Authentication is only ever as strong as it's weakest link. All the fancy passwords, MFA, passkeys or whatever mean nothing in the face of "I forgot my password" email resets and the like.
I know people who just hammer randomly on the keyboard whenever they get asked for a password, then use the "I forgot my password" system to get "authenticated," providing yet another set of random keystrokes as the new password.
And it's not horrible, I guess. They're using strong passwords. They're never reusing passwords anywhere, not even for successive logins at the same site. They have to be explicitly targeted by someone who is willing to target their email system.
This does nothing to secure against mass breaches, but neither does the strongest authentication system. But, like any of the strongest authentication systems, account takeover requires deliberate targetting.
Credit bureaus are just data brokers in disguise, so they're shady, both in concept and by design.
Porn is part of the sex trade, so shady mostly by perception.
I don't really think it's possible to do anything more than try to safeguard my personal information. But if forced to choose between those two, I'll pick a major porn site over a credit bureau every time.
I wish them all the best, but I think that getting the desired status will just make for one more voice to ignore. We are masters of deafness when it comes to indigenous voices, especially when there might be profits at stake.
And then we have the agricultural regions of Saskatchewan, where the only water that doesn't fall from the sky has to flow through Alberta first. So far, Alberta and Saskatchewan seem to have been mostly sharing the pain, but I can't help thinking that those days are coming to an end.
I don't hold out much hope, though, because the rich, the powerful, and the politicians all seem to want strictly private healthcare while the vast majority of the population wants not just effective and accessible public healthcare, but to expand coverage to dental, vision, hearing, and pharmaceuticals.
Never mind the hardships that come from transitioning to a different system, the usual result of this kind of disconnect is violent revolution.
I agree, but until we're a lot closer to zero carbon emissions than we are now, capture technology should be treated as research. Prototypes, even proof of scalability prototypes are fine, but they should not be sucking resources from emission reduction or, worse, trying to replace emission reduction.
Oh yes, the term limits should be reduced. But one thing I like about the appointment system (also easily managed under sortition) is that individual terms are just that, individual. That is, there isn't a wholesale sweep of all sitting members at once, the way there is with Parliament.
I don't know how something like that could be managed in a purely elected body and think it's worth keeping. I suppose there wouldn't really be a problem with having everyone elected via what we now call byelection.
That makes me wonder if party politics, campaigning, and electioneering would change if Parliamentary terms were individualized instead of globalized to the Parliament as a whole.
In principle, I like the idea of having a check on Parliament. Not a block that can prevent things from happening, but something that can slow things down a bit when necessary and maybe cause Parliament to rethink what they're up to or moderate their actions. In general, I think the Senate is reasonably effective at that.
In principle, I like the idea of some kind of regional representation. Not so much that the province with small populations can stand in the way of sound national policy, but enough to limit the exploitation of those provinces in favour of the ones with larger populations. I'm not sure that the Senate has been as effective in that regard as it could have been.
I really like the idea that no Senator can be an active member of any political party. They should all sit as independents. In fact, I would argue that no Senator should ever have been sitting member of Parliament, and maybe not even held party membership for at least a decade.
Finally, I would like to experiment with sortition (random selection instead of political appointments or elections) and a properly constrained, yet not powerless Senate seems like the perfect place to try it out.
Yup, no spine and maybe no ethics. Sometimes you have to do what is right, regardless of the consequences to yourself. Every ethical person knows that and every ethical person with a spine sucks it up and makes it happen.
I'm a member of a generation whose wealth is tied up in home ownership. I say let 'er rip!
We can't keep putting off a fix forever, so the earlier we tackle it, the better. No matter what we do, someone has to suffer, at least a little bit, so get it over with.
There is also plenty of money available to help ease the suffering if only we had the courage to tax properly.
It also might not hurt to let the institutional lenders and the investment class just eat some losses.
In a sense, yes, especially if they've been in use for a very long time. Normally, when people speak of "historic" cemeteries, they're talking about ones that haven't seen any use for many decades.
I live within about 100 km of a dozen or so rural cemeteries. Easily half haven't been used for 30+ years. Even though the active ones have interments that might be older than the oldest in the unused ones, it's the unused ones, associated with families and communities that no longer exist, that are considered historic.
Point taken, but I didn't forget about it. I go hiking and tenting on the ice on Lake Diefenbaker, so I know all about it. I just didn't know how to bring it in without lending yet more credence to all the myths and misconceptions.
There are a lot of differences between actual -25C with no wind and windchill of -25C. For example at -25 with no wind, my wool parka with a fairly open knit is perfect on its own for a wide range of activities. But with a windchill of -25, I'm better off with my fleece bunny hug under a windbreaker, then layering up with a tightly knit wool sweater when I'm inactive.
When I still biked, -15 with no wind quickly turned into -25 windchill, but if the windchill was already -25, hopping on the bike didn't make a huge difference, so I dressed about the same in both cases.
Yup. I surprised myself when I pulled the last decade of data for my nearest Environment Canada weather station (Lucky Lake, SK). I don't remember the number, but it was shockingly few days with a low colder than -30C. I was similarly surprised by the low number of days with a low colder than -20C.
This doesn't surprise me at all. Compared to most other forms of social media, lemmy is pretty old-school in concept. Like the earliest forms of social media (USENET, FidoNET, forums, mailing lists), it's based on discussing topics of interest, not following people of interest. Thus, I subscribe to (and post within) "woodworking", not "Paul Sellers" or "Stumpy Nubs". (I do follow them elsewhere, though.)
In addition, it's been pretty close to 20 years since it was standard procedure to go to teenagers for help figuring out "this computer thing" or "this internet thing". Oh, sure, maybe someone my age can benefit from the knowledge of a teenager when it comes to something like tiktok, but the vast majority of even the over 50s have got all the basics and more figured out.
Taken together with the fact that there are a lot more people over 20 than 10-20, I would have predicted that their numbers would be about the same as for over 60. And that seems to be the case.
I suspect that a better breakdown would be 10-year cohorts starting at age 15 instead of age 10, but that might make population-level comparisons more difficult.
Another way to look at it is that lemmy has more in common with FidoNET than with Facebook or tiktoc. I was using FidoNET in my late teens by dialing into a local BBS before internet became publicly available. I'm 67 now, and have just followed the evolution of "topic discussion" over time.
Sure, let's ban everything we don't understand and every tool that can be used to break into something. Next we'll be banning rocks because they break windows and crowbars because they can be used to jimmy locks.
...the misguided pairing of ham and cheese with the fruit.
Long before I had even heard of pizza (raised in the middle of nowhere in southern Saskatchewan), one of our special occasion dishes was ham roasted with pineapple slices.
Leftovers were made into ham and cheese, ham and pineapple, and even ham and cheese and pineapple sandwiches. Sometimes Dad added a slice of tomato and grilled them open face in the oven under the broiler until the cheese browned. Heaven on Earth, and I didn't even like either tomato or pineapple on their own. I still don't like pineapple unless it's paired with ham.
One of the standard condiments when setting out a cold cut, make your own sandwich buffet was homemade pineapple-mustard.
Yes. My also limited understanding is that it might be traced back to some of the original treaties with the Indigenous peoples which said (or at least implied) that the Indigenous peoples were ceding only the surface to a depth of several inches.
Sadly, the government then turned that into "Crown ownership" (as contrasted with private ownership) instead of Indigenous ownership. Much to the detriment of the economic and political power of the Indigenous peoples.
I also use TD. That they still allow only SMS for 2FA should be a crime.