A #FluConf retrospective article is out, and interesting reading. If you just want a TLDR:

1. “if you appreciated FluConf you might consider donating to BigBlueButton, or FFmpeg, the Internet Archive, or one of countless other bit of critical infrastructure”

2. “I’d like to be able to post the call for proposals for FluConf2026 no later than early October”

3. “This first edition was scheduled to coincide with FOSDEM, but I think that point’s been made, and future editions could probably stand on their own merit at another time of year if there was some clear benefit.”

4. “If you’re interested in helping with anything like that, or if you have other ideas to share, then please do reach out via the Fediverse or the FluConf IRC channel”

The full article:

@fluconf@fluconf https://social.cryptography.dog/@fluconf/114014369536592074

OpenWrt One AP 24 XY Brings Open Source Networking to a Custom Router
The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is a router board based on the MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC, combined with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chipset. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is the first official hardware platform supported by the OpenWrt open-source community, designed for OpenWrt learning, IoT applications, and general networking use […] ⌘ Read more

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′44″W] Reading: 1.74000 PPM

It’s #2025 and we’re still discussing #gas reserves instead of talking about #BanFossilFuels …

[47°09′42″S, 126°43′33″W] Reading: 0.30000 PPM

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that”
Article URL: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/random/calculator-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953

Points: 520

# Comments: 130 ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hmmm 🧐

@prologic@twtxt.net That boycott didn’t last very long, eh!?

Yeah, sounds like another hype train arriving at the station.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt I’ll let you know once it reaches a point where it might be barely usable by someone else than myself. There are long ways to go, though. Right now, you don’t wanna even look at it. :-)

[47°09′00″S, 126°43′30″W] Not enough data – sampling finished

Thinking about trying tt. If it really usable i will abandon twtxtdon (service to read twtxt feeds from mastodon client), which currently has only authorization implemented

OpenMV Introduces the GENX320 Camera Module for Event-Based Vision
OpenMV has introduced the Prophesee GenX320 camera module, bringing event-based vision sensing to its embedded platform. Unlike traditional image sensors that capture entire frames at fixed intervals, the GenX320 detects only changes in a scene, reducing data rates while improving efficiency in motion detection. The sensor operates asynchronously, with each pixel responding independently to illumination […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de fuck 🤣

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′03″W] Taking samples

* 185325d - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Alibaba (38 seconds ago) <James Mills>

fark me 🤦‍♂️ Alibaba, CN has been hitting my Gopher proxy quite hard as well. Fuck’n hell! 🔥

* 8a77b64 - (HEAD -> master) edge: Ban Google's ASN (21 seconds ago) <James Mills>

It would appear that Google’s web crawlers are ignoring the robots.txt that I have on https://git.mills.io/robots.txt with content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Evidence attached (see screenshots): – I think its the the Small Web community band together and file a class action suit(s) against Microsoft.com Google.com and any other assholes out there (OpenAI?) that violate our rights and ignore requests to be “polite” on the web. Thoughts? 💭

I got promoted today to try using Passkeys on Github.com. Fine 😅 I did that, but I discovered that when you use your Passkey to login, Chrome prompts you for your device’s password (i.e: The password you use to login to your macOS Desktop). Is that intentional? Kind of defeats the point no? I mean sure, now there’s no Password being transmitted, stored or presented to Github.com but still, all an attacker has to do is somehow be on my device and know my login password to my device right? Is that better or worse? 🤔

Our stupid fucking 🤬 cat 🐱 keeps pissing 🚽 everywhere in our house 🏠

I’m continuing my tt rewrite in Go and quickly implemented a stack widget for tview. The builtin Pages is similar but way too complicated for my use case. I would have to specify a mandatory name and some additional options for each page. Also, it allows me to randomly jump around between pages using names, but only gives me direct access the first, however, not the last page. Weird. I don’t wanna remember names. All I really need is a classic stack. You open a new fullscreen dialog and maybe another one on top of that. Closing the upper most brings you back to the previous one and so on.

The very first dialog I added is viewing the raw message text. Unlike in @arne@uplegger.eu’s TwtxtReader, I’m not able to include the original timestamp, though. I don’t have it in its original form in the database. :-/

Next up is a URL view.

Radxa Expands SBC Lineup with ROCK 5T Featuring Dual 2.5GbE and Dual M.2 Slots
Radxa has introduced a Mini-ITX single-board computer designed for both consumer and industrial applications. Built around the Rockchip RK3588(J) processor, this SBC provides a broad set of interfaces, high-speed connectivity, and advanced multimedia capabilities. Unlike the ROCK 5B and ROCK 5B+, which use the same processor, the ROCK 5T is also designed for industrial applications […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s what I immediately thought as well. :-D @eapl.me@eapl.me Unfortunately, no fancy buttons. What does your model do?

#qotd

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My Life in Weeks
Article URL: https://weeks.ginatrapani.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43061498

Points: 503

# Comments: 140 ⌘ Read more

Vaaman is a $180 reconfigurable board with an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA and Rockchip RK3399
The Vaaman is a reconfigurable edge computing platform, first seen in 2023. The CrowdSupply campaign has finally launched, offering a system that combines the flexibility of an FPGA with the processing power of a six-core ARM processor. Designed for real-time processing and hardware acceleration, Vaaman integrates an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA with 112k logic elements […\ … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′08″S, 126°43′17″W] –white noise–

[47°09′34″S, 126°43′34″W] Transfer aborted

You have a microwave oven at home, right?

You can type 3 and 0 for 30 seconds, 100 for a minute (shown as 1:00), or 200 for two minutes (2:00).

What would happen if you type 777 and Start?
A) Nothing
B) Self-destruction
C) Will run for 7 minutes and 77 seconds (boring!)

What about 7777 ?

hey! It’s looking nice

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ouch 🤕

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Nice 😊

Added support for uploading images to to #Timeline

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When washing the dishes at the scouts I cut my hand open on the ladle. That piece of shit has a terrible burr.

DILDO was here.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Bur I can’t think of what’s changed to cause this? 🧐

[47°09′12″S, 126°43′50″W] Transfer 25% complete…

What exact feeds are we talking about that uses spaces instead of tabs or the T’s in timestamp?

Yes, it looks like some users are not lucky to be Dildo agents here …

@prologic@twtxt.net Of course you don’t notice it when yarnd only shows at most the last n messages of a feed. As an example, check out mckinley’s message from 2023-01-09T22:42:37Z. It has “[Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled]“… in it. This text in square brackets is repeated numerous times. If you search his feed for closing square bracket followed by an opening square bracket (][) you will find a bunch more of these. It goes without question he never typed that in his feed. My client saves each twt hash I’ve explicitly marked read. A few days ago, I got plenty of apparently years old, yet suddenly unread messages. Each and every single one of them containing this repeated bracketed text thing. The only conclusion is that something messed up the feed again.

[47°09′06″S, 126°43′05″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

is the whole chat about dildos? D:

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′19″W] Raw reading: 0x67B02D61, offset +/-5

Does Dildo browser support the DICT protocol?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahahaha 🤣

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com “replies” 🤣

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Duplicates again where two days ago? I don’t see this anywhere (unless I’m blind!)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Agree. I’m not sure we should lax the timestamp format at all IMO. What @xuu@txt.sour.is has found is kind of nuts haha 😆 However I do think we should relax the \t separator between <timestamp> and <content>. Let users use any valid whitespace here that isn’t a newline or carriage return.

I think the author is a bit out of their depth here. A linear feed isn’t quite what the author seems to be modelling in their view of the problems they observe and describe. A linear feed has a beginning and an end. You can (ideally client-side) sort it by Date, or by Subject like we do with our Twtxt clients. A Tree-structure isn’t what the author thinks either, this is more the structure that forms after you introducing some kind of “threading model”. The main problem with any kind of information system that tries to figure out algorithmically what you want to “see” is that type of interface has no start and no end. SO you end up with a “scroll of doom”.

Y’all crack me up.

it’s ok, you can confess to us, we don’t know your identity!

The article discusses the challenges posed by linear social media feeds, which often lead to disengagement and difficulty in prioritizing content from friends due to constant scrolling. The author proposes an alternative approach using a daily feed structure per day, which organizes posts by date, allowing for easier prioritization and reducing mindless scrolling.

Key Points:

1. Linear Feed Problem: Linear feeds present a long list of posts without prioritization, forcing users to scroll endlessly to catch up on friends’ content. This can lead to addiction and disengagement.

2. Proposed Alternative (Tree Structure): The daily feed structure organizes posts by day, enabling users to prioritize updates from friends who post infrequently while reducing scrolling effort.

3. Mastodon Experience: The author’s experience with Mastodon highlighted its effectiveness in allowing content prioritization and managing social media usage without dependency on algorithms.

4. Challenges and Considerations:

   • Implementation Challenges: Creating a daily feed system involves organizing content effectively and ensuring users can prioritize posts.
     
   • Platform Support: Current platforms may not have APIs conducive to such changes, making it difficult to implement without significant technical changes.
     
   • Engagement Metrics: The impact on engagement metrics needs to be considered, as traditional metrics might be misinterpreted in a tree structure.
     

5. Potential Applications Beyond Social Media: This approach could empower users by giving control over content consumption and aiding in balancing social media use without overwhelming them with information.

6. Future Directions: The author hopes for improvements in alternative platforms’ feed systems and engagement metrics, potentially through more interactive content models or changes in APIs.

In conclusion, the article emphasizes the importance of providing users with control over their content consumption, moving away from linear feed

What exactly is a linear feed? 🤔

We were wrong about GPUs
Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/wrong-about-gpu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43053844

Points: 509

# Comments: 328 ⌘ Read more

This year for #ilovefs I also want to thank @lenovous@lenovous for selling Laptops with GNU/Linux in Portugal!

@eapl.me@eapl.me I like this idea. Another option would be to show a limited number of posts, with an option to see the omitted ones by user. Either way, I wonder how well that works with threading.

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′40″W] –interrupted–

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ja, völlig behämmert. Schade, vertane Chance für einen „Doch“-Knopf.

Boah, jetzt mal ernsthaft, was ist denn das für ein Dialog bittesehr!?

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Wer hat sich zu dieser Meldung diese Knopfauswahl überlegt und dann auch noch die Icons dazu ausgedacht? Und warum hat’s das Zertifikat überhaupt schon wieder zerlegt? Und wieso kommt der Dialog direkt wieder in ner Endlosschleife hoch, wenn ich abbreche? Komplettversagen nach Strich und Faden an allen Enden. Allen. Grrr, so viel Hass! Ich schalt besser die Büchse aus.

@prologic@twtxt.net Tolerant yes, but in the right places. This is just encouraging people to not properly care. The extreme end is HTML where parsers basically accept any input. I’m not a fan of that. Whatever.

@prologic@twtxt.net The issue is that all bracketed text in the entire feed has been duplicated again two days ago. The bug is not fixed. Or it’s a new one.

Now I just have to remember to tag people in replays ✍

… And, HOLLY!! infinite scrolling is real!! 👀

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I can relate to that. :-/

[47°09′29″S, 126°43′23″W] Dosimeter fixed

I just did and things are working wonderfully well now and I’m in love with how profile views are layed out! 👌 Thank you!

ok, sounds like a ‘large’ project to me.
Is it more an API (more oriented to developers), more oriented to UI/UX/Frontend? Perhaps both?

I’d go with prologic’s advice of measuring and prioritizing. Perhaps you have a budget or at least something like “let’s see how far can we reach in 6 months”, and possibly you won’t finish in the time you have (just guessing).

Something that has helped me was defining “Why do you we want to refactor this project?”.
Could it be to make it compile on newer versions, or making it easier to grow and scale, or perhaps they are trying to sell that product to another company. Every reason has a different path, IMO.

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net @eapl_en@eapl.me @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org ! I take note

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com You can update the package 😀

I’ve learned that I can live without @kde@kde but I’m not able to live without #konsole, so… my first ❤️ of this year’s #ilovefs goes to the lovely Konsole and specially The Konsole Developers!

https://konsole.kde.org/

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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev My first point of advice is to stop everything and measure all the important critical user journeys. Design and Build Service Level Objectives for each and every part of the system you can find that any user cares about.

[47°09′54″S, 126°43′34″W] Resetting dosimeter

2024-08-04T11:24:34Z was the last occurrence of this.

@bender@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org This bug was fixed back in September last year. But the brackets still appear in my current feed. is that what the issue is? 🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @andros@twtxt.andros.dev Are we talking about yarnd here? Hmm? 🤔 I’ve thought about a “read flag” but I just haven’t bothered so far…

@johanbove@johanbove.info And what are the results so far? 🤔

The cache is only suppose to be for 120s though, but I reckon the caching layer is just stupid? 🤔 (and maybe buggy)?

I need to understand how the caching is at play here at the edge. I hit CTRL+R on @mckinley@twtxt.net’s OP to get the right subject reply after poking at the underlying HTML elements on the page.

@bender@twtxt.net To be fair, I do this in my “spare time” 😅

@mckinley@twtxt.net Ahh. I think this is some kind of weird caching issue at my edge! 😱

(Updated) NanoKVM-USB: 4K HDMI Loopback, USB 3.0, and Integrated Keyboard/Mouse Control
This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems. The Sipeed Wiki pages indicate that this device eliminates the need for dedicated keyboards, mice, or monitors. It allows users to perform operations graphically through the Chrome browser on a single computer, […] ⌘ Read more

M5Stack ASR Unit with CI 03T for Offline Voice Recognition in Smart Devices for $7.50
M5Stack recently launched the ASR Unit, which is an offline voice recognition module incorporating the CI-03T AI offline voice module. It is designed for applications that require speech recognition, voiceprint detection, and voice enhancement without relying on cloud-based processing. The product page for the CI-03T is in Chinese, but it describes the module as a […] ⌘ Read more

I can’t. I use Windows 3.11 and do not use the Dildo browser …

@mckinley@twtxt.net I’m worried we’re really approaching a point where we need to adapt the hashing algorithm and expand the no. of bits. Is it at all possible something else is going on here though? 🤞

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org True, but we should also consider building tolerant “systems” 😉

@algorave.dk@algorave.dk Hello 👋

The project is a POC (Proof of Concept) that went into production and the company has customers who are using it. The developers had been working for several years, without testing, structure, isolation and so on. The company hired me to transform the project into a real product. There are in my hands 422 python files to transform that they beg me a refactore, architecture and testing. Every developer’s bad dream.
My first step is to read and understand the tree because there are apps inside other apps call each other. I am very determined to work on a new repository.

Anyone can push updates to the doge.gov website
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045835

Points: 503

# Comments: 348 ⌘ Read more

Thanks you very much! I have fixed it. 🙌

Learn SQL by solving crimes. I want to highlight it as a teacher and a developer, it’s extremely well done.
https://www.sqlnoir.com/
#sql

[47°09′38″S, 126°43′57″W] Dosimeter still failing

[47°09′19″S, 126°43′14″W] Dosimeter overflow

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev it seems your GtS has issues:

Warning! It looks like trusted-proxies is not set correctly in this instance’s configuration. This may cause rate-limiting issues and, by extension, federation issues.

If you are the instance admin, you should fix this by adding 10.66.66.1/32 to your trusted-proxies.

@twtxt.andros.dev@twtxt.andros.dev it might be fine, but not here. It just causes more issues than fixes.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org not quite. Yes, the feeds on Yarn have episodic messes. But look at mine, and compare it to McKinley’s. It is night and day.

#Clima: “A UE ateou o fogo e não pode esperar que outros países sejam os bombeiros”

(WWF quer mais da UE)

Excertos:

“As falhas que a UE tem vindo a cometer, alegam os autores do relatório, prejudicam os esforços de descarbonização e, denunciam ainda, incluem “subsídios aos combustíveis fósseis, licenças gratuitas para poluir para a indústria pesada ao abrigo do regime comunitário de comércio de licenças de emissão, a isenção de impostos para a aviação comercial[…]”.”

“O aquecimento a curto prazo (anual) não equivale a uma violação permanente do objectivo do Acordo de Paris de 1,5 graus Celsius, mas esta violação a longo prazo pode ocorrer em breve: segundo o Copérnico [programa europeu de monitorização do clima e atmosfera], se a tendência de aquecimento de 30 anos até Dezembro de 2020 se mantivesse, o aquecimento global atingiria uma média a longo prazo de 1,5 graus Celsius em Janeiro de 2034”, destaca o relatório do WWF. E isso trará consequências dramáticas impossíveis de ignorar.”

“Entretanto, na segunda-feira, terminou o prazo oficial para os países entregarem às Nações Unidas os seus planos de redução de emissões de gases com efeito de estufa até 2035. Cerca de 95% dos países não cumpriram a sua obrigação — entre os quais a União Europeia (Portugal incluído, claro).”

https://www.publico.pt/2025/02/11/azul/noticia/clima-ue-ateou-fogo-nao-esperar-paises-bombeiros-2122155

1st thought… Run!

Well, I’ve heard you have plenty of experience with Unit Testing and TDD. Perhaps designing a few tests before refactoring?

I’ve heard of Snapshot testing, but have never tried it: https://github.com/spatie/phpunit-snapshot-assertions

Also, what kind of refactor are you trying to do?

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I suggest to not touch it and work on a different project instead. :-D

No, in all seriousness, that’s a tough one. Try to figure out the requirements and write tests to cover them. In my experience, if there is no good documention, tests might also be lacking. It goes without saying that you have to understand the code segments first before you can begin to refactor them. Commit even earlier and more often than usual, this will help you bisecting potentially introduced bugs later on. Basically baby steps.

But it also depends on the amount of refactoring required. Maybe just scrap it entirely and start from scratch. This might not be feasible due to e.g. the overall project size, though.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I’m all for elegant solutions. I prefer when the computer helps me to really achieve my goal and solve it completely, not where I still have to manually filter a list by hand. Anyway. :-)

@eapl.me@eapl.me Yeah, you need some kind of storage for that. But chances are that there’s already a cache in place. Ideally, the client remembers etags or last modified timestamps in order to reduce unnecessary network traffic when fetching feeds over HTTP(S).

A newsreader without read flags would be totally useless to me. But I also do not subscribe to fire hose feeds, so maybe that’s a different story with these. I don’t know.

To me, filtering read messages out and only showing new messages is the obvious solution. No need for notifications in my opinion.

There are different approaches with read flags. Personally, I like to explicitly mark messages read or unread. This way, I can think about something and easily come back later to reply. Of course, marking messages read could also happen automatically. All decent mail clients I’ve used in my life offered even more advanced features, like delayed automatic marking.

All I can say is that I’m super happy with that for years. It works absolutely great for me. The only downside is that I see heaps of new, despite years old messages when a bug causes a feed to be incorrectly updated (https://twtxt.net/twt/tnsuifa). ;-)

Have you ever had to refactor a project that was not documented? Any suggestions?