A welcome sight after a hike with 450 m elevation gain!

Not shown: an out of breath 50-year-old man.

Me, as aspiring staff eng: I want to be in the room where decisions are made

Me in the room where decisions are made: I wonder if the window is locked and how far the drop would be if I climbed out

We should all go back to tide pools.

Moar good pics.

I am currently away from the office.

There was an unfortunate error while changing the kernel.org primary/secondary mirroring infrastructure, which resulted in the /pub tree suddenly becoming empty. No data was lost, just public mirror copies. Everything is now being restored, but deletes are fast and restores are slow, so thank you for your patience!

EDITED: You can follow the official incident here: https://status.linuxfoundation.org/incidents/3y1k8b4ky71t

On this #CanadaDay I'm struck by how few Americans know their government and the Russians are involved in a psyop in Alberta to incite a separatist movement. The goal: force a populist referendum to leave #Canada and join the #USA.

Albertans are being swayed by glitzy YouTube influencer videos, many of which are #AI generated abroad,, to suggest their lives would be better in the US. You know, Florida mansions, control over immigration, pristine health care, high valued US dollar, and other grass is greener lies. Very #Brexit-esque, Cambridge Analytica playbook.

As the US under this administration seeks to capture and manipulate oil internationally, Hormuz and Venezsudentenland are not enough. They are coming for the Canadian oil fields not with arms, but with algorithmically amplified #disinformation and millions of corrupt dollars to influence an election in their favor. For Russia, cracking Canada means destabilizing yet another Western democracy in the international illiberal project, plus Canada recently signed an agreement to provide drones to the #Ukraine.

How can you help?

I wish I could say call your Congressional Rep, and that might still work in some districts. However, this is digital guerilla warfare, and we still don't have good innoculation against it.

Any information you can get out there on social media --about what it is really like to live in the US (maybe more about how actually likely it is to own a mansion or paying for your health care!), about how disinformation campaigns work, about what happened to democracies that voted to shoot themselves in the face based on peddled lies and are now dealing with the consequences (hello #UK), would help. Please tag Alberta separatism to ensure the message gets out.

And tell your friends. People need to know this is going on.

#elbowsup

Receipts:

https://thewalrus.ca/alberta-separatism-fuelled-by-russian-networks-and-us-influencers/

https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/co-ordinated-network-of-fake-youtube-channels-pushing-alberta-secession-and-us-annexation-narrative-report-finds/

https://www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-the-inauthentic-youtube-network-selling-secession-to-albertans

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/

https://disifnowatch.org broke this story with international journalists' help: see: https://disinfowatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Alberta-and-Foreign-Interference-Report-Final-052026-web.pdf

Sadly, it's true…
#SwitchToThirdParties #SwitchToLinux #UseIndySoftware #IndependentSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Spyware #InfoSec #Internet #InternetLingo #Espionage.

#Meme #Memes #Humour #Humor

If you're only starting out with paracord bracelets, one thing you will quickly realize is that a lot of fancy patterns you will find online result in really thick strands that feel bulky and awkward on your wrist. I've tried many different patterns and I still mostly make the simplest "cobra knot" ones, plus the slightly bulkier "chain knot" bracelets that happen to be my usual go-to design -- they look good and aren't too much thicker than the cobra knot ones.

The @lwn web site is currently under the most intense scraper attack I have seen yet. 1.3M unique IP addresses within the last couple of hours, and it's not done yet. The work we have done on defenses appears to be paying off, though; the server is holding up reasonably well — so far.

...just in case anybody wonders why I have a rather dim view of the whole AI industry...

Oh no, even moar adorbs!

New favourite quickie thing to make with paracord. It's a "little scout" to go on your backpack.

So adorbs.

Edward Norton watching the USA v Turkey match on his own.

The goose meme is even funnier if you consider that the word "eggs" has multiple meanings in many languages.

[$] What's coming in Git 2.55

The Git v2.55.0-rc2 testing release appeared on June 23, suggesting that the final Git 2.55 release can be expected in the near future. While this Git update lacks radical new fea [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1079596/ #LWN #Linux #Git

To all the apps that are constantly reminding me that my notifications are turned off:

You shit in the pool and now you want me to swim in it.

Joyeuse St-Jean!

It's monsoon weather in Montreal.

The same people who came up with abstinence-only sex education curriculum are now focusing their energy on internet access policies.