(I have relatively few gripes about GitHub. I’m just developing an attitude problem about free services provided by tech giants.)

Interesting… Canadian GitHub competitor: https://about.worktree.ca

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359

Could anyone who has any Canadian followers please boost or just re-post it yourself? This matters.

#cnpoli #fediverse

This is gross, and further confirms Apple’s transition from innovation to rent-seeking, but there is a good solution: Stop having an app. Patreon would work just fine as a web site, no?

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112950113668058280

#apple

Matt Levine is just having too much fun: “Except that there is a post-credits scene in this sci-fi movie where Altman shows up for his first day of work at Microsoft with a box of his personal effects, and the box starts glowing and chuckles ominously.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-11-20/who-controls-openai?srnd=undefined

If the picture looks a little weird it's because the sun was pouring in from the left, thus huge flaring and ghosting, heroic Lightrooming was able to only partially clean up.

My stereo has a woofer, a tweeter, and a purrer.

#caturday #photography

When you think, do you have an internal dialogue that includes words?

Boost if you're interested.

The problem with AI/ML isn’t what the tech is or isn’t useful for (we don’t really know yet). The problem is the people who build and own and operate it, a mix of giant tech monopolies and VC-funded growth-crazed startups. Both are entirely oblivious to ethics and the civic good.

It is fair and reasonable to be paranoid and suspicious about *any* tech pushed by this cabal.

[This post from a member-owned co-op Fediverse instance, see https://cosocial.info]

#introduction - Hyperoverprivileged straight cis white greybearded neurotypical male, living in Vancouver with loved ones.

Proud member of #CoSocialCa, a member-owned co-op Fediverse instance.

I’m old.

I can’t not write, as evidenced by the 2+ million blogwords at https://www.tbray.org/ongoing - also I was “timbray” on Twitter starting in 2007 but stepped away 2022/11/27.

Tl;dr: Geek, photohobbyist, and environmentalist. For details, type my name into your favorite Web search, I’m overly public.