@NickTheSkydiver I’m doing something similar. I find the discourse here better for actual discussion of issues, but the Federated TL on Mastodon is giving me access to interests I followed on Twitter as well.

So far the #POECommission in #cdnpoli has turned up one very interesting bit of information: #CSIS thinks that the definitions of “threat to national security” in the guiding legislation are too narrow for the kind of threats we are seeing today.

Given that this is now ~20+ yr old legislation, I’m not surprised - a lot has changed since 2000.

We have Canadian Government witnesses on the stand at #POECommission now, and the perspective coming out is very interesting.

As I had expected, there is a lot of focus on the impact of the border blockades in the policy decisions.

This will be reinforced consistently as the witnesses become closer to the political decision making circles.

#cdnpoli

@CarmenShea @peeppeepcircus:

It is a very interesting perspective, and I generally agree with large parts of it.

Putting on my skeptic's hat for a moment, two things stand out for me:

1) Could Moscow perceive it as setting stage for negotiations "from a position of strength"?

2) What do Russia's abilities to build more high tech munitions look like right now? (e.g. supply to date used, how long to rearm?)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/16/musk-twitter-email-ultimatum-termination/

Well ... #Twitter won't last long being run like that.

Reality, meet "The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves" leader.

You can do this in a startup with the promise of equity, not in an established company with a large workforce.

If I was working for Twitter, I'd take the exit package ... my life is worth more than the salary when there's that kind of abuse in the workplace.

@LauraWalkerKC ... and some of those landed in Poland ... which theoretically could bring Article 5 of the #NATO treaty into play ...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-missiles-poland-nato-1.6652345

@CarmenShea Yeah - he's running about making decisions about things he clearly has little or no understanding of - and worse, he shows no respect for those who clearly do know what they're talking about.

From a technical perspective, that shortens the time to technical disaster considerably.

While #Sobeys struggles to rebuild after being hacked, the real warning here is that IT groups need to take system security and partitioning much more seriously.

Fallback systems matter, as do "bulkheads" between systems.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/inside-turmoil-sobeys-ransomware-attack-1.6650636

@XaoslordErie I use Linux for most of my development work. But, like a lot of other people I have a mixture of other OSes around too - Windows consistently succeeds in annoying the hell out of me.

So … a typical update of my MacOS box is about an hour for a major update install. My Linux machines are similar, even when they’ve been off for a while.

… then there is Windows Update - 6 hours to install 4 updates … 6 bloody hours? That’s ridiculous.

@Snipticker They have quite a few locations in Ontario, but that’s it. Be a bit of a hike for me to get to one 🙂

@Snipticker Never heard of Firehouse. I’m guessing they aren’t in Canada (yet). Quiznos is, but they’ve been failing as hard as Arby’s…

@DavidJ_8675309 Around here nobody “sits in the store” - I presume they do most of their sales through Skip and the like.

But yeah - keep dropping quality off like that, and they won’t have a customer base. At this point, a McD’s wrap is going to be better food.

This comes out of #ukpoli, but the MP is saying on loudspeaker what the actions of conservatives in both #uspoli and #cdnpoli speak to so often.

… and yes, they’re all singing from the same songbook for a reason.

https://youtu.be/iXlDwxjmZks

@TKoobaan I don’t think you’re missing anything except possibly the equally problematic issue that crypto valuations are tied to exactly nothing real-world.

One might as well invest in in-game currency on WoW.

Ugh - made the mistake of grabbing a sub from Subway yesterday.

They’ve changed up their supply in a number of ways, and the result is awful. The meats were never great, but they’ve changed that to an even cheaper line, with predictable results.

It’s like whoever’s running head office is a refugee from Tim Hortons … from the era where they decided “make more food faster” was the line to better profits.

@Matilija Possibly - in which case he's going to turn it into another Gab or Parler.

@CarmenShea Twitter's enforcement of those policies has always been at best spotty, but I've heard enough of #Musk's "thoughts" about trans folk to expect he will reverse the policy, or simply stop any enforcement.