Waterfox has sold its users out before. DDG hasn't (as far as I know)

The fact that Waterfox sold themselves to a search/advertising company before, then mysteriously became "independent" again doesn't inspire trust. I'll stick to Librewolf.

Careful civil disobedience is the sensible way to deal with an uncivilized government.

Has Trump ever made a truthful claim in his entire life? He's like the personification of confidently incorrect.

It's "razor-close" because of the how many individual ridings were within tens of votes. There will be tons of recounts. The result could've easily been much different, and may still be different. This was a very close election.

Obviously it depends on what you consider "better". Yes we're first past the post, and yes it sucks. The only party who wants to try to change it is the NDP. We'll see if they get a chance to.

The leader of the Liberals, Mark Carney and the new Prime Minister of Canada, has been described as "wicked smart". He has a PhD in economics from Oxford. He led the Bank of Canada through the 2008 financial crisis, a crisis in which Canada fared better than almost all the rest of the world, then he ran the Bank of England (first non-UK person to ever do so I believe) during Brexit, and that probably was also not as catastrophic as it could/should have been for the UK economy. He is an economist and central banker, not a career politician per se. This appears to have appealed to Canadians. He said all the right things, in my view, now we get to see if he can deliver on any of them, especially being limited to another minority government as it looks like at the moment.

Liberals are supposedly centrist, and although the previous government under Trudeau leaned left, and were pulled further left by the fact that they were stuck in an NDP-propped minority, that was the previous government. However under the new leader Mark Carney, most people agree he swings more to the right, although they're still more centrist than the Conservatives, and it still looks like they will probably be propped up by the NDP in a very slim minority.

The Conservatives (formerly Progressive Conservatives, who dropped the Progressive part when they merged with a far-right party called the Reform party) that have a big tent they've continued stretching further and further right over the decades, to bring in some very undesirable people and attitudes, including most recently the antivax convoy protest supporters and the "Maple MAGA" people who want us to become the 51st state. They now also seem to have consumed the People's Party (another far-right splinter group).

I'm biased, but yes I think the Liberals are better than the Conservatives. Canadian political views have been twisted by relentless shifting of the overton window so it's really hard to tell where the political "center" actually is anymore. If you consider what the center was 20-30 years ago, I think the today's NDP (considered both then and now a far-left, working class party) is now pretty close to that.

The Greens are a pretty dysfunctional party kept afloat by a few locally popular, genuine, idealistic candidates with strong integrity, only one of whom appears to have survived the strategic voting purge this election. I don't consider them particularly relevant in Canadian politics at this point. Obviously, they are focused on environmental goals and climate change, which are issues I support although not to the exclusion and detriment of all else. Their proposed plans for actually addressing it tend to be, in my estimation, relatively incoherent, ranging from weak to naive to implausible.

We still have an awful lot of work to do to fix our democracy and actually unite Canadians, despite the claims that everyone felt united by Trump's threats, this election was full of red flags if you actually look at the numbers they show we're about as far from united as we can possibly be, and it is going to be a herculean task to change that. We need to stop the flood of misinformation, especially the really toxic stuff targeting and radicalizing our youth who are going to be the next generation of politicians and voters. We are not in a healthy place, AT ALL, and my only hope is that between the Liberals and NDP they can both agree on how serious these threats really are and take serious steps to address them.

Strategic voting was just a delay tactic. Liberal gains came at the cost of the NDP and Bloc, not the Conservatives. The wolves of facism are circling and while we have kept them at bay for now, we did so by lighting a Liberal bonfire using the third parties as fuel, and it's not going to last forever.

That's exactly right. They also had managers/publishers telling them to do shit like make the rockets even wobblier than KSP1 because it made for funny viral videos that would get more PR.

Nobody who actually played the game wanted wobblier rockets than KSP1. Nobody really wanted wobbly rockets at all. Sometimes a bug can actually be a feature, but in this case, it really was just a bug. The people in charge didn't ever care about the people who actually played the game, they just wanted sales, and they made decisions accordingly. That's why it looks nice, but plays like shit.

He said "ambition" at least 3 times in his speech and I am here for it. I have always maintained that Canadians are ambitious people, but lately our governments have acted like, and to some extent convinced Canadians, that we're a minor, irrelevant backwater that has no business dealing with greater world powers, particularly the USA who it's implied we should be subservient to. This self-sabotaged foreign policy has really damaged not only our own national identity but also our standing worldwide. Just as we felt betrayed by the USA turning its back on us and threatening us, when we turned away from our international support and peacekeeping roles many in the rest of the world beyond the USA felt betrayed by us too, albeit to a much lesser, but still perceptible degree.

We are the 9th largest economy in the world and the 1st largest territory. We have a major role to play in the world, and we need to understand that and take responsibility for it. We say things like "resource superpower" but we never really believe it. I think Carney believes it though, and better yet understands it, and I hope he's going to finally make Canada believe it. Not only are we the world's 9th largest economy, I think we can be, and we're going to be, even more than that. It is time for Canada to be ambitious and stand on the world stage again. We can ride this wave of nationalism to rebuild our Canadian Forces, protect the Arctic, and return to peacekeeping and defending democracy and fundamental human rights which are so heavily under attack around the world right now. Canada should once again become a beacon for good that others can rally around.

For simple "apps" it is fine, but my computer is not a phone and I don't use it like one. I mostly don't want simple apps that have their own little sandbox to play in.

I want full-scale applications that are so big they have to use system libraries to keep their disk size down. I also don't want them in a sandbox. I want them to have full access to the system to do everything they need to do, I want them to integrate with far-flung parts of the system and other applications too. I only use applications I trust and don't want them constantly pestering me about configuring permissions and access in just the right ways and opening all the right doors and ports and directories to make them work, I trust them by installing them, they have permission, and the easier they make it to access everything I will inevitably be asking them to access, the happier I am.

My practical concern with distribution methods like AppImage and Flatpak is that now I have to do a lot of extra thinking every time I'm installing anything. To pick how I'm going to install something, I have to solve the matrix of "what kind of distribution method do I prefer for this type of software" combined with "what distribution methods are available for this software" and "what versions are the available distribution methods for this software" and "what distribution method provides the best way for this software to get updates".

In the olden days, when the distro's package manager was the only choice, all I had to care about was "is it available in my distro" and the decision tree was complete. I appreciate all the availability of choice that things like AppImage provide, but it doesn't actually make it easier for me, it just makes it easier for the packager of the software. They're doing less, but making more work for me, as a user. Distro packages are a lot of work for the maintainer precisely because they at least make an effort to solve many of these issues for the user. The value-add that maintainers provide is real.

Some people are silly. And I embrace that silliness.

Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you're going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you're going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.

I'm increasingly convinced Democratic leadership is in on it.

It's not about learning racism. It's about learning why people are choosing racism, and figuring out ways to do something about it. Nobody's saying politics has be a polite debate between equally valid positions. Politics is about finding practical ways to defeat your enemy. And make no mistake, these racists and fascists are our enemies. The ones can be turned away from it or turned to our side, should be, and the ones that can't, must be destroyed.

Being political is a civic duty. Doing otherwise just means you get to pretend you're not responsible when the government does something you disagree with. This entire country is everyone's responsibility, whether you like it or not, whether you want that responsibility or not, a citizen doesn't get to abdicate that responsibility for any reason. Even when our votes don't win the election, we are still responsible. If avoiding responsibility was as easy as voting for a party or candidate that doesn't win, or not voting at all, who would bother? If you can just say "I'm not responsible because I didn't vote for them" how are you ever going to get any control again? How are you going to avoid ending up under a tyrant? How are you going to change the status quo if you do nothing? Try something new, stop doing the same thing you always have and expecting a different result.

Take responsibility. Be political. Your success and even your survival depends on it.

That's the American spirit that I, as a Canadian, want to see! It's your country. Don't let them take it!

Goodbye, Tesla, and good riddance. Some salutes will never be forgotten.

I have been constantly asking myself why there isn't something like this, and just wondering if maybe I was missing something about the seeming immense complexity of doing this on a small scale.

Now there is something like this.

I don't love PHP, but I also don't love having dozens of separate passwords, keys, certificates and other nonsense to keep track of like I'm doing now. I don't mind using PHP to get around that if I can.

Britain, Canada and the United States have really gone off the rail.

I have been to Britain. I can honestly say Britain is probably one of the most open-minded and tolerant countries in the world.

You said both these things. They make no sense together and seem to show no awareness of the context of your comments. Are you an AI?

Speaking as a software developer, software developers should stick to their lane. There is plenty of stuff the very best software developers are stereotypically terrible at. "Programmer art" is a genuine phenomenon illustrating our lazy, half-baked efforts to create things that we are not expert at. Apparently, "Programmer politics" is another such area of non-expertise, because the tech bros ideas are a fucking stupid fantasy.