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Campus Censorship Wars, 25 Years After a Slashdot Q&A

Slashdot reader carlk22 writes: In February 2001, Slashdot readers asked Carl Kadie about censorship and privacy at colleges, and he answered. Now Kadie, who founded the Computers and Academic Freedom project at EFF in 1991, has written its history. In Part 1, Ohio State kicks a student off its network, then out of school, after a prank routes his "fuck you" into rec.aquaria, and a supercomputing center fires a student over an email from [email protected]. In Part 2, Nebraska bans the project's own newsletter, the FBI asks a conference attendee to show them his leg, and Playboy calls. The original archive is on GitHub.

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Looking for software suited for mobile business/1 person buisness

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a CRM management program for my brother. He runs a small pellet stove servicing business, its all mobile. My brother likes the model of Jobber, but the price isn't something they he can do right now.

Is there a better program for him to use that's more accessible financially? He is much more versed in this world than me, I'm just the tech person for this.

Thank you for any help!!

*One of the biggest things he's looking for is a way to send reminder text to his customers before the appointments*

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litcommerce altenative?

Hi guys

I've been spending 6 days with litcommerce trying to sync my listings to Amazon
What I thought was a professionally ran business with actual syncing capabilities turns out ot be a student project with Ai assistants
I used to sync in prestashop using a module that would automatically match eans with asins and fill out everything, the sync would literally take 5mn for 1000 products
With litcommerce I need to manually edit each product which is more time than creating them on Amazon ...
Anybody has any experience with a plugin or 3rd party that can actually export and sync all products to AMazon including brand, ean, match ean to asin and so on ?

Thanks

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Drupalcamp Colorado Photos

Drupalcamp Colorado Photos

I'm working on a project. If you have attended #Drupalcamp Colorado events in the past, I need photos. Particularly photos from the camps I am looking for photos that were taken at Drupalcamp Colorado in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. In 2020 and 2021, the camp was virtual - so those might just be screenshots.

Any photos, albums, etc from any years would be great. But those years are of particular interest!

Help me [fill in your name], you're my only hope!

And PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE share this with your network. Particularly if you've got #Drupal friends who might have attended.

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The October #DrupalOffTheIsland challenge

At DrupalCon Rotterdam, the DA announced the Drupal Advocacy program to incentivize folks to be louder about Drupal in an effort to "win back" folks who moved away from / dismissed Drupal in the past, showing off all the cool modernization we've done. And that's a great and worthy goal!

However, there are WAY more humans on this earth who have _never_ heard of / tried Drupal. And they're not necessarily in our networks to hear what we have to say, they will not understand words like "Drush" or "render array." ;) But, they also don't necessarily have a preconceived notion of Drupal at all, and therein lies an opportunity.

So, here's a challenge to the Drupal community: during the month of October (the spoooookiest month), go to a local meetup / hackathon / community event where Drupal *isn't* (AI, JavaScript, WordPress...) and report back what you heard and learned about the developers there, what they're building, and where they're struggling.

We can then use this information to brainstorm the best way to "show and tell" Drupal for these developers, in _their_ words, around _their_ use cases and pain points. Then we do DevRel at global scale. 😎

Will this work to drum up new interest in Drupal? Who knows. But hey, worst-case, it's an opportunity to meet fellow nerds and talk tech over free pizza. :)

What do you think?

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Google, Unity Launch Platform To Create Video Games From Prompts

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet's Google and gaming tools developer Unity Software announced a new platform that will allow people to create video games from simple text prompts, marking the latest incursion of generative artificial intelligence into artistic and creative industries. The initiative, called Playground, will "put game creation in the hands of millions of new creators, and bring new experiences to billions of players worldwide," the companies said in a statement on Oct 7. With its debut, Playground will let people 18 and older generate and customize games using natural language prompts, "no coding required." Later in 2026, a new expanded creation experience called Unity Spark, will be integrated with Playground, providing "robust, professional-level" mechanics and high-fidelity 3D capabilities. Creators will be able to build "immersive, superlative experiences" with a simple text prompt, according to the release. Playground builds on Google's push into world models, a type of AI that generates virtual environments in real time from text prompts, rather than just video. Google and Unity's partnership "could reduce fears that AI will make Unity's core game-building software less necessary, while posing limited medium-term risk to Roblox's advantage as a social gaming platform," says Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Nathan Naidu. The introduction of Unity Spark later in 2026 "could broaden Unity's creator base and support its game-development business," which represent about a third of sales.

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Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. With such a certificate, an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted

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Thermometer for fundraising campaign

Hello,

I'm not very technical. I'm helping a small charity. In the past, I used Thermometer to show the progress of a fundraising campaign. However, somewhere I read that this plug-in was vulnerable to hacking. So I removed it. But now, I need something like it.

I have looked at several others, such as Ultimeter. While they do the job, they're not as nice looking.

So, my questions is: how do I verify if indeed Thermometer is a risk? And if it is, any other that look like it?

TIA!

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[PROMO] I made a free browser tool that finds broken redirects in rank math plus redirection exports

I see people complaining about (Rank Math and Redirection) redirectsgetting mixed up so I made a tool that finds the problems.

You simply drop in your exports (CSV or XLSX doesn't matter) and it shows all the duplicate sources, conflicting destinations, chains (A -> B -> C), loops and self redirects.

Also you can add a search console CSV to see which problems actually get clicks. Then you can download a cleaned map and an issues list.

Privacy is important so it runs fully in your browser. No signup needed and nothing uploaded and it's open source!! (MIT license)

Demo: https://liarzpl.github.io/redirect-map-qa/

Code: https://github.com/liarzpl/redirect-map-qa

It doesn't check live URLs, and regex or wildcard rules are skipped and marked as unsupported.

If your export breaks it, tell me which plugin and I'll take a look at it.

First post here, be gentle please :) And if you find this tool useful a star on GitHub would really make me happy.

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Microsoft and Nvidia Unveil Surface Laptop Ultra For $2,599

At a press event today, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Laptop Ultra featuring an NVIDIA RTX Spark platform with a Blackwell-based GPU capable of up to one petaflop of AI compute. The laptop supports up to 128GB of unified memory for running models as large as 120 billion parameters locally, while also adding a 15-inch mini-LED display, expanded ports, upgraded cooling, and support for hundreds of AAA games. It's available for pre-order today starting at $2,599. Neowin reports: To keep the device's temperature under control, Microsoft has also developed a new cooling system that offers up to 2.5 times the thermal capacity of the 15-inch Surface Laptop 7th Edition. The Surface Laptop Ultra comes with a 15-inch PixelSense Ultra mini-LED touchscreen with a 3:2 aspect ratio, a pixel density of 262 PPI, and peak HDR brightness of up to 2,000 nits. Despite its beefy specs, the Surface Laptop Ultra measures less than 18mm thick and weighs under 4.5 pounds (around 2kg). The laptop will be available in Platinum and Nightfall finishes. Microsoft has also increased the size of the precision haptic touchpad by more than 30% compared to the Surface Laptop 7th Edition for improved haptic input. The Surface Laptop Ultra includes a broader selection of ports, featuring USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a full-size SD card reader. It also features the world's first built-in USB-C magnetic charging.

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I am trying open source CRM twenty.com but my team is stuck

Hey everyone,

We’re setting up Twenty CRM (twenty.com) as our self-hosted, open-source CRM and like it so far. Our main requirement is integrating it with Instantly for outbound email.

Our developer isn’t sure about the best way to handle the integration, so I’d love some advice:

  • Has anyone integrated Twenty + Instantly?
  • Is it possible via API/webhooks or something like n8n?
  • If Twenty isn’t a good fit, are there any other free/open-source CRMs that integrate well with Instantly?

We don’t need anything complex—just a simple CRM that can work alongside Instantly.

Any recommendations or experience would be really helpful! Basically we want a free crm with isntantly integration

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Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans (RAT) to compromised hosts. The campaign has been codenamed MALFEX by CloudSEK and Checkmarx. The activity is assessed to be the work of a lone threat actor who appears to have published 12 packages since August 2023, eight of which have

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SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rates it 10.0 on the CVSS scale and says it has no evidence that any of the four flaws is being

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Odoo

Anyone here using Odoo as their CRM?

I work with an Odoo Gold Partner in the UK and I’m curious to hear from people who are actually using Odoo day-to-day.

For those who have used it, what made you choose Odoo over something like HubSpot or Salesforce? And what do you think it does well (or badly)?
Also happy to answer any questions from anyone currently considering Odoo. I work with it, so obviously I’m not completely unbiased 😂 but happy to give an honest answer.

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