Senate GOP blocks Dem effort to fund SNAP
Al Weaver,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

Stephan: Almost every day now, the Republican members of Congress, by their actions, in contrast to their words, demonstrate that they are uninterested in the wellbeing of the people who voted them into office. Do you think Americans are waking up to this reality? We will see later today.

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The Right’s Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
David Sirota, Jared Jacang Maher,    -  rsn | Rolling Stone

_Stephan: Trump and the Republican fascists, aided by the Supreme Court fascist majority, are doing everything in their power to rig the outcome of the 2026 election. The only thing that is going to stop this is an overwhelming majority of American voters voting only for Democrats. If that doesn’t happen, you can kiss American democracy goodbye. B … ⌘ Read more

Don’t use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog
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Offline interactions predict voting patterns better than online networks, finds study
According to a new study, offline social networks, revealed by co-location data, predict U.S. voting patterns more accurately than online social connections or residential sorting. Michele Tizzoni and colleagues analyzed large-scale data on co-location patterns from Meta’s Data for Good program, which collates anonymized data collected from people who enabled location services on the Facebook smartphone a … ⌘ Read more

Poland votes to ban fur farming by 2033, with payouts for early closures ⌘ Read more

Trump Could Soon Make America’s Refugee Program a Tool for White Nationalism
Noal Lanard,  Reporter  -  Mother Jones

_Stephan: Yet another story about the growing White supremacy racism of dictator Trump, who has always been a racist, his administration, and the Republican Party. Soon, we are going to see whether the fascist majority of the Supreme Court eliminates the Voting Rights Act. The United States has rejected 160 years of its history since … ⌘ Read more

Half of America’s Voting Machines Are Now Owned by a MAGA Oligarch
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Poorer health linked to more votes for Reform UK, 2024 voting patterns suggest
Poorer health is linked to a higher proportion of votes for the populist right wing political party, Reform UK, indicates an analysis of the 2024 general election voting patterns in England, published online in the open access journal BMJ Open Respiratory Research. ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Europe’s Digital Sovereignty Paradox - “Chat Control” update

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October 14th was supposed to be the day the European Council voted to mandate scanning of all private communications, encrypted or not.

The vote was pulled at the last minute.

Germany withdrew support, creating a blocking minority that blocked the Danish Presidency&aposs hope to g … ⌘ Read more

@klaxzy@klaxzy.net Yes, if Germany actually opposes this. But so far, there’s only one guy that said something on a press conference. He does speak for the “CDU” party, which is “in command” at the moment, but that’s about it. I don’t trust these people – not until I’ve actually seen them voting against Chat Control. 🥴

@prologic@twtxt.net Germany was listed as “opposing” on https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ for a while, now it’s back to “undecided”. According to netzpolitik.org, it’s still debated. Also according to that page, there could be an important vote on the EU level on October 13/14.

The green party and the (far) left are opposing this (at least in Germany). Sadly, Germany is leaning more right with every year … As for young people: The (far) left is the strongest party among young people, with the (far) right being the second strongest one. (https://www.tagesschau.de/wahl/archiv/2025-02-23-BT-DE/umfrage-alter.shtml) Is there cause for hope? I don’t know.

ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

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went to vote. got told i can’t vote because i’m not registered. handed a form to fill out that i later learn is not in english.

go home and find out the problem is widespread among young voters like me.

fuck this country.

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Canada: Conservatives flip Liberal seat following judicial recount by just 12 votes ⌘ Read more

EU Council to discuss removal of Hungary’s voting rights in the European Union on May 27 ⌘ Read more

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@eapl.me@eapl.me I honestly believe you are overreacting here a little bit 🤣 I completely emphasize with you, it can be pretty tough to feel part of a community at times and run a project with a kind of “democracy” or “vote by committee”. But one thing that life has taught me about open source projects and especially decentralised ecosystems is that this doesn’t really work.

It isn’t that I’ve not considered all the other options on the table (which can still be), it’s just that I’ve made a decision as the project lead that largely helped trigger a rebirth of the use of Twtxt back in July 1 2020. There are good reasons not to change the threading model right now, as the changes being proposed are quite disruptive and don’t consider all the possible things that could go wrong.

Open Source PaaS Cozystack Becomes a CNCF Sandbox Project
On February 28, members of the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee completed their voting and unanimously accepted Cozystack, a platform for building private clouds and PaaS, into the CNCF Sandbox. The project is currently undergoing the onboarding… ⌘ Read more

This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

#poll:xyz123 Vote: None

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as “client” features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  
• RSVP – a way to “rsvp” to a virtual (pr physical) event.
  

Both would use “plain text” on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

Open Source Initiative Hides Election Details, Others Fear “Political Retribution”
Last month, the Open Source Initiative held an election where the votes were tampered with in order to exclude “reform” candidates”. ⌘ Read more

Am I the only one that’s confused by the discussions, and then the voting we had on the whole threading model? 🤔 I’m not even sure what I voted for, but I know it wasn’t the one that won haha 🤣 (which I’m still very much against for based on an intuition, experience and lots of code writing lately).

I do think integrating things like Salty.im might actually be a good idea. I can also see a future where we integrate other things like todo.txt and calendar.txt. I’d even love to see decentralised forms of “plain text” voting too.

German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph
Article URL: https://abstimmung.eu/git/2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43466509

Points: 502

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@eapl.me@eapl.me Thank you for this!

I cast a test vote. Did it work? :-)

Apple Shareholders Vote to Continue Illegal DEI Practices
“Apple may need to make DEl changes in the future as the legal landscape evolves,” says Apple CEO Tim Cook. ⌘ Read more

Kubescape becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Kubescape as a CNCF incubating project.  Kubescape is an open-source Kubernetes security project designed to offer comprehensive security coverage throughout the entire development and deployment lifecycle…. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net The outcome was to be expected but it’s still pretty catastrophic. Here’s an overview:

East Germany is dominated by AfD. Bavaria is dominated by CSU (it’s always been that way, but this is still a conservative/right party). Black is CDU, the other conservative/right party.

The guy who’s probably going to be chancellor recently insulted the millions of people who did demonstrations for peace/anti-right. “Idiots”, “they’re nuts”, stuff like that. This was before the election. He already earned the nickname “Mini Trump”.

Both the right and the left got more votes this time, but the left only gained 3.87 percentage points while the right (CDU/CSU + AfD) gained 14.72:

The Green party lost, SPD (“mid-left”) lost massively (worst result in their history). FDP also lost. These three were the previous government.

This isn’t looking good at all, especially when you think about what’s going to happen in the next 4 years. What will CDU (the winner) do? Will they be able to “turn the ship around”? Highly unlikely. They are responsible for the current situation (in large parts). They will continue to do business as usual. They will do anything but help poor/ordinary people. This means that AfD will only get stronger over the next 4 years.

Our only hope would be to ban AfD altogether. So far, nobody but non-profit organizations is willing to do that (for unknown reasons).

I don’t even know if banning the AfD would help (but it’s probably our best/only option). AfD politicians are nothing but spiteful, hateful, angry, similar to Trump/MAGA. If you’ve seen these people talk and still vote for them, then you must be absolutely filled with rage and hatred. Very concerning.

Correct me if I’m wrong, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, @arne@uplegger.eu, @johanbove@johanbove.info.

Is Arch Linux Woke? Looks like it: Forum Censors Mentions of “Lunduke”, Discord Goes on Lockdown
Following Arch Linux Discord voting to ban “links to X / Twitter” & death threats towards a journalist, all official Arch Linux channels begin mass censorship campaign. ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux Discord Voting to Ban Links to X / Twitter (Because “Nazis”)
Following Debian’s lead, the Arch community is preparing to take a stand against Elon Musk, Conservatives, & X. And they’re banning anyone who disagrees. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election Results

ack-j and kowalabearhugs will serve 2-year terms. rottenwheel, Tacolopo, and XMRfamily will serve 1-year terms. Their terms will begin on January 31, 2025. We would like to thank all six committee candidates! We would like to thank everyone who voted!

Committee Members:
* ack-j
* kowalabearhugs
* rottenwheel
* Tacolopo
* XMRfamily

Link: [https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025-Election-Results.html](https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025 … ⌘ Read more

Apple Begs Shareholders to Let Them Continue Illegal DEl Policies
On February 25th, Apple Shareholders will vote on ending the company’s illegal DEl policies. ⌘ Read more

RustCoder: AI-assisted Rust learning
Member post originally published on Second State’s blog by CNCF Ambassadors Vivian Hu, Product Manager at Second State, and Miley Fu, DevRel at Second State Rust has been voted the most beloved programming language by StackOverflow… ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Brave Wallet poll: ‘Should Monero be integrated?’ - Go vote!
Link: https://farside.link/nitter/lukemulks/status/1870239086231044598

u/Unimamo (Reddit) ⌘ Read more

[ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election

5 December 2024: Committee and voter nominations open
31 December 2024: Committee and voter nominations close
6 January 2024: Voting opens
20 January 2024: Voting closes
~23 January 2024: Election results announced
31 January 2024: Newly elected members join the committee

Link: https://magicgrants.org/2024/12/05/Monero-Fund-2025-Election.html

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Ignite Realtime Blog: Florian, Dan and Dave Elected in the XSF!
In an annual vote, not one, not two, but three Ignite Realtime community members have been selected into leadership positions of the XMPP Standards Foundation!

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The XMPP Standards Foundation is an independent, nonprofit standards development organisation whose [primary mission is to define open protocols](https://xmpp.org … ⌘ Read more

CNCF welcomes wasmCloud to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept wasmCloud as a CNCF incubating project.  wasmCloud, an open source project from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), enables teams to build and run polyglot applications… ⌘ Read more

Will Voting Machines Get Hacked? Almost Certainly.
Huge number of targets, high value, & many exploits makes voting related hacking a certainty. ⌘ Read more

@quark@ferengi.one Yeah i’m in deep red here. the governor race is getting split between a red and a maga that is running a write in.. but even if they split the vote 50-50% they will still be greater than what the blue will get.

@xuu@txt.sour.is done, and done, and done. The three of us dropped our mail-in ballots, and received confirmation they are counted. Living in a red state (well, kid said it is more like purple now) makes me sad, and mad, but I have done what I can—and that includes explaining things to others, and encouraging them to vote.

Unfortunately the US media has been making it a nail biter on purpose when in reality it is not. Get out and vote in numbers that cannot be denied. And then get everyone else around you to vote also.

Maybe one day enough states will make it into the NaPo InterCo to finally put the EC to rest.

Flatcar brings Container Linux to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Flatcar as a CNCF incubating project.  Flatcar is a zero-touch, minimal operating system (OS) for containerized workloads, addressing the challenges of managing and securing a production… ⌘ Read more

Monero Website Workgroup meeting scheduled for 27 October 2024 1900 UTC
The next Monero Website Workgroup 1 meeting is scheduled2 to take place on Sunday, October 27th 2024 at 19:00 UTC in the #monero-site 3 channels.

• Greetings
  
• Final vote on new website design4 (Candidates are rehar, hammerman & keep old design but add darkmode)
  
• Any other business
  
• Confirm next meeting agenda
  

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Mon … ⌘ Read more

Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Artifact Hub as a CNCF incubating project.  Artifact Hub is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cloud native packages and configurations. Discovering useful cloud native… ⌘ Read more

Artifact Hub becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Artifact Hub as a CNCF incubating project.  Artifact Hub is a web-based application that enables finding, installing, and publishing cloud native packages and configurations. Discovering useful cloud native… ⌘ Read more

Status 2024-06-08
Evening, hackers! I feel a column coming on!

TL;DR: In which we learn about the EU parliament election, some
ruminations about the death of XMPP, MC’s flat being without drains
for two months, a visit at the Lund Linux Conference, another at the
Security Fest conference, fighting against a Supermicro server, and
some other recent shenanigans,

I voted today. Yes, I know. The EU is still a strange marvel of
functional bureaucracy and not the federated worker’s Union of Europe
we all would lik … ⌘ Read more

Ocean Loop
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