Nils

First time I heard of Konek, I have been using Interact for a while but did not know they had this service.

As far as I am aware, a bunch of countries created something similar to get rid of American payment systems, like UPI in India.

My favourite so far is the Brazilian Pix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system), becoming the most used payment system in the country in the past few years. Not only because it is technically sound, but it also managed to get the Americans pissed. Credit card and tech lobbies pressuring the American government to do something about it. Meta tried to release a payment system in Brazil that failed miserable because of Pix.

plugged that into ghci as 5+2*(8-5), and it says 17.

You might want to report that error. Or, did you mean 2+5*(8-5)?

A while ago, I was looking to buy a "dumb tv". In the end I narrowed it down to professional display, computer monitors, and projectors. And sadly, the prices are usually higher than a TV of the same size.

Professional Displays are those you find in fast food with the menu, or in offices with info, doctors etc... One of the reasons they are expensive is because they are made to be on 24x7.

Projectors are cool, but they work better in darker rooms. The cheaper ones also need more space from the wall.

I ended up going with a computer monitor, LG ultragear 48 inches, it is great. And it was cheaper than anything else, and I was lucky there was a price drop from the MSRP because they were restocking to a newer model. Usually they are a bit more expensive than the equivalent LG C model TV.

With a monitor, you will have to plug anything that you want to watch, there is no wifi and apps. Another constrain is size, the largest I could find were 48 inches. Anything bigger would fall into the professional display category and get expensive fast.

Sadly, I just checked online and neither Amazon or Best Buy are offering those here in Canada https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/lg-ultragear-48-uhd-138hz-0-1ms-gtg-oled-lcd-freesync-gaming-monitor-48gq900-b-black/16310839. LG was usually around 1k CAD, and BenQ was not that far off.

I hope it is just shortage rather than discontinuing those line of products.

Then some clueless person complains that Steam dominates the market. When Epic is constantly shooting their foot.

People like to make informed decisions and those labels help. In proper countries even beer have content labels to say if there is rice or corn with the barley.

A while ago, someone shared stories that happened during the golden days of Alberta, with the help of the oil sands. While not perfect and under a lot of abuse, able-bodied people could find a job and build a family with a modest life.

This "progress" was happening all over the world, not only in Alberta. But it was enough to cement the position of the conservative parties that hold the power for almost 100 years there, in special PC that hold control of the province for long. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alberta_general_elections There is a nostalgia effect for people that lived there during those times.

Alberta used to be ahead of the curve, in 1920 they had proportional representation, but later the party in power realized they could have even more power if they ended PR. But they shot their foot with that, that is when Social Credit lost to PC. https://fairvoteedmonton.com/2025/06/17/alberta-had-proportional-representation-whyd-we-give-it-up/

PC eventually merged into UCP to make sure they would keep a majority in elections. I remember some people at the time not so happy they were joining the "crazies" but thought it was a necessary evil.

If you check the electorate map, you will see that some districts have almost half of the people than others, but the gerrymandering is not as bad as in USA. From there you will see the major cities rarely vote for conservatives from the past forever. And if you are in lemmy for a while, you might have seen some posts from Fair Vote Canada that while the UCP gets most seats, they do not get the majority of votes.

Back to cities and eroding the electorate. Destroying the education and healthcare is just a way to filter out people that do not vote for them. COVID and other diseases run rampant because they think it will hurt the cities more than their electorate.

If you searched top universities in 2016, Calgary and Edmonton would often appear on top 5 of some fields. We would send people to get training in Edmonton foreseeing the machine learning boom, as they were ahead of the curve and very affordable. In 2019 the province made it hard for many industries that were not oil, what lead to an exodus. It was common to some companies move from AB and BC, but this only got my attention when a friend moved to Montreal. I always heard about Quebec taxes, but I never thought some company would move there from Alberta, but it appears that Quebec offers huge tax rebates and investments if you fit some criteria. So a bunch of young folks, that never witnessed the "golden age" moved to other provinces too.

And of course, there is a lot of propaganda, but at this day and age is very easy to confirm those stuffs. Well, except when that province government makes the access to information harder.

tl;dr: it is not majority, it is a mix of district mapping, poor/unsecure electorate systems, and pushing away dissidents and smart people.

This electorate district shenanigans are not new, they did stuff like that with Toronto not so long ago. That is why more modern democracies have measures to combat this kind of thing. (also one of the reasons people are asking for the back of proportional representation).

I understand better your points now, thanks for sharing your thoughts and optimism, I needed some optimism.

When I first read the report on budge.canada the "greener path" shows that pretty much everything ended in 2024. Moving forward they mention carbon capture without details what kind of investment they are putting money in (best I could find is funding this https://www.alberta.ca/carbon-capture-and-storage that is also a bit vague), investing in mining (justifying that mining specific minerals helps the environment, but no mention on how to make mining less damaging to the environment and hold companies accountable) and removing the carbon cap saying that investments in several sectors would reduce the emissions anyway. A lot of wishful thinking on the budget text, or on the worst case mental gymnastics malice.

Like, there is this promising

To finance government spending that helps industrial and agricultural sectors get cleaner and more competitive, ...

I would love to see the government working with farmers to keep production high and with low footprint. Despite the text being vague on how/who will get the money, farmers are already very thin on their footprint, usually limited to the access of resources to maintain their farms (heat, fertilizers, etc...). A farmer that only has access to gas for heat would not be able to reduce their footprint unless other options are made available.

I also felt like there is no handling "american shitstorm" either, there are plenty of brags on how they capitulate and are one of the least impacted by tariffs because of that.

Also, good thing you bought up the taxes. One thing I found interesting while reading the PDF version earlier, they pretty much teach us on many ways to avoid paying them, I wish that was easily available at the CRA website. =P

dealing with the American shitstorm
getting us on a greener path

Can you clarify your position or share the article you read? I might have missed those points when I read the https://www.budget.canada.ca/ report

there are parts I’d like more of and otherd of which I’d like less
broad compromise that I think is reasonable to a large swathe of Canadians,

A bit vague no? What do you mean?

Thanks.

That $2B USD from the digital service taxes would not be so bad now.

Also, guess who will pay less taxes, and who will foot the bill?

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/11/government-of-canada-releases-budget-2025-canada-strong.html
A bit better diluted: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/budget-highlights-9.6966595

(detailed): https://budget.canada.ca/2025/report-rapport/pdf/budget-2025.pdf

The author surely likes that the mascot is a dog. It feels more of a read and analysis of the terms of use than a deep dive of the tool but it was a good reading and I liked the suggestions.

I also liked the "reminder".

Edit: you should share this in some community as a post, every time I see this kind of website (pure content no-nonsense) it is shared is in the comments. 15 years ago this kind of stuff was easy to find, but nowadays, I only see them in comment sections. Even the search engine recommended around here would list a bunch of junk in the first pages.

My past 4 mobile phones were refurbished. I would still be using the OG Pixel (refurbished) if it was not for the lack of security updates, and it was easier to change the battery.

I don't think it would be taboo to save something that is public available, as you can just as simple visit those pages and print them to pdf for example.

The same goes to things you have access with your account, and it is not bound by a non-disclose agreement (you can still save, but not broadcast it - depending on the laws of your jurisdiction).

I looked into the lemm.ee default profile page, and you might have success with the tools I mentioned.

You just need to navigate these links, and make the tool open the post names.

https://lemmy.ca/u/megane_kun@lemm.ee?page=1&sort=New&view=Posts https://lemmy.ca/u/megane_kun@lemm.ee?page=1&sort=New&view=Comments

You will need to take in account navigation with "next" buttons, and some pages need to be scrolled down to load all the comments.

If you don't want to contact the Admins, and you are not pressed for time, put a delay on the tool's web requests to not overload the servers. The browser add-on might avoid that because it mimics a more natural way of navigating a website.

This is ActivityPub, not Reddit. It is optional, democratic and auditable.

People are not sending posts/comment to be approved first, you can post whatever you want. It is a plus if the community found a bad faith actor and tagged them. So I am not forced to see their disinformation campaign.