#Vote! Like the perv you are. 🗳️

#USPol #Elections #Midterms

I’m proud of Fairfax County’s language support. We support 4 languages fully (meaning that every single bit of printed material is printed in these languages):

1. English
2. Spanish
3. Korean
4. Vietnamese

This election we have sample ballots in 7 more languages. This is the only support we have for these languages. It has all the words in the language, but they will have to make marks on a ballot that doesn’t have those languages. They can take this book to the booth with them to refer to it.

• AMHARIC
• ARABICالعربية
• DARIدرى
• FARSIفارسى
• MANDARIN中文

• NEPALI

• URDU

#electionofficer #election2026
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FBI New Haven, #Connecticut field office posted for several hours to its tens of thousands of followers that #Election Day was Wednesday and not today, Tuesday November 3rd, 2026. #USPOl It finally deleted it after being up for 14 hours some point on #ElectionDay morning.
#Vote
(I usually oppose X screenshots but this is worthwhile.)

Minnesotans are leaving "I Voted" stickers on the memorials to Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfSkE7NvMCw/

#Minnesota #midterms #ICE #FuckICE #ICEout

Gotta love how the top 10 list is now ALL io_uring:

https://benchmarks.arjaythedev.com/12-dollar-server

also a new video as well. My son told me about it :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbsynnWC6BA

This is what the tube looks like now.
I got lazy and ordered a tripod mount for it, once that's here I can take the first stary images!

As the Trump administration ramped up deportations over the last year, federal agents have effectively turned their cars into massive, deadly blunt objects. https://theintercept.com/2026/11/02/ice-vehicles-cars-hit-weapon/

unfortunately due to the new visa rules that were announced yesterday, I'll have to find other opportunities outside the UK.
If anyone has any opportunities in game dev especially graphics programming and low level engine programming that are outside the UK, please let me know.

If you’ve already voted, make sure three friends have plans to get the the polls. If you haven’t, be a friend to yourself. #govote #taxtherich #vote #gotv #yeson40

Multiple alarms set for 4:00am. Can’t risk oversleeping. I’m a chief election officer in a precinct in Fairfax County, Virginia tomorrow. I’ll live post with the #electionofficer hashtag if you want to follow along (or mute). Polls open at 6:00am Eastern. So I’m not likely to post much until after that. Opening is busy and requires my full attention. And if there are lots of voters, well, they come first. You lot will just have to wait.

And if you are eligible to #vote tomorrow, I hope you will. It’s important. And it only seems to get more important.

"Goodyear and Gordon say that mass motoring represents one of the biggest public health crises that the world has ever seen... Environmental scientists contend that tire dust and tire fragments are one of the largest sources of plastic particle pollutants in ocean water. Vehicle brake wear contributes high levels of magnetite to the environment that has been linked to the development of Alzheimer’s, a leading cause of death among the elderly."

https://www.styleweekly.com/unsafe-at-any-speed/

Too many damned deranged psychopaths driving around this world.

In America this guy could just pay off lawyers to save him from consequences selling it to the jury as another terrible accident where a cyclist dangerously ran into a vehicle while the traumatized driver is shocked to learn that bikes are permitted to use roads and not exclusively safe cycle lanes.
https://road.cc/news/killer-driver-handed-lifetime-driving-ban-and-minimum-jail-term-of-25-years-for-murdering-cyclist-after-dragging-him-under-car-for-almost-five-minutes

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I have a soft spot for #SUSE. It was the first Linux company I ever worked at and it was a lot of fun. @cyphar and I met there as well and now we're founding members of @amutable . It's sad that this pointless churn in the name of profit maximizing keeps happening to a great company. So so many good kernel people that work over there that carry a lot of weight upstream.

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950

RE: https://social.sciences.re/@tito/117538793533909416

NSF requested 500 million dollars, total, for math AND physics, next year:
https://nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-2027-NSF-Budget-Request-to-Congress.pdf#nsf-summary-table

Simply funding basic research is an absolute bargain compared to LLMs brute forcing results for press releases

So apparently #Microsoft #GitHub is now shadowbanning #Gentoo from GitHub Actions used to build #RustLang crate dists. I guess it's time to move this to our own infrastructure… except that I suspect GitHub will then ban us for fetching from many repositories.

I mean, doing a "git fetch --tags" once a day is obviously so much "wasted compute". Unlike all the "AI" crap they're pulling off.

Vote like it matters.

If it didn't matter, they wouldn't work so hard to keep you from doing it.

@xjamesmorris ya, there's just a ton going on here.

I wouldn't jump too fast to the vendor knowing there's a bug here and having purposefully stopped development, these RISC-V systems are basically just toys right now and very little work goes into getting things running past the point where the vendor can throw together a demo. The most likely option is always that this is just some software bug, but the probability of finding hardware surprises on RISC-V systems is an order of magnitude higher than it is on other systems.

@xjamesmorris with some work it should be viable to use the CPU affinity stuff to handle these heterogenous cores, it's just another chunk of work. Other ISAs have been here before and generally people don't care enough to put the work in, but part of that is that the HW vendors just stop building these sorts of systems pretty quickly when they realize software doesn't handle this sort of thing.

@palmer looks good, ship it ;-)