"Technology is neutral," you say?

Counterexample: Ageless Linux.

It shines a glaring spotlight on other OSs and their acceptance of bad age verification law, enacted under a pretense of child safety. In fact, these laws normalize privacy-violation and consolidate power in corporate entities without protecting children.

Other OSs comply, but Ageless Linux is a brilliant example of the potential for civil disobedience via technology.

This page alone speaks volumes: https://agelesslinux.org/map.html

If you’ve ever had a PET scan then there was a time in your life where you shot antimatter and gamma rays from your eyes.

(Technically many other places too yes but give yourself this win)

Although our wealth concentration is not yet at the level of the U.S., we must take what is happening south of the border as a dire warning of the consequences of failing to rein in extreme inequality. Three experts write. #canpoli #uspoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/03/16/Top-One-Per-Cent-Threaten-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Last year BC paid over $500M to fight fires.[1]

This year Alberta announces $250M owed by Fossil Fuel companies will never be paid.[2]

🤔🤔🤔

[1] https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/586042/B-C-spent-510-million-fighting-wildfires-this-year
[2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/250m-in-unpaid-oil-and-gas-property-taxes-likely-unrecoverable-alberta-government-9.7131039

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #wildfires #BCPoli #ABPoli #CDNPoli #Alberta

If you miss GPU-Z on Linux check out the new GPU-T https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/if-you-miss-gpu-z-on-linux-check-out-the-new-gpu-t/

#OpenSource #Linux

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

When to automate a repetitive task:

NO-BRAINER: "This is obviously going to be faster to automate than to do it by hand _even once_. Let's automate it right now, and not do it by hand at all."

FORESIGHTED: "Doing it once by hand is faster than automating it, but I'm going to have to do it a lot of times, so it still saves time to automate it first."

NEED A RUN-UP: "I don't yet understand this task well enough to automate it, so I'll do it a few times by hand first to get the idea."

RAN OFF THE RUNWAY: "Great, now I've done this by hand a few times, I think I can automate it reliably! Oh, oops, turned out I only had one more case of it left to do."

TERRIFIED OF RUNNING OFF THE RUNWAY: "This is a one-off, so it would be a waste of time to automate it, I'll just do it manually."
[next day] "Oh, oops, I made a mistake and have to do it again. But it should be fine this time."
[a month later] "Even though I've had to redo it 25 times already, surely _this_ is the last time? So it would still be a waste of time to automate it."