ivanvector

Trading primarily with the United States instead of building other trade partnerships has been our weakness since the Avro Arrow was cancelled. It’s about time our leaders started trying to do something about it.

I don’t think he’ll be notified for this, his instance wasn’t included in the post.

Full Mastodon usernames are @user@instance. Pinging @user only works if you’re on the same instance.

There is obviously something bad that has already been identified by an FOI request that they don’t want to be made public. There’s no other conceivable reason to do this at all, and there is no possible way this can be of any benefit to taxpayers or residents of Ontario at all.

This used to come up a lot in meta-fedi talk on Mastodon. The general feeling (from my own observation) is that a central authority for user accounts would defeat one of the big advantages of decentralization: that one service going down does not bring the rest of the network down with it. If all logins have to authenticate to a central service, then if that service is offline then nobody can log in anywhere.

There is capability for federated login in ActivityPub, though, it just doesn’t seem to be very widely adopted. Pixelfed has a “sign in with Mastodon” login option, where you can use your login on a Mastodon instance to authenticate to Pixelfed, and then presumably you can use Pixelfed with your Mastodon account instead of having a separate Pixelfed account. My masto instance doesn’t seem to support it so I don’t know what it looks like.

The funny thing about that is Canada offered to buy the Ambassador Bridge in 2009, but the owner wanted almost double what the government offered. They only started talking about building the Gordie Howe after that.