droopy4096 @ droopy4096 @lemmy.ca

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if anything, war in Ukraine has shown that it's not all about big equipment if you want to hold position, but to move, you need heavy stuff

funny thing is: "Eternity" looks like it shows totals for my upvotes on posts/comments but not showing what those are

thanks for the tech details. It sucks that there's no endpoint for upvotes (yet). I find favorites/saved and upvoted to be distinctly different at least the way I use it. Upvotes communicate to me (and others) that content is of value or that I agree with it. However Saved/Favorite may mean that I disagree with content but I'd like to keep reference for future times. That latter is a private info too so nobody benefits from me "saving" that content other than myself.

TLDR; I'd have to get used to hitting upvote and "save" buttons on content of interest and learn to filter through my "saved" stuff while devs are comming up with endpoints for upvotes.

This is actually news in reverse. Considering present world situation (Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in the works) and the fact that between election in 2016 and now situation is absolutely and categorically different, Canada does need modern fleet. War in Ukraine highlighted all of the weaknesses of old equipment as well as prompted NATO members to be ready to depmoy forces outside of their own borders (yes, russia won't be attacking Canada, but it may attack nearby NATO states and Canada will have to step in. Sending our pilots for slaughter under those conditions is wreckless).

While I'm no fan of JT and his flipping on promisses, this time I think there's credit due. Article title should've read: "Canadian government reacted to military escalations around the globe by moving forward with fleet upgrade". We can debate what should fleet be upgraded to, but the fact that it has to be upgraded is obvious.

Trudeau got very cocky... Like PCs did in Alberts when they've got their asses handed to them in 2015. Doesn'y change the fact that there's no single politician fit for the post. He's just the best of the worst and I bet he knows it. Electoral system should have been fixed as he promissed, that's when we could've had a chance now - forcet it. We're staring at 4yrs with Cons until folks will get to their senses... or 8 if they don't. Singh is OK but he lacks drive and charisma to overcome Trudeau and PP. We're f@ck'd

Whatever you've done to UI must be some atrocity as I do not experience issues with FF. You've never specified which FF extension you've used that had slowed down your browser.

Chrome (and by extension) Chromium and all derivative browsers are Google's lever to truly control and shape internet to their liking. Multiple people said it already.

Personally I find Chromium UI very cumbersome and dislike it a lot. Which is to say we all have our own preferences for UI.

In your case you'd have to weigh your repulsion with available performant FF UIs vs future of internet and choose which decision can you really live with.

Just came across HAMAS leader openly enumerating benefactors: https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-leader-abroad-khaled-mashal-russia-october-seven-chine-taiwan

"For your information, Russia has benefitted from our [attack], because we distracted the U.S. from them and from Ukraine. China saw [our attack] as a dazzling example. The Russians told us that what happened on October 7 would be taught in military academies. The Chinese are thinking of carrying out a plan in Taiwan, doing what the Al-Qassam Brigades did on October 7. The Arabs are giving the world a master class."

So lets put it all in perspective. Some established facts first:

• Russia is pretty open with it's declaration of love to HAMAS
• Iran really wants to "give it" to US
• Russia is sanctioned and desperate in it's war with Ukraine, hoping biggest weapon supplier would stop supplying weapons
• Russia is best buddies with Iran
• Iran wants nukes
• Russia used to be buddies with Israel (esp. military-wise, which was cited as one of the reasons no military assistance to Ukraine came from Israel)
• Israel has it's internal political problems.
• all the nations that now so keenly support Palestine and violence towards Israel never sent any significant investments or humanitarian aid to Palestine to beat Israel economically
• Israel was behaving as an a-hole towards Palestine for quite some time
• HAMAS has not moved Israel-Palestine relationship an inch and needs to show some activity

So, to me all of the above kind of adds up to: Palestine was used by everybody else to achieve goals absolutely unrelated to Palestine survival or prosperity.

If I were to make up a conspiracy theory, I'd say: Russia needed diversion real bad, they talked to their Iran buddies to stir dhit up in Gaza. Mossad snifs it out and does.. nothing, opening door to unspeakable acts that followed, but also giving a pretext for "outrage" and rallying the nation against existential threat. Arab world leaders quickly jump on a familiar train of antisrmitism boosting their ratings locally and doing diddly squat to help Palestine (I mean help, not entrench them further in conflict)

In sum: both sides were comfortable sacrificing their own people (without people's consent) to achieve political goals.

wouldn't call it dictatorship. More like self-propelled cleptocracy. Having more power vested in PM suits "winner" parties just fine as it gives them leverage even in minority government. Peak of dictatorial behaviour was under Harper, but Trudeau is a skillful pupil...

I'm with you on most points but first and foremost abolition of party system has got to happen. Our politics just turned into tribalism, "us vs them" game that is being played at our expense. It's got to stop. I don't see any more of "lets compromise and work together" and constant "we'll tear down what other party was building... because it has THEIR name attached".

FPTP contributes greatly to the lack of political discourse and constant bickering with powergrab moves. It eliminates variaty forcing landscape to oscilate down to 2 options which over time become virtually identical and differ in optics only.

How is it a farewell if you're still consuming Youtube content? Only exodus of consumers from the platform will prompt content creators to look for a different platform and maybe, MAYBE, force google to rethink. If you don't like their practices, move off the platfrom, not just change the client.

not. going. to. happen. Whatever government will be elected next will be guarding interests of people with (more) money. I.e. landlords and house owners. Unfortunately all we can hope for are band-aids while everything crumbles.

To remove resistance there are multiple possibilities, but most of them involve compensating property owners at fair market value today and disincentivese them from holding on to additional properties moving forward, guaranteeing citizens affordable housing into perpetuity and regulating the heck out of real estate market. This way existing property owners are less likely to stage a coup, and future generations are guaranteed to have roof over their head making real estate market unattractive to investors.

But since we are governed by laws of capitalism and not socialism (no, not the idiotic eastern block interpretation of communism) money loss is vewed as a big no-no (instead of seeing human dignity as a prime goal) - none of the above will happen as parties want to get re-elected and they need money for that... well you get the picture.

Whack-a-mole'ing it with micky-mouse measures will prolong the agony but will not end suffering.

TLDR; solution is to change political system first, otherwise there's no hope for a real solution to any of this.

to memory comes previous anouncement of supersonic missile... which ended up being destroyed over Ukraine with reasonable degree of accuracy. So yeah, same posturing from russia but k owing what we know after (almost) 2 grueling years in Ukraine it's just that - posturing. They failed to attract talent but they've succeeded in scarying or destrying talent. So their only option for technological advance is espionage. Even then they'd need high caliber specialists to replicate whatever has been stolen. What they are really "good at" is brute force and dirty tricks. But any technological superiority is off the table.

you can read experts advise as something pointed ad policymakers and manufacturers: "people can't afford what they need to live, do something!". What's really annoying that city planning in NA is geared specifically for cars and not public transportation, so it's a mess created by designers and regulators. And our governments on every level allowed them to get away with it. Now those same government structures would have to get their collective a$$es im gear and do something about the fact that people can't afford to.live in such an environment. (that's BEFORE we start talking overall cost of living and housing affordability). We're really back to 20's which factories owning dorms and allowing workers live there (for a price) basically doubly owning them: owning means of production, and means for living, really..

thank you for such a detailed response. I would love to contribute however at the moment my capacities are rather limited but otherwise I'd be willing to add sqlite adapter. From your description it sounds like currently architecture is narrowly locked on PostgreSQL features. In my daily job I love PostgreSQL for big apps and stacks but I'm also aware how "hungry" PG can be, which is why I'm wondering whether it's "too big of a hammer" for this particular problem. Also, setting up single service is easier to novices vs maintaining several. Docker compose is nice but it has it's limitations.

at the same time we've had the highest immigration numbers. Canada was always immigrant country. I don't see it as a negative thing in general. Lots of immigrants and their children are higher motivated individuals so it could be a good thing. One thing to watch out for is erosion of values in society. So just welcome newcomers and show them what does it mean to be Canadian 😃

@mgdigital, first thing I'be noticed: reliance on "heavier" database stack (pg + redis), at least from the first glance at docker-compose. My suggestion would be to have an option for minimalist setup with sqlite and without redis if possible. That would work better for those of us flying with minimal hardware (rpi, old PC and such).

democrats are very efficient in shooting themselves in a foot. He's not getting on the ballot as he doesn't represent established clique. None of the progressives got anywhere because of Democrats top echelon. US needs an nee party with all progressive Democrats moving there. Maybe then there's some chance for a country.

I don't believe current system is working either. Precisely because we operate under "majority" governments elected by 30% of population. So either 100% of population got to vote or we're down to referendum.

Here's the thing: Liberals and Conservatives solutions will always rervolve around giving more money to entities that already sit on variously sized piles of money. Even NDP won't risk alienating home owners. Political and economic system requires massive rework to actually address underlying issues. However I know of no Canadian political entity ready to sacrifice themselves and go through with necessary changes, including changes to electoral system that sustains current status quo. I'm in Alberta and AB NDP has walked away from the electoral reform as soon as they figured how to win in current system (sort of) so I'd expect the same from gederal NDP, or any party, really as reword system is wired for that. "Small steps" are all cute and heart-warming but they will never solve real problem and with major parties eager to rip out legislation of previous "other party" moving forward is unlikely. Not arguing for dictatorship, rather the opposite - real multi-party system that has to represent all Canadians. Any decision made has to be supported by 51+% of Canadians, not 51% parlamentsrians. (end of rant)