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www.euronews.com 29d ago

European Parliament committee backs digital euro

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www.reuters.com 1mo ago

Binance set to lose permission to operate in EU, sources say

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explosiveweaponsmonitor.org 1mo ago

Explosive Weapons Monitor 2025

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www.nbcnews.com 2mo ago

Former congressman Barney Frank has died

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corporate.basic-fit.com 3mo ago

Data breach at European fitness chain Basic-Fit [pdf]

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sheets.works 3mo ago

Six People. 236 Episodes. 1 Coffee Shop. – Friends visualised

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kathmandupost.com 3mo ago

Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket

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github.com 3mo ago

DarkSword Exploit Chain, Unpackaged

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www.lemonde.fr 4mo ago

US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects

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www.ft.com 4mo ago

OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43

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petapixel.com 4mo ago

How An Olympics Photographer Proves the Authenticity of His Photos

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www.irunfar.com 5mo ago

2026 Barkley Marathon Results: No Finishers, Sébastien Raichon Completes Fun Run

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www.home-assistant.io 6mo ago

Music Assistant 2.7 – Taking over the airwaves

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www.vrt.be 6mo ago

Ghent University rector Petra De Sutter uses AI-fabricated quotes in speech

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time.com 7mo ago

The Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year

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copenhagenizeindex.eu 8mo ago

New Copenhagenize Index – Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities [pdf]

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www.reuters.com 8mo ago

Multiple EU airports disrupted in wave of suspected Russian drone sightings

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netzpolitik.org 8mo ago

Databroker files – EU officials tracked through 'anonymous' smartphone ads data

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www.nobelprize.org 9mo ago

Nobel Peace Prize – María Corina Machado

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www.nobelprize.org 9mo ago

Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of metal-organic frameworks

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www.nobelprize.org 9mo ago

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025

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letsencrypt.org 1y ago

Letsencrypt stops sending expiration notification emails

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www.flightradar24.com 1y ago

BAW9999 Concorde Flight from LHR to JFK

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www.home-assistant.io 1y ago

Home Assistant 2024.10: Heading in the right direction

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www.jeremiahlee.com 1y ago

The first year of Chat Control

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www.nytimes.com 1y ago

NASA says Boeing Starliner astronauts may fly home on SpaceX in 2025

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s3.amazonaws.com 2y ago

The Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill university newspaper) frontpage [pdf]

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nvidianews.nvidia.com 2y ago

VMware and Nvidia Announce VMware Private AI Foundation

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ec.europa.eu 3y ago

European Commission clears acquisition of VMware by Broadcom

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www.bbc.com 3y ago

Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way

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While this is presented as a way to evade ad blockers, using it to serve ads is explicily prohibited in the license:

The permission granted by this license explicitly EXCLUDES the right to use this software, in whole or in part, for the purpose of serving, delivering, or displaying digital advertisements, sponsored content, or any form of commercial marketing to end-users. Any such use immediately terminates this license.

The problem is that those are treated almost like an app, you need a $99/year developer certificate to publish them.

Many third party ticketing solutions venues and events use do support this, but for instance if you want to sell tickets for a party and self-host, you need another external integration, or a developer account. Generating a PDF with a QR code, and publishing an .ics file is essentially free.

The same is true in a physical card wallet.

Not at all.

In my physical wallet, those identical looking cards have different names on them, ie. <myfirstname mylastname> and <mylastname - partnerslastname> for joint accounts. I can also mark them up with a marker, or request a different picture from some banks.

In iOS I need to remember that the one ending with 0044 is mine, and 0073 is for our joint account. I have no way to add an alias or distinguish them otherwise. This is ridiculous.

See this story from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47738883

Basically, to combat pirate streaming of football matches, La Liga (the Spanish football association) can compel Spanish ISPs to block wide ranges of IP blocks that are suspected of hosting those streams.

This includes Cloudflare, which - due to lots of websites depending on them (see what happened when they went down last year: https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/ ) feels like half of the internet is unusable. This happens weekly when football is on.

Now it looks like those bans are going to become even more frequent, which will have all kinds of unintended consequences.

That's what I did, which is why I abandoned my experiment this quickly.

I'd find it hard to write such an article about how this is the next best thing since sliced bread without mentioning it spending so much money.

I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t...

Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately.

Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/115968901926545907 - the author blew through $560 of tokens in a weekend of playing with it.

If you want to run this full time to organise your mailbox and your agenda, it's probably cheaper to hire a real human personal assistant.

This was first reported by Apache.be, not exactly what I would call a zionist publication.

The speech in question was a speech given at the opening of the academic year at the second largest university in Belgium. De Sutter became rector last year. As part of her election platform, she warned about the dangers of AI in terms of plagiarism, bias and hallucinations - so in this context this is quite relevant.

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Clicked the button and immediately got redirected to a new tab with a fake “your iPhone has been hacked” spam site. Closed & flagged.

First of all, you are conflating Hamas and Hezbollah. Second of all, the stories about beheading of babies and mass rape on October 7, 2023 have been thoroughly debunked. Third: the pager operation caused indiscriminate explosions at places where non-combattant citizens were present. Not very gentlemen-ly (to use your words), and indeed a war crime. Fourth: What they did in Gaza is arguably worse than carpet bombing.

This has been national news in Belgium over the past few days.

It seems the company operating check-in services for many airports, Collins Aerospace (no news on their website so far - https://www.collinsaerospace.com/news?#newssearchresults_but...) was hit by a ransomware attack on Friday night, disrupting operations at Brussels Airport, London Heathrow, Berlin and Dublin airports.

Media are reporting that apparently Loki Locker ransomware was used. Check in desks are reverting to pen and paper, and many flights have been cancelled. More disruptions and cancellations are expected tomorrow (Monday September 22nd).

Here it's Cloudflare the CDN, sitting in front of Anna's Archive, that's doing the blocking. The DNS resolver used doesn't come into play.

(Case in point, I am using Google's DNS, yet still encounter the block when accessing from a Belgian IP.)

When accessing from Belgium the link is blocked by Cloudflare:

Error HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons

In response to a legal order, Cloudflare has taken steps to limit access to this website through Cloudflare's pass-through security and CDN services within Belgium

Oh also the + button didn't do full screen as today, but... it did... something. I never understood the point of the + button.

When I first came from Windows I was confused about this as well, but once I got the hang of it, it became the most logical thing to me.

The green + button zoomed the window to the minimum window size that showed the full content. (For example, one page in a word processor or one slide in presentation software.)

Doesn't look like it, picking a random domain from this list gives the same result as from 1.1.1.1:

  dig bs.to @1.1.1.1
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   164 IN A 190.115.31.20


  dig bs.to @193.110.81.0
  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  bs.to.   300 IN A 190.115.31.20