"A criminal court found my rapist guilty — U of T still hasn’t"
An anonymous article from one of the student papers at the University of Toronto.
https://thevarsity.ca/2026/10/11/a-criminal-court-found-my-rapist-guilty-u-of-t-still…
"Refugio" - Un juego de mesa en el que debemos cooperar para sobrevivir como persones migrantes y refugiadas.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/fronteras/refugio-un-juego-mesa-empatizar-tragedia-migraciones-forzosas-europa
How mature is this repository? My long quest for open-source software metrics
When I discover an open-source software project for the first time, how can I estimate whether it is mature, healthy and usable?
I just released OSSTRL - Open Source Software Technology Readiness Level to help me calculating the maturity of open-source projects.
#opensource
Die #Tomaten liefern gerade alle Reifestufen gleichzeitig. 🍅 Von Grün über Orange bis Rot ist alles dabei. Ich hatte mehrere Jahre keine #Harzfeuer mehr. Dieses Jahr sind sie mit dabei.
Wer auch mit einem #Balkongarten
I don’t know who needs to hear this but you don’t have to be a saint to oppose injustice.
You can be a regular, everyday person – flaws and all – and still oppose genocide.
It’s amazing to me that a rapist, war criminal paedophile is president of the US and we’re ruled by psychopaths and sociopaths and yet anyone who opposes fascism has to have never made a mistake their entire lives or it’s a gotcha moment.
You can fuck right off with that bullshit.
SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…
Keeping dependencies up to date shouldn't be a chore. Today we're launching PatchBot on OpenCommit! 🤖
Built on Renovate, PatchBot runs version discovery across your on-boarded repositories, watching dependency files (go.mod, package.json, Dockerfile & more) and opening update PRs automatically.
Enable it in two steps:
- Add the patchbot topic to your repo.
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Meet the QGIS Hub — sharing is caring!
Everyone knows the QGIS Plugin Repo but have you had a look at the QGIS Hub yet? It's similar to the plugin repository in that it allows sharing of resources between community members, but it so many different types of resources, that warrants multiple blog posts: from styles and projects all the way to processing scripts. Today, I want to have a look at the (a little cryptic) …
Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”