostly last year after the US government’s hostility and belligerence became so severe, but most people I know stayed on FB or migrated to Bsky. Honestly I struggle to recommend that anyone post their honest feelings and opinions anywhere online anymore.
As someone who’s recently been reading all the old Lisp books I can get my hands on, I heartily endorse the release of a new Lisp book
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social I remember reading Stuart Brand's book about this stuff a few years ago and thinking that the use of aerosols to reduce solar radiation was cheap enough to do that a billionaire could just do it, and there wouldn't be anything anyone could do about it.
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@Edent@mastodon.social I went through a similar process when I bought an e-book from Simon and Schuster. Their only options were to read it with their smartphone app or online in a web browser. Naturally I fired up the dev tools. The epub contents were mostly trivial to extract, and I was able to get it into my ebook reader, but the formatting was so bad and the process so cumbersome I just decided I would avoid buying anything from them again.
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@evan@cosocial.ca @mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca @timbray@cosocial.ca you can wipe your devices but you should never lie to them
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By 1700, first rulers and magistrates and then wider public opinion in the west were concluding that punishing witches by execution was not a good idea, but in 1693 Lutheran Sweden could still burn alive a charismatic figure or ‘shaman’ called Anders Nilsson because he had sacrificed to the gods of the Sámi people, and had the audacity to assault the pastor who tried to confiscate his sacred drum.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/diarmaid-macculloch/fighting-monks
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Yet another Bridge to Nowhere
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