make it so

It shows how effective the whole "Albertan independence" campaign by US interlocuters is - it's a lose-lose for Canada either way because the reputational damage it will do to Alberta's economy. And all you need to do this kind of shit is some analysts, a Facebook troll farm, and some weak politicians.

I saw this last night and it was pretty good! Great performances by great actors, interesting themes, good sets, good pacing. Just a great horror film all around. A24 staffed the team with veteran horror producers and gave Kane Parsons everything he needed to succeed with this film, and he sure did. Really pleased to see the success this movie is getting.

Samurai Showdown is a decent fighter

I've gotta go see this. The only thing I saw from Curry Barker before was his Milk and Serial 1 hr movie he released for free on YouTube, which is awesome, so I was stoked when I saw he directed Obsession!

I used pfSense for years and switched to OpenWRT. I highly recommend OpenWRT. pfSense is kinda trash IMHO. I tried to set up traffic shaping, so I could play games while my roommate was watching Netflix, and it just doesn't work as advertised. I tried like 20 different configurations for the traffic shaping, following all the documentation, guides, countless forum threads, etc, and none of it worked properly when you actually test it. At the end of the day, I concluded that nobody understands how to configure traffic shaping on it and even the developers didn't realize it was broken.

OpenWRT, on the other hand, just works better out of the box, and has the right level of customizability for home use. It has a way better ecosystem around it where you can download extra packages with GUIs... it's just much nicer to use, and doesn't have the QA problems I had with pfSense.

The situation kinda sucks but it is what it is. Basically, we've got private delivery firms with non-unionized employees and gig workers taking up the more lucrative package delivery business, with the crappy money-losing mail business going to Canada Post. Uniuni, Dragonfly, and Intelcom are replacing Canada Post. But Canada Post's union shot themselves in the foot by going on strike multiple times, for long enough that businesses switched away from using them because they're seen as unreliable now.

The gig worker model seems to be more efficient and clearly the investors of these companies agree, so I don't see any economic force that's going to stop things from continue in the direction that they are. There is still competition here though between these companies for small parcel delivery, so it's keeping shipping prices down.

P.S. this is also the model for private healthcare in Ontario that they're attempting - farm out the lucrative procedures to private clinics, with the expensive and risky treatments being done in public hospitals. So watch for that...

I have some bad news for you. Like 90% of stories are planted and fed to journalists as part of PR campaigns.

I'm confident that ICE and other US law enforcement agencies already have access to it. There is no presumption of privacy on anything you enter into any cloud-based LLM like ChatGPT, or even any search engine.

The consequences are already there and have been for like 15 years.

I think this should piss off a lot of people. Instead of doing something, they opted to do nothing, and now they're exploiting the tragedy as a PR opportunity. They're trying to shape their public image as an all-powerful arbiter. Worship the AI, or they will allow death to come to you and your family.

Or perhaps this is all just rage bait, to get us talking about this piece of shit company, to postpone the inevitable bursting of the AI bubble.

Edit: This is a sales pitch from OpenAI to the RCMP, with them saying they'll sell police forces an intelligence feed. It just comes across as horribly tone deaf and is problematic for so many reasons.

I like that this looks like OG Steam.

DirectX 5, that brings back some memories lol. That's when 3D started to get serious and it felt like there was a lot of innovation happening quickly (competition with 3dfx's Glide?).