Kind: Reposts
Reposting of content from another site, often with commentary.
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Man Who Identifies as a ‘Humanist’ Gets Religious Exemption From Using AI at Work
If your religious beliefs are incompatible with your use of a particular tool that isn't essential for a particular kind of work, then you should absolutely be able to be exempted from using those tools. At least, that's the legal verdict in this case!
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Installing Websites Must Be Easy
Some excellent recommendations from the W3C's TAG on installability of web applications to the "desktop", whether or not they have defined manifests/are PWAs. I really hope to see the major OS and browser manufacturers take these recommendations on board!
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.well-known/slashpages
Matthias Pfefferle proposes an OPML-based .well-known/slashpages in a similar vein to my own .well-known/feeds. I love it, and I've implemented it right here on DanQ.me!
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The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI
Jan van den Berg suggests that the corollary to the Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI might be: "Adding agents to a project with unclear requirements gets you the wrong answer faster."
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It’s Time to Come Back to Firefox. The Internet You Loved Is Still Here
The Firefox team absolutely knocking it out of the park by rallying the faces of the memes you've missed and using them as a reminder that the Web you've missed is still out there. And your choice of web browser is part of your choice to see that.
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There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Elias's experience of the PHP CVE matches mine: it's real, it's serious... but it's not actually that easy to exploit "in the wild" except in conjunction with OTHER exploits, so it's not by-itself catastrophic. Patch your servers, yeah. But calm the fuck down while you do so.
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Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped
Remoteoscope and equigamic are both wonderful words and I envy our alternate-universe buddies. Concavenator has some more.
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Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says
The public will be able to watch the execution of a former US Army major by firing squad, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said. I feel physically sick.
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Weird Web October 2026 (Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez)
I love Weird Web October, and Christopher's off to an amazing start this year: well worth a look at his wacky projects for the month (and trying to find the cat in each one: I've managed!) before you go check out what everybody else who's participating is up to. Also... I might be about to join in!
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We are going to kill “unalive”
Anil Dash is unhappy that "unalive" and other algospeak has become so prevalent and mainstream. I, too, am concerned about what this says about our willingness to censor our speech to speculatively appease the whims of corporations to whom we owe nothing.
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![Scan of book pages with highlighted section reading "Children [who] treat very roughly young birds, butterlies, and other poor animals... with a seeming kind of pleasure... will by degrees harden their minds even towards men and... will not be apt to be very compassionate or benign to those of their own kind.](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2026/10/locke-john-some-thoughts-concerning-education-1693-1889-edition-pp100-101-978x480.jpg#30378)
Do not build the LLM torture factory
Sean Goedecke puts forward a few arguments why people shouldn't play at 'torturing' LLMs. I disagree with many of his arguments, but I agree with his conclusion because of a different argument: one made by animal rights activists for hundreds of years now: that people who 'practice' abuse are more-likely to go on to commit (further) abuse.
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I’m leaving Reddit because of RSS
For Jeff Johnson, Reddit's ecosystem becoming yet-more closed-down and enshittified, with them dropping RSS support, is the last straw. For me, it would have been too (if I hadn't already abandoned ship nine years prior!).
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Tangled earphones were a feature, not a bug.
Akshay Chugh misses wired headphones for the anti-feature that they'd inevitably tangle up in your pocket. I echo his sentiment, and add a few other observations about things we've traded away in exchange for the convenience of wireless buds.
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Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing
"Thanking is an action applying to one visible thing." is a literal line in the source code of one of my favourite video games, blackle mori observes.
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Polyday Politics workshop
Grant ran a workshop on politics (and law) around polyamory, at a recent event. I wasn't there, but enjoyed reading his notes after-the-fact... and wanted to use the opportunity to share some of my own thoughts and experiences.