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Torrenting means you’re sending copies of the files to anyone with a magnet link. Great for quickly sharing legitimate software with a wide group. If you’re trying to download stuff you don’t have a license for, torrenting is a bad solution. Better to find a small community where you can just share files directly, peer to peer or on a private server.

Torrenting has a very obvious digital fingerprint, so even if you’re using a VPN, your ISP knows you’re torrenting. And if your VPN provider gets served with a notice and their country is a member of any international trade agreement, they know who you are and have a responsibility to take action against you.

The US has political baseball where the blue team is a collection of players with different strategies who want to play the game in different ways.

Internationally, a lot of countries play cricket.

Some countries play Go.

Trump has never swept a day in his life.

As the POTUS, Trump gets to set the bar on the world stage for international cooperation in many parts of life.

Other leaders, world-wide, will follow his lead, either because they can finally get away with it, or in reaction to how he treats their nation.

We saw this to a small degree with Trump 1.0 when nobody expected him to win. Now the entire world has had 8 years to figure out what they are going to do.

I keep all my traffic encrypted, use my own DNS, and run a VPN so that anytime I’m away from my place, my traffic is tunnelled through my home setup, which includes a piHole.

If I need more than that to obscure the traffic source, it goes through TOR.

I also run a few public web services off the same IP, so the traffic coming out of my address has plausible deniability.

Plus, I use tracker and ad blockers in all my browsers/devices, of course, as well as block JavaScript by default.

Isn’t childcare a provincial responsibility? So it’s the lack of provincial regulations at play here. Still an issue, but the pressure needs to be applied in the right place, as the national guidelines are already clear.

Generally, it’s best to go by capability, not by policy.

Any company has to do what the government of its country says. This goes both for the VPN company, AND any exit node country. So you have to always assume that whatever country your exit node is in has full access to the data exiting the VPN there.

Then there’s the technology being used, the expertise with which it is configured, and finally the policies in place for handling and storing your PII.

Mullvad has a strong record on all accounts, even as far as just giving a year’s notice that it will stop supporting OpenVPN.

AirVPN has virtually no track record, fewer details on hardware, configuration, expertise and PII handling, and it’s in the EU, so has to comply with EU laws as well as Italian laws.

Being in the EU means it has to comply with the GDPR, which does have its benefits. But it also means an EU member state could put a gag order on your account and be monitoring all your data without you ever knowing.

So it all comes down to who you want your data to be private from and why.

Personally, I avoid all public VPN services as much as possible, and assume that the only thing they’re really doing is tricking the next service in the hop as to what country I’m connecting from.

They do. It’s just a much bigger group to them, so the hate spreads further.

.., which does almost nothing to “bust” the “myth”.

The City of Vancouver reported a larger share of vacant dwellings (7.1 per cent), and the vacancy rate was relatively higher for apartments in duplexes, and low-rise and high-rise structures, a trend also seen in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Toronto.

The point about miscounting duplexes is a good one, as is the temporary housing that wasn’t in use on the day of the census.

But that article is attempting to defend against a different point than the one I was making; it was defending against the vacant houses being a result of the vacant homes taxes.

The point I was making is that it’s not the homes themselves that are an issue but their affordability/fitness for housing the unhoused.

Another point that neither they nor I made is that the market actually needs vacant homes in order for mobility to be possible. Again, the issue here is WHICH homes are vacant / unoccupied, and the census data and the other data doesn’t always go into enough detail there.

Either way, there are plans to build more homes in the next four years. And there’s a lot if rural Canada where people can live more affordably… especially if they do remote work.

Asylum seekers are often skilled and quite often in information roles.

Not painted or bleached… just its natural “off-white”.

Tell me… how many of those bureaucrats are going to “slow things down” when they stop getting paid and their workplace is sold out from under them?

They can sue in court… and those lawsuits will be rejected.

That’s why BC went to a system where you have access to all your own data… so you can keep track of your own health.