This looks really cool actually. I’ve created an account. Thanks for sharing!

Now I just have to find a #solarpunk “pub” :-)

Hard disagree, on both points.

Legacy media is performatively left-leaning, but it’s still beholden to monied interests. Nearly all newspapers have dropped their labour beat, and news stories regularly talk about the economy in the context of the state of the stock market rather than that of wealth inequality.

And just like Trump, Poilievre is only vulnerable on the left. Where do you think all of that support is coming from? They’re not all gun-toting, women/minority-hating fascists. The vast majority of those who support the extreme right in Canada (and the US, and the rest of the world) are people who are hurting financially and whom the left have abandoned.

If you want to beat a right-wing populist, you have to fight for the working class. We need parties that fight for things like:

• Building homes
• Banning private jets
• Banning money from politics
• Rights for gig workers
• Worker rights and union support in general
• Food safety
• Road safety
  • Ban monster trucks
  • Build cheap, safe transport for everyone
• Universal health care
• A wealth cap

The only thing Poilievre has going for him is the absolute rage people feel when politicians claiming to be “left-wing” get elected on “change” and then turn around and put the screws to those who have nothing left to give while wealth inequality continues to rise along with sea temperatures. He’s an absolute weasel, but the left has so utterly failed to do its job, it’s no surprise they’re willing to vote for him – he’s the only one talking about how Canadians are suffering ffs.

• Liberals: “The economy is doing great!”
• NDP: “You may be working 3 jobs, but at least there’s dental care!”
• Conservatives: “Your life is shit and it’s that brown person’s fault!”

The way to win this is to try to salvage some credibility and come out against the oligarchs and corporations that are literally killing us. Demonstrate that you’ll help balance things out. You need to turn Conservative rhetoric against them and be bold for a change. Be fucking angry on our behalf and demonstrate a willingness to solve the Big Problems.

Or they can lean to the right. It worked great for Biden/Harris. Oh wait.

Do it! Best decision I ever made.

Unless by “overseas” you mean “to the US of some other oppressive country”. In that case maybe don’t do it.

This may not be a popular position, but stay with me: most companies don’t need big servers.

I’ve been working in this industry for 25 years, and in my experience, nearly every company I’ve worked with could have hosted all of their internal and external services on consumer hardware and even a cluster of low-power devices like the Raspberry Pi.

The real limiter isn’t hardware, but network access. You can have a massive k8s cluster in your office, but if your network provider flakes out, your business goes away.

So, I would argue that what we really need is colocated network hubs all over the world capable of hosting cheap hardware. Mythic Beasts here in the UK does stuff like this for example, to get effect.

There are unions that operate outside of trades too. CWU here in the UK for example. As a software engineer, I joined UTAW, a branch of CWU just a few weeks ago.

Sure, but what you “get done” on your own is statistically irrelevant. To achieve useful, measurable success in the fight against climate change, collective action must be taken at scale. That’s government.

Neat trick! I’ve enabled it on my phone now, though it does say that it’s probably better to use a guest user for such situations… I don’t know how to do that either.

Still, this is additionally handy when I want to let my kid briefly use my phone.

This may all be moot though, if the state requires you to install a government app with invasive permissions just for this situation. Yet another reason to give up driving!

I didn’t know about this project, but it looks very cool!

Just we need, an excuse for a cop to take your unlocked phone away to his car to do whatever he likes with it.

I’ve used pdfkit to considerable success. It has a few system-level dependencies, but the instructions are pretty straightforward:

# apt-get install wkhtmltopdf
$ pip install pdfkit

To be fair, if you live in a world where the only thing that matters is the fossil fuel industry (a popular worldview in Alberta), then the idea of pulling together with the same provincial leaders that have made it ever-so-slightly more difficult to export those fuels probably doesn’t sound appealing.

Given that frame, dealing directly with the Americans (with whom they have an existing market and distribution route) makes sense. She has something they want, and Trump is notorious for claiming that he can “do a deal” with parties legally incapable of dealing with him.

Add to that the fact that the federal government is about to be swapped out for a fossil-friendly regime, and she doesn’t need to take the other provinces seriously. It was more valuable to her politically to snub the council and win points domestically.

Is this part 2 of 3 or part 2 of 2?

Paris has had quite the face lift in the last few years, with massive expansion of parks and cycling infrastructure and heavy restrictions of car traffic. You may be pleasantly surprised.

I’ve been using Linux for 25 years. I started with SuSe, switched to RedHat after a couple months, and after a few more months switched to Gentoo… for 10 years, then did Arch for the remainder.

Frankly, I think that distro hopping is a bad idea because it means you don’t get enough time really understanding how to fix things. As a long time Arch user, it would never occur to me to throw out 10+years of tooling and scripts, muscle memory and shorthand to fix a driver issue. I would read the wiki top to bottom and then go spelunking through other sources until I find the solution (then update the wiki) before I’d switch to something foreign with its own set of problems and unknowns.

My advice is to find a distro that makes sense to you, and that has a deployment pattern you like and commit to it for a few years. Don’t switch unless you find something that fulfills those two requirements even better, and even then do so cautiously. Your experience and understanding is hard-won.

Sweet, thanks!

It’s a cool idea, but the way it tightly couples itself to a model, forcing db calls for something like this kinda ties your hands.

For high-content sites like blogs for example, the idea that a template tag would kick out to the db for every post on the page is too much.

Instead, it’d be nice to decouple the bot detection from the gibberish generation so you could do useful things like precache the gibberish in Redis or on your content object directly and then just do {% if is_bot %}{{ post.gibberish }}{% else %}{{ post.content }}

Good to know, thanks. Where do I find the complete BDS list?

Ooh! I have something for this.

This is pretty slick, but doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever? How much processing do you do of those forms for example?

YouTube link for anyone else who’s having trouble getting the above to steam anything.