cloudless.

……And nothing of value was lost……

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!

This too shall pass.

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.

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

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

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.