Not unless they’re complete boneheads (which, admittedly, is not impossible). If they do that, they effectively lose embed-video-in-external-sites functionality, and that might just be enough for unpaid content creators to dump the platform en masse and cause their effective monopoly to crumble. The content creators who are actually making decent money may never leave entirely, but if another viable platform comes into existence, I bet most of them would mirror to it.
One of the smelters in the Greater Sudbury area has been creating public outcry recently because residents don’t like Mysterious Black Dust appearing all over town. Who’d’a thunk? But if the government’s even asked for a report, I haven’t heard about it. I’d be surprised if they did anything in Hamilton, either.
No extension—even Netscape 1.0 had most of this stuff built in. I use Pale Moon as a primary browser, but the settings required still exist in modern Firefox, under General > Language and Appearance > Contrast Control and General > Language and Appearance > Fonts > Advanced. Note that although the font labels may say “Serif” etc., Pale Moon at least doesn’t care what you put there—you can set “Serif” to a sans font if you like, or vice-versa.
Of the Chrome-based browsers I have lying around for work and emergency purposes, Vivaldi has the font settings under Webpage, but doesn’t have full webpage colour settings (although you can force a dark theme, which might be enough). Chromium has the font settings under Appearance > Customize Fonts, but lacks anything that looks like useful colour settings.
If you’re looking for browser extensions that will restore the colour-forcing functionality for Chrome-based browsers, “Accessibility” is one category to look under.
Like what are the drug cops even supposed to do now, arrest Facebook?
We can only hope.
My browser is set to override the colour scheme of all pages I visit. It breaks the odd site that doesn’t know how to present image content correctly, but I consider that an acceptable tradeoff. It also forces a specific font and minimum font size.
No one actually wants an election right now (not even the Conservatives, if they’re honest about it). I predict that several Opposition MPs are going to mysteriously come down with the flu on the day of the vote, so that it can be passed without anyone admitting why.
I wonder if Gentoo is going to become the last option standing for some of these obsolete arches. Of course, it may only be matter of time before Portage won’t work on wd40 arches either, given the increased uptake of Rust in Python packages.
The problem with nuclear waste is that absolutely no one wants it. Chalk River, with its long history with the nuclear industry, is one of the places least likely to be subject to local protests, but it seems that even that wasn’t good enough.
Short of locking all interested parties in a room together and telling them they can’t leave until they select a disposal site for the waste (which already exists and has to end up somewhere) and sign documents stating they won’t interfere with the use of the site, I’m at a loss regarding what to do.
It’s possible to extract the article text by disallowing both Javascipt and CSS on the site. Relevant portion:
AWS is one of eight suppliers with agreements to provide cloud services to the government. Ottawa has more than 600 contracts with the company, and since 2020, has awarded it more than $220 million in cloud contracts, the review found. That makes AWS the second-largest cloud vendor to the government, though it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the US$33 billion the firm reported Thursday in its third quarter earnings. AWS saw a 20-per-cent year-over-year sales growth this quarter, the largest since 2022, which the company credits to a boom in AI adoption and development.
Within Innovation Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), the cloud infrastructure provided by AWS includes several proprietary solutions for the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the Competition Bureau of Canada and Shared Travel Services, the portal that federal employees use to book and expense work travel.
Switching to a different provider for those services would take two or three years and require multiple teams of four to six full-time employees, the review found. “Alternative service providers with the infrastructure needed to handle ISED applications would almost certainly be other similar hyperscalers,” the analysis said.
“I’m sorry you were offended” is still an apology. We’ll never find out exactly what was said.
There’s a difference between hospitals being public and health care services being public. Drugs for chronic conditions. Dentistry. Optometry. Psychiatric services. Proper handling of transport costs for people not living in large cities who urgently need to see a specialist (Ontario’s reimbursement program for that is joke-worthy). Hospital equipment—constant fundraisers to replace things should not be required. There’s so much stuff that falls between the cracks under the current setup that really should be covered by the government.
So it’s going to be competing with the likes of Hart and Giant Tiger, at least in this neck of the woods. Not sure we need another one of those at the moment.
There actually is a myth in circulation in some places that China’s electrical vehicle tech is somehow advanced over everyone else’s (my father got sucked in by that one). Tearing one apart is one way to counter that.
Canada does not have a monarchy and it is no longer a “dominion”.
Actually, we’re still a constitutional monarchy (the monarch is the de jure head-of-state, but does not wield absolute power), and the designation “Dominion of Canada” was never officially withdrawn as far as I know, it’s just that no one, even the government, uses it anymore. (“Dominion” is effectively meaningless in this context, anyway—it’s a word that was semi-randomly chosen back in the 19th century because people were afraid that “Kingdom of Canada” would give the Americans hives.)
But yeah, we have much better things to do with our time than worry about shenanigans by minor members of the royal family.
The question for me isn’t whether or not there’s a difference that I might be able to see if I were paying attention to the picture quality, it’s whether the video quality is sufficiently bad to distract me from the content. And only hypercompressed macroblocked-to-hell-and-back ancient MPEG1 files or multiply-recopied VHS tapes from the Dark Ages are ever that bad for me. In general, I’m perfectly happy with 480p. Of course, I might just have a higher-than-average immunity to bad video. (Similarly, I can spot tearing if I’m looking for it, but I do have to be looking for it.)
Except that that opens an even larger can of worms.
Currently, the GG is selected on the PM’s recommendation. We’ve gotten away with that so far because there’s a disinterested party staring over the PM’s shoulder in the form of the monarch (reducing the chance of really dodgy recommendations) and because no PM has yet run off the rails the way Trump is doing down south.
In every government decision except the selection of the GG, the GG is the disinterested person staring over the PM’s shoulder. Even if they don’t normally exercise any power, I don’t want a position that could act as a check for the PM being decided on by the PM. So we then have to move to some other method of selecting the GG. The most usual method in other countries is by holding a separate election, but that immediately pisses a huge amount of money down the drain. And that’s without dragging in the constitutional amendment considerations.
I’d rather just spend a trivial (on national budget scales) amount of money on the monarchy and keep the worms firmly enclosed in their cylindrical metal containers, thanks very much.
And that money would just be spent on the new head-of-state instead, if we decided to get rid of the monarchy.
(Don’t suggest making the Prime Minister the head-of-state, even as a joke. Combining the legislative and executive branches is Not A Good Idea.)
More proof that Trump hates free speech (as though we needed more).
On top of that we shouldn’t distribute compiled binaries for the x86 and ia64 chipsets; instead program code should be distributed like .wasm, in a hardware-independent way, and compiled on the target device. That would enable that hardware can use any chipset it wants and there are no software incompatibilities because of it.
You’re describing Gentoo Linux . . . which is not especially popular among Linux distributions even though it runs on just about anything. There may be a reason for that.
If you can’t, it’s probably because no one’s tried yet. (30x30 display’s pretty small, though, so I don’t know how playable it would be.)