“A Gamut Of Games” von Sid Sackson ist ein Buch über “andere” Spiele. Ich konnte die Tage einige davon ausprobieren: “Lines of Action” (LoA), “Three Musketeers” und “Network”. Alle haben, für mich, wunderbar frische Spielmechaniken.
Beim Lesen meine ich, bei einigen anderen Spielbeschreibungen, Vorlagen für das Spiel “Tak - ein schönes Spiel” entdeckt zu haben. Live is Remix!

Heute ging es einmal wieder ins Kino. Zu “Mickey 17”. Ein SciFi Comedy Drama über einen armen Retorten-Teufel, mit einem kritischen Blick auf die Gegenwart. Der Film hat mir viel Spaß gemacht.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=osYpGSz_0i4

My twtxt feed is now also available at gemini://roccodrom.de/twtxt.txt

My twtxt feed is now also available at gemini://roccodrom.de/twtxt.txt

reparo agora como é curioso que em BR “fala, galera” na verdade significa “ouve, galera”

Radeon RX 9070 Fan Speed Reporting & Other Last Minute AMD Changes For Linux 6.15
Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′54″W] Wind speed: N/A – Cannot comunicate

Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface
Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more

it seems to be “an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#History

I’d like to know more about what andros and prologic are talking about, I feel lost.

“This will be managed by Registries.” Are we talking about these registries?
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html

SQL scares me i tweaked a bash script that pulled from a DB and the bash part was easy even if i was just going off of the code in there that i didn’t write (like i understood it at least) but the SQL parts had me suffering

i have been on a ROLL fixing server issues the other day i fixed my dead SFTP server which had a chroot permission issue

i’m rewatching power rangers mystic force for lesbian reasons

@prologic@twtxt.net thank you! no clue what’s causing it for me but it’s probably something stupid

@movq@www.uninformativ.de rose mciver!!!!!!! i know her from power rangers lol

That’s cool, solar eclipse on the moon: https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/album-72177720313239766/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Dito. Even though I only had four day weeks and three days of weekend the last month, I feel very exhausted as well. Back to five days next week. :-(

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! I just can’t justify the amount of space it permanently takes. But it fits nicely with the other gauges you have. And with that in mind, it actually is super tiny.

@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting, I wasn’t aware that other parts of the world consider them to be a German thing :-)

[47°09′50″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

Mediatek DRM Driver Adding MT8365 “Genio 350” Support In Linux 6.15
On top of the big features for the Intel graphics driver code and new AMD hardware support coming for Linux 6.15 along with the initial NOVA driver stub, the smaller Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have also been lining up their changes for this next kernel version. With the Mediatek DRM driver for Linux 6.15 it’s set to add MT8365 SoC support, perhaps better known as the Genio 350… ⌘ Read more

Arm Shows Off Great Performance Results For PGO & BOLT With LLVM/Clang
Arm software engineer Peter Waller has shared some insightful benchmarks of the impact of PGO, Context Sensitive PGO (CSPGO), and BOLT optimizations across various classes of Neoverse processor designs… ⌘ Read more

Glibc’s Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations
The GNU C Library’s tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations… ⌘ Read more

squirrels are people too

Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler
Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler “RGP” integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′48″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from NE

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS
While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there’s another new one in the field and it’s Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net yes! Of course. However give me some time, I want to define a small proposal for the Registry (v2?)

[47°09′36″S, 126°43′39″W] Reading: 0.73 Sv

[47°09′53″S, 126°43′52″W] Raw reading: 0x67D3C5E1, offset +/-1

Vantron Introduces the VT USB AH 8108 Wi-Fi HaLow Dongle Featuring Morse Micro MM8108
Vantron has introduced the VT-USB-AH-8108 Wi-Fi HaLow Dongle, a compact connectivity solution powered by Morse Micro’s MM8108 chipset. The device supports long-range, low-power wireless communication through a plug-and-play USB interface. Wi-Fi HaLow technology is being adopted for industrial IoT applications, smart cities, and enterprise networks. The VT-USB-AH-8108 is des … ⌘ Read more

@thecanine@twtxt.net 👀

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Same 😢

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev What a nice thing to say 🙇‍♂️

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Would it help if I documented the two protocols that yarnd uses today for this “distributed network”? 🧐

UNIHIKER K10 is an ESP32-S3 based platform with TinyML and built-in sensors
The UNIHIKER K10 is an AI learning device designed for education, integrating features for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT applications. It includes a 2.8″ color screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a camera, microphone, speaker, RGB light, and multiple sensors. The device features an ESP32-S3 Xtensa LX7 microcontroller with 512KB SRAM and 16MB flash storage. It supports […] ⌘ Read more

Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7
The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn’t been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state… ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor
Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution… ⌘ Read more

“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43356995

Points: 500

# Comments: 414 ⌘ Read more

DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements
Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve’s Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhancing the Linux gaming experience… ⌘ Read more

[47°09′24″S, 126°43′30″W] –no signal–

ah! those german calendars. Somehow I was thinking of something like mine, with spaces to write inside each day.

I worked for a german company and they gave away these calendars to our clients and team every year, but the model you can hang on the wall. Memory unlocked!

@arne@uplegger.eu Das ist ein recht zuverlässiger Wetterbericht. Wenn die Bauern mit ihren Güllefässern hier vorbeifahren, weiß ich sofort, dass Regen angekündigt ist. :-)

Ha, das Lied gefällt mir außerordentlich gut! \o/ Mit Abstand das beste Güllelied. Ich kenn noch ein paar schwäbische, aber die gehen lang nicht so ab wie dieses hier.

Work takes up 110% of my energy at the moment. All I can do is sit here and try to unwind.

On an entirely unrelated note, Resident Alien (Alan Tudyk!) and Ghosts (Rose McIver!) are great shows.

If you have even a passing interest in what, or rather who is the cause of (not just) Googles enshitification and 15 to 30 minutes to spare, I would strongly recommended reading The Man Who Killed Google Search, or listening to the podcast episode, linked at the very top of the page.

It needs to be emphasised, the majority of these changes for the worse, are not an accident. They’re done very deliberately by cockroaches, seeking short-term profits, they can take a big chunk of, only to jump ship to another company and let everyone else, suffer the long term consequences of their actions.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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@arne@uplegger.eu Ah, witzige Geschichte! Ich fürchte, der Eberhardt wird sich nun bei mir auch festsetzen. ;-)

Heute auf dem Heimweg roch es leicht güllig vom Stadtrand her. Is denn all wedder Gülletied? 🐄🐖💩🚜🤢
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=STPvOxUDekU

[47°09′16″S, 126°43′05″W] –interrupted–

Microsoft Releases March 2025 Update To Azure Linux 3.0
Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month’s Patch Tuesday… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I like to listen to you.

@prologic@twtxt.net If it develops, and I’m not saying it will happen soon, perhaps Yarn could be connected as an additional node. Implementation would not be difficult for any client or software. It will not only be a backup of twtxt, but it will be the source for search, discovery and network health.

😀

Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL
With today’s Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the “Clover” OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern. much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA RTX Remix 1.0 Released With DXVK DLSS4 & Neural Radiance Cache
NVIDIA’s RTX Remix software for remastering classic games with a variety of visual enhancements reached version 1.0 today with some additional big improvements… ⌘ Read more

AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 Brings Radeon RX 9070 Series Support
AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards… ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Simple enough 👍

New article: “E2E Testing with TestCafe on Docker.”
I’ll show you how to get started with TestCafe, a framework for performing E2E tests.
https://programadorwebvalencia.com/pruebas-e2e-con-testcafe-sobre-docker/
#docker #testcafe #e2e #testing #javascript #webdev

I’m sharing a short tutorial, in Spanish, for self-hosting #twtxt with Docker:
https://programadorwebvalencia.com/twtxt-desplegar-tu-feed-con-docker/

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′55″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition
A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 “dirty rect” mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nein nein, nichts plattdeutsches. “Eberhardt Eichhörnchen” ist eine nette Alliteration und kommt aus einem Urlaub von vor ein paar Jahren. Auf dem Campingplatz gab es ein Eichhörnchen und der Eberhardt war durch eine Handwerkerwerbung präsent.

Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration
The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model. For enhancing the developer experience in more basic form, Zed has now added native Git integration… ⌘ Read more

Proposed Linux Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel’s libperf From Python
A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel’s libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language… ⌘ Read more

Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
Article URL: https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-told-me-i-should-learn-coding-instead-of-asking-it-to-generate-it-limit-of-800-locs/61132

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43351137

P … ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I don’t think there’s anything wrong with an optional distributed network with participating members of the community. As long as it’s optional.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev this is actually already achieved with yarnd

@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me So what was the definition of a web log back in the day? 🧐

@bender@twtxt.net Me neither 🙌

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ita more so that with enough data you start to need an index

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I agree 💯

[47°09′10″S, 126°43′44″W] Taking samples

[47°09′10″S, 126°43′22″W] Raw reading: 0x67D27461, offset +/-2

IMDT V2N SBC: A Vision-AI Computing Platform with Dual MIPI CSI and Renesas RZ/V2N Processor
IMDT has introduced its latest System-on-Module and Single-Board Computer, both powered by the Renesas RZ/V2N processor. These new platforms are designed to deliver cost-effective, high-performance AI computing at the edge, supporting applications in robotics, smart cities, industrial automation, IoT, and smart retail. The core of both the SOM and SBC is the Re … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I have never used a paper calendar. Before I was 23-24 years old I didn’t use a calendar at all. Since I was 24, I have used pocket computer based ones, until today. I have a personal calendar, and a family shared one. So do wife, and children.

Come to think of it, I don’t use writing/scribbling paper at all!

Red Hat’s Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features
It’s been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments… ⌘ Read more

do you mind sharing a picture ?

I can’t find something similar here, but my wife gave this one last year, and I’ve been using it a bit. I’d say it’s useful as you’ve shared.

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We also have a shared calendar in the kitchen for family events, and it’s working great.

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev If something fits in a CSV file, it typically doesn’t require a database. I agree with that. Depending on the application, more complicated queries might benefit from a database, though. I don’t know awk very well, but I could imagine that grep, sed and cut reach their CSV processing limits rather quickly when you have to deal with escaped (multiline) fields.

I only very rarely have to deal with CSV files or databases in my day to day life. Maybe, these classic Unix tools offer some tricks I’m not aware of. When I have some more complicated CSV input, I generally reach for Python.

Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/memoriam-mark-klein-att-whistleblower-about-nsa-mass-spying

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347662

Points: 512

# Comments: 123 ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me @arne@uplegger.eu @andros@twtxt.andros.dev Thanks mates!

Hmmm, Eberhardt. Ist das eine plattdeutsche Sache? Dass ich den flinken Nagern so lang zuschauen konnte, war ein seltener Glücksfall. Normalerweise sind die nach fünf oder spätestens zehn Minuten wieder aus dem Sichtfeld verschwunden.

Lip-Bu Tan Named As Next Intel CEO
Intel announced a short time ago that Lip-Bu Tan has been named as the company’s next CEO… ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, horizontal scrolling is an invention right from the devil himself. :-D It’s awful, I can’t stand it.

[47°09′46″S, 126°43′05″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

well (insert stubborn emoji here) 😛, word blog comes from weblog, and microblogging could derivate from ‘smaller weblog’. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Microblogging

I’d differentiate it from sharing status updates as it was done with ‘finger’ or even a BBS. For example, being able to reply; create new threads and sharing them on a URL is something we could expect from ‘Twitter’, the most popular microbloging model (citation needed)

I like to discuss it, since conversations usually are improved if we sync on what we understand for the same words.

pls elaborate on a ‘p2p database’, ‘all story’ and ‘Registries’.

My first thought takes me to something like secure-scuttlebutt which it’s painful to sync data using clients, and too slow compared to downloading a text file.

Also I’d like for twtxt to avoid becoming an ActivityPub. Works well but it’s uses too many resources IMO.
https://kingant.net/2025/02/mastodon-the-cost-of-running-my-own-server/

I’m defending being able to self-host your Web client (like you’d do with a Wordpress, twtxt is a micrologging, at the end), instead of federated instances, so in a first thought I’d say Registries have many disadvantages being the first one that someone has to maintain them active.

[47°09′24″S, 126°43′00″W] Dosimeter still failing

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components
Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year’s all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils “uutils” software… ⌘ Read more

AMD’s 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance
Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel’s scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD with the larger L3 cache or with the higher frequency potential. Here is a l … ⌘ Read more

PicoCalc Brings Classic Computing to ClockworkPi v2.0 with Raspberry Pi Pico
The PicoCalc is a compact computing platform designed to recreate the experience of early personal computers. Running on 260KB of memory, it allows users to code in BASIC, explore Lisp, interact with a UNIX-like environment, and run retro games and digital music. Its modular and open-source design makes it adaptable for various applications. Built on […] ⌘ Read more

What does the #twtxt community think about having a p2p database to store all history? This will be managed by Registries.

I think we are approaching a new step.

Good shot!

@prologic@twtxt.net We often turn to a database when we can use a plain text file, such as a CSV. With sed or awk, you can run simple queries without using a database.
Did I get the context right? 😀

Today I learned how to use TestCafé. It is a E2E framework.
I needed it because I wanted to write a script that would launch a browser in the background, log me in with a username and password, and return the cookie value with the token ID. The goal is to perform tests with the token.
https://testcafe.io/

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC
OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D Linux Benchmarks Forthcoming
Today marks the retail availability of the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. At the top of the hour when the new AMD Zen 5 3D V-Cache processors went on sale, I found both the 9900X3D and 9950X3D in-stock and at MSRP pricing… Less than a half hour later, the 9950X3D is now out of stock while as of writing the 9900X3D remains in-stock at major Internet retailers at its $599 price point… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Set To Include Better Handling For Intel P Or E Core Only Mitigations
A set of patches from Intel for utilizing the CPU type for CPU matching as part of the x86 mitigation handling is likely to be part of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. These patches are intended for helping with CPU security mitigations on Intel Core hybrid processors where there are security vulnerabilities affecting only P cores or only E cores but not both sets of CPU cores present in the system… ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz We missed you too 🤗

You’re all wrong 😑 @anth@a.9srv.net will happily tell you (hopefully) that we’ve been doing this whole “microblogging” / “status update” thing decades earlier than anything you’ve ever seen in the form of finger 🤣 and “plan” files 😅