somecanuckchick4h ago

US Technology Colonialism is a problem, and has been a problem... for decades.

US companies harvest data and sell it to the highest bidder... violating privacy protection laws of other countries. Remember George W Bush's time at the helm?

US companies track and trap citizens of OTHER countries b/c those citizens dare to speak up and out against the #USA, especially in its #Trumpistan epoch/era.

#internetsovereignty #softwaresovereignty #technologysovereignty #techsovereignty #internet #USBS

somecanuckchick5h ago

You wait your whole life to write a headline...

PS Maybe Canadian universities and other post-secondary institutions STOP using American software? Just an idea, eh.

Software Ate My Homework: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/canvas-hack-campus-fragility/687115/ #ransomware #interet #canvashack #cdnpoli #softwaresovereignty

The Canvas Panic on Campus

A ransomware attack took down a popular university-course-management software right in the middle of finals.

The Atlantic
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 12, 2025
🎤 Gather 'round, #developers, for a riveting tale of #lumber and software sovereignty! 🪵🖥️ Behold, the mind-blowing revelation that software is like lumber—who knew? 🤯 Let's all ponder the urgency of European software sovereignty while we carve our chairs from code. 😂
https://mill.plainopen.com/sovereign-lumber #softwareSovereignty #techHumor #codingLife #EuropeanTech #HackerNews #ngated
Sovereign Lumber

Two talks, on the software analogy to lumber and chairs, and on software sovereignty in Europe, connected in my mind, and hit at the essence of what’s missing in the open source ecosystem today...

The Mill