This:

Even where there is no prospect of achieving their election the workers must put up their own candidates to preserve their independence, to gauge their own strength and to bring their revolutionary position and party standpoint to public attention. They must not be led astray by the empty phrases of the democrats, who will maintain that the workers’ candidates will split the democratic party and offer the forces of reaction the chance of victory. All such talk means, in the final analysis, that the proletariat is to be swindled. The progress which the proletarian party will make by operating independently in this way is infinitely more important than the disadvantages resulting from the presence of a few reactionaries in the representative body. If the forces of democracy take decisive, terroristic action against the reaction from the very beginning, the reactionary influence in the election will already have been destroyed.

—Karl Marx “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League.” London, England. March 1850.

Vote within the system, sure. But make sure you voting for those who represent you, not the lesser evil who keeps you trapped in the system.

@Mrfunkedude Because I didn't really know what it was

Cool, so what is the plan?

I see so many comments leading up to every election talking about needing to flip the system, make big changes, and upset the status quo. What do we actually see? You all do absolutely nothing, then crawl back into your holes after world democracy slides deeper into hell.

Some of us are out there protesting, and organising, and trying to fix what we can in our community. But we also recognise that we need to work and vote within the system we are trapped in until we can dismantle it.

the instance tribalism is always so unhinged

XKCD now has an official statement about the whole situation: please upgrade to 5 as your private key.

https://m.xkcd.com/3314

we should start using the real word again, Das Ragenbaiten.

Time to commit as many crimes as possible before Trump leaves office.

@rysiek

These guys, doing their own stunts, in old movies were wild.

For Google the win is the same racks getting billed more hours. A model people want on Google Cloud keeps its GPUs busy, and busy GPUs are what pay for the buildout. Idle ones don't.

^^^^^^ the protest non voters are part of why so many Ukrainians are dying, why Israel has stronger and more deadly weapons, why climate change just got massively accelerated, why research funding and USAID got gutted (including life saving vaccines and children’s cancer research). some many of you will die but not me so that’s a price I’m willing to pay.

If you’re going to not vote out of protest maybe don’t do it in the most impactful election of our lifetime.

SECURITY ADVISORY: musl libc up through 1.2.6 (present version) is affected by integer overflows in regcomp (regular expression handling) leading to insufficient allocation of heap-based buffers for the compiled regex data structures.

CVE-2026-107891 has been assigned for this issue.

https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2026/10/21/1

It’s not a protest, it’s a surrender.

We should start with a national, general strike.

back in the 1990s, a lot of people were very afraid of violent video games -- sure, a lot of these were puritan social conservatives and folks ignorant about gaming that they'd treat cartoonish violence in the first "mortal kombat" as if it were a realistic depiction of gore or completely misunderstand the point of "night trap", but the prospect of children being able to buy a game with blood and gore and perhaps even titties in the same place they'd buy mario and sonic was extremely scary to them

a few of the politicians even raised an idea of governments running some kind of censorship board -- granted, it would always be a farfetched idea given that the u.s. and most of europe protect free expression of ideas, but the gaming industry took the idea seriously and instead set up their own controlling bodies that would figure out which games should be sold to which age groups without meddling from politicians (and given how much politics change or how different things can be seen in more left- or right-leaning parts of any country, probably a good idea)

it also was, in practice, an entirely voluntary system that only applied if you wanted to sell your video game in retail stores, not blocking the amateur/indie game scene and leaving any future technologies, like digital distribution, open to interpretation

i feel like we're at a point where something similar should perhaps be happening with certifying software safety and security response practices, but at this point i'm pretty sure that if microsoft, apple and google were to raise the idea of some kind of self-regulation board that would also allow open-source devs to keep doing their thing, a lot of people would say "we don't trust you" for some very good reasons