Twitter destroyed brevity, and in fact the "character limit", when they introduced inline images and videos. Oftentimes my timeline view doesn't even fit 3 tweets in a full-size browser window on a 1080p screen.

Andrew Tanenbaum, on Intel running MINIX in all our CPUs: "Putting a possible spy in every computer is a terrible development." http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/

Understand the maths of diversity by playing little simulation games: http://ncase.me/polygons/

Flattr just told me to read a blog post from June, about how they protect your privacy, but they can't explain how: https://twitter.com/Flattr/status/925728610517954561

Things you don't learn in school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Peacock

In light of the French butter shortage, let me tell you: the Kerrygold salted version is actually pretty great. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-30/french-butter-melts-away-from-shelves-as-global-d...

"Amazon Key is a lousy 21st century solution to a 19th century problem": https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/amazon-key-bad-21st-century-solution-19th-cent...

"I have invented Suicide Linux. Any time you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive." https://qntm.org/suicide

"Have a popular Android app? Let's make you some money by letting your users mine Monero without their knowledge!" https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a70a980a

So, Flattr now basically does what Brave/BAT does, but without the privacy and with much higher fees. Did I miss something?

Leak: Three EU countries join forces for restrictions & copyright chaos: https://edri.org/leak-three-eu-countries-join-forces-to-stamp-out-free-speech-online

The WaPo, who literally invented the fake-news craze in an article that is provably fake news itself, is now an official fact-checking partner of Google: https://www.blog.google/topics/journalism-news/building-trust-online-partnering-international-fact-c...

Saudis planned and funded 2013 attack on Damaskus, incl. on the civilian airport, warning US 3 days before: https://theintercept.com/2017/10/24/syria-rebels-nsa-saudi-prince-assad

... so we can't use the same entry point, or can we?

... background is: we have a UMD build, but need to add an additional dep and require for xmlhttprequest to what node.js clients would use.

Need help from JavaScript module authors: is the "browser" field in npm's package.json widely supported as entry point for browser builds?

"Instead of Twitter’s one-size-fits-all approach, we can tailor social media to fit the needs of every community": https://nolanlawson.com/2017/10/23/what-is-mastodon-and-why-is-it-better-than-twitter/

If you're using multiple accounts with web apps, check out Multi-Account Containers for FF (pulled out of Nightly): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Opinions on Iberia vs. Finnair? Looks like those are the only reasonable options for status-matching topbonus gold. http://economyclassandbeyond.boardingarea.com/2017/10/17/got-airberlin-status-time-get-status-match/