10 Legendary Tales of Revenge Being Served Cold
Though the phrase “revenge is a dish best served cold” isn’t very old (its first documented use was in a Eugène Sue work published in the 1800s), its meaning resonates through time. History is filled with examples of those who delayed their revenge out of necessity or deliberate cruelty. As the famous saying argues, delayed […]
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@eapl.me@eapl.me When it is up and running, I promise to add it to the specification. I will also include some corrections.
The nature of twtxt does not allow us to selectively hide clients. It’s a problem not with DM, but with any extension.
@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, it is a security hole. All dm-echo messages are readable. I intend it to be a debugging tool. Maybe I can include a warning message. If many of you see that it is a serious problem, I can remove the links.
@xuu@txt.sour.is It’s already much better than Mastodon :P . Maybe we can remove the sender and receiver references with an intermediary register.
A Complete Guide to Securing Secrets in AWS Lambda
Learn how to securely manage secrets in AWS Lambda using environment variables, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, and more.
[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwriteups.com/a-c … ⌘ Read more
** In reply to: The rise of end times fascism | Far right (US) | The Guardian **
In reply to: The rise of end times fascism | Far right (US) | The Guardian
Second, we counter their apocalyptic narratives with a far better story about how to survive the hard times ahead without leaving anyone behind. A story capable of draining end times fascism of its gothic power and galvanizing a movement ready to p … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t know, maybe it will be useful for someone 😇
@prologic@twtxt.net I hope it is as useful to you as it is to me 😋
I was trying to optimize the SQL query used for the Compact FrontPage (anonymous view for Discovery when the Admin/Operator chooses “one twt per feed”).
(#r5go7jq) I was trying to optimize the SQL query used for the Compact FrontPage (_anonymous view for Discovery when the Admin/Operator chooses …
I was trying to optimize the SQL query used for the Compact FrontPage ( anonymous view for Discovery when the Admin/Operator chooses “one twt per feed”). ⌘ Read more
Used in the bathroom ⌘ Read more
Marco Rubio memo cites Mahmoud Khalil’s beliefs in justifying his deportation
Chloe Atkins and Matt Lavietes, Reporters - NBC News
_Stephan: We are now at a point in the Trump coup where you can be thrown out of the United States for what some official thinks you might think. Note particularly that the coup is using as a justification for its deportations what it calls anti-semitism, whenever anyone opposes Israel’s genocide of the people of Ga … ⌘ Read more
AI problems, top to bottom:
1: Open AI nerds, believe fine tuning a language model algorithm, will eventually produce an AGI god.
2: Subpar artists and techbros who can’t code, convinced AI image bashing and vibe coding, will help convince the dumber parts of Internet, they are a real deal.
3: Parasites, using AI to scam people, because they just want passive income, selling crap, made by an automated process.
Side: Adobe&co, killing Flash/old web, pricing new artists and developers out, to face learning curves of free tools, or use AI, peddled as solution.
Banana Pi Teases BPI-CM6 Module Featuring SpacemiT K1 RISC-V Processor
Banana Pi has shared details of its upcoming BPI-CM6 module, built with the SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V processor. Though not yet launched, it is suggested for AI edge computing, robotics, industrial control, and network storage The BPI-CM6 adopts a 40x55mm form factor and uses board-to-board connectors consistent with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, enabling […] ⌘ Read more
Dino: Dino 0.5 Release
Dino is a secure and open-source messaging application.
It uses the XMPP (Jabber) protocol for decentralized communication.
We aim to provide an intuitive and enjoyable user interface.
The 0.5 release improves the user experience around file transfers and includes two completely reworked dialogs.
Improved file sharingThe way file transfers are currently done in the XMPP ecosystem is limited in functionality a … ⌘ Read more
ABC Australia is reporting of a potential market manipulation in the US. Potential? I would call it almost certain. For as much as I would like not to be dragged into politics, it is rather impossible these days.
Putting her quirk to good use ⌘ Read more
Anker Raises Prices on Amazon Due to Tariffs
Chinese company Anker is one of many companies that will be raising prices due to the tariffs put in place by U.S. President Donald Trump, and prices are already starting to go up on Amazon.
 writes, for buffered I/O and for XFS using direct I/O, Ojaswin Mujoo
remotely led a
session on support for the feature on ext4. That took place in the combined storage and
filesystem track at the
2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Part of
the support for the feature is already in the upstream kernel, with more
coming. But
ther … ⌘ Read more
Malcolm: 6 usability improvements in GCC 15
Over on the Red Hat Developer site, David Malcolm has an article\
about improvements in GCC 15, specifically focusing on the diagnostic
information that the compiler emits. This includes ASCII art with a “⚠️”
warning emoji to display the execution path when it detects a problem (like
an infinite loop in one of his examples), better C++ template errors,
machine-readable diagnostics using [Static\
Analysis R … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s such a beautiful shot! If I were you I would use the full “original” one; it will do better justice to the shots. Oh, and I gladly take your 15°C! 😍
Erlang Solutions: Elixir for Business: 5 Ways It Transforms Your Processes
Elixir is a lightweight, high-performance programming language built on the Erlang virtual machine. It’s known for its simple syntax and efficient use of digital resources. But how does this translate to business benefits?
Elixir is already powering companies like Discord and Pinterest. It helps businesses reduce costs, improve process efficiency, and speed up time to market.
Here are five reasons why Elixi … ⌘ Read more
Apple Continues Rolling Out Support for Carrier Satellite Services
Apple is continuing to add support for carrier-based satellite services, with au customers in Japan and One NZ customers in New Zealand now able to use the satellite connectivity offered by those carriers on compatible iPhone models.
Both [au](https://newsroom.kddi.com/english/news/detail/kddi_nr-533_3818.htm … ⌘ Read more
Did an AI chatbot help draft the US tariff policy?
If it did, it almost certainly warned that implementing it would be a bad idea. ⌘ Read more
Aside from fetching feeds every three minutes (which kind of adds mystery to this puzzle), I think there is something else going on with the client you are using, @andros@twtxt.andros.dev. Some of those twtxts are seconds apart, making me truly stumped. 😅
oh out of boredom yesterday i made my blog available via markdown files too so you can use charmbracelet/glow to read them in your terminal :)
basically i just set up a file directory on a path of my blog, organized the MD files by year, and so in theory you can navigate to that path and choose a folder, then copy a link to a markdown post and run this:
glow -p https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/md/2025/2025-03-31%20premature%20reflections%20on%20sudden%20responsibility.md
and then as long as you have glow installed, you can read my posts from the terminal :D it’s so cool
guys omg the people behind pico.sh are so nice ;_; one of the people running it emailed me to let me know i had what was likely a malfunctioning (or well, not working as intended) script that was spawning the same SSH tunnel over and over and they wanted to give me a heads up.
and i felt SO BAD because i worried i was straining their service or something so i disabled my 4 tunnels (they were serving little SSH games and services) and got back to them.
but i just woke up to THE NICEST EMAIL EVER reassuring me that i was actually using it as intended, it was just my script that was having problems, and they even said that if it was intended to work that way it was fine and they just wanted to let me know!
so i restarted the tunnels but have since added lockfiles as safeguards so that when the script is run it’ll check if it’s already running :D
[$] A new type of spinlock for the BPF subsystem
The 6.15 merge window saw the inclusion of a new type of lock for BPF programs:
a resilient queued spinlock that Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi has been working on
for some time. Eventually, he hopes to convert all of the spinlocks currently
used in the BPF subsystem to his new lock.
He gave a remote presentation about the design of the lock at the
2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF summit. ⌘ Read more
[$] Improving hot-page detection and promotion
Tiered-memory systems feature multiple types of memory with varying
performance characteristics; on such systems, good performance depends on
keeping the most frequently used data in the fastest memory. Identifying
that data and placing it properly is a challenge that has kept developers
busy for years. Bharata Rao, presenting remotely during a
memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, led a discussion on [a potential soluti … ⌘ Read more
OpenSSH 10.0 released
OpenSSH\
10.0 has been released. Support for the DSA signature algorithm,
which was disabled by default beginning in 2015, has been
removed. Other notable changes include using the post-quantum algorithm mlkem768x25519-sha256
for key agreement by default, support for systemd-style socket
activation in Portable OpenSSH … ⌘ Read more
Run Gemma 3 with Docker Model Runner: Fully Local GenAI Developer Experience
Explore how to run Gemma 3 models locally using Docker Model Runner, alongside a Comment Processing System as a practical case study. ⌘ Read more
@david@collantes.us yeah @movq@www.uninformativ.de and I discovered its a bug in lextwt last night 😢 We’ll fix it as soon as @xuu@txt.sour.is can 🤣
(#2grn74q) @david@david yeah @movq@movq and I discovered its a bug in lextwt last night 😢 We’ll fix it as soon as @xu …
@david @collantes.us yeah @movq @www.uninformativ.de and I discovered its a bug in lextwt last night 😢 We’ll fix it as soon as @xuu @txt.sour.is can … ⌘ Read more
@david@collantes.us Yeah, we’ve been debugging that a bit yesterday. Looks like the wrong input (sometimes) gets fed to the hash function → broken threads.
Anyway. this was a good use for search btw. I couldn’t find my Twt, so I just quickly searched for it, snap, bingo I found it in a snap! 🫰
(#aryo35q) Anyway. this was a good use for search btw. I couldn’t find my Twt, so I just quickly searched for it, snap, bingo I found it in a sn …
Anyway. this was a good use for search btw. I couldn’t find my Twt, so I just quickly searched for it, snap, bingo I found it in a snap! 🫰 ⌘ Read more
@david@collantes.us Ah, yes, the hardware might not. As I just said in the other thread: No problem, you can keep the same installation. I did so many times on my PC/laptop at work.
‘Fossil Fuels Are Killing Us’: Major Study Details How Fossil Fuels Are Driving Climate, Health and Biodiversity Crises
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: As a madman and his enabling oligarchs and quisling Senators and Representatives are dismantling American democracy, social order, and economy they are also destroying all efforts to stop the planetary disaster being wrough … ⌘ Read more
‘Cost us $26M!’ Jasmine Crockett spits ‘fire’ at Trump’s golfing
David Edwards, Staff Writer - Raw Story
Stephan: While psychopath “emperor” Trump and his cretinous minions blather on about efficiency while they dismantle the government and destroy the wellbeing of America, you and I are spending millions of dollars to pay for the “emperor’s” golf games. It is straight out of the reign of Nero and Caligula.
 generates a static index.html page 2) the page is a prompt generator where all the prompts are from hotdiva2000!!!!!
this makes more sense if you look at it check it out
@thecanine@twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I decided to start over (from scratch). Just let me know what you want and I’ll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account (by hand) and avatar at least 🤣
(#phvll7a) @thecanine@thecanine I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I dec …
@thecanine @twtxt.net I mean I can restore whatever anyone likes, the problem is the last backup I took was 4 months ago 😭 So I decided to start over ( from scratch). Just let me know what you want and I’ll do it! I used the 4-month old backup to restore your account ( by hand) and avatar at least 🤣 ⌘ Read more
[$] Taking notes with Joplin
Joplin is an open-source
note-taking application designed to handle taking many kinds of notes,
whether it is managing code snippets, writing documentation, jotting
down lecture notes, or drafting a novel. Joplin has Markdown support,
a plugin system for extensibility, and accepts multimedia content,
allowing users to attach images, videos, and audio files to their
notes. It can provide synchronization of content across devices using
end-to-end encryption, or users can opt to sti … ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net There was no edit according to my Git history. 🤔 On my end, the hash is fs7673q and that’s also what kat used to reply.
[$] Using large folios for text areas
Quite a bit of work has been done in recent years to allow the kernel to
make more use of large folios. That progress has not yet reached the
handling of text (executable code) areas, though. During the
memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Ryan Roberts ran a session on how that
situation might be improved. It would be a relatively small and contained
operation, but can give a measurable performance improvement. ⌘ Read more
[$] Per-CPU memory for user space
The kernel makes extensive use of per-CPU data as a way to avoid contention
between processors and improve scalability. Using the same technique in
user space is harder, though, since there is little control over which CPU
a process may be running on at any given time. That hasn’t stopped Mathieu
Desnoyers from trying, though; in the memory-management track of the 2025
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he presented
a proposal for how user-space per-CPU memory could work. ⌘ Read more
Trump Believes Apple Could Manufacture iPhones in the U.S.
U.S. President Donald Trump “absolutely” believes that Apple could manufacture its iPhones and other devices in the United States, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said today during a media briefing.
Leavitt was asked whether Trump thought that iPhone … ⌘ Read more
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I think it happens if you don’t follow them. Replies used to be broken if so, but not sure if @prologic@twtxt.net ever fixed that. I used not to follow him, so that he would see the broken mentions, and feel shame (he didn’t, he is shameless! LOL), but ever since the re-creation of my account I just decided to follow, so I don’t know if the issue is fixed or not.
I know mentioning @xuu@txt.sour.isdoesnm.p.psf.lt was broken too. Maybe still is? We’ll see.
I am not interested at all. If I want to interact/socialise/whatever on the Fediverse (which I do), I simply use it. I would like to keep twtxt separate.
The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Publicity
James Poniewozik, Chief TV Critic - The New York Times
Stephan: The one thing the monster and his MAGAt vassals are good at is the weaponization of misinformation. It is the main tool they use to keep the low IQ, low education, resentful and racist worshippers in a dark fantasy reality. And your tax dollars are being used to pay for this.
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HydraNFC Shield v2 and Sniffer Decoder Expand Capabilities for NFC Development & Analysis
The HydraNFC Shield v2 is a high-performance NFC development platform built around the STMicroelectronics ST25R3916 NFC frontend. Designed for NFC research, development, debugging, and security analysis, it is intended to be used with the HydraBus v1.0, a versatile open-source baseboard that acts as the host interface for HydraNFC and other shield extensions. HydraBus … ⌘ Read more
[$] An update on pahole
Pahole (originally “Poke-a-hole”) is a Swiss Army knife for exploring and
editing debug information. Pahole is also currently involved
in the kernel’s build process to rearrange the information
produced by various compilers into a form useful to the BPF verifier, although
there are plans to render it unnecessary.
Pahole maintainer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo shared some status
updates about the project at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF summit. Interested readers can find his slides … ⌘ 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
hey does anyone know of yarn pods with open registrations besides mine? quite literally asking for a friend who i told about yarn but can’t use my site for personal reasons sadly otherwise i’d gladly invite her
@bender@twtxt.net WE THOUGHT ABOUT CALLING HER THAT LMAOOOOOO we’re thinking about lucy right now! it’s a meaningful name to us for reasons :)
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m open to other suggestions 🤣 But hopefully both adding the additional prompt, not allowing it to enter shell history and removing from my shell history prevents me from doing such silly things in haste by pressing ^R and using fuzzy search which if you type fast you sometimes get wrong 😑
(#zzyjqvq) @lyse@lyse I’m open to other suggestions 🤣 But hopefully both adding the additional prompt, not allowing it to enter …
@lyse @lyse.isobeef.org I’m open to other suggestions 🤣 But hopefully both adding the additional prompt, not allowing it to enter shell history and removing from my shell history prevents me from doing such silly things in haste by pressing ^R and using fuzzy search which if you type fast you sometimes get wron … ⌘ Read more
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.
So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:
dkv() {
if [[ "$1" == "rm" && -n "$2" ]]; then
read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
confirm=${confirm:-Y}
if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
# Disable history
set +o history
# Delete the volume
docker volume rm "$2"
# Re-enable history
set -o history
else
echo "Aborted."
fi
else
docker volume "$@"
fi
}
**(#zzyjqvq) So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:
dkv() {
if ...**
So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time `alias dkv="docker rm"` to be a much safer shell function:
dkv() {
if [[ “$1” == “rm” && -n “$2” ]]; then
read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
confirm=${confirm:-Y}
if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
# Disable history
set +o history
# Delete the volume
dock ... ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/ml3toqq)
I used a flip phone for 30 days ⌘ Read more
** Muddy weeknotes **
Some RSS exclusive week notes:
- I finished reading Emily St. James’ Woodworking
- I started reading Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo
- I took a break from re-watching Frieren for the third time
- I used that break to start watching The Apothecary Diaries, which isn’t at all what I assumed it was. It is more a detective show than anything else, so far, and I dig it
- I started to play Citizen Sleeper
- I cleaned so much, yet the house remains not clean
- It has stopped snowing (for now), we are now solidly in … ⌘ Read more
GUYS WE GOT A NEW CAT SHE DOESN’T HAVE A NAME YET BUT SHE’S SUPER CUTE AND SUPER SHY AND WARMING UP TO US I’M IN LOVE
Get $100 Off iPad Mini 7 on Amazon, Available From $399
Amazon this weekend is providing record low prices on multiple models of the iPad mini 7, starting at $399.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi tablet, down from $499.00.
10 Amazing New Uses for AI
AI can be one of our greatest scientific friends rather than a technological boogeyman, as it’s often portrayed. AI has positively revolutionized healthcare, manufacturing, commercial industries, and many more. Yet, it’s gotten a bad recent rep due to the prevalence of AI writing and art, which has replaced at least a few human writers and […]
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@prologic@twtxt.net In all my two Go projects I use modernc.org/sqlite and can’t complain. Works great for me.
I’ve been using GIMP 3.0 for a few weeks now and it’s great. New features and I got rid of two custom plugins because they’re in core now. Literally nothing broke for me. And I really appreciate that they kept the familiar UI (instead of changing things just for the sake of change).
Thank you! 🥳
(#jihhx5a) Because this cache behaves very differently compared to the old cache. Feeds are never overwritten like they used to!
Because this cache behaves very differently compared to the old cache. Feeds are never overwritten like they used to! ⌘ Read more
Show us the silliest photo of your cat you’ve ever taken 🥹 ⌘ Read more
A catastrophe is unfolding at the top US health agency — and it will put American lives at risk
Dylan Scott, Staff Writer - Vox
_Stephan: In 2024 the United States was ranked by the World Health Organization as the worse healthcare, yet by orders of magnitude the most expensive, in the developed democracies. Thanks to psychopath “monarch” Trump American healthcare will now get significantly worse, Almost unbelievably America’s h … ⌘ 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
@david@collantes.us This pink tree I featured in a few shots is a magnolia tree. I haven’t noticed any particular smell, it just looks pretty. :-) That’s a close-up: https://lyse.isobeef.org/bad-wimpfen-2025-03-28/18.jpg (I only noticed the spider and its web when I reviewed my photos.)
our late cat left us a gift.. two years later 👼🏻 ⌘ Read more
10 Political Terms With Curious Origins
The words we use in the context of politics reveal much of the history of how humans have attempted to govern themselves. Many originate from ancient Greece and Rome, where the first representative assemblies closely matching our own arose. The very word “politics” comes from the Greek polities, meaning “city, citizen.” The Romans gave us […]
The post [10 Political Terms With Curious Origins](https://listverse.com/2025/04/04/10-political-terms-with-cur … ⌘ Read more
@arne@uplegger.eu I’m very glad I only rarely have to deal with .docx & Co. And when I have to, 99% is in read mode only. Even though, I don’t think that Markdown is the best choice, I use it on a daily basis. Some things, like links, in reStructuredText are better in my opinion.
Jira just resists to switch to Markdown and forces us to use its silly markup language.
For real typesetting, LaTeX is the way to go. But I very, very rarely do that.
@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.
For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn’t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?
Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn’t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I’d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I’m sorry that my chosen form of report didn’t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you’ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.
I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn’t recognize it as such. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.
Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.
[$] Better hugetlb page-table walking
The kernel must often step through the page tables of one or more processes
to carry out various operations. This “page-table walking” tends to be
performed by ad-hoc (duplicated) code all over the kernel. Oscar Salvador
used a memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit to talk about strategies to
unify the kernel’s page-table walking code just a little bit by making
hugetlb pages look more like ordinary pages. ⌘ Read more
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs, upending decades of US trade policy
Lauren Aratani and David Smith, Staff Writers - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: I have been predicting since Trump was sworn in as President that the United States will be in recession by June, and the American economic sectors, farming, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and others will be in crisis. If you actually look at the list Trump is holding you will see he is putt … ⌘ 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 Crazy Cultural Practices from Deep History
Culture includes everything we do, believe, and have done to us. Culture comprises everything humanity has achieved and learned. Looking back into the deep past, we can better appreciate how our civilization has evolved over the vast sweep of millennia. Some of the following findings stretch back to the dawn of humanity itself, while others […]
The post [10 Crazy Cultural Practices from Deep History](https://listverse.com/2025/04/03/10-craz … ⌘ Read more
i can see your twts here: https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://eapl.me/tw.txt
@david@collantes.us.. i see this one but it says its dead. https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt
i can see your twts here: https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://eapl.me/tw.txt
@david@collantes.us.. i see this one but it says its dead. https://watcher.sour.is/?uri=https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do agree “the rules of the web”, are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.
As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,… Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.
Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.
In Mexico you couldn’t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I’m not sure, so many ‘taquerias’ here don’t file a trademark request. It’s usually “Taquería [LAST_NAME]” or “Taquería [PLACE]”.
At the same time, the word “taqueria” was trademarked in UK, like it would be “Paris” or “Pub” I guess, so basically Sonora Taqueria didn’t reply to the cease and desist, based on:
[Lizbeth García]: A brand may not use a word that is generic or descriptive of the products or services it is putting into circulation on the market.
Since he (Ismael, Taqueria’s representative) didn’t get any response, he decided to leave it in the hands of his law firm.
In early 2023, after all the noise on the internet and the mobilization caused by this case, an agreement was finally reached with Taquería to settle the matter peaceably.
In March 2023, Michelle and Sam decided to register the Sonora Taquería brand and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office.
[$] Catching up with calibre
Saying that calibre is
ebook-management software undersells the application by a fair
margin. Calibre is an open-source Swiss Army knife for ebooks that can
be used for everything from creating ebooks, converting ebooks from
obscure formats to modern formats like EPUB, to serving up an ebook
library over the web. The most recent major release, calibre 8.0,
brings a better text-to-speech engine, a tool for creating audio
overlays w … ⌘ Read more
[$] 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
Thunderbird plans “Thundermail” email and other services
Ryan Sipes has announced
efforts to expand Thunderbird’s offerings with web services to
“enhance the experience of using Thunderbird”.
The Why for offering these services is simple. Thunderbird loses users
each day to rich ecosystems that are both clients and services, such
as Gmail and Office365. These ecosystems have both hard vendor
lock-ins (through interoperability issues with 3rd-pary clients) … ⌘ Read more
Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta
Outgoing Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Matthew Miller has announced
his successor, Jef Spaleta.
Some of you may remember Jef’s passionate voice in the early Fedora
community. He got involved all the way back in the days of fedora.us,
before Red Hat got involved. Jef served on the Fedora Board from July
2007 through the end of 2008. This was the critical time after Fedora
Extras and Fedora Core merged int … ⌘ Read more
[$] Approaches to reducing TLB pressure
The CPU’s translation lookaside buffer (TLB) caches the results of
virtual-address translations, significantly speeding memory accesses. TLB
misses are expensive, so a lot of thought goes into using the TLB as
efficiently as possible. Reducing pressure on the TLB was the topic of Rik
van Riel’s memory-management-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. Some approaches were
considered, but the session was short on firm conclusions. ⌘ Read more
How did childcare in the US become so absurdly expensive?
Robin Buller, Staff Writer - The Guardian (U.K.)
_Stephan: As I have told readers again and again, one of the things that stands out about American society is how poor, and yet how expensive everything about childhood is. It is hard to be born as a baby in the United States, our infant mortality rate is the highest in the developed world, and even if the child survives American maternal mortality is almost f … ⌘ Read more
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
I just walked past my kids room to use the bathroom and stumbled across this horrific scene. ⌘ Read more
I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
definitely 1e100 superiorer
Now I’m looking forward to see the next version using MessagePack
From the LibreQoS site comes the sad\
news that Dave Täht has passed away. Among many other things, he bears
a lot of credit for our networks functioning as well as they do. “We’re
incredibly grateful to have Dave as our friend, mentor, and as someone who
continuously inspired us – showing us that we could do better for each
other in the world, and leverage … ⌘ Read more