Iraq’s Prime Minister Leads in Elections but May Struggle to Form a Government
Mohammed al-Sudani pitches himself as someone who can keep Iranian influence in check, but his vote share may not be big enough to ensure a clear political victory. ⌘ Read more
KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept KServe as a CNCF incubating project. KServe joins a growing ecosystem of technologies tackling real-world challenges at the edge of cloud native infrastructure. What is KServe?… ⌘ Read more
OpenFGA Becomes a CNCF Incubating Project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenFGA as a CNCF incubating project. What is OpenFGA? OpenFGA is an authorization engine that addresses the challenge of implementing complex access control at scale in… ⌘ Read more
Lima becomes a CNCF incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Lima as a CNCF incubating project. Lima enables secure, isolated environments for running cloud native and AI workloads. What is Lima? Where Does It Fit in… ⌘ Read more
Australia news LIVE: Fifty years since The Dismissal, Keating, Gunston, Howard reflect; Creditors vote to support Rex Airlines takeover
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Tesla says shareholders approve Musk’s $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Lora Kolodny, Reporter - CNBC
_Stephan: When I tell you that the United States has become a neo-medieval culture with a wealth inequity never before seen at anywhere near this level. You’re have trouble with your healthcare costs? Your child is one of the 20% of children with food scarcity issues? You have an elderly loved one who can’t get the ca … ⌘ Read more
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Voting behavior in elections strongly linked to future risk of death
Voting behavior in elections is strongly linked to the future risk of death, and is likely a stronger determinant of health than education—considered a key influence on health—suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health. ⌘ Read more
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
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
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
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. 🥴
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Oh man, if the EU actually rolled out this horribd idea called ChatControl that actually threatens the security and privacy of secure e2e encrypted messaging like Signal™, fuck me, I'm out 🤦♂️ I'll just rage quit the IT industry and become a luddite. I'm out.
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@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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Finally I propose that we increase the Twt Hash length from
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7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
@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
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💡 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
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yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:
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
💡 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
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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
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* 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
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[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!
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