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title: Canadian Tariffs
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previous: mm
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date: 2025-01-21
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<h2>Canadian Tariffs</h2>
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<p>
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On January 15th Cory Doctorow posted some <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/#its-the-only-war-the-yankees-lost-except-for-vietnam-and-also-the-alamo-and-the-bay-of-ham">thoughts</a> on how he thought that Canada should respond if the US proceeds to levy tariffs on our exports.
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He sees this as an opportunity.
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Most countries, Canada included, have kwotowed to the US in implementing its restrictive laws around IP, specifically DRM.
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Which have made it illegal almost the world over to modify computerized systems.
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We did this to keep trade open because on the global stage the US is the largest buyer of most things.
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However with the threat of tariffs being implemented anyway why should we keep those laws on our books?
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Trade will be hit anyway so there is no longer a point in aquiescing to the US pressures.
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We can open up new industries making the tools to allow people to take back ownership of their devices.
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To freely repair, transact, and modify without having to pay a tax.
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We could have true ownership again where we actually get the final say on how anything we have bought behaves.
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This would benefit each of us individually with more control over our devices.
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It would benefit farmers who could repair their tractors, businesses who could sell useful application without app store taxes.
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I am a Canadian, and I am a software developper who seems to be more sensitive than most to stuff like this.
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Not having control over my stuff bothers me and so I self host everything I can.
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I do have a few devices that I don't really trust.
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An Ipad that I won at a work raffle, my Android phone.
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Then some other stuff around the house like our Roku box.
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When I installed a pihole on our network and routed all the traffic through it, the largest number of blocked network requests came from that box even when it was not in use.
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I have been considering buying a new phone, not because I need it.
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My Samsung A20 is working fine 5 years in, but in order to get a phone that is supported an alternative operating system like Calyx or Graphene OS.
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That battles with my desire to not waste a perfectly good device and buy things that I don't need.
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I would love it if Canadian politicians took this to heart and repealed the DRM laws.
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I would jump at the opportunity to legally work on these problems and help my community, and hopefully many others take ownership over their devices again.
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I love this idea and hope that our politicians consider something like this as it offers another option not dependent on the US going forward.
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id: lag
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title: Let America Go
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previous: ct
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date: 2025-01-22
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<h2>Let America Go</h2>
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With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass.
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In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections.
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He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to.
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America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries.
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Even if you can avoid thinking about the country itself for a day, so much of what we do has to pass through their economy.
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Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard.
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The US is the largest buyer of so much of what other countries export.
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So we have no choice but to pay attention, and have a lot of our lives and economies dictated by what is going on in the US.
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I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point.
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Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability.
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Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights.
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So it will likely only get worse.
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Whether tariffs are enforced or not the rest of the world needs to let America go as the center of every transaction, policy, or infrastructure.
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Build stronger ties between the rest of us.
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Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US.
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They are not going to make anything better.
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More CO2 will get put into the atmosphere, the tech companies will make their experiences worse, I suspect the beautiful natural world in the US is done for.
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So we all need to be the bigger people in the room.
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Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies.
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Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time.
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Open our doors and arms to the wonderful people of the US that are persecuted, or just don't agree with the government and want to leave.
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Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them.
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In some ways this seems like a tantrum, and sometimes we just need to let it play out and do our best to take care of ourselves and eachother.
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I don't have suggestions for exactly what to do, but for the last few days (the first of this new presidency) this is what has been on my mind.
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title: Midnight Musings
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title: Midnight Musings
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date: 2024-10-01
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<h2>Midnight Musings</h2>
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<h2>Midnight Musings</h2>
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#![allow(async_fn_in_trait)]
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#![allow(async_fn_in_trait)]
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use crate::database::article::load_articles;
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use crate::database::article::load_articles;
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use database::link::load_links;
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use sqlx::PgPool;
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use sqlx::PgPool;
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use std::error::Error;
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use std::error::Error;
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use tracing::info;
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use tracing::info;
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pub async fn run_load(pool: &PgPool) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
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pub async fn run_load(pool: &PgPool) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
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load_articles(pool).await?;
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load_links(pool).await?;
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