Canadian Labour Congress calls for massive retaliation against US tarrifs, including full cutoff of electricity, critical minerals, and O&G. Also demanded are matching tariffs, worker support programs, and diversification away from US economy.

If this is what's being demanded in the open, I'm curious the extent union labour in strategic sectors might put on their wooden shoes. Dumping of American goods in Canadian ports seems very plausible.

canadianlabour.ca/cut-off-u-s-…

#labour #canpoli #cdnpoli

Cut Off U.S. Energy and Resources Now: No Electricity, No Critical Minerals, No Oil and Gas  | Canadian Labour Congress

WINNIPEG – Bea Bruske, President of the Canadian Labour Congress, issued the following statement today:  Donald Trump’s reckless tariffs are an attack on Canadian workers and our economy. With 2.

^{cstdenis (Canadian Labour Congress)}

As I don't like it when articles force you to open them in order to get to the critical information because they won't put that information in the title, I'll copy the main points below.

United Natural Trading LLC issued a recall on its Fresh Direct dark chocolate-covered pretzels on January 30, 2025 due to an undeclared allergen: milk. In other words, the packaging does not disclose that the pretzels contain milk or milk protein derivatives, which could lead to serious reactions for those with milk allergies.
The good news is that the damage may be limited — the chocolate-covered pretzels were shipped out to Connecticut, New Jersey and New York in limited quantities. What's more, according to the FDA, they were sold through an online third-party retailer and not directly on supermarket shelves. An internal review showed of the company's label management system is what rang the alarm that these pretzels were not labeled properly.

The Pretzel Snack That Was Just Recalled Over An Undeclared Allergen thedailymeal.com/1776873/choco…

The Pretzel Snack That Was Just Recalled Over An Undeclared Allergen

United Natural Trading issued a recall on its Fresh Direct dark chocolate-covered pretzels on January 30, 2025 due to an undeclared milk allergen.

^{Jessica Fleming-Montoya (The Daily Meal)}

Holy crap Cory @pluralistic you should run #DOGE instead of nazi-boy 😂

pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/bel…

This is one HELL of a summary ☝️

But why aren't there people in authority doing this kind of savings overview already?!
Corruption?

Ooohhh GTK 4.18 has proper accessibility on Windows and macOS for the first time!! Exciting blog.gtk.org/2025/02/01/whats-…

mclasen

2025-02-01 13:59:32

What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition

We just had a GTK hackfest at FOSDEM. A good time for an update on whats new and exciting in GTK, with an eye towards 4.18.

Requirements

You can no longer call gdk_display_get_default() or gdk_display_open() before gtk_init(). This was causing problems due to incomplete initialization, so we made it fail with a (hopefully clear) error message. If you are affected by this, the usual fix is to just call gtk_init() as early as possible.

On Windows, we have a hard requirement on Windows 10 now. All older versions are long unsupported, and having to deal with a maze of ifdefs and unavailable APIs makes development harder than it should be. Dropping support for very old versions also simplifies the code down the stack, in Pango and GLib.

The same idea applies to macOS, where we now require macOS 10.15.

Spring cleaning

The old GL renderer has been removed. This may be unwelcome news for people stuck on very old drivers and hardware. But we will continue to make the new renderers work as well as possible on the hardware that they can support.

The X11 and Broadway backends have been deprecated, as a clear signal that we intend to remove them in the GTK 5. In the meantime, they continue to be available. We have also deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, since it needs a new design. The replacement will appear in libadwaita, hopefully next cycle.

It is worth reminding everybody that there is no need to act on deprecations until you are actively porting your app to the next major version of GTK, which is not on the horizon yet.

Incremental improvements

Widget layout and size allocation has received quite a bit of attention this cycle, with the goal of improving performance (by avoiding binary search as much as possible) and correctness. Nevertheless, these changes have some potential for breakage, so if you see wrong or suboptimal layouts in applications, please let us know.

GTK has had difficulties for a while getting its pointer sizes right with fractional scaling on Wayland, but this should all be solved in GTK 4.18. No more huge pointers. Fixing this also required changes on the mutter side.

New beginnings

Accessibility in GTK 4.18 is taking a major step forward, with the new AccessKit backend, which gives us accessibility on Windows and macOS, for the very first time. The at-spi backend is still the default on Linux, and has seen a number of improvements as well.

And, maybe the biggest news: We have an Android backend now. It is still experimental, so you should expect some rough edges and loose ends. For example, there is no GL renderer support yet. But it is exciting that you can just try gtk4-demo on your phone now, and have it mostly work.

Enjoy!

apks/org.gtk.Demo4 · Artifacts · android-signer (#4707329) · Jobs · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

GTK is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.

^GitLab

@RaccoonForFriendica I'm seeing a lot of new users from Google Play's statistics, even if the app is not yet in the production channel. Welcome everyone, I hope you'll enjoy #friendica and #raccoonforfriendica!

Thanks to all the translators who continued to work on the app UI and store description, your dedication is really appreciated. @Fitik @Cătă @TamilNeram @Ricky-Tigg

To old users, I've added two new big features: swipe navigation which allows you to navigate between posts from the conversation detail and the "shortcuts" section, where you can explore other instances and see their local timeline "as if" your were registered there. Plus, as usual, small fixes and enhancements listening to your continuous feedback.

Have a nice weekend and #livefasteattrash

#friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject

"Možná jste si všimli, že velké technologické společnosti (a státní organizace) zaměstnávají speciální týmy lidí, kteří přijdou každé ráno do práce, sednou si ke svému stolu a řeknou si: „Hmm, co bychom tak dnes mohli totálně dojebat?“"

umeligence.cz/blog/openai-nazv…

Když se marketingové oddělení OpenAI předávkuje Red Bullem

^{Uměligence.cz}

The Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM had been fantastic yesterday. All of the talks worth to rescreen them once the come online.

I will try to attend too many BOF workshops today 😅 and still have to walk around to discover all the gems at the different projects booth 🤯

Up cycling Android at 9h fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

At 12h the Social Web BOF fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

And at 14h Windows-10-to-Linux up cycling fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event…

Really looking forward to this Sunday at FOSDEM

#fosdem25 #upcyclingandroid #socialwebfosdem #windows10 #win2linux

"From Intern To Impact: Building A Future As An Engineer", a blog post from our @gnome @outreachy intern. blogs.gnome.org/yorubad-dev/20…

#gnome #outreachy

What’s new in GTK, winter 2025 edition

We just had a GTK hackfest at FOSDEM. A good time for an update on whats new and exciting in GTK, with an eye towards 4.18.

Requirements

You can no longer call gdk_display_get_default() or gdk_display_open() before gtk_init(). This was causing problems due to incomplete initialization, so we made it fail with a (hopefully clear) error message. If you are affected by this, the usual fix is to just call gtk_init() as early as possible.

On Windows, we have a hard requirement on Windows 10 now. All older versions are long unsupported, and having to deal with a maze of ifdefs and unavailable APIs makes development harder than it should be. Dropping support for very old versions also simplifies the code down the stack, in Pango and GLib.

The same idea applies to macOS, where we now require macOS 10.15.

Spring cleaning

The old GL renderer has been removed. This may be unwelcome news for people stuck on very old drivers and hardware. But we will continue to make the new renderers work as well as possible on the hardware that they can support.

The X11 and Broadway backends have been deprecated, as a clear signal that we intend to remove them in the GTK 5. In the meantime, they continue to be available. We have also deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, since it needs a new design. The replacement will appear in libadwaita, hopefully next cycle.

It is worth reminding everybody that there is no need to act on deprecations until you are actively porting your app to the next major version of GTK, which is not on the horizon yet.

Incremental improvements

Widget layout and size allocation has received quite a bit of attention this cycle, with the goal of improving performance (by avoiding binary search as much as possible) and correctness. Nevertheless, these changes have some potential for breakage, so if you see wrong or suboptimal layouts in applications, please let us know.

GTK has had difficulties for a while getting its pointer sizes right with fractional scaling on Wayland, but this should all be solved in GTK 4.18. No more huge pointers. Fixing this also required changes on the mutter side.

New beginnings

Accessibility in GTK 4.18 is taking a major step forward, with the new AccessKit backend, which gives us accessibility on Windows and macOS, for the very first time. The at-spi backend is still the default on Linux, and has seen a number of improvements as well.

And, maybe the biggest news: We have an Android backend now. It is still experimental, so you should expect some rough edges and loose ends. For example, there is no GL renderer support yet. But it is exciting that you can just try gtk4-demo on your phone now, and have it mostly work.

Enjoy!

Decades of data vanishing, perhaps forever: US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time

wired.com/story/us-government-…

Current Mood!!

#Canada #Canpoli #Trump

Twenty specific things Americans can do to oppose Trump:

propagandaprofessor.net/2017/0…

Simple Steps to Overcoming Trumpery: an Action Guide

This time it’s not mere partisan hyperbole. Fascism really has come to America, to an extent we’ve never seen before. (If you still have any doubt, look at the role of Steve Bannon.) An…

^{The Propaganda Professor}

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Canadians are anxious, yes. But we are also angry - angry that the U.S. sees us as disposable, despite the deep economic ties that we have upheld in good faith.

We should NOT take this lying down. We stand together. We buy Canadian. We diversify our trade. And we refuse to support a country that threatens us for no reason other than a madman's political theatre.
#Canada stands strong. #ChooseCanada

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order

erininthemorning.com/p/school-…

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order

On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.

^{Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)}

Word of the day: Kakistocracy

"A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakistoc…

This is very welcome news in the face of Trumpist depredations of US public data.
lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/…

"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."

#DataGov #Libraries #OpenData #Preservation #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Preserving Public U.S. Federal Data | Library Innovation Lab

^{lil.law.harvard.edu}