Mark Lyndersay

Mark Lyndersay is a writer and photographer based in Trinidad and Tobago. He wrote 1,800 editorial leaders for Guardian Media Limited between 2001 and 2016 and now provides leaders for the T&T Newsday. He writes features and reviews for several publications. His column, BitDepth has examined personal technology issues continuously over the last 27 years. As a photographer, he divides his time between commercial assignments, editorial photography, annual reports and personal projects like Local Lives, which examines the backstory of life and culture in Trinidad and Tobago.

Yes, a website is work. Yes, it’s worth it

AI tools suck up the content of creators across the open internet, turning their work into a pudding of responses in search.

No more fire in these wires

FireWire effectively died with MacOS 26 Tahoe, when Apple removed the drivers that enabled the OS-level connection to its operating system.

New theme, who dis?

The site may look pretty much the same on the user side of things, but getting there has been different for every theme change

Site maintenance and upgrade in progress…

Making a UI change while a website is running is like changing a wheel on a car while it's moving.

Privicy introduces Assura for DPO compliance

Build a complete record of processing activities using a structured 5-step wizard.

What the heck is chip binning?

Instead of manufacturing multiple versions of a processor with different numbers of active cores, manufacturers create one master processor and then test the yields.

New MoF based phishing scheme in play

A new phishing scheme is masquerading as official communcation from the Ministry of Finance

Solving the region’s journalism problem

There's formulaic approach to the content that we produce that sometimes totally denies or is ignorant of audience interest.

Tambini to journalists: “Keep doing what you’re doing”

There are lots of international standards to support that idea of the state supporting the media, but that support is often abused, so it has to be based on real trust that the media does indeed serve the public interest.

How do we unfetter journalism from the shackles of business?

Journalism must dissect information, deepen the understanding of it and bring clarity to the news consumer.

What the Canvas hack tells us about higher education software

Instructure is managing a very different proposition than most software vendors do. It has positioned itself as an education partner managing a wide range of integrations with education software tools.

Ghost women in AI? Hardly!

"When I first came out of university a million years ago, everybody was like, why build something here? Just take what's in Europe, lift and shift. That has been the approach of most of the organizations in the Caribbean."
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The Global Lense – The one about data and tech stack sovereignty

Most recent technology development appears to be companies outside the region tapping the market within the region.

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