[$] Enhancing FineIBT
At the Linux\āØSecurity Summit Europe (LSS EU), Scott Constable and Sebastian
Ćsterlund gave a talk on an enhancement to a control-flow integrity (CFI)
protection that was added to the kernel several years ago. The ā FineIBT: Fine-grain Control-flow\āØEnforcement with Indirect Branch Trackingā mechanism was merged for
Linux 6.2 in early 2023 to harden the kernel against CFI attacks of various
sorts, but needed [ ⦠ā Read more
My open letter, to the European Commission digital markets act team:
Hello,
I am joining other developers, concerned about Googles new plan, to approve every app and effectively destroy most of the competing 3rd party stores this way. The biggest one of these alternative stores, most known for their focus on user and developer privacy, already states, this would make it impossible for them to operate: https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html
Even communities like the XDA forum, where new developers are often introduced to the world of Android development, would likely be strongly impacted, as making, publishing and installing Android apps is made less accessible.
I am not just writing on their behalf, I run a small website myself (https://thecanine.ueuo.com/), that both provides legal modifications, for some android apps - for example adding an amoled dark theme, to the most popular XMPP chat client for Android, or increasing one of Androids keyboard apps height. This all comes after Googles previous changes to the Android operating system, that prevent users from installing old apps (old to Google, can mean only a couple of months, without an update - https://developer.android.com/google/play/requirements/target-sdk and the target version gets increased every year). I rely on apps developed by a single developer, even for things like making the pixel art presented on my website and sideloading as a way to make these apps work, before developers can catch up to Googleās new requirements - if Google is allowed to slowly kill these options, us digital artists will soon lose the tools we need to create digital art.
Not shown here but, this Shape class used on the linked sketch helps eliminate (by adding them to a set) not only Polygons that are visually the same but also shape rotations using a custom .hash() method :)
(A caveat to the reader: The code can be is messy because it sometimes retains remnants of abandoned ideas and lateral explorations. This is creative coding not software engineering)
Not shown here but, this Shape class used on the linked sketch helps eliminate (by adding them to a set) not only Polygons that are visually the same but also shape rotations using a custom .__hash__()
method :)
(A caveat to the reader: The code is messy because it sometimes retains remnants of abandoned ideas and lateral explorations, also, this is creative coding not software engineering)
More Apple Apps Get Liquid Glass Redesign
Apple today updated its TestFlight and Apple Support apps, adding Liquid Glass designs to match the rest of iOS 26.
Both apps now feature Liquid Glass interface elements, such as more rounded buttons, floatin ⦠ā Read more
Die Wahrheit: Ade, Sommerloch, es wird kalt und kƤlter
Die Wahrheit-Sommerserie āWahre Originaleā (Ende): Das legendƤre taz-Sommerloch-Team (TST), dechiffriert vom Aushilfshausmeister. mehr⦠ā Read more
AirPods Pro 3 vs. AirPods Max Buyerās Guide: 30+ Differences Compared
The AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods Max are Appleās highest-end headphone options, so which should you choose?
Apple just debuted the āAirPods Pro 3ā, adding new features like improved active noise cancellation, the U2 chip, and heart rate monitoring. The ⦠ā Read more
Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.
I think itās finally shaping a bit better now, but⦠āļø
As Iām trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I donāt accidentally create a structure that is more rigid than planned.
I already decided on a UI that I would want to use for myself, it would be inspired by moshidon, misskey and some other āsocial feedsā mock-ups I found on dribbble.
I also plan on building a raw HTML version (for anyone wanting to do a full DIY client).
I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.
I think Iāll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.
For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):
- Global / personal timeline screen
- Profile screen (with timeline)
- Thread screen
- Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
- DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
- Settings screen (itāll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
- Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some āenginesā might not have direct publishing support)
I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:
display_name
: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback tonick
if not defined
banner
: Using the same format asavatar
but the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around
I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that donāt limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! š¤
@prologic@twtxt.net considering other alternatives we have seeing (of which I have lost track already), yes. Why donāt you guys (client makers) take a step at a time and, for now, increase the hash length to deal with the collisions. Then location-based addressing can be added⦠or not, you know. š
Raspberry Pi Updates Keyboard PC with New 500+ Model
Raspberry Pi 500+ is the newest all-in-one personal computer in the Raspberry Pi family. It combines the Raspberry Pi 5 platform with a mechanical keyboard, upgraded memory, and integrated storage. The design builds on the earlier Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 models while adding higher specifications and new input features. The Raspberry Pi 500+ is [ā¦] ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de better than in the US. Our lasts only 10 years, and you need to go through the vision test, and, of course, pay). Recently they added a little gold star denoting āreal IDā compliance, and we had to pay $10 to get the old one replacedāout of the regular renew āscheduleā.
In here it is all about control, and money.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz, this one, regarding āAnubisā (which I believe you use, right?): https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz, see this one, regarding āAnubisā (which I believe you use, right?): https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org i dont mind if the hash is not backward compatible but im not sure if this is the right way to proceed because the added complexity dealing with two hash versions isnt justified
regular end users wont care to understand how twt hashes are formed, they just want to use twtxt! so i guess i could work in protecting users from themselves by disallowing post edits on old posts or posts with replies, but iām not fond of this either really. if they want to break a thread, they can just delete the post (though iāve noticed yarn handling post deletes dubiouslyā¦)
on activitypub i do genuinely find myself looking through several month or even year old posts sometimes and deciding to edit/reword them a little to be slightly less confusing, this should be trivial to handle on twtxt which is an infinitely simpler specification
[2025/09/11 12:56:01.816] ā please set config.host
when trying to run "bbycll". How to bypass that tiny hurdle?
Adding too this. The configuration example at the repository reads:
{
"nick": "Example",
"description": "alice's twtxt instance!",
"host": "twtxt.example.com",
"admin": "alice"
}
Would it make more sense changing nick
to instance_name
or similar? Usually nick
is reserved for users, like here, quark
. Right? Also, is host
the same FQDN to be used while proxying traffic to the application? That is, using the above configuration, itās Caddy configuration would be:
twtxt.example.com {
encode
reverse_proxy :31212
}
Is that correct?
good afternoon yarnverse i have done nothing productive so far. except edit my fandom site a little bit (i added tag pages!). does that count lol
Since Google announced their intentions to heavily limit sideloading on Android, starting end of 2026, Iāve been looking for potential solutions, for this policy change, that threatens the majority of projects I maintain, in some way. Google already killed my browser project years ago, but I have no other choice, than to fight this, any way I can.
The best choice to deal with this, will probably be the Android Debug Bridge, which can be used not only to install apps unrestricted, but also to uninstall, or remove, almost any unnecessary part of the OS. Shizuku, combined with Canta Debloater, is the winning combination for now.
Iāve already removed most Google apps from my device: the annoying AI assistant, the stupid Google app adding the annoying articles, left of your homes screen, Google One, Gboard, Safety app⦠itās amazing, no distracting Google slopware, like in the good old Android 2 days! And I absolutely intend to keep it this way, from now on, no new Google apps or services on my devices, unless Google can give me a good enough reason, to allow them there and whenever the app that verifies signatures, to block installing apps not approved by Google, Iāll just remove it from my device and advocate others do so too.
added opengraph to my blog :D https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/underground-soundcloud-remixes
replies and following implemented! next step is further parsing of post contents, rendering threads, and then maybe i can finally start adding remote feedsā¦! though i kinda wanna redo the whole ui ^^ā
Ni Hao; bÄ«ng qĆlĆn!
Iām just dropping in, to emphasize my love for ice cream and the Chinese crawler bots, allocating their time and resources, towards scraping my humble website.
To show my gratitude, Iāve even added a random little dog generator to https://thecanine.ueuo.com/sparkle.html so that everyone can pick up their own custom dogFT, on their journey through my site.
We use all the Microsoft programs at work - Teams and Outlook especially.
After all kinds of technical problems with Teams, that sometimes go unresolved for over a year, Microsoft shifted their priorities away from fixing things and towards adding an annoying AI Copilot button, that just takes up space and all it does, is loads the website in Teams, so I disabled it. Soon they just add it back, but in a different row of icons, therefore itās now a different button, you have to disable (I think they added yet another one, to the Teams, on my work phone and I had to disabled that too). Not too long after, the desktop one just enabled itself, because of āan errorā and I can disable it, but doing so activates a popup, that begs you to turn it back on, every once in a while. You canāt disable the popup and can only click āYesā or āNot nowā on it. I still keep it disabled, out of principle, but yesterday I noticed yet another Copilot button, this time in the top right corner of my Outlook and this one cannot be disabled, on the business version of Outlook and even on the personal one, itās only possible to do it through hidden privacy settings, by prohibiting the program from connecting to Microsoft servers, for extra āfeaturesā.
Thereās people complaining about it online, so itās clear nobody really wants it, but at this point Microsofts position is that you will have at least one useless AI button on your screen, at any given time, and you will be happy. And yes, their AI sucks and if I absolutely have to use AI for something, thereās already 2 better options, we have access to, at work.
Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:
After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:
#py5 is going supper strong and the ānew snake_case namesā are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with āCamelCase Processing namesā Iām not worried at all about it anymore!
For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.
The great pure Python Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battleā¦
The unrelated Brython based site
p5py.com
seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what Iām using most nowadays.
Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:
After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:
#py5 is going super strong and the ānew snake_case namesā are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with āCamelCase Processing namesā Iām not worried at all about it anymore!
For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.
The great pure Python Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battleā¦
The unrelated Brython based site
p5py.com
seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what Iām using most nowadays.
Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:
After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:
#py5 is going super strong and the ānew snake_case namesā are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with āCamelCase Processing namesā Iām not worried at all about it anymore!
For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything with it.
The great āpure Pythonā (no Java required) Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battleā¦
The unrelated Brython based site
p5py.com
seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is what Iām using most nowadays.
Updating my #Processing + #Python tools table:
After some years, things changed and my opinions changed a bit too:
#py5 is going super strong and the ānew snake_case namesā are not an issue for me anymore. I used to worry a lot about all the Processing Python mode examples and teaching materials out there, and some of my own, with āCamelCase Processing namesā Iām not worried at all about it anymore!
For the record, Processing Python mode is just a legacy thing, no one should start anything new with it.
The great āpure Pythonā (no Java required) Processing implementation project #p5py seems stalled, latest release in Dec. 2023 :((( Advancing it was always going to be an uphill battleā¦
The unrelated #Brython based site
p5py.com
seems to be gone, so I removed it from the table.I added a link to my own #pyp5js hack py5pjs/py5mode because this is the version of pyp5js Iām using most nowadays.
@prologic@twtxt.net AHA the .*
entry did the trick! i originally had these rules in there, they were added by default except for the youtube rules:
imgur\.com
giphy\.com
imgs\.xkcd\.com
reactiongifs\.com
githubusercontent\.com
youtube\.com
yt.\be
also oooh the missing feature sounds very handy!
37C3 and New Yearās Eve 2023
Another one from the vaults. The 37C3 conference took place in
December, 2023. This report was mostly written in January, 2024.
Mostly finished it at night in my cottage between 28 and 29th
December, then edited and added some stuff in July, 2025. So⦠Only
1.5 years late?
It was a little ironic, and a little sad, that I was finishing the
37C3 report during 38C3. I didnāt manage to get any tickets for me and
#3 for 38C3 and had to make do with watching the stream.
The links to the talks go to [C ⦠ā Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org āAdvancedā, well, probably more āmatureā. There arenāt a ton of crazy features and that icon thing is the largest code addition in the last 10 years. %)
Speaking of OS/2 ⦠I just realized that Windows 3.x didnāt have icons, either. If Iām not mistaken, this only got added in Windows 95. In other words, OS/2 had this feature before Windows did, because at least OS/2 2.1 from 1993 had icons. Who would have thunk.
(Now I kind of want to know which system really introduced this feature.)
Portanto o #SIRESP continua a dar problemas - e a #AD jĆ” Ć© outra vez #Governo.
Onde Ć© que estĆ” o plano para resolver isto de uma vez por todas?
https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/resolvida-avaria-do-siresp-no-codu-norte-sindicato_n1670432
Maybe someone can explain this to me.
An #EU citizen trying to access Facebook today faces the following choices (see screenshots).
In there, they say that they are asking this again to comply with #EU rules, and yet the question - and the options to choose from - are the same they had in the past.
So, hm, how does this make them comply with something they werenāt complying before? Whatās the detail Iām missing?
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com And I read the following funny response to that:
Bluesky: Users verify their age by adding a payment method or uploading a photo ID.
Mastodon: Users verify their age by posting pictures of the vintage computer equipment in their homes.
https://beige.party/@maxleibman/114848276288629121
š
setpriv
on Linux supports Landlock.
Another example:
$ setpriv \
--landlock-access fs \
--landlock-rule path-beneath:execute,read-file:/bin/ls-static \
--landlock-rule path-beneath:read-dir:/tmp \
/bin/ls-static /tmp/tmp/xorg.atom
The first argument --landlock-access fs
says that nothing is allowed.
--landlock-rule path-beneath:execute,read-file:/bin/ls-static
says that reading and executing that file is allowed. Itās a statically linked ls
program (not GNU ls).
--landlock-rule path-beneath:read-dir:/tmp
says that reading the /tmp
directory and everything below it is allowed.
The output of the ls-static
program is this line:
ārwārāārāāāāx 3000 200 07-12 09:19 22'491 ā /tmp/tmp/xorg.atom
It was able to read the directory, see the file, do stat()
on it and everything, the little x
indicates that getting xattrs also worked.
3000
and 200
are user name and group name ā they are shown as numeric, because the program does not have access to /etc/passwd
and /etc/group
.
Adding --landlock-rule path-beneath:read-file:/etc/passwd
, for example, allows resolving users and yields this:
ārwārāārāāāāx cathy 200 07-12 09:19 22'491 ā /tmp/tmp/xorg.atom
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ADS time in this TV SHOW: http://i.shibboleths.org Frree static one-page HTML in Netscape Gold Style! Thanks.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a āmanifestā. š Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I havenāt come across similar projects in all these years.
Letās take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the āspiritā quite well, because this isnāt even about code.
This is the entire farbfeld spec:
farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:
āāāāāāāāāā¤āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
ā Bytes ā Description ā
ā āāāāāāāāāŖāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā£
ā 8 ā "farbfeld" magic value ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā 4 ā 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width) ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā 4 ā 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height) ā
āāāāāāāāāā¼āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā¢
ā [2222] ā 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ā
āāāāāāāāāā§āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā
The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.
(Now, I donāt know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesnāt.)
I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:
- The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
- There are no āknobsā: Itās just a single version, itās not like thereās also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
- Despite being so simple, itās useful. Iāve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like ātuxeyesā (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
- The format does not include compression because it doesnāt need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
- It doesnāt cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided itās not worth the trouble.
- They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.
The lid is on and the first saw brackets are done. Letās see how impractical they are. I might have to add heavy chamfers to better guide them in.
I added 07 to 11: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/hobelbankschubladen/
Cheers @danzin@danzin, was it you who added a PR to core #Python about pprint?
(listening to #corepy #podcast)
Update: Thank you so much for improving Python @danzin@danzin !
core.py: PyCon US 2025 Recap
Starting from: 01:32:45 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/corepy/episodes/PyCon-US-2025-Recap-e347dc3
https://anchor.fm/s/eb6edc3c/podcast/play/104100675/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-5-13%2Fb281ac3a-b0ec-49b9-b31d-7a90031e910d.mp3#t=5565
Saw this on Mastodon:
https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471
18 rules of Software Engineering
- You will regret complexity when on-call
- Stop falling in love with your own code
- Everything is a trade-off. Thereās no ābestā 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
- Everyone hates code they didnāt write
- Donāt use unnecessary dependencies
- Coding standards prevent arguments
- Write meaningful commit messages
- Donāt ever stop learning new things
- Code reviews spread knowledge
- Always build for maintainability
- Ask for help when youāre stuck
- Fix root causes, not symptoms
- Software is never completed
- Estimates are not promises
- Ship early, iterate often
- Keep. It. Simple.
Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed ā but this doesnāt āaddā to the program. Donāt use āsoftware is never doneā as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.
@prologic@twtxt.net will do. No worries, not a show stopper. I will suggest that the muted numbered list not be sorted, but latest muted first. That way we have a better idea. Maybe adding timestamps to those too? Just a thought.
Of Pointlessware and CEOs
Had a moment, to check up on some of the companies, I stopped following, get to The Browser Company and see their newest product - itās just Chrome, with an AI chat window pop-up and thatās it. Something Canary Chrome, come with already.
I see Theo from T3.gg, making fun of it on YouTube and promoting āhisā product - an AI chat app, where you can choose from multiple models, by all the popular AI companies. Something I already have a worse version of, at work and I donāt even use it.
Thereās also an interview, about the future of virtual keyboards, surely this is at least actually a real thing and not more pointless horse shit. I check the website of the keyboard SDK, and itās around 20 identical apps, that just copy the same keyboard SDK/api and slap chatgpt features on top - in the App Store, these are surrounded by chatgpt clones, that just feed the users prompts, into the real thing and put ads, next to the answers.
watchOS 26 Features New Gesture to Dismiss Notifications
Apple in watchOS 26 has added a new one-handed wrist-flick gesture to easily dismiss notifications, but the gesture only works on newer Apple Watch models.
When you raise your wrist to check a notification but arenāt ready to respond, you can now simply flick your wrist ā turn it over and back ā to dismiss it. The quick gesture lets you dism ⦠ā Read more
Depois do anĆŗncio de um MinistĆ©rio novo que tem como um dos objectivos ādesburocratizar o estadoā, temos as notĆcias sobre o derrape do PRR (alguĆ©m surpreendido?) e consequente narrativa de que Ć© preciso desburocratizar. Só que olhando para o relatório da comissĆ£o de acompanhamento chega-se Ć conclusĆ£o que sim, realmente a mĆ”quina burocrĆ”tica do estado nĆ£o estĆ” a bem oleada, só que nĆ£o Ć© por excesso de burocracia (que estĆ” lĆ” porque Ć© necessĆ”ria) mas sim porque a mĆ”quina do estado nĆ£o tem os recursos necessĆ”rios - estruturais, tĆ©cnicos e humanos.
E jĆ” sabemos o que quer dizer āmenos burocraciaā para a AD - olhemos para a Lei dos Solos como um exemplo de como com o disfarce da simplificação burocrĆ”tica o que obtivemos foi menos protecção ambiental. Vem aĆ mais disto - estejamos atentos.
WAās public holidays may be changed to match east coast, premier says
Western Australians could soon see a realignment of public holidays to coincide with the east coast and have an additional public holiday added to the calendar as soon as next year, WA Premier Roger Cook says. ā Read more
Aha! So, @bender@twtxt.net added all the Spanish feeds then!? ]:->
Erin Patterson asked why she didnāt raise alarm about foraged mushrooms
Erin Patterson didnāt tell a āsingle personā that she may have accidentally added foraged mushrooms to a lunch that eventually killed three of her relatives, her murder trial has heard. ā Read more
[$] Fending off unwanted file descriptors
One of the more obscure features provided by Unix-domain sockets is the
ability to pass a file descriptor from one process to another. This
feature is often used to provide access to a specific file or network
connection to a process running in a relatively unprivileged context. But
what if the recipient doesnāt want a new file descriptor? A feature
added for the 6.16 release makes it possible to refuse that offer. ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de oh, you bet someone is adding them. Being as we are a small community, I could almost guess who added what. š
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh it wouldnāt be very long, maybe thatād make for a fun blog post! i just used the same tool that the nerd font people use to add glyphs, but for a ācustom glyph setā i just added. the whole noto font LMAO
Everything you need to know about Brisbaneās bus system overhaul
About three-quarters of Brisbaneās bus services will change in some way, with services being cut, added, rerouted, renamed, or split in half. ā Read more
Este foi o nĆŗmero um da lista da #AD nas #europeias:
https://www.sabado.pt/portugal/detalhe/sebastiao-goebbels-bugalho-os-favores-e-as-escutas-do-tutti-frutti
To follow up what I said minutes ago, they donāt even want you to think of the initial idea, they want you to be a mindless organism, the AI algorithm analyses and tells what you should make, down to the script, so that you get the highest number of people possible to click it and see some AI generated advertisement, blended seemly into whatās no lonher even your work.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/netflix-will-show-generative-ai-ads-midway-through-streams-in-2026/
https://youtu.be/dGA6sVaGveU
@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I donāt even think the premise of this makes much sense. If an artist is convinced they cannot compete, with the āAIā learning models, we already have today, they must have some self esteem issues, strange opinion on what the purpose of art is, or just be someone mindlessly redrawing already established things and not be all that good at it.
It might be connected to some typically non-artists assumption, that the more time and effort the artwork took to accomplish, the more artistic it is - this can be further twisted in these peoples minds, into the āmore pointless detail = more artistic artā meme. AI often ads pointless and illogical details everywhere, āso itās obviously better, than the human artist, who drew the originalā.
Some people just enjoy having the picture they wanted or having the status of an artist to brag about and donāt actually enjoy the artistic process of discovery and small decisions, made while drawing, that shape the outcome into something, only you could have created.
We had sun, clouds, wind, rain and a whole lot of fun on our trip to the Wasserberg. Weāve been out seven hours in total, not bad at all for all those kilometers. We added on some detours to check out a pond Iāve been introduced by a mate a few years back.
After some (expensive) tucker at the Wasserberghaus, we tried to actually visit the summit this time. However, thereās nothing to see, just a rough logging trail (46-49). That was a dead end, so we had to turn around. It was some nice exploring, but I reckon this was my first and last time up there. :-)
Unfortunately, we didnāt go to the neighboring Fuchseck this time, only the Wasserberg with some extras.
https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-wasserberg-2025-05-18/
Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote
You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point Iāll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable⦠It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with āonlyā 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.
At this point, Iāll probably settle for anything that doesnāt literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.
Iām also thinking of adding eye-off icon next to every Twt that, when clicked, hides that feed (tooltip: āHide this feedā). This would work with the filters as a ātemporary additive filterā to restrict/control the current view.
Apple Promotes Vision Pro in New Motherās Day-Themed Ad
Apple today shared a new spatial video thatās designed to highlight the Vision Pro headset, demonstrating how the device can be used to make and preserve memories.
For the video, two parents, Sam and Khulan, filmed their newborn son using iPhones that are capable of recording spatial video. Sam then edited the footage into a home video for Khulan to watch on the Apple Vision Pro, and the ⦠ā Read more
slowing working away at my latest code project: learning PHP by recreating the 2000s fandom mainstay known as a fanlisting! itās been super fun i added a dynamic nav bar and other modifications in the latest commit
fanlistings even to this day rely on old PHP scripts dating back to the early 2000s that need whole ass mySQL or postgres DBs and are incredibly insecure. you can look at them here theyāre like super jank lol itās sad that new fanlistings have to use them because thereās no other optionsā¦.
iPhone 17: Whatās New With the Cameras
Weāve still got months to go before the new iPhone 17 models come out, but a combination of dummy models and leaks have given us some insight into what we can expect in terms of camera changes.
Apple is adding new camera features, and changing the design of the camera bump for some models. You might be skeptical of dummy m ⦠ā Read more
Apple Highlights Three Benefits of Apple Watch for Kids Without iPhones
Since watchOS 7 in 2020, parents have been able to pair their iPhone to their childās Apple Watch. Formerly known as Apple Watch Family Setup, and now marketed as Apple Watch For Your Kids, this option allows kids to use an Apple Watch with a cellular plan for texting, calling, and location sharing, ev ⦠ā Read more
[$] Custom out-of-memory killers in BPF
The out-of-memory (OOM) killer has long been a scary and controversial part
of the Linux kernel. It is summoned from some dark place when the system
as a whole (or, more recently, any given control group) is running so low
on memory that further allocations are not possible; its job is to kill off
processes until a sufficient amount of memory has been freed. Roman
Gushchin has found a way to make the OOM killer even scarier: adding the
ability to [load\āØcustom OOM killers in BPF](https://lwn.ne ⦠ā Read more
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev what makes Kagi āthe best search engineā? It is premium, alright. Allegedly you donāt get ads, but pay up-front for it, monthly.
7
to 12
and use the first 12
characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q
or a
(oops) š
And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! š± #Twtxt #Update
Iām with @andros@twtxt.andros.dev and @eapl.me@eapl.me on this one. But I have also lost interest in twtxt lately and currently rethinking what digital tools truly add value to my life. So I will not spending my time on adding more complexity to Timeline
. Still a big thanks to you @prologic@twtxt.net for all the great work you have done and all the nice conversations both here and on our video calls.
@xuu@txt.sour.is Hahaha, thatās cool! You were (and still are) way ahead of me. :-)
We started with a simple traffic light phase and then added pedestrian crossing buttons. But only painting it on the canvas. In our computer room there was an actual traffic light on the wall and at the very end of the school year our IT basics teacher then modified the program to actually control the physical traffic light. That was very impressive and completely out of reach for me at the time. That teacher pulled the first lever for me ending up where I am now.
7
to 12
and use the first 12
characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q
or a
(oops) š
And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! š± #Twtxt #Update
I will be adding the code in for yarnd
very soon⢠for this change, with a if the date is >= 2025-07-01 then compute_new_hashes else compute_old_hashes
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
⦠ā Read more
Computers in school (updated)
IntroductionA much shorter version of this post was initially published on
2022-05-23 (Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my
gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had wha ⦠ā Read more
The return of the tilde
As some of you may have noticed my web page is now under /~mc
instead
of just /mc
. This is a return to olden times.
The Apache web server, and probably many other web servers, had a
simple way of adding personal web pages for local users. This meant
that an URL ending with ~mc
led directly to a subdirectory of user
mcās home directory. Whatever they put in that directory was
immediately available on the Intertubes! Neat, huh?
We need to bring this back to the modern net! Many tilde pubnixe ⦠ā Read more
Today I added support for Letās Encrypt to eris via DNS-01 challenge. Updated the gcore libdns package I wrote for Caddy, Maddy and now Eris. Add support for yarnās cache to support # type = bot
and optionally # retention = N
so that feeds like @tiktok@feeds.twtxt.net work like they did before, and⦠Updated some internal metrics in yarnd
to be IMO ābetterā, with queue depth, queue time and last processing time for feeds.
Computers in school
IntroductionA version of this post was initially published on 2022-05-23
(Pungenday, the 70 day of Discord in the YOLD 3188) in my gemlog at:
gemini://gem.hack.org/log/computers-in-school.gmi
The text has been edited after speaking with some old school mates and
trying to remember more. I also added a few photos.
When I started upper secondary school as a sixteen year-old in 1988 my
school had what I think were IBM PC/XT computers, one classroom of
16(?) computers with co ⦠ā Read more
iPhone 16 Ad Highlights a Key Advantage Over Android Smartphones
Apple today shared a new ad that highlights a key advantage that iPhone 16 models have over Android smartphones: the Ceramic Shield.
Apple says the iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max displays are all protected by the latest-generation Ceramic Shield material, which is advertised as being ā2x tougher than glass on any other smartphone.ā
In the new āTrust Issuesā ad ⦠ā Read more
[$] DMA addresses for UIO
The Userspace\āØI/O (UIO) subsystem was first added to the kernel by
Hans J. Koch for the 2.6.32 release in 2007. Its purpose is to facilitate
the writing of drivers (mostly) in user space; to that end, it provides
access to a number of resources that user-space code normally cannot touch.
One piece that is missing, though, is DMA addresses. [A proposal to\āØfill that gap](https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250410-uio-dma-v ⦠ā Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @andros@twtxt.andros.dev You can delete these feeds (created by me):
https://feeds.twtxt.net/project26/twtxt.txt
https://lor.sh/@Katze_942.rss <- iām added him but canāt find file
the only rss i follow is https://feeds.twtxt.net/posts-from-atdarkcat09atdc09-ru/twtxt.txt
iPhone 17e Nears Trial Production, Launch Tipped for Late May 2026
Appleās next-generation iPhone 17e is nearing the trial production stage, with the mid-range device tentatively scheduled for a May release, according to a proven leaker with sources in Appleās Chinese supply chain.
WeChat-based leaker Fixed Focus Digital shared the claims on Tuesday, adding that the i ⦠ā Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net why donāt you terminate TLS here? It seems as easy as adding tls
under route
.
MaxAgeDays
configuration at the pod level, that now some profiles are rather empty. This is only because well, they're a bit "inactive" so to speak š£ļø Not sure what to do about this at the moment... Open to ideas? š”
yes it used be http://
only and to keep hashes from breaking i added # url = http://...
and now we are stock with it due to the curret specs.
Timeline of Evolution of Twtxt/Yarn.social:
- 2016 ā Twtxt created by John Downey: plain text + HTTP = minimalist microblogging
- 2017ā2019 ā Community builds CLI tools, but adoption remains niche
- 2020 ā Yarn.social launched by @prologic@twtxt.net with federation, threading, UI
- 2021ā2023 ā Pods sync, user mentions, blocking, search, and media support added
- 2024+ ā Yarn.social becomes the reference Twtxt platform, with active federated pods
EU OS: A European Proposal for a Public Sector Linux Desktop (The New Stack)
The New Stack looks\āØat EU OS, an attempt to create a desktop system for the European public
sector.
EU OS is not a brand-new Linux distribution in the traditional
sense. Instead, it is a proof-of-concept built atop Fedoraās
immutable KDE Plasma spin (Kinoite). EU OS takes a layered approach
to customization. The projectās vision is to provide a standard,
ad ⦠ā Read more
[$] Tracepoints for the VFS?
Adding tracepoints to some kernel subsystems has been controversialāor
disallowedādue to concerns about the user-space\āØABI that they might create. The virtual filesystem (VFS) layer has
long been one of the subsystems that has not allowed any tracepoints, but
that may be changing. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Ted Tsāo led a discussion about
whether the ABI concerns are outweighed by the utility of tracepoints for ⦠ā Read more
so i had the idea of adding a page to my otherwise single page girl on the moon personal site that featured my more notable projects, but itās been hours and i CANāT THINK OF ANYTHING TO ADD THAT I HAVENāT ALREADY MENTIONED. i just host other peopleās stuff!!!
Ha! I stand corrected, didnāt scrolled long enough. Indeed, it should be added (you will need an account on Millsā Gitea), noted.
Open Your Favorite Chat Right From Your iPhone Lock Screen
In iOS 18.4, Apple added a new Shortcuts action to open a specific conversation in the Messages app. This means itās now possible to open a chat thread with someone important to you straight from your Lock Screen, for example. Keep reading to learn more.
If youād like to reduce the time it takes to chat with a frequently conta ⦠ā Read more
Even though I really do like the shell, I always use Dolphin to mount my digicam SD card and copy the photos onto my computer. I finally added a context menu item in Dolphin to create a forest stroll directory with the current date in order to save some typing:
The following goes in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;
[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegenā¦
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"
In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:
kbuildsycoca5
The referenced galmkdir
script looks like that:
#!/bin/sh
set -e
current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
exit 1
fi
dir="$(kdialog \
--geometry 350x50 \
--title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
--inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in ā$current_dirā anlegen:" \
"waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"
This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, Iād love to have it in the āCreate Newā menu instead of the āActionsā menu. But that doesnāt really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.
Letās see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.
@eapl.me@eapl.me You asked me for private keys for testing purposes. I have added it to the bottom of this page: https://dm-echo.andros.dev/
It will soon be running. It wonāt be long now.
guys omg the people behind pico.sh are so nice ;_; one of the people running it emailed me to let me know i had what was likely a malfunctioning (or well, not working as intended) script that was spawning the same SSH tunnel over and over and they wanted to give me a heads up.
and i felt SO BAD because i worried i was straining their service or something so i disabled my 4 tunnels (they were serving little SSH games and services) and got back to them.
but i just woke up to THE NICEST EMAIL EVER reassuring me that i was actually using it as intended, it was just my script that was having problems, and they even said that if it was intended to work that way it was fine and they just wanted to let me know!
so i restarted the tunnels but have since added lockfiles as safeguards so that when the script is run itāll check if itās already running :D
Adding to this, we already tried. It didnāt go too well. Slightly relatedābecause it is a third party āintegrationāāI might be a āsmaller groupā member, but I donāt care much about one-way feeds (mostly RSS from blogs, news articles, etc.) either.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Iām open to other suggestions 𤣠But hopefully both adding the additional prompt, not allowing it to enter shell history and removing from my shell history prevents me from doing such silly things in haste by pressing ^R
and using fuzzy search which if you type fast you sometimes get wrong š
[$] Supporting untorn buffered writes
At last yearās
Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), there was a discussion about atomic writes that was
accompanied by patches to support the feature in the block layer, and for
direct I/O on XFS. That
work was merged, but another piece of that discussion concerned adding the
feature for buffered I/O, in part because the PostgreSQL database currently
has to jump through hoops to ensure that its writes are not ātornā
(partial ⦠ā Read more
[$] Better hugetlb page-table walking
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes
to carry out various operations. This āpage-table walkingā tends to be
performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador
used a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to talk about strategies to
unify the kernelās page-table walking code just a little bit by making
hugetlb pages look more like ordinary pages. ā Read more
it adds users by finding them in feeds mentioning or following. Your URL is already added.
Hmm i am not sure how you got the URL with users at the end..
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.
Font color change inside every summary element, was a very deliberate choice, to color the text, but leave the arrow black (same as website background). But ok, I rewrote the CSS to hide the arrows and make all summaries white - since this also works better, with some dark theme enforcing browser extensions.
HOWEVER āpā as a child element of āsummaryā is a thing, that as far as I know, all browsers respect and if a font color is applied only once, I donāt think it matters, if itās done through HTML or CSS, you smart ass.
thanks andros!
instead of adding the new twt at the end of the feed, do it at the beginning
The PHP client did that originally, although I didnāt see a real benefit if you use⦠a client.
It could help if you read the .txt file through a browser or something. Also, not many clients are prepared to cut the request, and you canāt rely on the file being organized that way, so finally we dropped that feature.
@bender@twtxt.net I taught the whole ecosystem š
@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me The question I was asked the most was: How do I discover people?
Someone came up with a fantastic idea, instead of adding the new twt at the end of the feed, do it at the beginning. So you can paginate by cutting the request every few lines.
Thinking about adding a little āfocusā feature to my window manager: It hides all but one window, no wallpaper, no bars.
It would turn this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a0.jpg
into this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a1.jpg
or this
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b0.jpg
into this:
https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b1.jpg
š¤
yeah, thatās the tricky part of adding features
@eapl.me@eapl.me I think the benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages. Clients would have to read and merge the information from 2 txt and a new metadata would have to be added with the address of this file.
Also, it is very easy to filter or ignore it.
Itās extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. Iāve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is āBenutzernameā in German, literally āusernameā. Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.
This wasnāt the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some ārealā username. Even non-techies. It looks like some ācommon knowledgeā is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.
Have you experienced something similar?
@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah and I donāt get why ⦠Thereās no copyrighted music in it, no ads (at least I donāt see any) ⦠Just weird. š„“
Perfect!
I now also implemented basic replying by hitting a
as in answering. Whatās missing is automatically adding mentions in the message text template. Thatās gonna be a bit more tricky, though.
tt
.) Now, this is the second attempt in tt2
.
Righto, now with added basic subject support. Hopefully!
[$] MM medley: huge page allocation, page promotion, KSM, and BPF
As the 2025 Linux\āØStorage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF)
approaches, the density of memory-management patches on the mailing lists
has increased. Included among those are patches aimed at improving the
reliability and performance of huge-page allocation, implementing page
promotion on tiered-memory systems, adding a different approach to
deduplicating memory, and replacing the BPF memory alloc ⦠ā Read more