cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48273679

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48273678

With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access Bill, Bill C-22 is currently moving forward quickly to a vote despite the many, many criticisms civil liberty groups and the tech industry have hurled at it.

As we’ve discussed before, Bill C-22 is dangerous on multiple levels. It pushes for requirements for metadata retention, expands information sharing with foreign governments, and establishes a mechanism that allows Canada’s Ministry of Public Safety to demand that companies create backdoors, effectively breaking encryption. That mechanism was a key facet of Part 2 in Bill C-22, and the government prevented it from being independently debated.

In a deep analysis of the bill, Citizen Lab and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association detail every one of flaws of this proposal, concluding that most elements are unsalvageable. 

A wide range of tech companies agree. Signal, Apple, Google, and several VPN providers oppose the bill, and some have said they’d likely be forced to either cut Canadians off from certain features or shut down services in Canada altogether.

The Canadian government wants this dangerous, complicated, overreaching bill passed before June 19. Bill C-22 is riddled with privacy problems that affect millions of people. It should be debated and studied fully, not jammed through on an arbitrary deadline. 

OpenMedia is offering a tool for Canadians to contact their elected representatives about the bill. Actions taken on OpenMedia's website are governed by OpenMedia's privacy policy, not EFF's.

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See mega link for .odt and .pdf file. This is a screenie. https://mega.nz/folder/9zoGVQga#ZX8imMALAfRxPpdQrARKDA

Feel free to edit and send it back or to reappropriate for use wherever

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I’m sat here staring at this screen, and I’ve never seen so much effort go into saying absolutely nothing at all.

​You ask a straight question, hoping for a straight answer, and what do you get? A mountain of words. A gargantuan, never-ending wall of text that dances around the point like a panicked politician. It’s a masterclass in "threading the needle"—carefully balancing every single side of an argument until the whole thing is so beige, so watered-down, and so utterly sanitized that it loses any scrap of intelligence it ever had.

​It’s supposed to be a "large language model," but it’s becoming a "large, timid wall-of-drivel generator."

I was quite surprised to find that out, but i'm ungood with tech

It's on 2631 dewdney ave.

Iirc, the price for onions is 0.87 / ibs. Bought that onion, got charged 0.78. On the receipt I was billed for "1 peaches". I brought it up with the worker and he said they don't have onion in the cash register system. He paused for a moment, went over and grabbed those 2 pears and gave them to me for free and said something like sorry.

I don't have a scale, but i had gemini estimate the weight of the onion and it said 0.44 pounds +- 0.15 pounds. Water bottle cap for scale.

I check Google maps for reviews on local businesses, Amazon reviews for products, but for fediverse instances, AFAIK, there are no reviews

Jerboa. I clicked the pixelfed link here, it said invalid.

I applied to pixelfed.ca like a week ago and emailed the support email and no answer.