Very glad to learn that Gov. Newsom signed AB 1800, "Charlie's Law", yesterday: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/13/opinion-charlies-law-would-save-lives-of-with-blood-cancers/If you're under 40, you can join the Be the Match registry pretty quickly online: https://my.bethematch.org/s/join?language=en_US and they'll send you a swab kit in the mail.
For two straight weeks 9 out of 10 of the top 10 viewed articles on Wikipedia were about the British Royal family. The 10th article was a newly released Bollywood film lmao.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2022-09-30/Traffic_report
My #Debian firmware GR vote is 6437215. In order of preference: Amend the Social Contract to allow for non-free firmware in installers. Have a installer w/ non-free firmware next to the fully free one. None of the above Have only a non-free installer OR status quo, the installer w/ non-freeā¦
$ rpm-ostree override remove firefox$ flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefoxThe future is here!
I ported https://apt-browser.toolforge.org/ from Python/Flask to #Rust/RocketIt's already faster and I didn't even finish all the performance improvements on it (e.g lazy_static for regexes).
Avery Brundage is Today's Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, which notes that he "fought zealously" against boycotting the Games in Nazi Germany.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_BrundageThe "Legacy" section spells it out clearly, noting he's well known as an anti-Semite, racist and admirer of Hitler.So it's a good day for me to re-post theā¦
I gave a very quick lightning talk at #Wikimania today about our migration to #Mailman3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022_Wiki_World%27s_Fair_lightning_talk_-_Mailman3_migration.webm
Uh very cool, today's LWN article quoted and linked my blog post about Kiwix and Russian Wikipedia! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/902463/0735202cb9eda4e2/ https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/03/15/how-to-mirror-the-russian-wikipedia-with-debian-and-kiwix.html
Finished off my West Coast trip with two new #stickers!A colorful Pacific Northwest on the left and an anti-war bird saying "There is more power in peace than violence" on the right.
Tested positive for COVID last week and it really knocked me out. Only today did I start feeling back to normal and not constantly tired/fatigued. All the doomscrolling didn't help either.Glad I appear to be over it now and sending love and hugs to anyone else dealing with it.
New #Toolforge tool alert: https://steve-adder.toolforge.org/It lets you see what % of page views on Wikimedia wikis come from the specified browser range. This data is already available in dashboards, just this adds up multiple versions for you.More info: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tool:Steve-adderWritten in #Rust using Rocket and the csv crate. I really appreciateā¦
I'm running for the Wikimedia Foundation Board (again) with the goal of bringing some much needed technical experience: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2022/Candidates/Kunal_Mehta
I was recently interviewed on the #MediaWiki Between the Brackets podcast, you can listen at https://betweenthebrackets.libsyn.com/episode-112-kunal-mehta
The next #Rocket release candidate is out: https://rocket.rs/v0.5-rc/news/2022-05-09-version-0.5-rc.2/Updated all of my projects in ~40 minutes, best part of #Rust is that if it compiles, it'll just work!
Happy Free Comic Book Day! #fcbd
