Kevin Everets
@keverets.bsky.social
Advocate of kindness, consideration, and Free Software.
Interested in anything that makes life a little bit better.
Interested in anything that makes life a little bit better.
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Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
/e/OS is effective at blocking tracking, and available for most phones that run Android.
See if your device is supported at doc.e.foundation/devices and consider an OS change to protect your privacy!
See if your device is supported at doc.e.foundation/devices and consider an OS change to protect your privacy!
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
/e/OS is effective at blocking tracking, and available for most phones that run Android.
See if your device is supported at doc.e.foundation/devices and consider an OS change to protect your privacy!
See if your device is supported at doc.e.foundation/devices and consider an OS change to protect your privacy!
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People can use CoMaps for leaving notes on #OpenStreetMap. Those notes can suggest edits that are outside CoMaps' editing capabilities.
You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: www.comaps.app/news/2025-10...
You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: www.comaps.app/news/2025-10...
Improving OpenStreetMap through CoMaps notes
How you can help to improve OpenStreetMap - and thus CoMaps - by reviewing open notes
www.comaps.app
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
People can use CoMaps for leaving notes on #OpenStreetMap. Those notes can suggest edits that are outside CoMaps' editing capabilities.
You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: www.comaps.app/news/2025-10...
You can help CoMaps & OpenStreetMap by looking over those notes and fixing them. Learn more about how to do so on our website: www.comaps.app/news/2025-10...
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David Gewirtz on ZDNet writes AI could kill open source.
I disagree.
AI changes how we write code, not what open source stands for 👇👇👇
gaelduval.com/why-ai-wont-...
I disagree.
AI changes how we write code, not what open source stands for 👇👇👇
gaelduval.com/why-ai-wont-...
Why AI won't "Kill Open Source” - Gaël Duval (blog, Murena, /e/OS my data is my data, Mandrake Linux...)
In a recent ZDNet piece, David Gewirtz warns that open source may not survive the rise of generative AI. I see it differently. AI doesn’t change what open source is about: transparency, collaboration,...
gaelduval.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
David Gewirtz on ZDNet writes AI could kill open source.
I disagree.
AI changes how we write code, not what open source stands for 👇👇👇
gaelduval.com/why-ai-wont-...
I disagree.
AI changes how we write code, not what open source stands for 👇👇👇
gaelduval.com/why-ai-wont-...
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Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping | TechCrunch
Wikipedia, the online nonprofit encyclopedia, is urging AI companies to stop scraping its pages and to use its paid API instead.
techcrunch.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping
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6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
White Nationalist Networking: Help us Identify the Organizers and Guests
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
6/ You can help us identify the rest. If you know about any of these individuals, please contact us directly so we can engage in a verification process.
I hate HP printers. One of the worst purchases.
October 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I hate HP printers. One of the worst purchases.
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New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...
www.404media.co
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...
Interesting study about effect on food when changing freezer temperature from -18 C to -15 C (and others, but -15C is a sweet spot).
Will change my freezers and monitor. 10% energy reduction would be huge if adopted more globally
www.nomadfoods.com/wp-content/u...
#driveto-15 #sustainability
Will change my freezers and monitor. 10% energy reduction would be huge if adopted more globally
www.nomadfoods.com/wp-content/u...
#driveto-15 #sustainability
www.nomadfoods.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Interesting study about effect on food when changing freezer temperature from -18 C to -15 C (and others, but -15C is a sweet spot).
Will change my freezers and monitor. 10% energy reduction would be huge if adopted more globally
www.nomadfoods.com/wp-content/u...
#driveto-15 #sustainability
Will change my freezers and monitor. 10% energy reduction would be huge if adopted more globally
www.nomadfoods.com/wp-content/u...
#driveto-15 #sustainability
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Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.
You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
October 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.
You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.
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The Greenbelt, Wasaga Beach, now protected land in Port Hope. We should all be concerned that our environment is being sacrificed for insider profits.
Ontario Greens will keep fighting to protect our farmland and green spaces.
Ontario Greens will keep fighting to protect our farmland and green spaces.
This spring, the Doug Ford government shifted the boundaries of a protected area in Port Hope, opening the gates for a subdivision to be built there instead. thenarwhal.ca/garden-hill-...
A Port Hope protected area, opened for development | The Narwhal
The Doug Ford government shifted the boundaries of a protected area, opening the way for a subdivision to be built there instead
thenarwhal.ca
September 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The Greenbelt, Wasaga Beach, now protected land in Port Hope. We should all be concerned that our environment is being sacrificed for insider profits.
Ontario Greens will keep fighting to protect our farmland and green spaces.
Ontario Greens will keep fighting to protect our farmland and green spaces.
Just updated @f-droid.org.web.brid.gy and saw that #Spotube (cross platform music player) has support for @listenbrainz.org ... Connected that to my @musicbrainz.org account, and am in the process of importing the @last.fm history.
Happy to move away from Spotify as a metadata source.
Happy to move away from Spotify as a metadata source.
September 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just updated @f-droid.org.web.brid.gy and saw that #Spotube (cross platform music player) has support for @listenbrainz.org ... Connected that to my @musicbrainz.org account, and am in the process of importing the @last.fm history.
Happy to move away from Spotify as a metadata source.
Happy to move away from Spotify as a metadata source.
After 13 months, the #bosch dishwasher is having control panel problems. Won't buy another Bosch. It's been terrible since buying it. How are these the highest rated?
August 29, 2025 at 11:46 PM
After 13 months, the #bosch dishwasher is having control panel problems. Won't buy another Bosch. It's been terrible since buying it. How are these the highest rated?
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People power is how we stopped Ford's Greenbelt scheme and it's what's going to stop Bill 5.
Thanks to the @whhgreens.bsky.social for organizing this event.
Thanks to the @whhgreens.bsky.social for organizing this event.
Elora Bill 5 Resistance
YouTube video by Mike Schreiner
youtube.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
People power is how we stopped Ford's Greenbelt scheme and it's what's going to stop Bill 5.
Thanks to the @whhgreens.bsky.social for organizing this event.
Thanks to the @whhgreens.bsky.social for organizing this event.
It's definitely worth people exploring end-to-end encrypted photo storage such as Ente. Kind of crazy how many deeply personal images are shared with companies that have no respect for their users' privacy
August 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
It's definitely worth people exploring end-to-end encrypted photo storage such as Ente. Kind of crazy how many deeply personal images are shared with companies that have no respect for their users' privacy
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Joe Rogan Doesn't Understand Graphs
YouTube video by Climate Town
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Yes, it is indeed unimaginable. But we are well beyond words of condemnation @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. It's time for full economic sanctions on Israel.
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Foreign Minister Anand says suffering in Gaza is ‘unimaginable’ in joint global statement urging unrestricted aid
Ministers from around two dozen countries say action is needed ‘to halt and reverse starvation’
www.theglobeandmail.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yes, it is indeed unimaginable. But we are well beyond words of condemnation @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social. It's time for full economic sanctions on Israel.
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Add your voice to the call at....
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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#topoli #onpoli New from me in @spacing: Some reflections on @cycletoronto.bsky.social’s huge legal victory in the bike lane war with Ford Nation. spacing.ca/toronto/2025...
Bike Lanes: 2 - Ford Nation: 0 - Spacing Toronto
In an intriguing aside a third of the way into Justice Paul Schabas’ extraordinary decision (issued yesterday) in Toronto’s bike lane war with Premier Doug Ford, he reveals how, about a month ago, he ...
spacing.ca
July 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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I hadn't heard of Futurehome, but I won't be buying Ring or Belkin products.
If it can't run local-only, then you never truly own the product.
If it can't run local-only, then you never truly own the product.
Worried your cloud-controlled smart devices could be ruined by the manufacturer? You should be.
Our latest newsletter covers the recent cloud disasters from three companies, and why local control is the only safe path forward for your smart home 👇🏼
#Newsletter #SmartHome
Our latest newsletter covers the recent cloud disasters from three companies, and why local control is the only safe path forward for your smart home 👇🏼
#Newsletter #SmartHome
You don’t own it if they can break it
This newsletter covers the recent cloud disasters from three companies, and why local control is the only safe path forward for your smart home.
newsletter.openhomefoundation.org
August 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I hadn't heard of Futurehome, but I won't be buying Ring or Belkin products.
If it can't run local-only, then you never truly own the product.
If it can't run local-only, then you never truly own the product.
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Really annoyed by "natural flavour" as an ingredient in food products. Too easy to hide crap under that positive sounding name.
July 31, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Really annoyed by "natural flavour" as an ingredient in food products. Too easy to hide crap under that positive sounding name.
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The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”
In 2024, 74% of new electricity generated & 92.5% of new capacity were from WindWaterSolar; 17 mil EVs sold
3 cheapest electricity sources globally: onshore wind, PV, hydro
apnews.com/article/clim...
In 2024, 74% of new electricity generated & 92.5% of new capacity were from WindWaterSolar; 17 mil EVs sold
3 cheapest electricity sources globally: onshore wind, PV, hydro
apnews.com/article/clim...
UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs
The United Nations reports a global shift toward renewable energy, calling it a "positive tipping point."
apnews.com
July 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The global switch to renewable energy has passed a “positive tipping point”
In 2024, 74% of new electricity generated & 92.5% of new capacity were from WindWaterSolar; 17 mil EVs sold
3 cheapest electricity sources globally: onshore wind, PV, hydro
apnews.com/article/clim...
In 2024, 74% of new electricity generated & 92.5% of new capacity were from WindWaterSolar; 17 mil EVs sold
3 cheapest electricity sources globally: onshore wind, PV, hydro
apnews.com/article/clim...
Looks like one of my IKEA Parasoll sensors has started to have the battery drain issue. Too bad. Otherwise great sensors for #homeassistant sensing door opening. May try #aqara next?
July 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Looks like one of my IKEA Parasoll sensors has started to have the battery drain issue. Too bad. Otherwise great sensors for #homeassistant sensing door opening. May try #aqara next?
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Canadians are being drained of their life savings by scammers. However, investigations by financial institutions all too often end not with accountability, but with banks blaming the very customers who trusted them with protecting their money. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
5 expert tips to protect yourself from financial fraud when the banks won’t | RCI
Canada’s big banks ‘appear to be protecting themselves,’ expert says
ici.radio-canada.ca
July 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Canadians are being drained of their life savings by scammers. However, investigations by financial institutions all too often end not with accountability, but with banks blaming the very customers who trusted them with protecting their money. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...