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I'm smack-dab in the middle of the prairies, though I lived in southern Ontario as a kid.
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I live in the windswept prairies of Canada.
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Replying to @theteapixie@mstdn.ca
As a lifelong Canadian I must note that it is my experience that the "rowt" / rout pronunciation is about equally popular as "root", if not moreso.
It isn't about the equipment, in general. You can do 99% of everything with a decent one-piece/all-in-one camera, if that's what you have available or in your budget. You can learn everything and practice everything without needing to drop big money.
Once you do start pushing the limits of whatever your first setup is, you'll probably want to get an interchangeable-lens camera. At that point, ignore the camera itself and look at lenses - pick a system based on what lenses you'll actually use, what capabilities they have, whether they're too big or too heavy for where you want to haul them to use, all that sort of thing.
If you stay in photography, and you actually need an interchangeable-lens camera, you will spend far more on the glass than on the camera, and the technical quality of your images are going to be limited more by the glass than the camera too. Once you've decided on what glass you want to use, you buy whatever camera you like to let you use that glass.
If they decide to arrogate the power to decide which votes to count, eliminating those they judge as not a reasoned, informed opinion, does the IETF management/board/whatever slap them down hard?
I'm wondering if they can just bulldoze through opposition and make this the fait accompli they wanted it to be all along.
They're also getting really testy about us "regular Joes" showing up and voting against publication of the deliberately-weak solo PQ recommendation.
You can practically feel their frustration - "We stuffed this list to pass this vote, and they're stuffing it against us!".
The blatant hypocrisy of the "not standards-track" thing bugged me too when it came through the list.
Anyone who follows me and cares about cryptography or their privacy: read djb's short blurb here:
https://nsa.2026.action.cr.yp.to/
There's action you can take to try to prevent the NSA's attempt to get the world to standardize on deliberately weakened cryptography in TLS - i.e. the thing that protects every important web connection on the planet. They have form for doing this in the past, and are trying again.
There are other links in the above page for more information.