My year in junior high literally had to take basketweaving one semester, because the school’s funding kept getting cut year after year, until the school board capitulated to bring in French Immersion (as I recall; this was a long time ago, and I’m old. It was in Alberta).

Funding was being used to force the school board or parent-teacher committee or whatever…

In 7th grade, there were like 3 options we could choose from each semester; then 8th grade, 2; then 9th grade, just one ‘option’.

It’s pretty rich for politicians to accuse students of slacking, when the options are literally defunded in their schools.

Me too!

Canadian here. I’ll live with the tariff if it happens; anything is better than being beholden to that insane government down there.

We should be diversifying our local production regardless, so we don’t need as much from China, but that can’t happen overnight, so it is what it is …

So what’s the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room – the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don’t get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but …

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current “commercial public internet” and a new (old, redux) “hobbyist private internet” where we didn’t have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I’m old.

I have a script that watches apache or caddy logs for poison link hits and a set of bot user agents, adding IPs to an ipset blacklist, blocking with iptables. I should polish it up for others to try. My list of unique IPs is well over 10k in just a few days.

git repos seem to be real bait for these damn AI scrapers.

Immediately impose 25% export tariffs on oil and gas to the US, all proceeds directed to support the Canadian steel and aluminum industry.

Oil companies in Canada can suck it and help preserve our country, they’re rich enough to take it. Pass emergency legislation to bar them from laying off oil & gas workers. If they squeal, call them out as fascist enablers and make it 30% unless they shut up and agree.