"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/

Microsoft fully commits to MDN as canonical Web API docs, redirects tons of articles, has made 5000+ edits already: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/10/18/documenting-web-together-mdn-web-docs

Welcome to the container wars: Red Hat announces Kubernetes without Docker, directly after Docker announces native Kubernetes support.

The impossible dream of USB-C: https://marco.org/2017/10/14/impossible-dream-of-usb-c

That t-shirt is priceless: https://twitter.com/ValaAfshar/status/918178742803030016

And so it begins: https://bitcoin.org/en/alert/2017-10-09-segwit2x-safety #bitcoin #segwit2x

"Brilliant", because nobody ever tried this before, and the future of the energy market is not decentralization: https://twitter.com/chunkymark/status/917796709627031552

Fun side effect of #hcpp17: as you can only pay in BTC and LTC, and paying for coffee in BTC would be silly right now, it's probably the biggest Litecoin-onboarding event ever.