Jason2357

Being told something and getting it are two completely different things. Most people just don’t understand the difference -we have failed at educating here. One thing I have noticed is that people understand avoiding American companies, even when they don’t understand avoiding closed/walled gardens. It’s a decent hook to get people reconsidering, but it’s a long slow process.

It’s a literal national security threat to become dependent on starling, as demonstrated in Ukraine. We can build our own networks and support other LEO internet projects.

Only a headline because of current events south of the border. Ontario does this every year at this time. Letters home before march break, several more after, likely a phone call from public health, then suspensions. The last part rarely happens because the anti-vaxxers just get an exemption for some bullshit reason. So it’s mostly just a threat so that people aren’t too lazy to get something done.

You identify with the term fiscal conservative, but in practice, everything you advocate is straight up liberal. It proves the point that the term is meaningless. Everyone wants to spend efficiently, it’s just the priorities that distinguish conservative from liberal.

Looks like a LOWESS curve (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression). They always overfit, but are still useful to show trends. The main danger is that they get wonky near the limits of the data. Note that that increase at the end of the left plot for Democrats looks like it is increasing -but that increase looks to be 100% dependent on that single data point for '25. Obviously, you never want your analysis to be dependent on a single point like that.

I'm not sure you are vehemently agreeing with me, or somehow arguing the semantics that "even worse" and "much worse" mean something substantially different.

Indeed, see the context - I'm referring to the fact that Firefox is nearly 100% funded by advertisers, but separated by an arms-reach organization. Chrome is precisely 100% funded by advertisers, and under the complete control of an advertising company. Chrome is clearly worse, but Firefox is long-term problematic because that advertising money is going to whittle away at that separation eventually.

Oh wow, I almost bought into proton with hard-earned dollars just a few days ago. Glad that was on the backburner until now! holy smokes! Task cancelled! Thank you.

They made a shitty change to their TOS regarding sharing user data with advertisers, then backtracked (appropriately, imho). It's the same issue as always - Firefox costs Mozilla millions of dollars to develop and maintain, and it's entirely funded by advertising companies. I personally think Mozilla does a pretty good job of balancing interests, but that is a long term problematic relationship for privacy respecting software. I don't think any of the forks solve that problem, as they are still dependent on all of Mozilla's development money to keep going, and Chrome based browsers are even worse. Modern browsers are just too damned expensive! Anyway, the drama: https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/?guccounter=1

Exactly, never assume silence is because they have changed their minds. They only just discovered it doesn't play well in polling and are avoiding the topic. Unless they actively say they have changed their mind, they haven't (and even then be skeptical). Ontario learned this the hard way several times in a row.

Reagan's success was convincing the Democrats to under-correct and fully buy-into trickle-down neoliberalism for decades. That way, when people get fed up with it, a Republican gets to claim to be a third option against all those mainstream globalists who's going to bring jobs back to America. The marks don't recognize it was the Republican's who started it in the first place.

Tesla does not have independent dealers. All stores are corporate owned.

Paywalled... but. TheStar has 6 months for a buck right now -might be worth paying to follow their election and tariff coverage, which is pretty good, and avoid all those American owned papers entirely.