Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's witch hunt on the Flipper Zero was and remains patently ridiculous.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/canada-vows-to-ban-flipper-zero-device-in-crackdown-on-car-theft/

Reddit signed a deal with Google to use its data to train LLMs. To celebrate, we made a firefox extension that lets you replace all your comments with any text of your choosing. All we ask is that you not choose something copyrighted. The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on its copyrighted material, and we wouldn't want Reddit's uniquely valuable data to become hopelessly intermingled with that of litigious copyright-holders.

https://theluddite.org/#!post/reddit-extension

re: Canada banning the Flipper Zero because... car thieves 🤦‍♀️

This really is part of a larger trend, we don't have a real government so much as a group of folks that just do what ever industry wants.

As someone quiped at our minister of "Innovation, Science and Industry" we didn't ban screw drivers in previous decades' waves of car theft.

Passive open car locks are laughably insecure but the government is never gonna do something like mandate car manufactures fix their car security, haul in all cars for retrofits, stop sucking. Much easier to informatively piss on some little tech start up.

Cus in the end every move our government makes is just for and at the behest of big industry, even when it hurts them like bill c18 and c11, it's at the behest of the out of touch boomer CEOs of those industries who also don't understand what the last few decades have done to their industries... 🤦‍♀️

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