Ars Technica reports:
Cities and counties around the U.S. are angry at the Trump administration over a proposal to override local rules that govern the deployment of wired broadband networks... The Federal Communications Commission [FCC] argues that too many local governments "excessively delay approvals and seek to extract exorbitant sums from providers, resulting in costs that render some deployments infeasible." The FCC plan is supported by broadband providers, but local governments told the FCC that it would override rules that protect public safety.
Local governments say the plan is illegal and that the FCC should instead focus on how Internet providers thwart competition with permit-hoarding and other tactics that prevent competitors from deploying networks... They object to FCC plans to impose a 120-day deadline for processing permits and to proposed limits on fees and compensation that local governments can require from providers... Another filing submitted by the League of California Cities said the FCC has no authority to adopt the proposal. "Federal preemption of traditional state and local authority over public property, construction, public safety, permitting, and rights-of-way management should rest on clear congressional authorization," the filing said. "The commission should not infer broad preemptive authority where Congress did not expressly provide it...."
A filing by Minnesota cities said the current FCC is making the same mistake it made during the first Trump administration, when its attempt to preempt state net neutrality laws was blocked in court... If the FCC finalizes its new preemption plan, city and state governments could sue and ask a court to rule that the agency exceeded its authority...
Democratic Commissioner Anna Gomez approved the step of asking the public for input but signaled she would vote against the final proposal. "I am dubious about the commission's authority under Section 253 to use rulemaking to preempt states and localities when it comes to their management of rights of way and fees charged to providers," she said.
I'm a WP dev, that continues to have my client's email forms suddenly stop working (email not delivered). Yes, I add DMARC records, SMTP plugins, etc. Does anyone know of a free, automated tool that tests form submissions for successful delivery, or at least automatically submits them, so I can check to see if they were delivered? It also needs to be able to answer quiz questions for spam blocking. I'm hoping to run a once per week automated submission on all my client's sites.
We've recently changed the editing experience in Bootigafor our Drupal Commerce theme.
We started with Drupal's Layout Builder, but after testing it with non-technical store owners, we wanted something more intuitive.
So we've moved to Layout Paragraphs + Mercury Editor — and so far, we're really happy with the result.
Our goal with Bootiga is to make Drupal Commerce as easy as possible for non-technical users.
Do you know of any better alternatives to Mercury Editor for this? What would you choose today if the main priority was the best possible editing experience for the end user?
I’ve been thinking about how we use our CRM and I’m interested to see what works for other teams. For us the hardest part is turning all that data into something useful for coaching instead of just tracking activity.
I’d rather use the CRM to spot patterns in deals, like missed follow-ups weak discovery notes stalled opportunities or where reps keep losing momentum. I’m also curious how often managers actually review CRM data with reps. Is it part of a weekly coaching session or only when numbers start slipping?
Would love to hear what your process looks like and what’s made the biggest difference for your team.
I am not promoting anything, I am building one for the past 3 months and wanted to know what people really want ? I know and built normal basic CRM stuff but what is one thing that will make you say " oh yeah this is the one " even if it's crazy
hey, i built a CRM/ERP called TrustFlow, mainly good for stuff that runs on pipelines with subtasks, think sales, real estate, audits, that kind of thing.
instead of a generic to-do list your work moves through stages you actually set up, each stage can need subtasks/approvals before it moves to the next one. also has automations, calendar + reminders, a file hub, portfolio tracking, reporting on what's actually stuck vs moving.
basically built it if you're sick of running jira + odoo + a shared drive just to track one pipeline.
If you're interested Please be sure to dm me or comment below.
We're currently in the early stage, so you can join for free.
More than 200,000 barrels of low-level radioactive waste were stored on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean between 1949 and 1982, reports ScienceAlert.
Whatever happened to those barrels?
Scientists have descended to the wreckage in a crewed submersible to investigate — and found many of the barrels corroded and degraded, their contents spilling across the seafloor. Surprisingly, this isn't necessarily a subversion of the original plan... The International Atomic Energy Agency recommends that low-level waste be disposed of in robust containment in isolation for at least a few hundred years — but back in the mid-20th century, the recommendations were a little different. The contemporaneous guidelines recommended that containers needed to reach the seafloor intact and remain sealed only long enough for the short-lived radionuclides to decay. After that, the remaining waste was expected to slowly escape and disperse through the surrounding ocean. Not everything in the barrels would conveniently decay away, however. They contained a radioactive hodgepodge, including cesium-137, plutonium isotopes, and tritium, some of which can persist for thousands of years...
[A] few years ago, nuclear engineer Patrick Chardon and marine geologist Javier Escartín of the French National Center for Scientific Research started to wonder what had become of the dumped waste. That question eventually became NODSSUM — Nuclear Ocean Dump Site Survey Monitoring — an interdisciplinary project bringing together nuclear physics, geology, oceanography, biology, and marine chemistry to find the barrels and investigate what, if anything, they were doing to the surrounding environment.... [T]he barrels also appeared to function as tiny oases on the otherwise sparsely populated sandy seafloor. Anemones had attached themselves to the barrels. Sponges, sea cucumbers, fish, and crustaceans lived around them, with crabs apparently particularly fond of the artificial shelters...
Instruments aboard the ship detected significant signals of cobalt-60 and niobium-94, which the researchers could specifically link to the dumped waste... [Samples are now being analyzed] There is precedent, however, to suggest that even striking levels of radioactivity around a source don't necessarily spread very far. A recent study of the sunken Soviet submarine Komsomolets found radionuclide levels hundreds of thousands of times above background immediately around the leaking reactor — but those levels dropped sharply within just a few meters as the material dispersed through the seawater. The NODSSUM team similarly found that, despite the significant radioactive signals around the barrels, activity levels weren't high enough to pose major radiation-protection problems for the scientists handling the samples. [Their three-person submersible] Nautile and the instruments it carried showed no signs of contamination.
The real achievement was mapping the exact location of the barrels. "None of this means the waste is harmless," the article concludes — but it also doesn't mean we're about to be overrun by radioactive crabs."
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads.
According to Aikido, the list of Terraform providers and Go modules is below -
gocommunity-io/dockerd (222 downloads)
kreuzwenker/
Hello! I just launched my site today and everything is great except that the hamburger menu doesn't appear on mobile devices. I've tested Chrome and Firefox browsers on 2 different phones and the problem persists. I cleared browser and BlueHost caches; I'm not using a WP cache plugin. The desktop header shows up on mobile, and the user is unable to scroll across to the navigation, so there functionally isn't any. The Overlay Visibility is set to Mobile (I tried unsetting and resetting this as well) and the template is set to Navigation Overlay, which contains the correct links. What else could be wrong?
The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you.
GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled "Email work item to this project." Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored
If you know (or are) a student, teacher, stagecoordinator, or bootcamp near Rotterdam who might be interested in web development or open source, please forward this to them. That's the ask.
Some context: I'm one of the organizers of Drupal in a Day at DrupalCon Rotterdam, this Thursday October 1. We've got a free, full day training set up for students, senior Drupal developers from the Netherlands, Iceland and the US guiding them through building with Drupal, no prior experience needed. It's at the same venue as DrupalCon, so students also get to walk around DrupalCon week and meet the international community and Dutch Drupal companies.
Registrations are still low, and this is exactly the kind of thing that gets people hooked on Drupal early. If it falls flat, that's a missed shot at growing the next generation of contributors.
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