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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @jzb@hachyderm.io
re: Rant about people ranting about Wayland
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@jzb One good thing about all this, of course, is that all the people who have long sworn that X is the worst thing to have ever happened have now gone quiet, or even changed their views... It's almost 23 years ago exactly that I wrote this little piece...

https://lwn.net/Articles/26608/
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @carlrichell@fosstodon.org
@carlrichell The record for earliest 90°F day here in Boulder is late May. They are saying it could happen tomorrow. In March. I'm surprised you found any snow at all...looks like fun, anyway!
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According to the O'Reilly Radar blog, "code review is an expensive way to do something that may not be all that useful in the long run". We just have to get the specifications right in our vibe-coded future.

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/beyond-code-review/
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @kees@hachyderm.io
@kees Gee, sounds like being the docs maintainer :)
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @mhoye@cosocial.ca
@mhoye @azonenberg That part is true. I would never ban an address just for a 404 (though we do track such things in other ways). But if somebody is going for, say, /wp-anything, that's not a typo, that is seeing if a random doorknob is unlocked. Not the sort of reader we are writing for.
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I've been in Boulder for a long time; I don't think I've ever seen this sort of mass closure of our open spaces. What a "winter" this is.

Be careful out there...

https://bouldercounty.gov/news/all-trails-closed-west-of-highway-36/
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @archiloque@felin.social
@archiloque Just how primitive do you think we are? :)
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Jonathan Corbet

So somebody is really convinced that there is an SQL-injection vulnerability lurking in the LWN login form, and they have been employing a small botnet in a determined effort to find it. I'm not hugely worried about the attack, but I still find this kind of thing annoying.
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Carl Richell

Today, I met with Colorado Senator Matt Ball, co-author of Colorado OS Age Attestation Bill SB26-051.

Sen. Ball suggested excluding open source software from the bill. This appears to be a real possibility.

Amendments are expected for the CA age attestation bill. It's my hope we can move fast enough to influence excluding open source in the CA bill amendments.

No illusions, it's an uphill battle, but we have an open door to advocate for the open source community.

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Reply to @carlrichell@fosstodon.org
@carlrichell Nice work! I've been bugging my own reps, but haven't even gotten a response from them so far.
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Reply to @arnd@society.oftrolls.com
@arnd Mmm that's almost enough to inspire me to hop on a plane and fly over an ocean.

Almost.
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Jonathan Corbet

RIP Country Joe McDonald.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/09/country-joe-mcdonald-woodstock-star-and-anti-war-singer-dies-aged-84

GIMME AN "F"!
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The second fire in a week — in what is supposed to be our wettest season.

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/04/boulder-wildfire-crews-responding-to-vegetation-fire-at-heil-valley-ranch/

They seem to have a handle on it, but unless something changes this is going to be a long and brutal summer.
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The Penguin of Evil

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116145194552591221

US government finally acts to pop AI bubble 🤣

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Dan Simmons is gone.

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/

There are people saying that he was not an entirely pleasant person. I know nothing about that. I do know that I found the Hyperion series to be mind-blowing; I wish I could write like that. May he rest in peace.
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @not2b@sfba.social
@not2b @osi I certainly did not (intentionally) disable quoting, I suspect something else is going on?
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I just stumbled across the "Open Source Endowment":

https://endowment.dev/

Seems like a good cause, but the page to nominate a project for funding requires a GitHub URL to identify that project. There are, I guess, no open-source projects outside of GitHub?
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"This winter wasn’t just a bit warm or slightly unusual. It was a complete failure of the cold‑season that the West depends on, and the consequences will extend far beyond a lack of snow along Colorado’s Continental Divide. When winter fails this profoundly, the disruption radiates outward through every system that relies on the steady rhythm of cold, snow, and gradual melt. Water managers lose the natural reservoir that mountain snowpack is supposed to provide, leaving cities, farms, and entire states in the Colorado River Basin facing increasingly uncomfortable decisions about how to stretch a shrinking supply. Reservoirs that should be quietly refilling through winter will instead stumble into this spring underfilled, offering far less protection against the triple punch of summer heat, irrigation demand, and wildfire suppression. Millions of Americans who depend on the Colorado River will feel the consequences of this winter long after our snow-starved peaks fade from the headlines."

https://bouldercast.com/a-complete-failure-of-winter-across-the-west-and-what-it-means-for-the-rest-of-2026/

*sigh*
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Jonathan Corbet

Reply to @quad@akko.quad.moe
@quad @lanodan Ah that's something I hadn't thought about. One VPS can easily host a big set of IPv6 addresses, appearing to come from a lot of different sources. *That* seems like a relatively easy thing to detect. Hmm...
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@akosiaris @quad @lanodan Ah I hadn't seen that report, thanks for sharing that! I've been developing an understanding of that economy for a while, but this fills in a lot of blanks.
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