Hey everyone!

About the idea of improving the “thread” extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.

The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.

What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!

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Lenovo Teases Solar-Powered and Foldable-Screen Laptops in Latest Concepts
Lenovo demonstrated “a laptop with a foldable screen and one that can get extra battery life from solar power,” reports CNBC, emphasizing that “These laptops are just concepts, meaning they are not commercially available.”
But “Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, has a history of showing off imaginative concepts with some … ⌘ Read more

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Trump Names Cryptocurrencies for ‘Digital Asset Stockpile’ in Social Media Post
Despite a January announcement that America would explore the idea of a national digital asset stockpile, the exact cryptocurrecies weren’t specified. Today on social media the president posted that it would include bitcoin, ether, XRP, Solana’s SOL token and Cardano’s ADA, reports CNBC — prompting a Sunday rally in cr … ⌘ Read more

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‘Exponential Spin-up’ In Geothermal Energy Projects Brings Hope for Green Power
Earth’s core “burns with an estimated forty-four trillion watts of power,” the New Yorker reminds us — enough to “satisfy the entire world’s energy needs” with a power source that’s carbon-free, ubiquitous — and unlimited. (Besides running 24 hours a day, one of geothermal energy’s key advantages is “it can be used … ⌘ Read more

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I hate to say it .. but we as a species have peaked at this moment. It’s all down hill from here.

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How Buildings Are Staying Cool and Saving Money - with Batteries Made of Ice
“Thousands of buildings across the United States are staying cool with the help of cutting-edge batteries made from one of the world’s simplest materials,” reports the Washington Post — ice.

When electricity is cheap, the batteries freeze water. When energy costs go up, building managers turn off their pricey chillers … ⌘ Read more

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What Happened When Conspiracy Theorists Talked to OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo?
A “decision science partner” at a seed-stage venture fund (who is also a cognitive-behavioral decision science author and professional poker player) explored what happens when GPT-4 Turbo converses with conspiracy theorists:

Researchers have struggled for decades to develop techniques to weaken the grip of conspiracy theories and cult ideo … ⌘ Read more

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Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept a Free Ride Into Space?
How confident are we about the safety of commercial space tourism? Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes:
It’s one thing for Microsoft to boast that they dare to use Outlook instead of Gmail. But it took a whole other level of commitment for Jeff Bezos to join his brother Mark aboard Blue Origin’s first passenger-carrying mission in July 2021.

So, while Bezos i … ⌘ Read more

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Fast New 3D Printing Technique Shines Holograms into Resin
Can a new 3D-printing technique shorten 3D printing times to just seconds? A team of researchers in Europe has modified Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, which can “create entire objects in one shot by shining light patterns into liquid resin,” according to the 3D Printing Industry blog. (The liquid resin then solidifies when the light inten … ⌘ Read more

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First Petawatt Electron Beam Arrives, Ready To Rip Apart Matter and Space
Petawatt lasers have already allowed scientists to “manipulate materials in new ways, emulate the conditions inside planets, and even split atoms,” reports Science magazine. “Now, accelerator physicists have matched that feat, producing petawatt pulses of electrons that could also have spectacular applications…”

Described … ⌘ Read more

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It has been interesting to see so many reflecting at the same time about the current state and the possible future of web browsers - even if it was fired up by some bad news from @mozillaofficial@mozillaofficial.

Still, it is important to acknowledge what is and has been going on - how a web browser currently became a lot more than just a piece of software implementing a number of open standards, how they are all basically based over one of two existing browser agents (Gecko and Webkit) with the emergence of two upcoming ones (Servo and LibWeb); the difficulties of creating or maintaining a new web browser, or how dependent are all firefox forks (or older, harder derivatives like SeaMonkey) of Mozilla (both Firefox and Gecko).

I’m not trying to get to any point with this text, but rather to highlight that now is the time to have a few conversations around open standards, and in particular web standards. And as it happens, the “annual day” to have discussions of that sort is around the corner: @dff@dff’s Document Freedom Day 2025 is already in the 26th of this month. So why aren’t there more events on the map? How is your community, user group, etc. going to mark and celebrate this day?

Organize something, and put it on the events map, right this way: https://digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd

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Malicious PyPI Package Exploited Deezer’s API, Orchestrates a Distributed Piracy Operation
A malicious PyPi package effectively turned its users’ systems “into an illicit network for facilitating bulk music downloads,” writes The Hacker News.

Though the package has been removed from PyPI, researchers at security platform Socket.dev say it enabled “coordinated, unauthorized music download … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the ground was wet here, too. Some sections of esp. smaller paths had turned into mud holes. There are a few notorious spots. Oh well, you just have to press on. :-)

Forest animals also have to do the laundry, they even have a proper clotheshorse! See: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-zu-den-schurrenhoffuechsen-2021-05-15/07.jpg :-D

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In-reply-to » (#tbyqv7a) @andros Do edits cause problems? I sometimes make them and didn't realize it may be an issue

@bmallred@staystrong.run I forgot one more effect of edits. If clients remember the read status of massages by hash, an edit will mark the updated message as unread again. To some degree that is even the right behavior, because the message was updated, so the user might want to have a look at the updated version. On the other hand, if it’s just a small typo fix, it’s maybe not worth to tell the user about. But the client doesn’t know, at least not with additional logic.

Having said that, it appears that this only affects me personally, noone else. I don’t know of any other client that saves read statuses. But don’t worry about me, all good. Just keep doing what you’ve done so far. I wanted to mention that only for the sake of completeness. :-)

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Watch ‘Blue Ghost’ Attempt Its Landing on the Moon
Watch the “Blue Ghost” lunar lander attempt its moon landing.

The actual landing is scheduled to happen at 3:34 a.m. Eastern time, according to CNN, while “The first images from the mission should be delivered about a half hour after…”
Success is not guaranteed…

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In-reply-to » These two degenerates … Fucking hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ56ibIel1U

@prologic@twtxt.net I formed my opinion about this before reading/watching any additional media coverage. And yes, this is extremely bad. These two have no place on the “world stage”. They are deciding on our future. (And I am well aware that my country is heading into a similar direction – unless we stop it.)

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27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next?
Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They’d spotted a Reddit post “detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python … ⌘ Read more

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(Updated) Olimex Launches POEv3 Add-On for ESP32-P4 Development Board
Espressif Systems announced the ESP32-P4 over a year ago. While the chip is not yet available for retail, a prototype development board featuring the chip was recently showcased by Olimex. This board includes multiple interfaces, such as an Ethernet connector and a camera connector, demonstrating its versatile capabilities. The ESP32-P4, initially announced last year, features

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ASUS NUC 15 Pro+ Starts at $810 with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
ASUS has just provided pricing details for the ASUS NUC 15 Pro+, a compact computing system powered by Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 2), offering up to 99 TOPS of AI acceleration and an 18% increase in performance compared to the previous generation.   As of now, the product page indicates that the ASUS NUC

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In-reply-to » (#oknfufq) @lyse What do you think about this? https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/14

I like this syntax, you have my vote, although I’d change it a bit like
#<Alice https://example.com/twtxt.com#2024-12-18T14:18:26+01:00>

Hashes are not a problem on PHP, I dont know why it’s slow to calculate them from your side, but I agree with your points.

BTW, did you have the chance to read my proposal on twtxt 2.0? I shared a few ideas about possible improvements to discuss:
https://text.eapl.mx/a-few-ideas-for-a-next-twtxt-version
https://text.eapl.mx/reply-to-lyse-about-twtxt

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Utah Could Become America’s First State To Ban Fluoride In Public Water
NBC News reports that Utah could make history as America’s first state to ban fluoride in public water systems — even though major medical associations supporting water fluoridation:

If signed into law

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Microsoft Outage Leaves Tens of Thousands Unable to Access Email and Other Apps
“Tens of thousands of users were unable to access various Microsoft programs on Saturday afternoon,” reports CNBC:

“We’re investigating an issue in which users may be unable to access Outlook features and services,” Microsoft 365 Status, the official Microsoft account for 365 service incidents, said in a post on X…

Th … ⌘ Read more

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AMD Reveals RDNA 4 GPU Architecture Powering Next Gen Radeon RX 9070 Cards
Long-time Slashdot reader MojoKid writes: AMD took the wraps of its next gen RDNA 4 consumer graphics architecture Friday, which was designed to enhance efficiency over the previous generation, while also optimizing performance for today’s more taxing ray-traced gaming and AI workloads. RDNA 4 features next generation Ray Tracing en … ⌘ Read more

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Mozilla Revises Firefox’s Terms of Use, Clarifies That They Don’t Own Your Data
“We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,” Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it for anything … ⌘ Read more

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Daniel 11:40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him: and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.

Here is my two pennies concerning a prophecy . Problem with prophecies is understanding them, after the prophecy is past we can look back and understand perhaps?

What if the king of the north of Israel is Russia and the king of the South of Israel is the USA?

What does the Bible say of these two super powers over the Holy Lands of Israel?

Dunno, just my two pennies for those who wish to hurt their brains today. Shalom

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Zelenskyy can yell all he wants in the White House, but his game is up. Ukraine was never an independent player in this war—it was a pawn. A pawn used by Deep State actors in Washington to weaken Russia. And now that the war is lost, that pawn is being abandoned.

So when Trump tells Zelenskyy “you don’t have the cards,” he’s not just talking about negotiations—he’s exposing the truth. And why would Trump do this if Zelenskyy is a Western puppet or, worse still, intelligence asset? Because that would mean he’s a puppet or agent of the Deep State—the same Deep State who have tried to destroy Trump since he was first elected in 2016. Perhaps President Trump wants payback, perhaps he wants justice, or perhaps he just wants peace and an end to this pointless war.

The war in Ukraine didn’t need to happen. It was deliberately provoked. And it’s time for the world to wake up to that reality.

Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.

Take care,

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James and I were discussing this meltdown last night. I got this email today. :)

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Kolomoisky, conveniently, owned Ukraine’s largest oil and gas company and bank. And when Zelenskyy took power, his first priority wasn’t fighting corruption—it was ensuring Western financial houses like BlackRock took over Ukraine’s economy.

We now know that Zelenskyy funneled millions of dollars into offshore accounts—money that could have gone to his people. He allegedly used it to buy:

    A $34 million mansion in Miami

    A seaside home for his parents in Israel

    A $3.8 million luxury apartment in London

This is the man the media calls a hero.

And once he was installed, his real job began: provoking war with Russia on behalf of the West.
The War the West Wanted

By 2022, NATO had armed Ukraine to the teeth, and Kiev had massed forces near the Donbass. Russia had a choice—let the ethnic Russian people in Donbass face an ethnic cleansing, and then let NATO turn Ukraine into a de facto launchpad for war, or step in. They stepped in.

The media screamed that it was an “unprovoked invasion.” But it was provoked. NATO expansion, the 2014 coup, eight years of war on Donbass—this war was manufactured in Washington and, if the allegations around Zelenskyy being a MI6 asset are right, also in London.

Time to Wake Up

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Since 2020, he has surrounded himself with British—not Ukrainian—security guards. When Zelenskyy visited the Vatican in May 2023, he snubbed Pope Francis and instead spent his time with British Bishop Paul Gallagher. His handler, Sir Richard Moore, was also present.

Are we really supposed to believe this is all coincidence?

And if Zelenskyy is an intelligence asset, then his entire presidency—his entire persona—is an illusion crafted for Western audiences. And that brings us to his rise to power.
Hollywood Presidency: How Zelenskyy Was Manufactured

Before he was president, Zelenskyy was a comedian—a TV actor in a scripted Ukrainian drama called Servant of the People, where he played a humble teacher who miraculously becomes president. It was pure political fiction.

And then, suddenly, it became real life. His campaign was managed by Western PR specialists—including an Obama speechwriter—and heavily financed by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, one of the most corrupt men in Ukraine.

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The War in Donbass: Ukraine’s War on Its Own People

The people of Donetsk and Luhansk (also known as the Donbass) didn’t recognise the new, Western-backed regime in Kiev. They held referendums and voted to break away. Crimea, home to Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, also held a vote—with over 90% choosing to rejoin Russia.

The response from Kiev? Brutal war.

Instead of letting the Donbass go, Ukraine launched a military assault. For eight years, the people of Donetsk and Luhansk endured shelling, airstrikes, and blockades. Thousands of civilians died. Where was the Western outrage? Nowhere—because the media ignored it.

Ukraine even used Nazi-linked militias like Azov to wage war on these civilians. These groups wore SS symbols, celebrated Nazi war criminals, and committed atrocities. And yet, the West armed them, trained them, and lied about their existence.
Zelenskyy: A Western Intelligence Puppet?

In 2013, the left-wing Covert Action magazine published an explosive revelation about Zelenskyy that should shock anyone who still believes the mainstream narrative. In October 2020, long before Russia’s military operation, Zelenskyy secretly met with Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6. Not the British Prime Minister. The head of British intelligence. Diplomatically, that makes no sense. But if Zelenskyy was an MI6 asset, it makes perfect sense.

According to Andriy Mishin, a former employee of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, this meeting signified that Zelenskyy was a professional intelligence agent and that Moore was his direct handler, telling him what to do.

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But the real turning point came in 2014, when Washington orchestrated an outright coup.

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The 2014 Coup: How the West Installed a Puppet Regime in Ukraine

Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine’s democratically elected president, wanted to balance Ukraine between East and West. He rejected a terrible EU trade deal that would have gutted Ukraine’s industry and instead sought closer ties with Russia. That was unacceptable to Washington.

What followed was the Maidan coup—not a “people’s revolution,” but a Western-backed takeover.

US officials, including Victoria Nuland and John McCain, openly supported the protests. Nuland was caught on a leaked call choosing Ukraine’s next leaders before Yanukovych was even removed. The violent street protests were driven by neo-Nazi groups like the Azov Battalion and Right Sector—groups that openly admire Hitler’s collaborators in Ukraine.

Yanukovych fled, and Washington’s hand-picked government took over. One of its first moves? Banning the Russian language in official settings—a direct attack on the millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the east.

And that’s when Donbass and Crimea said enough.

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After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine became independent. But Washington didn’t see Ukraine as just another new country—it saw it as a tool to weaken Russia.

The US and NATO promised Mikhail Gorbachev that they wouldn’t expand “one inch eastward.” That was a lie. NATO quickly swallowed up Poland, the Baltic States, and much of Eastern Europe, bringing its military presence right up to Russia’s borders.

Ukraine was the big prize. If NATO could pull Ukraine into its orbit, it would deal a devastating blow to Russia’s security. Moscow made it clear—Ukraine joining NATO was a red line. But the West didn’t care.

Instead of letting Ukraine develop as a neutral state between Russia and the West, Washington started pouring billions of dollars into the country, funding pro-Western political groups, media outlets, and NGOs. Their goal? To turn Ukraine against Russia and bring it fully into the Western camp.

In 2004, the CIA and State Department backed the so-called “Orange Revolution,” a Western-funded uprising that overturned an election result that had favoured a Russia-friendly candidate. That was their first attempt to hijack Ukraine’s government.

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In 1654, the Ukrainian Cossacks, seeking protection from Polish rule, chose to join Russia in 1654 under the Treaty of Pereyaslav. This wasn’t some act of conquest—the Ukraine’s own leaders asked to be under Russian rule. And why wouldn’t have they; they were practically from the same ethnic stock.

For centuries afterward, the Ukraine was an integral part of the Russian Empire, contributing to its military, economy, and culture. Even during the Soviet period, Ukraine, now a nation, wasn’t occupied—it was central to the USSR, producing its leadership, its industry, and its agriculture. Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet leader who gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954, was himself Ukrainian.

So when Western politicians and media talk about Ukraine as a permanently oppressed nation under Russian rule, they ignore the fact that for most of its history, the Ukraine was a key part of the Russian world. The real division started not because of Russian oppression, but because of Western interference.
The West’s Long War Against Russia

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And now, as Ukraine’s battlefield losses mount, as conscripts are dragged off the streets to fight, as the tide of public opinion in the West shifts—Zelenskyy is panicking.

And why wouldn’t he be? He was never the real power in this war. The real architects of this disaster have been sitting in Washington, Brussels, and London, playing their geopolitical games. The war in Ukraine was never about protecting democracy, and it certainly wasn’t “unprovoked.” It was engineered—deliberately—by the West.

But to understand that, you need to know the real history of Ukraine and Russia—history the mainstream media will never tell you.
The Deep Ties Between Ukraine and Russia

The Ukraine and Russia have been bound together for over a thousand years. Kyiv, the modern capital of the Ukraine nation, was once the heart of Kievan Rus, the first great Slavic state, which laid the foundations for Russian civilization itself. When the Mongols destroyed Kievan Rus in the 13th century, Moscow eventually rose to prominence, but the connection between Russians and Ukrainians never disappeared.

By the 17th century, the Ukraine was a contested frontier between Poland and Russia. Notice I am saying “the Ukraine”. This is important. The nation of Ukraine is a modern invention. The Ukraine was always considered as being part of greater Russia. In fact, the name Ukraine derives from the Old East Slavic word “ukraina” meaning “borderland” by which they mean the borderlands of Russia. Except, for some time, it was under the control of foreign invaders… and the locals revolted.

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Zelenskyy’s Meltdown & a History Lesson

Many would have been shocked to see this—Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the so-called hero of democracy, in an outright shouting match with Donald Trump and JD Vance in the White House. For years, the media painted Zelenskyy as a courageous leader, a beacon of freedom, standing up to Russian “aggression.” But yesterday, the mask slipped.

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    Zelenskyy’s mask slipped during a fiery confrontation with Trump and JD Vance in the White House, proving he is not a grateful ally but a desperate puppet.

    Ukraine has always been historically tied to Russia, and its so-called independence was only ever made possible by Western interference.

    The US and NATO deliberately orchestrated Ukraine’s turn against Russia, using coups and propaganda to install a puppet regime that serves their interests.

    Zelenskyy is possibly a Western intelligence asset, propped up by globalist elites while enriching himself at the expense of his own people.

    The war in Ukraine was never about democracy—it was a Western-provoked disaster meant to weaken Russia, and now that it has failed, Zelenskyy is being cast aside.

When Vance asked a simple question—why isn’t Ukraine showing gratitude for the billions of dollars in aid—it triggered an outburst. Zelenskyy, instead of thanking the US for bankrolling his war effort, accused America of not understanding what’s coming. Trump, never one to back down, reminded him exactly where he stands: “You don’t have the cards right now.” And he’s right.

Zelenskyy has never been in control of this war. He isn’t some heroic leader calling the shots. He’s a desperate man clinging to power in a crumbling regime, propped up by Western money, Western weapons, and Western propaganda.

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In-reply-to » We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks like a nice day. 😊 I tried to go on a quick walk, but it was really cold. And everything’s wet at the moment. Bah.

Clothespins in the woods, who would have thunk? 🥴

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New Research Suggests Ancient Ocean on Mars
Hidden layers of rock below the surface of Mars “strongly suggest” the presence of an ancient ocean, according to an international team of scientists including researchers at Penn State.

From the university’s announcement:

The new research offers the clearest evidence yet that the planet once contained a significant body of water and a more habitable environment for life, according … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » (#tbyqv7a) @andros Do edits cause problems? I sometimes make them and didn't realize it may be an issue

@bmallred@staystrong.run Any edit automatically changes the twt hash, because the hash is built over the hash URL, message timestamp and message text. https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html So, it is only a problem, if somebody replied to your original message with the old hash. The original message suddenly doesn’t exist anymore and the reply becomes detached, orphaned, whatever you wanna call it. Threading doesn’t break, though, if nobody replied to your message.

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Perl’s CPAN Security Group is Now a CNA, Can Assign CVEs
Active since 1995, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (or CPAN) hosts 221,742 Perl modules written by 14,548 authors. This week they announced that the CPAN Security Group “was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)” to assign and manage CVE vulnerability identifications for Perl and CPAN Modules.

“This is great news!” posted L … ⌘ Read more

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Anti-Aging Pill for Dogs Clears Key FDA Hurdle
San Francisco-based biotech startup Loyal says a drug it developed to increase dogs’ lifespan “has passed a significant milestone on the way to regulatory approval,” reports the Washington Post:

The Food and Drug Administration certified the daily pill as having a “reasonable expectation of effectiveness” at extending senior dogs’ lifespans. The regulator’s Center for Veterinar … ⌘ Read more

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We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

Image

Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

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Magnus Carlsen Auctions Jeans, Admits He Can’t Beat Chess Engines
Magnus Carlsen “announced this week that he is auctioning off the Italian luxury brand jeans that started a dress code dispute at December’s World Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships,” reports the Associated Press. (“Condition: Pre-owned,” says the listing on eBay, where by Friday night bidding on the charitable auction was up to $14,100.)

But C … ⌘ Read more

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Tesla Moves Towards Launching an Uber Competitor
“Tesla is taking steps to launch a ride-sharing service that could compete directly with Uber, Lyft and Waymo,” reports Axios, noting that Tesla “has filed for a transportation charter-party carrier permit from the California Public Utilities Commission, Bloomberg reported Thursday.”
“That classification means Tesla would own and control the fleet of vehicles,” Bloomberg report … ⌘ Read more

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Google Calls for Measurable Memory-Safety Standards for Software
Memory safety bugs are “eroding trust in technology and costing billions,” argues a new post on Google’s security blog — adding that “traditional approaches, like code auditing, fuzzing, and exploit mitigations — while helpful — haven’t been enough to stem the tide.”

So the blog post calls for a “common framework” for “defining specific, m … ⌘ Read more

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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released
New submitter TronNerd82 writes: Linuxiac reports that the 6th alpha release of the COSMIC desktop environment has been released. The new alpha release includes zooming, desktop icon management, some new scaling options, and improved accessibility features. Also included in the release are a number of bug fixes.

These include, but are not limited to:
- Fixing a crash issue in Steam, and fixing certain issues … ⌘ Read more

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Chinese Scientists Developing Mars Drone That Can Roll and Fly
Chinese scientists are developing a lightweight Mars drone capable of both rolling on the ground and flying using contra-rotating coaxial rotors. Space.com reports: The air-ground dual-purpose unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) weighs only 10.6 ounces (300 grams), equivalent to the weight of an apple. The development team is at the School of Astronauti … ⌘ Read more

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Serbian Student’s Android Phone Compromised By Exploit From Cellebrite
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Amnesty International on Friday said it determined that a zero-day exploit sold by controversial exploit vendor Cellebrite was used to compromise the phone of a Serbian student who had been critical of that country’s government.

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Google’s Taara Hopes To Usher in a New Era of Internet Powered by Light
Alphabet’s X division has developed a silicon photonic chip for its Taara project, which transmits internet via laser beams instead of fiber optic cables. The system delivers 20Gbps through “light bridges” that establish line-of-sight connections between transceiver units. The second-generation technology miniaturizes previous mechan … ⌘ Read more

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3D Software Company Autodesk Cuts 1,350 Jobs To Boost AI Investment
Autodesk said it would cut 1,350 employees, or about 9% of its workforce, as part of a pivot to the cloud and artificial intelligence. Fast Company reports: Companies across sectors such as architecture, engineering, construction, and product design are making extensive use of Autodesk’s 3D design solutions, with the software maker’s artificial i … ⌘ Read more

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X8390ABV4 Development Board with MediaTek Genio 510/700 and PCIe Expansion
Youyeetoo recently listed a motherboard based on the MediaTek Genio 510/700 platform, built around the MT8390 and MT8370 processors. The X8390ABV4 MediaTek Development Board includes Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, and multiple multimedia interfaces, making it applicable for AI and IoT applications. The MT8390 features an octa-core processor with two ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.2GHz [… … ⌘ Read more

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Apple Accused of Misleading Consumers With Apple Watch ‘Carbon Neutral’ Claims
Apple is facing a class action lawsuit alleging it misled consumers by falsely claiming certain Apple Watches were carbon neutral, as the carbon offset projects it relied on did not effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Verge reports: Apple said in 2023 that “select case and band combinations” of its Apple Wa … ⌘ Read more

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Nice try: focus on the particulars, ignore the big issue.

@mozillaofficial@mozillaofficial reacted once more to the outcry regarding the introduction of Terms of Use to #Firefox. Instead of addressing the fact that neither Firefox needs or it is desirable to its users that it has Terms of Use, thet propose to make changes to the terms, clarifying things.

Their changes are meaningless: even if you were only focused on the fact that their Terms were bad, well - they still are. But with this announcement also comes a clear “justification” for it all:

“In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners”

This is what you do NOT want your web browser to do, but now apparently Mozilla is in the data broker business and the browser is their means towards that data (in order to be commercially viable, no less). They are not going to move away from this - but in doing so they’re definitively moving away from the software freedom community.

It’s a shame but we’ll survive, we always do. For now, firefox forks will see their user numbers grow. If Mozilla will be able to survive a shift like this, that’s another question entirely. I am nowadays inclined to hope they won’t.

@plwt@plwt https://mstdn.social/@plwt/114084052379738116

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In-reply-to » These two degenerates … Fucking hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ56ibIel1U

From Brian Krebs:

“Honestly, I don’t know how Zelenksy didn’t punch the cheetoh that whole time. That man has remarkable restraint.

I have never been so embarrassed for our country. What a thug. “World War III,” he says over and over, echoing Putin’s sabre rattling throughout his invasion. Even sitting in the White House, Trump is echoing the Kremlin line.

What’s even more despicable is that the spineless, gutless GOP will say nothing about this indefensible show of gutlessness and cowardice by their leader. Imagine that: Being afraid of cowards makes you one.”

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In-reply-to » These two degenerates … Fucking hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ56ibIel1U

This is the addressing I want to read:

“Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelensky.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.”

Europe needs to back this up, as they can’t trust the United States.

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