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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!

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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.

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#OpenSource #Leadership #Community #Collaboration #Linux

Trump, more than any other president in the history of the US, most closely reflect's the US's collective narcissism.

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!

Was Feb. 14 the dress rehearsal?

Why even fact check? Trump is a serial liar.

Instead of your information being locked inside the servers of big platforms, Solid reorganizes the web so your data lives with you, and apps must request permission to use it — on your terms. solidproject.org

Solid is a web decentralization project created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee to give people true ownership and control of their personal data.

I'm reading Tim Berners-Lee book "This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web" and learning about the Solid Project.

Yes and I'm also pissed that Canadian TV networks broadcast so much shit programming from the US. And we don't need The Price Is Right Canada. The CBC should take a page from TVO.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Best books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles

🙏 @financialtimes.com & @johnthornhill.bsky.social for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘

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‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed a global network of linked information at CERN. His supervisor’s legendary feedback? 'Vague but exciting.'
That 'vague' idea became the World Wide Web. 🌐💻 #WWW #TechHistory #TimBernersLee #ITHistory

Whatch Trump, the President of the United States "sundowning". 😕

"Cash" Patel is more like it.

Letting children use (anti)social media and the internet with full, unsupervised activities is like dropping your kid off at the Red Light District and picking them up later that night.

Trump: No class, just trash. All the shiny golden objects in the world won't change that.

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I was thinking of an Oompa-Loompa.

On the other hand, some humans appear to be totally senseless.

Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live * Canada captain Sidney Crosby ruled out with injury * Old rivals face off with gold medal on line * Email Beau or drop him a line on BlueSky * Medal table | Live scores and schedule | Results | Briefing NBC, meanwhile, has brought out 1980 men’s hockey legend Mike Eruzione to talk about what it means to play for the USA. He says this is the best US team ever assembled. He also notes “there’s not a TV set in Canada that isn’t tuned to this game,” and that’s probably not an outlandish statement. The United States will be facing a hostile crowd at the Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena as they seek their third ever Olympic title in men’s hockey and first since the Miracle on Ice team of 1980. The Americans were greeted with a chorus of lusty boos when they took the ice in their white jerseys for their 20-minute warm-up ahead of today’s gold medal game. It already felt like there were more Canada shirts in the building and along the concourses of the brand-new 14,700-seat arena on Milan’s south-eastern edge. Now it sounds that way too. It is arguably the hottest ticket of the Milano Cortina Olympics and that’s clear from the scenes outside the gates, where hordes of Canadian and American fans in hockey sweaters are pounding beers and roaring through songs and chants in glorious 53F (12C) sunshine. Continue reading...

Winter Olympics men’s ice hockey final: Canada v USA – live

The USA is the most narcissistic country in the world.

Gretzky has really got up my nose wearing the Canadian flag in his lapel, pretending to be a Canadian & egotistically assuming Canadians care about him
Plus, stop calling the Canadian women’s hockey team ‘girls’.
No one calls the Olympic men’s hockey team the boys hockey team.
#NotAHero #MAGAGretzky

He's trying to address threats to his "brand". Perhaps sales numbers are down for his associated brands.

I'll stick with my beautiful Orient analogue watch.

Surprise, surprise! More craziness from the madman. Tomorrow, it could be 20%, then 30% etc

A couple of years ago, I stayed at the Royalton Cayo Santa Maria in Cuba. I was sick with food poisoning for two days of my seven night stay. It was the worst case of food poisoning I have ever had. It was a beautiful resort, but I will never return. I'd stay away from any Blue Diamond resorts.

The Trump administration is not the problem. It's the symptom of something else that runs deeper to the core of the US political system, justice, culture and society.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks