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Anthropic announces a new public benefit fund, beyond what the existing b-corp can do:
The Anthropic Public Benefit Fund will have increased flexibility and scale, enabling us to pursue our mission in new ways: for example, we might explore large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.
A little mysterious. I wonder what they have in mind (or if they know).
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is n00bdragon with a comment about Florida’s age-gating law and its esoteric definition of addiction: Is anyone else bothered by this incredibly strange definition of “addiction”? Is YMCA soccer addicting if 10% of a youth soccer team (one player) plays soccer for more than two […] -
There's a fun site that keeps track of Codex resets. OpenAI is in the middle of a nutty 28-day challenge to ship new features every day or give resets. Feels like a "bank error in your favor" every few days.
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Crossing into Wisconsin. 🚂
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I wrote a piece entitled The Web of Markdown on Oct 6. I have to keep looking it up, but I do remember writing it very quickly and deciding it needed a memorable title, like the ones about textcasting, and podcasting and all the other bits that went on to be something. It's one of those times when it seems to have potential with other developers, they seem to see the same logic in it that I do. A way to disconnect from VC control of the web and try again with the open basis, the un-owned basis. There was a fork here at some point in the last 10 or so years, we just refused to see it as such. And btw it was not a very polite piece, but I wasn't feeling polite when I wrote and decided not to edit the anger out of it. I don't like having been so wrong. But it's a fact and denying it doesn't change it. - I rearranged my workstation to accommodate my new coffee machine this…
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Mark Gurman is pretty down on the iPhone Duo launch:
Apple has dealt with launch shortages before, but a three-month wait for a new iPhone is practically unprecedented.
Doesn't bother me, but I know some developers are annoyed that they can't test their apps for months.
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Along the Mississippi River as we head out of Minneapolis. 🚂
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Newsairy: a highly customisable, iCloud-native RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Hi r/rss, a quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. It's been about a month since my last post here (1.19 back in September), so a quick recap before the headline:
- 1.20 — on-device AI summaries, run entirely offline (nothing leaves your phone)
- 1.21 — Find in Article, quicker per-feed Open With, more reliable OPML import
- 1.21.1 — OPML export straight from a connected sync service
1.21.2 brings List Endings — this one came from a suggestion on Reddit, actually: if you use Mark as Read on Scroll, a button now clears the last few articles stuck at the bottom of the list, and another jumps straight to the next feed with unread items. The app is also better optimized for iPhone Duo now, both closed and open — tested on the Simulator only so far, since I don't have the real device yet either.
A few more highlights:
- Get a short AI summary of any article, generated entirely on your device (iOS 26+) — nothing leaves your phone
- Themes including Sepia
- A customisable article list (layout, density, thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot, 0–6 preview lines); tune the reading view's font and text size
- Smart Feeds for the latest news, and Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles from every source, with keywords to include and keywords to mute
- Read History, sorted by when you read each article
- Three independent retention rules for how long articles stick around
- Offline preview, full text set per feed (as published, extracted automatically, or downloaded ahead of time)
- OPML import/export, including exporting straight from a connected sync service
For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
I have a long todo list, but I'm always open to suggestions — if there's a feature or a use case you'd like to see, let me know.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985
More info on the site: https://qebapps.statichost.page/newsairy/
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I'm feeling so lucky that I get to build software for people like @patrickrhone. We were able to catch up this morning as my train stopped just long enough at the Minneapolis - St. Paul station.
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Help Build A Modern Crowdsourced RSS Directory List
I've spent the last 3 months culling garbage-filled articles like '175 Best RSS Directories Of 2026' filled with a dead-zone of links to a bygone era. What a mess! Help me curate a truly modern and useful list of RSS feed submission sites for rssdirectories.com
I welcome your RSS directory recommendations and experiences of truly active feed directories & apps that get your content seen, deliver human traffic, and show up as referrers & backlinks in your website stats.
Old-School feed reader apps don't make the cut. The newest generation are a hybrid of BOTH Feed Readers AND a Public Directory. The only reader apps that I want to include on the site are those where your own feeds get added to a searchable database for immediate discovery. (Several developers in /RSS have mentioned their projects here recently that do just that.) Awesome!👍
Feel free to share web feed directories that work for you - either here in comments, in a private DM, or on the contact page at the RSSDirectories site. Thanks!
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2026-10-18 13:22: Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide...
Terence Eden asking on Mastodon what people's setups look like. Here's mine - 38" ultrawide LG monitor that docks to my Framework 13, Fully standing desk, fish tank and motorbike helmets on the wall. I love my home office, but I do like heading into the office too.
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Year 4 at the Smallholding
So today marks the 4th anniversary of us moving to our 2.5 acre smallholding in north Wales. I can't believe it's been 4 years already - it feels like 5 minutes ago that I wad writing my 3 years at the smallholding post.
Last year's update wasn't as positive as previous years thanks to us having to get a new roof, which cost a shit tonne of money, and caused leaks all over the house. But I'm happy to say that the update for this year is mostly positive. I ended last year's post by saying:
If next year I can get the polytunnel and conservatory done, I'll class that as a win. I'd love to get a quad bike for towing the flail too, but again...money.
Unfortunately there's no poly tunnel, no insulation in the conservatory, and no quad bike in the barn. Let me explain...
Goats
In March of this year we decided it would be a good idea to get some goats. My wife had been talking to a goat farmer in mid-Wales for a few months, and we decided the time was right to get some. So we ordered 4 male pygmy goats and brought them home in the back of the car!
Our first 4 goats arriving homeWhile we were at the farm, the farmer showed us a beautiful half pygmy, half "normal" goat and her 2 kids, along with a little pygmy goat that followed her around like a lost puppy. We immediately warmed to all of them, but we couldn't fit them in the car, so we had to pass.
After a week or so of thinking about them, my wife decided to head back down there and pick them up too. So we ended up with 8 goats all together. I'm really glad that my wife decided to get the second batch, as the mum (now called Betsy) is so friendly and one of my favourite of the group.
Betsy being lovely (as usual)Improving their home
We're very lucky to have a pair of stables at the back of our property, one was already used by the chickens, so we setup the other for the goats. However, the stables and surrounding needed some work. We had to:
- Install a land drain and level the ground
- Extend the hard standing around the stables
- Get some fencing installed
- Replace the doors and windows
- Install ventilation and power
- Create a "rock wall" for the goats to play on
Unfortunately this all took up what little budget we had left following the roof, so the poly tunnel and insulation in the conservatory had to wait.
We completed the renovations on the stables and both the chickens and the goats now have a lovely little home that has lots of space, but (more importantly) meets their needs.
Goats and chickens on the rock wallHere's a little gallery of how the work progressed on the stables:
Land drain installed and ground leveled
Extended hard standing around the stables
Fencing being installed
New windows and doors being installed
All finished...ish
Bonus photo of a happy Lando sitting in his food bowl
Chickens
As well as goats, we decided to add to our flock of chickens, but instead of just buying more we wanted to do it a little differently. We have a rooster now, so all our eggs are fertilised and we decided to try and hatch some eggs instead. We also wanted to get something a little different, so my wife bought some guinea fowl eggs, which we put under a broody hen to see if they would hatch. They did, and we ended up with 5 beautiful (but noisy) guinea fowl.
Three of the fowl keets
The other 2 with their adopted mum, Nugget
4 of the 5 fowl today, still with Nugget
The guinea fowl were a great success - 5 of the 6 eggs hatched. So we decided to attempt the same thing with some of our chicken eggs, especially since a fox had gotten one of the hens and we wanted to hatch some of her eggs. Unfortunately we had no broody hens at the time, so we decided to buy an incubator and cheat.
We attempted to hatch 12 eggs, but only 3 were successful unfortunately. We think 2 of them are roosters too, so we will see how that goes as they grow up and undoubtedly challenge their dad. We're thinking about doing it again this spring, but we're worried about having a plethora of roosters and what we will ultimately have to do to them. 💀
Finally I installed some new perches for the chickens to roost on in the evening. Below is a removable shelf that makes things way easier to clean.
Another blow
So at this point we had used up everything we had saved. We had literally nothing in our savings account. Then we noticed that our older dog, Tia, who's 14, was getting very smelly breath and whenever she was chewing her favourite ball, her mouth was bleeding.
So we took her to the vets and they told us she had a fairly common type of benign tumour growing in her mouth. Although it was benign, it was very aggressive and if left untreated she would have 6-12 months if she was lucky. And it would be a very uncomfortable end for her.
We had to get it looked at, but this was going to cost thousands and in a 14 year old dog, I wasn't sure if it was worth it. The last thing we wanted was to put her through all this only to find out in a few months that she had another terminal condition that would end her life anyway.
I know that sounds heartless, but I think at times like this it's important to be practical and take into account how much the dog will suffer, and whether we're doing it for us, or them.
She needed a CT scan on her jaw to see if surgery was viable, so we decided to get a full body CT scan done instead. This would give us a good indication if anything else untoward was going on in her body. Lucky for us the CT came back all clear and the surgery on her jaw was viable, so we went ahead.
Three operations, 1 infection, and lots of discomfort later for poor Tia, and she's now fully recovered after having around 40% of her lower jaw removed. Unfortunately for her, this means her rather large tongue often dangles out of her mouth these days. But we think she's still gorgeous.
As if this wasn't punishment enough, we also got a new puppy, Nelly, at the same time that Tia was going through all this. So managing a sick dog, a new puppy, and keeping 2 kids entertained during their summer holidays really wasn't a fun time.
We had bought Nelly way before we knew Tia was sick. The kids knew she was coming, and we had all met Nell multiple times. So although we knew it would be a nightmare, we didn't want to renege on buying her. Let me tell you, dear reader, it was rough. Like, really rough, but we're glad we stuck it out because Nelly is beautiful and such a wonderful addition to our family.
What's next?
Tia's surgery ended up costing us around £6,000 (~$8,000). We already had no money, so it had to go on a credit card, which we will pay off over the next few months.
Our plans for year 5 are the same as year 4, I think - we'd love to get a poly tunnel in and the roof in the conservatory insulated so we can use it all year round. But we will need to see how the finances go - hopefully there will be no more unexpected expenses for a little while. We can only hope.
In the meantime we continue to enjoy our brood of various animals and the little plot we call home.
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Have Republicans Already Blown the Midterms?
With two weeks until the midterms, Amy Walter, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Cook Political Report, sits down with Dan to break down what she calls the most brutal political environment Republicans have faced in twenty years.
They discuss whether the numbers indicate a "blue wave" or a "red undertow," whether the polls can be trusted, and why massive Republican spending can't outrun Trump's cost-of-living crisis and his war in Iran. They also dig into the strategy—or lack thereof—behind Trump's rally blitz, whether gerrymandering has backfired on the GOP, and why Democrats may actually perform better in red states than in blue ones this November.
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I watched the 🎥 The Wrecking Crew. Relatively formulaic. It worked. Not hard now - but it worked.
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I watched 🎥 Matchbox the Movie so you don't have to. If you must - go for it. But please - don't do it for me.
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okaeri, a minimal homepage using a local ranking model
Hey all! I'd built some Glance pages to follow science and tech news, and colleagues turned out to be interested too. One thing led to another, and I kinda overengineered it into okaeri.
okaeri is a minimal homepage that runs locally. It pulls in feeds you pick during an onboarding process (it comes with a catalog of papers, blogs and news sources), and a small embedding model on your machine learns from what you open, like and hide to put the most relevant stories on top. Your reading history stays on your device.
It runs on macOS, Linux & Windows (Windows needs some more testing though!). Fully open source (AGPL), source code and UI examples can be found here! Install instructions can be found in the README.
I'd love some feedback, and contributions are also welcome!
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NewsNinja - Feeds Dashboard with RSS, Reddit, X, Youtube, Bluesky, Mastodon support & more [iOS, iPadOS, MacOS, VisionOS]
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Work the exact hours, do precisely what’s asked, don’t ask questions and focus on what the boss wants.
We modeled ‘good worker’ behavior in school. “Will this be on the test?” was the key question for 100 years. Do what the teacher asks for, and don’t overthink it.
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Looking over stats for the Mac app. 90% of users on macOS 26 or 27. 98% on Apple Silicon. Only thing I'd like to change going forward is to check for new versions a little more aggressively, so people don't miss out on improvements. I'm not sure the 2006-era Sparkle UI is the best in 2026.
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La justice, l'attente et le pouvoir de nous voler notre temps
Il existe une forme de violence dont on parle rarement : celle qui consiste à faire attendre.
Je suis tombé sur une vidéo évoquant Pas de lettre pour le colonel, de Gabriel García Márquez. Dans ce roman, un ancien colonel attend depuis quinze ans une pension que l’État lui doit. Chaque semaine, il espère recevoir une lettre. Chaque semaine, rien n’arrive.
Mais c’est une réflexion de l’auteur de la vidéo qui m’a profondément marqué :
« Faire attendre quelqu’un, c’est lui rappeler que sa vie ne dépend pas de lui, mais de la décision d’un autre. »
Cette phrase met des mots sur quelque chose que je ressens depuis des années.
Depuis 2017, nous attendons que la justice française avance dans l’affaire OKC-Spatz. Mais notre histoire judiciaire commence bien avant, en 1997, avec les premières grandes perquisitions visant la secte Ogyen Kunzang Chöling.
Près de trente ans.
Trente années pendant lesquelles nous avons grandi, vieilli, tenté de nous reconstruire et de vivre, tandis qu’une partie de notre existence restait suspendue aux décisions des tribunaux.
Et cette attente n’a rien d’ordinaire.
Car Robert Spatz n’est pas simplement un ancien dirigeant d’une dérive sectaire religieuse bénie par les plus grandes références du Bouddhisme Tibétain.
Il est le fondateur de la secte OKC, son gourou, celui autour duquel toute notre existence avait été organisée. Un pédocriminel condamné par la justice belge pour des abus sexuels et physiques sur mineurs, des faits d’emprise et d’autres infractions graves, mine de rien c’est plus de 170 chefs d’accusations qui se sont écroulés avec le temps de la Justice.
Un homme dont deux de ses anciens médecins personnels, aujourd’hui eux-mêmes sortis de l’organisation, ont décrit, selon leurs appréciations cliniques, un psychopathe doublé d’un pervers narcissique et d’un pédocriminel.
Ces termes ne sont pas, pour moi, de simples insultes destinées à exprimer mes propos.
Ils renvoient à des appréciations de professionnels qui l’ont personnellement connu. Mais au-delà de toute qualification psychologique qui en principe aurait dû informer la justice sur la dangerosité du personage, ce sont surtout ses actes, son emprise et ses crimes reconnus par la justice qui importent.
Et surtout, cette histoire ne s’est pas simplement arrêtée lorsque les autorités ont commencé à enquêter. Bien au contraire puisque ces derniers abus en Belgique se passe à la barbe des autorités près de Charleroi et qu’il a même le toupet de se tirer en Espagne, pendant l’instruction judiciaire.
Nous dénonçons depuis des années des faits et des comportements qui, selon les témoignages et signalements recueillis, se seraient poursuivis pendant les procédures judiciaires.
Des inquiétudes subsistent également sur ce qui a pu continuer à se produire après son installation en Espagne.
Ces accusations méritent d’être examinées, précisément parce que l’ouverture d’une procédure ne signifie pas nécessairement la fin de l’emprise ni celle des abus. Bien au contraire.
C’est à la lumière de cette réalité qu’il faut comprendre ce que représente notre attente.
Le temps qu’il nous a volé c’est aussi le temps qu’il a pris pour continuer ces crimes.
Nous sommes nés dans cette secte. Nous y avons passé notre enfance et notre adolescence, pour certains plus de vingt ans de notre existence.
Nous avons grandi isolés du monde extérieur, privés d’une éducation normale, d’une véritable formation, des outils les plus élémentaires pour comprendre la société dans laquelle nous allions devoir un jour vivre.
Nous avons été endoctrinés, soumis à une autorité présentée comme spirituelle et incontestable, et maintenus dans l’ignorance de la réalité des accusations et des procédures judiciaires visant l’OKC et ses dirigeants.
Pendant que la justice enquêtait, nous étions encore prisonniers de son système.
Et lorsque nous avons finalement réussi à en sortir, il ne suffisait pas de franchir une porte pour devenir libres.
Il fallait apprendre à vivre. Comprendre le monde. Acquérir une formation, trouver un travail, reconstruire des relations humaines, comprendre ce que nous avions subi et, pour beaucoup, apprendre à mettre des mots sur des violences que nous avions été conditionnés à considérer comme normales.
Il fallait également trouver la force de dénoncer celui qui avait occupé une place centrale dans toute notre existence.
Tout cela prend du temps.
Des années, parfois des décennies.
Ce temps de reconstruction n’était pas un choix. C’était une conséquence directe de l’emprise et des violences que nous avions subies.
Et pendant ce temps, Robert Spatz continuait sa vie, disposant de ressources financières et matérielles considérables, loin des conditions dans lesquelles nous tentions, nous, de reconstruire les nôtres.
Le temps qui lui a profité
C’est ici que notre histoire devient révoltante.
En Belgique, Robert Spatz a finalement été condamné à cinq ans de prison avec sursis. Le dépassement du fameux « délai raisonnable » a notamment contribué à cette issue, je ne vais pas m’attarder ici sur le rôle de la justice belge et française dans cet état des lieux.
Le droit à être jugé dans un délai raisonnable est un principe fondamental de notre justice. Et je ne conteste pas qu’il doive exister.
Mais il y a quelque chose de profondément pervers dans son application à notre histoire.
Comment un homme peut-il bénéficier du temps écoulé alors que ses propres agissements ont contribué à créer les conditions de cette attente ?
Par l’endoctrinement. Par le contrôle de l’information. Par l’isolement des victimes. Par les obstacles procéduraux. Par toutes ces années pendant lesquelles nous n’étions tout simplement pas en mesure de nous défendre.
Bien sûr, tous les retards judiciaires ne lui sont pas imputables. Les dysfonctionnements des institutions ont aussi leur responsabilité. Et ils continuent encore aujourd’hui.
Mais comment la justice peut-elle mesurer le temps écoulé sans mesurer celui qu’il nous a fallu pour échapper à son emprise ?
Comment peut-elle considérer les années de procédure sans prendre pleinement en compte les décennies de silence et de dépendance qui les ont précédées ?
Le temps qu’il nous a fallu pour devenir capables de le dénoncer a contribué à devenir le temps dont il a bénéficié pour échapper à une peine de prison ferme.
La justice lui a fait un cadeau qu’il s’est préparé lui meme.
Voilà le scandale.
Il bénéficie du temps une première fois en nous maintenant sous son emprise, dans l’ignorance et l’incapacité de nous défendre.
Il en bénéficie une seconde fois lorsque l’écoulement de ce même temps contribue à atténuer les conséquences pénales de ses actes.
Et il en bénéficie une troisième fois avec la prescription d’abus sexuels sur mineurs.
C’est pas beau comme plan ?
Et nous ? Nous avons payé chaque année de notre propre existence.
Une justice conçue par des hommes, pour des hommes
Notre justice est l’héritière d’institutions historiquement conçues et dirigées par des hommes, avec une préoccupation centrale : protéger les droits de la personne accusée contre les abus du pouvoir judiciaire.
Ces garanties sont indispensables. Personne ne devrait vouloir d’une justice qui condamne arbitrairement.
Mais à force de placer la protection de l’accusé au centre du système, quelle place réelle reste-t-il à celles et ceux qui ont subi les crimes ?
Le droit au délai raisonnable existe aussi, dans certaines conditions, pour les victimes qui font valoir leurs droits civils. Mais dans notre histoire, nous n’en avons guère vu les effets.
Lorsque le délai raisonnable est dépassé pour l’accusé, la justice peut en tirer des conséquences sur sa peine.
Lorsque les victimes ont attendu trente ans, que reçoivent-elles en compensation du temps perdu ?
Et quid de la prescription? Littéralement un laisser passer pour les pédocriminels.
Qui leur rend leur enfance ? Leur éducation ? Leur jeunesse ? Les années consacrées à survivre plutôt qu’à vivre ?
La justice reconnaît le préjudice des crimes. Mais reconnaît-elle suffisamment le préjudice de sa propre lenteur ?
Car la procédure judiciaire peut elle-même devenir une violence supplémentaire. Répéter son histoire. Revivre les abus. Attendre une expertise, une audition, une décision. Voir les années passer sans savoir si les responsables seront un jour pleinement jugés.
L’attente c’est l’horreur.
Tout cela pendant que celui qui a été condamné continue à vivre librement.
Je ne demande pas une justice privée de garanties.
Je demande une justice qui cesse de considérer le temps des victimes comme une ressource inépuisable.
L’attente comme prolongement de l’emprise, oui, car d’une manière plus subtile, Robert Spatz est en jouissance de voir son nom écris sur cette page et de constater qu’il occupe encore nos pensées et nos mots.
Nous avons quitté OKC. Nous avons rejeté son autorité. Nous avons dénoncé ses crimes. Nous avons obtenu sa condamnation en Belgique.
Et pourtant, près de trente ans après les premières perquisitions, nous sommes encore contraints de consacrer une partie de notre vie à lui, à ses actes, aux procédures qui le concernent.
Comme si, même après notre départ, il pouvait encore nous imposer son calendrier.
Vous pouvez partir, mais vous n’en aurez pas fini avec moi.
C’est cela, la violence de l’attente.
Et c’est la Justice qui l’organise.
Elle ne nous enferme plus derrière les murs de Château de Soleils ou dans les dogmes d’OKC. Elle nous maintient dans une autre forme de dépendance : celle d’une justice qui tarde à nous permettre de refermer ce chapitre de notre existence.
Le temps ne nous sera jamais rendu
Avec l’association Chardons Bleus https://chardonsbleus.org, nous continuons à accompagner les parties civiles et à nous battre pour que la justice française assume enfin ses responsabilités.
Non par vengeance. Mais parce que la reconnaissance des crimes, l’établissement des responsabilités et la fin de l’impunité sont essentiels.
Nous ne récupérerons jamais nos enfances.
Nous ne retrouverons jamais les années passées à grandir dans l’isolement, ni celles perdues à essayer de réparer les conséquences de cette vie.
Mais nous refusons que cette perte continue à profiter à celui qui en porte une responsabilité majeure.
García Márquez avait compris quelque chose d’essentiel : le pouvoir ne détruit pas toujours les êtres humains par la violence directe. Il peut aussi les détruire en les faisant attendre.
Pour nous, cette attente dure depuis près de trente ans.
Et elle révèle un paradoxe insupportable :
Celui qui nous a volé notre temps a également bénéficié du temps que la justice a laissé passer.
Nous avons payé ce temps de nos vies. Lui en a bénéficié jusque dans sa condamnation.
Il serait temps que la justice comprenne enfin que le temps des victimes n’est pas une variable d’ajustement de ses procédures ou une case à cochée pour les carriéristes qui passent sur notre dossier en le mettant de côté.
Parce qu’une justice qui arrive trop tard ne se contente pas de retarder la réparation : elle risque de prolonger la violence qu’elle était censée faire cesser.
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Carrel: An RSS reader with peer-to-peer sharing
Article URL: https://carrel.network
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Le pouvoir ne détruit pas toujours les humains par la violence, il l’est détruit...
Le pouvoir ne détruit pas toujours les humains par la violence, il l’est détruit aussi et souvent par l’attente.
Faire attendre quelqu’un, c’est lui rappeler que sa vie ne dépend pas de lui, mais de la décision d’un autre.
C’est ce que la Justice fait du haut de son piédestal.
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I took this shot of the stars from Puget Sound a few days ago, then didn't even look at the result on my phone because I just assumed it would be blurry. Actually it turned out pretty neat. If I had known, I'd have tried again and fiddled with the exposure.
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This Week In Techdirt History: October 11th – 17th
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In John Gruber's initial thoughts on the HomeView, he wonders about the odd $300 pricing for both the regular HomeView and the wall-mounted version:
So the wall-mounted version, when you include a mount, costs more but sounds worse? This doesn’t make sense.
I was thinking about this too. All I can come up with is that Apple doesn't want you to buy the wall-mounted version unless you're really sure that's what you need. If the wall-mounted version was cheaper, some people might buy it based on price, then be unhappy because it's too much trouble to install.
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No wi-fi and intermittent cell coverage for this trip, as expected. Somehow I managed to upload a video when we got back near a town. I used the offline time to write some code by hand (gasp!) and do yet more editing on the book.
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Morning in Montana. 🚂
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I was thinking continuing or forking the work done by the excellent indie.pass t...
I was thinking continuing or forking the work done by the excellent indie.pass to bring a #Micropub mobile app to the stores… But… Since I have managed to make Plume work on mobile, I’m questioning the need for a native micropub mobile app altogether.
This post is created from Plume on my mobile, it works on Vivaldi or Firefox mobile nightly, out of the box.
Publishing and maintaining app stores app have become so tedious, I’m not sure I want to do any of that if I can avoid it.
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From Sh*t to Sunshine: In Conversation with Raylynn Van Oort
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In this episode, Kacey interviews author and speaker Raylynn Van Oort about her memoir, From Shit to Sunshine, which recounts how childhood experiences with a controlling stepfather primed her for manipulation by a charismatic preacher-politician who claimed to speak for God and eventually claimed to be God.
After meeting him at McDonald’s, she became his unpaid campaign manager/executive director, was isolated from family, coerced into surrendering money and using credit cards in members’ names, and endured coercive control, public humiliation, beatings, and forced “med runs” to obtain drugs and alcohol during a period he called “atonement.”
She was ultimately arrested for writing bad checks for the group, spent 13 months jail-hopping, and found her first physical safety behind bars, though mental freedom came years later; in 2010 she named it a cult, sought specialised therapy after appearing on Dr. Phil, and spent five years in intensive recovery. She now promotes hope through speaking and book events, calls herself a “hope hooker,” and the book is available in print and audio narrated by her.
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J’aime bien ce que fait Infomaniak dans tous les domaines de la Tech que cette b...
J’aime bien ce que fait Infomaniak dans tous les domaines de la Tech que cette boîte Suisse touche depuis plus de 30 ans, c’était d’ailleurs mon premier hébergeur pour mes premiers sites Web il y a plus de 20 ans…
Ce qu’il font avec l’IA et leurs datacenters est un modèle à suivre en terme d’intégration dans la ville, la prise en compte de leur impact climat et leur capacité à recycler la chaleur produite pour de l’eau chaude, douches, chauffage et j’en passe.
Comme quoi c’est possible de faire autrement.
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I didn't notice it at the time, but in the all the work we did about blogging, we had open channels of communiation, meant to make everyone feel like they had a stake. Big mistake, because they took this too literally and the way many people communicated was through orders, demands or ultimata. All of it came from the power we gave them by making everyone's voice supposedly equal. Of course they weren't all equal. Power has to be a function of your contribution. And as it says in Rules, power comes from users of your product. If being compatible with you means I have access to more users, then I will listen. I will also listen if you remain respectful -- and don't presume to give me an order. Someone just did that today, and it froze me, then I re-read the message and it was an order, and not nicely phrased, condescending, presumptive, and very wrong. I started writing a reply, even posted one, then realized what was going on, and deleted my reply and blocked the person.
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It's time to make your own RSS reader
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This Might Be the Earliest Known Spear Murder In Earth’s History
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#566: State of the art in Python 2026
Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reopened almost every one of those choices. Some tools got faster. Others got replaced outright. On this episode, a panel takes stock of the state of the art in Python for 2026. Calvin Hendryx-Parker is CTO and co-founder of Six Feet Up. Pat Decker works in DevOps at Hibu. Reuven Lerner has trained Python developers for 15 years. Sydney Runkle does product management for open source at LangChain. One of them barely opens an editor anymore. Listen in to hear the surprising replacement.
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2026-10-17 11:37: We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing...
We had a Hotpoint engineer come out to repair our washing machine yesterday. While replacing the machine, he forgot to connect the waste pipe and we came down to this mess this morning. 😡
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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Show HN: Biblio Times, your RSS feeds, typeset as a morning newspaper (Mac/iOS)
the concept is not new but seem like people miss this newspaper in someway.
The news is fetched on your own device, and nothing passes through your servers. That’s also why a traffic spike can’t take it down.
The halftone photographs, the fold on iPhone and Duo, and the page curl.
We are submitting a new update with OPML import. and will continue support the development.
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This One Skill Makes Every Relationship Better
If you want stronger relationships with the people in your life, there’s one skill you can get better at right now: empathy.
Empathy isn’t just something you feel. It’s something you practice – in the small, everyday moments when someone needs to feel understood, supported, remembered, or cared for.In this episode, Mel teaches you 4 simple, research-backed ways to practice empathy and build more trust, connection, and closeness with your partner, family, friends, coworkers, and even people you’ve just met.
You’ll learn how to stop assuming you know what someone is feeling and truly understand them.
You’ll see how to turn the thought “I should reach out” into real connection.
And you’ll know how to show up for someone who is struggling without putting the burden on them to tell you what they need.
Mel also shares fascinating research on connection, a powerful lesson from organizational psychologist Adam Grant on the small gestures that strengthen relationships, and an unforgettable story from the late Judge Frank Caprio about what it really means to see the person standing in front of you.
You’ll learn:
-The simple question that can help someone feel truly understood
-How to get people to open up to you without pushing
-How to stop overthinking and finally reach out
-A better way to support someone who’s overwhelmed
-How to show up for people in the good moments, too
-The small actions that quietly build trust over time
- How to create more moments of connection in your everyday life
Strong relationships are built in the small moments. And when you start showing up differently in those moments, you don’t just make someone else’s life better.
You make your own life better, too.This episode is sponsored by our exclusive insurance partner, Amica.
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Jim Crow Returns...One Congressional District at a Time
2026 would have been a reelection year for Rep. Cleo Fields, who represents the majority-Black 6th Congressional District in Louisiana. But in April, the US Supreme Court handed down a decision that led to the dismantling of his district. This was the second time that a district Fields served was taken out from under him.
“I’ve never served a single day in Congress without a federal lawsuit looming over my head,” Fields says. In his view, the court’s ruling was an enormous blow to Black voters across the South. “They basically gutted Section 2 and basically ended the Voting Rights Act.”
The Voting Rights Act is a signature piece of legislation passed during the civil rights era of the 1960s to remove restrictions that made it difficult for African Americans to vote. But the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Louisiana v. Callais gutted the VRA by making it more difficult for people of color to challenge districts on the grounds that they are discriminatory.
On this week’s Reveal, we look at how the decision will affect Black voters in Louisiana and throughout the South and examine how the Roberts court borrowed arguments from Supreme Court decisions that undermined Black civil rights more than a century ago, paving the way for the Jim Crow system of segregation.
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MLB Plans To Play Stupid Games With Its Website Again In Upcoming Lockout
Back in the much simpler times of 2021, we wrote about some of the games Major League Baseball decided to play as part of a brief owner’s lockout of players while both sides negotiated a collective bargaining agreement. This included essentially scrubbing the MLB website of all pictures of current players, stories about current players, […] -
On the Empire Builder. Starting to turn east, with the moon in the sky. 🚂
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Seattle light rail.
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Something Else To Look Forward To: AI Worms
Back in the early days of the Internet – 1988 to be precise – the self-replicating computer program known as the Morris worm spread across the network and shut down thousands of online VAX and Sun computers. It was a good example of software not going rogue, but doing exactly what its creator had intended […] -
Turn newsletters and blogs into a podcast feed!
Newsletter to Podcast is an open-source Python tool that turns newsletters and blogs into an RSS podcast feed! You can pick the sources, generate audio, and subscribe to the resulting feed in a podcast app that supports custom RSS (I use Castbox).
Repo: https://github.com/akspad/newsletter-to-podcast
Audio demo: https://akspad.github.io/newsletter-to-podcast/
License: MITThe project supports full article narration as well as spoken summaries. Full narration uses Edge TTS and needs no API key; summaries use Gemini and require your own key (though the free limit is quite generous)! You can set a maximum episode length and longer full readings split into numbered parts at natural text boundaries.
There’s a prerecorded sample on the demo page, and a simple command in the README that fetches an original sample article and generates fresh audio without an API key. The package can run locally or on a schedule in your own GitHub repository using GitHub Actions!
Deployment:
Run it locally with Python 3.12+ or use the included GitHub Actions workflow (recommended, and setup instructions are in the GitHub README). You host the generated MP3s and RSS feed wherever your podcast app can reach them.
Speech generation uses Microsoft’s online Edge TTS service (which is unofficial and can break or be throttled sporadically...) Optional summaries send article text to Gemini to be summarized. GitHub Pages publishing is available, but makes the generated feed and audio public (I use this since it's free hosting)!
AI Involvement:
I painstakingly steered AI to help creating this tool! In the application itself, article summaries use AI (Gemini) but are optional. Full narration skips the summarization step and uses text-to-speech directly.
Motivation:
I wanted to turn some of my favorite newsletters into podcasts (like Seth’s Blog and A Learning A Day) and couldn’t find a free and simple solution that already existed. Let me know what you think!
https://github.com/akspad/newsletter-to-podcast
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Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black...
Charles Harley on Subway Takes: “I don’t think Black people should have to pay for ancestry.com. Why do I have to pay you to figure out where you stole me from?”
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Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out....
Illustrator and writer Luis Mendo’s second book is out. “The only website that once a year becomes a book.” I have Book One and it’s lovely…
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Chromatic Inkscapes
I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations. It was difficult to narrow them down to the few favorites above. I posted about Fuhrer’s pen plotted art a couple of years ago…I like the direction he’s taking this.
Tags: Adam Fuhrer · art
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: No Good Feed Goes Unpunished
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […] -
Not a vibe-coded app, built over about two years: Chaski, a calmer way to read the web.
Hello, I came back to this subreddit and I saw a lot of people publishing apps, well, I'm posting mine too, and sorry if this is annoying. I can just say in my defense that I didn't vibe-code it to get some money out of it. I use it every day to read news. And this week I released a new version with a lot of changes, including:
- Full GReader API support, so you can connect your FreshRSS server to it.
- Android build! This was exciting for me, seeing my app running on mobile too.
- A lot of refactoring in the UI/UX.
- And recently published on Flathub for Linux users! https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.a_chacon.chaski
You can see the entire changelog here: https://github.com/a-chacon/chaski-app/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
I'm here to ask you for feedback on the Android version. Currently the APK can only be downloaded from the release page. The next goal is to publish it on F-Droid! I don't want money from it, I just want people to be able to read the web without algorithms and big companies deciding what to see and what to hide.
https://github.com/a-chacon/chaski-app/releases/tag/app-v0.8.1
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Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s...
Margaret Atwood in 2023: Go Ahead and Ban My Book. “It’s very hard to control what young people get their hands on, especially if they’re told something is too old for them, or too evil, or too immoral.”