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A newly expanded policy from the Trump administration could require travelers from five World Cup-qualified countries to front a bond of up to $15,000 in order to enter the United States for the tournament.
Visa bonds operate like security deposits:
a one-time payment meant to be refunded after a traveler exits the US under the terms of their visa.
The amounts generally run between $5,000 and $15,000, and are required for passport holders from certain countries to enter the…

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2026-05-26 06:23:02

Gunnar Sohn antwortet auf René Pfisters Spiegel-Kritik an der #rp26: Wer 670 Sessions auf 27 Bühnen durch das Rechts-Links-Sieb drückt, verliert alles, was interessant ist. Netzpolitik als Arbeit am Staat — nicht als Milieu-Folklore. Ein lesenswerter Gegenentwurf zur Lagerlogik.
@…

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-04-25 01:35:56

Instacart co-founder Apoorva Mehta launches Abundance, a hedge fund that aims to have AI agents run the entire fund, with $100M in seed funding (Hema Parmar/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@aardrian@toot.cafe
2026-06-24 19:36:17

Since I fired up Chrome and enabled grid lanes to read Manuel’s post, I tried my 2019 reading order bookmarklet:
adrianroselli.com/2019/04/read
And it works!
You have to run it from the top of the page for the numbers t…

The browser’s prompt that appears after activating the bookmarklet, asking for the selector to search and my entry of .grid-lanes in the text box.
The next browser prompt asking me if I want flex or grid, and I have typed in grid-lanes.
The page scrolled to the first grid lanes example, and the numbers from the bookmarklet added to the top left corner of each box, matching the order of the DOM.

The driver of a lifted Chevrolet Silverado was so oblivious behind the wheel of a three-ton truck that she missed an entire Lamborghini Huracan,
drove onto it, and then put it in park to see what was going on.
From the footage, the Lamborghini appears to be moving slowly through a parking lot, likely searching for a space.
The Silverado enters with noticeably more speed than the setting calls for.
There’s no meaningful correction, no obvious braking in time, and then C…

@esoriano@social.linux.pizza
2026-06-24 18:14:08

New blog entry. Do you want to run VLC as root? :)
sed -i 's/geteuid/getppid/g' vlc
"Running VLC as root and the magic sed"
sysfatal.github.io/vlc.html

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-06-23 09:37:31

The change log entry I just wrote for Kitten¹:
- __Faster tests__
The tests (unit, regression, and end-to-end) have all been refactored to run conccurrently.
Speed improvements:
- Unit tests: ~8× faster
- Regression tests: ~4× faster
- End-to-end tests: ~2× faster
To enable this, the unit and regression tests were ported from Tape to Node’s native node:test. We’re still using the TAP test reporter and [Tap Monkey](

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-25 00:35:57

Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/form

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-06-25 13:10:58

Sail, whose software optimizes how AI models run on existing chips, emerges from stealth with $80M in seed and Series A led by Kleiner at a $450M valuation (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
fortune.com/2026/06/25/exclusi

Zohran Mamdani’s growing influence over the Democratic party was on show in New York City on Tuesday
as three congressional candidates endorsed by New York’s democratic socialist mayor won closely watched primaries,
while voters in Maryland, Utah and South Carolina cast ballots in primaries and runoffs.
Brad Lander, the former New YorkCity comptroller who also ran for mayor last year before endorsing Mamdani, won his race comfortably,
defeating the Democratic represen…