You're assuming that if the Republicans lose now they'll disappear (or deradicalize) and then you can return to normal politics, but that's not how it actually goes is it? Every time they lose they just come back stronger because the establishment has no answer to the issues giving them (entirely undeserved) credibility. This is why "one more election then we can fix things" has been the rhetoric for decades yet the light at the end of the electoral tunnel never comes; these victories will never stick unless you can make things happen with them, which means the arguments about fixing things must happen at the same time as the arguments about stopping fascism.

You non vote is NOT a protest, it’s a surrender.

#immigrants #AI

google and apple in particular seem not to be differentiating the crawls used for "ai" training vs search indexing

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

i refuse to do anything for the time being—the time being is already far too powerful

more programming languages should have official plushies

I propose that awk's stuffed animal should be a sock stuffed with cotton batting and adorned with a single enormous googly eye

@elight Warren didn't raise up no fools.

The poll found that likely voters favor Bobby Pulido 51% to 44% over Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. Among Latino likely voters, the gap widens, with about 57% for Pulido, compared with 40% for De La Cruz. https://www.texasobserver.org/poll-bobby-pulido-flip-15th-congressional-district/

#midterms #politics #SouthTexas #Texas #news

The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016798/php-vulnerabilities-exploit-patch

Donald Trump has sold out Ukraine. He makes appeaser Chamberlain look like a man of iron principle | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/22/donald-trump-ukraine-betrayal-putin-nato

It is self evident that "stopping the Republicans now will only allow them in later" is a shit reason for not stopping the Republicans now.

No; you need to provide a long-term alternative that actually works.

In two party politics that the US system is set up to enforce, the opposition often moves to the centre where they see their lost votes lying. Republicans winning draws the Democrats to the right. It's been such a long time since the Democrats held all three branches that they have drifted a long way to the right.

And there it is. There are three problems here: First, where's your proof that this is what's going on? Second, before 2024 the Republicans hadn't had all three branches for even longer than the Democrats either yet they kept moving away from the center, so what's up with that? Third, polling has been exceptionally clear on what voters want for ages now and it is emphatically not centrist bullshit. Hell, progressive candidates keep winning all over the place. Why do the Democrats not understand that? Are they so stupid that they can't even read what the polls say? Keep in mind that this is an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.

Your can pull the Overton window s l o w l y to the left by not letting the Republicans win.

Again, you need to explain why this doesn't work the other way around, since the Republicans seem very able to sell their policy positions even when they're not in power, but also: Have you seen what the polls say? The Overton window has been at least in the center-left for ages and it's having zero impact on the Democratic establishment's policy. The Democratic Party is well to the right of its electorate.

You know if we just crash the bus sooner everything would be better.

So this is your interpretation, or your wording of someone else’s?

Also I hear the driver picked music no one likes - let’s cancel him

The driver is trump, and the music is extrajudicial detention of anyone with an accent or slightly browner skin plus concurrent flattening of Gaza, war in Iran etc etc?

then all argue over what music is crash appropriate.

What do you suggest?

Total honest question to my dear Fedi friends, I need a genuine answer, please do not sugarcoat things. I need Dutch bluntness here!

So you have been following #MySoCalledSudoLife adventures for almost two years now.

I'm not sure how to define myself anymore because I'm not an expert at this stuff, but I am no longer a newbie either. Yesterday I updated all my systems using CLI (in tmux)!

Now, my main point after my long preamble:

I want to create custom apparel for the next #FOSDEM, as an act of rebellion against the rejection for our proposal of a DEIB room.

I used to make sweatshirts and t-shirts to promote the visibility of women in film, like: "this is what a film director looks like" or just t-shirts that read "film director". I gifted them to prominent women in film, who LOVED them and wore them on set!

I'd like to do something similar but for FOSDEM / tech.

Is it too much to say: "this is what a sysadmin looks like"? Can I call myself a sysadmin, or would you find it sacrilegious?

Anything else? Like, other suggestions along the lines of "this is what a ----- looks like" or "sysadmin"?

Thanks! 🙏​

Dear future #FOSDEM speakers / devroom organizers / attendees, will you take the #FOSDEMPledge ?

🔗: https://writing.jan.io/2026/10/22/the-fosdem-pledge.html

HUGE thanks to @janl for this brilliant initiative! ❤️

#FOSDEM2027 #DEIB

The task of the conscious minority is to profit from every situation to change the environment in a way that will make possible the education of the whole people.
-- Errico Malatesta

#anarchism #quote #bot

@sknob @stephan
Yes, there’s no need to be consistent about it either. Use whichever seems right for what you want to say.

#Meta drops the word “train” from its commercial TOS after #AI backlash

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/meta-drops-the-word-train-from-its-commercial-tos-after-ai-backlash/

#privacy