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Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos Names, email addresses and other contact details of about 70,000 global users could also have been taken Government ID photos of about 70,000 global users of Discord, a popular messaging and chat platform among video gamers, may have been exposed after hackers compromised a company contracted to carry out age verification checks. Some users’ names, email addresses and other contact details, IP addresses and messages with Discord’s customer service agents may also have been taken. The attacker has been trying to extort a ransom from the company. No full credit card details or passwords were seized. Continue reading...

Hack of age verification firm may have exposed Discord users’ ID photos

Helped stop Samaritans Radar
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So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

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Millions of households face jump in water bills after regulator backs more price rises Competition watchdog agrees requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, Southern, Wessex and South East to raise household bills

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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

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We've created a tool called the "Screen reader support look up tables" designed to help people quickly check how screen readers interpret HTML elements and attributes across multiple combinations of browser and screen reader.

exhausted after a whole day of brain writing and brain thinking

Maybe you don’t need a dashboard Dashboards can be powerful—but they aren’t always the answer. Melissa explores whether a clear, one-off analysis can tell the story far better than another chart on a screen.

By having better alternatives to dashboards, can we nudge stakeholders towards other, more appropriate formats?

Melissa’s latest blog post explores why dashboards are often the default for reporting, and poses some questions to consider before jumping in to creating your next one tr.ee/hAOA6Z

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
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The sexists do not listen to the audiophile lighthouse keeper because she is a woman. If I lived in a small town with a female audiophile lighthouse keeper, I'd heed her advice on literally anything

Should I dump him, queen?
Which cheese should I buy, queen?
Fight the fisherghosts tonight, queen?

Mount Everest rescue under way as snowstorm traps nearly 1,000 people Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard are guided to safety by rescuers Rescue efforts are under way on Mount Everest after a snowstorm trapped nearly 1,000 people in campsites on the eastern side of the mountain, according to Chinese state media. Hundreds of trekkers stranded by a blizzard near the eastern face of the mountain in Tibet were guided to safety by rescuers on Sunday, as unusually heavy precipitation including rain pummelled the Himalayas. Continue reading...

Mount Everest rescue under way as snowstorm traps nearly 1,000 people

Day 5: remix - this one took me far too long!

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#WeirdWebOctober

My bug bear is the air quality index is backwards, 1 being good and 10 very bad

including the weather health alerts, inspired by the excellent approach of the flood alerts service, that the information should be simple text first, and a map second

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Impressed with the ongoing improvements to the UK Health Data Dashboard

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this seems really bad now - British Library, Co op, hospitals

that's the thing, if you just look around at really good rogue likes, Slay the Spire, Hades, Into the Breach, Spelunky - they all have great design to work with the randomness. Blue Prince just seems to take 'oh you do it over and over, and it's random'

I think its a shame as a few design tweaks on the rogue like side would really improve it a lot. The randomness also leads to a bizarre discussion about it as some players will get lots of great runs, and other will get lots of terrible ones, so experiences are really divided

also inaccessible if you're colourblind

I like these kinds of games but Blue Prince fell flat for me. Some nice ideas but really poor design choices especially in terms of a good rogue like.

they should do a TV show of Equilibrium

How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized | CNN Israel’s war in Gaza led to more than half a million Palestinians being stuck in a cycle of ‘starvation, destitution and death,’ a UN-backed initiative said. Five charts explain how.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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Team dynamics after AI Small giants and real giants

a good piece on ai - "It’s based on a fundamental misreading of what matters when we work together, and, both forgivably and unforgivably, it’s lazy, not malignant."

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Tubthumping

so safari 26 just beach balls all the time, great work apple

Thames Water creditors ask for up to 15 years’ leniency from river pollution rules Lenders say a ‘full return to legal, regulatory and environmental compliance’ under new rescue plan would not be completed until at least 2035-2040

So hear me out, our proposal is more poo
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DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

let the gourd times roll