re: complaining
complaining
hello, UX designer. my name is Jigsaw. in this “saw trap” there is a wheel in front of you. your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. it works fine. it's a perfectly good wheel. the door is unlocked.
WE DID IT. WE WON. 💜✊
Wikimedia Foundation workers voted 158 YES to 14 NO: 91.9% of ballots cast, with 81% turnout.
[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/case/20-RC-391740
We’re so proud of everyone who built this union, and this win belongs to our whole community. We could not have done it without the solidarity of Wikimedia volunteers.
This is just the beginning. We stand with our UK siblings in their recognition process now, and with future organizing efforts across WMF’s global workforce. 🌍
[union needed]
![NLRB Citation. Recognition Timeline: Day 38 since WMF declined voluntary recognition July 27, 2026.
US Workers voted YES. 158 YES, 14 NO, 91.9% YES among counted votes, 8.1% NO among counted votes
172 ballots counted, 213 eligible voters, 81% turnout
Reference: [1] NLRB Case-20-RC-391740, tally of ballots, Region 20, San Francisco, CA
Footer: Wiki Workers United/CWA. [union needed]. Solidarity Forever. Healthy Institutions Share Power.](https://cdn.masto.host/socialwikiworkersunitedorg/media_attachments/files/117/210/197/498/248/852/original/aa435a35cdba5c01.webp "NLRB Citation. Recognition Timeline: Day 38 since WMF declined voluntary recognition July 27, 2026.
US Workers voted YES. 158 YES, 14 NO, 91.9% YES among counted votes, 8.1% NO among counted votes
172 ballots counted, 213 eligible voters, 81% turnout
Reference: [1] NLRB Case-20-RC-391740, tally of ballots, Region 20, San Francisco, CA
Footer: Wiki Workers United/CWA. [union needed]. Solidarity Forever. Healthy Institutions Share Power.")
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A journey from syndicalism to Debian (and to syndicalism again)
by si
At: MiniDebConf Winterthur 2026 https://ch2026.mini.debconf.org/talks/11-a-journey-from-syndicalism-to-debian-and-to-syndicalism-again/
This presentation aims to share why Debian is chosen by several entities to host their services. It intends to describe some aspects of syndicalism in France and make some parallel with the Debian project and its technical robustness.
It will share how activism led the speaker to Debian, how useful Debian has been for this purpose, and how Debian led them to activism again.
Room: Campo Foyez (Main Track) Scheduled start: 2026-08-29 19:30:00+02:00
“The wrong Amazon is burning, the wrong ICE is melting, the wrong AI is being designated as terrorism" ~ Crimethinc
Mercoledì 2/9 – Assemblea pubblica di aggiornamento per Autistici/Inventati
Il 26 agosto 2026 il Dipartimento del Tesoro statunitense, tramite OFAC - il settore che gestisce e applica sanzioni economiche e finanziarie -, ha sanzionato Autistici/Inventati (A/I), collettivo italiano che dal 2001 fornisce infrastrutture digitali a mo
One of my colleagues is facing challenges while applying for an ISBN in India for some of our works. If someone can help, please DM or email me. We'll compensate you for your time, of course. #ISBN
help translate our work!
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/sabotpress/ai-the-server-called-paranoia/
![Image from what appears to be Theotown or Locomotive (grayish brown suggests the later to me [though I mostly only play openttd] where a tram running on tracks in the median of two roads is about to enter a rollercoaster like loop-d-loop, with a JoJo's Bizzare adventures To Bo Continued in the bottom left, with a much smaller imgflip.com watermark present](https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/117/197/056/813/739/814/original/c8563f654f2eff5a.png "Image from what appears to be Theotown or Locomotive (grayish brown suggests the later to me [though I mostly only play openttd] where a tram running on tracks in the median of two roads is about to enter a rollercoaster like loop-d-loop, with a JoJo's Bizzare adventures To Bo Continued in the bottom left, with a much smaller imgflip.com watermark present")
For english, I often fall into pitfalls of not knowing how to express myself correctly, its an eternal struggle, but to add, I have never personally felt if my grasp of a concept leaves wordless, that I can read someone else's translation and understand it better. If I am not sure my words are good enough, I cant really be certain a bot's are better for me.
LLMs likely write code much better and more efficiently than me, I waste hours on issues that LLMs could knock out in minutes really, but if they do, and I write code, even for personal fun accountable to no one, will I ever understand or be able to modify it? FOSS is for me knowing other people can write my code better, and allowing them to patch it <continued>
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AberdeenLocal1312/117192845477973860
PIR (the .org registry) confirms it suspended the autistici.org domain name out of fear of the US legal threats, arguing it is "legally mandated to suspend it", which is not, IMHO, a given at all (given that PIR doesn't have any contractual relation with autistici directly, the registrar does). this is a very dangerous precedent that confirms a deeply rooted fear that the US essentially controls all of DNS.
if PIR's arguments are left standing, what's to keep the US from applying the same logic to ICANN and suspending an entire TLD?
RT: https://kolektiva.social/users/AberdeenLocal1312/statuses/117192845477973860