A reminder that it’s April 1 and in this timeline it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s a joke / satire
😬
Proceed with caution
A reminder that it’s April 1 and in this timeline it’s hard to tell what’s real and what’s a joke / satire
😬
Proceed with caution
I just want to let Vancouver Islanders know that guests on my tours find you super friendly and apparently we smile a lot. They seem surprised how happy, relaxed and friendly people are here. Anyway I thought you should know. Cheers! 😊
"One clergy colleague acknowledged that they frequently paste confidential reports into ChatGPT in order to summarise. Another talked about how they would happily allow an LLM to write a sermon for them, another explained how they used it to advise on difficult pastoral issues. To me these are colleagues and friends who I would consider to be clever, thinking people and yet, to my mind, their use of this technology is almost entirely unthinking, stupid and dangerous."
https://kneewax.co.uk/blog/index.php/component/content/article/a-luddites-tale?catid=9
Miss Marshmallow Face and Mr Blepalot (not their real names)
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-03-23-janet-vertesi-founder-of-the-opt-out-project/
@cyberlyra made a very compelling argument for ditching Google. i've heard this many times but this was the first time anyone had spoken about where to go to do this.
https://www.optoutproject.net/
I listened to the episode last night and just today switched to Duck Duck Go, set up a proton drive, and moved all my files over. this weekend i'll set up a second, not Google, user profile on my phone and rearrange all my apps. then i'll actually use signal instead of g chat.

Techtonic’s signoff tells you to “get off Google,” and Janet Vertesi shows how it’s done. Janet founded the Opt Out Project to show people how to switch from Big Tech surveillance platforms to better, community-minded alternatives.
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance
A post that explains how to keep a YunoHost server running healthily with system updates and how to run application updates (and revert back to a snapshot if things go awry).
When I started self-hosting essential digital services via YunoHost in December 2024 I was taken aback by how easy and smooth the process was. Something that had appeared daunting to me just days before became a child’s game. A catalog with hundreds of free-open source apps available at the
RT: @DrSteveTaylor As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep
Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications
This should also be banned
Influence is being bought in Govt
Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy