[kwlug-disc] Linux Association Canada membership

[Ron Singh]

Without mentioning any of these conversations here o KWLUG or where I live
in Waterloo, I will attempt a tele or vid call to Andre and chat him up a
bit to get a feel for his enterprise.

I am in Sask in 3 weeks time for a goodly while, so will have ample time to
connect with him and give some feedback here, assuming of course, he agrees
to speak to me.

If I am successful in speaking with him, I will bring up that 32-page book
and have a convo about it.
I really do feeli that his heart is in the right place and he is embracing
tech du jour in a major way, seemingly oblivious to how that content is
being received by the readers of the book and the content of his website.

My gut says, he's a guy my age who's taken a deep dive into Linux and his
intentions are honest about wanting to spread the word out there, he might
be a bit unaware as to how AT-slop would be received.
It reminds me of my first visits to KWLUG IRL many moons ago when like a
bull in a china shop, I went to local hospitals, cop shops and even Canada
Computers to get them to put up a ghetto flyer a talentless me made up on
the spot. The looks I got from the police staffers when I kept insisting
that they hang the flyers in their break room, heh.


*Ron S.*


On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 1:04 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I have the same concerns as Diane and researched the same topics. But I
> didn't use an "ai detector", I don't trust those.
>
> If she read the same web page about Andre's trucking experience, that has
> a photo that matches Andre's photo on the web site, so I don't dispute his
> photo is real. And there's nothing wrong with having a day job in addition
> to being a Linux enthusiast.
>
> The books she complains about are bad AI slop, not suitable for reading by
> humans. There is so much obvious AI slop on the web site that the Linux
> Association looks like one of those 100% AI hallucinated fake
> organizations. I don't think it is, I think the people are real, but the
> vibes are bad, and I think that is a real concern and a reputational risk.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2026, at 6:20 AM, Ron wrote:
>
> Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote on 2026-05-11 16:17:
>
> A group called the Linux Association Canada (linuxassociation.ca,
> which does not have much on it yet) is trying to create a network of
> free/open source community organizations. They reached out and asked
> KWLUG to be a member of it.
>
> So, this brief but interesting conversation happened:
>
> https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation/116892622775181904
>
>
> A summary of highlights shows careless use of AI slop, inauthentic "real
> use cases", unanswered questions about prior FLOSS involvement.
>
> This is between Diane from Linux Ottawa and Linux Association (reads like
> it's probably a bot responding)...
>
>
>
> @linuxassociation <https://thecanadian.social/@linuxassociation> Nah,
> come on. I finished reading that PDF and it's clearly AI slop.
>
> Nothing like "Th୨ৎ Linux Commiand Line" by "INJYDBBS" or "S9S9EN AYSTEM
> HANDBOOK."
>
> Worth looking at, it's not lengthy.
>
>
>
>
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