From the country that brought you Boaty McBoatface comes Network Rail's leaf-removal train:
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/s…
Network Rail says train named after public vote will join fleet of ‘unsung hero’ leaf-busters this autumnJamie Grierson (The Guardian)
Please. Get off Meta sites! Close your accounts! And for god's sake stop posting pictures of your children, or even yourselves, anywhere on the internet.
"The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school. The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this. One mother said her account was set to private, but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible. Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account. The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads”.
The recipient told the Guardian the posts felt “deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of the children and families involved”.
The father of a 13-year-old who appeared in one of the posts said it was “absolutely outrageous”. The images were all of schoolgirls in short skirts with either bare legs or stockings." theguardian.com/technology/202…
Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner saysRobert Booth (The Guardian)
After first rolling out AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Chrome users in the US.Igor Bonifacic (Engadget)
With the AirPods Pro 3, Apple's additions of heart-rate tracking and Live Translation provide major advances on a familiar formula.Billy Steele (Engadget)
Bridge language barriers in person—while traveling or navigating in a foreign country—with AirPods.Apple Support
My Hero of the Day is @valadaptive@github.com, who came out of nowhere and, just like that, deleted 11K lines of FontForge legacy code.
After the initial shock and dismay, the rather conservative board eventually agreed, and today her PR was merged 🚀
github.com/fontforge/fontforge…
Resolves #5611 by just removing support for the X11 backend entirely. If the eventual goal is to implement everything in GTK, we can remove some X11-exclusive code and get rid of quite a bit of cru...GitHub
At Meta Connect 2025, Mark Zuckerberg’s live glasses demos repeatedly failed. Why did he risk it in the age of keynotes that are long marketing videos?Sean Hollister (The Verge)
Okay so here's a SGW I kinda want to write but haven't:
The science of why trans women don't have an advantage in sports. Why, almost always, trans women are actually at a *disadvantage* when competing against cis women.
Because the best research we have says trans women are at a disadvantage.
Hey “good white folx,”
So, you’ve proven you can take action. You canceled Disney, rallied around Kimmel, and feel good that you’ve “done something.”
But now what?
Will this be yet another moment where your actions only extend as far as how close to home the issue hits? Or can your outrage and your action, finally be more inclusive?
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Am Samstag wird in Frankreich das 200-Jahr-Jubiläum der Brailleschrift gefeiert. Im französischen Coupvray, dem Geburtsort des Erfinders der berühmten Blindenschrift, Louis Braille, wird ein Gedenktag begangen, mit dem auf die nach wie vor große Bede…ORF.at
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Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.YouTube
The tech industry will do anything to solve our loneliness epidemic except stop causing it in the first place.Yair Rosenberg (The Atlantic)
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.fed.brid.gy
posledné týždne spím v priemere o cca 2h viac a odmietam drogy... mne vážne preplo #dobréRáno
edit: za to môže ten pád
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So how does one figure the HiDPI factor in the shell?
Why? Because shitty Java want GDK_SCALE for that.
No NDP MP took part in the standing ovation for Charlie Kirk.
thetyee.ca/News/2025/09/18/Not…
South Surrey MP Ernie Klassen said he and other colleagues abstained from the gesture. Here’s why.Jen St. Denis (The Tyee)
Canadians are cancelling #Disney vacations and Disney+ subscriptions.
Canadian actor Tatiana Maslany joins calls to boycott Disney amid Jimmy Kimmel fallout...
cbc.ca/news/canada/boycott-dis… #boycottdisney #donotgivethemonemorepenny #freespeechisunderthreat #ABC #FUCKDISNEY
Who mows a swastika into their front lawn? A Nazi, that's who!
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time. People know themselves much better than you do. That's why it's important to stop expecting them to be something other than who they are."
cbc.ca/news/canada/london/swas… #racism #antisemitism #nazisinontario #nazisincanada #cdnpoli #polcan #onpoli #onleg
github wants you to solve a puzzle to report abuse. WTF.
no wonder why abuse is growing.
Every monument in the world should be turned into a farcry of outrage against the genocide. Acropolis did.
imerodromos.gr/gigantopano-toy…
Διεθνές Μήνυμα αλληλεγγύης στον παλαιστινιακό λαό στάλθηκε σήμερα το πρωί σε ολόκληρο τον κόσμο από τον βράχο της Ακρόπολης, το..ΗΜΕΡΟΔΡΟΜΟΣ (Ημεροδρόμος)
How to set up Windows 11 with a local, offline, non-Microsoft account during installation.
Keep the PC disconnected from the internet. When the installer gets to the network connection screen, do this:
1. Press Shift and F10 keys for command prompt.
2. Type: oobe\bypassnro
3. Press enter.
The PC will reboot and return to setup, but this time you'll see an option to skip network connection by clicking “I don’t have internet" at the bottom right.
Now you can make a local, offline account. ✅
Recently came across a 1984 quote about "agents" by Steve Jobs featured on @simon's blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/…
I, for one, don't want an imitation of a "little person" inside my computer, anticipating what I want, or steering me toward what its developers want me to want. I'm fine with a "responder" as Jobs called it, that keeps me in control.
Maybe that reaction is just a sign of how pessimistic the current zeitgeist has become. Or maybe that Jobs quote was always hopelessly naive.
Well, the types of computers we have today are tools. They’re responders: you ask a computer to do something and it will do it. The next stage is going to …Simon Willison’s Weblog
HNer complaining about Ticketmaster:
> We bought $700 tickets to see a show we really wanted to see...
That's the first red flag dude. Your favorite artist is not going to get anywhere near $700 from you. Just boycott the show. It's not worth it
> "and then we couldn't go, and had to sell the tickets, and there were fees, and we got ripped off, and and and and"
morons
Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss 🇺🇸
in reply to Nonya "Lethal Precision" Bidniss 🇺🇸 • • •"The mother of a 15-year-old whose picture was used in a promotional post that featured a large “Get Threads” button said: “For me it was a picture of my daughter going to school. I had no idea Instagram had picked it up and are using it as a promotion. It’s absolutely disgusting. She is a minor.” ...
With 267 followers, her Instagram account usually had modest reach but the post of her child attracted nearly 7,000 views, 90% from non-followers, half of whom were aged over 44 and 90% of whom were men.
Another mother whose post of her 13-year-old was used in a promotional post said: “Meta did all of this on purpose, not informing us, as they want to generate content. It’s despicable. And who is responsible for creating that Threads ad using children’s photos to promote the platform for older men?”