The symbol in the image, which appears conspicuously above the Washington Times article that was linked to, is no more offensive than the text of the article beneath it.
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Ah yes, the traditional Canadian poutine party. In honour of Britain we should reciprocate with a bangers and mash bash.
I haven't spend a lot of time fantasizing about unlikely crossovers but now that you mention it: Grand Theft Auto + Animal Crossing
They've removed the ability to do it through the normal settings menu a few years ago, so you'd have to type about:config in the Firefox url bar and do it there. You'll get a warning about how dangerous it is, and then you can type the names of preferences you want to change and double-click on them when they appear to turn those ones on or off. Turning off EME can be safely done without any side effects, but it's not recommended to change anything else in there unless you know what it does.
It would mean you can't watch e.g. Netflix and some TV station websites won't be able to play video — although I've found that on others, the TV programs play just fine but the ads don't work.
Librewolf and the "EME-free" builds of Firefox are the two I know of. You can also set media.eme.enabled and browser.eme.ui.enabled to false in any Firefox-based browser.
approx $6.84USD
Huh. So definitely not worth it then. Just buy a space heater instead. When I did it a few years ago I got $500 out of it, but it cost me a $350 video card which died soon after.
One reason to use a browser with no DRM capabilities available is that it tells them in advance you won't be visiting any more if they try to force DRM on everyone.
WARNING To the People of Earth: Teenagers exist. BEWARE
Huge demand for energy, you say? Sounds like just what Trump is looking for to help bring back the coal mining industry. Acid rain and mercury pollution for everyone will make America great again.
What Twitter/X has done is no conduct that the Canadian people would tolerate if they were conducted by a corporation that was aligned with, say, the government of China
And yet, we did not ban TikTok. Nor did the Americans, when it came down to it. Perhaps they saw no prospect of such a law surviving the legal challenges that would rise against it.
As a general rule, the government can’t simply ban speech it dislikes. The government in Canada would perhaps have a marginally easier time of it with our less complete constitutional protection of the freedom of expression, but it would remain a bad idea, unlikely to succeed legally and very likely to do more harm than good if it did stand. It's wrong to say that "no reasonable jurisprudence would defend" Canadians' rights to visit the website and run the software of their choice when doing so is not in violation of any laws other than an arbitrary ban on one specific vendor who is disliked.
If social media firms have engaged in practices that should be illegal, then make those practices illegal. It will be discovered that once they are identified and specified, far more than just Facebook and Twitter will be affected. That is as it should be. The government of Canada should do what it can, and not attempt to do what it cannot. It should pass data privacy laws that make the worst practices of surveillance capitalist social media illegal in Canada. Legislate directly against the "data harvesting" and ad targeting.
And obviously, first of all, the government should stop using Twitter and Facebook, stop promoting them on government web sites, and thereby start leading people away from that shit instead of towards it. Here's the petition again, which has 15000 signatures so far and lots of time left to sign it.
Is it really down to TSMC being unable to keep up? It seems plausible but I didn't notice anything in the video to support it. Are there other sources that point to it as the problem?
Edit — for circumstantial evidence I did find this: https://wccftech.com/tsmc-reaches-100-percent-utilization-5nm-3nm-supply/
Reading in general is of course quite easy compared to reading the Washington Times (my fingers automatically typed "Washington Post" there, a publication slightly more like a real newspaper) which most people would understandably prefer to avoid. In this case there's no need, the illustration alone conveys the message well enough.