Check out my new TLS certificate: yes, Let's Encrypt signed this and yes, it works.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117583747761802933

Probably the best thing you read today! 👀

Will Bunch, who may be the finest political writer on the planet, makes the powerful case for drafting Chris Van Hollen for the job of Majority Leader, citing as a testament his inspirational leadership fighting for the release of Ábrego García when others, like Chuck Schumer, failed to stand firm and fight back.

The link here is to a non-paywall version. Everyone should read this excellent piece.

Under-equipped and far from help, retro shooter DERELIKT arrives November 13 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/under-equipped-and-far-from-help-retro-shooter-derelikt-arrives-november-13/

#DERELIKT #Proton #Steam #Upcoming #Retro #FPS #IndieGames

@mcc

Liminal-ness becomes less appealing the older I get.

I wanna talk about the political movement of the Open Source community. If you spend enough time on fedi, you surely will have heard *plenty* of criticisms of what's going on in Open Source, and rightfully so.

So I'm curious, what do we think the Open Source community *should be doing* in order to achieve important progressive and anti-authoritarian goals? What should the next generation of programmers be thinking of and working on in this space?

A special rule: You're only allowed to say "don't X" if you have at least as many "do Y" recommendations. Preferably, I'd like to see more do's than don't's.

Boosts welcome

#tech #openSource #FOSS #progressive #programming #askFedi

@lain easiest 100k of my life I eat about once a day and when I’m hungry I can eat about that much

shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site

shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter

shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist

shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time

ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done

This week keep up the pressure to reject Chuck Schumer as Majority Leader. Don't give up.

He has much less support than he and his allies in the corporate media would have you believe. Only six Senators so far have publicly backed him.

Clearly to stop Schumer an alternative needs to emerge. Lots of people are trying to draft Chris Van Hollen, but someone else may emerge.

Call Van Hollen. Urge him to go for it. Call your Senators. Ask them to oppose Schumer.

CAPITAL SWITCHBOARD 202-224-3122

Epilogue, I guess. I think this might be really useful to un-wedge a lot of current discourse, where:

1. It's very easy to get people to agree that FOSS has failed humanity, because it conceptualizes the Four Freedoms as apolitical and politics out of scope.

2. Getting people to agree what to do instead is a difficult organizational problem. What terms to use? What standards to hold?

So, I say, we organically let people bind together into small groups of closely aligned values. You doing MOSS? Cool! You prefer to call what you're doing Convivial Software? Heeyyyy that's cool too. We can build coalitions on top of that substrate, owned by no specific group or person, based on things we can find common ground on, without making the old mistake of trying to make everyone conform to the same super-specific values.

ICYMI: Patent Proposes Larger Extruder Wheels for Faster FFF Printing https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/patent-proposes-larger-extruder-wheels-for-faster-fff-printing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #3DPrinting #AdditiveManufacturing

@kzodasnowman they're called mentos not boytos .. or something

also never look up how 'mentos' is pronounced here in Australia it's basically the worst

I think - hear me out - that it makes sense for a coalition to exist in favor of software freedom. There would be many groups with more specific values, who could find common ground on there, and be able to work towards common goals *without* leaving their values at the door. I think in such a coalition, it's likely that the current movement toward socially responsible software would be highly influential, and GNU would be there, but the weird kid in the corner.

What we have right now is a situation where GNU is trying to declare itself the organizational figurehead of the free software coalition, recasting it in terms of community to impose an illusory amount of values cohesion (and importantly, move some values out of scope, like aversion to slavery), and maintain this "community's" legal dependency on GNU/FSF resources. And we've seen how well it goes with them "in charge."

Gross. Not a fan of that. But at least we can learn some lessons from the grossness.

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Really feeling lately like people (especially Red Hat, Canonical etc.) use the term "community" the way that the Regional Manager at Papa John's uses the word "family", and that both are red flags about how you're about to be treated by someone who considers you a captive audience and extraction-ready labor resource.

I like the way @ireneista defines community (https://adhd.irenes.space/@ireneista/statuses/01M6YE9SP2BYVT463H4JR4BQPH), and I think what people are really looking for in broader movements are *coalitions.*

A coalition is a group-of-groups. They're allowed to be unlikely bedfellows who wouldn't agree on most topics. The most dramatic example I know was when the Black Panthers and the KKK found something they could agree on (second-amendment rights) and put aside some differences to push for their shared goals. It didn't mean those groups got along in general.

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Petition demanding to launch a public inquiry into the UK's role in Israeli operations in Gaza

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/783252

#Petition #PublicEnquiry #UKparliament #BritishParliament
#UKroleInGaza #BritishInvolvenent #UK #Israel #Gaza #Palestine
#BritishInvolvenent #RAF #Akrotiri #SpyFlights #SurveillanceFlights #ArmingIsrael #Complicity
#ComplicityInWarCrimes #WarCrimes #KeirStarmer #JohnHealey #MinistryOfDefence #WesStreeting #JenniferForbes #YourParty #PeaceAndJustice #PeaceNoWar #Peace

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

“Why are these systems even on a network? Just disconnect them!”

I see this after every OT attack, usually from smart IT people. As someone who responds to these incidents, I wish it were that easy. I wrote up how we got here, and why water utilities and refrigerators keep getting hit.

https://tisiphone.net/2026/11/08/lets-talk-about-why-all-this-ot-stuff-is-connected/