Canada post and other mail providers will now be opening all envelopes and packages sent. All contents will be scanned or photographed and held on file for 2 years time, and released to relevant authorities upon request of investigation. To make things easier please do not seal packages or envelopes for easier and more convenient access.

All photos and scanned documents will be held in a highly secured database with easy backdoors access!

Pretty much the equivalent in terms of what Canada wants to implement with access to VPN logs and asking ISPs to keep logs for 1-2 years minimum.

And if I try to cover my car in festive holiday lights I get a ticket?!

https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/driver-warned-after-police-receive-complaints-about-car-decked-out-in-christmas-lights-in-waterloo/

True, is there even any computer literary courses offered in elementary and high school anymore at all?

Your link in the post appears to be pointing to Reddit.

Here is the link for everyone on mobile.

https://aurora-shine.codeberg.page/no-google-track/

Looks interesting, but I am cautious of uploading any photos to a cloud platform.

Ultrasonic sounds (above 20 kHz) can cause physical symptoms in humans, particularly at high intensities ((>75\text{ dB})), including headaches, dizziness, nausea, ringing in the ears (tinnitus), and fatigue

Animal studies have demonstrated internal tissue alterations at specific frequencies and intensities

https://www.nature.com/nature-index/topics/l4/ultrasonic-exposure-effects-on-human-health

Here’s a short video that goes into the specific and how this affects surrounding neighborhoods.

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

I can’t really get behind a “do all robot” that wanders my house fully autonomously.

What I would prefer is single purpose robots, mounted or bolted in place, designed to do one thing well.

For example, robot arms that put laundry into the laundry machine, or robot arms that do the cooking in the kitchen. Something similar to how Tesla had that autonomous plug in “snake” charger once you parked in your garage.

Having a fully autonomous robot walking around the house is somewhat unnerving to my TBH. Even so if it were fully locally controlled I might still have hesitations. Think the short TV series Cassandra (2025)

This line from the article about DOGE still trying to shift responsibility to ChatGPT.

McMahon also pushes back on the government’s argument that “there is no real constitutional problem here because any viewpoint-based classification was ChatGPT’s doing, rather than the Government’s:”

“There is no distinction to be drawn here between the Government and ChatGPT. ChatGPT was the Government’s chosen instrument for purposes of this project, and DOGE’s use of AI to identify DEI-related material neither excuses presumptively unconstitutional conduct nor gives the Government carte blanche to engage in it. …There is not a scintilla of evidence that Fox or Cavanaugh, having obtained a “DEI” rationale from ChatGPT, undertook any meaningful review of whether that rationale made sense.”

Dad?

And this is why I support cyclists and pedestrians having as much right to roadways as a person that chooses to drive their car.

I just sideloaded a applications on windows using a .exe and running through the installation wizard. Microsoft must hate me for not using the Windows Store /s

Not very high, yet.

They will more then likely get higher if following history from the 1973–1974 oil embargo. The effects were delayed.

This is worth a watch, at least the first 2-3 minutes that provides a good summary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8

Looks almost alien

Gracias

The movie Interstellar depicted dust storms caused by something called blight. I like to think it was due to the soils being so depleted of nutrients that crops would no longer grow causing the soil to essentially suffocate the planet.

First 2-3minutes are worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXNLaHsKMz8&t=0

The Strait of Hormuz is not only a shipping route for oil, but also for fertilizers and helium. So things are going to start to get worse before they get better, and the ripple caused by this is slowly starting to hit North America.

Also helium is used in chip manufacturing so DRAM is about to get even a hell of a lot more expensive, then it already is…

I though “woke” was the term that implied people being asleep, or are they use them interchangeably now?

So… could I not just disconnect my pc from the internet, or have a desktop or virtual machine without internet access, keep my 3d printer offline, and use a software or 3d modeling software that’s open-source, and profit?

This bill has also just classified my ice tray as a 3D printer, and don’t tell anyone but a trip to my local Home Depot with 10 bucks in my hand could potentially make something more dangerous.