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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • At this point, by writing letters to our MPs, expressing clearly what we want to see happen and what we don’t. For example that we want to see Section 107 gone and Canada Post funded. Slightly further into the future, by following the NDP leadership election and voting in it so we can get a stronger alternative during the next federal election, one that will support Canada Post’s workers.



  • I’ve been trying Mastodon for as long as Lemmy but it’s not nearly as good due to the “who to follow” problem and the lack of ability to sort a topic by amount of interaction. E.g. can sub to say #Canada but within that, there’s no good way to surface highly faved or replied-to posts. The upcoming Starter Packs should help a lot because you’d be able to follow bunch people who tend to discuss some topic, which means you’d get the more active posts in your feed by means of those people intercting with it. It doesn’t replace the need for sorting algos but it addresses the problem partially. Perhaps it would be good enough. Circles (same concept) worked wonders in Google+.









  • I think the very first step to building resiliency is to sign up for Proton’s cloud services. That will give you access to mail, both from Gmail via forwarding and a new inbox with a separate address. You’d also get a password manager and cloud storage. From there you can start self-hosting alternatives. Probably start with Immich as Google Photos is a big deal and it takes a ton of storage. Proton is a Swiss non-profit so the probability for enshitification is not nearly as high as with Google.

    As soon as you have redundant storage, do a Google Takeout and download a full archive of your stuff. This feature may not be there for long given the current corporate climate.


  • If Israel doesn’t care about killing the Israeli hostages, then the hostages do not serve as any leverage for Hamas. But they are used as an important piece for the machine manufacturing consent for the genocide. So that changes the calculus on keeping them hostage I think. I think you’re right that Israel would gladly kill 'em. So releasing them could throw a significant wrench into the machine I think. Discontent in Europe is growing and Israel can be significantly harmed economically should the EU take action. Doesn’t that make some sense?