Ed S. 🇨🇦

🎶 Havin' a ball 🎶

Amazon warehouses?

AliExpress' site has gotten much worse over the years, especially with their "bundle" deals.

No, an AI-focused "Windows 12" is not coming this year — here's the plan A new report has caught the internet's attention, claiming that Windows 12 is coming this year and will be a modular, AI-powered OS. Here's why that's wrong.

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Audiobook cover of "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It" by Cory Doctorow

Just finished listening to the audiobook of @doctorow.pluralistic.net's "Enshittification", and *wow* what a book! It encapsulates so many things I've been feeling about the modern tech industry, but articulated so much better than I could. Highly recommend!!

I loved the audiobook. You may be interested in reading/listening to Tim Berners-Lee's (inventor of the world-wide web) "This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web".

When he finally leaves us, he sould be buried under the 401 or donate his body to SCIENCE.

He wants a memorial statue, a square and or streets named after him. Just like a true Narcissist.

The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute

Our privacy should be a collaborative effort between the government and companies–but we cannot rely solely on their goodwill. That’s why we need strict legislative and democratic controls to contain the surveillance state and private industry. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Technical solutions like Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Pods/Wallets would be great. We need to take our personal data out of the hands of Meta, Google, Microsoft, Twitter X etc.

He's such a fool. Why not bury a new convention centre under the 401 and double down on the foolishness.

That's because he values profit and his excessive wealth over doing the right things to protect the vulnerable.

Retour de l'école
Claude Picher
1989

Yes! Just imagine what would be happening (or not happening) today if that other guy formed a governmet and became Prime Minister.

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Setting the bar very low, Trump is no Richard Nixon.

The truth cuts to the bone for CONservatives in Canada.

How about "Don't get your health advice from 'influencers'."

THIS.

It's on her bucket list.

Why a memory chip shortage could soon drive up prices | CBC News A boom of investment in artificial intelligence has led to an unforeseen problem: a shortage of the world's memory chip supply, which threatens to drive up the price of consumer electronics like lapto...

Why a memory chip shortage is wreaking havoc on the consumer electronics industry

Memory demands for AI data centres 'sucking all the oxygen out of the room'

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

He and the other tech oligarchs left the human race years ago!

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Billie Eilish Debunks Billionaire Charity Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”One reaso

Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires an important question:

“If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?”

Another important question:

Is billionaire philanthropy a complete sham? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNZ7mE82UJ0

The Political and Electoral systems in the US are profoundly dysfunctional and vulnerable to partisan manipulation. So goes the failed democracy.

Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

I'm definately in!

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act : Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible

Take a trip down memory lane with the journey of Linux’s humble beginnings. From a 1991 386 PC project to powering clouds and edge devices, Linux shows what happens when people share code, ideas, and trust.

Read the full article 👇

#OpenSource #Leadership #Community #Collaboration #Linux

I'm checking out Tim Berners-Lee's "Solid". I hope it becomes a viable alternative.

Getting off US tech: a guide I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!