If you want to stay fully self-hosted, look into Headscale. You could run it locally with a port open, or you could throw it on the tiniest cloud VM somewhere and have zero ports open at home.

I’m doing the same with Apache in a container. Using Let’s Encrypt with DNS challenge for SSL certificate. The DNS records point to the reverse proxy IP which is only accessible via VPN (Tailscale). 😂

Loblaw’s out of control.

It’s strange and I’m deeply skeptical anything would materialize.

American corps right now:

No, it means large streaming services have to pay some of their Canadian revenue towards CanCon.

Would you look at that, pretty straightforward.

Arr Stack and CBC Gem.

I seed CanCon. 🍁

Absolutely. It matters enormously what kind of content is available and for example what is shown on the all-important carousel on the Netflix home screen. These services clearly have enormous power to get people to watch different kinds of content according to corporate priorities. I end up watching through no intentional effort a lot more Canadian content when I open CBC Gem compared to Netflix.

The effect is similar in both cases. Even if there’s choice for everyone to watch what they want but most of the content is US-based, Canadian content doesn’t get enough views, doesn’t make enough revenue and isn’t made anymore. Freedom of choice can mask a lot of undesirable effects. We want to keep Canadian content alive.

Threaten them with giving the money and rights to BYD.

I’m just kidding! A stern finger wagging would do.

That’s just an externality.

He’s completely delusional on both points.

I thought that name sounded familiar.

Higher cost of labour drives capital investment to increase productivity in order to make more profit with less labour time. Lower cost of labor allows profits be made with lower productivity. Cost of labour in Canada is lower as far as I’m aware. One obvious difference is free healthcare which is not only paid by employers in the US but is also significantly more expensive.

Is the foreign ownership a surprise?

The Stellantis factory in Windsor seems to be on track to make cells this year. But someone has to put them in cars. Cars that are affordable.

Kind of. The high level OS modules are using QNX, Linux and Android. Lower level modules can be more arcane.

Am working in NA automotive and data collection is very much discussed in terms of what’s allowed in different jurisdictions and modules are configured differently for different markets accordingly.

If the manufacturers we have here don’t want to make EVs, we have no EV manufacturing jobs to protect. Unless we’re planning to live on ICE vehicles into the climate crisis, we have to get a source of EVs. The options are import and FDI (foreign direct investment (build factories here)). FDI is probably preferable since it gives us the ability to make the vehicles we use. If we go for import, we probably want the cheapest possible deal that fits the bill, unless we want to pay extra for a good reason. E.g. we may want to buy European. Of course we have to ask whether that’s worth the cost given that they source some of their components from China. I think some European autos are planning to use Chinese platforms for their vehicles. At that point it may or may not make sense to pay the premium. That differs from maker to maker. E.g. Renault’s latest EVs seem EU-made. More broadly, the less in corporate profits we pay for our EVs, the more money are left in our pockets to spend on other Canadians. The cheaper the EVs, the less the cost of Canadian businesses using them is and the more competitive they are.