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Jonathan Corbet

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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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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Jonathan Corbet

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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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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Jonathan Corbet

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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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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Jonathan Corbet

One of those little details that, probably, only I care about ... a year ago, when dealing with AI scraper problems, I observed that almost all of the traffic came from IPv4 addresses — millions of them. Use of IPv6 was a pretty strong indication that there was a human involved.

Now, when we get a heavy attack wave, it is strongly dominated by IPv6 addresses; the bots seem to actively prefer IPv6.

I wonder if it's because IPv6 addresses are more likely to remain unique through NAT boxes, giving these sleazy people yet more IP addresses to bring down web sites with?
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Jonathan Corbet

I was just informed that today is an important holiday; is it too early to start celebrating?

https://nationaltoday.com/national-drink-wine-day/
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Reply to @jzb@hachyderm.io
@jzb Something like that...we're under red-flag warnings yet again. The snow, alas, seems mostly limited to the western slope...it will be welcome there, but we could sure use some of it here too.
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Jonathan Corbet

Ah...winter in Colorado...
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Jonathan Corbet

There is a phase of life where Valentine's Day brings images of flowers, fancy dinners, and romance.

There is another, later phase where one is informed that the best way to demonstrate the depth of one's affection would be to finally get around to re-caulking the shower.
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