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Wrote up why Recipe Jar is free forever, and why that's an architecture decision, not a pricing one. No backend, recipes live in your browser, one stateless proxy. Plus the war stories: a regex that white-screened old iOS Safari, and why Svelte 5 state won't go into IndexedDB. https://blog.budhathokisagar.com.np/free-forever-is-an-architecture-not-a-pricing-decision #localfirst #webdev #svelte #FOSS
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— ‘UK Finance, which represents banks including Lloyds, JP Morgan and Revolut, commissions an annual report tallying up all the taxes shouldered by a large bank, including corporation tax, social security, VAT and bank-specific levies. The report, put together by PwC, lists London as the most tax-intensive city, charging a “total tax rate” of 46.2%, compared with 42.2% in Amsterdam, 39.1% in Frankfurt, 29% in Dublin and 27.9% in New York. … However, questions are now being raised about the lobb...
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— ‘Andy Burnham says he wants an “honest discussion” with the British public about the possibility of a return to free movement between the UK and the EU as part of his plans for a new relationship with the bloc. The prime minister has been open about his desire to revisit the relationship between Britain and Brussels. He has said a new deal could mean the UK goes “all the way” and rejoins the EU. Other options discussed by Burnham include joining the single market, which would require signing...
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— ‘The US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor. The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say. The move comes after Musk’s Doge in 2025 fired many of the federal government’s nascent space traffic control program’s staff, and the administration has twice attempted...
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As much as I enjoy the podcast, Trump finally being gone is worth losing any number of smart, funny podcasts. — ‘With the midterm elections fast approaching, the tone and focus of the podcast is inevitably shifting towards Lame Duck Trump. Aren’t they worried that we are nearing the end of this extraordinary epoch, of the “government of one” as they like to frame it, and the journalistic riches it brings?’ https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2026/oct/25/inside-trumps-head-podcast
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— ‘Jack Ross is facing an investigation by the Tories after he was filmed apparently asking an undercover reporter: “What do you want done?” and apparently offering to “broker” the services of an alleged far-right paramilitary group. Police in Scotland say they will be reviewing an Al Jazeera documentary in which Ross was filmed making a range comments about what a contract killer could be employed to do, and talked about using far-right groups to create disruption on the streets. It has now e...
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— ‘The children’s laureates for Ireland and Wales are donating royalties from their works to Sally Rooney in a show of solidarity after she was forced to stop selling books in the UK because of her support for Palestine Action. Chris Haughton, Ireland’s children’s literature laureate, said he also wanted to demonstrate the “absurdity” of the bestselling author being unable to receive royalties from her own UK sales because of her public support for the direct action group. Haughton, whose book...
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That first round loss for Lula really seems to have shocked people into voting in the second. — ‘Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian president, has staged a dramatic election fightback, defeating his far-right opponent, Flávio Bolsonaro, to claim a historic fourth term in power. With 100% of votes counted the 80-year-old leftist received 4.4m votes more than Bolsonaro, with a 51.79% share to his 45-year-old rival’s 48.21%. However, soon after Brazil’s electoral authority confirmed Lula’s...
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— ‘Brexit has not “played out” like it was promised to the public, has weakened the economy and the current deal is not good enough, Andy Burnham has said, while ruling out any major changes in the current parliament. The prime minister said Britain had ended up with a “harder Brexit than was proposed in the referendum campaign” and it had not helped to control the small boats crisis. Backing the home secretary’s tougher immigration rules, he said Brexit had weakened the UK’s ability to control...
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— ‘Andy Burnham is to double spending on ending rough sleeping to almost £900m by the end of the current parliament, as he steps up efforts to get people off the streets by Christmas. The prime minister has pledged to offer every rough sleeper in England a safe route off the streets or wider support as a central part of his premiership. As he prepared for a Downing Street summit on ending rough sleeping on Monday, Burnham said the budget would bring a further £432m commitment to helping to tac...
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Where have these people been?! — ‘The fallout stems from the White House quickly posting video and photos of the prayer on social media, captioned as Catholic archbishops and bishops praying with the US president, less than two weeks before the midterm elections on 3 November. Archbishop Grob issued a statement headlined A Public Apology, in which he said he felt “a heavy sadness” over the pain the images had caused, and that he had heard from people alarmed that he had unwittingly joined a po...
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A sociopath desperate to stay in power (and out of prison). — Netanyahu ‘posted an AI-generated image of a nuclear mushroom cloud destroying Tel Aviv, telling Israeli voters to choose him or risk nuclear annihilation. … Israel’s Channel 12 news reported that the prime minister and the armed forces chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, clashed in recent days over a directive to the military which could “potentially spark an immediate conflagration with Iran at a very sensitive juncture”, by provoki...
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— ‘Officially the bank bailout cost the public £23bn, after some asset sales. But that’s trivial compared with the colossal lasting damage right across the economy. Official estimates cite a loss of up to 7.5% of GDP; others suggest double that amount. Bankers hiss at any hint of plucking a few feathers off them, but we wait to know how much John Healey dares take. Dimon visited No 10 last month to warn them off a tax raise, but Burnham only “dropped into the meeting briefly”. So, how much? Re...
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I’ve been hoping that the stick Labour gets for approving Jackdaw – which already has a licence and can readily supply gas we’d import otherwise – will mean Rosebank doesn’t get the go-ahead. — ‘Doug Parr, chief scientist at Greenpeace, said: “The Burnham government is facing a series of big decisions over the next few months that could define its legacy on climate. This administration seems to get the urgency of cutting the emissions causing deadly heatwaves and droughts, but there’s a real ri...
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Capturing at source to store within empty gas fields is promising, at least. But £24bn on this is just gross. The polluters should pay for their own cleanup / capture of pollutants. — ‘Campaigners are calling on the chancellor to cut the government’s £24bn spending plans for “fairytale” carbon capture technologies in favour of funding green schemes that can reliably cut emissions and lower energy bills. The environmentalist Chris Packham is leading an 11th-hour appeal for the Treasury to use...
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— ‘The news network CNN Brasil reported that Bolsonaro had fled to the US with his wife and two daughters in the early hours of this morning. Bolsonaro had not been seen since Monday and missed a Tuesday-morning deadline to hand his passport to the federal police, fuelling rumours that he may have fled Brazil after losing on Sunday. … Bolsonaro was told to surrender his passport over a criminal case in which the federal police are investigating him for possible involvement in a money-laundering...
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Vite 6.1 is out! The 7.5K commits to main release ⚡ https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/CHANGELOG.md#610-2025-02-05
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We published a CVE for a moderate dev server security vulnerability. Please update to the latest versions: 6.2.4, 6.1.3, 6.0.13, 5.4.16, 4.5.11. https://github.com/vitejs/vite/security/advisories/GHSA-4r4m-qw57-chr8
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Vite 6.3 is out! ⚡️ - preprocessor support with LightningCSS - FetchableDevEnvironment interface - filter option on hooks, enabling faster plugins with rolldown-vite. Stay tuned for more news soon! Check the complete changelog at https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/main/packages/vite/CHANGELOG.md#630-2025-04-16
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PHP2Shell, LiteLLM, GitLab: Find What You Need to Patch Link: https://cloudsleuth.io/blog/php2shell-litellm-gitlab-find-what-you-run/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50261583
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Yesterday in Porto, I had booked a private guided bike tour of the coastline from the port to the mouth of the Douro river. Somehow, I didn't fully grasp what "private" meant. I was expecting to be part of a group. Instead, I had my own personal guide for 2.5 hours, which was pretty cool. I saw more than I would have if I had just rented a bike, with history and context to go along with it. The only downside was the weather. It started raining off and on about a half h...
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While I was engrossed in my audio book, this guy parked himself a couple of feet away from me to share my patch of shade. Not sure when he showed up, but he hung out there for at least a half hour after I noticed.
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I was lucky enough to see today's total eclipse from just off the coast of northern Spain. What an incredible experience. Pictures don't do it justice. It was cloudier than I would have hoped, but still spectacular. The video is double speed. Apologies for the chaotic framing. I don't use that gimbal enough to remember how all the controls work.
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The Heathrow departures board is weird. Fllight begins boarding at 17:20. "We'll tell you your gate at 17:15." "Also, it'll take 20 minutes to walk there from here."