Notices by Kunal Mehta (legoktm@wikis.world)

New blog post: Do-the-work instead of proof-of-work, for Git hosting

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/14/do-the-work-instead-of-proof-of-work-for-git-hosting.html

On https://git.legoktm.com/ I am now running a fully client-side Git repository viewer; on the server-side it is entirely static hosting, which makes it super cheap.

I hope this is a useful proof-of-concept as an alternative to (IMO wasteful) solutions like Anubis and provides better user privacy in the process.

#Git #WebAssembly #Rust #SelfHosting

Happy Brooke Vibber day!

Today I am publishing, in full, an interview I did with @bvibber back in 2021 about the history of #Wikipedia and #MediaWiki.

https://blog.legoktm.com/2026/06/01/interview-with-brooke-vibber-2021.html

Topics covered include: aversion to change, BDFLs, #PHP, whether MediaWiki should RIIR, and more!

A few parts of this interview were published in the Signpost at the time, but most didn't make the cut solely for space reasons. So in light of recent events, I was looking back and thought it was still worth publishing.

RE: https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116557912530796630

🚨 we have a second job posting up at Freedom of the Press Foundation 🚨

We're looking for a security researcher to support the #SecureDrop team (up to 30hr/wk)

🔒 fully remote
🔒 work on security-focused project where it's not merely an afterthought
🔒 real security problems that affect real whistleblowers and journalists

This is a contractor position; you do not need to be US-based (unlike the other one). Happy to answer any questions!

:boost_ok:

https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/611576-rfp-security-researcher

#GetFediHired

🚨 the @securedrop team at Freedom of Press Foundation is hiring 🚨

We're looking for a Cryptography Engineer to help us build out the new end-to-end encrypted version of #SecureDrop

✔️ fully remote (must be US based)
✔️ all FOSS
✔️ help secure whistleblowers and investigative journalists all around the world

More details in the job posting, happy to answer any questions

https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-cryptography-engineer

:boost_ok:

#GetFediHired #Rust #FormalMethods #Encryption #Cryptography #Whistleblowing #OpenSource

RE: https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116365775366782119

Incredible, someone at Red Hat is apparently reading my toots and slowly scrubbing their website of references to their "compressing the kill cycle" project.

Here's the file they don't want you to read: https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155236/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf

p.s. if you work at Red Hat and have inside info on what's going on, my Signal is "@legoktm.12345" - happy to protect you.

I don't know why people are focusing on IBM's history when we know that Red Hat, today, is a military contractor working with the US Air Force to make their AI-powered drones faster so they can "compress the kill cycle" (a real thing they advertise!!) in all of the US's illegal wars

https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/116310286504776036

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@nathandyer/116353464692290660

Red Hat has since removed their war crime-supporting "Compress the kill cycle" marketing page from their website but left other references up, e.g. https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf (also saved on IA now)

A really good summary of what compressing the kill cycle means in practical terms was recently published in The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

User:habst aka Harry kicking off #WikipediaDay NYC lightning talks with slides using the classic MonoBook skin, explaining how Baby Yoda is in the category tree of Nobel Prize winners in Physics

Next #WikipediaDay NYC lighting talk: Prerit Pathak about "Cyber for Social Impact" discussing cyberattacks against non-profits and how not having cell service in subway tunnels can be a good thing.

https://cpb.ngo/

Jack McCarthy is putting the "lightning" lightning talk at #WikipediaDay NYC with a super-fast talk about how math formalization will help Wikipedia (so many great slides I wasn't able to take pics of)

Quick he asks, this is a proof from Wikipedia, which is right and which is wrong?

In short, math articles should be verified/connected to proofs, using Lean which is open source

broke the thread sorry, next post is https://wikis.world/@legoktm/116308497181293231.

TIL that if you want to force Zoom to open the meeting in the browser, replace "/j/" in the URL with "/wc/join/"

@zkat I appreciate the intent behind this because the free software project I dedicated most of my life (MediaWiki) to is actively used by the CIA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellipedia) to do bad and illegal things. But I've yet to see someone provide an anti-MIC licensing provision that practically works in today's world where everything is unfortunately tied up in MIC. I am not sure if it's even possible to exist in modern (Western) society without being complicit in some kind of war crime.

@zkat anyways, I agree with @whitequark that copyright/contracts are not good or effective ways to solve these problems which are much larger social issues (and trying to do so can easily backfire, e.g. an anti-Taliban provision being weaponized to prevent access to humanitarian aid)

Congratulations to IPv6 address 2409:40C2:E:A7EE:8000:0:0:0 for making the very last edit on the English #Wikipedia that will be attributed directly to an IP address (unregistered users are now given a "temporary account" to mask their IP from the general public)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mastiii_4&diff=prev&oldid=1320371783

Started canvassing for #Zohran at 9am today, ran into two dudes from Spain, who, after apologizing for not being able to vote, wanted to take a selfie with us and said "Good luck, socialism is possible!"

And...it seems to be working, today saw more votes (151k) than on the equivalent day in the *2024 general election* (149k), which is insane!!!!

#NYC #NYCpol

What a great #Wikipedia featured article for today, given the news Adams is dropping out of the #NYC mayor's race.

In case you didn't know: Sabrina Carpenter filmed a racy music video for "Feather" inside a Catholic Church, which led to backlash and an investigation into the monsignor to gave her permission, which brought the attention of federal investigators, who uncovered ties to the Adams administration and eventually led to the indictment of Eric Adams himself.

Yes, this is 100% real.

I signed the petition to #OSI to release the full 2025 election results.

https://codeberg.org/OSI-Concerns/election-results-2025

I am primarily a lurker on the license-discuss and license-review lists and let my membership lapse a while back, so no idea how much weight my opinion holds, but I think it's an entirely reasonable request to 1) not change the election format/rules on affiliates after deadlines and 2) release full election results, even if candidates were disqualified after voting ended.

@nemobis I'm optimistic too, the ball is really in the MTA's court now to actually use the $15 billion to improve transit.

Time will tell if Hochul made the right move; it was all already approved, she delayed it purely because of the Nov. election and to her credit, Dems picked up most of the winnable House seats. It's hard to tell if lowering the price afterwards actually assuaged any of the backlash, I haven't seen any evidence that it did.

Happy #NYC #CongestionPricing Eve!