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Nuit Blanche #montreal

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In some way the firing of gov tech workers is also about scaring others from taking alternatives paths other than exploitative tech work. So many of us looked at big and mainstream and ad tech and surveillance tech today and said nope, and took our skills elsewhere. This plants the seed of […]

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The entire 18F department (digital transformation) was laid off last night. https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/c6VjkgyKVl #USpol #federalworkers #rif

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How do we get the Alts to turn on bluesky bridge (and/or start accounts on the actual fediverse)? I dont want to create a bs account but how else do you get folks attention? https://bsky.app/profile/altcdc.bsky.social #USpol #fediverse #blueskybridge

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What a pleasure it was to listen to Democracy Now! and hear @pluralistic give this barnburner interview. https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2025/2/26

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Using chatgpt to write out some fairly basic csv file massaging and the code it gave me wasn't working so I rewrote it and then asked it if there was something better about its approach. It agreed that its code didn't do what it was supposed to and was way more […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

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Are there any User Experience / User Interface people who read this? ... and have opinions on how the Fediverse could work better for normal people if a bit more of their expertise were applied? If so, consider coming to FediForum April 1-2 to hang out with others who care about the Fediverse […]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What a brilliant essay on a fascinating author. https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/a-writer-whose-novels-explored-the-edges-of-normalcy #bookstodon #longreads

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Discussion about Lemmy over on Reddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1ixf1gb/lemmy_may_seem_small_but_its_the_most_viable/ #reddit #lemmy #fediverse #crossposting

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Hasty work lunch. Some assembly required. #lunch

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off https://www.platformer.news/google-data-voids-warning-banners-2024-election/

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

These are all opportunities for educating people about the fediverse or, at the very least, getting them to turn on the bridge. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-x-twitter-account-bluesky-rules-1.7466939 #canada #ottawa #socialmedia #fediverse

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“A former leader of Reform #UK in Wales agreed to receive money to make statements “benefiting” the Russian narrative on #Ukraine while serving as an MEP, a court has been told.” #Russia https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/24/former-brexit-party-mep-nathan-gill-in-court-bribery-charges

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Leaders from the Book and Periodical Council, the Canadian Urban Libraries Council, Library and Archives Canada and the Ontario Library Association have come together to increase awareness of Freedom to Read Week through an important Digital Day of Action on […] [Original post on cosocial.ca]

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So @lastweektonight.com called out alternatives to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp that are not falling in line with Trump. 👀

submitted 8 days ago • 21 comments

Some folks find it confusing that there's a survival game called Rust and a programming language called Rust, but there's an easy way to remember. If you get into Rust and there's a bunch of naked people running around killing each other with rocks, that's the programming language.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

These folks should join the fediverse. https://www.dailyuw.com/science/scientists-move-to-bluesky-transitioning-away-from-x-and-meta-platforms/article_f98af0fa-f012-11ef-a2a2-175ada763477.html #socialmedia #bluesky #fediverse #Science

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Be like lichen, Love, and cling To the stone Of hope. #Poetry

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Upstairs window (snow is piled up on the roof of the porch). Gunna be a mighty Whump when that all slides off this week... #quebec #snow

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Parliamentary petition to move Canadian government off Twitter/X https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359 #canada #socialmedia

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https://thelogic.co/news/exclusive/shopify-layoffs-build-black-dei/ #canada #USpol

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all. We don't want to be on any list. And now the US Gov and Musk is trying to get […]

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Hey! It's after 5 and the sun is still up! #montreal #winter #sun #hope

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

"How would you explain ActivityPub to a Ghost publisher to help them understand it, without using any technical terminology?" #Ghost ActivityPugs, 2025 https://activitypub.ghost.org/r/f29f6f1f?m=635baf0f-a775-48e4-883b-0a9a9687b79e #fediverse #ActivityPub #AskFedi

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

I'm a rabid news hound with a vicious doom scroll monkey on my back, I know. But I still think other people must at the very least check in with the wider world once every day or two. The huge number of trash and recycling bags on the street here in Montreal, after a massive barrage of […]

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Second Amendment supporters can never again argue that they need firearms to defend against a tyrannical power that might overtake the US.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

This guy woke up, got email he was fired and by 3:45pm locked out of everything digital, He writes, "Additionally, before I could fully print off my government records, I was also locked out of my electronic personal file that contained my secure professional records." If You work for the […]

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I keep seeing talk on the timeline along the lines of "lol it's so silly of Elon to expect his Jugendbrigade to locate government waste and fraud" - and I really need people to sit down and understand that that is not what any of them are doing.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

Security researchers: stop working on quantum time-travel encryption or whatever and instead make a typo-tolerant password hash function so when someone types in bilnk182 they still can log in.

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Must read / Long read from The New Yorker. We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country” Anthony Romero, the A.C.L.U.’s executive director, talks about what he thinks could happen if the Trump Administration defies the authority of the courts. https://archive.is/pKOzD (Non-paywall mirror link) […]

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"On devrait prendre le temps d’écrire un mot à toutes ces personnes pour leur dire que leur travail est important, et que, même si on n’est pas toujours d’accord avec elles, on les remercie pour leur engagement en faveur du Bien commun." […]

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

No reason. Just interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BChrerprinzip #USpol #history

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

"When the dictator, er, President does it, that means that it is not illegal" Paging Marc Elias.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

“Despite the demands of Trump, Leavitt, and Big Brother, the AP is not changing their style to suit the whims of a would-be tinpot dictator. And by defying Trump, the AP has created a rallying point for other organizations and individuals to find their spines and defy him as well.” The AP […]

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: A bunch of U.S. Digital Service employees (including me) were fired tonight. It's still unclear exactly how many. There is no visibility whatsoever into what determined who was let go. Legacy USDS (i.e., pre-DOGE) leadership was not involved in the decision about whom to let go and […]

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Happy February 14 to all who celebrate.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Great for big companies and billionaires, shit for anyone relying on a small refund any time soon https://archive.is/4Y6XL #USpol #taxes #irs

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Content Management Analyst Job with the (non-profit) MasterCard Foundation They're looking for "Knowledge Management, Information Management, and/or Library Science with expertise in taxonomy, records management, and information management processes." […]

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

I'm looking for work as a Senior Software Engineer. Network programmer since 1990, with a Web focus. I've implemented many protocols and designed some too. Worked on early RFCs; wrote seminal tutorials on Web tech; wrote the first anti-censorship proxy, CGIProxy, in 1996. I have a ton of […]

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I really loved this headline and article. https://reductress.com/post/why-its-impossible-to-get-anything-done-in-the-government-unless-you-want-to-do-bad-stuff/

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I have a mild cough and sore throat which definitely means I am too sick to work but somehow not to sick to sit at my computer all day scrolling...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments