#Treehugging #dotcommunist #hacker #atheist #Canadian expat trying to save the world in my free time. 🇨🇦 🇪🇺🌹
For the #Python nerds, I'm the guy who wrote Paperless, Aletheia, mt103, mpan, Majel, and django-cool-urls.
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| Interests | Environmentalism, socialism, and Free software |
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| GitLab | https://gitlab.com/danielquinn |
I'm seeing openness to age verification laws within some left of center organizing spaces 😱
Folks, we gotta talk to our people to kill this harmful policy. Regulate dangerous big tech practices, not people!
LGBTQ+ kids in hostile environments suffer when they can't access community online.
Age verification also facilitates excluding representation of marginalized folks. Also, it is at odds with the right to repair — shouldn't we own our devices, and not the other way around?
Congratulations to @avilewis for his decisive victory! I look forward to hearing more socialist voices in Canadian politics!
Avi Lewis wins NDP leadership race in decisive first-ballot victory
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/livestory/federal-ndp-announces-leader-9.7146267
the idea that the web ecosystem isn't "open" anymore because of complexity is ridiculous. anyone can still write basic html and javascript and get a site working. you don't have to use flexbox. you could just use nested tables. nobody gives a shit
the web ecosystem isn't open anymore because 5 planet spanning companies richer than god monopolize it now and you can't fix that by buying into the AI slop those very companies are peddling
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/
FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
This is deeply fucked up:
https://www.joe.co.uk/news/school-uses-ai-to-remove-200-books-from-its-library-takes-out-orwells-1984-527457
Remember kids, the US doesn't have a monopoly on institutional stupid. The UK works very hard to keep up to the US record.
Don't ever believe the hype about Trump feuding with Musk, or any other billionaire.
Oligarchs are always willing to work together. Their rise is based on exchanged favors (and corruption, tax avoidance and exploitation)
#ThisIsAmericaNow
Trump and Modi Had a Call About the Iran War. Elon Musk Joined Them. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/musk-joins-call-with-trump-modi.html
CHEK News Victoria | Nestlé says 413,793 KitKat candy bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland
For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.
~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.
This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.
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