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id: ct
title: Canadian Tariffs
previous: mm
next: lag
date: 2025-01-21
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<h2>Canadian Tariffs</h2>
<p>
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.
He sees this as an opportunity.
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<p>
Most countries, Canada included, have kwotowed to the US in implementing its restrictive laws around IP, specifically DRM.
Which have made it illegal almost the world over to modify computerized systems.
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?
Trade will be hit anyway so there is no longer a point in aquiescing to the US pressures.
We can open up new industries making the tools to allow people to take back ownership of their devices.
To freely repair, transact, and modify without having to pay a tax.
We could have true ownership again where we actually get the final say on how anything we have bought behaves.
This would benefit each of us individually with more control over our devices.
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.
Not having control over my stuff bothers me and so I self host everything I can.
I do have a few devices that I don't really trust.
An Ipad that I won at a work raffle, my Android phone.
Then some other stuff around the house like our Roku box.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
title: Let America Go
previous: ct
date: 2025-01-22
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<h2>Let America Go</h2>
<p>
With Trump now solidly re-installed as the president of America, what so many of us have feared has come to pass.
In his first days he took the country back years by rolling back all sorts of human rights, regulations, and protections.
He has not hit Canada with tariffs yet, though has still expressed that he plans to.
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<p>
America has been central to the lives of so many people in so many countries.
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.
Silicon valley owns most large methods of communication, investments all pass through wall street, payments through Visa and Mastercard.
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.
I think that is a failing on all of our parts for allowing it to get to this point.
Now we rely on an unstable and unpredictable country for international stability.
Well I guess that we can predict that things will probably go against any sort of human rights, climate action, worker protections, human rights.
So it will likely only get worse.
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<p>
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.
Build stronger ties between the rest of us.
Infrastructure and businesses that don't rely on the US.
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<p>
They are not going to make anything better.
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.
So we all need to be the bigger people in the room.
Do better to try and offset the horrible effect that it will have on our planet and our economies.
Help each other and the natural world to be as stable as possible through this time.
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<p>
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.
Ignore their government's raging and complaining if trade slows or their businesses suffer because we don't use them.
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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id: mm
title: Midnight Musings
previous: fsdi
next: ct
date: 2024-10-01
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<h2>Midnight Musings</h2>

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#![allow(async_fn_in_trait)]
use crate::database::article::load_articles;
use database::link::load_links;
use sqlx::PgPool;
use std::error::Error;
use tracing::info;
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pub async fn run_load(pool: &PgPool) -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error>> {
load_articles(pool).await?;
load_links(pool).await?;
Ok(())
}