Mastodawn

So this is happening. As I'm an employee of the Penticton Public Library I won't be commenting on this further. https://www.castanet.net/news/Penticton/607008/Penticton-council-to-consider-exploring-a-shift-from-municipal-library-to-a-regional-service-model #penticton #okanagan #libraries #publiclibrary #britishcolumbia

Penticton council to consider exploring a shift from municipal library to a regional service model

Castanet.net

Dan Lerch Apr 6

Scott Leslie Mar 27

White paper from the Government of Canada on "digital sovereignty" proving what I have said for 2 decades, "data residency" is largely kabuki when it comes to nation state actors/courts

"Using a Canadian supplier or storing data in Canada does not guarantee data will be outside the jurisdiction of foreign courts. The GC can fully maintain legal control only when it delivers services itself or works with providers that operate entirely under Canadian jurisdiction."

https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-government-innovations/cloud-services/digital-sovereignty/digital-sovereignty-framework-improve-digital-readiness.html

Digital Sovereignty: A Framework to improve digital readiness of the Government of Canada - Canada.ca

Dan Lerch Mar 18

Slashdot

Mar 18

UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/18/1846248/uk-plans-to-require-labels-on-ai-generated-content?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

UK Plans To Require Labels On AI-Generated Content - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI-generated content to protect consumers from disinformation and deepfakes, the government said on Wednesday, as it outlined other areas of focus to tackle the evolving global challenge. Technology minis...

Dan Lerch Mar 18

This year I cancelled my iCloud, Google Drive and Netflix subscriptions. I replaced them with my own locally hosted jellyfin instance (movies & TV), and Immich (photos). I’m also using proton drive as an additional cloud based photo backup, and moved documents there too. It was a ton of work, but as a user experience I’m much happier, and so sleep better at night knowing I’m not giving more mornings to big tech companies.

Dan Lerch Dec 27

Slashdot

Dec 27

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/12/27/0744237/nvidia-drops-pascal-support-on-linux-causing-chaos-on-arch-linux?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux - Slashdot

NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Arch Linux currently a prime example.?" O...

Dan Lerch Dec 27

Peter N. M. Hansteen Dec 27

The BSDCan Call For Papers (CFP) is open until January 17th, see https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html

If you tried to sign up as a new indico user and did not get the confirmation mail in time, please try again. The problem has been fixed.

The holidays can be a great time to get that submission done! #bsdcan #openbsd #netbsd #freebsd #freesoftware #libresoftware

Want to know more about #bsd and the conferences? See https://nxdomain.no/~peter/what_is_bsd_come_to_a_conference_to_find_out.html (and links therein) @bsdcan

Call for papers — BSDCan

BSDCan is a technical BSD conference held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Dan Lerch Nov 18

Silksong Act 3, 150 hours in. Coral towers. I quit.

Dan Lerch Oct 24

I saw One Battle After Another, the new PT Anderson film some are calling a masterpiece. The acting was phenomenal and the technicality of the film making was unparalleled, but as a cohesive piece of art, I absolutely hated this thing. Imagine Old Country For Old Men, or Pulp Fiction except all the quixotic characters and unique film style tried as hard as possible to remove you from the plot, character relationships, and overall themes of the story. #onebattleafteranother #movies

Dan Lerch Jul 22, 2025

I have been using #nextcloud to store files in the cloud and sync my calendar. Lately, despite having descent specs it kept crashing. Yesterday the SSL stopped working, and no matter what I tried it wouldn't renew. Hosting is also costing approx $50 CDN a month. Are there any non-big tech, privacy respecting alternatives any of you would recommend? Anyone else having issues with Nextcloud?

Dan Lerch Jul 17, 2025

Winnipeg Free Press Jul 16, 2025

B.C. health minister praises U.S. recruitment, says 780 applications in 2 months https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/health/2025/07/16/b-c-health-minister-praises-u-s-recruitment-says-780-applications-in-2-months

B.C. health minister praises U.S. recruitment, says 780 applications in 2 months

VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s health minister says the province has received almost 780 job applications from qualified American health professionals as part of its recruitment campaign.

Winnipeg Free Press