Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Damian Carrington, Environment Editor - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: Capitalism is fine, as long as there is one modification, the first priority must be that your capitalism must be conducted in such a way that it promotes wellbeing. Government policies must do the same. You can see how this works, and how it proves what I am saying is factually accurate. Look at the top seven happiest count … ⌘ Read more
10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something Else
Some of the world’s most iconic places have instantly recognizable names—imagine Paris without the Eiffel Tower, New York without Times Square, or Australia without the Great Barrier Reef. But history doesn’t always work out the way we expect. Many of these landmarks were nearly given completely different names, some of which would have changed how […]
The post [10 Iconic Landmarks That Were Nearly Called Something … ⌘ Read more
10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death
Musicians understand that they may never achieve stardom, but there is no way of knowing if they will turn into legends posthumously. Some musicians work hard at their craft and spend decades trying to succeed. They write and record multiple songs and albums, earn record deals, and travel the world, playing their music anywhere that […]
The post [10 Musicians Who Became Famous After Death](https://listverse.com/2025/04/08/10-musicians-who-became- … ⌘ Read more
Mandated use of AI at work
Although I also use AI for some features on this blog and sometimes chat with some AI agent (whether it’s ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot or GitHub Copilot), I have mixed feelings about its mandated use at work (Shopify is just one company doing it). ⌘ Read more
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security (Queue)
ACM Queue looks at\
the security problem in the light of a report on Multics security that
was published in 1974.
We are all struggling with a massive shift that has happened in the
past 10 or 20 years in the software industry. For decades, software
reuse was only a lofty goal. Now it’s very real. Modern
programming environments such as Go, Node, and Rust have made it
trivial to reuse work by others, but our … ⌘ Read more
I paid an athlete $120 to send me a personalised video. You can, too
Thousands of celebrities are sending personalised videos to paying fans. But how exactly does it work? ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net pretty neat, search actually works now!
FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt
FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #sear …
FYI: I’ve re-opened up search for anonymous use. So things like this now work without having to have an account on this pod or login. 👌 #search #twtxt ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Same! Another infrastructure apocalypse at work. Who needs reliable shit? Definitely not us.
This weekend (as some of you may now) I accidently nuke this Pod’s entire data volume 🤦♂️ What a disastrous incident 🤣 I decided instead of trying to restore from a 4-month old backup (we’ll get into why I hadn’t been taking backups consistently later), that we’d start a fresh! 😅 Spring clean! 🧼 – Anyway… One of the things I realised was I was missing a very critical Safety Controls in my own ways of working… I’ve now rectified this…
Does mentioning @prologic@twtxt.netdoesnm.p.psf.lt not work? 🧐
(#idk64aa) Does mentioning @prologic@prologic not work? 🧐
Does mentioning @prologic @twtxt.net doesnm.p.psf.lt not work? 🧐 ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net yup yup. Much work to be done, so little time. 😩
I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭
I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭
I need to get Peering working again on this branch! That will drag in many Twts Twts I now no longer have 😭 ⌘ Read more
(#igytpja) @bender@bender Working?
@bender @twtxt.net Working? ⌘ Read more
(#o5rdlra) Works okay hmmm what’s up?
Works okay hmmm what’s up? ⌘ Read more
A cat broke into a greenhouse at work and found the Cat Nip ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net In all my two Go projects I use modernc.org/sqlite and can’t complain. Works great for me.
if someone can help me create a list of things that are either not working or behaving in an unexpected/indescribable way, please list them, in …
if someone can help me create a list of things that are either not working or behaving in an unexpected/indescribable way, please list them, in some order of priority, and I’ll focus on fixing them tomorrow. G’night! 😴 ( leaving this pod on the highly experimental SqliteCache backend) ⌘ Read more
Okay. let’s see how things work now…. (sorry for all the fucking around!)
Okay. let’s see how things work now…. ( sorry for all the fucking around!) ⌘ Read more
quickie after work ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter March 2025
XMPP Newsletter Banner
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of March 2025.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these project … ⌘ Read more
[$] Supporting untorn buffered writes
At last year’s
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 “torn”
(partial … ⌘ Read more
TikTok Gets Another 75-Day Reprieve From Ban
U.S. President Donald Trump today said that he is signing an executive order to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days as his administration continues to work on the sale of the social network’s U.S. operations.
TikTok was barred from operating in the United States when the Protecting Americans From Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act [went into effect on January 19 … ⌘ Read more
No SR Today Due to Illness
, -
Stephan:
Stephan is unable to work due to illness. There will be no report today. ⌘ Read more
Keymap not working :( ⌘ Read more
Travel Cancellations Surge as US Faces New Decline in Tourism: Canada, Western Europe, and Mexico See Increased Interest in Alternative Destinations
, Contributing Writer - Travel and Tour World
_Stephan: As this article says, “For decades, the United States has consistently ranked as one of the top three most visited countries in the world.” Well, that’s over. If you work in a … ⌘ Read more
10 Low-Tech Solutions Beating High-Tech in Developing Regions
In the most resource-challenged parts of the world, the fanciest technologies often gather dust while simpler solutions thrive. Against unstable electricity, limited technical expertise, and scarce resources, a quiet revolution in appropriate technology transforms lives through elegantly simple designs. These low-tech innovations succeed by working with existing constraints rather than fighting against them, usi … ⌘ Read more
Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish - a nice article about Markdown VS proprietary formatting. With quotes like “Microsoft Office works in an office where you pretend to work until you can finally go home.” 😄
[$] An update on GCC BPF support
José Marchesi and David Faust kicked off the BPF track at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with an extra-long session on what
they have been doing to support compiling to BPF in GCC. Overall, the project is slowly working
toward full support for BPF, with most of the self-tests now passing using
Faust’s in-progress patches. However, the progress toward that goal has turned up
a number of problems with how Clang supports BPF that needed to be discussed at
length to … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I want to highlight another social problem: People don’t read. Paper industry is a bad moment because people don’t pay for books; it does not matter if it is a physical or digital platform. I have this information because I have a good friend who left the industry after publishing a magazine, books and working in an editorial. DRM is a try to give some more money.
10 Genius German Words with No English Equivalent
The German language has a knack for packing complex ideas into a single word or brief phrase. From time to time, those phrases work their way into the English language. For instance, you’ve probably used the word “zeitgeist” to convey the defining mood or spirit of an era or “schadenfreude” to express the joy you […]
The post [10 Genius German Words with No English Equivalent](https://listverse.com/2025/04/02/10-genius-german-words- … ⌘ Read more
[$] Slab allocator: sheaves and any-context allocations
The kernel’s slab allocator is charged with providing small objects on
demand; its performance and reliability are crucial for the functioning of
the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, two adjacent sessions in the
memory-management track dug into current work on the slab allocator. The
first focused on the new sheaves feature, while the second discussed a set
of allocation functions that are safe to call in any context. ⌘ Read more
@thecanine@twtxt.net And this is exactly why there are quirks modes in browsers…
I’m actually glad I don’t have to deal with all this web shit and work with compilers that hit me in the face when I do something illegal. :-)
[47°09′22″S, 126°43′10″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
@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 “p” as a child element of “summary” is a thing, that as far as I know, all browsers respect and if a font color is applied only once, I don’t think it matters, if it’s done through HTML or CSS, you smart ass.
Hmmm this needs a bit more work.
Hmmm this needs a bit more work. ⌘ Read more
[$] Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been
gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux
distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible\
builds for more than a decade; it can now
produce [official\
live CDs](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInst … ⌘ Read more
Apple Watch ‘Many Years Away’ From Non-Invasive Glucose Monitoring
Apple’s attempts to develop a non-invasive glucose monitoring feature for Apple Watch remains “many years away” from debuting, despite over 15 years of work to make the capability a reality in a consumer device, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
 which a client could point to, helping to discover it’s content in a way which is compatible with the twtxt spec.
Taking the first twt I found in https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt as an example:
reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt 2025-03-28T00:29:25Z **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])
it would be something like
TIME <@NICK URL> TWT
2025-03-28T00:29:25Z <@reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt> **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])
That way you could watch the latest twts with your client, something similar to what we find on Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/public/local
Some support from the clients to separate these ‘discovery’ content, from your following timeline might be required. 🤔
(#w4mnpkq) @xuu@xuu Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns (_the crawler / search …
@xuu @txt.sour.is Actually… I’m working on a new Sqlite backend/cache for yarnd 🤣 I might revive yarns ( the crawler / search engine) one day 🤞 ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me I am currently working on Implementing a registry that is also a crawler. It finds any feeds that are mentioned or in the follows header.
https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt
https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users
I think @prologic@twtxt.net is also working on one.
@eapl.me@eapl.me I am currently working on Implementing a registry that is also a crawler. It finds any feeds that are mentioned or in the follows header.
https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt
https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users
I think @prologic@twtxt.net is also working on one.
Canada Announces Bombshell Break With U.S. Over Trump
, -
_Stephan: MAGAt monarch Trump is singlehandedly destroying a 200-year-old friendship and working partnership between the United States and Canada. The effect this is going to have on U.S. communities is going to be devastating. Trump is a resentful psychopath and not smart enough to realize that Canada will very quickly find alternative buyers for their raw materials and products, while America will have to fin … ⌘ Read more
10 Worst Movies by Great Directors
While the days of movies serving as a cultural monolith are long gone, there are still names out there that demand as much as hundreds of millions of dollars in investment from companies and demand from audience members many hours in driving to theaters, watching ads, reading or writing essays devoted to their work. Whether […]
The post 10 Worst Movies by Great Directors appeared first on [L … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′44″S, 126°43′17″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
Interesting.. so running into an issue where queries only return a partal set of rows if i run in a docker image built from scratch. i have to add the debian root image for it to work. I wonder what file is missing that the root has?
Interesting.. so running into an issue where queries only return a partal set of rows if i run in a docker image built from scratch. i have to add the debian root image for it to work. I wonder what file is missing that the root has?
oh my god I am never using a css grid again ;;;; converted the sdv shrine to a flex layout, works much better on mobile now! now to just push that update!! :D
Cedar: A New Approach to Policy Management for Kubernetes
The challenges organizations face when managing access control and authorization in cloud-native environments continue to grow in complexity. Organizations scaling their Kubernetes deployments, for example, work to balance their security requirements, operational flexibility, and policy manageability…. ⌘ Read more
alright, I guess I’m finally gonna work on fixing my website’s responsiveness issue, pray5me
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I had that as my avatar/userprofile pic at work for a few years. 😆
A burst of progress on the GCC Rust front end
Arthur Cohen has posted a massive series of patches in four parts
( part 1,
part 2,
part 3,
part 4)
upstreaming all of the recent work on the GCC Rust front end. These
changes include the Po … ⌘ Read more
Super stressful day at work and, once I got home: Internet outage.
I guess that’s a sign.
[$] A process for handling Rust code in the core kernel
The 2024 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit
included a tense session on the use of Rust
code in the kernel’s filesystem layer. The Rust topic returned in 2025 in
a session run by Andreas Hindborg, with a scope that also covered the
storage and memory-management layers. A lot of progress has been made, and
the discussion was less adversarial this year, but there are still process
issues that need to be worked out. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′29″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
Erlang Solutions: My Journey from Ruby to Elixir: Lessons from a Developer
Why I Looked Beyond RubyFor years, Ruby was my go-to language for building everything from small prototypes to full-fledged production apps. I fell in love with its elegance and expressiveness and how Ruby on Rails could turn an idea into a working web app in record time. The community—with its focus on kindness and collaboration—only deepened my appreciation. In short, Ruby felt like home.
… ⌘ Read more
Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.10
This new version does not have many new features, but it has quite a few
breaking changes, which should not impact many people, as well as one important
security fix.
Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!
SecurityAfter working on TLS stuff, I noticed that we still allowed unencrypted SCRAM to be negociated, which is really not good.
For packagers who only want this security fix, the commit fd66aef38d48b6474654cbe87464d7d416d6a5f3 should app … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′28″S, 126°43′57″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain
10 Incredible Works of Art in Unexpected Places
The vast majority of artworks can be found in galleries and museums. Those casting a slightly wider net can take tours of artful graffiti on the sides of city buildings and explore pretty sculpture gardens. But for those seeking something a little more unusual, there are also art pieces that can be found in rather […]
The post [10 Incredible Works of Art in Unexpected Places](https://listverse.com/2025/03/25/10-incredible-works-of-art-i … ⌘ Read more
“it is very easy to filter or ignore it” This is the interesting part for legacy clients, hehe
Joking aside, let’s see how it works in the wild!
[$] Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and
downs. While open source seems like a “no-brainer”, it turns out that
governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of
reasons. Federico González Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena,
California to recount his [experiences\
working with and for the Mexican government](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/speak … ⌘ Read more
(#xxu5i3a) @andros@andros This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me Ah! It is still not working.
The best Windows laptop for work has one major letdown
Small, fast and packed with raw AI power, HP’s latest premium productivity laptop hits all the right notes for working on the go. But, there is one quibble. ⌘ Read more
👀
Is it working now?
I’d say again that perhaps the DMs could be stored in another .txt, but anyway I’d like to try it.
I am working on this: https://dm-echo.andros.dev/
More news coming soon.
#twtxt
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev You use your real name as login name, too?
@prologic@twtxt.net I see this with the scouts. Luckily, not at work. But at work, I’m surrounded by techies.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh my goodness! I’m so glad that I don’t have to deal with that in my family. But yeah, I guess you’re onto something with your theory. This article is also quite horrific. O_o
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”
People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z
I lost my original Windows 95 CD (and it’s too expensive for my taste to buy on eBay), so I finally sat down and got an old disk image of one of my PCs to work in QEMU.
I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.
Apple Watches With Cameras Rumored, But FaceTime Unlikely
Apple is working on multiple new Apple Watch models with built-in cameras for release by 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said Apple plans to add a camera … ⌘ Read more
(#rozpvfa) Unfortunately none of the content on the Wikipedia page for him really criticises much of his work. He must be really good at being a …
Unfortunately none of the content on the Wikipedia page for him really criticises much of his work. He must be really good at being a “businessman” and killing tech innovation 🤣 ⌘ Read more
(#rozpvfa) > After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2 …
After working 14 years at IBM, he became senior vice president and chief technology officer at enterprise search vendor Verity in 2004.[16][14][12] In July 2005, he was hired by Yahoo! to lead Yahoo! Research in Sunnyvale, California.[17] At Yahoo!, he worked on research projects including search and advertising.[15][18] In 2011, he was appointed as Yahoo!’s chief strategy offi … ⌘ Read more
Hmmm, when I Ctrl+Left to jump a word left, I get 1;5D in my tt2 message text. My TERM is set to rxvt-unicode-256color. In tt, it works just fine. When I change to TERM=xterm-256color, it also works in tt2. I have to read up on that. Maybe even try to capture these sequences and rewrite them.
Perfect!
I now also implemented basic replying by hitting a as in answering. What’s missing is automatically adding mentions in the message text template. That’s gonna be a bit more tricky, though.
vi or vim at the beginning of each line? Like, upon opening like so:
@david@collantes.us While you’re typing? I guess this could be used as a starting point (doesn’t work on the very first line):
inoremap <CR> <Esc>:r!date +"\%F \%T"<CR>A
What’s the end goal here? 😅
(Back in tt.) Well, it kinda worked. At least appending to the file. But my cache database got screwed up. I do not yet support replies, so the subject and and root hash columns have not been set at all, resulting in a message that is just not shown at all. I gotta do something about that next. The good thing is, though, after simply fixing the two columns the message appeared on screen.
[$] Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU
vulnerability
before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of
a patch set that introduces
address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of
preventing future CPU vulnerabilities from leaking important
information. The core concept is to ensure that data that is not currently
ne … ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me Cool!
Proposal 3 (https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/18#issuecomment-19215) has the “advantage”, that you do not have to “mention” the original author if the thread slightly diverges. It seems to be a thing here that conversations are typically very flat instead of trees. Hence, and despite being a tree hugger, I voted for 3 being my favorite one, then 2, 1 and finally 4.
All proposals still need more work to clarify the details and edge cases in my opinion before they can be implemented.
An Asahi Linux 6.14 progress report
The Asahi Linux project, working to support Linux on Apple hardware, has
published a\
progress report to coincide with the 6.14 kernel release.
Now that Rust for Linux abstractions are starting to be merged at a
healthy pace, we are faced with an emerging challenge. It is rare
for any kernel patch to survive the mailing list without at least a
couple of non-trivial changes, and Rust abstractions are no
exception. Every time an a … ⌘ Read more
yeah, it worked, thanks! :)
@eapl.me@eapl.me Thank you for this!
I cast a test vote. Did it work? :-)
World Water Day: how GitHub Copilot is helping bring clean water to communities
From simplifying the workflow of a developer to having an impact on the global water crisis, technology and AI are reshaping the way charity: water works.
The post World Water Day: how GitHub Copilot is helping bring clean water to communities appeared first on [Th … ⌘ Read more
my biggest fear of starting to work with servers professionally is realizing that no one uses servers anymore and having to do some cloud bullshit instead
Erlang Solutions: Meet the team: Lorena Mireles
Lorena Mireles is an influential force in the BEAM community, known for her work as an Elixir developer and as a dedicated member of the Code BEAM America programme committee. She’s been instrumental in fostering connections and shaping discussions that help drive the future of Elixir.
In this interview, Lorena opens up about her journey with Elixir, her role on the committee, and what makes the BEAM community so unique.
![Meet the team: Lorena Mirele … ⌘ Read more
j-berman posts CCS progress report after 497 hours of dev work
j-berman1 has published a third progress report2 for his full-time 2025 (part 9) Monero (FCMPs++) dev work CCS proposal3:
Work overviewUpdate 3 497 hours [..] Here’s what I aim to complete by the end of this CCS: Implement @jeffro256’s ideas here to handle reorgs better. Modify block headers for FCMP++. [..]
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- A FCMP++ testnet is working locally using the CLI and RPC wallets (G … ⌘ Read more”`
well, I assume by syntax you mean Gemtext (which I like a lot, my personal blog is built on top of it), so I think it might work for twtxt clients…
I knew of twtxt in Gemini Antenna, so at least the 2017 spec might work on that protocol. I think the main issue with extensions is that they weren’t designed with many URLs and protocols in mind.
Also I have to admit that the Gemini community significantly reduced in the last few years. I don’t know how worth it is to add support for Gemini now.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I have no doubt that you’re not seeing the images correctly 😀. It’s just that it’s broken when viewing them, in my case, and analyzing the URLs, I’ve seen everything I mentioned.
Regarding the hash, you’re right. I’ll have to investigate what’s going on. I’m having a hard time getting the hash generation to work properly.
@eapl.me@eapl.me I agree. The syntax is weird inside Gemini and twtxt is made with the http protocol in mind and Gemini doesn’t work with some extensions.
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Asleep or at work, I guess. 😅
Kubestronaut in Orbit: Willem Berroubache
Get to know Williem Willem Berroubache is a cloud native and Security Architect based in Paris, France, currently working at Orange. Over the years, he has worked on private cloud security use cases and telco cloud… ⌘ Read more
Split Queues To Share Cloud Development Environments
One of the reasons mirrord is a game-changer for many organizations is that it makes it possible for a whole team to work with one shared cloud environment. They don’t need to run the whole environment… ⌘ Read more
Timeline and twtxt-php, don’t support Gemini, only HTTP/S, as a design choice (although originally it was intended to work on Gemtext, it was a niche inside a niche, so it was discarded very soon).
At the moment of building the engine there weren’t many Gemini URLs supporting twtxt 1.1 (with twtxt.dev extensions).
Also User-Agent won’t work there, and many Gemini URLs are a mirror of the HTTP one, so I think is not strictly necessary.
my 2c
acx, plowsof, selsta, SyntheticBird45 CCS proposals ready for funding
Four CCS proposals have been moved to the funding stage and are now looking for community support: