J…Lepp
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Internationally renowned inventor … working from home in 🇨🇦
What they need to do is overhaul the bluray/dvd/cd app on the Xbox as more and more of us return to physical media.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · yesterdayMicrosoft rolls out a Xbox PC app with an overhauled design to Xbox Insiders that it says launches up to 60% faster than before (Tom Warren/The Verge) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Lake Ontario is fucking back, baby.
Powerful Glowing Ocean Wave Breaking
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Someone do a backgrounder on “hospital foundations” and why they exist in Ontario in 2026.
CTV News Ottawa@ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 3d agoLargest donation in Ottawa’s history
A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.
Bro is trying to centralize access to information and monopolize AI. It might be more efficient in the short term but horrible for users in the long term. We need to put more effort into distributed local and open source models. A SETI@home style project for distributed training anyone?
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 7d agoWhen talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and "being used 5% of the time" (Andrew E. Freedman/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Kenora and Fort Frances for the win
CHCH News@chchnews.bsky.social · 7d agoMost Ontario residents will be turning back the clock Nov. 1. But a few communities in northwestern Ontario, along with much of western and central Canada, will be ditching the clock change for good. So what's changing and what could it mean for your health?
One little change in the Settings can go a long way toward controlling your privacy.
Victory! You Can Now Exclude Apps from Siri AI
In the most recent update to Apple’s devices, iOS 27.2, the company has introduced a new setting to “Exclude Apps” from Siri AI, fulfilling one of our asks from our Encrypt It Already campaign earlier...
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"On January 1, PACER will implement a 20% rate hike—meaning the federal courts’ clunky, insecure, and painfully expensive electronic records system will become even more expensive for the millions who use it to read public court documents."
Free Law Project ⚖@free.law · 2w agoPaywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...
Canada buys more in digitally deliverable services from the U.S. than what we sell in autos, steel, aluminum, softwood lumber, potash and electricity. Read our full analysis here: canadianshieldinstitute.ca/updates/cana...
saw this on instagram the other day: www.youtube.com/shorts/rRk8R... skeptical, i checked my own radio logs.
Canada’s dangerous C-22 surveillance bill is now before the Senate. It will force tech companies to build surveillance into their products, threatening everyone’s security and privacy. There’s still time to speak out.
Canadians Are Running Out Of Time To Oppose The Dangerous C-22 Surveillance Bill
Canada’s Parliament is debating a massive expansion of surveillance powers that will threaten the privacy and security of millions of people. Bill C-22, also called the Lawful Access Act, has already ...
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Starts a 1 year countdown to find a new host for a bunch of my personal websites… They’re shutting down Deno Deploy (and it’s generous free tier).
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 4w agoCloudflare acquires Deno, co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, which had developed an open-source alternative to Cloudflare Workers and had raised $26M (Paul Sawers/The New Stack) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
okay so this anecdote in Margaret's obituary has me crying because this is exactly what it's like being in tech and trying to anticipate failures and having men basically tell you you're being hysterical and then you have to fix it later
bryan newbold@bnewbold.net · 4w agoah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
Free banana and butter tarts after the @ottawaalliance.bsky.social 10K this morning. Fun well-organized event. Looking forward to 2027.
Wow. 🇨🇦 CIRA board election results just came out and both the members slate and the NomCom slate were decided by a single vote. That’s intense!!! 🌶️
The thing about 2027 is it’s when a lot of OG smartphone patents start to expire.
Techmeme@techmeme.com · last mo.Qualcomm says it has extended its global licensing pact with Apple, starting in April 2027; the partnership has been shaped by an April 2019 settlement (Akash Sriram/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
We're investing $1.25M in 15 community-led projects through our 2026 Net Good Grants. These initiatives will support 130,000+ people across Canada by strengthening connectivity, online safety, cybersecurity skills, AI literacy and digital sovereignty. Learn more: www.cira.ca/en/resources...
CIRA funds 15 initiatives strengthening connectivity, safety and digital sovereignty through Net Good Grants – CIRA
Annual $1.25 million investment helps communities go beyond internet access to plan, build and govern their digital futures
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A good tech future won't be built by a billionaire 🤑 For over a decade, we've backed 200+ technologists, researchers, and advocates who believe a better tech future is well within our reach. Meet the Mozilla Fellows🤝 https://bit.ly/4zXFXY7
And folks in Ottawa think having another party involved in the O-Train will be a positive move…
Sean Marshall@seanyyz.bsky.social · 2mo agoI love how any service disruption message about Line 6 from the TTC throws shade.
Artisan SakeMaker on Granville Island didn’t even ship its product out of Vancouver, last time I checked. That leaves YK3 in Richmond, B.C. and Ontario Spring Water Sake in Toronto’s Distillery District. I may be wrong, but I think all three have trouble meeting local demand.
I’d bet it’s almost entirely due to that new “Tragically Chip” ice cream flavour from Kawartha Dairy. One scoop of that magic will make anyone happier.
Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis survey shows if Canadians are happier compared to a year ago
Do love how 70mm IMAX is all the rage right now and Ottawa/Gatineau’s theatre is just sitting there shuttered inside the incompetent museum of history.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2mo agoMaybe in or around the 2042 Winter Olympics. But definitely not this year.
CTV News Ottawa@ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social · 2mo ago‘You are part of this place’: Vermont ski resort says Canadians still welcome amid trade war
I can never guess what things I post will get shared a lot; I’m glad people found this a useful summary of the grim reality of the tech tycoons. I said the other day that people usually think I’m crazy for about ~7 years, then they understand what I meant and get very sad and/or angry.
Anil Dash@anildash.com · 3mo agoIt’s worse than this. Having been in the room with many of them (long ago, before I knew they were psychopaths), the tycoons who are left running the industry have an active contempt for ordinary people, including their own workers. They actively want to oppress, control and punish them.
Gord’s out for a third encore and CBC gem doesn’t look like potato vision any more. Did they upgrade the servers in an act digital sovereignty?
