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  • Canadian Bill S-209 to implement age verification federally has advanced forward.

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  • Is there anything to stop the government side from compiling a list of users and the sites that request verification? Because that just makes a centralized target for hacking or internal crime. There's got to be a way that allows for both verification and zero trust :/

  • Let's blame the right people, k?

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  • With all that money we earned with those wages that stagnated and positions that were never freed up. Got it.

    Or we could have voted for all those millennial politicians, for the past 20 years, to push forward the policies we have been asking for.

  • gotta step up our game fr

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  • But I am guessing your argument is you can’t rehabilitate a billionaire or something. You are wrong btw if you think that.

    You can not rehabilitate the thousands of people who's lives were worsened by a billionaires actions. They commit crimes on a scale so insane that they need to be addressed in an entirely different way from conventional crime. They don't rob a business and kill a store keeper, they put thousands of people out of work and leave them unable to support themselves and their families. They destroy lives for the sake of personal gain on an industrial scale.

    A single armed man in a stadium couldn't do as much harm to humanity as a multi-billionaire does from his desk.

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  • Stealing billions is stealing hundreds and thousands of lifetimes of work from society. When crimes are at that scale they should receive the kind of attention that ensures 100%, that the accused will receive a punishment equal to the lives they have destroyed through greed.

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  • Lets say a real person, who is doing very well in a job that contributes to society, can take home 150k a year. And lets say they work from 18 to 65, that's about a $7M career over 50-ish years.

    The crook in OPs post stole more than 440 lifetimes of wealth. Even if he were to be put to work paying off that debt in the highest paying position which productively aids society (no lawyering, no managing, no marketing, no internet fame bs) it wold take him over 440 LIFETIMES to pay it off.

    You can sentence him to 18,000 years of prison but he will never receive even 0.5% of that punishment.

  • B.C. interested in social media ban for kids, following Manitoba

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  • Linux based OSs should be able to implement this more easily than Windows. The caregiver user has permissions higher than the child user, and is given a set of special tools for content control. Root remains root. In Android the situation would be similar.

    iOS and MacOS can go pound sand.

    I like the DNS solution, that's a pretty reasonable way to provide granular control over web access.

  • B.C. interested in social media ban for kids, following Manitoba

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  • Mandate sane, and strong, parental control over devices.

    Devices for minors should require, by law, a caregiver's device be paired with it. That caregiver gets to set access to websites or apps by white or blacklist with a bunch of sane, easy to use, default lists. When the kid hits 16 they can have an adult device, at which point they have hopefully been taught how to safely use the web over the previous decade.

    App developers and websites found to bypass these controls face legal action at a federal level, and lazy or negligent parents still have the option to give their kid a blacklist with 0 entries.

  • B.C. interested in social media ban for kids, following Manitoba

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  • I don't think the Canadian govt. is going to be unperson anyone in the near future, but I can see personally identifying information mixed with platform activity being grabbed by bad actors and used for fraud, identity theft, or blackmail.

  • When my sons with autism are sent home from school, they've learned the problem is them — not the system

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  • Is it vaccines? Processed foods? A lack of Christian morals?

    Fill us in!

  • Ontario hospitals announce job cuts as nearly three-quarters try to climb out of financial holes

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  • HEALTHCARE SHOULD BE A GOVERNMENT SERVICE

    Healthcare should be a total financial loss. Like a military or a library, the value is in the service they provide.

    Fire the MBA shits who have made a "career" of turning hospitals into profit generating businesses and there will be an overnight boost in care given per dollar spent.

  • Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada

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  • You might be more paranoid than I am, but I check every unexpected link from messages claiming to be businesses if I open them at all. Usually I'll go to their website and check for what the message claims if it seems plausible.

  • Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar”

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  • Sound like the vehicles are not safe enough for use on public roads.

  • Steam Controller review leaks, but price of Steam Machine accessory may disappoint

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  • The Steam Deck has an absolutely fantastic set of inputs. If the new controller comes with the all the same bells and whistles then it will be well worth the price.

  • Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada

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  • No one in the western world who has a smart phone is not aware of phone scams. Everyone has been told not to trust random links in text messages, usually by the banks and businesses that are being used in these scams, but 'just this time, it looks safe, they've always been safe before."

    This kind of online-safety thinking needs to be drilled into people like wearing seatbelts and brushing your teeth.

  • Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in Canada

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  • Only a problem if you follow random links you get in your messages. So old people and the technologically illiterate.

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • China is different from the western world.

    Western corps have money in mind when they collect data, whether legally or illegally, and use it to increase sales or fuck over competitors. They don't work together in a coordinated way to help a particular government work an agenda.

    All Chinese corps that work internationally are compelled to work for the party. If that means allowing access to customer data or actively collecting certain types of data then they do it. This means it's possible to correlate massive amounts of data from many sources in a way that is not feasible for western governments.

    Consider, what if China wanted to know where the PM was at any point in time, anywhere in the world? They have access to data collected by every Chinese phone app and every Chinese EV. They could start by identifying the devices owned by the PM's staff or friends via TikTok, WeChat, Aliexpress, Temu, or a car's user profile. A lot of users just click "allow all" which gives the app access to contacts, browsing data, etc.

    From there they could identify the PM's devices, even if they have no Chinese software on them, by correlating the mac addresses of devices and their location. If he makes a public appearance and several identified people are seen with him then it gets even easier. Once the PM's devices' mac addresses are identified they can be tracked anytime they, or his staff, get within 100 feet of a BYD car or phone running a Chinese app (where the user enabled all privileges).

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • Chinese businesses don't get the loans they need to grow if they are not 100% inline with the party. BYD may not be a genocidal slave owner but they will support China's decisions every step of the way.

    They really did a min-maxed speedrun of capitalism. The rich get to be rich, the government gets to imprison, enslave, and execute anyone who doesn't support them, and that let them undercut all the existing big names in manufacturing. I would bet that there is a Chinese manufactured part in every home in the world that also has electricity and plumbing.

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • Open Source! When you can audit the software you know what's going on!

  • China trade deal has Canadians looking forward to cheaper electric vehicles

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  • Any other government would have to work with manufactures operating in other countries, it would be a big project to get all the different parties involved on the same page quietly.

    The Chinese government can dictate what Chinese manufactures do, there is no negotiating or wrangling, just you do it or you are replaced by someone who can. Non compliant business don't get to be international businesses.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Belt Holster for USB Power Supply

  • A community about FPV drones/wings/planes, freestyle, racing, etc. @lemmy.ml
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    First year of progress flying FPV

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  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world
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    March 14 Lunar Eclipse

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  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    My cat in a running wheel.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Self Built Home Monitoring System

  • Astrophotography @lemmy.world
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    C/2023 A3

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    Half Life Universe Schwag!

  • Electronics @discuss.tchncs.de
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    Water Reactive EL Panels

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    First Functional Print

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    First Functional Print

  • Physics @mander.xyz
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    Automatic Balancing Balls

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  • Digital Art @lemmy.world
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    Rain

  • Generative Art @lemmy.ml
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    Rain

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    1990 - 2005 Gaming Build

  • Toronto @lemmy.ca
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    Court dismisses legal challenge to Ontario Place redevelopment

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/toronto/court-ontario-place-for-all-application-dismissed-environmental-assessment-1.7232147
  • Steam Deck @lemmy.ml
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    "Why don't you go outside and play?"

  • Digital Art @lemmy.world
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    Waves - Cellular Automata

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Repaired and repainted a curbside CRT to match my NES.

  • Physics @mander.xyz
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    DIY Paul Ion (Particle) Trap

  • Astronomy @mander.xyz
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    Fake Vs Counterfeit Eclipse Glasses. Did You Get Any?