SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - posted a photo:

Questo vicolo sembra vuoto, quasi respingente.
Tubi, condizionatori, porte di servizio: nulla che inviti a entrare.
Eppure è proprio da luoghi così che, in Giappone, nasce spesso qualcosa.
Un bar minuscolo, un izakaya nascosto, una luce accesa più avanti.
Non è degrado né abbandono: è lo spazio che resta tra le cose che funzionano.
Camminarci dentro è una scelta, quella di allontanarsi dalle strade principali per cercare ciò che non si mostra subito.
Ed è spesso lì che il Giappone diventa più interessante.

この路地は一見すると人を寄せつけない。
配管や室外機、裏口ばかりで、入っていく理由はどこにもない。
それでも日本では、こういう場所の先に何かがあることが多い。
小さなバー、隠れた居酒屋、奥で灯る一つの明かり。
これは荒廃でも放置でもなく、機能しているものの間に残された空間だ。
ここを歩くのは選択であり、表通りを離れて、すぐには見えないものを探しに行くということ。
そして、そういう場所でこそ、日本はより面白くなる。

This alley looks empty, almost unwelcoming.
Pipes, air conditioners, service doors—nothing that suggests you should walk in.
And yet, in Japan, places like this often lead somewhere.
A tiny bar, a hidden izakaya, a light still on further down.
This isn’t decay or abandonment, but the space left between things that still work.
Walking through it is a choice: stepping away from the main streets to look for what doesn’t immediately show itself.
And that’s often where Japan becomes more interesting.

SergioQ79 - Osanpo Photographer - has added a photo to the pool:

Questo vicolo sembra vuoto, quasi respingente.
Tubi, condizionatori, porte di servizio: nulla che inviti a entrare.
Eppure è proprio da luoghi così che, in Giappone, nasce spesso qualcosa.
Un bar minuscolo, un izakaya nascosto, una luce accesa più avanti.
Non è degrado né abbandono: è lo spazio che resta tra le cose che funzionano.
Camminarci dentro è una scelta, quella di allontanarsi dalle strade principali per cercare ciò che non si mostra subito.
Ed è spesso lì che il Giappone diventa più interessante.

この路地は一見すると人を寄せつけない。
配管や室外機、裏口ばかりで、入っていく理由はどこにもない。
それでも日本では、こういう場所の先に何かがあることが多い。
小さなバー、隠れた居酒屋、奥で灯る一つの明かり。
これは荒廃でも放置でもなく、機能しているものの間に残された空間だ。
ここを歩くのは選択であり、表通りを離れて、すぐには見えないものを探しに行くということ。
そして、そういう場所でこそ、日本はより面白くなる。

This alley looks empty, almost unwelcoming.
Pipes, air conditioners, service doors—nothing that suggests you should walk in.
And yet, in Japan, places like this often lead somewhere.
A tiny bar, a hidden izakaya, a light still on further down.
This isn’t decay or abandonment, but the space left between things that still work.
Walking through it is a choice: stepping away from the main streets to look for what doesn’t immediately show itself.
And that’s often where Japan becomes more interesting.

@Mdubbelm En dat works out of the box met hugo? of moet je je markdown nog herschrijven.

NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag licht lager gesloten. Beleggers deden het rustig aan tijdens het begin van de laatste week van 2025. Onder andere techaandelen eindigden in de min.

Beleggers leken wat winst te nemen, nadat de brede S&P 500 en de Dow-Jonesindex woensdag nieuwe records bereikten. Op donderdag, eerste kerstdag, bleef Wall Street dicht. Vrijdag sloten de aandelenbeurzen in New York vrijwel onveranderd.

De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde 0,5 procent lager op 48.461,93 punten. De S&P 500-index daalde 0,4 procent tot 6905,74 punten. Techgraadmeter Nasdaq verloor 0,5 procent tot 23.474,35 punten.

Beleggers op Wall Street kunnen alvast terugkijken op een succesvol 2025. De S&P 500 is dit jaar tot nu toe ruim 17 procent gestegen. De Dow heeft er zo'n 14 procent bijgekregen en ligt op koers voor het sterkste jaar sinds 2021. De Nasdaq heeft dit jaar meer dan 21 procent gewonnen.

Nvidia zakte 1,2 procent, nadat het AI-chipconcern vrijdag nog 1 procent steeg. Vorige week profiteerde Nvidia op de beurs van de licentiedeal met AI-startup Groq om diens technologie te gebruiken.

Tesla daalde 3,3 procent, nadat de elektrische autofabrikant vorige week een nieuw recordniveau bereikte. Softwareconcern Oracle zakte 1,3 procent.

DigitalBridge klom 9,6 procent. De Japanse techinvesteerder SoftBank wil het bedrijf, dat investeert in datacenters, zendmasten en glasvezelnetwerken, overnemen. De deal wordt gewaardeerd op ongeveer 4 miljard dollar.

Ook mijnbouwbedrijven sloten in de min, doordat de goud- en zilverprijzen terugvielen van nieuwe recordniveaus. De prijs van zilver steeg maandag kort tot 84 dollar per troy ounce (31,1 gram), waarmee het edelmetaal voor het eerst meer dan 80 dollar waard werd. Barrick Mining en Newmont Mining zakten 4,7 en 5,6 procent.

In de laatste handelsdagen van het jaar worden weinig belangrijke economische cijfers verwacht. Dinsdag komen de notulen van het laatste rentebesluit van de Amerikaanse centrale bank naar buiten.

Ook deze week is een kortere handelsweek. Op donderdag 1 januari blijven Wall Street en alle andere aandelenbeurzen dicht. De handel wordt op vrijdag 2 januari weer hervat.

Americans are settling into streaming habits that should worry Hollywood executives, as new Nielsen data analyzed by Bloomberg reveals that not a single new original series cracked the top 10 most-watched streaming shows in 2025 -- the first time this has happened since Nielsen began publishing streaming data in 2020.

The shift extends beyond original programming as free, ad-supported streaming services are growing faster than their paid counterparts. YouTube has become the most-watched streaming service on American televisions, now larger than Netflix and Amazon combined. The Roku Channel and Tubi have nearly doubled in size over the past two years, while Peacock and Warner Bros.' streaming services have stagnated at roughly half their free competitors' viewership share.

Netflix still dominates when it comes to hits, accounting for about two-thirds of original programs appearing in Nielsen's weekly top 10 lists. But that dominance is eroding -- the company's share of streaming viewership has fallen below 20%. Meanwhile, Disney's streaming services haven't increased their share of TV viewing in three years, and Amazon is closing in. The most-watched original series of 2025 was Squid Game's final season, followed by returning shows Wednesday and Love Island.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Windows 10's formal end-of-support arrived in October, and while the operating system is generally remembered as one of the "good" versions of Windows -- the most widely used since XP -- many of the annoyances people complain about in Windows 11 actually started during the Windows 10 era, ArsTechnica writes.

Windows 10 earned its positive reputation primarily by not being Windows 8. It restored a version of the traditional Start menu, rolled out as a free upgrade to Windows 7 and 8 users, and ran on virtually all the same hardware as those older versions. Microsoft introduced the Windows Subsystem for Linux during this period and eventually rebuilt Edge on Chromium. The company seemed more willing to meet users where they were rather than forcing them to change their behavior.

But Windows 10 also began collecting more information about how users interacted with the operating system, cluttered the lock screen with advertisements and news articles, and added third-party app icons to the Start menu without user consent. The mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in requirement -- one of Windows 11's most frequently complained-about features -- was a Windows 10 innovation, easier to circumvent at the time but clearly a step down the road Windows 11 is currently traveling.

To be sure, Windows 11 has made things worse by stacking new irritants on top of old ones. The Microsoft Account requirement expanded to both Home and Pro editions, the SCOOBE screen now regularly nags users to "finish setting up" years-old installations and Microsoft's Copilot push changed the default PC keyboard layout for the first time in 30 years.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Op de 1.000 meter bij de mannen zat er 0,005 seconden tussen een olympisch startbewijs en niets. Na afloop was niemand blij – óók niet de gekwalificeerde schaatsers. „Vier jongens voor drie plekken, het zou verboden moeten worden.”

Honderden Iraniërs zijn in verschillende steden de straat op gegaan nadat de koers van de rial is gekelderd en de directeur van de centrale bank is opgestapt.

There's more where that came from, CEO says

Rogue insiders suspected of taking bribes to hand over Coinbase customer records to criminals are beginning to face justice, according to CEO Brian Armstrong.…