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  • Before the second Trump era, it would’ve been seen as a ridiculous violation of the First Amendment to have some kind of monitor making sure the media was being nice to the president.

    No. No, it is ridiculous. Don’t pretend it’s fine.

    I hope Matt Stone and Trey Parker create no end of shit for Paramount/CBS.

    RIP America.

  • Just having user agent header based attestation would work for most people.

    It would be easy to bypass sure, but kids are boomer levels of tech illiterate these days.

    Parents should be setting up content restrictions, the government has no place making us submit ask to view porn.

    The failure of parents is not my problem.

  • This is 100% going to be used against trans people, especially the mental illness and danger parts (remember all the cross dressing is pedophilia stuff that republicans were pushing)

    I hope for the safety of all LGBTQ people in the US right now, especially the trans people. You all deserve to live unbothered, I wish it were that easy.

  • To be fair, I’m not sure why firebase even has a public access option. That’s a recipe for issues.

    Though if it’s anything like Google Cloud Store, they hopefully make it very clear that your bucket is public.

  • But anything the US feds contracted them for, like building data centres, they have to comply or they face penalties and have to pay all the costs back.

    10 days ago, a week before this was announced, they awarded $200M contracts each to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI

    This doesn’t doom the public versions, but they now have a pretty strong incentive to save money and make them comply with the US governments new definition of truth.

  • The reason I think every department needs an internal tech team is precisely because "just throwing tech" doesn't work. We need bespoke tailored solutions to the specific problems that workers are dealing with.

    Now if we add government tech procurement standards - I see no hope in tech at all as surely winner of any contract will deliver past due date, over budget and with missing features.

    This is exactly the problem having internal teams building internal tools solves. You're not stuck waiting to go from 0 to 100% on an expensive project with long runway and out of date standards until finally the consultants to toss a solutoin over the fence and leave because they want to get the minimum done and move on to their next paycheque.

    You can only do tech really well by understanding the domain and problem, and the people working on it.

    I definitely think we should be going big on both OSS and Canadian owned tech. I don't expect the government to build Office, they should be using (and ideally contributing to) OSS. On the other hand, Statistics Canada has a ton of open sourced code that might as well be closed source, and would probably help them move quicker.