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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Karen incident in the customer service call center driven development.

If someone hasn't yelled at a minimum wage phone rep over it, it doesn't need to be fixed.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

Vulnerability driven developer

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

There's a great Tasting History episode about Ancient Mesopotamian beer and their writings around it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK4DMt8ARyU

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 16 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Fax is also HIPPA compliant, email is not.

Yeah I just love having my cancer diagnosis sent in plaintext over copper wire such that anyone with a dollar store audio recorder and physical access to the wire can intercept. If there's one thing 19th century data transmission tech is known for, it's security and privacy.

Is it too much to ask that hospitals use the literally decades old AES standard for sending medical data?

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Isn't that literally how art guilds in the middle ages operated? Like if you weren't part of the guild and tried to sell art you made, a mob from the guild would come along, destroy all your works, and probably beat the shit out of you for good measure?

 
 
[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (4 children)

Apparently they also documented the effects of too much beer on the human mind. Potentially some of the first records of alcoholism?

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 14 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

They must have, otherwise that person wouldn't be so angry to have received the inferior stuff! They expected much better.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Also look up the Sonderkommando. They were death camp prisoners tasked with emptying the gas chambers and cremating the victims to "save" the SS from having to do it. When it was their turn in the gas chamber, most of them were reported to be relieved, and there's a story of a Sonderkommando team being warned by another prisoner that they're headed to the gas chamber, and they essentially said "we know. We're the Sonderkommando and this is a mercy for us."

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 15 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

They also invented selling subpar copper, which led to the invention of writing to customer service about said subpar copper.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts: Fuck that guy

Prayers: Hey God, remember to warm up the brimstone for this one!

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not an excuse, doesn't lessen their atrocities even slightly.

Get arrested then. It's better than killing civilians. If you think not getting arrested is worth committing a literal genocide, you're an objectively horrible person and are not worthy of the least bit of respect or sympathy. The laws written after WWII specifically rejects the notion that soldiers can absolve themselves of responsibility by following orders.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, she's literally a grave robber and thinks that's an honourable career. So definitely believable.

There's also a good chance she's killed people who were trying to prevent their sacred tombs from being desecrated.

 

Currently using htop on termux but would ideally like something similar to the system monitor on KDE, that can show a graph of individual core usage as well as memory usage. Does anything like that exist that's open source?

 

Archive of the article at the time of posting:

‘We have all the cards’: Trump ending all trade talks with Canada ‘immediately’ over digital services tax

By Spencer Van Dyk

Updated: June 27, 2025 at 5:29PM EDT

Published: June 27, 2025 at 1:53PM EDT

U.S. President Donald Trump says his team is ending all trade talks with Canada, “effective immediately,” citing disagreement over Canada’s controversial digital services tax as the reason for shutting down negotiations.

He made the announcement in a post Friday on Truth Social, calling the levy “a direct and blatant attack” on the U.S. and its technology companies.

Trump’s announcement is a wrench in ongoing trade discussions between the two countries, which have been in the throes of a trade war for months, since the president’s first slate of tariffs on Canadian goods in February.

Trump has since levied a series of sweeping and stacked tariffs on Canadian products, targeting a range of industries. Canadian countermeasures are also in place.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, meanwhile, held a closed-to-media meeting with members of the Prime Minister’s Council on Canada-U.S. Relations earlier Friday.

On his way out of the meeting, the prime minister told reporters he had not spoken with the president since the latter posted to Truth Social.

“The Canadian government will continue to engage in these complex negotiations with the United States in the best interests of Canadian workers and businesses,” reads a statement from the Prime Minister’s Office Friday afternoon.

Following the G7 meetings in Kananaskis, Alta. earlier this month, Trump and Carney said they would pursue negotiations toward a new trade and security deal by mid-July, a 30-day deadline from their discussions in the Rockies.

Trump, however, now says he’s ending the talks.

“We will let Canada know the Tariff that they will be paying to do business with the United States of America within the next seven-day period,” Trump wrote in his Truth Social post.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office Friday afternoon, Trump initially refused to answer a question about Canada, saying he was dealing with a “much more important subject,” signing a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

When he was asked again about trade negotiations, however, he said: “Canada has been a very difficult country to deal with over the years,” and calling the government “foolish” for implementing the tax.

“They put a tax on companies that were American companies that they shouldn’t. A very, very severe tax,” Trump said. “And, yeah, I guess they could remove it. They will. But I mean, it doesn’t matter to me.”

“We have all the cards. We have all the cards,” he added. “You know, we do a lot of business with Canada, but relatively little. They do most of their businesses with us. And when you have that circumstance, you treat people better.”

Digital services tax ‘discriminatory’: former U.S. trade rep

The tax — first pitched by the Liberals in their 2021 budget — sees the federal government impose a three per cent levy on revenues over $20 million from tech giants earning money off Canadian content and Canadian users.

It has been deeply unpopular and widely criticized by American lawmakers for years. They argue the policy disproportionately impacts U.S. companies, with former Biden administration U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai calling the levy “discriminatory.”

The first payment of the tax is due Monday and will charge retroactively to 2022.

In an interview on CTV’s Question Period in December, former Liberal finance minister Bill Morneau told host Vassy Kapelos that if the Canadian government wanted to make headway with the U.S. administration, it should look at scrapping some sticking-point policies, namely the digital services tax.

Feds standing by controversial tax

Asked about the levy by reporters on Parliament Hill last week, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the government was still planning to “go ahead” with the digital services tax.

In French, asked whether his government is willing to scrap the tax, Champagne said “we’re not there at all.” He added the tax was a topic of conversation at the G7 meeting earlier this month, and called it a “neutral” tax, which “isn’t directed toward any particular country.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said in an interview with CTV News Friday that Canada will continue to “press in terms of Canadian interests.”

“I want to stress that our negotiations occur behind closed doors for a reason, that we need to continue to ensure that Canadian interests are protected at every turn, and we are disadvantaged if we continue to share strategy externally with the media,” Anand said. “But, I will say that the guiding principle of these negotiations is to ensure that these unjustified tariffs are removed, and that is our fundamental starting point.”

Anand also pointed to the U.K. and France having digital services taxes of their own, an argument often cited by the previous Liberal government under former prime minister Justin Trudeau when faced with criticisms of the policy.

Tax should be ‘expendable’ in negotiations: Manley

In a statement to CTV News, Business Council of Canada president and CEO Goldy Hyder said his organization has been calling for the federal government to scrap the tax for years.

“Bottom line is, (Internal Trade Minister) Chrystia Freeland, when she was finance minister, booked the revenues, and now they’re due,” Hyder said. “And these American companies have been asking that we align with the OECD and determine how to manage this.”

Hyder said he’s been in contact with Champagne about the business council’s position on the tax, and while he wouldn’t divulge the contents of those conversations, said “suffice to say, he has no intention of removing it.”

“And, if we were bluffing, the bluff just got called, and we’ve got to midnight Monday to get through this,” Hyder added.

Meanwhile, former Liberal finance minister John Manley said Canada should “keep calm and carry on” in the face of Trump’s reversal, telling CTV News “it’s not a trade negotiation unless somebody throws a tantrum.”

“We’re dealing with Donald Trump, after all,” he said.

Manley said the Carney government should be willing to concede the digital services tax if it gets the two countries closer to a deal, calling the levy “expendable,” but adding negotiators should hold out until there are concessions from the U.S. side before putting the levy on the table.

“If you’ve got something in a negotiation that you’re willing to give up, you don’t offer that off the top,” he said. “You hold back for the end.”

The parliamentary budget officer has estimated the tax will generate $7.2 billion in revenues for the federal government over five years.

With files from CTV News’ Judy Trinh and Luca Caruso-Moro

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