mastodon 4.7.3I'm the founder of Public Resource. Civil servant, public worker. Jai Gyan.
Wishing a happy mango season to all of you who celebrate.
still shaking my head over the mozilla leadership page. It is more, shall we say, "extensive" than I would have every imagined possible. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/ I mean, holy wow. Search the page for "VP" and you get 21 hits, there are 8 "chief" and 5 "managing" and 6 "executive."
Very happy with wonderful opinion from the 3rd Circuit. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/another-court-rules-copyright-cant-stop-people-reading-and-speaking-law Philadelphia incorporated by reference the ICC code, in it's entirety, which in turn incorporated by reference 10 ASTM standards in their entirety. Incorporation by law is recursive.
Today’s harvest is small candy-stripe eggplant, purple tomatillo, Thai red chili. Will add several heads of garlic, it all gets oven roasted with some olive oil. Makes a killer cross between a green salsa and babaganoush. Add an avocado for guacamole or just use as is as a salsa.
Artichokes from the front yard. No ants or aphids this year. Very happy. Hurrah for neem. Also, my pomegranate harvest looking good for this early. This is one of two trees. Will need to do some serious branch support when they start to firm.
Got the first 20 kilos of bar snacks and spice powders unboxed. 10 kilos of pickles up next, the ladoos and mango jelly are en route.
I’m all set for No Kings tomorrow.
Received 20 more kg of pickles, podi, and bar snacks from India. Beginning the process of packaging them up for an American audience. Using simple labels like “hot” and “really hot.”
I know Tim's document from 37 years ago says "proposal" in the title, but I always felt it wasn't a "may I do this please" proposal but more of an announcement. "Here's what I'm doing, here's all the details, you can do it too if you want."
That's why it worked. No vaporware, rough consensus, working code, open source. The Internet way.
You probably didn’t notice, but I was unable to post any cat pictures for the last 5 days. My mastodon instance got all kerfuffled. My only choice was to sell the cat or call in a professional to discombobulate my install. I was able to move myself into @mastohost@mastodon.social which did a great job on the transition. The cat said to say hello.
Friend of mine has an old and now broken wordpress site (throws errors on https, only does http). He still has his admin passwords. Is there a one-stop migration (upload the files, choose a template, repoint the dns, go) to something else? Since wordpress jumped the shark, upgrading there doesn't make a lot of sense.
We sued the State of Oregon under the state constitution for their process of delegating distribution of the law (public safety codes) to private parties. Our case was dismissed for lack of standing. We have vigorously appealed. https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/or/
Are you a techie and a musician? If so, you'll love our new series on Optical Music Recognition for Creatives. Available on @internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org at https://archive.org/details/PublicJukebox?sort=title&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Video%22 and YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe8fbQ9fxBg-pZ8JqmvqFcQvSChCCFU9H ht @adrian@social.holovaty.com @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
NPR news has a piece on the world's hotdog eating championship and the 7-time champion, so this seems like it is a slow news day.
Here's some pieces I wrote for the trade press, mostly from 1990-1992. https://archive.org/details/RT-FM?sort=date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Publications%22
Well, this is fun. My roon server crapped out, so I put an m3u tuner on my jellyfin server, and voila, I have live radio again!
Apparently there are also still a few television stations that "broadcast" "over the air" so have ordered an OTA HD Tuner with Indoor Antenna.
The senate (re-)introduces a bill of attainder aimed at outlawing the work of Public Resource (known in thousands of court documents as “PRO”). https://www.coons.senate.gov/news/press-releases/senators-coons-cornyn-colleagues-introduce-pro-codes-act-to-protect-and-improve-access-to-safety-standards/ Guess I should be proud and honored they named it to the “PRO Codes Act.”
Listening to the interview with Dolores Huerta on Latino USA. https://www.latinousa.org/2026/03/19/doloreshuertafirstinterview/ "It was time."
Nice analysis of the so-called “PRO” Codes Act. https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/public-laws-private-paywalls-the-case-against-the-pro-codes-act/ “PRO” is my professional name. You can call me Carl.
Nice summary of the debate in Congress on the so-called PRO Codes Act. https://legis1.com/news/private-code-ownership-laws-congress-debates-who
