I do not know Idaho, but I agree it is an awful reason. It is soul wrenchingly stupid. It has reduced my faith in humanity and decreased my fear of a comet.

It’s Olive Garden

Someone in my family wants this to happen because it will make travelling to their favourite restaurant easier.

This will require strengthening domestic manufacturing, […] develop[ing] workforce resilience, domestic capacity and innovation right here at home. […] The solution lies in strengthening Canadians’ right to repair the products and devices we rely upon.

I found this overly strong at first, but it holds water. If there’s a market for it that means a domestic capacity for it and related technical, manufacturing-adjacent things.

DIY repair has saved me a lot of money and headache, and saved a lot of stuff from landfill. It should be an easy sell, but with everything going towards a subscription model - overtly or covertly - we aren’t supposed to own things anymore. I would expect the balance of lobby money to be on the other side of this issue every time.

The company managing this land for the owner is a private island broker: https://www.vladi-private-islands.de/en/island-archive/canada-east/central

“The Lemmy Overseer” as I understand it is a backend service that gives us an API to use.

There is an open-source script for interacting with it. However, it does not tell you how that backend service works, exactly. It’s a black box with well defined interfaces, best case, as I understand it.

Important question; author kind of answers here:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/204729

If I were to rely on this for my instance, I would require that it be completely transparent and open source. It doesn’t look like this is; you have to trust that it is making good selections, and give it power over your federation status. It’s a dangerous tool, IMO, but I can understand why it would have appeal right now.