Hi James, great to hear your interest. So this is an exclusive roundtable luncheon with people in the IT, Engineering, DevOps and Technical professionals. This is an opportunity to benchmark and share stories and experiences with like-minded peers in a closed-door, Chatham House Rule environment where you will be given the opportunity to speak openly and candidly.

I’m not even sure what half these words mean hmm 🧐

> Hi James, great to hear your interest. So this is an exclusive roundtable luncheon with people in the IT, Engineering, DevOps and Technical pr …

Hi James, great to hear your interest. So this is an exclusive roundtable luncheon with people in the IT, Engineering, DevOps and Technical professionals. This is an opportunity to benchmark and share stories and experiences with like-minded peers in a closed-door, Chatham House Rule environment where you will be given the opportunity to speak openly and candidly.

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Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot With Lifelike Movements Ahead of Rumored Launch by 2027
A team of robotics researchers at Apple have designed and prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements, according to a blog post and accompanying video published last month on the Apple Machine Learning Research website. The lamp, which reminds us of the cute Pixar mascot [Luxo Jr.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0CmJa … ⌘ Read more

Who likes irc with chat.freenode.net?

Is Arch Linux Woke? Looks like it: Forum Censors Mentions of “Lunduke”, Discord Goes on Lockdown
Following Arch Linux Discord voting to ban “links to X / Twitter” & death threats towards a journalist, all official Arch Linux channels begin mass censorship campaign. ⌘ Read more

NPR and PBS first target in MTG’s DOGE crosshairs
Katherine Tully-McManus,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: Part of the coup “emperor” Trump’s administration is carrying out involves suppressing, or bankrupting a free press, replacing it as Orban did in Hungary, with a misinformation press that supports the authoritarian government the administration is trying to create. Scum MAGAt Representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene are only too happy to help. This is their schem … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The light pollution map reports red for my town. That’s fairly accurate, I’d say. The view from home is not all that great. Yeah, I can see Ursa Major and a bunch of other stars. Maybe even some satellites. But there’s definitely a sky glow at the horizon.

When I leave town, I can see a bit more. However, it doesn’t compare to the alps or even some rural parts in Australia. The latter was by far the craziest I’ve ever seen in my life. Looked like a space telescope photo in person. Soooooooooooooo many stars and the band of the milky way was easily visible to the naked eye. Up until then, I didn’t even know this was remotely possible down on earth. Absolutely stunning. :-)

My January ‘25 in Review
January is one of those months when you either feel fresh and motivated – or like you’re stumbling into the new year. This time, I definitely fall into the second category. Not because nothing is happening, but because so much is moving at once – mostly furniture, wall paint, and my schedule. ⌘ Read more

Stromatolites
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@sorenpeter@darch.dk It depends on your requirements. If you just want to put your code somewhere for yourself, simply push it over SSH on a server and call it good. That’s what I do with lots of repos. If you want an additional web UI for read access for the public, cgit comes to mind (a mate uses that). Prologic runs Gitea, which offers heaps more functionality like merge requests.

So what are some good alternatives to GitHub, that are not based in USA?
I like the minimal feel of sourcehut but it seem you have to pay if you want your, not just submit patches to others repos. But they also got IRC bouncer and mailing-lists included. Codeberg also looks appealing being based in Germany.

Trump signs tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China
Brett Samuels ,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: Fascism like a lethal cancer is growing in the United States. Government agents are roaming the streets grabbing immigrants, families are being separated. concentration camps are being set up, federal agencies are being dismantled, the economy is about to go in to recession with tariffs, and allies are breaking away. Say goodbye to American democracy readers. It is disappearing … ⌘ Read more

USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
Zack Colman and Marcia Brown,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: There is a christofascist playbook, Hitler followed it, Mussolini followed it, and Stalin followed it. The latest version in Project 2025. And one of the constants of the christofascist playbook is that the government must be censured to ensure that information the fascists don’t like is not made available to citizens. “king” Trump and his MAGAt vassals don … ⌘ Read more

(#njap3hq) @movq@movq No sadly I didn’t 🤦‍♂️ I’m admitedly not very good at jokes like this (_not even sure what style t …
@movq @www.uninformativ.de No sadly I didn’t 🤦‍♂️ I’m admitedly not very good at jokes like this ( not even sure what style this is sorry!) 😢 ⌘ Read more

A free California? Trump visits as initiative to leave U.S. cleared to gather signatures
Elizabeth Weise Josh Peter,  Staff Writers  -  USA Today

_Stephan: Texas has a growing secession movement as I have previously reported in SR (see archives) and other MAGAt states do as well. But it isn’t just MAGAt states that are thinking like this. California, a Democrat-controlled state, and the fifth largest economy in the world is thinking about … ⌘ Read more

10 Historical Events That Shaped the English Language
Words, like people, have stories to tell. Languages, like nations, have their histories. They have their peculiarities and quirks that can be traced back to some circumstance in their journey from our ancestors to us. The English language is replete with these curiosities. Inconsistent spelling and pronunciation are just two weird things about English that […]

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@prologic@twtxt.net In the EU there are Laws, Rules and Regulations for many things. I’m not an expert, but your case may sound like it could match to the EU Digital Services Act.

[…] for example, the obligation to establish points of contact for authorities and citizens […]

cli/q: 🌱 A simple programming language. - q - Projects I really like this little q lang that Ed has created ❤️ Really nice and simpler, great design and implementation and really lovely cross-platform compiler supporting DOS, Windows, Darwin and Linux on AMD64 and ARM64 💪

cli/q: 🌱 A simple programming language. - q - Projects I really like this little q lang that Ed has created ❤️ Really nice and simpler, g …
cli/q: 🌱 A simple programming language. - q - Projects I really like this little q lang that Ed has created ❤️ Really nice and simpler, great design and implementation and really lovely cross-platform compiler supporting DOS, Windows, Darwin and Linux on AMD64 and ARM64 💪 ⌘ Read more

Upcoming Products for M4 Mac mini - SONNETTECH Gonna buy myself one of these when they come out (hopefully soon™) and populate with 3 M4 Mac …
Upcoming Products for M4 Mac mini - SONNETTECH Gonna buy myself one of these when they come out ( hopefully soon™) and populate with 3 M4 Mac Mini(s) – Just the base model is enough. Purpose? Migrate Plex to one of them for better performance, and run CI/CD Runners on all 3 as well as other I/O intensive tasks like syncing Y … ⌘ Read more

Apple Cancels Mac-Connected AR Smart Glasses
Apple is no longer developing augmented reality glasses designed to pair with the Mac, reports Bloomberg ’s Mark Gurman. Apple wanted to create smart glasses that looked like regular glasses, but had augmented reality c … ⌘ Read more

People Who Get Most of Their News From Social Media Sources Are More Likely to Think Climate Change Is a Conspiracy: Study
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The weaponization of misinformation has become one of the major trends shaping American culture. “king” Trump and the MAGAts in Congress are doing nothing to prepare the United States for climate change, and there … ⌘ Read more

AlphaMove
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The one in question is more like the javascript version for unwrapping errors when accessing methods.

 const value = some?.deeply?.nested?.object?.value

but for handling errors returned by methods. So if you wanted to chain a bunch of function calls together and if any error return immediately. It would be something like this:

b:= SomeAPIWithErrorsInAllCalls()
b.DoThing1() ?
b.DoThing2() ?

// Though its not in the threads I assume one could do like this to chain.
b.Chain1()?.Chain2()?.End()?

I am however infavor of having a sort of ternary ? in go.

PS. @prologic@twtxt.net for some reason this is eating my response without throwing an error :( I assume it has something to do with the CSRF. Can i not have multiple tabs open with yarn?

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org The one in question is more like the javascript version for unwrapping errors when accessing methods.

 const value = some?.deeply?.nested?.object?.value

but for handling errors returned by methods. So if you wanted to chain a bunch of function calls together and if any error return immediately. It would be something like this:

b:= SomeAPIWithErrorsInAllCalls()
b.DoThing1() ?
b.DoThing2() ?

// Though its not in the threads I assume one could do like this to chain.
b.Chain1()?.Chain2()?.End()?

I am however infavor of having a sort of ternary ? in go.

PS. @prologic@twtxt.net for some reason this is eating my response without throwing an error :( I assume it has something to do with the CSRF. Can i not have multiple tabs open with yarn?

Gopher Farm: Like Animal Farm, but more succinct.

Oh the ****ing irony 🤣 with all the IP infringement AI models usually do, and the companies are like “nothing to see here”!

Hey, I like this simple Web game:
https://wordswithrobots.isotropic.us

2 players Codenames vs (or along) gpt-4o-mini

Ahh yes, what I like to call “wild wild west” upgrading.😂
Felt like that when I upgraded/updated an Arch Linux machine that had been sitting for a couple years unused.

i upgraded my pc from lubuntu 22.04 to 24.04 yesterday and i was like “surely there is no way this will go smoothly” but no it somehow did. like i didn’t take a backup i just said fuck it and upgraded and it WORKED?!?! i mean i had some driver issues but it wasn’t too bad to fix. wild

A new era for Helm
Community post by Robert Sirchia (SUSE), Matt Farina (SUSE), and Jorge O. Castro (CNCF) As cloud native heads into its second decade, we’d like to spend some time talking about Helm and its future. Helm was… ⌘ Read more

iPhone SE 4 to Have Notch Instead of Dynamic Island
The upcoming iPhone SE 4 will feature a notch instead of the Dynamic Island, respected display analyst Ross Young said today. The device will have a “notch like the iPhone 14,” according to Young, which contradicts a recent leak that depicted a ‌Dynamic Island … ⌘ Read more

Speaking of “yapping”…. Seriously, do companies like microsoft.com and bird.com think they’re above the law or something? Do they really think …
Speaking of “yapping”…. Seriously, do companies like microsoft.com and bird.com think they’re above the law or something? Do they really think they can get away with not actioning abuse reports from pip squeaks like me? 😅 Just watch me… 🤣 ⌘ Read more

There’s a reason I avoid speaking my mind on the internet like the plague. The same reason I’d set up a {B,Ph,Gem}log months ago but never got myself to publish any of the drafts in any of them.

iOS 18.3 Update Released with Bug Fixes & AI Summary Improvements
iOS 18.3 for iPhone and iPadOS 18.3 for iPad have been released for all eligible devices. The new software updates focus on bug fixes, security enhancements, and bring some changes to AI features like Visual Intelligence and Apple Intelligence Summaries, the latter of which were generating inaccurate summaries and headlines which bothered some people. Since … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/01/ … ⌘ Read more

What is observability 2.0?
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sam Suthar In the race to adopt cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes, microservices, and serverless computing, monitoring often becomes an afterthought. Many enterprises assume their legacy observability tools will suffice. However, as they… ⌘ Read more

New ‘HomePod’ Hub With 7-Inch Screen on Track to Launch This Year
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today said that a new HomePod-like smart home hub with a 7-inch screen remains on track to launch in 2025.

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I would like to drop Onedrive for Proton Drive and WhatsApp for Threema - I just need to convince my whole family to follow me with that.

(#62ohn5q) @arne@arne I do 😅 Despite some opinions, I actually love HTMX and use it in many of my projects, including yarnd to giv …
@arne @uplegger.eu I do 😅 Despite some opinions, I actually love HTMX and use it in many of my projects, including yarnd to give it that nice SPA-like UX feel without all this Javascript React nonsense 😅 ⌘ Read more

Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

Stephan: Here is what honor and integrity in support of wellbeing look like. It happens so rarely in the United States today it is unusual and notable. Note that I had to go to the French press to get the whole story.

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Danish Government Horrified to Learn Trump Is Serious About Wanting Greenland
AJ Dellinger,    -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: In the 76 years since NATO was created in 1949, I cannot remember any prior example of the United States trying to bully a fellow NATO member into giving up some of its territory. If that sounds like Putin demanding part of Ukraine, that’s because it is. Criminal Trump is not only unraveling American democracy in front of the eyes of … ⌘ Read more

(#ld7geza) @andros@andros Sounds a bit like what you would do when writing normal Go code to me 😅
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Sounds a bit like what you would do when writing normal Go code to me 😅 ⌘ Read more

I would like to make another proposal to the community, to discuss it calmly: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9 #twtxt

How to Fix iPhone Blank White/Grey Icons with Cross & Circles
Some iPhone and iPad users may occasionally notice that their iPhone app icons show up as blank white or grey icons with a grid like appearance on them of a cross and circles. If you’ve never seen this before, it can be confusing, especially since there is no clear indication on what the blank icon … Read More ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev How about putting the whole encrypted conversation into a sperate twtxt-file. Just like the archive feature (?). That way, the general clients don’t have to cope with the decrytption stuff and it won’t break the general public conversations.

I like this quote: «Nothing can be made idiot-proof, because idiots are very resourceful.»

Yarnd can store password-protected keys without risk because pod owner don’t have password, but looks like i/someone should enter password for every message sent or receive? Upd: oh, it’s about ssh? i have key without password lol

Sometimes things happen that you did not expect: You hear a song, you really like it, you research who made it, and you find out that person lives in the same town as you: AK – Discovery. ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I know! I know! 🤣 and it feels like I won’t be either, at least for a while … On the bright #Go side, I’m trying to switch everything (static web stuff and reverse-proxy) to #Caddy

[ANN] MAGIC Monero Fund 2025 Election Results

ack-j and kowalabearhugs will serve 2-year terms. rottenwheel, Tacolopo, and XMRfamily will serve 1-year terms. Their terms will begin on January 31, 2025. We would like to thank all six committee candidates! We would like to thank everyone who voted!

Committee Members:
* ack-j
* kowalabearhugs
* rottenwheel
* Tacolopo
* XMRfamily

Link: [https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025-Election-Results.html](https://magicgrants.org/2025/01/21/Monero-Fund-2025 … ⌘ Read more

‘Has the world gone mad? It has’: foreign reporters share a view of Trump from abroad
Danielle Renwick,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The United States is now going down a well-traveled road, that path many other nations have recently taken as they cease to be genuine democracies and become electoral autocracies It may not be obvious to Americans and American media, but here is what it looks like to journalists from other nations that ha … ⌘ Read more

Melania Trump joins her husband in the meme coin billions business
Ben Berkowitz , Brady Dale,  Reporters  -  Axios

_Stephan: 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 … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First, please leave me your comments on the repository! Even if it’s just to give your opinion on what shouldn’t be included. The more variety, the better.

Second, I’m going to try to do tests with Elliptic keys and base64. Thanks for the advice @eapl@eapl.me

Finally, I’d like to give my opinion. Secure direct messages are a feature that ActivityPub and Mastodon don’t have, to give an example. By including it as an extension, we’re already taking a significant leap forward from the competition. Does it make sense to include it in a public feed? In fact, we’re already doing that. When we reply to a user, mentioning them at the beginning of the message, it’s 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, it’s optional, it doesn’t break compatibility with any client and implementing it isn’t complex. If you don’t like it, you’re free to not use it. If you don’t have a public key, no one can send you direct messages.

👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twtxt
  
• @prologic@twtxt.net ’s new EdgeGuard services 🤣
  
• What’s the weather like? 👍
  

Details:

• When: 25th Jan 2025 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
  
• Where: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

**👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twt …**
  👋👋 Reminders that this weekend our monthly Yarn.social online meetup. Who’s coming? 🤔 Some possible topics:

• Direct Messaging for Twtxt

• @prologic ’s new EdgeGuard services 🤣

• What’s the weather like? 👍

Details:

• When: 25th Jan 2025 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)

• Where: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social ⌘ Read more

Linux Distro Declared “Non-Woke”, Causing New Users & Interest to Skyrocket
While “Woke” Linux Distributions (like openSUSE) are struggling to survive, interest in OpenMandriva - a non-Woke Open Source project - is exploding. ⌘ Read more

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 I’d remove support for storing the message as hex, only allowing base64 (more compact, aiming for a minimalistic spec, etc.)

[0] https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/its-2023-you-should-be-using-an-ed25519-ssh-key-and-other-current-best-practices

US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congress’ countdown clock
Tami Luhby,  Senior Writer  -  CNN

Stephan: This isn’t what everyone is talking about today but starting tomorrow we will see this and newly inaugurated Trump’s executive orders sweep across the United States like a hurricane. Buckle up it is going to get strange and, I am afraid, very chaotic.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-19-at-11.22.32 PM … ⌘ Read more

Beyond Excessive Force: How Police Abuse Women, the Poor, the Homeless
David Nakamura,  Reporter  -  rsn / The Washington Post

_Stephan: American politicians, and Americans themselves do not seem to be willing to tell the truth about what the country is really like.  Just as we lie about having the best healthcare, education, and democracy, so we endlessly lie about the police and sheriffs. In fact, we have the worse trained law enforcement amongst the deve … ⌘ Read more

HackCable: USB-C Keystroke Injection Cable with RP2040 or ESP32
Kickstarter recently featured the HackCable, a USB-C cable designed for cybersecurity research and system testing. It resembles a standard charging cable but includes features like built-in Wi-Fi and keystroke injection, providing a discreet and versatile tool for professionals and researchers. HackCable is available in two versions, each powered by a different microcontroller: the ESP32-S3 or […] ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de my friend, I’m curious what is that interface? It’s like WindowMaker meets dwm, meets…? :D

Sounds like a plan

creating a twtxt timeline page for tilde.club.. will see if anyone likes it when its done

creating a twtxt timeline page for tilde.club.. will see if anyone likes it when its done

Top Stories: iPhone 17 Rumors, MacBook Air Updates, and More
We’re finally coming out of Apple’s slower holiday season for news and rumors, and it looks like we’ve got some hardware and software updates arriving in the fairly near future to kick off what’s expected to be a busy year for Apple.

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The iPhone 17 lineup will be the big launch of the year as usual, but there’s plenty more on the docket that should keep our att … ⌘ Read more

damn it i got so excited because bleeding cool ran an article with a title like ‘all of DC april solicits so far’ and i did not read the ‘so far’ part and clicked it excitedly hoping to see all the april solicits but they’re out next week or something T__T

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org OMGGGG I’M BRINGING AKB TO YARN LET’S GOOOOO!!!! SO glad you like them they make bangers!!!!! super catchy and fun <333

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org i’m a horrible gamer but i do best when playing kart racing games like this and mario kart haha!

Instagram Adds New Features to Reels as TikTok Ban Looms
With TikTok on track to be banned from U.S. app stores starting on Sunday, Instagram is adding new features to Reels, its video-based feature that’s modeled after TikTok.

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Going forward, there will be a new Reels feed that includes videos that your friends have liked or commented on, so you can see what your friends have watched and what they like. Your friends … ⌘ Read more

The high-stakes race to become the next TikTok as ban looms
Most Australians have likely never heard of RedNote, or Lemon8. That’s likely to change. ⌘ Read more

Human Altitude
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(#dpfx5la) @news-minimalist Ahh now I like to read news like this in my feed. THis is perfect! 🤩 Thank you @bender@bender and so far this …
@news-minimalist @feeds.twtxt.net Ahh now I like to read news like this in my feed. THis is perfect! 🤩 Thank you @bender and so far this is such a nice quite way to be “informed” without the noise and sensational crappy clickbait shit™ ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net they post pretty frequently yeah, new articles like every other day basically

@prologic@twtxt.net IMHO: Most people like it the easy way: “Don’t make me think!”. If you do not pay money for a service, your data/content is the price to pay. Some handy mobile apps for the fediverse and the ongoing debate on social media services may get the people and their content out of the walled gardens of the 21st century.

** Oh so many peas **
I accidentally spilled close to a full bag of frozen peas into the pot while making macaroni and cheese for the kids’ dinner this evening.

It was like 2 to 1 peas in there…and they ate it up. Didn’t seem to mind at all!? ⌘ Read more

Looks like an influx of new users. Welcome to gopherspace.

** Sirens & Muses **
I finished reading Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress.

It left me gutted, but like in a good way. It leaves so much unsaid, which I found pleasant and sorrowful and so yawningly, humongously open that it left me feeling a little claustrophobic.

A few years ago everyone, everyone, everyone I spoke to about books told me again and again and again to read Gabrielle Zevin’s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. I found it to be totally and completely lacking in joy and any sort of human warmth, and, I think th … ⌘ Read more

Platform engineering at KubeCon + CloudNative NA 2024 in Salt Lake City
Ambassador post originally published on Medium by Mathieu Benoit, CNCF Ambassador KubeCon NA 2024 in Salt Lake City was a blast! Like always, I met with old friends, I made new friends and I had deep… ⌘ Read more

i self hosted the soft serve git server cuz i felt like it. it’s sooo cute i love everything charm CLI does

ssh -p 24010 soft.git.girlonthemoon.xyz

Wussup twtxt I’m rolling cigarettes (I don’t smoke) (I think it’s funny) (it’s like crocheting a scarf when you don’t wear scarves)

EU Not Reassessing Apple and Google Antitrust Investigations, But New Administration Could Shift Priorities
The European Union is “reassessing” 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.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2024/01/App-Store-vs-EU-Feature-2.jpg … ⌘ Read more

‘Abominable’: Trump and GOP Float Tying Los Angeles Wildfire Aid to Debt Ceiling
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Felon Trump has a long history of blocking federal aid to states led by politicians he doesn’t like, and his Republican Congressional cretins support him in this. However, this situation in Los Angeles is unlike anything the country has seen before regarding the extent of damage, the suffering, and damage tha … ⌘ Read more

Voice Preview Edition: Open-Source Design with Local Processing Capabilities
The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is an open-source voice assistant designed for integration with Home Assistant systems. It emphasizes privacy, local processing, and compatibility with smart home hardware, offering reliable performance and flexible usability. The device features dual microphones and an XMOS XU316 audio processor for advanced capabilities like echo cancellation, noise … ⌘ Read more

@doesnmppsflt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It looks like it… Although they shouldn’t be empty since Timeline took care of sending those. I believe I have an idea as to why that happened, but will have to test before filing an issue.

** Styrofoam cups and awk **
I like writing these posts for my website, but I’ve sat down to write this one like 11 times and it either takes on a tone of totally encompassing dread and dystopian navel gazing or I feel like I’m burying my head in the sand and ignoring reality as it happens around me.

…I finished reading Victor LaValle’s The Changeling. It was engaging, and I was interested in where it was going, but I found that where it went wasn’t interesting. The dialogue and prose were lively and contemporary, which is what r … ⌘ Read more

While Los Angeles Burns, AI Fans the Flames
Schuyler Mitchell ,  Staff Writer  -  trruthout

_Stephan: I hope that you understand that the catastrophe in Los Angeles, like the one in Ashville, North Carolina, represent opening acts in what is going to be the heart-rending drama of climate change. But here, as this article describes, is an aspect of this epoch that I have not even seen mentioned before: The link between AI and the growing scarcity of water in urban areas already expe … ⌘ Read more

This could be the beginning of the end for fire insurance in California
Blanca Begert, Camille von Kaenel, Thomas Frank and Zack Colman,  Staff Writers  -  Poliitico

_Stephan: Putting aside the disinformation crap that felon Trump endlessly spews – a revealing sign as to what his administration is going to be like – what is standing out for me is the insurance issue. In large parts of Florida, it is already impossible to get home insurance, and it loo … ⌘ Read more

Australia’s big TV obsession is real. Here’s what’s coming in 2025
The likes of Samsung and LG are responding to Australia’s love of big TVs, announcing their largest models ever. Meet the new TVs coming this year. ⌘ Read more

Checked my posthook… looks like my bash skills at zero: https://doesnm.cc/huh.txt

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz To improve you shell programming skills, I highly recommend to check out shellcheck: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck It points out common errors and gives some suggestions on how to improve the code. Some details in shell scripting are very tricky to get right at first. Even after decades of shell programming, I run into “corner cases” every now and then.

E.g. in getlyr’s line 7 it warns:

echo -e $(gum style --italic --foreground "#f4b8e4" "'$artist', '$song'")
        ^-- 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 it’s 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 “The Tube,” is much more than a transit system. It’s 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 world’s first […]

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@kat Thinking maybe you’d like to alpha teat EdgeGuard too? 🤔 – My own alternative solution to Clownflare 🤣
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Thinking maybe you’d like to alpha teat EdgeGuard too? 🤔 – My own alternative solution to Clownflare 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Apple Focusing on These Eight New Low-Cost Devices in 2025
Apple’s slate of 2025 products look to be dominated by a large number of low-cost and entry-level devices. Here’s what to expect.

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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 … ⌘ 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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(#vzksboq) Anyway… Sounds like there is a bug with the version logic. I’ll see if I can fix it.
Anyway… Sounds like there is a bug with the version logic. I’ll see if I can fix it. ⌘ Read more

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 doesn’t 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. I’ve no idea what happened here, maybe @prologic@twtxt.net knows something. :-? I’m not familiar with the templating, I just recall @xuu@txt.sour.is reporting in IRC the other day that he’s also having great fun with his custom preamble from time to time.

That “broken” comment doesn’t hurt anything, it’s still a proper comment and hence ignored by clients. It’s just odd, that’s all.

Use “Type to Siri” on Mac Easier Than Ever in Sequoia
Siri has been considerably improved in recent MacOS versions, mostly because it’s now linked to ChatGPT. One of the other recent changes to Siri in modern MacOS versions is that it’s now easier to access the “Type to Siri” feature, no longer being relegated to an Accessibility setting that has to be enabled separately like … Read More ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz i don’t 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. it’d be cool if i could so i dream