cloudless.

In the world full of Ed Sheerans, be James Blunt. 😬

There is more to this story, of course:

https://apnews.com/article/china-anthropic-ai-us-amodei-3da458d2c078da3e60900728d59f1ae8

it’s not that he is concerned about AI threat in general, he is mostly concerned about being trampled over by evil foreign AI.

Anthropic = Good, Qwen and DeepSeek = Eveeeeel!

Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.

Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.

so….essentially the perfect antidote to the dimwit on the other side of the border.

“Jeremy Kauffman is an American entrepreneur and political activist known for founding and leading the blockchain-based filesharing project LBRY. He is also a vocal supporter and activist within the Free State Project (FSP), a movement designed to get libertarians to move to New Hampshire. Kauffman was the Libertarian nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in New Hampshire, losing to Democrat Maggie Hassan. He was elected the chair of the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2026. Kauffman has been known for his provocative statements on Twitter that have been deemed violent, racist, and antisemitic. His legal troubles include misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration stemming from an incident where he allegedly tried to fight several people while hurling racist insults.”

1. PEELINGFLESH - FFWAS
2. Lorna Shore - To The Hellfire

Then finish them off with:

3. Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me

“oooh, is that Necrotic Diarrheal Detonation Chamber?!” I love that song!

Is this the new Poke Man game I’ve been hearing about?

If you are willing to pay a bit of money, Laridian Pocket Bible is an excellent and safe choice from a reputable company.

https://www.laridian.com/

Back in the day, I had my photos in multiple locations, some on local external drives, some in small cloud storage pockets….a bit of mess, really. Since I had a great deal on O365 family plan I thought - why not gather all of my various photo collections, and consolidate them on a single cloud storage - what could possibly go wrong? This is how I discovered that OneDrive doesn’t know how to read EXIF metadata properly. I ended up with basically a pile of over 30k pictures and videos, completely out of any order. Never again.

If this doesn’t bring American booze back to Canadian stores, I don’t know what will.

Peppa is good, but Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom was (still is) better - more complex stories, inside jokes for grownups, charming characters. Too bad it lasted only two seasons.