I noticed Google put out this article: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/lets-talk-security-answering-your-top.html it’s very current day Google, but the comments under the YouTube video are pretty on point and I saw a few familiar faces there. There is also, unexpectedly, ways to contact Google.

First a form for “teachers, students, and hobbyists”, that I filled politely, as someone who falls under their hobbyist category. It can be filled both anonymously, or with an e-mail attached, to be contacted by them (I chose the second option).

Also a general feedback and questions form, that I was not as polite in and used to send them the following message:

I have already provided some feedback, in the teacher, student and hobbyists form/questionaire, as well as an open letter I’ve recently sent to the European Commission digital markets act team, as I do believe your proposal might not even be legal, given the fact it puts privacy-focused alternative app stores at risk (https://f-droid.org/cs/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html) and it was proposed this early, after Google lost in court to Epic Games, over similar monopoly concerns. Why should we trust Google to be the only authority for all developer signatures, right after the European courts labeled it a gatekeeper?

Assuming this gets passed, despite justified developer backlash and at best questionable legality, can you give us any guarantees, this will not be used to target legal malware-free mods, or user privacy enhancing patchers, like the ones used for applying the ReVanced patches? I have made a few mods myself, but I am in no way associated with the ReVanced team. I just share many peoples concerns, Google Chrome has been conveniently stripped of its manifest v2 support, that made many privacy protecting extensions possible and now you’re conveniently asking for the government IDs, of all the developers, who maintain these kinds of privacy protections (be it patches, or alternative open-source apps) on Android.

Taylor Swift wears Adelaide label Paolo Sebastian in new music video
Founder and designer Paul Vasileff says he’s grateful to have his Adelaide-made couture dress on the world stage with pop superstar Taylor Swift wearing it in the new The Fate of Ophelia music video. ⌘ Read more

Would declaring sovereign citizens ‘terrorists’ reduce violence, or fuel it?
A man who says he was threatened after investigating sovereign citizens says the movement should be labelled a terrorist organisation, but an academic argues this could lead to more violence. ⌘ Read more

Here’s Why the Apple Watch and Mac Mini Are No Longer Advertised as ‘Carbon Neutral’
As noted by the French blog WatchGeneration, the Apple Watch and Mac mini are no longer advertised as “carbon neutral” products on Apple’s website.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org YEAH THEY ARE SOOO GOOD SINGING TOGETHER!!! it’s kind of their label (hello project)’s thing :]

iOS 26 Announced with New Liquid Glass Interface
Apple has announced iOS 26, the next version of system software for iPhone. And yes you read that correctly, it’s iOS 26 – twenty six – jumping way ahead from iOS 18, to follow year numbers. It’s not just iOS that is facing the numerical versioning change, it turns out that Apple is labeling all … Read More ⌘ Read more

Rust 1.87.0 released
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the 1.0 release
of the Rust language,
version\
1.87.0 was announced live today at the 10 Years of Rust
celebration in Utrecht, Netherlands. Notable changes
include the addition of anonymous pipes to the standard library and
the ability for inline assembly ( asm!) to jump to labeled
blocks within Rust code. ⌘ Read more

一個可以識別一切物體的模型
我們經常在使用 sam 或者 sam2 打掩碼之後，可能會遇到需要 label 的問題。這個時候，可能你需要自己再去訓一個 resnet 或者是說再去通過訓練一個別的模型，用監督學習的方法來完成自己的工作。但是這樣非常地費時費力。光是打 label 就會耗費大量時間了。那麼這幾天，我發現了一個這個模型，它叫 recognize anything，字面意思，就是說它可以識別任何物體。https:// ⌘ Read more

I do not agree with every decision the Internet Archive makes, but I consider it a very important tool, for Internet archival and preservation - to the point, it even influenced what licence I chose, for my media and websites.

Sadly they’re now facing another threat, in the form of litigious music labels, that they’re now trying to convince to stop, by collecting signatures here.

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Pointers can be a bit tricky. I know it took me also quite some time to wrap my head around them. Let my try to explain. It’s a pretty simple, yet very powerful concept with many facets to it.

A pointer is an indirection. At a lower level, when you have some chunk of memory, you can have some actual values sitting in there, ready for direct use. A pointer, on the other hand, points to some other location where to look for the values one’s actually after. Following that pointer is also called dereferencing the pointer.

I can’t come up with a good real-world example, so this poor comparison has to do. It’s a bit like you have a book (the real value that is being pointed to) and an ISBN referencing that book (the pointer). So, instead of sending you all these many pages from that book, I could give you just a small tag containing the ISBN. With that small piece of information, you’re able to locate the book. Probably a copy of that book and that’s where this analogy falls apart.

In contrast to that flawed comparision, it’s actually the other way around. Many different pointers can point to the same value. But there are many books (values) and just one ISBN (pointer).

The pointer’s target might actually be another pointer. You typically then would follow both of them. There are no limits on how long your pointer chains can become.

One important property of pointers is that they can also point into nothingness, signalling a dead end. This is typically called a null pointer. Following such a null pointer calls for big trouble, it typically crashes your program. Hence, you must never follow any null pointer.

Pointers are important for example in linked lists, trees or graphs. Let’s look at a doubly linked list. One entry could be a triple consisting of (actual value, pointer to next entry, pointer to previous entry).

  _______________________
 /               ________\_______________
↓               ↓         |              \
+---+---+---+   +---+---+-|-+   +---+---+-|-+
| 7 | n | x |   | 23| n | p |   | 42| x | p |
+---+-|-+---+   +---+-|-+---+   +---+---+---+
      |         ↑     |         ↑
       \_______/       \_______/

The “x” indicates a null pointer. So, the first element of the doubly linked list with value 7 does not have any reference to a previous element. The same is true for the next element pointer in the last element with value 42.

In the middle element with value 23, both pointers to the next (labeled “n”) and previous (labeled “p”) elements are pointing to the respective elements.

You can also see that the middle element is pointed to by two pointers. By the “next” pointer in the first element and the “previous” pointer in the last element.

That’s it for now. There are heaps ;-) more things to tell about pointers. But it might help you a tiny bit.

M5PaperS3: A 4.7″ E-Ink Display with Touch Support Based on ESP32-S3
The M5PaperS3 is a low-power e-ink development kit built around the ESP32-S3 microcontroller. This lightweight device features a 3.7V 1800mAh LiPo battery and a MicroSD card slot, designed for use in applications such as IoT monitoring, smart home systems, electronic labeling, and data logging. The device incorporates the ESP32-S3R8 chip, offering 8MB of PSRAM, paired […] ⌘ Read more

woodser releases Haveno v1.0.14
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.143 with various bug fixes.

Fix inverted fixed-price crypto offers by @bvcxza in #1411
Fix inverted buy/sell label for crypto offers by @woodser in #1417
Allow re-opening disputes until payout is confirmed by @woodser in #1412
Fix bug getting backup files @woodser in #1413

The full changelog is available on Github4.

Consult the installing.md 5 file for generi … ⌘ Read more

@Codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl I have separate mail boxes for private and work, but flattened both to have a simpler structure. For work, where we use Outlook, I am using categories for organising the mails and privately I am using Vivaldi’s labels system. The main idea is to use search and grouping through dynamic saved searches instead of static folders.

So I’ve flattened my work and private email inboxes to single inbox folders and I don’t even know anymore what I was thinking before trying frantically to organise everything in sub folders. Labels and search filters are the way forward.

Moved my email back into a single ‘inbox’ folder instead of trying to keep everything organised in sub-folders. Using Vivaldi’s labels instead for organising the messages. Makes sense because I sometimes had trouble if a message needed to be in multiple boxes.

iOS 18 Release Candidate Available to Download Now
Apple has issued the Release Candidate build for iOS 18 for iPhone, alongside iPadOS 18 Release Candidate. The RC, or Release Candidate, build is typically the final version that will match the public release, and is available now labeled simply as iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 for any iPhone or iPad user that is enrolled … Read More ⌘ Read more

Updated Version of iOS 17.6.1 & iPad 17.6.1 Released
Apple has re-released iOS 17.6.1 for iPhone and iPadOS 17.6.1 for iPad. The new build number is 21G101 for iOS 17.6.1, while the old build number was 21G93. It is unclear what is different about the new build, or why Apple didn’t label this update as iOS 17.6.2. Additionally, the new build is not listed … Read More ⌘ Read more

iOS 18 Lets You Hide App Labels on Your iPhone Home Screen
As part of its Home Screen customization overhaul, iOS 18 lets iPhone users hide the labels on app icons for a cleaner look.

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Turning off the labels causes the icons to expand and take up the space where the text usually appears underneath. Here’s how it currently works in the iOS 18 Developer Beta.

1. On the Home Screen, press and hold on an empty area.
   

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@bender@twtxt.net It is the new “politically correct”. Something that was used to describe acting in a more civilized way with one another. Turned into a scapegoat for the other side to label, demonize, and attack.

‘Shame’: Star slammed for singing ansti-Semitic message
Singer and actress Charlotte Church has been accused of spreading an anti-Semitic message during a performance in Wales.

The Welsh singer included the phrase “from the river to the sea” at a pro-Palestine concert.

The incident sparked outrage with some calling for the start to be cancelled.

One user created the hashtag ‘#cancelCharlotteChurch’ on X.

UK Andrew Percy labelled the inciden … ⌘ Read more

I’ve never had a punch-tape style label maker before. This is super fun. Labels for everything!

Why Do Doctors Prescribe Drugs Off-Label? #neildegrassetyson href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23startalk”>#startalk** ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net They have some markdown support that you can use, but I have not looked into that yet, I might check on that for clickable links in label.
I now just get all the attached links in each post, check for direct links to images, download them and show them as in the screenshot.

I have cleaned up the timeline a bit, I like this much more.
I use the markdown text now, instead of the ‘text’ field in the json file, looks much cleaner.
I can work with this. One thing that I want to sort out next is the way the nicknames and url is shown.
Also links in posts should be clickable - not sure if the current labels support that, but I’ll try and figure it out somehow. Anyways - latest screenshot is attached here.. :)

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Soooo… Fltk uses @ symbol in strings to apply effects to text, now wonder I’ve been having issues with the timeline.. https://www.fltk.org/doc-2.0/html/group__symbols.html
@ is used for mentions and all that stuff, so well - it just breaks the strings in the labels.

Okay, so it seems like the label\text I use for statuses does not like the strings from posts.
Especially if they contain html tags and such (which the often do), it just breaks the text.
I wonder what I can do with that.. I kinda want to not have html tags in the json reply.
Have to think a bit about how to solve it. Took a while to figure it out, the text was just garbled.
I created some long example strings with regular letters and such, to see if X number of posts would show up, and they did, but when I then replace my test strings with text from json - it goes all wrong again.

Working some more on timeline, trying to create a group widget and add label child widgets, those labels should then show the text for each status.

First Nations chief warns MPs as Emergencies Act inquiry begins

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GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality. ⌘ Read more

On the blog: Personal Pronouns, Revisited https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/20/pronoun.html #rant #pronouns #label #representation

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: We Are What We Do https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/03/08/are-do.html #label #ally #harm #representation #rant

German grammar is really tricky sometimes when it comes down to writing user-interface labels

I tried cwebp -preset photo -o foo.webp foo.jpeg on a preview image and it was imperceptibly worse at the sizes I expected to show it. Then again, I don’t really care that you can’t read the nutrition labels on a jar in the background of the subject.

Picture of corpus collosum labelled ‘you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like’

Bad idea of the day: a d20 where every face is labeled 1

Bad idea of the day: Batman (1968) vs Doctor Phibes: two rich geniuses who love gadgets and labelling things fight each other in an art-deco city with a comically incompetent police force

He was the kind of guy whose programs always had one label, and it was always called ConsideredHarmful, regardless of what it did.

The Quietus | Opinion | The Quietus Essay | How Did A Major Label Manage To Lose A John Coltrane Record? http://thequietus.com/articles/24852-john-coltrane-both-directions-at-once-the-lost-album-ted-gioia

Butterfly labeled “Flat links in embedded markup, addresses do not guarantee static data”; Caption: “is this HYPERMEDIA”

‘I knew they were sugar pills but I felt fantastic’ – the rise of open-label placebos | Life and style | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/22/knew-they-were-sugar-pills-felt-fantastic-rise-open-label-placebos?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

16D Label, Tokyo | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/downtemperature