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#OpenInfrastructure #OpenScience #OpenResearch

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎1d ago

internetarchive 1d ago

🗂️🇨🇦 Preserving the Ethnic Press: Expanding Access to Historical Newspapers

Discover the rich stories of Canada’s immigrant & ethnic communities 📜

Internet Archive Canada (IAC) & the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario (MHSO) are partnering to make historical newspapers like Canadian Jewish Review, The New Canadian & L’Ami du Peuple freely accessible for research & exploration.

More about this initiative ⤵️ https://internetarchivecanada.org/2026/03/31/preserving-the-ethnic-press-internet-archive-canada-and-the-multicultural-historical-society-of-ontario-partner-to-expand-access-to-historical-newspapers/

@internetarchivecanada

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎1d ago

ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty 1d ago

Good article from the Concordia University Newspaper, on #DigitalSovereignty on campuses across Canada. Before these students enter the workforce they are being tracked and data collected every time they access a university or college application. How many administrators recognize the risk to their students?

If you know anyone at The Concordian, please suggest that they #LeaveX and join Mastodon.

#MastodonCanada
https://theconcordian.com/2026/03/why-digital-sovereignty-belongs-on-campus/

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎1d ago

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1d ago

Objective 1: I’m looking at moving my B.C. local news bots over to socialbc.ca, who have graciously agreed to allow me to place them there.

At the moment each of them runs as a VM on their own custom domain, but having decided not to open registrations to users, this is cumbersome and unnecessary. Not to mention it would be expensive when it comes time to renew all the domains.

Plus, hosting B.C.-focused news on a B.C.-focused instance seems logical.

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎1d ago

Chris Alemany 1d ago

RE: https://socialbc.ca/@fname/116339284390546388

Big welcome to @fname!!

He’s bringing his regional BC news bots to SocialBC for links straight from the news wires!

Super excited to be able to provide this for SocialBC and all Fedizens. It is a big part of our mission to have local, verified, and trusted information sources for people in B.C. on Fedi.

Below are the bots to follow. They will be on Quiet Public mode so they don’t overwhelm the live timelines.
#socialbc
@kamloopsnews
@kelownanews
@cranbrooknews
@nanaimonews
@princegeorgenews

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

Sam Popowich 2d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116326861737478342

This thread is really interesting, and raises an issue which might be some weird corollary to Moore's law. Anyone who was programming before, I dunno, let's pick 2001, remembers the shift from constrained-resource coding, where you *had* to pay attention to resource use, make your algorithms as efficient as possible, etc. We didn't all manage to code cleanly and concisely, but that was the goal. 1/3

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

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Tom Elliott 2d ago

for those who might like a citable news article about the SANDWORM_MODE exploit, including the information summarized in the AI-generated summary screen-shotted in the OP, there's https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/malicious-npm-packages-harvest-crypto.html among others.

@bruces @electricarchaeo

Malicious npm Packages Harvest Crypto Keys, CI Secrets, and API Tokens

19 npm packages spread SANDWORM_MODE worm, stealing tokens, crypto keys, CI secrets, and AI API keys via MCP injection

The Hacker News

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦2d ago

What a difference a year makes.

Dana McFarland 🍁 🔥🐎2d ago

Brian Gettler 2d ago

Has anyone written a history of developer fees? I'd be especially interested in their use by governments to maintain low property taxes. Bonus points if the history focuses on Canada.

#histodons #taxation #RealEstate #Canada