Notices by Hubert Figuière (hub@cosocial.ca)

@gabrielesvelto yeah I can think of more stupid.

Their intelligence is artificial....

@gabrielesvelto ... and it's like artificial flavour...

If he wants a 51st state why doesn’t he give statehood to DC or Puerto Rico?

@sebsauvage Il faut se rappeler que Musk c'est fait virer de Paypal parcqu'il voulait tout passer a Windows NT....

PSA: 23andMe is going bankrupt. And this DNA you sent for testing? It will be sold to the highest bidder.

I always said this testing was a bad idea, but I was wrong thinking the danger was the Govt seizing it. The danger is the private surveillance industrial complex.

@jrychter For Substack, it's a nazi bar, so you already shouldn't use it.

Should we cancel all FLOSS (and related) conferences in the US?

Google Maps to show Gulf of America after government updates

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/27/google-maps-to-show-gulf-of-america-after-government-updates.html

tl;dr, that how corporations abide to fascists. What's next?

We need a Mars expedition. Billionaires only.

Thanks to the courageous negotiators of NAFTA 2.0, nothing is becoming public domain this year in Canada.

#cdnpoli

what IRC client shall I use to replace HexChat...

@parismarx I love the irony here

#enshittification

@georgetakei it's a dairy report.

I'm wondering now that he has been elected if his merry go round of fascist entourage will arrange for justice to follow its course and plot a scenario to enact the 25th amendment.

The solution to RTO? Unionize. You felt that there was no need to unionize in tech? Look at the RTO some of them being backwards (aka you were hired as a remote worker).

You have the power, exercise it.

@evan there is one on Cote des Neiges at one of the gas stations. I was surprised. (but it's moot at least for me).

@kenshirriff Excellent read. Do you want an actual Opus card? I have a couple that have "expired". I'd be happy to send one or two for science.

How a New Jersey man was wrongly arrested through facial recognition tech now in use in Ontario

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/facial-recognition-technology-police-1.7228253

The tech is Merde in France.

GooTube: sorry, we can't have you not autoplay video.

Also GooTube: sorry, we have to interrupt you because we want you to disable your ad blocker.

At least it stops autoplay much more.

Doubling down.

Hey YouTube, I have no problem stopping to watch YouTube. I'll do that before I'll disable ad blockers.

Remember when you required Flash? That's when I didn't use YouTube.