Wordle 319
Wordle 319 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 One of my favorite words too!!
Posts tagged: microblog
Photos from today's abortion protest
Posted my freely licensed photos from today's abortion protest in Foley Square at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:May_2022_abortion_protests_in_New_York_CityAdded to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_Health_Organization#Reactions - we'll see if it lasts (the profanity might be too inflammatory? idk).First time I've used Signal to blur faces for Commons, need to find a different tool (probably GIMP I assume?) that doesn't…
Central Park Loop
This weekend I walked the entire ~6mi Central Park loop, which was easily the single longest physical activity I've done since the pandemic started (not counting the days I walked 10mi+ while apartment shopping).
Eleanor Bellows Pillsbury
As part of the #Wikipedia #WikiGap editathon today, I created https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Bellows_Pillsbury - she was the president of Planned Parenthood from 1950-1953, served as vice president of the Red Cross and as her last name gives away, she was a hostess at Pillsbury baking competitions.Her husband had an article since 2009,…
LEGO Masters Australia, season 4
LEGO Masters Australia, easily one of the greatest reality shows on TV, is back for Season 4 and the builds are already amazing. (The US version is okay, but doesn't focus enough on the LEGO, which is really the whole point...)
15 years since my first Wikipedia edit
15 years ago yesterday was my first edit to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2006%E2%80%9307_San_Jose_Sharks_season&diff=prev&oldid=122614698It's been a wild ride ever since.
Meeting Chris Smalls
Got to meet Chris Smalls, founder of the #Amazon Labor Union, today, who coincidentally has a new freely-licensed #Wikipedia photo and voice sample: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_SmallsPhotos are free for anyone to reuse, with attribution (CC-BY-SA 4.0): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chris_Smalls
Snow is beautiful
Snow is beautiful when I don't have to worry about being cold.
New stats from Kiwix
Wow, some new stats from @kiwix: a fifty-fold increase in traffic from Russia, which now accounts for 40% of new downloads!Source: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum&type=revision&diff=22975552&oldid=22974473
Apartment hunting in NYC
apartment hunting in NYC is like:mental health: broken, destroyed, burned outphysical health: over the past 3 days I've walked 10, 10 and 7 miles respectively. An entire marathon!!
SJ Spotlight sues over private email use
"San José Spotlight is suing San Jose, Mayor Liccardo over private email use"Really great to see this, it's absurd how flagrantly SJ and Liccardo have been continuing to skirt California's public records law after losing in the CA Supreme Court a few years ago.https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-spotlight-is-suing-san-jose-mayor-liccardo-over-private-email-use/
Uncyclopedia's Community Wishlist Survey
Uncyclopedia continues to parody Wikipedia perfectly, now running its own Community Wishlist Survey: https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Forum:Community_Wishlist_Survey_2022
Run the Burbs
Run the Burbs is the real spin-off we needed from Kim's Convenience. Fantastic show so far, highly recommend it.https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2022/01/03/canada-were-your-new-family-andrew-phungs-run-the-burbs-picks-up-the-baton-from-kims-convenience.html
My first two SecureDrop patches
Got my first two SecureDrop patches merged, wheeeehttps://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/commits?author=legoktm
Client-side PGP
Today I created a demo with fully client-side PGP encryption using Rust/WebAssembly. Felt much more straightfoward than all the times I mucked around with shelling out to gpg.Source/demo: https://github.com/legoktm/sequoia-wasm