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U.S. has made contact with Syrian rebel group HTS, Blinken says
Comments by Secretary of State Antony Blinken this weekend were the first time a U.S. official has acknowledged contact with the Syrian rebel group that drove Bashar al-Assad from power.
“Trump’s Stooge” Gets His Reward
Devin Nunes, the ex-California congressman and current head of Trump’s struggling social media platform, Truth Social, is getting his prize for being the next president’s long-serving yes-man. On Saturday, Trump announced that he would appoint Nunes as chairman of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, a group of up to 16 private citizens who get high-level […]
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Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators - by Ana Andjelic:
"Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness."
A bright spot for web— Interest in human curation is on the rise, and the art hasn’t been monetized to death. More curators, less corporate algorithms. Let’s go! https://andjelicaaa.substack.com/p/move-over-influencers-here-come-curators
Apple’s foldable iPad could be like ‘two iPad Pros side-by-side’
Don’t you just want to bend this right in half? | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
Apple hopes to release a foldable 18.8-inch creaseless iPad by about 2028, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman writes in today’s Power On newsletter. The company’s industrial design group has reportedly managed to create prototypes of this device that “have a nearly invisible crease” and would essentially be like “two iPad Pros side-by-side.”
Rumors of a folding iPad have been floating in the ether for years, now. Recent ones include a smaller model that Apple would release in 2026 or 2027. Gurman’s write-up today has strong echoes of the gargantuan 20-inch folding “iPad / MacBook hybrid” he detailed in 2022. That doesn’t seem to mean that it will run macOS, but Gurman claims that it “will have elements of both” Macs and iPads and that iPadOS “should be advanced enough to run macOS apps” by 2028.
Considering that Macs run iPhone and iPad apps now, it’s not outrageous to think the street could go both ways in time. It might help the value proposition, too; the 13-inch iPad Pro starts at $1,299, and whatever financial damage an iPad twice that size could incur would be a little easier to take coupled with the salve of being able to run macOS apps on it.
Gurman says a foldable iPhone is still in the works, though he doesn’t expect that “before 2026 at the earliest,” as other rumors have said. He also says information from his sources lines up with an alleged Apple internal display roadmap that made the rounds recently, tipping the 18.8-inch foldable iPad and Apple’s plans to release OLED MacBook Pros in 2026, followed by a MacBook Air OLED update in 2027.
The Biggest Game Awards Winners Are Also No-Brainer Christmas Gifts
The Game Awards, the biggest annual celebration of video games, commenced this past Thursday, handing out awards to the titles that have proven most popular in 2024. There’s a fairly good chance that if you’re fortunate enough to be bought gaming gifts, one of these could be showing up in your stocking. So we’ve…
2025 in tech: who’s in and who’s out
Image: Alex Parkin / The Verge
Hello! I’m here from the future. And I have some news. 12 months from now, all the Big Tech CEOs are still in their jobs, everybody’s using folding phones, Apple made a TV, and Nvidia is the most valuable company in the history of the universe. Wild year, huh? Or maybe not? It’s hard to remember. Time travel messes with your memory a little.
On this episode of The Vergecast, the second installment of our two-part 2025 preview, we debate some seriously iffy storylines from the end of 2025. David, our resident time traveler, brings us some big stories that either did or didn’t happen in the year to come, and Nilay Patel and Wall Street Journal columnist Joanna Stern have to help figure out what’s real and what isn’t.
Will someone really buy Snap? Is GTA VI going to be the biggest game ever? Will Bluesky continue to ascend and leave Threads in its wake? Nobody knows yet, not even the time traveler, but we have some thoughts and ideas.
As was the case with last week’s episode, we’re keeping score. Here’s how it works: each host has to decide, for each 2025 news story, whether it’ll be real or not by the end of the year. Every correct guess earns you a point; every incorrect guess...
For its next trick, Apple is reportedly preparing a Magic Mouse redesign
The Magic Mouse with USB-C was the tiniest revision. | Photo by Nathan Edwards / The Verge
Apple is working on a redesigned successor to the Magic Mouse, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. This new mouse would address complaints some users have had, including that pesky charging port.
Gurman writes that Apple’s design team has created prototypes of the mouse in recent months with an eye toward creating “something that better fits the modern era.” He doesn’t get into any specifics — the group still hasn’t settled on a design — except to say that the mouse will address the charging port location and other “longstanding complaints.” It’s at least 12 to 18 months away from release, according to Gurman.
How can Apple fix a mouse that’s objectively perfect? I’m kidding; after 15 years of largely the same design, the Magic Mouse has plenty of room for improvement, even with its recent USB-C revision for the M4 iMac release. Everyone is different, but my wishlist includes adding some mechanical controls, addressing ergonomics (my hand always cramps after a while), and not having to spear the mouse’s underbelly to charge it.
But even if Apple moves the port, I’m still a little grumpy when I have to dig out a cable to plug in the MX Master 3 that serves as my daily driver. There are better ways, like the Logitech mouse that charges wirelessly via a mousepad that my colleague, Sean Hollister, hasn’t had to intentionally charge for two years. I added MagSafe-style wireless charging by dropping my Magic Mouse into the wireless-charging equivalent of an ergonomic service industry sneaker — it ain’t pretty, and I still can’t use it while it’s charging, but it gets the job done. I’d bet Apple can do something better.
The musical at the end of the world
Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon | Neon
Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End is a musical about wicked people. But it’s very different from Wicked.
How To Start Strong In Indiana Jones And The Great Circle And More Tips For The Week
This week, players everywhere dove into the epic adventure that is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. It’s a game packed with secrets and even with basic mechanics the game isn’t always great about foregrounding, so our tips can help you make the most of your time as the famed archaeologist. On top of that, we’ll…
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Two Russian oil tankers sink in Black Sea - reports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8dq6q0m862o
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CarveHerName@mstdn.social wrote:
#OnThisDay, 15 Dec 1838, Caroline Norton uses a pen name to publish a pamphlet campaigning for the Infant Custody Bill.
Until the bill was passed, in 1839, divorced women had no custody rights over their children as they were seen as the father's property.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
that is one helluva ROI: https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis/113657073831097077
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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:
Our democracy has been sold. The #BrokenPost waits 25 paragraphs to note without irony this "could ethically compromise the incoming administration." First draft of complicity.
Elon Musk put $277 million into the election. Now he’s $200 billion richer. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/15/elon-musk-trump-election-wealth/
This cookbook is unlike any other from India. Pass the honeycomb, please!
In Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada, Shahu Patole pays tribute to a cuisine that has long been considered not worthy of documentation. We interviewed Patole — and are sharing some of his recipes.
At least 11 dead in the French territory of Mayotte as Cyclone Chido causes devastating damage
At least 11 people have died after Cyclone Chido caused devastating damage in the French territory of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, France's Interior Ministry said Sunday.
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AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
wow, "gemini-1.5-flash-latest" is indeed *fast*
h/t @simon
A worthy update to my favorite mobile game ever
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 64, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for some weird documentaries, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)
This week, I’ve been reading about raw milk and $HAWK and WhatsApp, watching A Man on the Insideand the new Ken Burns da Vinci doc, finally getting caught up on The Great British Bake Off (about which I have SO MANY FEELINGS), storing all my loyalty numbers and Airbnb codes in Cheatsheet, and doing a genuinely upsetting amount of research on pizza stones.
I also have for you a delightful new mobile game, an E Ink tablet worth a look, a gorgeous new to-dos app, and much more. It’s a strangely Netflix-centric week, which is odd for mid-December? But so it goes. Let’s dive in.
(As always, the best part of Installer is your ideas and tips. What are you watching / reading / playing / baking / listening to / soldering this week? Tell me everything: installer@theverge.com. And if you know someone else who might enjoy Installer, forward it to them and tell them to subscribe here.)
The Drop
- Monument Valley 3_._I’ve thought about it, and Monument...
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Goodbye, Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/12/15/benjamin-dixon-murders-the-young-turks/
Ilana Glazer appreciates how becoming a parent forced them to draw some lines
Ilana Glazer is grateful for the limits of parenthood. On Wild Card this week, Glazer opens up about how parenthood has allowed them to draw boundaries and why they increasingly love their alone time.
Trump appoints foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell as special missions envoy
President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he's picked longtime foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell to serve as an envoy for special missions, dealing with tough foreign policy decisions.
Storms across US bring heavy snow, dangerous ice and a tornado in California
Inclement weather plagued areas of the U.S. in the first half of the weekend, with dangerous conditions including a major ice storm in Midwest states and unsual tornado activity in Central California.
Trump's tariffs threat is dividing business owners across the country
Businesses are divided over Trump's plan to impose sweeping tariffs. Some companies welcome the protection from foreign competition, while others worry about rising costs and retaliation.
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
Biden’s DoJ has already taken the position that the ERA has been properly ratified. So unless Biden is on the other side of that question, he has a statutory obligation to ensure that the National Archives, an executive agency, publishes the ERA. 9/
heidilifeldman ("Heidi Li Feldman") wrote:
Right up to the present moment, Joe Biden, sitting President and Democrat, could take a major step to affirming U.S. women’s legal and political equality. He could order the director of the National Archives to publish the Equal Rights Amendment, which has been ratified by the requisite number of states. Publication is how the federal government makes it clear that an Amendment to the constitution has been made. 8/
I feel like any email starting with "this is a friendly reminder" is actually a lawyer with knuckle tats that say "per my last email".
other_ghosts@kolektiva.social ("Wilson") wrote:
I know the etiquette is evolving around this so here's my quick guide to sharing the road with self-driving cars:
If you find yourself in a city whose political leaders are corrupt and vain enough to have allowed this scourge onto their streets, you absolutely do not owe them the basic courtesy you would extend to any driver.
Bearing in mind safety and basic physics, it's perfectly fine to, for instance, not let them proceed at a stop sign; not let them merge in traffic; take the lane and bike super slow in front of them; take your sweet time in a crosswalk; accidentally leave your personal traffic cone on its hood; etc, etc. Just remember that they are recording you, should you choose to escalate your discourtesy beyond the the obnoxious-but-basically-legal.
Self-driving cars do not deserve the right of way, because rights are for sentient beings, not roving death cameras.
If you are worried whether someone is riding in back, just imagine it's Jeff Bezos and he's on his way to a very important meeting. The more inconvenient these things are to hire, the more ordinary people will choose better options, the more swiftly these businesses will fail and disappear.
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I’ll concede that killing a CEO on the street is bad but we should at least be allowed challenge them to a duel.
Like, I just learned that airlines pay TSA employees ten bucks for each bag they pull off the belt for being too big. That CEO should have to meet me outside a saloon.
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Babe, just delete your Instagram already - by katie morley:
"And it was at this very moment, on that disgustingly warm day in July, as I panicked about what some random ass gal from a previous life may or may not think of me, that I realised how toxic my relationship with Instagram had become."
All the A E S T H E T I C girlies from 2012 IG are Substack writers now and honestly a lot of it is very engaging ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/babe-just-delete.html
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
I’m finishing a write-up on how Bluesky is a libertarian ecosystem based on libertarian ideals, and I’m fighting for my life not to title it “Don’t Skeet on Me Bro.”
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cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:
Things are NOT good, if I'm correct above, as we make things more decentralized in the atproto-public-shared-heap model. The more self-hosting and indeed the more "full nodes" join, the more it gets expensive for each of the nodes and the network EXPLODES!
Truly self-hosted atproto is NOT POSSIBLE!
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Florida Woman Charged With Terrorism:
"Class warfare against working people is when billion dollar insurance corporations can live by “Delay, Deny, Depose” for decades—even as their policies actually and knowingly enable tens of thousands of annual deaths—but when a working person denied healthcare merely says that exact phrase—it’s terrorism."
Free Briana Boston. https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism
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QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:
Why charge Briana Boston with terrorism? A Bug’s Life told us why:
“You let 1 ant stand up to us & they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life!! It's not about food! It's about keeping those ants in line.”
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/florida-woman-charged-with-terrorism
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This is what the iOS contact permission prompt should be
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- Newer model iPhone mockup. At the top of the screen is a grid of contact pictures and the text “You have 579 contacts. Contact information includes names, emails, photos, phone numbers, addresses and more”. In the lower half of the screen, there is a header “Get permission before sharing contact info” with the text “We're not going to let you betray your friends that easily. You'll need to get their permission to allow ‘Flashlight+ Pro Free HD’ to access their contact info.” At the bottom are two buttons: “Request Permission From 579 Contacts” and “Don’t Share” (remote)
Now ChromeOS can reset itself without erasing your laptop
Illustration: The Verge
This week, Google announced it’s rolling out ChromeOS M131 to non-beta users, bringing with it a handy “Safety reset” feature that lets Chromebook users reset their laptops without totally wiping them. The update also introduced a new “Flash notifications” accessibility option to help those who might not otherwise easily hear or see them.
Like Powerwash in ChromeOS, Safety reset will wipe the slate clean if you’re experiencing computer virus-like behavior such as unusual pop-ups. But where Powerwash is a full factory reset, Safety reset preserves local data and apps, as well as things like bookmarks and saved passwords, according to a help document about the feature.
Google also writes that users can call up the Safety reset dialog box directly by pressing CTRL + Shift + Search + R. Otherwise, you can find it in the “Safety and privacy” settings menu or by searching Settings or Launcher for keywords like “Pop-up,” “Spam,” or “Virus.”
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The new flash notifications settings in ChromeOS accessibility settings.
As for the new Flash notifications setting, it’s available in accessibility settings under “Audio and captions,” giving an additional visual notification indicator to those who might otherwise miss them because they’re hard of hearing or use screen magnification to read content. Users can pick the flash’s color from several options, and a preview button lets them see what it looks like.
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I miss the mountains so bad. I’ve been lucky enough to travel parts of the world but nothing has called me back as strong as Glacier National Park.
Here’s me being very classy:
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Windows warns Phone Link won’t show ‘sensitive’ Android 15 notifications
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge
Microsoft’s Phone Link app is warning that Android smartphones using the latest version of Android 15 won’t display certain “sensitive” notifications, according to a post from Mishaal Rahman spotted by Windows Central.
The warning is the result of an Android 15 privacy feature that automatically categorizes notifications like those containing 2FA codes as “sensitive” and prevents third-party apps from seeing them. That extra bit of privacy could come in handy if you’ve unwittingly given a malicious app permission to access your notifications. But it could be inconvenient if you frequently rely on seeing 2FA codes appear on your computer via Phone Link.
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Screenshot: Windows Phone Link warning
Mishaal Rahman posted a screenshot of the warning.
According to Rahman, Windows should still show sensitive notifications for Android devices where Phone Link came preinstalled and has requested a “Companion Device Role.” That includes Samsung phones running One UI 6.1.1, but not other Android phones like Google Pixel or Nothing Phones, writes Windows Central.
Rahman wrote in October that users could get around the notification-hiding feature by turning off “Enhanced Notifications” in Android 15’s notifications settings. However, doing so also turns off things like reply suggestions and could make it easier again for malicious apps to gather details from all of your notifications.
One week into post-Assad rule in Syria - a view from Damascus
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/14/nx-s1-5229003/one-week-into-post-assad-rule-in-syria-a-view-from-damascus
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
consider also pandoc for a generalized solution: https://pandoc.org/
Assad's fall came too late for one NPR reporter's father
Assad's fall came too late for the father of NPR's Diaa Hadid, who was briefly detained by Syrian forces during their occupation of northern Lebanon.
mcmullin@musicians.today ("David McMullin") wrote:
Almost everyone has decided that they would rather suffer permanent brain damage than the social stigma of being the only one around who doesn’t want brain damage. I don’t get it.
Please be that one masked weirdo who still cares. It will give the second, third and fourth weirdos permission to care too.
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:
#OtD 14 Dec 2008 journalist @muntazer_zaidi threw his shoes at President George W Bush in protest at the US occupation of Iraq, shouting "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq." He resumed his activism after 6 months jail https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8557/muntadhar-throws-shoes-at-gwb
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Medieval Dick Pics Calendar.
This is a real thing that you can buy. I can't tell who made it, but it is available from your favorite sweatshop retailers.
https://jwz.org/b/ykev
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ABC agrees to give $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle lawsuit
ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle a lawsuit over George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that Trump was found liable for raping E. Jean Carroll.
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„Mutation XSS: Explained, CVE and Challenge“
https://jorianwoltjer.com/blog/p/hacking/mutation-xss
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
At the top of your document, you'd have something like:
``
Or it could be done via feature/document policy, as in the NSM proposal [1]:
`Feature-Policy: allow-slow-dom 'none'; ...`
As for the programming model...
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The obvious solution is separate, single, read and write phases per frame. Saw it in action recently in a web-experience-inspired system:
The browser's problem is compatibility. We can't begin to enforce this model without developer opt-in as it would lead to tons of obviously broken content. And even if developers opt in, their libraries will have been written for the earlier era of non-pipelined execution.
This has killed many previous attempts.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
A tricky thing for DOM events is providing nominally backwards compatible callback surface area for the right phases. I'm not sure how much of a problem this will be in practice. We'd need to live with it to find out.
The tricky thing for developers will be all the silent breakage of code that expects synchronous readback by side effect. But maybe breaking a bunch of bad 3rd-party scripts isn't such a bad thing? IDK.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
So there's a bug a the core of the web event lifecycle: we allow reads and writes of UI state to be interleaved. This is, in part, why React's over-abstraction sounded like it could plausibly help[1]. This is something @arv and I noodled on when designing the nu-DOM for Dart...we still need to fix it.
[1]: The ideas was that only the framework would be allowed to do the expensive parts, but that wasn't true; as witnessed by every forced-layout infested React app I trace...which is all of them.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The middle points on the spectrum that enable partial opt-in are a muddle that don't do much to discourage continuing expansion of bad behaviour. But perhaps we could use it as a forcing function to increase use of islands of isolation (e.g. `contain` + Shadow DOM)?
How would all of that work? First, we need page-level opt-in (as the effects of readback are global, rather than local to the script doing the reading). This would *silently* change the behaviour of expensive style readbacks...
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
In code, that might look like:
```js
// Instead of rAF and double-rAF dances...let width;
let foo = document.getElementById("foo");
// New read-only phase
window.requestAfterLayout(() => {
// Writing styles throws, but reads are cheap
width = foo.innerWidth; // Never forces layout!
});
window.requestBeforeLayout(() => {
// Like today, but writes don't take effect until later
foo.attributeStylMap.set("width", CSS.px(width * 2));
assert(width == foo.innerWidth); // true!
});
```
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Needing new versions of all style read/write APIs seems daunting (would bloat the DOM interface...but maybe on Typed OM? Needs exploration), so one option might be to introduce new phased callbacks in which the existing APIs all exist, but work differently than today. In the read-only phase (conceptually "on-after-paint" in today's event loop), writing to styles would either throw or be silently ignored (or queued?). In the write phase, reading styles would never trigger layout.
Luigi Mangione retains high-profile former prosecutor as defense lawyer
Karen Friedman Agnifilo was second-in-command at the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. There, she prosecuted violent crime cases, including those that had "a mental health component."
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UnitedHealth’s New “I Feel Your Pain” PR Blitz:
"The idea that Witty, who earned $23.5 million last year alone and is a Brit literally knighted by the UK, would “understand” the struggle of any ordinary person is of course laughable. But the kinder, gentler tone they’re adopting is interesting and maybe even hopeful because it suggests that even they cannot ignore how angry the public is."
Maybe I’m a cynic, but this sounds ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/unitedhealths-new-i.html
luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
you know you're a 90s kid when your vaccinations were mandatory and no one in your class got measles
Woman who accuses Jay-Z of raping her at 13 shares new details about alleged assault
The woman said that during the alleged assault, she tried to resist but Jay-Z told her to stop. She also acknowledged some inconsistencies in her account but firmly maintained that she was attacked.
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Missed this by Joeri Sebrechts when it was posted a couple of months ago in response to Ryan's WC screed; *wow*:
*"I hold this truth to be self-evident: the larger the abstraction layer a web developer uses on top of web standards, the shorter the shelf life of their codebase becomes, and the more they will feel the churn."*
https://plainvanillaweb.com/blog/articles/2024-09-30-lived-experience/
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Is there a noun for decentralized social media that isn't so clumsy or not affiliated with a particular protocol (Fediverse)?
When I write I keep wanting to use the word "platform" though I know that's incorrect. But there isn't a simple equivalent term.
Or even something more generic. Network? Ecosystem? "Protocol" isn't all encompassing.
Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 100
Bob Fernandez was a 17-year-old sailor on board the USS Curtiss during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that propelled the U.S. into World War II.
YouTube TV is letting some subscribers hold off that price hike
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
YouTube announced a hefty subscription price increase this week that will shoot the monthly cost up by $10 to $82.99 on January 13th for existing members (or now, if you sign up today). Some subscribers are staving off the hike using the time-honored tradition of threatening to cancel, reports 9to5Google.
In a Reddit thread that 9to5Google spotted, several users reported getting the offer to keep paying $72.99 for six more months when they tried to cancel their subscriptions, although some report that didn’t work for them. Some who did get to keep the old price say it happened only when they logged in using a web browser on their computer and pushed through offers to pause their subscription instead.
One Verge staffer, Jennifer Tuohy, did get the offer to extend her current price. She canceled by logging into YouTube TV in a browser on her computer and navigating to Settings > Membership > Manage. As of this morning, Reddit users continue to report receiving the extension offer.
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber isn’t ruling out advertising | TechCrunch:
"“I think the ways we would explore advertising, if we did, would be much more user intent-driven,” said Graber on stage Wednesday at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event in San Francisco. “We want to keep our incentives aligned with users and make sure that we’re not turning into a model where the user’s attention is the product.”"
I think we’re shift into magical ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/14/bluesky-ceo-jay.html
HDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cable
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The group behind the HDMI standard, HDMI Forum, says that it will detail a new spec release in a press conference on January 6th that will enable “a wide range of higher resolutions and refresh rates.” The new capabilities will be “supported with a new cable,” according to the HDMI Forum’s email to The Verge announcing the presser.
The spec is likely to be HDMI 2.2, as VideoCardz notes. The Forum’s email hints at it too, noting that the HDMI Licensing Administrator, which two of the planned speakers at the event represent, is appointed “to license Version 2.2 of the HDMI specification.”
HDMI 2.1, which has only ever received lettered revisions since its 2017 introduction, supports 48Gbps bandwidth, up to 120Hz variable refresh rates, and resolutions up to 10240 x 4320. VideoCardz speculates that the updated spec could allow for higher resolutions and framerates without the need for Display Stream Compression.
Whatever the spec brings, that mention of a new cable is a tidy reminder that like USB-C, not all HDMI cables are the same. It seems unlikely that HDMI Forum would change the port itself, so you’ll probably be able to use your old ones with the updated spec, and some might even support its higher bandwidth. Still, there’s always the chance you need fresh cables to get all of the new capabilities when the time comes.
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tomwellborn3@threads.net ("Tom L. Wellborn") wrote:
Donald Trump has stirred controversy again by selling signed Bibles for $1,000 each at Mar-a-Lago, branding them as "45th President Signature Edition." Critics argue this commodifies a sacred text, aligning faith with transactional politics. Despite backlash, 1,000 copies sold out, raising $1M.
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Indiana Jones, Marvel Rivals, Secret Level, And More Of The Week's Reviews
The long-anticipated Indiana Jones and the Great Circle has finally arrived, and it’s different—and better—that what we expected, really putting you in the boots of Harrison Ford’s adventurous archaeologist to become something of an Indiana Jones simulator. Read our full review for lots more on this terrific new…
'Wait Wait' for December 14, 2024: Live at Carnegie Hall with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
This week, Wait Wait is live at Carnegie Hall with special guest Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and panelists Paula Poundstone, Joyelle Nicole Johnson, and Mo Rocca
Amazon’s latest Kindle Paperwhite is nearly matching its Black Friday low
There may be no setting that the new Paperwhite doesn’t look crisp in. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge
If you missed the first sale on the 2024 Kindle Paperwhiteduring Black Friday, now’s your chance to write your own redemption arc. Right now, you can get Amazon’s newest ad-supported ebook reader at Amazon, Best Buy, and Target for $134.99 ($25 off). That’s still $5 shy of its all-time low, but it’s a pretty good discount this early into its life. You can also get it without ads at Amazon for $154.99 ($25 off).
There’s not much incentive to upgrade if you already own an older Paperwhite, but if you’re an avid reader, you’ll likely appreciate the newly minted seven-inch display, which is the biggest of any Paperwhite to date. It’s also 25 percent brighter than the previous model and features a higher contrast ratio, allowing for improved readability. The jump from 10 weeks of battery life to three months is a more substantial upgrade — as is a new processor, which supposedly makes a big difference when it comes to page-turning speeds — but we’ll need to finish putting Amazon’s latest e-reader through its paces before rendering our final verdict.
However, despite the iterative nature of the aforementioned updates, there’s a good chance the 12th-gen Paperwhite is going to remain the best option for most people. Amazon’s new entry-level Kindle is a bit smaller (and slower), and while the jazzy Kindle Colorsoft offers the best color screen on an e-reader so far, it will run you an extra $120 over the Paperwhite. That’s a lot for a non-essential upgrade.
More deals to beat the holiday crunch
- Now through December 25th, Grid is taking $100 off its Grid 1 frame — which bears the iPhone 2G’s guts for all to see — when you use Verge-exclusive code TV100, which drops it to $299. You can also use code TV20 to take 20 percent off any other product in the studio’s online store, so long as it’s not part of an ongoing promo. Grid’s disassembled, explosive displays offer a museum-style look at the components that make up some of the most iconic gadgets to hit the scene over the years. They’re also a great gift for wannabe tinkerers who appreciate the beauty of circuitry, especially since they’ll arrive before Christmas if you act fast enough.
- If you don’t need a robot vacuum that can sweep your baseboards or empty its own bin, the Eufy 11S Max is on sale at Amazon and Walmart for $129.99 ($120 off), which is one of its better prices to date. The entry-level robovac isn’t the smartest option available, but it’s at least aware enough not to bump into walls or tumble over stairs. The 11S Max offers good carpet and hard surface cleaning with relative quietness, too, and its 600ml bin is roomy enough to go through several cleanings before it needs to be dumped.
- A small, fast charger like Anker’s Prime Charger can come in handy if you’re traveling for the holidays. Luckily, Amazon and Anker are selling the 100W GaN charger for a record-tying $45.99 ($39 off), the latter with promo code WS7DV2FXJI84. Anker’s charger is thin enough not to horde all the space on a wall socket yet fast enough to charge almost anything (laptops included). It has three ports (two USB-C and one USB-A) to cover your charging needs, along with a folding prong for convenient storage.
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There are some user-friendly shells that do some of these things. There are some clever terminals that have some of these features. But they're still both fighting the typewriter protocol dividing them.
SSH to somewhere could create a distinct section in the output log with a different color theme, in a way that actually works and doesn't interfere with color output from programs.
Command completion could have popups with help/manpage fragments, file browsers/search/recents.
Rhode Island’s online benefits system shuts down after cyberattack
Illustration: Beatrice Sala
Rhode Island took its RIBridges system for applying for public assistance programs like Medicaid offline Friday following a cyberattack that may have exposed the personal data of hundreds of thousands of people, reports CBS affiliate WPRI 12.
With its RIBridges system offline, Rhode Islanders won’t be able to log into RIBridges’ web portal or app, used to apply for Medicaid, food stamps, and other state benefits, says a government site providing updates on the breach. Governor Dan McKee said during a press briefing that attackers may have gotten personal info like names, addresses, and social security numbers of those who’ve used the system between 2019 to now.
State Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer Brian Tardiff, who also spoke at the briefing, said the attack is not ransomware, but “more of an extortion type activity by this cybercriminal group.”
The attack also affected HealthSource RI, Rhode Island’s healthcare marketplace. The state hopes to get the system back online before the healthcare open enrollment period ends on January 31st, as WPRI writes. In the meantime, mail-in paper applications and instructions for using them are available at the state’s Department of Human Services website.
The breach update site says that tomorrow, the state will publish the number of a call center for help with the breach, available from 11AM to 8PM ET Sunday morning and from 9AM to 9PM ET Monday through Friday after that. The Rhode Island government also plans to mail instructions for free credit monitoring to those impacted.
Ctrl-R could be a proper multi-line search popup.
Ctrl-Z could detach interactive programs into their own windows.There should never be a need to run | more — the terminal should be able to precisely capture and present the output.
Binary output to the terminal should be displayed as a usable file icon, not as a Matrix Screensaver from Temu.
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therunner01@universeodon.com ("The_Runner_01") wrote:
Brain rot python is so funny.
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Puerto Ricans and Irish would get along so well. Are we sister states? We should be.
ls should create a file browser.
When a compiler prints warnings and errors, I want them to become a sticky list, which gets updated in place when I re-run the build.
If multiple commands are running and printing, I want each get to its own mini scrollback (like a box with overflow:auto), rather than a cacophony of uncontrolled writes into the shared stdout file descriptor.
I want shell input line to be ready and usable at all times, even when a command is printing.
I want PS1 to be realtime GUI widgets, not text that sometimes gets glued to the last command's output.
Donald Trump Wants to End Daylight Saving. That May Not Be a Bad Idea.
Annoyed with time changes in the fall and spring? So is President-elect Donald Trump. On Friday, Trump posted on Truth Social that the “Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time” because it is “inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation.” Ending daylight saving time would also not be that original—two […]
I'd like to have a terminal that is like an IDE, not merely a smart typewriter.
Unfortunately, the traditional Unix separation between terminals and shells limits how good the #UX of each of them can be.
The shell can do a lot of clever things, but it doesn't control the UI, except for a single shared text canvas, through archaic unreliable in-band control codes.
The terminal app could implement any GUI imaginable, except it doesn't know what the shell is doing, and can't reliably control it
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Dagens Morris!
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Infinity Nikki is a fashion-forward Zelda
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Breath of the Styled.
The Fall of Roe, Through the Eyes of High School Girls
Every summer, 50 of the nation’s best and brightest teenage girls gather in Mobile, Alabama, to embark on two of the most intense weeks of their lives. Everybody wants the same thing: to walk away with a $40,000 college scholarship and the title of Distinguished Young Woman of America. Reporter Shima Oliaee competed for Nevada […]
Florida Made It Easier to Involuntarily Commit People. A New Lawsuit Says It’s Violating the Law.
On Wednesday, the nonprofit organization Disability Rights Florida sued the Florida Department of Children and Families, claiming that the state agency failed to collect data and compile comprehensive annual reports on the people it’s involuntarily committing. Florida’s Baker Act, which first passed in 1971, has required specific data—including the length of commitments and the diagnoses […]
fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Suchir Balaji on When does generative AI qualify for fair use?:
"Model developers like OpenAI and Google have also signed many data licensing agreements to train their models on copyrighted data: for example with Stack Overflow, Reddit, The Associated Press, News Corp, etc. It’s unclear why these agreements would be signed if training on this data was “fair use”, but that’s besides the point."
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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
[REO Speedwagon guitar riff]
I can't fight with TypeScript anymore
I've forgotten what I started writing for
There's far too many squiggles to ignore
I think my code is borked
ForeverAnd I can't fight with TypeScript anymore
I've forgotten what this pull was even for
I wanna throw my laptop out the door
From the 32nd floor
Cuz baby I can't fight with TypeScript anymore
L’Oréal Colorsonic review: shades of gray
I wanted the Colorsonic to zap my grays. Instead, I got a lesson in tradeoffs.
Everything We Saw At The 2024 Game Awards And More Of The Week's Top Stories
The 2024 Game Awards were held this past Thursday and unsurprisingly, the reveals that occurred atGeoff Keighley’s big show dwarfed most other happenings in the world of games this week. In addition to our exhaustive breakdown of everything revealed at this year’s event, we’ve got closer looks at The Witcher 4, Mafia:…
One of the year’s best movies was filmed in first person
Actor Brandon Wilson dons the first-person camera rig. | Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures
When RaMell Ross signed on to direct the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, he wanted nearly the entire film to be shot from the first-person perspective. Here’s how he pulled off one of the year’s best and most ambitious movies.
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
most excellent... spent an hour applying my coding idea from last night and (a) it worked like a charm, plus (b) I cut the size of my main module code by 25% 👍
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach dies, 1788
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Portugal joins United Nations, 1955
jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: George Washington dies, 1799
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For the bus enthusiasts 🚌
