It’s not just minor (or major, such as the limits of electromagnetic spectrum) technical differences. The streaming services — unlike cable TV — are not serving the main function that traditional television broadcasts did. There is no “channel 4” to tune in to any more. Not in this household anyway, they cut off the broadcast signals that used to reach here many years ago. Some of the big streaming services do live streams, in which case they’re getting a little closer to traditional broadcaster territory in terms of their function, but for the most part it’s video on demand which is clearly different.

Some more different than others of course. The average youtube video probably gets about zero views. Even videos pretty near the top of the popularity charts might usually have at most one person watching at any given time. How is that anything like broadcasting?

I think they ought to be treated more like social media companies. Twitter does video, is it a broadcaster? Whatever it is, it poses problems for us that are more like those of the streaming services.

Canada’s broadcasting regulator

Netflix is not a broadcaster. It’s not even like a broadcaster. Broadcasting means you are casting things … broadly. Throwing seeds into the field without caring about where each individual one lands. Transmitting a signal that anyone can tune in to if they’re in range.

The streaming services are sending individual streams of bits to specific users over IP. Nobody is in danger of receiving them unless they’ve subscribed to the service. They won’t cause any radio interference. They do not use up valuable public spectrum. Stop pretending they’re broadcasters. Broadcasters are well on their way to being obsolete and that’s both acceptable and inevitable.

Go ahead and make them do Canadian Content somehow if you must, but I worry that persisting with this fundamental misconception about how streaming services work doesn’t seem likely to lead towards good regulation in the long run.

Sucks if you’re in France. For the rest of us it should be interesting to see which of these VPN providers choose to comply by geo-blocking France, which choose to cut any ties they have with France and otherwise ignore the order, and which to abandon their mission and become agents of censorship on behalf of France.

By the way, don’t forget to make a good backup before you start messing with backup scripts. Also, if the reason you’re keeping twelve different backups is to see how things changed over time, put it in git instead.

I was going to give some suggestions, but it’s easiest to say it like this:

if ( ! test -d ~/Backups ) ; then exit; fi
cd ~/Backups
count=`ls -d Main-* | wc -l`
if [ count -gt 11] ; then 
    rm -rf `ls -rtd Main-* | head -$((count - 11))`
fi
rsync -aL ~/Main Main-`date -Ihours`

You’d run something like that every six hours. Don’t expect it to work, but maybe it could help get you started.

In that case, request a refund and just forget about the game. It’s that little bit worse for the publisher who chose Denuvo.

To quote the minister, “no.”

The Globe and Mail pointing out the obvious a year ago: “Cutting shelter costs while ensuring that homeowners’ property values remain high could be viewed as contradictory.”

or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, –++Linux+±-

The current problem is that housing prices are too high and must come down. Getting the government back into the business of directly building affordable housing is one effective way to accomplish that. If whatever they do doesn’t bring prices down then they haven’t done enough, and the problem remains.

It’s centrally important and means that they are still in denial. Real prices must come down — as you say, due to basic principles of supply and demand — if the problem is going to be solved. But they cannot be allowed to come down, because that’s another financial crisis waiting to happen. And nobody wants more inflation either. It’s quite a dilemma.

He used more words, but “no” is the important one there.

What do you mean? I’m sure the minister of artificial intelligence will do a fine job, working closely with the minister of cryptocurrency and the minister of cloud experiences to engage transformative leverage in a way that will enhance governance innovation.

The real story, such as it is, appears to be that someone made an MS Word macro which can load and execute malicious code from other files such as a jpeg, supposedly to make automated detection of it less likely.

In some places it was already corrupt in the 1990s, and just steadily got worse since then.

In Ottawa it’s in August but wanting to be different than the USA in every possible way isn’t a great reason for wanting to go through the hassle of trying to change it.

Sometimes it seems to me that just maybe it could be possible that the same two or three companies controlling the entire supply of a crucial component for decades at a time is not really enough to enable the magic hand of capitalism to provide a healthy competitive market.

The outlets of the French river on Georgian Bay are full of wonderful places to visit if you ever get the chance. Try splashing around in the water there and imagine a giant port with ocean-going freighters.

The linked article provides no support for the insane idea of “revisiting” this interesting but now-obsolete plan. It mentions that the St. Lawrence Seaway was built instead.

if patents are meant to protect new inventions, how come Nintendo is asserting patents for which it applied months after Palworld launched?

The answer, it turns out, is ridiculous legal bullshit that makes no sense. Just like most of patent law.

Taler does use crypto, aka cryptography, to make sending payments securely anonymous. That is the main point of it.

Target audience: People who want to pay for stuff anonymously through the Internet. It’s a large and underserved market.

It’s a big part of why people got so excited about bitcoin, and why it was so disappointing when it spectacularly failed to be any good at that application.