Trump's tariff war is the biggest reason that the current Liberal government got reelected at all. The Liberals were circling the drain before Trump's aggression brought Canadians together behind Mark Carney.

The reason ventures like a new pipeline are being reconsidered in Canada is partly due to the threats to our economy inflicted by Donald Trump. The US has historically been Canada's largest trading partner. Then Trump went on an irrational tirade about trade deficits, claiming that Canada is "ripping us off" and that the US is "subsidizing Canada" by spending more money on Canadian goods. He thinks it's unfair that Canada, with a population approximately one eighth that of the US, is not buying an equal amount of goods. Never mind the fact that on a per-capita basis, Canadians buy 7 times more stuff from the US than Americans buy from Canada.

The upshot is that Donald forced Canada to lose all trust in the US as a trading partner, and the Canadian government began scrambling to protect Canada's economy by reducing reliance on US trade. This has taken all sorts of forms, such as seeking new trade deals with other countries worldwide, and boosting economic revenues of sectors such as mining and petroleum. If Donald Trump had not started wreaking such havoc with the Canadian economy, Canadians would have far less appetite for things like a bitumen pipeline.

Canada officially adopted the metric system 55 years ago. We still use both imperial and metric in daily lives. Ask a person of their height or weight, many will respond with feet, inches, and pounds. Long distances may be described in miles or kilometers. Certain items such as drill bits are almost exclusively in fractions of an inch. Temperature is in Celsius but we intuitively understand Fahrenheit. Volumes are in litres but we're somewhat comfortable with pints and cups. Gallons get a bit murky because US gallons are smaller than imperial gallons.

I still have a couple of versions of You Don't Know Jack on CD. I haven't played it in years, but it was a real hit when I set it up at parties.

You might be surprised what can be done with only 6 seconds of video. It's a challenge, like writing haiku. Some of them were pretty damned funny, and often because they were cut short in the middle of some action or reaction, leaving the rest to your imagination.

Gawd, it was bad enough when human performers sang country music with a fake southern drawl, not we have AI fakes of fake southern accents.

These people are not hackers. They're extortionists.

AI impersonation is making it harder and harder to tell legitimate people apart from fakes.

Here's an example of deepfake audio being used to impersonate a CEO and steal US$243,000.

Here's an example of an AI-generated person that is so realistic her own family couldn't tell the difference.

And here's a video conference call where everyone in the meeting other than the victim was a fake, including a deepfake of the Chief Financial Officer.

If your own family can be fooled, so much for employees being "smart enough".

This type of password hash stealing via SMB protocol has been well known for years, and is easily mitigated without any changes to your Windows machines. Simply add firewall rules that block outbound connections to the Internet on TCP ports 139 and 445.

You can watch a physical demonstration of this here.

It's quite a "hole", however. There's not a lot left of the original cube.

Comparing OpenBSD to Windows 11 is not an apples-to-apples comparison. While some people may run OpenBSD as their desktop operating system, that's not a stated goal of the project,.

OpenBSD is best suited for server applications where an emphasis on security is desired. Their code is meticulously and proactively audited for bugs. Even bugs that have not been shown to be exploitable are fixed, and this has often led to cases where the mechanism behind newly discovered exploits had already been patched in OpenBSD.

The project also show a passion for accurate and complete documentation, and for robust testing. IIRC, preparing for a release includes running a command to build every single package in their ports collection without error.

This type of comment should not be posted anonymously. If you're going to attack someone's character, have the balls to do it in person.

And FWIW, no, Theo is neither insufferable or an asshole. I have met him personally and found him to be extremely knowledgeable and interesting person to talk to. Yes, he has very strong opinions. Yes, he has ruffled many feathers over the years. He's also frequently correct in his criticisms.

I mean it!

Check out CuriousMarc on YouTube. Those guys can definitely read anything out there.

It may be a cube, but it's not a Rubik's. How can they call it that when it's only 2x2 instead of 3x3?