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5 Best Airlines for Overweight Passengers (And 3 to Avoid)

executiveflyers.com/best-airli… #Travel



[09:34] Griekspoor reaches Indian Wells quarter-finals with 7-6 6-1 win

Tallon Griekspoor reached the quarter-finals of a Masters tournament for the first time in his career with a straight-sets win...

dutchnews.nl/2025/03/griekspoo…

#TallonGriekspoor #first



It's Ramadan, and Netanyahu is still bombing Gaza, and Trump just sent him $12B more in arms—DESPITE the ceasefire.

If you can, contribute to support Palestinian families on the ground with direct aid, blankets, food, and shelters. (Tax deductible donation) launchgood.com/v4/campaign/hel…





[09:55] Amsterdam gets tougher on holiday rentals

Amsterdam is planning to impose further limits on holiday rentals in the city centre and Pijp district, following research suggesting...

dutchnews.nl/2025/03/amsterdam…

#Amsterdam #Pijp



@Waterfox has provided build instruction for the Waterfox internet browser 🤩

Prebuilt binaries and packages are great already, including auto-updates, but sometimes when one need to poke at source code or tailor a custom build : Thanks, much appreciated.

github.com/BrowserWorks/Waterf…

#waterfox #firefoxgate #privacy #browseralternatives #browsers #browser



Pocket Casts is a great podcast player on iOS, and the web version is surprisingly pleasant to use and full-featured. Making it publicly accessible as a free service is quite amazing, and now means we have a go-to way to promote anyone listening to a podcast casually. 👏


[09:50 AM] Police unable to meet response time standards in over 300 municipalities

Last year, the police failed to achieve its response time standard in 307 of the 342 Dutch municipalities.

nltimes.nl/2025/03/12/police-u…

#Lastyear #307 #342 #Dutch



Why are there many journals that don't seem to support RSS as a standard for keeping up to date with their publications? #academia #academicchatter


Wir suchen für meine Abteilung einen Projektleiter für den Standort #Oldenburg ! Wir entwickeln Leittechnik für Stadtwerke - die zentrale Steuersoftware für Strom-, Gas-, Wasser- und Fernwärme-Netzwerke.

Wenn ihr schon immer mal wissen wolltet, wie unsere Versorgungsnetze funktionieren, dann ist das der richtige Job!

Bei Fragen zu der Stelle könnt Ihr euch bei mir melden!

#GetFediHired #JobAlert #JobSearch #Hiring #SCADA #Energy
kisters.eu/de/job-vacancy/it-p…



12 March 1891 | Polish woman Maria Tmura was born in Szewnia. Expelled during ehtnic cleansing of Zamość region.

In #Auschwitz from 16 December 1942
No. 27305
She perished in the camp on 20 February 1943.



What is #Eutelsat, Europe’s rising rival to #Starlink? - thenextweb.com/news/what-is-eu… " Concerns over Starlink's future in #Ukraine are increasing interest in Eutelsat, an alternative satellite internet provider" just do it



@xssfox I have an ebike and the headlight and brake light are connected with a 6mm diameter connector for a 6v power rail. There is a notch on one side and the two pins are slightly offset to the horizontal. Do you have to know the name of this connector so I can order some new lights? (I'm new to this hot girl bike mechanic biz)


As countries scramble for minerals, the #seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer - theguardian.com/environment/ng… well obvs...


"To make all books in the public domain available, narrated by real people and distributed for free, in audio format on the internet,” #LibriVox brings thousands of texts to modern audiences in audio form" - blog.archive.org/2025/03/10/pu… it's amazing, do give it a whirl #PD




I held out for a long time, but I finally started using LLMs in my regular coding work. I couldn't deny the utility of tools like Claude any longer, when it can do in 2 minutes what would take me an hour.

There are problems: hallucinations, verbosity, bad/unperformant/inaccessible code. I have to correct it a lot. That's OK.

The main problem I find is that it's sucked a lot of the fun out of coding for me. It's like I've been pushed into a management role when I just wanted to stay a coder.



Microsoft admits #GitHub hosted #malware that infected almost a million devices - theregister.com/2025/03/10/inf… #awkward


Ridiculous how much land we already give to cars. This is supposed to be a progressive city and look at how much more land they constantly want to give to more cars.

Cars ruin everything

cbc.ca/news/canada/london/st-t…



A first draft of the "Accessibility Roles and Responsibilities Mapping (ARRM)" document has been published!

w3.org/WAI/planning/arrm/

This resource helps "[…] defining roles, tasks, and responsibilities for meeting Web Content Accessibility Guidelines […]".

Worth a read!

#web #digital #accessibility #product #design #development #a11y



San Vincente, Seville. You can feel the history in that stonework. Dates to 1640s, but I really wouldn't be surprised if the base of that doorway was Roman.


La Corbière in Jersey,UK, lighthouse pix for today!


the longer Apple vs UK gov't battle regarding iCloud encryption goes, the more it looks like a circus and an absolute mess that was avoidable

and both sides are responsible for it: UK for issuing the request in the first place in the shadiest possible way; Apple for initially bending in (& giving other gov'ts a signal they may do that) and U-turning by going to court which they should've done in the first place

#Privacy #Security #Apple #Encryption #iCloud #UnitedKingdom #Tech #Technology

in reply to ilias

But that kind of legal challenge takes months to come through. The fact that we now see their legal challenge to it means that they did, in fact, start the legal fight months ago - right around when they got the order.

Also, the fact that they were challenging it didn’t exempt them from legally having to follow the order, even the bit that said that couldn’t even mention the order existed. But instead, they unthinkably pulled the plug entirely from E2E encryption in the UK without actually saying why they were doing that.

So where’s this initial “bending in”?





🦊Blobun is OUT NOW! Touch every tile and get your slime all over 140 stages in this casual puzzle game! A curious rabbit girl gets turned into slime, and now she and her girlfriend are trying to undo it. Will they succeed?

store.steampowered.com/app/328…

#indiedev #gamedev #gamemaker



Batteriehersteller Northvolt meldet Insolvenz in Schweden an

Der Batteriehersteller Northvolt hat in Schweden Insolvenz angemeldet. Northvolt galt lange Zeit als große Hoffnung für die europäische Autoindustrie. Die Insolvenz könnte auch Folgen für Deutschland haben.

➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…

#Northvolt #BatterieBranche #EAuto #Schweden




Dizzying turnaround in US-Ukraine relations leaves all eyes on Russia - theguardian.com/world/2025/mar… your move, putin



US aid deliveries to Ukraine back to previous levels, Polish foreign minister confirms - theguardian.com/world/live/202… #ukraine's recalibration works...


#Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers - techdirt.com/2025/03/11/trumps… terrifying stuff
in reply to Glyn Moody

That’s terrifying. Thank you for sharing it.

Does this also mean that many cybersecurity folks are now without legal representation, so they cannot properly investigate Russian and Chinese attacks against critical infrastructure (because they cannot get the assurance whether the law will have their backs)?

Also kudos to Mike Masnick for flushing away the shit ("impossible to cover all the craziness. But some moments stand out") and exposing the poisoned blades hidden within.



“Highly controversial plans to revolutionise Whitehall by introducing performance-related pay, an accelerated exit process for under-performing mandarins & more digitalisation will be announced this week”

It is a truth, sadly not universally acknowledged, that, like all extrinsic motivation, performance related pay makes performance worse

It was a key driver of the risky behaviours that caused the 2008 banking crisis. So we can be sure, #uklabour will do it #uk #ukpol

theguardian.com/politics/2025/…

in reply to Herefordrob

I am so bored with our so called "leaders" using the system to prolong the agonies of the majority.

If I'm honest I'm probably bored with myself, I apologise if you have heard your before, in the sense that I see only one peaceful way out of this system of domination and extraction. That is the end of the sovereign state, which would I believe lead to universal (planetary) #Equality #Education #Unity and acceptance of the family of humanity and it's connection to all things.

in reply to Herefordrob

that said governments everywhere are incredibly inefficient and wasteful, thus the mess wer'e in.



#BBCNews - At least 100 passengers freed from Pakistan train siege
bbc.com/news/articles/c5y2q5v9…
#Balochistan #BLA
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‘Global weirding’: climate whiplash hitting world’s biggest cities, study reveals - theguardian.com/environment/20… "Swings between drought and floods striking from Dallas to Shanghai, while Madrid and Cairo are among cities whose climate has flipped" #ClimateCrisis