Notices by Carl Malamud (carlmalamud@official.resource.org), page 2

There is a strong movement inside the Union of Unelected Bureaucrats to boot Elon Musk from our membership. I voted for the boot. He's an embarrassment.

I leave for India on Saturday. This is my luggage so far. 40 SSDs with 0.5 petabytes gross capacity. 7 pounds deadweight, so it fits in a small suitcase. 1,503,193 objects (e.g., "books"). 309 tbytes of actual data. Will take me 28 hours to fly to India which means 24.52 gbps throughput. I will be flying Emirates so there will be tasty snacks and drinks.

My back kitchen counter is starting to come together. Putting the art work in place.

@mattblaze I hear there are a lot of shadowy government agents breaking into facilities all over washington, so if you see something, say something.

Bombay High Court bans all pop idols as important festival approaches. https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/maharashtra/hc-calls-for-strict-compliance-with-ban-on-pop-idols-ahead-of-maghi-ganesh-utsav-in-maharashtra/article69160177.ece

@Gargron Nice job on the transitioning to a nonprofit.

Finished making my travel arrangements for next trip to India. Leave in 5 weeks. Will do Bangalore, side trip to Delhi, then end in Mumbai. 3-week trip. One speech so far, but I imagine there might be others.

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Here we go. Sangam Talks is live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl5U4i2h4O8 Like you, I'm watching this for the first time.

@webmink Some may argue that "readability rooms" and other forms of highly conditional access is fine for the general public and other casual citizens and that our radical proposal to seize the means of legal construction and nationalize the law smacks of communism. I'm sure there's some happy meeting ground in the middle.

If you don't speak official Europeaneese, let me translate. ISO (and IEC!) are suing the European Commission for complying with the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) decision that access to EU law is of "overriding public importance." They filed this suit in the CJEU. Our position is that the CJEU decision was rightly decided.

Joint Communique from ISO and IEC: "Legal action against the European Commission’s decision regarding its implementation of ECJ Case C-588/21 has been initiated so that we may continue to deliver effectively on our missions globally for the benefit of everyone. This action is aimed at safeguarding the integrity of international standards and protecting the infrastructure that supports their development." https://www.linkedin.com/posts/luca-bertuzzi-186729130_huge-the-eu-standard-setting-architecture-activity-7275445905367928832-7K1K/

I bring you greetings from the orange factory. Gave away over a thousand oranges, working now with the leftover thousand oranges.

February is when the really crazy good Andhra Pradesh red chilis are ready. The fresh ones have a limited shelf life, but they pickle up like omg you wouldn't believe, and the pickles have a long shelf life. I just placed an order for 25kg of pickles. These are blow your head off hot, but very tasty.

@kfogel I read about it in the New York Post. https://nypost.com/2024/12/25/business/elon-musk-urges-supporters-not-to-donate-to-wikipedia-over-dei/

@kfogel indeed, it is indubitably a good cause. beyond doubt. boggles the mind some might feel otherwise.

I hope nobody will be offended if I speak frankly but I have to say this whole "defund the wikipedia" thing is about as woke as you can get.

@quinn oh my! Didn't realize ... Bordeaux is of course very nice. I imagined something gloomier and fog-filled. :) My strategy is mostly plant and hope.

@quinn I only work with outdoor feral peppers, but we are blessed with appropriate weather here (think figs, olives, grapes, citrus, pepper!). But, you can do good things with indoor spaces and patios that often work. I'm no expert. I plant and hope.

Squeezed one more batch of pickled thai chilis out of the garden. I'm over-wintering the plants, hoping they make it and turn into thai chili trees. This can happen!