Good to see so many folks starting to come back to our little non-social social ecosystem 👌 Good to also see twtxt.net starting to peer with 7 other pods in the greater network too! 🥳

https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html

AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.

And someone commented on that with:

I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.

They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.

Fascinating and scary.

@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔

LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞

@prologic@twtxt.net just create an account on mastodon.social, wouldn’t that work?

French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more

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Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞

Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

Poachers are killing families of spider monkeys, kidnapping their babies and selling them to Americans on social media ⌘ Read more

$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
A popular YouTuber named Theo Browne offered $20k to the Open Source FFmpeg team if they remove their social media person, who Theo calls a “motherf***er”. ⌘ Read more

Muito feliz de ver ontem o @adorilson@adorilson receber o maior prêmio da comunidade brasileira de #Python na #PythonBrasil2025, muito merecido, o sujeito é uma força inesgotável para ajudar as pessoas! #TremeaFerri

São alturas como esta que me convencem da incapacidade do design conseguir abordar qualquer problema de ordem social. Enquanto designer, sinto-me bem distante do que vejo ser o discurso da área.

A sério, “happisodes”? :blobfacepalm:

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@prologic@twtxt.net hmmm:

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://meet.mills.io/ws/Yarn.social/l3oVrknUnjZo2zSQoGlOX3.

Oh, also, have you fixed https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social already? It didn’t work the other day.

Reminder, kick-starting our monthly social call! 📞 Please RSVP if you can make it!

Hey all 👋 Starring up the monthly social call we used to have 🤞 Please RSVP here if you can make it! 🙏

Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? 👋

Erlang Solutions: Immersive Esports: The Technology Behind Competitive Gaming
Esports has outgrown local tournaments and now runs on global platforms linking millions of players and fans, powered by immersive esports technology. Communities form around games, teams, and streamers, blending competition, entertainment, and social connection. At this scale, reliability and low latency are non-negotiable to keep matches fair and audiences engaged during spikes.

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British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
Fisher says his visa is “legit” but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country. ⌘ Read more

British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
Fisher says his visa is “legit” but that authorities were unhappy he would be working while in the country. ⌘ Read more

British social media star ‘Big John’ detained in Australia over visa
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No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more

No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more

No sex, drugs or dangerous stunts: Instagram limits teens to PG-13 content
Teenagers on the social media app will be restricted to seeing PG-13 content by default and won’t be able to change their settings without a parent’s permission, Meta has announced. ⌘ Read more

Satellite images reveal ancient hunting traps used by South American social groups
Satellite images have revealed an ancient system of elaborate, funnel-shaped mega traps likely built by hunters and pastoralists to catch prey in the high altitudes of northern Chile. ⌘ Read more

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Sam Whited: 2025-09-30 Trolley Barn Contra Post Mortem
The first time I DJed for a Contra Dance1 was at Inman Park’s
famous Trolley Barn.
At the time I was DJing in the way other social dances are normally DJed: I had
a laptop, I played a song, everyone danced.
No fancy mixing, or effects: the most technical thing I did was loop 32 bar
sections of music to stretch it out until the caller was ready to end the dance.

This time around, returning to … ⌘ Read more

Apple Hosts Unusual Colorado Event to Showcase Latest Hardware
Apple has invited a group of social media influencers to Colorado this week for an unusual event involving group hiking, trail running, and other outdoor activities designed to showcase the company’s recently launched iPhone 17 Pro Max, AirPods Pro 3, and Apple Watch Ultra 3.

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‘No playbook’: eSafety boss backs social media ban despite expert warnings
The commissioner insists age verification can work, despite expert warnings of deep flaws with just over two months until the start of the ban. ⌘ Read more

Trump meldet Einigung bei Gaza-Gesprächen
Israel und die Terrororganisation Hamas haben laut US-Präsident Donald Trump der ersten Phase seines Friedensplans zugestimmt. „Das bedeutet, dass alle Geiseln sehr bald freigelassen werden und Israel seine Truppen auf eine vereinbarte Linie zurückziehen wird, als erster Schritt hin zu einem starken, dauerhaften und ewigen Frieden“, erklärte Trump in der Nacht auf Donnerstag auf Truth Social. Israel und die Hamas hatten in Ägypten indirekt über den Friedensplan verhandelt. ⌘ Read more

German mayor stabbed outside home, Chancellor Merz condemns ‘abhorrent act’
Iris Stalzer, a Social Democrat who was elected mayor of Herdecke in the Ruhr region a week ago, is reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries. ⌘ Read more

Canberrans in their 30s and 40s now the city’s loneliest, survey finds
Loneliness is rising faster among Canberra adults in their 30s and 40s, with new research showing this cohort has now overtaken younger people as the most socially isolated in the ACT. ⌘ Read more

War on America, Chicago Theater of Operations
Ruth Ben-Ghiat ,  Professor of History New York University  -  Reader Support News | Lucid Substack

_Stephan: Ruth Ben-Ghiat is an American history professor and political commentator. She is a scholar on fascism and authoritarian leaders, and a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. She is absolutely correct. What amazes and saddens me is that millions of Americans sit at home basically reading social media … ⌘ Read more

Carsten Linnemann: CDU-Generalsekretär fordert Social-Media-Verbot bis 16
CDU-Generalsekretär Carsten Linnemann fordert Altersgrenzen für soziale Netzwerke. Der Zugang soll erst ab 16 Jahren möglich sein. ( Soziales Netz, Politik)

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Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.

I think it’s finally shaping a bit better now, but… ☝️

As I’m trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I don’t 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 “social feeds” 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 I’ll 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 (it’ll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
  
• Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some “engines” 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 to nick if not defined
  
• banner: Using the same format as avatar 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 don’t limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! 🤞

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Scavenger’s reign is child play next to this…. https://mastodon.social/@adhd_coffee/115235689271906711

And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).

Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.

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Hello everyone! 👋

After a long while away, I’m back on twtxt with this new feed.

Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.

I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.

In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:

• Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there’s no flood of content that I can’t keep up with.
  
• No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it’s all backed up.
  
• Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
  
• For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!
  

This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your “instance”.

It’s still in the making but I’ll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.

Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com and @zvava@twtxt.net were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!

iOS 26 Battery Life Suffering? Here’s Why & How to Fix It
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@mozilla@mozilla must have some telemetry or metrics or something to know how many #32bit firefox users are out there. I bet that, as a percentage, they aren’t more than a blip. Still, there has to be several thousand machines out there, running on 32bit hardware, connected to the internet, using #Firefox as its web browser.

And now Mozilla decided to hand those users over to #chromium, by stopping 32-bit support and telling them the alternative is to install a 64bit OS instead.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2025/09/05/firefox-32-bit-linux-support-to-end-in-2026/

What #TheLEFT had to say about #vonderleyen ’s #SOTU speech?

There are several news stories going around saying that there are two no-confidence votes to Von Der Leyen about to be submitted, saying little to nothing about them, and even filing them together as if they both want or mean the same.

It might be useful to know exactly what the criticisms are, so here is a link to The Left’s comment to today’s speech. Read it in full, but here is my summary:

• “acts as the guardian of the interests of the most powerful, at the expense of democracy, justice, and the future of the planet”;

• Gaza: “The bare minimum is ending military cooperation and fully suspending the EU–Israel Association Agreement. This is genocide and we need to do everything to stop it”

• pushing the MERCOSUR deal (they are actually light on their criticism of this treaty, but I’ll leave my rant about ot on a another toot)

• the EU-US deal: “subjugation of European policy to the economic and military interests of the USA. You are sacrificing energy, digital policy, security, and climate protection on the altar of the hollow phrase of transatlantic partnership”

• “Europeans’ living standards are falling, jobs are lost, authoritarianism grows, and social systems are under pressure”

https://left.eu/the-last-state-of-the-union/

@zvava@twtxt.net I never used any of the social media platforms, that’s why I’m probably ignorant.

I don’t understand the concept of a retwt. Just quote the (relevant) parts from whereever and comment on that. Or post a link instead of a quote. Sounds simple enough. :-) That’s also has the benefit that it works with every source, no matter what. Since it’s called retwt, I’d imagine this to only work (well) with whatever messages the system itself offers. But I could be wrong. What would be the benefit of having a dedicated message type or structure for “hey, look at that” messages in your opinion?

Hmm, what’s a content warning?

@zvava@twtxt.net I reckon there’s currently nobody working on v2. Which timezone are you in? Just post your questions here or head over to #yarn.social at libera.chat for a more realtime conversation via IRC.

Ariadne explains some of the reasons behind this “Wayback” thingy (rootful X11 on Wayland):

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147291885663574
  
• https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/115147331909980717
  

They should put this in a FAQ on their website or something. The whole endeavor makes more sense when you look at it like this.

@zvava@twtxt.net Hey 👋 Welcome to Yarn.social 🤗

@dce@hashnix.club these are some of the same reasons that I enjoy Yarn.social/Twtxt 🙌

You know, I think I do actually like it here better than my other social media. It’s slower and quieter, but it feels more organic and nobody’s trying to sell me anything, promote their podcast, or change the way I think. It’s just… nice!

Dear @doctormo@doctormo, I’m a great admirer of your work in general and hopefully I won’t creep you out by telling everyone I’m your fan!

As a creator of digital vector-based art I find the color management stuff (trying to figure how to generate things to print “in CMYK”) mind boggling. I slowly try to read and acquire the concepts and vocabulary to understand more about this. I’m grateful for your work in this area. Thank you!

#FLOSS #CMYK #ColorManagement #inkscape

No bluedwarf.top is not any social media site, it’s free speech and you can moderate which post categories you see.No nonsense

I think social media ruined the Web. Think about how much happier and social people would be without those sites feeding themm inflammatory posts and articles.

bluedwarf.top is a very nice social media adress. Thanks!

guys try Bluedwarf.top its so good and it works on every single browser even ones from 1990 its the best social media youll find

Why everyone is quitting social media ⌘ Read more

Oi @claromes@claromes, acredito que você manja desses paranauês, dei umas buscas e não encontrei…

Queria saber se as fotos que as pessoas mandam pro Instagram mantém os metadados, se podem conter localização e tal… (desconfio que a Meta guarda a sua localização no momento da postagem e os metadados das fotos para os fins nefastos deles mas publicam uma foto com os metadados removidos, mas não consegui confirmar essa informação)

Se tivesse uma tabela pra eu mostrar pros meus alunos sobre quais serviços fazem o quê com os metadados das fotos ia ser lindo…

#metadodos #fotografia

Continua a “guerra à burocracia”… Isto não se inventa:
https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/08/13/governo-quer-acabar-com-criminalizacao-da-omissao-da-contratacao-de-trabalhadores-a-seguranca-social/

@eric@itsericwoodward.com I prefer to call what we’ve built here really an “ecosystem”. A network isn’t really an apt description. Twtxt/Yarn is arguably IMO the purest decentralised non-social social media ecosystem I think in existence today 🤣

Da mais recente newsletter da @climaximo@climaximo :

“Nos últimos dois anos, a Equipa Legal do Climáximo tem acompanhado quase cem pessoas que realizaram ações com risco de detenção, num total de 72 ações. Destes, 8 foram arquivados, 3 foram absolvidos, e em 10 casos as ativistas foram condenadas. Temos ainda uns 20 casos no tribunal, e mais 20 casos que podem vir a ser objeto de processos-crime.”

“Aqui queremos fazer uma pequena pausa para esclarecer que isto não é toda a repressão que o movimento pela justiça climática enfrenta. Isto é a parte que é visível para a equipa legal do Climáximo, e portanto exclui, por exemplo, a indemnização ao Luís Montenegro por causa do seu fato de luxo que ficou sujo numa ação da Greve Climática Estudantil.

E também não vemos como assunto separado os polícias que acompanharam os despejos em Loures nem os vários grupos neo-nazis que de repente veio a público estarem a preparar-se. Esta tendência de governo autoritário é estrutural e é uma resposta consciente por quem manda nesta sociedade, exatamente por perceberem a crise climática que têm alimentado.”

“Até agora, apoiantes do Climáximo participaram em ações diretas pela justiça climática e tiveram 8 casos concluídos e 2 ainda em recurso […] Isto por dizerem a verdade sobre a emergência climática.”

https://www.climaximo.pt/com-mais-de-40-casos-a-frente-e-ate-250-mil-euros-em-multas-no-futuro-a-resistencia-climatica-continua-a-ser-a-unica-saida-do-colapso-climatico/

#WTF

《A ministra do Trabalho, Solidariedade e Segurança Social afirmou ainda que os dias de luto gestacional para o pai “não fazem sentido”, porque o seu papel é o de “acompanhar a grávida que perdeu uma criança”.》

https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/economia/2832256/criancas-continuam-a-ser-amamentadas-para-maes-terem-horario-reduzido

«Using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most “notable people” around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank. Click below to show people only from a specific category.
Made by Topi Tjukanov.»

https://tjukanovt.github.io/notable-people

via @mekaru@mekaru
#wikidata #cartography

#LGM #LibreGraphicsMeeting 2025 - “The State of #Processing: How We’re Bringing a Creative Coding Icon Back to Life”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQwedwFyOY

#Processing4 #CreativeCoding @processing@processing @processingorg@processingorg

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

Histórias do #Python & #FLOSS no Brasil

Entrevista com o @gwidion@gwidion
https://www.youtube.com/live/ia8aOZsDYOM

cc @apyb@apyb

“For learning, #genAI is a forklift at the gym.” — @glyph@glyph
https://blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-think-im-done-thinking-about-genai-for-now.html

I’m hoping @geofft@geofft can fix this 2022 issue on #uv built #Python binaries that breaks #tkinter, wishing him best of luck!

https://github.com/astral-sh/python-build-standalone/issues/129#issuecomment-3016695658

Someone did a thing:

https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/114763322251054485

I’ve been silently wondering all the time if this was possible, but never investigated: Keep doing X11 but use Wayland as a backend.

This uses XWayland’s “rootful” mode, which basically just gives you a normal Wayland window with all the X11 stuff happening inside of it:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootful-Useful

In other words, put such a window in fullscreen and you (more or less) have good old X11 running in a Wayland window.

(For me, personally, this won’t be the way forward. But it’s a very interesting project.)

went to vote. got told i can’t vote because i’m not registered. handed a form to fill out that i later learn is not in english.

go home and find out the problem is widespread among young voters like me.

fuck this country.

@prologic@twtxt.net This person isn’t particularly happy with this study:

https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/114717549619229029

I don’t know enough about these things to form an opinion. 🫤 I sure wish it was true, though. 😅

#ShowYourStripes day, here are mine.

@urlyman@urlyman https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114720462376167356

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Unless your Terms of use update email looks and reads the same as the one I got yesterday from mastodon.social, I don’t wanna know about it, nor do I agree to it.

#python Alguém tem o contato do Juan Lopes? @gwidion@gwidion ?

Acho que ele ia gostar de ver isso aqui:

https://mastodon.social/@carapace/114699111024833608

Em passos concretos, o Governo propõe-se a fazer coisas como:

“Criar um modelo de número único de identificação para as pessoas e em-
presas, assim evitando que a mesma pessoa tenha de ter número de utente,
de cartão de cidadão, de contribuinte, de Segurança Social, de eleitor, etc;”

Só que a Constituição Portuguesa, no artigo 35º, nº5, estabelece que “É proibida a atribuição de um número nacional único aos cidadãos”. Quer dizer, eles podem estar a dizer que querem mudar este número na constituição, mas também foram eles que disseram que uma revisão constitucional não é uma prioridade deste governo… em que ficamos?

@prologic@twtxt.net I am finding writing my Notes very therapeutic. Just create a markdown file and commit, push, and it’s live. Whatever comes to mind, whatever I want to keep as relevant. Silly things, more like a dump.

If I feel like it, I do. If not, I don’t. Not social, not intended for anyone to see them. I am enjoying it!

Essa tentativa de revisionismo é uma afronta a todos os que sofreram sob o jugo da ditadura. Mais grave ainda é a postura ostensivamente ofensiva e arrogante que o “professor” tem perante quem se identifica com ideais de Esquerda. Em vez de promover o debate democrático, Mithá Ribeiro opta pela caricatura e pelo insulto, tratando os seus opositores ideológicos como inimigos a abater. O autor de “Um século de escombros”, livro que dedicou, entre outros, a Steve Bannon (o fascista que arquitetou a linha política seminal de Trump) demoniza o pensamento progressista, rotulando-o de forma simplista e maliciosa, como se defender a justiça social, igualdade ou direitos humanos fosse sinónimo de ignorância, fragilidade ou subversão.

Num momento em que o discurso público exige responsabilidade e rigor, a presença de figuras como Mithá Ribeiro nos espaços de decisão e influência representa um retrocesso. A sua glorificação de um passado ditatorial e o desrespeito constante pelas vozes divergentes são sinais claros de um projeto político que rejeita a convivência democrática e que procura, através da provocação, normalizar a intolerância e a ignorância histórica. Esta retórica despudorada corrói a democracia e instiga o ódio.

¾

“Later in the evening, posting on X, #Macron said: “I’m banning #socialmedia for #children under 15. Platforms have the ability to verify age. Let’s do it.”

French authorities are already progressing with efforts to force certain social media sites — including X, Reddit, Bluesky and #Mastodon — to introduce age verification, by classifying them as pornographic websites.

French measures forcing porn sites to verify their users’ ages came into effect on June 7, prompting the world’s largest porn website, Pornhub, to stop operating in France. Demand for virtual private network services, which allow users to trick websites into thinking they are in a different location, immediately surged.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-social-media-ban-minors-france/

How a Canberra cooking class is changing the lives of older men
The Men’s Kitchen is changing the lives of men over 60, many of whom are recently widowed or caring for partners who can no longer cook, teaching kitchen skills and offering social connection. ⌘ Read more

#qotd

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Queensland to review social housing after finding couple making $200k
The state government claims there are some recipients earning well above the income limit that determines who is eligible for social housing. ⌘ Read more

What next after vibe coding
One interesting possible future of the emergence of “vibe coding” as common terminology is the possibility to position an alternative.

“Real coding”?

Future think pieces:

• ‘You can get yourself up and running quickly with “vibe coding” but when you get traction you’re going to want have people doing “real coding”’

• ‘switching from vibe coding to real coding will typically cost you X% of you initial development, so don’t put off switching too late’

[Comments](https://lobste.rs/s/m … ⌘ Read more

How PieFed federates “flair” on posts and comments
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How women have used the piano to push social boundaries for centuries
This year’s audience poll of Australia’s favourite classical music features the most music by women ever, thanks to their centuries-long connection with the piano. ⌘ Read more

“She didn’t want to leave’: Program to help people using libraries as safe spaces
A Perth library trials a social worker program after noticing an increase in people using libraries as a safe space. ⌘ Read more

‘Straight up sore loser’: Biles calls out former swimmer for trans stance
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles has called former US college swimmer Riley Gaines “sick” for mocking a social media post about a high school softball team with a trans player. ⌘ Read more

[$] Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs
The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles
the processing of core dumps for crashed processes. Christian Brauner explained
his reasons for doing this work as: “Because I’m a clown and also I had
it with all the CVEs because we provide a **** API for userspace”. The
handling of core dumps has indeed been a constant source of
vulnerabilities; with luck, the 6.16 work will result in rather fewer of
th … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Like this? 😅

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Source: https://mastodon.social/@islieb/114635884398567253

Knights NRL player told in trolling message ‘I will end your life’
Knights winger James Schiller allegedly received multiple messages on social media threatening physical harm during last night’s NRL game against Manly. ⌘ Read more

Use Your iPhone As a Webcam for Nintendo Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch 2 includes a new built-in social feature called GameChat that allows up to 12 users to engage in video chats simultaneously, even if they’re playing in different games. To facilitate this, Nintendo offers an official Switch 2 Camera that connects via USB-C, but it turns out that an iPhone does the job just as well, if not better.

Niles Mitchell has thoughtfully shared a demo of the Switch-iPho … ⌘ Read more

Busselton set for new social housing, despite backlash
The WA Planning Commission signs off on a proposed social housing development in Busselton, overruling local backlash. ⌘ Read more

Trump and Xi hold long-awaited call, ‘focused almost entirely on trade’
The US president posted on Truth Social that a phone call with his Chinese counterpart lasted an hour and a half and “focused almost entirely on trade”. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate
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Neue Handelsgespräche angekündigt
Der chinesische Präsident Xi Jinping und US-Präsident Donald Trump haben kurz vor der mit Spannung erwarteten Visite des deutschen Kanzlers Friedrich Merz im Weißen Haus miteinander telefoniert. „Das Gespräch drehte sich fast ausschließlich um Handel. Russland/Ukraine oder Iran wurden nicht besprochen“, schrieb Trump in seinem Kurznachrichtendienst Truth Social am Donnerstag. Trump kündigte außerdem an, dass sich Handelsdelegationen beider Länder in Kürze treffen würden. ⌘ Read more

Why is Gen Z obsessed with blind boxes?
The blind-box market is worth billions of dollars per year, and the most successful players in this industry thrive on loyal fans, social media and some clever marketing tactics. ⌘ Read more

Podcast Besser Wissen: Von der SMS über Chats zu Social Media
Wir sprechen im Podcast über die wachsende Bedeutung der Kurznachrichtendienste. ( Besser Wissen, Podcast)

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Ashes tickets pre-sale sets new record but leaves some fans ‘frustrated’
Fans complain across social media about the issues faced in buying tickets, with one saying it has been “one of the most frustrating experiences” he has been through. ⌘ Read more

One in three Australian men report using intimate partner violence, study reveals
The longitudinal study showed social support and strong father-son relationships were key in reducing the risk of men later committing emotional or physical abuse. ⌘ Read more

Police investigate social media ‘stabbing list’ posted before town show
Police investigating an anonymous social media post containing a “stabbing list” say it is not connected to an alleged triple stabbing in Dubbo. ⌘ Read more