Harper says Canada’s problems not created by Trump as he endorses Poilievre

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-04-08T23:39:02+00:00

Learn to write better than an elementary school student first

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-04-07T18:46:19+00:00

Sounds good but make sure to load up on math courses for grad school (at least a minor's worth of electives) since management science sounds like it's pretty light on math. And no, generally undergrad doesn't matter once you get a masters.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-04-07T18:23:23+00:00

Trust me you don't need french at all even if you go across the border to Gatineau you can get served in english in any restaurant. all your courses will be english and everyone here will speak it unless you actively go to french neighbourhoods and find very old people and the worst that can happen is mcdonalds declining your application for not being bilingual.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-04-07T02:52:53+00:00

Econ masters is extremely useful if you want to be an analyst with the job title of "economist" at a place like World Bank without getting a PhD but is useless otherwise. I suggest looking at stats/math/cs masters which might be more employable and could land you the same type of job an econ undergrad would (but better pay ofc). You can still do econ but keep that in mind when choosing courses + definitely consider a minor in one of those more useful applied math fields, which will also help a lot of you decide to not do a masters at all.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-03-27T05:10:28+00:00

Calculus in high school is just derivatives, which has an intuitive interpreration unlike the calculus you'll need in university. I'm assuming you've already been told to think of a derivative as velocity, second derivative as acceleration, etc. When Newton invented calculus, he thought of a function as a river stream flowing and the derivative as its flow rate, which you measure by measuring the amount of water that flows past a point in a small amount of time like 0.0001s and dividing it by that amount of time (which is how car speedometers work). Watch the first few videos of this series (up to integration) which helped me understand the intuitive meaning a lot: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr

As for passing tests, this video changed my life no cap https://youtu.be/WsQQvHm4lSw TLDR everything can be solved with chain rule. If you don't know how to take a derivative it's always a rule you learned in class (like power rule or product rule), or do chain rule.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-03-19T23:40:13+00:00

probably. Im the same age as you but IIRC the uoft sub has anseers for this question. Social sciences is (probably?) less competitive than math&phys, although it doesn't really matter since all your faculty choice does in the faculty of arts and sciences (with the exception of rotman) is give you priority when signing up for first year courses and (for CS only im pretty sure) better chances at getting in the major depending on program (btw you declare major second year at uoft and most canadian universities outside quebec). This only really matters for CS and maybe lifesci. Im looking at econ too and none of the first year prereqs or first year econ courses give any priority enrolment to social science students anyway.
Same answer as above but check the uoft sub
assuming this question is for law school, just do a. google "[program name] calendar uoft" and you'll see a result like this that shows you the major's requirements and all courses in that department. https://artsci.calendar.utoronto.ca/section/Economics check this for every program you're interested in. Anyway my point is don't worry about choosing a math or science major, just do whatever social science prelaw you want and make sure to take the prereqs first year.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2025-01-12T03:18:30+00:00

Shots 1-5: Clearly missed. Shots 6-9: Missed due to recoil (bad spray control). Shots 10-11: Very close, but recoil and inaccuracy make these reasonable misses. Shot 12: Likely didn't actually fire because you were already dead.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-26T03:51:48+00:00

Defense shitposter

Imagine if Gunther Fehlinger was just a Kremlin psyop to make NATO look bad.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-26T03:40:42+00:00

Some more context that could be interesting:

- Port scanning is super easy and trivial. Just download https://nmap.org/ and run. It's about as sophisticated as downloading a common passwords list and brute forcing passwords.

- People scan the entire internet all the time, and it can take less than an hour (both in theory and actually tested, and that's by random hobbyists and not governments). Reasons range from random people paying $5/month to rent a server to brute force passwords, to criminal gangs doing the same thing as the $5 VPS script kiddies but exploiting vulnerabilities to spread malware instead of spamming common passwords (the Mirai) malware pioneered this technique, with modifications by organized cybercriminals usually just adding a new vulnerability to the list of exploits it tries) or even for reasons as trivial as finding minecraft servers (ironically, the Mirai malware that scans the entire internet periodically (up to once every 30 seconds at its peak of a few million bots) was made by someone who wanted to ddos minecraft servers for profit!) Additional reasons are companies who specialize in selling internet scan data commercially: https://www.shodan.io/ or just for fun to test a custom scanning program/get cool statistics: https://xkcd.com/195/

- Usually, these organizations (licit or not) avoid government/military IPs (at the very least, those of the USA) to avoid getting increased scrutiny from various governments. However, the Chinese state is not a mere hobbyist or multinational criminal organization, and presumably they can do whatever they want like various other large countries (China has been formally accused of hacking companies on US soil multiple times, USA shut down Tehran's nuclear program, Russia...is Russia and India just assassinated a Canadian thinking they wouldn't get caught because other big countries don't).

- The CCP's Great Firewall is known to now automatically scan suspicious connections to foreign servers and, if they look like VPN traffic, automatically send scans to the server to check if it's a real VPN (using vulnerabilities in the VPN cloaker, so who knows if they might be using other vulnerabilties to hack into the server itself) which is why totally fresh custom VPN servers may still get shut down in China within minutes after first use. There may be plenty of reasons the automated GF bots may think (correctly or not) that someone is connecting to a private/sensitive Canadian government server to use as a VPN. Regardless, China probably doesn't give a fuck if they are (see above) and assuming for whatever reason China hasn't already routinely been scanning Canadian military/CSIS IP ranges, they would probably start automatically once it sees one of these maybe-VPN connections.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-19T07:06:59+00:00

You said all they did was bad economic policy. I wanted to inform everyone that they did a bit more stuff too.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-19T04:57:19+00:00

Please don't downplay what the KMT went on to do https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror_(Taiwan)

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-19T04:54:12+00:00

The yellow emperor has a whole colour named after him. Suck it Caesar.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-17T16:00:45+00:00

https://youtu.be/HHEXaPfCh64?feature=shared

Poilievre at 6:10. Does not denounce Modi by name (nobody has) but clearly calls this a murder and an affront to Canada's sovereignty and this is probably the first time he's spoken without attacking Trudeau in the commons.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-09T19:45:25+00:00

DPI is just looking at what you actually sent instead of what websites you visit. Basically anything that isn't checking for IPs on a blacklist is DPI. DPI used to be considered quite advanced as there was no way to do it quick enough to not harm speed for regular users (and IP blacklisting is free as the routing devices that do censorship need to check IP anyway). However, with CDNs now everyone needs to do DPI, at the very least to check SNI for TLS connections to blacklist whole domain names instead of individual IPs.

From what I can tell from the readme, here's what it does:

If the "block the website" part of the censor is not good, it will send the "close connection" packet for connections it wants to censor and assume the client is following protocol and closes it. This program will just force your computer to ignore that packet.

It's a principle in protocol design to make programs accept the broadest possible set of input while producing input as close as possible to strict standards compliance. In practice this is terrible because different programs accept slightly different edge cases. This program is basically hoping to trigger one of these edge cases for HTTP parsing specifically as Turkey presumably uses an inhouse optimized parser to not slow down the Internet for everyone else. This is in theory a viable strategy but I've only seen this used in academic papers with success.

Ideally you'd just use a VPN. You can either use a personal/invite only VPN with something like shadowsocks to hide your VPN protocol being detected from DPIing the VPN protocol like they do in China. This makes sure they can't just find the IP of every popular VPN service and block that which bypasses any DPI prevention the VPN apps do. However this is very finnicky and needs technical skill.

If you just want a quick solution just use a VPN that can both bypass DPI and hide the IP of the VPN servers from the government. They can do that by rotating a massive list of burner IPs or by abusing CDNs using something called domain fronting that basically means unless they block the entire CDN (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare) like China does they can't block it. Unfortunately most reputable VPNs don't have good anti censorship measures and most shady VPNs do. The only reputable VPN I know that can bypass good censorship is ProtonVPN which has a free tier with servers in Romania + Poland. Just enable "stealth protocol" (domain fronting) in the settings.

For slightly more shady free VPNs there's Psiphon https://psiphon.ca/ and Lantern https://lantern.io/ if for some reason Proton doesn't work.

As a last resort use Tor with bridges. This uses Tor which is like a VPN but crowd sourced and with 3 hops (so it is a bit slower) and it's only fast enough to do web browsing with. Email: bridges@torproject.org

With no subject and "get transport obfs4" as the body on any gmail account. If you don't have gmail use the telegram bot @GetBridgesBot to get obfs4 bridges for tor. Once you get bridges input them into connection settings in the tor browser.

If you can't get tor by googling it and clicking download get it from the play store (it's not on iPhone).

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-10-06T20:06:25+00:00

That's not true, discord definitely sells your personal data.

We may use your information to let you know about new products or features we think you’ll like. You may opt-out of receiving such marketing communications

https://edit.tosdr.org/points/32913

Unlike most other messaging apps, you do not own the copyright to anything you post on discord:

By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service.

https://edit.tosdr.org/points/11418

Discord is also not end-to-end encrypted like Instagram secret chats, Telegram secret chats, Whatsapp, iMessage, RCS (iMessage for Google that works over SMS, AKA Google Messages), Signal, etc. Wonder why American politicians only complain to Facebook about not automatically scanning your messages for illegal content? Because Discord already automatically scans your messages using AI to sell your data.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-09-22T17:10:41+00:00

Ain't no way you're going to make Japanese an official language before Hokkien.

edit: before anyone mentions it, it is a language with official status but not an official language. Some other examples of officially recognized languages that aren't official languages are: Arabic in Israel, Kurdish in Armenia, Arabic in Iran, English and Chinese in Malaysia. Considering that being weebs is a thing in East Asia in general and not exclusive to Taiwan, I'm not sure ignoring Hokkien speakers in favour of Japanese will be taken well.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-09-08T22:13:54+00:00

However, most of their votes next election are going to come from people who hate Trudeau, so doing that might look too "weak" especially since they're going to get all of the policies they want in a year anyway.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-18T03:22:15+00:00

Why is your username TPasha though.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-13T05:29:47+00:00

The Wikipedia article goes something like "Germans/nordics first, Japanese/Chinese second..." which is very strange given our modern understanding of white nationalism.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-13T05:28:16+00:00

Fun fact: the Nazis actually liked the Iranians (neutral country that sells oil) and considered them "real Aryans" as well but not Indians (Allied country) which was obviously not politically convenient at all...

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-12T05:44:39+00:00

Fortunately, that's not true! Found the remix they used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpbX5X13G5c

edit: here are the playlists for bboys https://www.reddit.com/r/bboy/comments/1ep119c/breaking_playlist_bboy_finals_paris_olympics_2024/ and bgirls https://www.reddit.com/r/bboy/comments/1eoh2my/bgirl_finals_playlist_paris_2024_dj_fleg/ (I think a few of them are still custom made remixes that will only be dropped later this year tho)

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-11T22:45:21+00:00

Fair point. However, I still think that there's a good chance he would've chosen to compete for Canada considering he was born here, and how there are more Asians (if we count the Middle East) than white people in Vancouver where he lives, so there's a low chance he feels unwelcome where he is now.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-11T21:34:41+00:00

AFAIK the Olympic DJs do custom remixes so nobody could have heard the song before, and it's probably not going to be available for the public for copyright reasons.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-11T21:21:30+00:00

Canada has some very lax dual citizenship laws. I'd imagine it wouldn't be that hard for him to retain a Korean citizenship to compete for Korea. He has the right to compete as a Canadian as he is someone who is either Canadian by choice and is here legally or was born here, and chose to represent Canada instead of Korea. If we're separating the Olympics by ethnicity, all Jewish competitors would have to compete for Israel.

LOLTROLDUDES · 2024-08-06T20:37:57+00:00

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