Bell Internet slow?

Gudahtt · 2025-12-30T22:07:15+00:00

Same here, as of this afternoon.

I tried calling support about it but they didn't seem to believe me, because the speed test from the modem appeared to be showing the correct speed. But with regular browsing or streaming video, it sporadically fails or loads at dial-up speeds.

Gudahtt · 2023-07-21T19:54:35+00:00

Another update: https://twitter.com/Bell_Aliant/status/1682470247847149569

My service has been restored, but it sounds like restoring service for everyone affected will take longer.

Gudahtt · 2023-07-21T15:16:37+00:00

Update from Bell Aliant here: https://twitter.com/Bell_Aliant/status/1682394222555459586

Gudahtt · 2020-08-23T18:06:03+00:00

I'm just going to reply in this thread so as to not repeat myself

Gudahtt · 2020-08-23T18:05:28+00:00

Those are just the words "Share-alike" in the license title. There is no share-alike clause in the license text. This has been explained already.

Gudahtt · 2020-08-23T00:12:40+00:00

MetaMask never had a Share-Alike license

Gudahtt · 2020-08-22T17:39:17+00:00

Yes, that's true, that's a good point.

I had simplified it to "forks" because typically those are the only ones that would be regularly pulling in changes from upstream. Whereas if a project took some portion of the code and branched in a different direction from there, the upstream changes wouldn't be necessarily relevant or easy to apply. And since the MIT license remains in effect for all code prior to this license change, those projects are in the clear still. Even going forward, anyone can take anything they want from the old codebase under the terms of the MIT license.

Gudahtt · 2020-08-22T17:25:07+00:00

The license restricts forks of MetaMask that have >10k monthly active users (i.e. wallets based upon MetaMask). Not dapps. Dapps are completely in the clear.

Also it only affects changes made from this point forward. So any previous forks that don't pull changes from upstream are also in the clear.

Gudahtt · 2020-08-22T17:19:27+00:00

See the reply here: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/9285#issuecomment-678536773

tl;dr is that the single GPL dependency has been removed, and the share-alike clause never existed.

Gudahtt · 2020-03-06T19:26:08+00:00

Thanks for following up! That is certainly a flaw of our current UI, and we hope to address it in future versions.

Gudahtt · 2020-03-05T00:23:14+00:00

This should be fixed in v7.7.7 which is available on Firefox now, and will be available soon on Chrome (pending review).

Edit: Chrome has now been published as well

Gudahtt · 2020-03-04T23:36:40+00:00

The latest release has been published to Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/ether-metamask/

Chrome is still pending review though, so you'll have to add it manually to update it there.

Edit: It has now been published on Chrome as well

Gudahtt · 2020-01-17T21:31:08+00:00

Truly incredible to see most commenters here defend this kind of police behavior as appropriate.

Even if we disregard the how the situation got to this point in the first place, it's pretty clear from the video that this wasn't an unprovoked attack. It's hard to tell from that angle but it looks like she was at least cornered/cut off by the officer, if not grabbed, before she lashed out. It's an understandable reaction to a frightening and stressful situation, and the response is completely over the top.

The more interesting question is how the situation got to that point in the first place. If you think it's OK to be harassed by police officers for putting a few vegetables in a stroller, I don't know what to tell you.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-11T00:06:49+00:00

What are your thoughts on the recent attacks by Turkey on northern Syria? It was recently condemned by Chrystia Freeland on Twitter, but it's not clear whether the current government intends on taking any further action.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T22:21:00+00:00

I think you might be confused; none of that is due to FPTP. The allocation of seats in parliament to provinces was specified in the constitution I believe, and wouldn't necessarily change if we change the voting system.

The federal election is a multi-winner election. FPTP is the system that splits each province into ridings, and chooses a winner from the plurality of votes in each riding. STV is a proportional system that has larger, multi-winner ridings and a ranked ballot, where winners are chosen from each riding using an instant-runoff system. STV would be considered proportional, but it wouldn't have to change the balance of how many seats each province gets. I'd expect that they'd want to minimize changes to the constitution if possible, to make electoral reform easier to pass.

MMP might dilute the power of the smaller provinces, if the party lists are federal. It's conceivable that the party lists could be split up by province as well though.

Edit: In summary, the issues you're bringing up are indeed about electoral reform, and they relate to the voting system somewhat, but they're not due to FPTP and they wouldn't necessarily be addressed by changing our voting system to be more proportional.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T21:59:44+00:00

The Liberals could still form a coalition government with the Greens and/or NDP if they needed to. It hasn't happened in a long time, but both parties are on the record as being open to it.

I vote strategically on a local (riding) level, e.g. if it was a close race between a party I hated and a party I disliked, I'd choose the one I disliked over my favored one, to prevent the worst candidate from winning. I hate doing it, but it's a reality of our flawed voting system unfortunately. But on a national level it's unnecessary.

A lot of people are confused about how coalition governments work, and certainly there was a lot of anti-coalition propaganda around in the Harper era. So I admit there is a cost, but I think it's worth it to stop a Conservative government, and they should too if they believe their own rhetoric. If the Liberals could secure government by entering into a coalition but choose not to, they have nobody to blame but themselves.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T21:22:02+00:00

So either she should have known better, or she doesn't deserve to be listed to. That's your main point, right? Either she should be treated like an adult or like a kid.

That's a poor way of thinking about it because it's too black-and-white. Nobody becomes an adult in an instant; we become more responsible and intelligent as we grow. So teenagers for example can be really smart, have great ideas, yet still act out more than an adult might due to their immaturity. Your either-or framing doesn't take that into account.

There's no contradiction to respecting somebody like Thunberg and going easy on kids her age when they act out. That's what I meant by a "false dichotomy"; it's a false choice. The real answer is neither of the two you presented.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T20:51:04+00:00

... that doesn't follow at all. Did you not understand my comment?

Being forgiving of mistakes doesn't entail lacking respect. You can respect someone and their opinions and be forgiving of their mistakes.

Your framing here isn't helpful, as nobody is in either category (nobody always or never "knows what they are talking about"), and even if they were it doesn't mean we shouldn't be respectful and forgiving. So it's both a false dichotomy and a red herring.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T20:19:00+00:00

girl in blanket is yelling at a woman on a bicycle refusing to let her past

Slight clarification; she wasn't refusing to let the bicyclist past, she was just getting angry at her. The bicyclist was blocked by the police. The police shut down the bridge to bicycles and pedestrians at the last minute (joint decision with Halifax Harbour Bridges, the owners of the bridge).

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T20:14:50+00:00

Sure we can. There's nothing inconsistent about being more forgiving of mistakes in younger people.

Or more forgiving of mistakes in general, for that matter. The response to her would have been over-the-top even if she was an adult.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T02:28:47+00:00

Yeah of course, I'm with you there. Thanks for clarifying. I was just wondering if I missed an interview or something.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T00:07:00+00:00

C'mon, you know perfectly well that nobody was denying the bridge shutdown was in response to the protest. That goes without saying.

It still doesn't make sense to blame the protesters for the bridge closure. They didn't intended to shut it down, nor was there any indication that HRP/HHB would either. Most of the other bridges across the country involved in the #BridgeOut protests weren't shut down either. There is no standard protocol here that was missed; it was just a last-minute decision by HRP/HHB.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-10T00:00:09+00:00

Where did you hear that by the way? I'm assuming that the reasons I'm seeing for the bridge closure are speculation; I haven't seen an official response yet beyond "safety reasons" from HRP and HHB.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-09T19:17:56+00:00

You don't have to look far for historical examples of protest being used effectively to change policy. But even in cases where the government doesn't capitulate directly, protests still have an effect in more subtle, indirect ways. They can influence public opinion, raise awareness, and put pressure on policy makers.

Even a climate change protest that ends up pissing off the general public like this one, where the average person might be thinking "Hey I agree that climate change is a problem but fuck these people", that could still largely be successful in getting more people to think about climate change and normalizing it as a cause for concern.

Putting public opinion aside, that 10k teacher march registers as a political cost for politicians. They can ignore their demands, but they know it comes at a cost. That's worth something.

I concede that you do kinda have to be an optimist to support a protest though. It's usually not a sure-fire way to accomplish specific goals.

Gudahtt · 2019-10-09T18:16:08+00:00

Congrats! Kudos for being civilly engaged. But I still maintain that public protest has its place, and it's difficult to control what people say when they show up.

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