@robho At least a partial motivation for my own implementations of free/libre software in election campaigns over the last four years is that a number of elected officials at least partly, owe their election to free/libre software. 😊 And I make them aware of it.

#EAS #WEA for Rio Grande County, #CO: Mandatory evacuation orders have been lifted for Highway 160 from the Wolf Creek Ranch, to the railroad tracks North of Highway 160 and between the Escondida bridge and Highway 160. Residents in these areas may return now. Resources at riograndecounty.org Source: 201243,San Luis Valley E-911,Alamosa Regional Communication

** DO NOT RELY ON THIS FEED FOR LIFE SAFETY, SEEK OUT OFFICIAL SOURCES ***

git stash pop. keep forgetting the git stash pop.

@ai6yr t-shirts get thrown into a crate on the shelf

life‘s too short to be folding T-shirts

@christymarx

There is a good write-up here, but it is definitely on the nerdy side of things. It really boils down to very poor choices leading to weak cryptography.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

Voted. Most people I remember seeing there in a long time. Probably highly dependent on time of day, though, so not sure it's anything to read into.

@elsemusic @CCirco https://citiesandmemory.com/2026/10/autumn-project-2026/

Australia’s highest court hears challenges to social media ban for children

Australia’s highest court is hearing challenges to a law banning children younger than 16 from social media.

https://apnews.com/article/australia-social-media-ban-children-court-challenge-3c53b7be4447877fc00b6fc0300605a1

turn-based retro beat-em-up roguelike

Wrote a drop of code to give each enemy a name. Due to a slight error they are all named either DAVE or STEVE.

After the reporting on Proton CEO Andy Yen pushing AI on workers and broader issues at the company last week, Proton employees are pushing for their colleagues to unionize and make sure Yen is held to account.

More info here: https://molecule.build

So, Novell Netware 5 is an absolutely cursed operating system. As far as I can tell, it boots Caldera DOS as a stage-0, then goes into NWSERVER kernel that uses its own everything, and from there boots a JAVA shell, and from there there's an init also presumably in Java, that starts binaries for X-for-NW, IceWM-for-NW and, if I were to believe Novell's docs, a Java-based desktop. It definitely looks and feels like Java.

Java OS that I did not know existed

Y2K readiness: 2

(When hand is broken, MacOS is less comfy, sorry NetBSD, I'll be back.)

@limebar https://mirlo.space/m-corp

@alisynthesis @kims Al Sayed, since MI is next door and F**** those racist mfers. That said sering Texas go even a bit blue would be great as well

@robho On the one hand the Doug Ford government's corrupt authoritarian austerity is a bad thing, perhaps a "post Ford" government might be more inclined to be innovative using free/libre software.

The Indian state of Kerala, for a long time governed by the left achieved a 1:1 computer/student ratio over a decade ago by migrating to free/libre software.

@CCirco @RobertaFidora What is this Autumn Project of which you speak?