I received the amended Colorado Age Attestation bill.

* Open source OS's and apps are excluded
* Code repos are excluded (github/gitlab)
* Containers are excluded (docker/podman)

I testify Thursday and can use your help! I need your stories about incredible things kids have made thanks to access to open source software. Share here or DM me.

do you ever look back at your life and think, “boy i wish i knew what strange and interesting new snacks, drinks, and cereals came out last year?"

i'm here for you, friend. here's my short-awaited 2025 food garbage round-up!!

https://cabel.com/the-snacks-cereals-of-2025/

#Ukraine has repaired Druzhba pipeline, #Zelenskyy says

🖊️ Sebastian Starcevic

Ukrainian president said oil will once again flow to #Hungary, resolving a months-long dispute.

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-repair-druzhba-pipeline-volodymyr-zelenskyy

Hackers Breach russian Ministry Call, Reveal China Supplies ‘90%’ of Drone Electronics

🖊️ Alisa Orlova

A recording of the meeting, published by Ukrainian prankster Yevgen Volnov, captures officials discussing supply chains for unmanned aerial vehicles.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/74379

The local fish ‘n’ chips shop owner gave me some advice: “To make sure the fillets taste good, always give them a couple of good slaps before cooking.”

That just sounds like codswallop to me.

With growing focus on the threat quantum computing poses to crucial and widely used forms of encryption, @filippo wants to make one thing perfectly clear: Contrary to popular mythology that refuses to die, AES 128 is perfectly fine in a post-quantum world

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/04/contrary-to-popular-superstition-aes-128-is-just-fine-in-a-post-quantum-world/

The case FOR government regulations, beautifully laid out by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic

“While not all regulation is wise or helpful, a world without regulation is a catastrophe. That’s because, in a highly technological world, your ability to do well (or even to live out the day) requires that you correctly navigate innumerable highly technical questions that you can’t possibly answer. You need to know whether you can trust the software in your car’s antilock braking system, whether you should heed your doctor’s advice to get vaccinated, whether the joists over your head at home are sufficient to keep the ceiling from falling in and killing you, and whether your kids’ schooling is adequate or likely to turn them into ignoramuses. It’s not that you lack the intellect and discernment to answer each of these questions. You’re a smart cookie. Given enough time, you could get a PhD’s worth of education in software engineering, cell biology, material science, structural engineering, and pedagogy; investigate each of the offerings before you in each of these categories; and make an intelligent choice that reflects your priorities and the trade-offs you’re willing to make. The problem is that it would take you several lifetimes to acquire all that knowledge, and long before you could do so, you’d be killed by food poisoning because you guessed wrong about whether you could trust the hygiene policies at your local diner.”
#quotes #enshittification #libertarianism

Allowing autonomous vehicles like Waymo doesn't reduce congestion - it adds more cars to the streets. This is according to their competitor Uber.

Adding Waymo in Toronto will make the TTC and cycling AND DRIVING, worse.

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/04/17/waymo-means-way-mo-cars-according-to-uber-docs

#TOPoli #Transit