Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?

Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.

Doctor Who.

At this point, nobody has them all, but I heard they’re planning to use AI, stills and the audio to regenerate the lost video.

It doesn’t make good headlines though.

What I find odd here is that I predicted exactly this problem back when WhatsApp first started using the protocol. I encouraged people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp because WhatsApp moved discovery outside the security model, where it would just require one “mistake” and all that data could be harvested. Plus, of course, once Meta bought them, they had unfettered access to this data.

Well obviously UN peacekeepers are the real terrorists here, what with them attempting to promote peace and stability in a region where one gets ahead via uncertainty and theft.

The challenge here is that it takes more than money to solve world hunger.

You also need some way to prevent the greedy from hoarding food and using it as a weapon to subjugate others, keeping them hungry.

As usual, the problem isn’t lack of food or lack of money, it’s greedy people not wanting to share.

In my area, the leaves turned from green to brown two weeks ago and fell off last week — something that normally happens at the end of September/beginning of October.

Temperatures are still in the early Autumn range with no dips below freezing yet this season, although it’s finally starting to get close. In past years, it wasn’t unheard of to have snow for Halloween.

My potentially incorrect hot take on it is that the proposed indigenous land rights are completely compatible with regular home ownership and property rights; where they conflict is more with surveyor’s rights and municipal rights.

Meaning, the property can still be bought and sold, but they’d have more control over zoning and resource extraction/management.

Did you know that on property you own, if someone else has a mineral claim staked, they currently have the right to access the land under your home to extract the minerals?

And did you know that the government, at any level, can decide to re-zone your property out from under you for whatever purpose it deems fit, resulting in a property that couldn’t be sold for current use?

The new land rights would mean that these types of actions could no longer happen unilaterally but would need a review by a panel set up by the local indigenous people before it could go ahead.

Essentially, they get to have some control back about HOW the land is used that they managed for thousands of years — land management rights that they never gave up when settlers claimed the land for themselves and began arbitrarily deciding what could be done with it.

If someone has more details, please correct me where I’m wrong here.

[edit] Looks like in these cases, I’m partly wrong — they also want control over private land sale in the outlined regions. This still needs to be worked out.

It’s also worth pointing out that the Cowichan are claiming these rights to land that is currently privately owned by the Musqueam AND is also their traditional territory. So there’s lots here to still figure out, and it will likely be in the courts for years to come, depressing property values all the while.

Once this precedent is sorted out by the supreme courts, we’re likely going to see similar cases all across Canada.

On the up side, this might be the solution to the housing crisis — but modern property owners may end up losing some of their traditional rights.

You missed Atari and Apple?

The Roma are an easy target because traditionally, they haven’t owned land and have been their own political entity, not beholden to any local government.

This makes them difficult to control, which makes them extremely dangerous to property-based politicians.

Think of it— Western government is generally based on the premise that people who live in defined geographic areas select representatives to govern them. And the Roma live wherever they want, with their own language, culture and politics, and can’t be manipulated based on where they live and who controls that land.

I moved into a place with a Ring doorbell.

I bought myself a Reolink doorbell and swapped them out. Reolink doorbells can be configured to be local storage only with no callhome, and they support RTSP. You can essentially configure them to precisely the privacy model you use — I even have mine set up to black out the parts of the screen that show my neighbors’ property, so it’s not available in recordings or the streaming video.

All the benefits of a Ring without the privacy invasion.

Why is he listed as a Zelenskyy associate instead of by name?

I have to say, the initial reports puzzled me. This begins to make more sense, that someone who doesn’t like site mirroring has been attempting to get the site taken offline.

My guess is that it’s not about CSAM (that was used as the leverage) and it’s probably not about paywalls either.

Most likely, someone wanted to get some unflattering but true information about them removed from the Internet without drawing any attention to it with a RTBF request.

I’m curious: what do you think evolution is?

I don’t really care if there’s only one browser engine — but that engine had better support the latest international standards around stuff like progressive web apps.

Apple still supports PWAs, but they’ve become second class citizens. It should be possible to deploy most software as a PWA from XCode instead of a dedicated binary, including with access to hardware interfaces. And it would still be secure, and wouldn’t require app stores or sideloading.

Why do you þink?

It’s the letter thorn and is pronounced th.

We’re getting closer to discovering dropbears actually existed outside the stories told to tourists….

China must be salivating at the opportunities in Jamaica and Cuba….

Welcome to Peace River, or Alberta Lite….