Google facing a new antitrust probe in Europe over content it uses for AI
The European Union is investigating Google for potential antitrust violations related to its AI models.
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank account
Google says Chrome's new AI creates risks only more AI can fix
: 'User Alignment Critic' will review agentic actions so bots don't do things like emptying your bank accountThomas Claburn (The Register)
Sean Fraser défend la fin de l’exception religieuse prévue au Code criminel
Sean Fraser défend la fin de l’exception religieuse prévue au Code criminel
Un amendement proposé par le Bloc québécois doit recevoir l’aval des libéraux mardi après-midi.Boris Proulx (Le Devoir)
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman
America Has Become a Digital Narco-State
Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully EuropePaul Krugman
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
More than 9,000 children in Gaza hospitalised for acute malnutrition in October, UN says
Aid agencies say Israel is still restricting their aid shipments despite ceasefire announced two months agoJulian Borger (The Guardian)
The “Combatting Hate Act” is part of a wave of anti-protest legislation in Canada
The “Combatting Hate Act” is part of a wave of anti-protest legislation in Canada | CCPA
On September 19, amidst a flurry of other new federal legislation, Justice Minister Sean Fraser introduced Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act.Changiz M. Varzi (CCPA)
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I live in Calgary, and these laws come down to enforcement, and it will not be enforced evenly by CPS. We already have a Charter that CPS will just ignore on a regular basis because it will protect groups CPS brass doesn't want to protect.
They never have a problem restricting the actions of groups that threaten the status quo, while refusing to enforce rules on groups they sympathize with.
I don't think these laws really help because of that disparity with enforcement.
a nation state can probably find a way
There's no "probably", they can surely find the way, because the decryption key is saved on Microsoft servers, they just need a subpoena for getting it
IMO, this does nothing because it only gives Microsoft full access to your device. And if you're special enough to get the attention of someone capable and willing to physically steal your laptop, install a bootkit on it and give it back to you without you even noticing, then it's just easier to just download the decryption keys from Microsoft at this point. It could have made all of this local like storing it in the TPM, a secure area of the CPU.
Full disk encryption is cool, but not when tethered to Microsoft. With that, they brought themselves into a nasty position even if they didn't want to. Just like when Apple made themselves the sole source of installing programmes on the iPhone devices. China gladly used that and is gladly using that.
I was talking less install a bootkit and giving it back to be and more just straight-up stealing the laptop and seeing if they can get any personal info they can sell before formatting it and eBaying it.
Still, your points are totally valid.
Is it possible to use LUKS with a password with a Windows NTFS partition and just have GRUB decrypt it to let Windows boot? Don't intend to dual boot Windows ever but just curious.
Frankly I trust a password stored in my brain way more than whatever keys the TPM is storing. No way something being pushed this hard by Westoid tech corporations doesn't have a backdoor that just unlocks everything for "approved" parties.
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Why Co-ops Are the Solution to Our Housing Crisis
Why Co-ops Are the Solution to Our Housing Crisis | The Walrus
Years-long wait lists show a model people want but governments keep ignoringLudovic Viger (The Walrus)
And it has the same problem as every other current solution.
Yes coops can keep prices from rising over time, but they do nothing to make units affordable up front.
Where the fuck are you going to get the capital to build/buy enough units to make it do anything?
The entire government budget looks tiny compared to the current value of the real estate market. The government couldn't even realistically fund building or purchasing 1-2% of the units in the country as coops, let alone enough units to make a difference in the market.
There are other better policies.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
CMHC already has programs available to fully fund non-market housing initiatives as long as you can meet certain requirements. One of the biggest issues is that nearly everybody sees housing as an investment and not simply a shelter so if there's no money in it then they aren't interested.
Go grab the total amount they have funding for, then grab the number for the total value of the Canadian housing market.
Then tell me again that their programs are anything but PR bullshit so they can pretend they're doing something.
It's not that people see it as an investment, it's that the government allows it to be an investment. It doesn't have to be that way. They could fix it overnight with a new tax policy. It would just destroy the retirement plans of millions of people because the government let this go on too long. We'd have affordable housing overnight though.
You don't fix a breaking dam with scotch tape.
You put in the effort to fix it properly, or you let the fucking thing collapse and deal with the consequences.
This is where we're at for housing.
Certainly not with a bunch of small patches.
You bring in the big guns and move the fucking earth.
How does that apply to the housing market? You bring out financial policy that makes homes worthless as investments, even for regular home owners, and destroy the asset value of homes almost completely.
One policy could literally drop housing prices by 80% by itself, it just can't get passed by out government because voters don't actually want affordable housing. The vast majority of Voters are invested in the market and have no interest in throwing away hundreds of thousands of dollars to make things affordable for others.
There are already more bedrooms in Canada than people by quite a margin, and that doesn't even take into account that most couples share a room.
It's fairly easy to do the math, stats Canada has released numbers of units by bedroom count a few times. You just do a little multiplication and realize there are 50 million bedrooms for 45 million people.
The problem is not supply, it's demand. Theoretically demand could be overcome with supply, but realistically it cannot.
The easiest way to fix this whole mess is to reduce demand. It could literally be done overnight with tax policy. It would crash a good portion of the economy, and wipe out the retirement plans of millions of people, but it would result in affordable housing immediately.
It would crash a good portion of the economy
it will lead to Canada as a failed state. 80% of all the wealth of Canada is tied up in real estate.
It definitely wouldn't lead to a "failed state" situation.
Wealth tied up in real estate is almost entirely unproductive. Losing it would cause some downstream problems for certain things and specific real estate based holding companies but it's definitely not the end of the economy or anything.
If my house was worth 50% less tomorrow morning, not much would change for me except I'd need to start adjusting my long term plans for retirement. I wouldn't (just barely) even be underwater on my mortgage.
No, it doesn't.
In Canada, housing coops get grants and tax exemptions to get major capital projects done, even more to start one. Governments like coops because they ease social housing burden.
The reason they aren't more popular is that a developer can't extract nearly as much profit from building them vs private builds.
I know this because I ran the board of a co-op for almost a decade.
You aren't disagreeing with me.
If nobody wants to fund them, they won't exist, and as I mentioned the government can't fund them itself.
So... Useless idea.
More sabotage, Western patronage: what is known about terrorist acts prevented by Russia
More sabotage, Western patronage: what is known about terrorist acts prevented by Russia
Twenty-four criminals and their accomplices have been neutralized and over 2,000 have been detained through the coordinated efforts of security agencies since the beginning of the yearTASS
Australia’s world-first social media ban begins as millions of children and teens lose access to accounts
Millions of children and teens lose access to accounts as Australia’s world-first social media ban begins
Accounts held by users under 16 must be removed on apps that include TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, Snapchat, Reddit, Kick, Twitch and Threads under banJosh Taylor (The Guardian)
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Clojure Interactive Programming for Visual Studio Code
Learn how to use Calva, a rich IDE for enjoyable and productive Clojure and ClojureScript Interactive Programming in VS Code.calva.io
My university chose to teach a pure functional lisp-like language without for loops as they very first programming course in the computer science program lol. Everyone who "already knew" how to program in Python/Java/JS/etc hated it (including me at the time) because it knocked us from the peak of the Dunning-Kruger curve into the valley of despair like everyone else.
Took me years to understand the method to the madness and appreciate learning it.
Easy to install on any system, and has a decent text editor/IDE provided.
Also, the documentation is great, but can be daunting at first.
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI. | Mistral AI
Introducing: Devstral 2 and Mistral Vibe CLI.
State-of-the-art, open-source agentic coding models and terminal AI.Mistral AI (mistral.ai)
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