Roy Schestowitz

Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni Becomes Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation (FSF) posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2026 Some months ago I began receiving E-mail messages from the Free Software Foundation (FSF). Those came from Heshan, who I had not heard from (or about) before. He sent me 4 invitations to a LibreLocal event in London. Having just checked their roster, it seems like some time after March he formally joined as FSF's staff.

Michael McMahon Explains Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on the Free Software Foundation (FSF) posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2026 The issue is not limited to "aggressive scrapers" and "LLMs". There are many deliberate attacks out there, some can try to obscure their real motivation by saying "hey hi" or "training" or whatever. The Web is very turbulent. Many sites give up on it. Some fight back, though there's cost to it. Sites that become static lower the cost.

Matters of Public Safety posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 14, 2026 Updated 1 hour ago: A British politician and television personality was in effect assassinated less than a week ago and we already have a history of journalists being assassinated for writing about and covering crime on television. There are high-profile examples. Last week and yesterday I saw in person staff of the firm connected to death threats I had received and reported to the police. Never did I receive apologies for that.