"This is hurting American big business where it hurts – in the ongoing rents it extracts from Canadians through IP laws like Bill C-11 (the law that bans jailbreaking). Canada could become a global high-tech export powerhouse, selling "complementary" goods that disenshittify all the worst practices of US tech monopolists, from car parts to insulin pumps."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham
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"Canada should tear up these laws – and not impose tariffs on American goods. That way, Canadians can still buy cheap American goods, and then they can save billions of dollars every year on the consumables, parts, software, and service for those goods."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham
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Look, I appreciate what Canada is doing but Cory (@pluralistic a Canadian himself btw) offers a much better way to retaliate:
"What's standing in the way of a Canadian industrial policy that focuses on raiding the sky-high margins of American monopolists with third-party add-ons, mods and jailbreaks?
Only the #IP laws that Canada has agreed to in order to get tariff-free access to American markets. You know, the access that Trump has promised to end..." (cont)
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham
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Tonight's rewatch and you know what day it is (and every day depending on who you ask)...
[#]GroundhogDay #film #films #movie #movies #retro #vintage
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Just under 12 hours away from prices on everything we buy goes up even more in the US aka #tariffs thus damaging the economy even further.
If you need something you want, get it now before midnight tonight.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/north-america-braces-new-trump-tariffs-saturday-deadline-nears-2025-01-31/
https://archive.ph/nRsde
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-trade-tariffs-canada-mexico-who-pays-2024269
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A new study on soundboard-trained #dogs offers insights on their word comprehension levels.
This is why dogs are great!
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/dogs-understanding-words-new-research-1.7326495
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I forgot one thing from yesterday's predictions.
The federal government's freeze on payments late last night is going to accelerate economic and way of life collapse much quickly.
Buckle up!
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My prediction over the next year plus is that the US will go into a deep recession due to tariffs, AI, crypto, M&As, and deregulations among other reasons.
I hope I'm wrong but all signs are pointing into that direction.
Buckle up folks!
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Google has released the source code for PebbleOS, the operating system behind the now dead Pebble smartwatch.
This will bring more life to older Pebble watches and perhaps new watches powered by it in the future. Credit where credit is due I guess.
https://rebble.io/2025/01/27/the-future-of-rebble.html
[#]smartwatch #opensource #os #operatingsystem
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Meanwhile, a #PSA to all #fediverse admins, especially to the server I use in @SDF@social.sdf.org @SDF
You should really block Threads by now if you haven't done so already as they're going to inject ads into their platform.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/24/threads-is-testing-ads-in-the-u-s-and-japan/
[#]fediblock #fedipact #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism
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I fully expect Charter and Comcast to merge over the coming year or so because #antitrust doesn't truly exist anymore (except for the last few years until just last week) as it's going back to the status quo that has been haunting the US for the past 40+ years.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/analysts-think-americas-two-biggest-and-shittiest-cable-giants-comcast-charter-could-merge-under-trump-2-0/
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The PC needs to get better and more personal again as this piece resonates from @benjedwards although it will take a whole lot of federal regulation to do so which is sadly unlikely to come for a generation I'm afraid.
https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again
[#]PC #computer #history
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Some #origami black hole stuff for something fun...
https://xkcd.com/3033/
You should see this, @matera
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Here's three pieces on the summary of the executive orders that the fascist leader signed yesterday, a huge number of them are threats to our democracy and republic at large.
https://www.vox.com/policy/395860/trump-executive-orders-democracy-january-6-pardon-birthright-schedule-f
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/trump-executive-orders-targets-00199302
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-01-21-executive-action-reaction-day-1/
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Yep, and this is only the beginning of the full Splinternet invocation.
https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/113853037699066200
Remember, this can and will happen to any non-US service now so if you use let's say Nextcloud, Mullvad or Proton for instance, it can get banned as well if the US government makes a "national security" excuse.
Very chilling times.
[#]censorship #tech #freespeech #TikTok #tiktokban #privacy #internet #internetcensorship #splinternet
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The latest company into the Internet of Shit bandwagon: #Canon as they want to charge $5 a month just to activate a webcam on a PowerShot G5 X Mark II.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/canon-charges-50-per-year-to-use-a-900-camera-as-a-functional-webcam/
[#]camera #DSLR #internetofthings #IoT #InternetofShit
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So the Nintendo Switch 2 has been teased as it's probably going to be the last hurrah of the console as we know it.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/23872810/nintendo-switch-2-next-generation-console-features-trailer
[#]NIntendo #NintendoSwitch #NintendoSwitch2 #console #games #gaming
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So the Nintendo Switch 2 has been teased as it's probably going to be the last hurrah of the console as we know it.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/23872810/nintendo-switch-2-next-generation-console-features-trailer
[#]NIntendo #NintendoSwitch #NintendoSwitch2 #console
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Wow this is so bad for both students and teachers and is another reason out of many on why teachers are leaving the education field in droves.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/powerschool-data-breach-victims-say-hackers-stole-all-historical-student-and-teacher-data/
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If you watched The Social Network (2010), you can surely see why Zuckerberg is a total asshole and a piece of shit that many people finally saw the light today but if you watched the film back in 2010, the signs were already there.
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