n2burns

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Given how long this has gone on now, it’d probably be best to inform your community that you’ll be removing BLOBs from the source and for them to be produced during build otherwise this shadow is going to remain.

Many of the BLOBs are essential to allow Ventoy to work with Secure Boot. They are compiled and signed by Fedora and OpenSUSE. They definitely need to be better documented, but they aren't reproduceable for good reason.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 29 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Canadians don't feel strongly enough to go through the hassle of rewriting our Constitution.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Considering Trudeaus favorability ratings are currently like, -30, it’s actually significantly more popular than Trudeau himself, which makes me skeptical that the driving force really is just a dislike of Trudeau

I think that's exactly the explanation of how the driving force really is just a dislike of Trudeau. The CPC has done a good job of tainting it as "Trudeau's Carbon Tax". The Environment is a top issue for Canadians. This is just anecdotal, but I live in a rural, conservative area and while you get a lot of ignorance or just hatred of any type of tax, you also get some people who logically understand how it works but simply hate it because it's tied to Trudeau.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago

Because insurance companies are filled with bean-counters (not intended as an insult, I'm a bean-counter in a different field) who want to come out ahead. That's why the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) exists. You'd think organization that does crash tests and promotes new technology would be a government organization, but nope, it's insurance providers that want to minimize payouts.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't support most new nuclear projects, but saying "it never has and never will work without massive subsidies" is asinine. I live in Ontario where roughly half our electricity comes from Nuclear, and that helped keep the cost reasonable for over a generation. France has also seen great success.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

It's an automatic 30 days suspension and 14 day impound. They can (and almost certainly will) extend those. We'll have to see where the trial goes, but in previous cases they've lost their cars.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree with your reservation about Manjaro. However, you did get one thing wrong:

They pushed an update that caused steam to uninstall your desktop environment. Famously covered by linus tech tips…

That was Pop!_OS (unless it happened a second time??)

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago

It's an automatic suspension and impounding. It will almost certainly be extended and other punishments will be handed down, but those repercussions hit immediately, no questions asked.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, if that gets people in places if power to think about climate change, I'll take it!

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Every time I hear, "just one more lane," this video starts playing in my head.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 weeks ago

IMHO, he's always been "Left of Center (for an American)" or maybe neo-Liberal. I would never consider him a Progressive. Now, as we're seeing more progressive lawmakers and some progressive policies being spotlit, the Overton Window is expanding, and he's staying right where he's always been.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

That's a pretty good answer. I knew Mozilla had bought it, and were operating it as an independent subsidiary. I didn't know they promised to open-source it over 7 years ago.

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