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Tired of tech that's designed to fail? 😠 That's planned obsolescence that creates mountains of e-waste while draining your wallet. We believe IT can be a force for public good, and our mission is to fight that cycle, one repair and build at a time. 🛠️ 🧵👇 #RightToRepair #GreenIT #SustainableTech #YYC

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Heard about this great project on @twit.tv's Security Now. If you're a #Python person check this out: github.com/wheeler01/Li...

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Content creators! 🎬 Streaming/YouTube? Tired of tech gremlins like laggy home networks, slow renders, or storage scares? As your personal IT dept, we design solutions so you create. 🧵👇 #ContentCreator #StreamerSupport #TechHelp #YYC #ITforCreators

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Let's talk "Green IT." Feels like a contradiction, doesn't it? But what if the most eco-friendly choice for your business IT also gave you more control and lower long-term costs? It's more possible than you think. 🧵👇 #GreenIT #SustainableTech #OnPremises #SmallBizIT #EWaste #YYC

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Happy #420 Calgary! Remember to blaze responsibly this weekend. #yyc

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This morning and this afternoon. Oh Calgary.

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There are two types of people in the world; those that think AGI is just around the corner and those that are smarter than spicy auto correct.

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"On Premises" is not the dirty word you might think it is. We would in fact argue that it is more environmentally responsible and important to your data privacy and sovereignty.

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Marine heat wave confirmed cause of death for 4 million birds (Common Murres) in 2016. Half of Alaska’s Common Murre population at the time. Largest documented animal die-off in modern history. As little as 2C temp increase drastically their altered food chain. 🧪🌎🦉 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Navigating the #On-Premises vs #Cloud Conundrum for Small Businesses As a small business owner, making an informed decision about where to host your data and applications can be overwhelming. Cloud solutions are the flavour of the day now, but is it the best choice for small businesses?

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Sometimes I think about how many hours are being wasted on adding LLM features to GitHub that could be spent on improving features that would help with day to day work, like the problem in this thread or code review.

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A visual representation of some of my bash or perl scripts bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Main_P... #unix #linux #sysadmin

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Me: I would NEVER join a cult Also me: download and installs arch Linux and says btw, i use arch every five minutes in random conversions🤭

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Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️

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Howdy all! Just wanted to let everyone know that unfortunately, our website is down currently due to a conflict between our DDoS protection provider and our hosting provider. We hope to have this resolved soon, but in the meantime, don't forget you can visit us on Discord: discord.gg/jwBYr8ymxb

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TWiT Newsletter for the week of November 25, 2024 Happy Thanksgiving! Club TWiT Recap & Microsoft Ignite 2024

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Sure, buying your favorite video game, movie, or album online is super convenient. But do you know the differences between owning a digital vs physical copy of that media?

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So... Imma Stream in about 45 minutes! (10pm Eastern/8pm Mountain/7pm Pacific) Come say hi or mock my CoD skills. :D kthxbai. #BlackOps6 #Live @ twitch.tv/esherravenfire

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Hey there #Bluesky newcomers. Glad you could join us over here! The weather is much nicer. ;)

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Hey there #Bluesky newcomers. Glad you could join us over here! The weather is much nicer. ;)

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Have we mentioned Manchester encoding is cool. 1940s data encoding that's still relevant today. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manches...

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Welp here we go...

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Cory Doctorow coined the term “enshittification:” a pattern in which online platforms trap us, then treat us more and more like commodities. He joins this season's final “How to Fix the Internet” episode to talk about breaking out of the downward spiral.

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There’s no real upside for consumers to allow gen AI to train on their data and there are risks that are still being studied, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @cnbcofficial.bsky.social.

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Hatchery xkcd.com/2958

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📢 App Version 1.60 is rolling out now (1/5) We have a new logo! 🦋 Bluesky is emerging from its cocoon of clouds to transform into a social butterfly. Read more about why we chose this logo here: blueskyweb.xyz/blog/12-21-2...

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Microsoft's recent catastrophic security failures only highlight how important it is to look at privacy forward software. We highly recommend trying Fedora Linux at fedoraproject.org. Gaming, office software, Steam. Not much Linux can't do that Windows can. Consider switching, we'll help!

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Ah Windows 7. The last great version of #Windows. Windows 10 is serviceable, but 7 is what an OS should be: A basic, low resource usage environment for my applications to run in, and nothing else.

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