After a lost generation, Australia looks to the past on drought-breaking Ashes tour
New Kangaroos coach Kevin Walters was part of an era where the green and gold jersey was the highest honour rugby league could offer and ahead of the return of the Ashes it’s a legacy he’s desperate to pass down to his players. ⌘ Read more

Doctor who killed woman when he crashed into rideshare car back in court
Perth obstetrician Rhys Bellinge pleads guilty to driving dangerously and recklessly in the days before he crashed his car in Dalkeith and left a 24-year-old woman dead. ⌘ Read more

India and China to resume direct flights after a 5-year suspension ⌘ Read more

NZ does ‘the right thing’ in $5.3m payout after sinking navy ship on Samoan reef
The New Zealand government says it has done “the right thing” in offering a $5.3 million compensation payout to the Samoan government after its navy sunk a ship on a pristine reef off the Pacific island. ⌘ Read more

Heavy winds dislodge Brooke Street Pier on Hobart waterfront
Wind gusts of about 90 kilometres per hour were measured in Hobart on Sunday afternoon, with the blustery conditions set to continue this week. ⌘ Read more

Apple and Samsung users could be due share of £480m payout
Consumer group Which? is taking tech giant Qualcomm to the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London on Monday. ⌘ Read more

Top pic: the last picture of my best buddy Gus who succumbed to a hard battle with cancer after 15 great years. Bottom pic: the kitten who ran up to me in a parking lot two days later completely out of nowhere. I like to imagine he found me again. ⌘ Read more

Why time matters for Tory MPs deciding Kemi Badenoch’s future
For many Tory MPs looking at Kemi Badenoch’s leadership, they are already wondering how much more time she needs to turn around the party’s fortunes. ⌘ Read more

Conservatives to pledge £5,000 tax rebate for young homebuyers
Speaking at the party’s conference, Shadow chancellor Mel Stride will say the proposal will be funded by cuts to public spending worth £47bn. ⌘ Read more

How a wooden spoon left at Red Hill helped motivate Broncos star Carrigan
Fans left wooden spoons on Brisbane’s training ground in 2020 — it was a move that helped motivate Pat Carrigan to greatness. ⌘ Read more

As the AFLW begins to even out, one team remains untouchable
North Melbourne claims its 20th win in a row as it looks to go undefeated for another season. ⌘ Read more

**The true extent of cyber attacks on UK business - and the weak spots that allow them to happen **
Are this year’s major attacks the “cumulative effect of a kind of inaction on cyber security” from the government and big business? ⌘ Read more

Brigginshaw to lead Jillaroos fresh from Broncos’ NRLW win
Ali Brigginshaw is named as a Jillaroos co-captain after helping steer the Brisbane Broncos to their fourth NRLW premiership. ⌘ Read more

What is task paralysis and how do you overcome it?
Experts say feeling stuck or frozen when trying to start or complete a task can be the body’s response to overwhelm. ⌘ Read more

Milei’s Candidate Drops Out of Race Amid Ties to Drug Trafficker ⌘ Read more

**Trump sends troops from California to Portland after court denies deployment **
The move appears aimed at circumventing a court order that barred deploying troops in Portland. ⌘ Read more

Walsh’s grand-final heroics rewarded with Kangaroos call-up
Recognition of Reece Walsh’s breathtaking performance in the NRL grand final continues, with the Brisbane Broncos hero set to make his Test debut for Australia later this month. ⌘ Read more

Watch: Will President Trump get a Nobel Peace Prize?
The BBC asked Americans in Washington what they think the US president needs to do to earn the prestigious award. ⌘ Read more

Trump urges mediators to ‘move fast’ as key Gaza peace talks set to begin
Strikes have continued in Gaza as negotiators prepare to head to Egypt for talks starting on Monday. ⌘ Read more

Germany Deploys Laser System to Protect Munich Airport Amid Ongoing Drone Incidents ⌘ Read more

Hamas said to demand release of terror chiefs, Oct. 7 terrorists in deal for hostages ⌘ Read more

Jaguar Land Rover to restart some production after cyber-attack
Work is to resume first at the carmaker’s engine factory in Wolverhampton on Monday. ⌘ Read more

As Gisèle Pelicot faces one of her rapists in court, what has changed in France?
Gisèle Pelicot’s dominant stance was seen as a moment in France’s MeToo movement but the enthusiasm appears to be wilting. ⌘ Read more

How China is challenging Nvidia’s AI chip dominance
Beijing has urged local firms to use homemade chips. But is China ready to turn away from Nvidia? ⌘ Read more

India wants to lure its best minds back from the US - but it won’t be easy
Driving reverse migration from the US at scale will require a concerted effort that’s currently missing, experts say. ⌘ Read more

** Wobbly updates or a sort of week notes **
Hello RSS goblins.

It’s unseasonably warm here, and well, I suppose everywhere. That’s…frightening, but before I let that weigh to heavily on this post I must move on.

It’s been a gorgeous weekend. We took the kids to the beach Friday after dinner, expecting to play on the sand and scramble up the rocks, but they actually each went swimming. They had a blast. The car is filled with sand, and I hope that last little hurrah of summer hangs around for a bit.

We also went putt putt golfi … ⌘ Read more

China Allegedly Sharing Satellite Intelligence with Russia to Aid Missile Strikes on Ukraine - EconoTimes ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net We have quite a few that are basically part of our friendly neighborhood. They knew we won’t chase them aware, scare them, etc. In fact some of us find little cockroaches to feed them, tose ‘em up in the air and watch them sweep in and grab the little suckers 🤣

Hamas faces ‘complete obliteration’ if it clings to power in Gaza, warns Trump ⌘ Read more

Giving patronage to Mad Moxxi and Vex (LumiNyu) [Borderlands] ⌘ Read more

cargo-subspace: Make rust-analyzer work better with very large cargo workspaces
Let me preface all of this by saying that rust-analyzer is an amazing project, and I am eternally grateful for the many people who contribute to it! It makes developing rust code a breeze, and it has surely significantly contributed to Rust’s widespread adoption.

If you’ve ever worked with a very large cargo workspace (think hundreds of crates), you know that rust-analyzer eagerly builds compile time dependencies (e.g. proc macros) and index … ⌘ Read more

‘I’ll take Ferguson & Wenger to dinner’ - Guardiola on 250 wins record
Pep Guardiola says he will celebrate landmark of 250 Premier League wins in record time by inviting Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger to dinner. ⌘ Read more

Last night I had to say goodbye to my 23 year old baby, Nutmeg ⌘ Read more

Up to 5,000 Cubans fighting alongside Russian forces in Ukraine, Reuters reports ⌘ Read more

First celebrity leaves Strictly after dance-off
Two couples squared off against each other on Sunday night, leading to one pair departing the show. ⌘ Read more

Norris-Piastri incident ‘threatens to derail McLaren harmony’
Lando Norris says “anyone on the grid” would have made the move that led to renewed tension between him and Oscar Piastri at the Singapore Grand Prix. ⌘ Read more

How to change cursor shape based on current mode? ⌘ Read more

Cuba has sent thousands of mercenaries to fight for Russia, Ukrainian leaders say ⌘ Read more

Survivor describes moment ‘monster’ attacked synagogue
Alan Levy recalled the moment Jihad A-Shamie tried to get into the synagogue that he and other worshippers had barricaded. ⌘ Read more

Tribute to the amazing Baby, 2012-2026 ⌘ Read more

Postecoglou ‘expects’ talks with Forest owner and vows to ‘fight’
Ange Postecoglou “expects” talks to be held with owner Evangelos Marinakis about his start as Nottingham Forest manager - but says he “loves a fight”. ⌘ Read more

Rome calls on US to reconsider extra tariff on pasta imports ⌘ Read more

Home secretary wants police to get more powers to restrict repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but “about restrictions and conditions”, Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC. ⌘ Read more

This little girl decided it’s officially cuddle season. I will never be allowed to get up. I live on the sofa now. As her human cat bed. ⌘ Read more

Jerusalem denies abuse of Thunberg, others arrested aboard Hamas flotilla — “Interestingly enough, Greta herself and other detainees refused to expedite their deportation and insisted on prolonging their stay in custody,” said Israel’s Foreign Ministry. ⌘ Read more

Now I feel the urge to go around looking for one of “my own” to share. 😅 I love crows, ravens, magpies, all of them in the corvidae family.

Zelenskyy: Putin mocks the West, world has failed to respond to Russian strikes ⌘ Read more

How Will Police Use Their New Powers To Restrict Repeated Protests?
The Home Secretary announces new police powers to restrict protests. ⌘ Read more

Americans, Canadians unite in battling ‘eating machine’ carp
Finally, something to unite President Donald Trump, his Democratic opponents and the Canadians he’s threatening to annex: a ferociously hungry carp. ⌘ Read more

How to grow a giant pumpkin, with help from science
The pumpkin in Tony Scott’s backyard weighs almost as much as a small car. ⌘ Read more

Populist billionaire and Trump supporter Babis cruises to Czech election win ⌘ Read more

Conservatives pledge to remove 750,000 migrants under borders plan ⌘ Read more

18.5yo cat was recommended to be euthanised, I don’t think I agree ⌘ Read more

Trump Just Gave the Military an Extremely Sinister Mission
Fred Kaplan,    -  Slate

Stephan: As usual Trump tells us what he is going to do, but our political system does not seem to be able to process what he says. I am going to be a dictator and take revenge against those who oppose me he made very clear, and that is exacty what he is doing.

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‘I cannot abide’: Biting dissent blasts Supreme Court for ‘plainly misjudging’ case
Nicole Charky-Chami,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Like the country itself, the Supreme Court is divided between the majority of corrupt justices who are basically helping Trump and the Republicans to make the United States a nation controlled by a fascist authoritarian oligarchy, and a minority of justices who follow precedent and the laws. The minority … ⌘ Read more

Putin says Tomahawk supply to Ukraine would destroy U.S. relations ⌘ Read more

Why are single men so miserable?
Allie Volpe,  Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I listen to the interviews of younger men, and read the research surveys and academic papers, and it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong with the culture of masculinity in the United States. This article and all the links it provides lay this all out in detail. As I read it, and all the other things I have mentioned it realized that I never had any of those issues, nor did the boys and young men who wer … ⌘ Read more

Adding Stride Scheduling to xv6
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Repetitive negative thinking mediates relationship between self-esteem and burnout in students, study finds
When people are highly stressed for prolonged periods of time, they can sometimes experience a state known as burnout, characterized by pronounced emotional, mental and physical exhaustion. The stressors leading to burnout could be personal, such as family conflicts or the end of a relationship, as well as academic or professional, such as studying a lot for exams or working long … ⌘ Read more

The Best Early Prime Day Deals on AirPods, iPads, and More
Amazon is hosting another Prime Day event this year, called Prime Big Deal Days and offering shoppers the first chance to save on holiday shopping from a major retailer. Similar to last year’s fall Prime Day, it will last for two days (October 7-8) and you can already find a large selection of early deals across Amazon’s storefront, coveri … ⌘ Read more

Remembering Steve Jobs
Today marks the 14th anniversary of Steve Jobs passing away, at the age of 56. He died just one day after Apple unveiled the iPhone 4S and Siri.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook has once again paid tribute to Jobs.

“Steve saw the future as a bright and boundless place, lit the path forward, and inspired us to follow,” said Cook, in a [post](https://x.com … ⌘ Read more

My Recon Automation Found an Email Confirmation Bypass

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How a simple parameter led to a complete authentication bypass

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwriteups.com/my-recon-automation-found-an-email-confirmation-byp … ⌘ Read more

Next iPad Pro to Have Two Key Features, But One Rumor Still Uncertain
The next iPad Pro models are rumored to feature two key upgrades, including Apple’s M5 chip, and an increased minimum of 12GB of RAM.

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Last week, apparent unboxing videos for the next-generation 13-inch iPad Pro were uploaded to YouTube by Russian channels Wylsacom and [Romance … ⌘ Read more

How to get vim-test to work in monorepo structure? ⌘ Read more

@alexonit@twtxt.alessandrocutolo.it Thanks mate! Ah cool, now I’m curious, what did you make? :-)

You used the rubber hammer to fold the metal, not to set the rivets, right? :-? I glued cork on my wooden mallet some time ago. This worked quite good for bending. But rubber might be even better as it is a tad softer. I will try this next time, I think I have one deep down in a drawer somewhere.

Undergrad students deploy applications to geosynchronous satellite 22,236 miles above Earth
For many college students, satellites are faint dots crossing the sky on clear nights. These objects are background details from science fiction to reality, like GPS, satellite radio, and WiFi. ⌘ Read more

Flamy skies are always great to look at: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-10-04/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Great job!

I suggested it because I did it in the past, but never used it on bigger works.

In my case I did it exclusively on really small projects and used a thin rubber head hammer to prevent deforming the metal.

I experimented with a 2.4x7mm aluminium rivet I had on hand. As expected, it was quite a bit long. Using my pliers wrench, I was able to crush it down by quite some bit. I should have taken a photo right after the hand riveter for comparison. Now, it’s much smoother and the chance of cutting my hand open is reduced by quite a bit. But breaking the burr with a few file strokes is still necessary. I should get 2.4x4mm rivets and try with them. I reckon they would be more suited for my 0.5mm sheet metal.

With the pliers wrench again, I was able to also crush down the chopped off 3mm copper nail and form a second head. That was surprisingly easy. Now, I need to figure out how to efficiently make a head on the remaining copper nail shaft, so that I can use this again.

Both are rock solid, there’s absolutely no movement at all between the two sheet metal cutoffs.

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/nietenexperiment/

How To Attack Admin Panels Successfully Part 2

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Not Attacking Web Apps Admin Panels The Right Way?

Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups » ⌘ Read more

Australia’s new food security strategy: What’s on the table, and what’s missing?
In 2023, a parliamentary inquiry into food security was held in Australia. This involves the government asking for public and expert advice on key issues to make better decisions. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I never programmed with Tkinter myself and it’s been ages that I ran a program which used it. I always thought that it looks awful. But maybe there are nicer themes these days. I just wanted to give the demo python3 -m tkinter a try, but this module doesn’t exist. I was always under the wrong impression that Tkinter is bundled with Python.

Karoline Leavitt Says It’s OK to Target Americans Repped by Democrats
Malcolm Ferguson,  Breaking News Associate Writer  -  The New Republic

_Stephan: Have you noticed how nasty Trump, his administration, the Congressional Republicans, and the fascist majority on the Supreme Court are becoming? I see all of this as part of Project 2025, so not of this should be surprising. It is all the manifestation of the MAGAT fascists’ actions to advance the Great Schi … ⌘ Read more

Lawmakers Across the Country This Year Blocked Ethics Reforms Meant to Increase Public Trust
Gabriel Sandoval, ProPublica, with additional reporting by Nick Reynolds and Anna Wilder, The Post and Courier; Yasmeen Khan, The Maine Monitor; Lauren Dake, Oregon Public Broadcasting; Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth; Louis Hansen, Virginia Center for Investigative Journalism at WHRO; Mary Steurer and Jacob Orledge, North Dakota Moni … ⌘ Read more

Can You Afford to Die in Your State?
John Stevenson,  Researcher  -  John Stevenson Website

Stephan: Few Americans are spending a lot of time thinking about what their dying would cost, although over half of us (as the chart at the head of this report shows) worry they wouldn’t be able to afford a loved one’s passing.

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Facing the loss of a loved one is hard enough without worrying abo … ⌘ Read more

From the chicken archive, 2017.

Not mine, these were more or less free roaming chickens. Farmers didn’t use some of their fields for a while and allowed some other farmer to let the birds live there in the meantime.

(Full resolution, CC BY-SA.)

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Xfce is nice, but it’s also mostly GTK. I don’t really know the answer yet. For now, I’ll just avoid anything that uses GTK4.

For my own programs, I might have a closer look at Tkinter. I was complaining recently that I couldn’t find a good file manager, so it might be an interesting excercise to write one in Python+Tkinter. 🤔 (Or maybe that’s too much work, I don’t know yet.)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I was never a fan of GTK, because coming from KDE, it didn’t offer remotely as much of customizability. What are you switching to, Xfce?

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com @bender@twtxt.net this is vaguely concerning…does yarn refresh feeds every minute or two? or is there some special “notify twtxt.net to refresh my feed” that i don’t know about

Top Stories: October Apple Event?, New Hardware Leaks, and More
The calendar has flipped over to October, but that doesn’t mean Apple is done with product launches for 2025. We’re still expecting updates to several product lines, and Apple has a history of making announcements in October so we’ll be keeping a lookout for news.

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Several of those upcoming products have already leaked thanks to Russian YouTuber … ⌘ Read more

Join the Hanako’s Hideout Discord Server! We’re hosting giveaways for Halloween. If you’re a game dev who wants to participate, message the mods on Discord. ⌘ Read more

2 Ways to Install Homebrew in MacOS Tahoe
Homebrew is a powerful command line package manager that allows you to easily install, update, and manage popular command line programs and tools, as well as traditional graphical apps with cask (and third party tools like Applite help you manage cask through the GUI too). It’s a popular tool with advanced Mac users and those … Read More ⌘ Read more

Got a ubuntu vm installed, with tailscale, and it works with a public url, so next is to migrate a service and point my domain to it

Terasic Announces Starter Kit Featuring RISC-V Nios V Processor and Software Bundle
Terasic has introduced the Atum Nios V Starter Kit, a feature-rich evaluation platform designed to accelerate development with Altera’s Nios V processor. The kit is aimed at embedded engineers, system developers, and educators looking for a practical way to explore RISC-V–based designs on the Agilex 3 FPGA platform. According to Terasic’s announcement, the kit is […] ⌘ Read more

how to delete everything after the question mark? ⌘ Read more

Debian: XLibre is Not Allowed, Devs Are Nazis
Reminder: Debian allows convicted child rapists to be Debian team members. ⌘ Read more

The VPS provider I use is shutting down, so I have to move things.
I will try and move my yarn instance over to my own hardware, and use tailscale to point to it.
Got some other services to move as well, but I’ll start with this first.

It’s time to say goodbye to the GTK world.

GTK2 was nice to work with, relatively lightweight, and there were many cool themes back then. GTK3 was already a bit clunky, but tolerable. GTK4 now pulls in all kinds of stuff that I’m not interested in, it has become quite heavy.

Farewell. 👋

Solving this puzzle took me longer than I care to admit. It’s kind of obvious in hindsight. https://movq.de/v/83e5aa0709/MVI_8895.MOV.mp4

[$] A look at the Robot Operating System
Despite its name, the Robot\
Operating System (ROS) is not an operating system; it is
a software development kit (SDK) that provides building blocks for
robotic applications. One of the main goals of ROS is to present a
common API that abstracts away the details of particular hardware
drivers or algorithms to make development easier; developers can focus
on what a robot should do rather than the low-level details of
specific controllers. The latest release of ROS, [Kilt … ⌘ Read more

Upcoming Apple Vision Pro Could Get More Comfortable ‘Dual Knit Band’
Apple is working on a next-generation version of the Vision Pro with an updated chip, and it could include a new Dual Knit Band that provides a more comfortable fit.

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Updated Apple backend code found by MacRumors includes a reference to a “Dual Knit Band,” which is not a band that exists at the current time. The [Apple Vision Pro](https://www.macrumors … ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Co-Located Event Deep Dive: Kubernetes on Edge Day
The inaugural Edge Day launched as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU in 2022, recognizing that data at the edge is here to stay. Once called the ‘Internet of Things’ and later ‘Industry 4.0,’… ⌘ Read more

Computational tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis
For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like those at Mount St. Helens, Washington, and Anak Krakatau, Indonesia. The latter triggered tsunamis blamed for most deaths from its historic eruptions in 1883. ⌘ Read more

Accelerated Gulf of Maine warming may pose a serious threat to American lobsters
The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than 99% of the world’s oceans, raising concerns for its $2 billion-a-year American lobster fishery. Scientists at William & Mary’s Batten School & VIMS have been studying the impacts of ocean acidification and warming on lobster reproduction, and the results of their most recent research suggest the rising temperatures pose the greatest risk. ⌘ Read more

Why some human GII.4 noroviruses are better than others at infecting cells
Human noroviruses, GII.4 strains in particular, are the chief drivers of acute viral gastroenteritis around the world, a condition for which there are no vaccines or antivirals. Understanding how these viruses enter cells in the gut, a first step toward developing an infection, can lead to effective therapeutics. ⌘ Read more

Energy harvesters surpass Carnot efficiency using non-thermal electron states
Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits such as Carnot efficiency, report researchers from Japan. The team developed a new approach using a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid to convert waste heat into electricity with higher efficiency than conventional approaches. These findings pave the way for more sustainable low-power elect … ⌘ Read more

Novel method for controlling Faraday rotation in conductive polymers
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a novel method for controlling the optical rotation of conductive polymer polythiophene in a magnetic field at low voltage. This method combines the “Faraday rotation” phenomenon, in which a polarizing plane rotates in response to a magnetic field, with the electrochemical oxidation and reduction of conductive polymers. ⌘ Read more

Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies
From solar panels to next-generation medical devices, many emerging technologies rely on materials that can manipulate light with extreme precision. These materials—called plasmonic materials—are typically made from expensive metals like gold or silver. But what if a cheaper, more abundant metal could do the job just as well or better? ⌘ Read more

Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification
In a recent study by Dr. Sawada and his colleagues published in Scientific Reports, 183 human bones were surveyed, of which 52 were found to be worked human bones, all of which belong to the Neolithic Liangzhu culture. ⌘ Read more

New telescope cuts through space noise in hunt for distant Earth-like worlds
EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life. ⌘ Read more