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."
It's that time again - the BC Libraries Cooperative is pleased to announce the recipients of this year's donations from our "Open Source Contribution Fund" https://bc.libraries.coop/news/2025-open-source-contribution-fund/ This year included Drupal, Kanboard, Composer and the individual who maintains all the back and forward ports of PHP for Debian.
And as always, I'll ask - if you or your organization benefits from open source (and whether you realize it or not, you do), how are you giving back?
Each year, BC Libraries Co-op employees nominate the open source projects they use and benefit from — so we can acknowledge and support the people and teams behind them in our small but meaningful way through our Open Source Contribution Fund. This year we are pleased to announce the following recipients: Ondřej Surý, the primary... Read more »
Wow, TeamPCP is hacking open-source developers faster than we can report on them. The latest (that I'm aware of, anyway) is LiteLLM. They worked with Trivy but didn't bother to change their credentials after Trivy was hacked, despite an ample amount of advice to do so.
Folks, if any of you used LiteLLM, now is the time to change your credentials, in an atomic way. Now, as in immediately.
@pluralistic's latest piece on AI psychosis contains the sentence
"the internet makes it easier for people with sparsely distributed traits to locate one another, which is why the internet era is characterized by the coherence of people with formerly fringe characteristics into organized blocs."
That strikes me as generically accurate - is there a name for this phenomenon?
I really, really wish I had come across this article on the relationship of Google and libraries from 2009 before today https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279
17 years after its publication, it makes me ask - if the distinctions it draws (between the goals of libraries vs the goals of Google, and the way both view "information" differently) are accurate (I think they still hold), how well have libraries' strategies worked out, and is that fair to ask, or was it always a doomed-to-fail rearguard action?
Scott Leslie
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