A very legitimate well-done to Canada for being one of the least suckered into AI garbage in the world!

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"“We’re not seeing that literacy that we would like to see when we compare ourselves to our global peers, and there’s some reluctance around trusting AI and really embedding it in how we perform our day-to-day work and how we work,” said Terril."

Excellent news.

#AI

#AI
in reply to Kyle Sawatsky

Ooof, that's really poor reporting from CTV, blithely accepting the survey's definition of "AI literacy" to include "embracing the use of AI in their daily working lives".

Literacy on "AI" should be defined by understanding what the technologies actually are (large language models, generative image models, etc), how they are dependent on their training data, their limitations in how they can generate plausible but inaccurate information, and their social & environmental impacts.

Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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I had a great conversation with @baratunde on Life with Machines about the millions of data workers worldwide who produce the data that fuels AI. We dug into the scale of this labor, its deeply human costs, and the possibilities for something better.

Watch it here youtu.be/4NSWFy11E8Q?feature=s…

You’ve probably met Torx, the star-shaped screw that has become common in our phones, consoles, and cars. But have you met Torx Plus? It's the high-tech upgrade nobody told you about: straighter walls, zero cam-out, and way more torque transfer. Sounds great, until you try to open your gadget and realize your trusty T5 doesn’t fit anymore.

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#iFixit #repair

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Trust me, if it happened in Ontario, it happened here in Québec, and across Canada! Corporate lobbyists and apologists for corporate landlords and investors are trying to say they're not to blame for the housing crisis.

If you're a landlord renting out a property for 3x-5x what it would've rented for ~5 years ago, you're the problem, too.

And you should be ashamed of yourself.

Your tenant shouldn't pay all your bills w/ the rent they pay...

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ElevenLabs' new AI voice assistant can automate your favorite tasks - and you can try it for free
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China installs more solar in 1 month than the total energy the US uses

China installed its highest solar power capacity for a single month in May.

back-of-the-envelope calculations, 71 GW is more power than the entire US uses (on average). This is why our electricity is, on average, 2.5-3 times more expensive. This will lead to advantages in AI, production, etc. Cheap energy = cheap everything else.

#AI #Solar #energy #renewables
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American public approval used to surge after something like this to show either some real or fake patriotic support, then ebb when reality (and US deaths) roll in.

That Trump has this level of disapproval now is a bad sign for him and a great one for sanity, because regardless of how you feel about the countries involved, he possesses no sanity or demonstrated ability to handle a complex situation.

Warning for Trump as Surprise Poll Offers Harsh Verdict on Iran Strike:
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#Firefox Progressive Web Apps sind ne praktische Sache.

Allerdings finde ich die #Installation auf #ubuntu etwas unübersichtlich. Deshalb diese Notiz an meiner Pinnwand mit dem #Workflow, der sich für mich bewährt hat. Vielleicht hilft's auch anderen:

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#PWA #OpenSource #Web

Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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heise+ | Delta Chat in Russland vor Gericht: Urteil gegen deutsches Entwicklerteam

Russland geht gegen den Messenger Delta Chat vor und nimmt eine Freiburger Firma ins Visier. Die wehrt sich und warnt zugleich die EU.

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#Apps #Datenschutz #IT #Security #news

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Considering how GNOME Color Manager's support for calibrating scanners (and printers?) has been broken for many years, and how it seems like the remaining code might get ripped out entirely from GNOME Control Center as a result, I have filed a new #GNOME app idea, in the wild hope that someone might find this interesting enough to create a standalone utility app for creating ICC color profiles for your photo scanners and printers: gitlab.gnome.org/bertob/app-id…

#ColorManagement #Linux #photography

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in reply to Hubert Figuière

@hub Hmm I don't think I mentioned display calibration in this app idea ticket, but I sure do wonder on a regular basis how DisplayCAL will fit in the new Wayland color management system, and about its general state of development/maintenance. I haven't kept a close watch on it in recent times, as I presume there's a lot of dust up in the air until the new Wayland color management middleware fully lands?

A few weeks ago, @joshbressers managed to hook me up to his mic. And then couldn't manage to stop me.

He still managed to get an amazing podcast episode about what it is to be a hobbyist maintainer, why it matters to talk about it and how failing to understand this is why nearly all policies around FOSS fail to move the needle.

You can listen to it and then come tell me what you think

opensourcesecurity.io/2025/202…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@bagder I mean I think a huge part of the problem is that we focus on funding.

We should probably focus on understanding the things that could make it more sustainable and efficient to maintain this stuff on a hobbyist schedule.

Like. Can we stop talking about Rust memory safety and instead talk of the tooling Rust provide and how ergonomic it is.

That funding could go invest in tool for other ecosystem to reproduce that success...

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Weaver emphasized the logistical and technical difficulty of building a phone in the U.S.

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Un article de Pokaa sur le conseil municipal d'hier. Plus axé sur les importantes fermetures pour rénovation à #Strasbourg.
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