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Last week, I published a report - the "Political Disconnect" - based on interviews with 144 low-income & working-class people, across racial groups, who don't usually vote. They are the experts on why, and today I want to share their words. Almost all of the people we spoke with see politics as something by, for, and about rich people (and often also white people & men). That makes for a vicious cycle - they stay home, so politicians don't try to reach them, so they don't see why they should vote.

Politicians, people who work in politics, and other people who like to talk about electoral politics all day (hi all!) are in fact overwhelmingly college-educated & high-income, and disproportionately white; they're often not connecting with low-income & working-class people.

The people we spoke with were not ignorant, and they weren't apathetic. For lots of very good reasons, many poor & working-class people we interviewed don't believe politicians understand or care about their concerns or their communities, or that they are interested in learning.

Note - many opinion polls and most campaign polls exclude people who are not registered or unlikely to vote, and in general nonvoters are less likely to respond to most polls & surveys, so in a very real sense people who aren't voting have their views discounted/ignored. And they also didn't believe that politicians or electoral politics were likely to make real changes in their lives; many told us they did not important differences between the parties. (That's not how I see it; but this is about what our respondents said.) And so, for a lot of low-income and working-class people we spoke with, voting seemed pointless at best. Very few of them told us that voting would be difficult or that they didn't have the time; they just didn't think it was meaningful.

It doesn't have to be this way - many of the low-income and working-class people we spoke with also told us they could be mobilized to vote, if they felt like politicians cared, if they felt listened to, if they were invited in. That will take work - but it's possible. We have recommendations for people with decision-making power - funders, campaign & PAC & party staff, politicians, civic groups.

Democracy needs everyone - especially right now - and that requires connecting with those who have given up on it.

My old friend, a Raspberry Pi A+, has been running my home heating system for months, just like it did back in 2014.

It has not missed a single moment.
It has sailed through every so called cloud outage.
It kept working flawlessly even when the Internet connection was down, because it simply does not need it.

This is the kind of technology I love.
Of course, it runs NetBSD!

rpicaldaia# uptime
6:23PM up 78 days, 20:16, 4 users, load averages: 0.33, 0.17, 0.13
rpicaldaia# uname -a
NetBSD rpicaldaia 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (RPI) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/RPI evbarm

#NetBSD #RunBSD #OwnYourData

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil

CF

By the way, if you go to https://github.com/claude and "block this user", every Github repo you visit containing code credited to Claude will actually have a warning sigil

CF

One of the several times I was asked to do a talk about why I'm an #opensource enthusiast with a particular fondness for #OpenBSD, I wrote "Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html in 2021.

Things have happened since, of course, but those things are still developments I remember fondly.

And I should mention that "The Book of PF, 4th edition" https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4e is no longer "coming soon" as the article states, it is shipping. @nostarchNo Starch Press

It’s his mission to hire more - and that’s one of the reasons he's here to speak to us.
Welcome Daniele Procida at PyCon Namibia 2026

How do you use hashtags on Fedi (if at all)?
(Please boost for reach. I'm intentionally not using hashtags in this post because that would obviously bias the sample horribly.)

New post on but she's a girl: A new backup strategy using restic.

https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/a-new-backup-strategy-using-restic/

#linux #nixos #restic

like I said here:

Imagine if we reached out to these very same people and showed them the generosity they actually deserve.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jeff-atwood-1bab6b354_last-week-i-published-a-report-the-political-activity-7427523384563130368-6asJ

❝ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.❞

Read that. Reread that. Internalize it. Map that back to every story you’ve heard of ICE agents going off the rails, every random kidnapping, every brutal and stupid ICE story.

❝“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.”❞

🧵

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

thank you nordic semiconductor for putting a summarize button on your website, i am saved from the burden of reading the document and instead can read the document

What people don't understand is it never used to be this bad. Even the tunnels under the Internet used to be well-kept by their inhabitants. Radscorpions were trained by diligent owners and didn't need leashes. There was a sense of community.

AOC provides thoughtful answers to user questions on Bluesky!
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3mfhmlwphek22
#UsPol
1/n

AOC provides thoughtful answers to user questions on Bluesky!
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3mfhmlwphek22
#UsPol
1/n

Neighbor's kitty says hi

We've added #CampaignFinance data for #SanBernardino County, going back to 2007:

https://sanbernardino-county.ca.civic.band/

#OpenData

UCSC CS student Ivan Kuria created a map of five years of Santa Cruz parking citation data after noticing that the data was accessible: https://lookout.co/mapping-218000-santa-cruz-parking-citations-ucsc-student-tracked-citys-parking-tickets-in-real-time/story

> “I just decided to increment my own ticket number just by one to see if I could find someone else’s ticket number,” he said. “I was instantly able to find someone else’s ticket. Then it was just a matter of doing that long enough to see how many tickets were issued by each hardware device.”

#SilentSunday

Good meowning #CatsOfMastodon

The Guardian: ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice

#tourism #fascism #ice #USpol

Geek tip from the Tuta Team: How NOT to see AI images.

Use this HUGE AI BLOCKLIST for uBlock Origin: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Enjoy your Sunday 🎉

One of the several times I was asked to do a talk about why I'm an #opensource enthusiast with a particular fondness for #OpenBSD, I wrote "Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html in 2021.

Things have happened since, of course, but those things are still developments I remember fondly.

The LLM is like a little box of computer horrors that we peer into from time to time.

I'm sorry but the whole interface is just so silly.

You ask for random numbers with sentences and it pretends to give them to you? What are we doooooing?

초밥먹고싶다아

The dislike for slop machines runs deep among you good people of the Fediverse.

One more reason why I love this place!
--
#StopTheSlop

@Em0nM4stodonEm

It is all about surveillance. Protecting children from serious harm on the Internet involves stopped malicious adults accessing child services, not stopping children accessing adult services.

@ludicityLudic 🧛 For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.

Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.

After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.

It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.

This article, which I found in @zackwhittaker’s most excellent newsletter that you should absolutely subscribe to, is extremely interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-19/vpn-used-by-us-government-failed-to-stop-china-state-sponsored-hackers

It’s behind a paywall and I totally do NOT recommend you use a website like removepaywall.com (using option 3) to view it without having to pay. That would be just unethical. Don’t do that.

The dislike for slop machines runs deep among you good people of the Fediverse.

One more reason why I love this place!
--
#StopTheSlop

Intent - The developer workspace for agent orchestration https://lobste.rs/s/czwaca #ai
https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent

#画像フォルダにある謎の画像を晒す

https://www.popsci.com/technology/robot-vacuum-army/

fucking spectacular

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#커미션_복잡추가금_무조건붙는_캐자랑해주세요 얘네 둘이 혐관 페어라서 같이 넣어야하는데 그럼 추가금이 두배두배두

초! 카구야 공주 극장판
1주일 한정 상영
새벽 2시인데 극장에 사람 엄청 많고
지금 들어온 시어터는 200명 넘는 자리인데 만석이네...

The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.

What would you like?

The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.

The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.

Three screenshots:

1. an overview of <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=day> before removal of the TrueNAS button

2. the entire sidebar as represented at <https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/>

3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.

Thanks.

#FreeBSD #BSD #Unix #Linux

First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy #Biometrics #DataMinimization #AgeVerification

@ludicityLudic 🧛 For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.

Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.

After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.

It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.

#SilentSunday

"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.

In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."

✊

https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/

#community #environment #AI #GenAI #DataCenters #technology #racism #EnvironmentalRacism

Y'know what? As an #opensource #advocate and #tech enthusiast, it's genuinely awesome to see increased mainstream coverage of #Linux and #FreeBSD. Unfortunately, a lot of these articles are riddled with mistakes, misinformation, clickbait, and overall low quality. A few minutes ago, while catching up on tech news I came across one #ZDNet author's frequent posts on Linux and FreeBSD.

To emphasize my point, I am only going to focus on one article titled, "After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems."

The following passages stuck out like sore thumb:

1.) "FreeBSD is more challenging than Linux."

-But is it really? Subjective, particularly if coming from a GUI-driven Linux distribution. Frankly I find FreeBSD easier because of the excellent documentation and coherent design.

2.) "FreeBSD is Unix-like" but further down he states, "Essentially, FreeBSD is Unix, where Linux is based on Unix."

-Contradictory, incorrect, and confusing for newcomers. FreeBSD is Unix. Linux (neither the kernel nor OS) is based on Unix.

3.) "Think of FreeBSD as a more challenging version of Linux. This operating system doesn't hold your hand, so you might learn a thing or two as you install it and the software you require. Even for a seasoned Linux veteran like me, FreeBSD can often be a head-scratcher."

-Challenging because it's *different than Linux*? FreeBSD doesn't hold your hand? What about #Debian, #Gentoo, #Arch, heck even #RHEL? Since the author didn't mention it, I'm going to assume he did not check the FreeBSD Handbook and his "seasoned Linux" experience has been using a Linux desktop for a couple years. Also, head-scratcher?! Being an experienced Debian user, I'd be scratching my head too if I just decided to use Gentoo on a whim. The trauma of hand-configuring the xorg.conf file was real.

Finally, contrary to the article's title, the author ended up not switching to FreeBSD.

-Clickbait.

I am all for more people exploring FreeBSD and Linux. They are great OSes but it is critical the information being reported is both accurate and consistent. For reference the article is linked below.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/freebsd-linux-review/

felt bored and was curious how long it would take me to implement fizzbuzz in shell. Apparently ~2min. 😆

$ i=0; while [ $((++i)) -le 30 ] ; do case 0 in $((i%15)) ) echo fizzbuzz;; $((i%3)) ) echo fizz;; $((i%5)) ) echo buzz ;; *) echo $i ; esac ; done

@serfdeweb People need to contact their representatives and complain loudly about it.

These legislations need to be repealed and prevented.

The political class needs to hear that citizens reject surveillance firmly, and the focus should be instead on creating platforms that are less addictive, more privacy-respectful, and safer for everyone, including adults.

The time to fight is now.

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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870