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.

On my way to #HCPP17, looking foward to what I thought was the best conference I had attended in years last time.

Having a suprisingly clear and deep understanding of cryptocurrency and its potential, Christine Lagarde's usage of the term "effective" in regards to monetary policy certainly seems a bit strange. https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/09/28/sp092917-central-banking-and-fintech-a-brave-new-wor...

34C3 or not? I'd have to buy winter clothes, because I don't even own such things anymore. Then again, I haven't attended since 28C3.

The people celebrating right now do realize that Saudi Arabia are still flogging and beheading people for sodomy, witchcraft, and posting the wrong things online, right?

Why would you submit to one corporation's limits, when you actually want to have more room for expressing your ideas? #jointhefediverse