Guerric Haché

@GarrickWinter
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they/them, En/Fr, QC-raised, BC-based

🖱️ Game designer @ Forgotten Empires
🧡 NDP EDA for Vancouver Centre
📚️ Indie SFF author
📸 Nature photographer

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Guerric Haché5d ago

I love that there are free open-source programs that can just use my printer and scanner effectively. I used to think I had to use the associated proprietary software, which is almost always terrible.

#opensource #foss #linux

Guerric HachéMar 9

Today, voting opens for the election of the next leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Yes, the performed poorly under its previous leadership. But disruption and defeat are often excellent opportunities for change and growth; and I think there's reason to think we're seeing shifting conditions that new leadership may be able to seize on.

So if you're an NDP member - check your email, read up on the candidates if you haven't, and rank your choices.

#NDP #cdnpoli #canada

Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25

@RantingCanuck @joshbuddy @pluralistic I've had very similar thoughts. Things like online marketplaces where there's a distinct benefit to a single provider rather than a fragmented market are good candidates for national public services like that. It seems like a natural fit for Canada Post, too.

The main obstacles I'd expect would be public opinion and political will (and the PR campaigns/misinfo affecting both). Functionally, it seems like a clear improvement.

Guerric HachéFeb 25
Nowhere GirlFeb 22

To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.

If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.

Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25

@joshbuddy @pluralistic I had no idea Amazon wasn't available in Denmark; I am immediately fascinated by the whys and the what-insteads.

I'm seeing some people say this is partly because Danish labour laws may impose working conditions and pay standards that are higher than Amazon is willing to meet. Interesting.

I'd like for Amazon to be expelled from Canada, so now I have another case study to look at to learn about the issues. Thanks!

Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25
@alphaomega Charming little mosses!
Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25
@itsec_agentur @foolishowl @404mediaco TL;DR you're totally right. And we've got to find ways to maintain real knowledge and learning even as these power structures try to make it irrelevant.
Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25
@itsec_agentur @foolishowl @404mediaco I read a history book that touches on this problem (Goliath's Curse, by Luke Kemp). The brief idea is that as power concentrates, people in power become less concerned with real knowledge and more focused on their own elite status games. When real problems strike that require real knowledge, the power structures (often whole governments) can't cope, and collapse. But if real knowledge persists outside of elite hierarchies, collapse can be cushioned against.
Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25
@cbcnews At some point our government needs to stop chasing the free trade dream (which really just gutted our independence). If we ever want to set our own domestic policy on issues like tech, intellectual property, industrial policy, etc., we're going to need to be comfortable making Washington angry.
Show threadGuerric HachéFeb 25

I get the idea behind an accelerationist bypass of a flawed education system, but I don't think this approach will actually encourage education systems or student bodies to take a more integrated and deep approach to learning.

Much as when technology multiplies labour and the result is just increased labour quotas or layoffs instead of increased leisure, I worry this kind of thing may just increase burdens on students or add friction to education access rather than promote learning.