We should be reducing our import of Chinese developed technology, “smart” devices, phones, and EVs in particular. Every Chinese business big enough to play at the global scale has the government in it’s power structure. They don’t necessarily dictate business decisions but every bit of data collected is by default accessible by the government.

Having a significant fraction of a country driving around in Chinese EVs gives an insane amount of information to the Chinese government for free. And it’s not just direct information either like the driver’s identity, with millions of cars on the road a lot can be inferred, like if the parking lots at military bases suddenly fill up on a Tuesday afternoon or traffic between a high value person’s home and an airport gets unusually slow.

Cars have cellular modems, they have wifi and bluetooth hardware, if a particular person’s device was identified, for example, at a political meeting then that person could be trivially tracked by the dozens of Chinese cars and “smart” devices that they pass in a day. The information could be smuggled home along with all the normal diagnostic, update and service info. It is not in our best interest to let the Chinese government track individuals, be it politicians, expats, or activists.

This could be done today by the our government, and it is to some extent, to identify, and locate, protesters and criminals by their mobile devices but it takes time and access to equipment and logs that the government does not always own. A competent adversary who owns millions of devices in your country can do in seconds what takes law enforcement weeks to accomplish via conventional means.

It sounds paranoid but remember that China was caught operating their own “police” force around the world not long ago, they will take advantage of any opportunity they are given to spy on other countries and gain political control.

China doesn’t plan for the next fiscal quarter they plan for the next quarter century, and Canada’s resources are in their sights.

I have made this rant before, I will make it again

Give it 2 years, when the AI bubble bursts the data centers wont need all that water.

Is she going to tell him to cancel Disney+?

By 2028 you’ll be at per-transaction certs!

If the US moves to take control of Canada there will be a line of people over the horizon ready to burn every resource and every piece of infrastructure before handing it over.

Honestly, north america is not the place to be. Canada was all ready to elect trump north and the guy we got is still a right wing banker. The only thing you’ll miss by not moving to Guelph is the awesome craft beer.

I can’t wait for my boss to start recommending new products at every meeting.

Switched 10 years ago. Nearly everything anyone does on a desktop/laptop is browser based lately and while I missed a few Windows exclusive applications there was always a reasonable alterative.

My only regret is not trying harder to make the switch in the 00’s, I would have been ahead of the game and could have used it as a career path.

If you already bought them you can still install them*.

*there are instances of shitty publishers removing access to games but that is not the norm.