@redcrew I have a patch of #CheloneLyonii in my garden, left by a previous owner. They're not native in Quebec, where I live, but they're from this continent, so they get a pass. They're beautiful and the bumblebees go crazy for them. I think C. glabra are similar pollinator pleasers.

@sebsauvage
Ça compte encore Adaway ou c'est obsolète ?

I was wondering, is there an alternative to #JavaScript for browsers, besides of going without? There's CSS for minor aesthetic details, and then there's #WASM I guess? Well, there's now a framework based on WASM (besides of 10 KB of JS polyfill) called #Nectar . buildnectar.com/

@mattsheffield Yeah, I'm also very curious about what the hell is going on. Never has anyone put so much money into Linux, but why? If they just wanted to support a fellow fash, there's plenty of people to choose between. Why this, why now?

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this 3 Raccoons in a Trenchcoat Pin. These little rascals are trying to sneak into a movie theater. Not to see a free movie, but to eat all the garbage people selfishly throw onto the floor in the theater.
https://collabs.shop/sum8an

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/117204006282020374

Please consider signing this petition to save the New Horizons spacecraft.

The multi-stage Dockerfile gotcha that bites people: the pg gem compiles against libpq-dev but needs libpq5 at runtime. Leave it out of the final stage and production crashes on boot. Nice side effect once the stages are split: Docker caches them independently, so an unchanged Gemfile skips the builder entirely. https://go.fastruby.io/zdn #Docker #RubyOnRails #DevOps

Amazing how quick a widely respected company can absolutely nuke their own reputation.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:v5vphilwcf6nunioeyrpxw6g/post/3mukrd5orus24

The petition for the NASA New Horizons funding request collected -

- 500 signatures over the past 5 weeks.
- 155 signatures in the last 5 hours.

That's progress, but still a small number.

There are others on Bluesky and X as well who are adding their names and sharing with others.

https://www.change.org/p/heliophysics-community-support-for-continued-measurements-by-nasa-s-new-horizons-mission
4/n

A couple of weeks ago I showed a preview of a new mode for Mines, in my puzzle collection. I'm pleased to say that the new Mines is now completed and live! You can now play Minesweeper on a wide range of tilings in your browser
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/mines.html
or download a desktop version from the parent page which supports the same set of grids.

As well as the support for lots of grid types, there's also a new user preference (off by default) to make it easier to play on them. When you click on a clue square to potentially clear around it, the existing flags adjacent to the square light up, to make it easier to count them and work out how many more mines you're still expecting. Particularly useful in the hat tiling, where it's easy to mistake exactly what is adjacent to what!

I expect different people will prefer different grids. Personally I think the triangular grid is particularly tricky and puzzly; the hexagonal honeycomb makes a gentle introduction; the Cairo, Floret and Kites tilings are a nice set in between those extremes; and of course the aperiodic tilings are there to keep you on your toes and ready for anything.

Many thanks to Anders Höglund for this excellent piece of work.

@0x47df yep, like the yagi-shaped object that claimed a 30dBi gain and delivered about -2dBi

To avert a Chinese invasion, Taiwan must ensure that other democracies cannot function without it by providing them with more than just semiconductors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/09/03/world/taiwan-deterrence-strategy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #us #iran #taiwan #china #pla #laichingte #xijinping #donaldtrump #iran #kuwait #taiwansemiconductormanufacturingco #semiconductors #defense

Climate change past the point of no return, UN says, as worst impacts are now unavoidable | CBC News #science #health #politics #currentevents

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/unep-climate-paris-global-warming-9.7329305

JD Vance says he’s doing ‘God’s work – and if that leads to the end times, OK’

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/02/jd-vance-god-podcast-end-times

#usa #news #uspol

U2 and Star Wars crossover

"But they're stillll not the droids that you're looking for 🎶"

Holden's Lightning Flight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508405

#HackerNews #Holden #Lightning #Flight #aviation #history #flight #enthusiasts #aviation #stories