Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business
Ben Berkowitz , Brady Dale, Ā ReportersĀ - Ā Axios
_Stephan:Ā In the whole of American history there has been no precedent for the corruption, lack of ethics, and greed of Donald and Melania Trump. Convicted sex offender and multiple felon, and his porn sex model wife have, with an existential appropriateness, become the couple leading a country that has lost its way; like an ancient myth come t ⦠ā Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First, please leave me your comments on the repository! Even if itās just to give your opinion on what shouldnāt be included. The more variety, the better.
Second, Iām going to try to do tests with Elliptic keys and base64. Thanks for the advice @eapl@eapl.me
Finally, Iād like to give my opinion. Secure direct messages are a feature that ActivityPub and Mastodon donāt have, to give an example. By including it as an extension, weāre already taking a significant leap forward from the competition. Does it make sense to include it in a public feed? In fact, weāre already doing that. When we reply to a user, mentioning them at the beginning of the message, itās already a direct message. The message is within a thread, perhaps breaking the conversation. Direct messages would help isolate conversations between 2 users, as well as keeping a thread cleaner and maintaining privacy. I insist, itās optional, it doesnāt break compatibility with any client and implementing it isnāt complex. If you donāt like it, youāre free to not use it. If you donāt have a public key, no one can send you direct messages.
šš Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Whoās coming? š¤ Some possible topics:
- Direct Messaging for Twtxt
- @prologic@twtxt.net ās new EdgeGuard services š¤£
- Whatās the weather like? š
Details:
- When: 25th Jan 2025 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
- Where: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
another one would be to allow changing public keys over time (as it may be a good practice [0]). A syntax like the following could help to know what public key you used to encrypt the message, and which private key the client should use to decrypt it:
!<nick url> <encrypted_message> <public_key_hash_7_chars>
Also Iād remove support for storing the message as hex, only allowing base64 (more compact, aiming for a minimalistic spec, etc.)
US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congressā countdown clock
Tami Luhby, Ā Senior WriterĀ - Ā CNN
Stephan:Ā This isnāt what everyone is talking about today but starting tomorrow we will see this and newly inaugurated Trumpās executive orders sweep across the United States like a hurricane. Buckle up it is going to get strange and, I am afraid, very chaotic.
 (I think itās funny) (itās like crocheting a scarf when you donāt wear scarves)
EU Not Reassessing Apple and Google Antitrust Investigations, But New Administration Could Shift Priorities
The European Union is āreassessingā its investigations into big U.S. tech companies like Apple, Meta, and Google, claims Financial Times, though a spokesperson from the European Commission has denied that such a review is taking place.

^-- SC2046: Quote this to prevent word splitting.
For more information:
https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046 -- Quote this to prevent word splitt...
Most likely not all that problematic in this application, but itās good to know about this underlying concept. Word splitting is basically splitting tokens on whitespace, this can lead to interesting consequences as illustrated by this little code:
$ echo $(echo "Hello World")
Hello World
$ echo "$(echo "Hello World")"
Hello World
In the first case the shells sees two whitespace-separated tokens or arguments for the echo command. This basically becomes echo Hello World. So, echo joins them by a single space. In the second one it sees one argument for the echo command, so echo simply echos this single argument that contains three spaces.
10 Things You May Not Know About the London Underground
The London Underground, affectionately known as āThe Tube,ā is much more than a transit system. Itās an iconic symbol of London and a marvel of engineering history, weaving through the city and its surrounding counties like veins of a bustling metropolis. First introduced as the Metropolitan Railway in 1863, the Underground was the worldās first [ā¦]
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Apple Focusing on These Eight New Low-Cost Devices in 2025
Appleās slate of 2025 products look to be dominated by a large number of low-cost and entry-level devices. Hereās what to expect.
With advancements like Apple Intelligence and all-new in-house chip designs, Apple is reportedly looking to enhance many of its budget-friendly offerings, ensuring they remain co ⦠ā Read more
[LTH] Looking for someone to turn a picture of a face into half cyborg, like terminator
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/HireAiArtist/comments/1hz1ajt/
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example.com/x/bananas/yo.txt, and the feed has no nick. What is the nick?
nick is yo? Btw say me which method you choiced. I want to make mention fixer like @bender -> @bender@twtxt.net in my post-hook
Or using the same twt hash method, but only for the URL, to generate the nick, if it doesnāt exist, like so, @5vxo4ia@twtxt.net
Hmm, I just noticed that the feed template seems to be broken on your yarnd instance, @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz. Looking at your raw feed file (and your mates as well), line 6 reads:
# This is hosted by a Yarn.social pod yarn running yarnd ERSION@OMMIT go1.23.4
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Looks like the first letters of the version and commit got somehow chopped off. Iāve no idea what happened here, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net knows something. :-? Iām not familiar with the templating, I just recall @xuu@txt.sour.is reporting in IRC the other day that heās also having great fun with his custom preamble from time to time.
That ābrokenā comment doesnāt hurt anything, itās still a proper comment and hence ignored by clients. Itās just odd, thatās all.
Use āType to Siriā on Mac Easier Than Ever in Sequoia
Siri has been considerably improved in recent MacOS versions, mostly because itās now linked to ChatGPT. One of the other recent changes to Siri in modern MacOS versions is that itās now easier to access the āType to Siriā feature, no longer being relegated to an Accessibility setting that has to be enabled separately like ⦠Read More ā Read more
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i donāt even have like time or space to stream unless it was no mic/video and just me doing stuff on my computer which can be boring without even mic input. plus no way to use camcorder that way. but. itād be cool if i could so i dream
@prologic@twtxt.net i thought i was going insane when i saw blank posts on my TL i was like is noscript fucking with me again but no itās you guys fucking around LOLLLL
@doesnmppsflt@doesnm.p.psf.lt Not sure which bug youāre referring to. š¤ (Did I forget?)
Those long IDs like (#113797927355322708) are simply part of that feed. Looks like the author just dumps ActivityPub IDs into twtxt. I think this used to work in the past, but the corresponding spec (https://twtxt.dev/exts/hash-tag.html) has been deprecated and jenny doesnāt support ā actually, jenny never supported that.
jenny can only group threads by exactly one criterium (because it writes a Message-ID into the mail file) and thatās the regular twt hash. So, anything else, like people doing ā#CoolTopicā, isnāt possible.
Hello @movq@uninformativ.de . Did you fixed jenny bug which causes fetching long ids from yarn instances on feeds like https://ciberlandia.pt/@marado.txt ? Iām asking because i want to store links in brackets on some of my posts and donāt want to confuse jenny users
wrote up a short list of things i need to do for superlove⦠itās just some like clarification and housekeeping and stuff really
@prologic@twtxt.net itās pretty new for me but iām liking it so far!
StackExchange/dnscontrol: Infrastructure as code for DNS! šš Now this looks might interesting⦠I might look into this for managing my own domains and DNS. I note that my current registrar isnāt on the list of supported registrars, oh well, I donāt like OnlyDomains⢠much anyway. Anyone familiar with these regisrars?
- AWS Route 53
- CSC Global
- CentralNic Reseller (formerly RRPProxy)
- DNSOVERHTTPS
- Dzynadot
- easyname
- Gandi
- HEXONET
- hosting.de
- Internet.bs
- INWX
- Namecheap
- Name.com
- OpenSRS
- OVH
- Realtime Register
Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixlerās. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix ⦠ā Read more
taskbook is really neat. i like using its to-do features, i think the note-taking i wonāt need as iāve been using obsidian a lot for that lately but the to-do stuff is really helping me out
edited the theming on my zine posts on itch.io, i like how they look!
Why the American dream of owning property is dying
Josh Kirby, Ā Senior Money WriterĀ - Ā The Telegraph (U.K.)
_Stephan:Ā Like virtually everyone I knew buying a first home for my wife and myself was a prime objective.Ā It was 1969, I was 27, and the managing editor of Seapower Magazine. My wife didnāt work and was in the 7th month of her pregnancy. We bought the house in Chevy Chase, Maryland just past the border with D.C. for $68,000. It was not a large house, but on a nice ⦠ā Read more
I keep forgetting how much socialization with people I actually like really helps ease up my depression for a bit.
@prologic@twtxt.net awww thank you! yeah iād love to keep it small and chill. thatās what i and my friends like most about yarn, how small and quiet it is, itās just chill! and thereās no likes/reposts too which helps keep it super chill i think. just vibes⦠itās the best! youāve built something great!
yarnd? š¤ Vultr is offering 1 vCPU, 500MB Memory and 10GB Storage for FREE! That's right $0.00 𤣠Media
@prologic@twtxt.net would it be enough to spin up a reverse proxy/Tunnel like the one you did? š
@bender@twtxt.net oh yeah i remember that part of the docs lol! honestly yeah i think sqlite is fine for the number of users i have which is like, 5 including me, and active users is just⦠me, but if i were to have more active users i could always spin up a separate instance as jank as that is
ā2025ā doesnāt look right. That looks like a date which is absurdly far into the future. Like 2199 or something.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz iām an LXQt girlie for life and i like the convenience of apt despite that they never update their god damn packages so i guess iām stuck on lubuntu for everything
hmmm i really should set up crowdsec and maybe a WAF like coraza or something. i donāt look at my logs as much as i should because they scare me and ignorance is bliss but i should probably cut out as much false traffic as possible especially to my biggest site (superlove)
CES 2025 Day 1: Samsung Adds AI to TVs and Companies Get Clever With MagSafe
Itās time for the annual CES event where all kinds of tech products and accessories are being debuted, and we sent MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera to check out whatās new this year. While CES officially begins tomorrow, there are pre-show events like CES Unveiled, plus Samsung shared highlights.
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Spent $219 Million to Elect Trump and Republicans in Congress
Karin Kirk, Ā Staff WriterĀ - Ā Reader Supported News | Yale Climate Connections
_Stephan:Ā The Supreme Courtās Citizens United decision, as I have told you many times, legalized the renting of politicians like hiring prostitutes. A large percentage of American voters either donāt realize this, or donāt care but it has corrupted American democracy so compl ⦠ā Read more
10 Disturbing Superstitions That Killed
Humanity has always had a thing for superstitionsāthose quirky, often nonsensical beliefs that spice up our lives with a touch of paranoia. They have us knocking on wood when we tempt fate, giving black cats the side-eye, and detouring around ladders like theyāre crime scenes. Harmless, right? Not always. While most superstitions are charming little [ā¦]
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Spitz Plus GL-X2000 is an Upcoming Wi-Fi 6 and 4G LTE CAT 12 Router
The Spitz Plus GL-X2000 is a 4G LTE Wi-Fi 6 router designed to deliver reliable connectivity for remote work, travel, and rural internet access. It supports advanced network features like Multi-WAN, Failover, and Load Balancing, enhancing connection stability and ensuring dependable performance. The router is powered by a Qualcomm dual-core processor running at 1 GHz, [ā¦] ā Read more
just spent like half an hour finding a terminal based color picker that would just. turn the cursor into a cross hair and let me pick from the screen. in linux fashion this was somehow difficult
@xuu@txt.sour.is ROFLMAO! 𤣠reading that, the Tech bro sounded in my mind like Cow from Cow and Chicken
@prologic@twtxt.net hahahah yeah itās a bit heavy for what i need but i do like that itās advanced enough that itās easy for friends to use :P
** Not what I was expecting **
A while ago I was talking with someone about books. I mentioned that I like to read capital R romance novels, and like 19th century literary realism.
This person excitedly recommended Victor LaValleās The Changeling. Knowing nothing about it, and because I pretty much sayāyesā to any book recommendation I get from a real live person that I can find at the library, Iāve been reading it.
My dude. What the fuck!? This is just horror. š„²šØ ā Read more
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz though i feel like this doesnāt need to be said because if anyone is that pretty they are not a self hoster because they regularly shower
iāve been transitioning CLI text editors from nano (godforsaken editor) to micro (normal and not overly opinionated to the point where i feel like iām defusing a bomb trying to learn its keybindings) and the only weird thing is that i canāt get it to persist an alias from nano to micro when i run sudo despite me configuring that. well at least on my servers, it persists on this machine. idk iāll look at it later
It seems like this is cached, I think levels is doing good work with this.
What Makes Someone Wise? Global Study Finds Cross-Cultural Agreement on 2 Major Factors
, Ā Ā - Ā Nice News
_Stephan:Ā A reader sent me this, and I found it a very interesting report on research about wisdom. I see so little wisdom in our politics and religion today, and so little understanding of what defines it, that I thought you might like to see this report as well. To download the research paper upon which it is based: https://www.nat ⦠ā Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de woah itās like a cheatsheet with explanations! java is kind of arcane magic sorcery to me so iām having trouble understanding it but i have that with most programming languages. this is like so much easier to actually look at and read instead of my eyes glazing over lol
the windows CSS frameworks are sooo epic like you mean i can click a win aero button in my browser?!?! WITCHCRAFT!
@prologic@twtxt.net thatās iconic af though like i should do the same bc i hate cloudflare that much i just refuse to use them
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org oh nah it came out like that lol! i actually love how squished it looks it feels accurate lol
oh yeah i think i might have a tripod around but i do need a sandbag or something i could use as one. maybe yeah a giant bag of rice could work LOL. thanks for the tips!!! i took a video class last year in college and we worked with cameras and tripods with sandbags so it was on my mind
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org yeah! as long as itās fun :D experimenting with it like picking up the camera every once in a while to point somewhere else, or in editing inserting more video in between the static angles, that could be fun!
@movq@www.uninformativ.de this is why people like me canāt code this is boring eyes glazing over kinda stuff lol
10 Crucial Events That Defined Entire Eras of American History
Certain events have very clearly defined American history. The Battle of Gettysburg, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedyācertainly, the list goes on from there. But just as much, there have been quite a few incredibly important events that have defined American history, [ā¦]
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org itād be a blast to record too with my camcorder! iād have to figure out positioning and stuff like you said but i could probably figure something out with a bit of testing :P yeah it probably does make the project itself longer than it should be but i feel like if you make it a cozy kinda āsew with meā video where people watch you sew and film it with a static angle instead of like, showing every step? i think thatād be nice even if a bit boring. so i could absolutely try that.
magnetic tape camcorders omg!!! mine is digital but iād LOVE to get a tape camcorder
@bender@twtxt.net aw thank you so much!!! rambling is the best⦠just gotta keep on going about what we love and somehow people like it lol!
@prologic@twtxt.net oh itās ok! thank you for the explanation! i think for me when it comes to programming i learn best by doing, so like written examples or talking about it helps less, BUT baseline explanations like what a pointer is does help! i was so confused and i still need to fix the error iām having but i will figure it out!
It needs to be said: Retrocomputing and old systems like DOS or OS/2 are fun and all, but a UNIX shell and its userland tools are the most powerful things Iāve ever seen. You can pry that from my cold dead hands. š
The devastating truth about the GOPās war on education
Thom Hartmann, Ā CommentatorĀ - Ā Raw Story
_Stephan:Ā I listened to Joy Reid on MSNBC this evening, and agreed with her news hour showing how the United States is becoming a billionaire-owned oligarchy, as a result of a decades-long strategy to achieve where we are today by using unethical morons like Ronald Reagan and the younger George Bush in the White House, faithful servants like Leonard Leo to transform the judic ⦠ā Read more
KAIST Develops Foundational Technology to Revert Cancer Cells to Normal Cellsā
KAIST Research Team, Ā Ā - Ā KAIST
Stephan:Ā Here is what looks like it is going to be very good healthcare news. If cancer is an issue for you or someone you know or care for you might alert your oncologist about this research.
Despite the development of numerous can ⦠ā Read more
10 Exciting Things Entering the Public Domain in 2025
When a work enters the public domain, itās like releasing an immortal animal into the wild after it has been caged for a hundred years. Now freed from copyright restrictions, the work can be studied, reinterpreted, and explored in ways that better reveal its true nature. Scholars, creators, and fans are granted new freedoms to [ā¦]
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PicoPD Pro: USB PD 3.1 Development Board with PPS and AVS Support
The PicoPD Pro is a compact development board with the RP2040 microcontroller, enabling USB PD3.1 features like Programmable Power Supply and Adjustable Voltage Supply up to 30V. It includes an AP33772S sink controller for USB-C functionality and offers a 5V rail output for powering external components. The board includes the RP2040 microcontroller, which operates at [ā¦] ā Read more
my camcorder videos are gonna go so hard yall like i can post them exclusively to my own youtube site and just do whatever tf i want with it. i should make more vlogs
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i also like the separation inherent with using dedicated devices. like i have a DAP, a fiio X1 ii from 2019, and itās still going strong. itās perfect for on the go music listening and i never have to worry about like going somewhere with no reception and the music drops out. itās all local AND the battery lasts longer because iām not using wi-fi or bluetooth or data. also i can directly access the file system and just add files anytime. this goes for my point & shoot and other devices too. i love this shit iām such a nerd
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i think what i love about āretroā (relative to me because i was born 2004) is that it has friction but in a different way than modern tech does. sure thereās friction with getting a video from your phone to a computer unless youāre a nerd like me with android and syncthing. but not only is that something that could be but isnāt easier, itās just⦠it makes sense for a camcorder from ~2009 to have the kind of friction it does
my camcorder battery & mini dvds came in the mail so i did a test recording! itās so cool i love the crap quality. i do hope the memory stick arrives soon though because for the discs i canāt get them on my computer (not even a rom drive filesystem mount) without āfinalizingā the disc which is like an old camcorder thing. i still think iāll prefer disc recording though even if a limit of 30 minutes (or longer for lower quality) is strict. i like limitations like that
@prologic@twtxt.net this is epic⦠youāve made a great platform!!! screw big tech we got literal threads here. X, The Everything App, wishes it had literal yarn threads smh my head. also twtxt is so cool like i love that yarn is a frontend for it but also its own thing. all plaintext⦠coolest shit ever
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev What do you mean by API? yarnd (which powers Yarn.social pods like twtxt.net) does have an API, however that API is designed for clients to interact with the pod and the userās account and feed. e.g: there is a command-line client called yarnc and I used to maintain a mobile native app (using Flutter).
What use-case did you have in mind?
itās epic that twtxt slash yarn doesnāt have reposts or likes. itās just chill. replies and posting is all a site needs
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz iāve really wanted to make one of those sites you can curl thatās terminal friendly but looks different on the browser like how does wttr.in do it⦠magic
i like this little ideas utility iāve been using like i keep pulling up the idea table to see what iāve added and it makes me wanna start one of them like the CLI app i wanna write in golang with charmbraceletās bubbletea even though i only have a vague idea of what i want in a CLI app
Binge Watch Apple TV+ This Weekend for Free
If youād like to start the new year with some binge watching, you can enjoy a free weekend of all-access to Apple TV+ films and shows starting on January 3 and continuing through January 5. The free weekend is available on any device where you can stream Apple TV+, all you will need is an ⦠Read More ā Read more
Jimmy Carter made eradicating Guinea worm disease a top mission
RUSS BYNUM and SAM MEDNICK, Ā ReportersĀ - Ā Associated Press
Stephan:Ā This article describes what policies that foster wellbeing look like. This is multi-decade work by President Carter before and after his presidency. Do you think we will see anything remotely like this during the Trump Presidency. I donāt.
![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-01-at-9. ⦠ā Read more
New MacBook Air Models Coming Soon With These Rumored Features
One of Appleās first product announcements of 2025 will likely be updated 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air models with the M4 chip.
Below, we recap rumors about the next MacBook Air models.
New Features ExpectedThe new MacBook Air models are expected to be equipped with Appleās already-released M4 chip, which has a 10-core C ⦠ā Read more