Kunal Mehta  

xkcd, uspol 

xkcd.com/2378/

This is scarily accurate, except for the part about wanting it to last forever. Can confirm that all my anxieties have merged at this point.

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The Tor Project  

Use a mask, use Tor. And now, use your Tor mask! Make a gift of $50 before Dec. 31 and get your very own 😷
torproject.org/donate/donate-u

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Software Freedom Conservancy  

You probably heard @RIAA used to get @microsoft's @GitHub to remove youtube-dl, but did you know Microsoft funds RIAA as a member? We call on Microsoft (& any organizations who purports to support ) to resign from RIAA in protest.
sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/oc

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Kunal Mehta  

Yes, yes I would.

(thanks to @xor for making these)

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Kunal Mehta  

@brion aha github.com/flatpak/flatpak/iss :(

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Kunal Mehta  

@brion In my experience running `flatpak remove --unused` is usually good enough

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Kunal Mehta  

voting, mail-in, in-person 

@Greg in the instructions there is a provision for how to correct mistakes with a strikethrough - did you consider that? I did it for one race I made a mistake in too.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Youtube-dl is a legitimate tool with a world of a lawful uses. Demanding its removal from Github is a disappointing and counterproductive move by the RIAA. github.com/github/dmca/blob/ma

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Sumana Harihareswara  

For most of this year, @zwol and I have been working on a pretty ambitious project:
* to make a fresh release of GNU Autoconf, a crucial #FLOSS build tool that hadn't had a new release since 2012
* to get paid for that
* to help put Autoconf on a more sustainable footing so it doesn't have to get rescued again a little while down the road

Autoconf 2.70 is due out next month, and you can read my fresh LWN story about the rejuvenation & what's next:

lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834682/

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Kunal Mehta  

My college newspaper, the Spartan Daily, is a Pacemaker finalist ("the Pulitzer prize of college journalism")!

I wrote about what I think it took for us to get there: blog.legoktm.com/2020/10/22/in

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Kunal Mehta  

Very excited that is making a 10k USD donation to fund further PeerTube development!

"We hope this unconventional gesture from the Debian project will help us make this year somewhat less terrible and give us, and thus humanity, better Free Software tooling to approach the future."

bits.debian.org/2020/10/debian

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Kunal Mehta  

@brion and non-reusable plastic ones too!

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Kunal Mehta  

Taking Back Our Privacy
Great profile on Moxie and the much larger fight that Signal is part of.

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10

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Kunal Mehta  

calpol, sarcasm 

Okay so our insistence on paper ballots for auditing has a slight flaw: abc7.com/fire-intentionally-se

But WTF.

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Kunal Mehta  

I feel personally attacked by Politico repeatedly describing Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune as primarily watched by old people.

politico.com/news/2020/10/18/b

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Kunal Mehta  

California : tomorrow (Oct. 19) is the final day to register to by mail: registertovote.ca.gov/

I'm happy to help if you have any questions about the process or your ballot.

Note: if you miss this deadline, you can still do same-day in person voter registration.

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Kunal Mehta  

We just watched Brazil for the first time, I'm still in shock from how trippy and freaky that was.

8/10, would recommend.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(

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Kunal Mehta  

Got my first ever perfect score on the New York Times weekly news headlines quiz!

nytimes.com/interactive/2020/1

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Kunal Mehta  

@brion On Android I regularly see "continue in Chrome" even though I'm using Firefox...

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Kunal Mehta  

@danielhglus no.

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