set up a filter that mutes the words "FSF", "GNU", "RMS", "Stallman", etc. and you'll be better off for it

* this advice is both free as in beer and speech

Just shut down my final Python 3.5 #Toolforge webservice (that I had entirely forgotten about), RIP.

https://extreg-wos.toolforge.org/ is now served as a static HTML dump

For those in #NYC who haven't voted yet, my friend @brainwane's guide to all the judicial candidates was invaluable and I highly recommend it: https://harihareswara.net/posts/2026/2026-nyc-general-election-judicial-candidates/

I voted Yes on Props 1-4 and No on 5 (I expect it to pass), happy to explain if useful

Marathon Day is one of my favorite holidays in NYC, we're still on the post-Halloween sugar high, an extra hour of sleep, an election(!!), open streets, and people doing something that's incredibly difficult and everyone cheering them on.

So yes, I waited an extra week to vote just to pick up the special sticker. 🗳️

#IVoted

RE: https://wikis.world/@legoktm/117479693718911167

In less shitpost-y form: https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/10/24/dont-let-a-security-emergency-go-to-waste.html

the botstreakpocolypse happened: 33 bots broke their daily editing streak, which is the single-biggest drop since the report started: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Database_reports/Longest_active_user_editing_streaks&diff=prev&oldid=1381721924

only 10 bots are left on the report (including one new addition!)

no human broke their streak this week, which I'm sure says something

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox/117477662329315148

Fyi, if your non-technical parents, family and friends have been putting off all the security advice you give them, today's the day to get them to do it. You can pretty much get away with anything. Don't waste this opportunity.

big opportunity for humans today, there's a possibility that many Wikipedia bots take a *full* day off, breaking some decade-long daily editing streaks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_reports/Longest_active_user_editing_streaks

(note: said report is, of course, updated by a bot and won't be updated until Toolforge is back)

*taps the sign*

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:User_Rust

New blog post: Provisional relief in college athletics

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/10/01/provisional-relief-in-college-athletics.html

I'm quite proud of what I wrote for an extra credit assignment for my civil procedure class AND it's incredibly timely because Congress appears set to reverse federal courts and roll back one of the biggest labor victories of the decade.

Also sports are a great mechanism to learn and remember legal topics.

* The sidebar is gone now and I don't know what I did to cause that. (yay)
* Closing the window doesn't prompt you to save unsaved changes(!!) and when you re-open it, there's no recovery option

* Documents open in view-only mode; presumably there's a setting to default to edit-only?
* There's a sidebar on the right side that takes up too much room when I shrink the window and I can't find an obvious close button
* when I start a new document, ctrl+s just saves it as "~/Documents/Untitled.odt" and doesn't prompt me for a filename / location

Going to try to spend a week using Collabora Office (instead of LibreOffice); we'll see how it goes

I will be speaking (remotely) at #QubesOS Summit 2026! "Making Qubes and #SecureDrop better, together"

https://pretalx.com/qubes-os-summit-2026/talk/JMDRXT/

The talk is scheduled for 11:20am CET / 6:20am EST on Oct. 30, 2026; it should be recorded and likely livestreamed too.

just disappointing; the streets are one of the few places the mayor has full control and yet somehow we're regressing from what Adams managed to get done

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/09/16/whole-lot-of-nothing-mamdanis-vision-zero-plan-dilutes-adams-era-daylighting

if we're discussing "Rule 15(c)(1)(C)(ii)" it means you've nested your rules far too much and need to split into extra rules

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupski_v._Costa_Crociere_S.p.A.

a much more eloquent and thought out analysis of the glaring flaws with Iqbal: https://pennstatelawreview.org/articles/114/114%20Penn%20St.%20L.%20Rev.%201443.pdf

coincidentally we studied https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Iqbal in class today; incredibly upsetting at how bad the decision is on the merits (what's more plausible: there are hundreds of secret terrorists in NYC or the government is being racist), and in the law that it created

how about we stop boosting and promoting the person who calls mentally ill people "circus freaks"

New blog post: Proposal for a dedicated archive site for #Wikipedia

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/08/28/proposal-for-a-dedicated-archive-site-for-wikipedia.html

In February when English Wikipedia banned usage of archive.today there was a bit of a crisis in needing to find alternative archives.

As far as I know, no solution has actually materialized, so I thought I'd at least write down my idea.

In short, I think the social and legal parts of this are far harder to get right; in comparison the technology seems pretty straightforward.