My first thought was that Benn Jordan did a great bit of video journalism on this, but it’s already linked from the article, although without any other mention of it.

I’ve never used either so I looked them up; https://htmldecks.com/blog/slidev-vs-revealjs-2025.html says

Reveal.js is a JavaScript framework where you write HTML. It gives you maximum control, works without a build step (for simple decks), and has a decade of battle-testing. It’s the jQuery of presentation frameworks — not trendy, but reliable.

Slidev is a Vite-powered tool where you write Markdown. It gives you a modern developer experience with hot reload, Vue component support, and opinionated defaults that get you to a finished deck faster. It’s the Vite of presentation tools — fast, modern, delightful.

Anyone have any first-hand opinions?

in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin plays a grandad who practices and preaches that heroin is only for the old.

The title here is just the one from the article. Lots of comms insist on that (too much faff to check if this one does since I’m on a phone).

Isn’t picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.

Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.

Zaatar is both the name of a herb (Hyssopus officinalis) and a spice mix, containing the herb along with sumac, salt, etc. Mostly references to zaatar are about the mix as that’s what normal people actually use.

The herb is quite strong, is like a slightly bitter mint, and is also used in Chartreuse and absinthe.

We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.

This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They’ve clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:

We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.

This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.

Tell me more about these bunkers, let’s Streisand this.

You mean because businesses don’t pay VAT? In that case it makes sense to not include it.

It’s also for learning English, which is something a large language model is probably the most suitable for. It’s not going to be much use teaching music or drama.

A transparent divide and conquer ploy

There are plenty of companies still selling actual chocolate, and since it’s chocolate and not chocolate-flavoured sweets I think it’ll just become smaller and/or more expensive. Which is fine.

I think seeing the drink immediately fizz up massively was worth having the information come via video.

The video does end with that recommendation, but personally I often find myself out and about thinking “I wish I had brought a straw”. They don’t fit in pockets very well, and I don’t usually carry a bag.

The Industrial Accelerator Act is intended to bolster European industry against cheaper imports from Asia.

In my head, Japan is sitting there wearing lederhosen as a disguise.

FFS, can’t we have anything!?

If we’re replacing cilia as well, the fact that respiratory cilia exists means she’s probably got severe to fatal breathing problems too.

I’m still deciding how much I agree or disagree with this. It’s true that they do cite books which you often can’t read online, but adding information backed up by a paywalled proof feels a bit “trust me bro”. E.g. I could find/create a site with an impossibly large paywall and no-one would realistically able to check my sources.

You’re absolutely right, I’ll edit my comment. Thanks for the catch.

Disgraceful, old-fashioned actions from the unnamed diving certifiers, and given that he’s a registered PADI instructor, I think it’s clear that PADI puts their reputation above child safety.

I would add that I’m not sure 30 days is “generous” given that 90 days is somewhat standard, but given that it took only two days for a lawyer’s threats to arrive that’s too relevant.