I think I should try self-hosting some Mastodon thingy again.

The “export data” feature on the Mastodon instance I’m using seems to be broken. I’ve contacted the admins but we couldn’t find the issue – yet. I don’t want to bother them too much, it’s a free service after all.

But this means that everything I post over there is very, very volatile. It could all be gone in 5 minutes and I’ll have no way to restore it. Hmm.

AirPods 4 Available for $99.99 on Amazon, Plus Big Discounts on ANC Model and AirPods Pro 2
Amazon this weekend has major discounts on a few AirPods models, including all-time low prices on the AirPods 4. You can get the base AirPods 4 for $99.99 on Amazon, down from $129.00.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2025/02/airpods-4-new-purple.jp … ⌘ Read more

Ten Movies Overshadowed by Behind-the-Scenes Controversies
The job of Hollywood is to present us with an immaculately presented fantasy with beautiful people and big money. That’s why we can’t look away when things go wrong. For these ten movies, things went so wrong behind the scenes that it overshadowed the Hollywood magic; these ten movies had controversies bigger and more memorable […]

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Comet GL-RM1 Enables Remote Control with 2K Video Resolution
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I have a file with US holidays but I think it’s on my laptop still

I have a file with US holidays but I think it’s on my laptop still

Bit of an update, there is now a general licence for all my stuff:

“Unless projects are accompanied by a different license, Creative Commons apply (“BY-NC-ND” for all art featuring the Canine mascot and “BY-NC” for everything else).”

It’s even included on my website, where most of the demand for a clear licence originated from:

In practice this changes nothing, as I was never enforcing anything more than this anyway and given permission for other use too. Now it’s just official that this is the baseline, of what can be done, without having to ask for permission first.

Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:

if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:

if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/

Trump calls his opponents ‘scum’ and lawbreakers in bellicose speech at Justice Department
Irie Sentner and Josh Gerstein,  Staff Writers  -  Politico

_Stephan: Trump is a fascist, and today he went to the Department of Justice he has gutted and turned into his personal law firm and told us it was going to be used by him to get revenge on those who oppose him, and to end freedom of the press so the media will stop saying negative things … ⌘ Read more

DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in ‘Stunning’ Interview
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Your country is being taken away from you, I hope every American realizes that. It is happening because a small majority of us voted for it. After all, all of what is taking place day-by-day was completely spelled out in Project 2025. Aspiring dictator Trump doesn’t like opposition so he has his flying monkeys trying to … ⌘ Read more

(#ep5rg4q) @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I replied in the fork, but essentially there’s no reason we can’t support two different models here. …
@eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me I replied in the fork, but essentially there’s no reason we can’t support two different models here. We already do this anyway with numerous single-user, single hosted and managed feeds + a bunch of multi-use … ⌘ Read more

Apple Launches ‘Surveyor’ App for Apple Maps Data Collection
Apple today launched a new app called Surveyor, which is designed to allow users to collect data like images of street signs and roadside details to improve Apple Maps.

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The app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with … ⌘ Read more

Judge orders Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back
Lily Jamali,  Tech Correspodent  -  BBC (U.K.)

Stephan: Here is some good news. It tells us that there are still honorable men and women serving as judges. Congressional Republican flying monkeys, of course, are trying to impeach them. However, these judges offer hope that some part of the U.S. government that Trump’s coup is trying to destroy still works.

![](https://www.schwart … ⌘ Read more

(#ep5rg4q) @andros@andros Would it help if I documented the two protocols that yarnd uses today for this “distributed network”? 🧐
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev Would it help if I documented the two protocols that yarnd uses today for this “distributed network”? 🧐 ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of February 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 thes … ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Type to Siri on MacOS Sequoia
The latest versions of MacOS make it easier than ever to use Type to Siri, but many Mac users are finding themselves accidentally triggering the ‘Type to Siri’ feature on their Mac running the latest MacOS Sequoia releases. This can be frustrating, and if you don’t use Siri or Type To Siri you might not … Read More ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2025/02/open-ai-new-typefa … ⌘ Read more

International Push for Consumer Boycott of US Grows
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I predict that anti-Americanism is going to become a prominent view of populations throughout the world, and that this new attitude is going to have a disastrous effect on our economy. People throughout the world will make it a point not to buy anything made in America, and other businesses in other countries, particularly China, will see the opportunity created by p … ⌘ Read more

US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
Richard Luscombe,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: You may be one of the thousands of federal workers who lost their job without notice, but the psychopath who caused you to lose your job has plenty of time to play golf, does it most weekends by being flown from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and American taxpayers, including you, are payin … ⌘ Read more

do you mind sharing a picture ?

I can’t find something similar here, but my wife gave this one last year, and I’ve been using it a bit. I’d say it’s useful as you’ve shared.

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We also have a shared calendar in the kitchen for family events, and it’s working great.

Deals: AirTags 4-pack for $65, Apple Watch 10 for $299, AirPods 4 for $99
Amazon is back with some more great deals on Apple products, beginning with a big discount on AirTags, Apple Watch Series 10, AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2, and Apple Pencil Pro. Let’s check them out. AirTags are very useful personal trackers that have myriad uses from keeping an eye on your dog, cat, luggage, backpack, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/12/deals-airtags-4-pack-for-65-apple … ⌘ Read more

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

pls elaborate on a ‘p2p database’, ‘all story’ and ‘Registries’.

My first thought takes me to something like secure-scuttlebutt which it’s painful to sync data using clients, and too slow compared to downloading a text file.

Also I’d like for twtxt to avoid becoming an ActivityPub. Works well but it’s uses too many resources IMO.
https://kingant.net/2025/02/mastodon-the-cost-of-running-my-own-server/

I’m defending being able to self-host your Web client (like you’d do with a Wordpress, twtxt is a micrologging, at the end), instead of federated instances, so in a first thought I’d say Registries have many disadvantages being the first one that someone has to maintain them active.

Announcing Dapr AI Agents
The Dapr project is excited to announce Dapr Agents, a framework for developers to simplify the creation of AI agents that reason, act, and collaborate using LLMs. Today, we are excited to announce Dapr Agents, a… ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net We often turn to a database when we can use a plain text file, such as a CSV. With sed or awk, you can run simple queries without using a database.
Did I get the context right? 😀

Today I learned how to use TestCafé. It is a E2E framework.
I needed it because I wanted to write a script that would launch a browser in the background, log me in with a username and password, and return the cookie value with the token ID. The goal is to perform tests with the token.
https://testcafe.io/

The other day, after a discussion online, we came to the conclusion that using awk+sed+tr could replace much of the development that requires a database. However, using SQLite to have a SQL syntax isn’t a bad idea either. What do you think?

iPhone 17 Pro to Use Advanced Cooling System for Better Performance
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models will utilize vapor chamber cooling technology to improve thermal performance, according to the Chinese leaker known as Instant Digital.

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Vapor chamber technology is already common in many premium Android smartphones. By dispersing heat across a larger s … ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.1
This is mostly a bugfix release over version 1.9.0.

The main fix is the rust JID implementation that would behave incorrectly when
hashed if the JID contained non-ascii characters. This is an important issue as
using a non-ascii JID was mostly broken, and interacting with one failed in
interesting ways.

• The previously mentioned JID hash issue
  
• Various edge cases in the roster code
  
• One edge case in the MUC ( [XEP-0045](https: … ⌘ Read more

Dapr in Two Minutes: Simplifying Distributed Application Development
Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) takes the pain out of building distributed applications by offering developers simple “building block” APIs to manage the challenges of connecting with complex infrastructure. Developers can use these APIs to interact with… ⌘ Read more

US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies
Nina Lakhani,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Once again, the corrupt majority on the Supreme Court has decided against wellbeing.  Depending on where you live, and you will have to check, your local water supplies may become more polluted.

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@prologic@twtxt.net oops, I’m sorry to see disagreement leading to draining emotions.

It remind me a bit of the Conclave movie where every part wanted to defend their vision and there is only a winner. If one wins the other loses. Like the political side of many leaders and volunteers representing a broad community. I don’t think that’s the case here. Most of us (in not all) should ‘win’.

I can only add that isn’t nice to listen that ‘my idea and effort’ is not what the rest of the people expect. I personally have a kind of issue with public rejection, but I also like to argue, discuss and even fight a bit. “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials,” they say.
This exercise and belonging to this community also brings me good feelings of smart people trying to solve a human and technical problem, which is insanely difficult to get ‘right’.

I genuinely hope we can understand each other, and even with our different and respectful thoughts on the same thing, we might reach an agreement on what’s the best for most people.

Good vibes to everyone!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org deeply honored to be used as an example, when illustrating things that will break! :-D <3

Apple Maps EV Routing for Ford Vehicles Now Supports Tesla Chargers
Ford Mustang Mach-E and Ford F-150 Lightning customers that use the Apple Maps EV Routing feature in CarPlay can now be automatically routed to EV chargers that use the North American Charging Standard (NACS), [Ford announced today](https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/nacs-fast-charger-routing-ford-customers-apple-maps-carp … ⌘ Read more

Why not just use registry? It can be personal or hosted by someone like registry.twtxt.org. Just need to be adapt to support hashes

If we don’t keep insisting on simplify and “The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One.”, then people should just use ActivityPub-based software like Mastodon, PixelFed, etc. which are getting a lot of attention and uses migrating to the fediverse from meta/x here in Denmark over the last couple of months.

US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum
Marianne Lavelle,  Staff Writer  -  Inside Climate News

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump, by his actions and orders, makes it clear that he doesn’t believe climate change is real, and using his foying monkeys, he is doing everything in his power to cripple America’s response to this ongoing disaster. Here is the latest proof of what I am saying. If Trump remains President for the next four years, t … ⌘ Read more

New study reveals unifying theme behind homelessness — and it’s not drug use
,    -  Good Good Good | Case Western Reserve University

_Stephan: In American cities all over the country, homelessness is becoming a growing problem. In 2022, according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the United States approximately 18 out of 10,000 Americans, or 582 … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net We can’t agree on this idea because that makes things even more complicated than it already is today. The beauty of twtxt is, you put one file on your server, done. One. Not five million. Granted, there might be archive feeds, so it might be already a bit more, but still faaaaaaar less than one file per message.

Also, you would need to host not your own hash files, but everybody else’s as well you follow. Otherwise, what is that supposed to achieve? If people are already following my feed, they know what hashes I have, so this is to no use of them (unless they want to look up a message from an archive feed and don’t process them). But the far more common scenario is that an unknown hash originates from a feed that they have not subscribed to.

Additionally, yarnd’s URL schema would then also break, because https://twtxt.net/twt/<hash> now becomes https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/<hash>, https://twtxt.net/user/bender/<hash> and so on. To me, that looks like you would only get hashes if they belonged to this particular user. Of course, you could define rules that if there is a /user/ part in the path, then use a different URL, but this complicates things even more.

Sorry, I don’t like that idea.

10 Wacky but Fascinating New Health Stories
Human health findings aren’t always dignified. Sometimes, they’re wacky, goofy, or maybe a bit head-scratching. But here’s a great thing about them: no matter how downright silly sounding they may seem, they’re still usually useful. Or at least, they provide an amusing tidbit to share with a friend over your beverage of choice. The following […]

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John-Doggett releases ‘Monerod Node Setup Scripts’ v0.4.0
John-Doggett1 has released Monerod-Node-Setup-Scripts 2 version 0.4.03 with a bugfix for the certificate renewals script4 and various improvements:

This release fixes an issue with the watch_certificates_xmr.sh script that checks the certificate from caddy and copies it over to monerod. If you have an existing install using HTTPS, you must download the new watch_certificates_xmr.sh and … ⌘ Read more

We’ve now had centimeters of rainfall in the last 24hrs 😱 – Yesterday afternoon the local creek near us had already gone several inches ov …
We’ve now had centimeters of rainfall in the last 24hrs 😱 – Yesterday afternoon the local creek near us had already gone several inches over the footbridge too! 😱😱 ⌘ Read more

re reading so NewRAMStorage(…) is just something that setups your storage and initial data.. that can probably live with storage/sqlite. The point is the storage package does not import the implementations of storage.Storage It just defines the contract for things that use that interface. Now storage/sqlite CAN import storage and not have a circle dep.

It kinda works in reverse for import directions. usually you have your root package that imports things from deeper in the directory structures.. but for the case of interfaces it reverses where the deeper can import from parents but parents cannot import from children.

- app < storage
      < storage/sqlite
      < controller < storage
                   < storage/sqlite
 
- sqlite < storage

- storage X storage/sqlite

re reading so NewRAMStorage(…) is just something that setups your storage and initial data.. that can probably live with storage/sqlite. The point is the storage package does not import the implementations of storage.Storage It just defines the contract for things that use that interface. Now storage/sqlite CAN import storage and not have a circle dep.

It kinda works in reverse for import directions. usually you have your root package that imports things from deeper in the directory structures.. but for the case of interfaces it reverses where the deeper can import from parents but parents cannot import from children.

- app < storage
      < storage/sqlite
      < controller < storage
                   < storage/sqlite
 
- sqlite < storage

- storage X storage/sqlite

Ontario will tariff electricity going to 3 US states on Monday, premier says
Ashleigh Fields,  Staff Writer  -  The Hill

_Stephan: If you live in Michigan, Minnesota, and New York expect your electric bill to go up significantly, because much of your electricity comes from Canada, and Ontario is now responding to the Trump tariffs. But as bad as that is, I think what criminal Trump is doing is far worse than anyone in media is really talking about. … ⌘ Read more

The Rise of the Brutal American
Anne Applebaum,  Staff Writer  -  The Atlantic | msn

_Stephan: As the world watches, “king” Trump is not only destroying our democracy and our economy, he also destroying the reputation of the United States as a trustworthy ally by aligning us with dictators and against NATO. By his actions against Ukraine, this monster is effectively killing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Ukrainians. I think it is very clear that Putin has something he is holding over Trump’ … ⌘ Read more

10 Famous Artists Who Radically Switched Styles
All artists have to begin somewhere. An artist usually achieves fame using a signature style instantly recognizable as their own. The contemporary world of painting boasts multiple genres of realism and abstraction, the result of bold pioneers experimenting with their craft in the quest for more meaningful self-expression. Often, these painters began their careers conservatively […]

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I adopted a cat who was having litterbox issues at the shelter. She’s doing amazing and is so sweet (and using the litter box just fine!). Meet Theodora! ⌘ Read more

Musk, Trump Allies Use Impeachment Threats to Intimidate Federal Judges — What You Need To Know
Jacob Knutson,    -  Democracy Docket

_Stephan: Criminal Trump, his Frankenstein Musk (or is it the other way round) and the Congressional flying monkeys are encouraging their MAGAt followers to subvert the integrity of the U.S. judicial system – they already have a corrupt majority in the Supreme Court – by encouraging the MAGAts to th … ⌘ Read more

Norway fuel giant ‘refuses to fill US forces’ after Trump-Zelensky clash
Alex Evans,  Deputy Audience Editor  -  Express (U.K.)

Stephan: Trump is destroying a network of strategically important connections that have kept us safe for 80 years.  Here is how it is playing out. This trend may seem irrelevant to your life, but it isn’t.

A petrol giant in Norway has announced a ban on fuel sales to all US forces following [Donald Trump](https://www.express. … ⌘ Read more

10 Everyday Fashion Items That Were Originally Designed for War
History has a funny way of taking battlefield necessities and turning them into fashion statements. Some of the most stylish and essential pieces in our wardrobes started with a much more practical and sometimes downright deadly purpose. From keeping soldiers warm to ensuring they had room for extra ammo (or snacks, as we now use […]

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@xuu@txt.sour.is My layout looks like this:

• storage/
  
  • storage.go: defines a Storage interface
    
  • sqlite.go: implements the Storage interface
    
  • sqlite_test.go: originally had a function to set up a test storage to test the SQLite storage implementation itself: newRAMStorage(testing.T, $initialData) *Storage
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds.go: uses a Storage
    
  • feeds_test.go: here I wanted to reuse the newRAMStorage(…) function
    

I then tried to relocate the newRAMStorage(…) into a

• teststorage/
  
  • storage.go: moved here as NewRAMStorage(…)
    

so that I could just reuse it from both

• storage/
  
  • sqlite_test.go: uses testutils.NewRAMStorage(…)
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds_test.go: uses testutils.NewRamStorage(…)
    

But that results into an import cycle, because the teststorage package imports storage for storage.Storage and the storage package imports testutils for testutils.NewRAMStorage(…) in its test. I’m just screwed. For now, I duplicated it as newRAMStorage(…) in controller/feeds_test.go.

I could put NewRAMStorage(…) in storage/testutils.go, which could be guarded with //go:build testutils. With go test -tags testutils …, in storage/sqlite_test.go could just use NewRAMStorage(…) directly and similarly in controller/feeds_test.go I could call storage.NewRamStorage(…). But I don’t know if I would consider this really elegant.

The more I think about it, the more appealing it sounds. Because I could then also use other test-related stuff across packages without introducing other dedicated test packages. Build some assertions, converters, types etc. directly into the same package, maybe even make them methods of types.

If I went that route, I might do the opposite with the build tag and make it something like !prod instead of testing. Only when building the final binary, I would have to specify the tag to exclude all the non-prod stuff. Hmmm.

Erlang Solutions: Understanding Big Data in Healthcare
Healthcare generates large amounts of data every day. From patient records and medical scans to treatment plans and clinical trials. This information, known as big data, has the potential to improve patient care, improve efficiency, and drive innovation. But many organisations are still figuring out how to use it effectively.

With AI-driven analytics, wearable technology, and real-time monitoring, healthcare providers, insurers, and phar … ⌘ Read more

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 co-located event deep dive: OpenFeature Summit
Co-chairs: Michael Beemer, Jonathan Norris, Thomas PoignantApril 1, 2025London At the OpenFeature Summit, we want attendees to leave with a deep understanding of the latest trends and real-world use cases in feature flagging. This event is… ⌘ Read more

Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
Damian Carrington,  Environment Editor  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: What this article is telling us is that a tiny percentage of humans are endangering the matrix of life on Earth. As this report says, “Global emissions must fall by 45% by 2030 if the world is to have a good chance o … ⌘ Read more

10 Shocking Incidents Involving Zoo and Circus Animals
While we occasionally hear about disturbing incidents at a zoo or circus, many times involving an animal on the loose or a patron who wanders into an animal’s habitat, some of these stories are particularly strange or shocking. The circumstances surrounding such incidents can be as surprising as the event itself, including the use of […]

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iOS 18.4 to Include AI-Generated Review Summaries in App Store
Apple has begun rolling out AI-generated summaries of App Store reviews in the latest iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 beta releases. The feature uses large language models to analyze user reviews and condense common themes into a short paragraph.

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First spotted by _[Macworld](https://www.macworld.com/article/2628166/ios-18-4-beta-introduces-ai-powere … ⌘ Read more

it seems to be confused with the subject right next to it.. it works better at the end of the twt string.
Yarn won’t display anything. but the parser does add it to the AST in a way that you can parse it out using twt.Attrs().Get("lang")

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/ast.go#L1270-L1272

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-types/src/branch/main/twt.go#L473-L478

it seems to be confused with the subject right next to it.. it works better at the end of the twt string.
Yarn won’t display anything. but the parser does add it to the AST in a way that you can parse it out using twt.Attrs().Get("lang")

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-lextwt/src/branch/main/ast.go#L1270-L1272

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/go-types/src/branch/main/twt.go#L473-L478

Time For Ubuntu to Drop Firefox?
With changes to Firefox’s Terms of Use, many Linux Distros (Fedora, Mint, & others) are now shipping Spyware. ⌘ Read more

Dang it! I ran into import cycles with shared test utilities again. :-( Either I have to copy this function to set up an in-memory test storage across packages or I have to put it in the storage package itself and guard it with a build tag that is only used in tests (otherwise I end up with this function in my production binary as well). I don’t like any of the alternatives. :-(

lang=en @xuu@txt.sour.is gotcha!
From that PR #17 I think it was reverted? We could discuss about metadata later this month, as it seems that I’m the only person using it.

I’ve added a [lang=en] to this twt to see current yarn behaviour.

Video: How to run dependency audits with GitHub Copilot
Learn to automate dependency management using GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, and Dependabot to eliminate manual checks, improve security, and save time for what really matters.

The post Video: How to run dependency audits with GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Not just for developers: How product and security teams can use GitHub Copilot
GitHub Copilot isn’t just for developers! Discover how product managers, security professionals, scrum masters, and more use GitHub Copilot to streamline tasks, automate workflows, and boost productivity across teams.

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Apple Has Finally Solved One of the MacBook Air’s Biggest Limitations
The new MacBook Air has a useful upgrade: it natively supports up to two external displays, in addition to the laptop’s built-in display.

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In other words, the latest MacBook Air can be used with a pair of external displays without nee … ⌘ Read more

Analysis Finds Trump Tariffs Will Cost Average US Family $1,600 or More Per Year
Jessica Corbett,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: I have seen several estimates on what the Trump MAGAt Party’s impact on the economy is going to cost each American household; this one seems the most fact-based. Maybe $1,600 this year is not that much to you, but to millions of U.S. families it is going to have a serious impact. And after the State of the U … ⌘ Read more

really? I think I haven’t seen it being used in the wild

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

For point 1 and others using the metadata tags. we have implemented them in yarnd as [lang=en][meta=data]

Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning
Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them.

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Tariffs Could Raise US Car Prices by Up to $12,000
Keith Naughton,  Staff Writer  -  Transport Topics | Bloomberg

Stephan: You are about to get another gift from “king” Trump’s coup; the cost of buying a new car, by design, particularly an electric vehicle, is about to skyrocket. There will also be fewer vehicles to choose from. Aren’t you Republican voters happy? You voted for this.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-03-at-4. … ⌘ Read more

Russia celebrates US foreign policy that now ‘coincides’ with Moscow’s worldview
Clea Caulcutt,  Staff Writer  -  Politico

_Stephan: This is like something out of an evil novel. Criminal Trump is dismantling the geopolitical balance that has prevailed in the world for 80 years. The United States is now partnering with the Russian dictator, against all the Western democracies. How can this be happening? In my opinion it is because Putin has somethi … ⌘ Read more

it’s been while since I’d stopped #window-manager hopping and just settled with #Herbstluftwm but I’m NGL, the River #Wayland compositor is starting to grow on me… I’m still not sure if it’s just me but something about it feels clean and snappy. The shortcuts in the vanilla/example configuration feel a bit clunky, but then again, it’s just me being used to the same old ones I keep adopting and replicating across WMs. I’ve got 0 energy for ricing so I’ll just roll with the vanilla config as is (maybe add in a short-cut for a launcher but that will be it).

Announcing the Beta Release of OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation using eBPF
The OpenTelemetry community is excited to announce the beta release of the OpenTelemetry Go Auto-Instrumentation project! This milestone brings us closer to our mission of making observability simple, accessible, and effective for Go applications. What is… ⌘ Read more

looks good to me!

About alice’s hash, using SHA256, I get 96473b4f or 96473B4F for the last 8 characters. I’ll add it as an implementation example.
The idea of including it besides the follow URL is to avoid calculating it every time we load the file (assuming the client did that correctly), and helps to track replies across the file with a simple search.

Also, watching your example I’m thinking now that instead of {url=96473B4F,id=1} which is ambiguous of which URL we are referring to, it could be something like:
{reply_to=[URL_HASH]_[TWT_ID]} / {reply_to=96473B4F_1}
That way, the ‘full twt ID’ could be 96473B4F_1.

Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump’s cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state
Yuki Noguchi,    -  npr

_Stephan: The ruthless, nasty incompetent madness of the Trump coup and its dismemberment of the CDC, and healthcare generally are beginning to impact states. Here is a story from Iowa, a state with an abnormally high cancer rate. Personally, I think this high rate is the result of the toxins used in chemical monoculture agriculture, … ⌘ Read more

What we know about Medicare ending telehealth coverage in April 2025
Amelia Clarke,  Contributing Writer  -  Snopes

_Stephan: The Trump coup is explicitly designed to make you and your family less healthy. Of course, Trump and his Frankenstein Musk don’t say that, but what they are doing tells us everything we need to know. There is an enormous amount of misinformation on the social media platforms about telemedicine. But this report on Snopes, I think, ca … ⌘ Read more

True. Though if the idea turns out to be better.. then community will adopt it.

if you look at the subject for that twt you will see that it uses the extended hash format to include a URL address.

True. Though if the idea turns out to be better.. then community will adopt it.

if you look at the subject for that twt you will see that it uses the extended hash format to include a URL address.

Firefox Maker Gaslights Users: The reason we say we sell your data is because we sell your data.
Mozilla, in damage control, updates controversial Terms of Use… ⌘ Read more

Why a Chinese gadget maker beat Apple on electric vehicles
While the US tech giant has burned over $16 billion in its failed attempt to make an electric car, this Chinese phone maker is pumping out thousands of vehicles. ⌘ Read more

SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.4
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.43 with various new features and fixes.

New Features:
* Added RPC-SSL support for Monero node connections
* Removed deprecated --config command line parameter
* Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.3 is available on Github4.

Before using the software, you should v … ⌘ Read more

[WTS] [FR/DE] I can buy any ACER / PREDATOR product and ship it to you

You pay the public price (including if there is a promo), but in XMR. I make a custom private order, we can use escrow for the transaction (mediator). I buy it with fiat, ACER STORE will ship it directly from their stock to you. Everything is brand new.

Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/rQSb/

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We went up our backyard mountain again right after lunch. The sun peaked through the clouds sometimes. The 6°C felt much, much cooler with the northeast wind. We got lucky, though, it was dead calm at the summit. At least on the southwestern side, which is a few meters lower than the very top to the east. That was shielded absolutely perfectly from the wind (we were extremely surprised), so we sat down on a bench and could really enjoy the sun heating us up. Apart from the haze, the view was really nice.

There were even patches of snow left up top, that was unexpected. Also, somebody created a cool rock art piece on a tree stump. That one rock absolutely looked like a face. Crazy!

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Enjoy: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-01/

Bezos’ changes at ‘Washington Post’ lead to mass subscription cancellations — again
David Folkenflik,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: I have been a subscriber of The Washington Post for half a century, and back in the 1970s wrote and published several pieces in the Post. It was the prestige newspaper in Washington, D.C., then edited by Ben Bradlee.  Steve Issacs, then the editor of the Sunday magazine, the Post used to publish, gave me virtually … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @david@collantes.us Good question, was this on live TV? I think it was? 🤔

Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 9, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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![‘Owning and using Monero is not a crime’ picture](/assets/img/art/25-9/owning-and-using-monero-is-not-a-cri … ⌘ Read more

(#na4skgq) @david@david What da actual fuck?! Was this actually televised live? 🤔
@david @collantes.us What da actual fuck?! Was this actually televised live? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

Deals: AirTags 4-pack for $65
AirTags are powerful and handy personal trackers for being able to track and locate your possessions with the Find My network, whether you’re keeping an eye on your luggage, purse, briefcase, car, bike, scooter, a dog, cat, horse, cow (hey why not?), package, or just about anything else you can imagine would be useful to … Read More ⌘ Read more

The Firefox “Terms of Use” Backlash Threatens to Destroy What’s Left of Mozilla
Mozilla accidentally shares internal Google Doc with Lunduke (for one minute). ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I don’t see a burst of new twtxt clients popping up. Yeah, the most recent ones are TwtxtReader and twtxt-el. Did I miss one? I agree with @david@collantes.us, looks normal to me. :-)

I’m also working on my rewrite at the moment, but that started… *looking at the git history*… oh wow! O_o Over two years ago! I just implemented jumping to the next/previous unread message.

HeliBoard might be the first one of these fully open source Android keyboards, that doesn’t suck, idk, I’m still in the process of testing it, but I already like it a lot more than any of the ones I used before it.

Setting it up was somewhat clunky, but once you set it all up and dile in the settings, the keyboard itself, feels really great to use.

Quickly Edit & Cut Video Lossless on Mac with LosslessCut
Whether you’re a regular video and audio editor or just have occasional needs to do so, you might appreciate using the handy free LosslessCut app, the “swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing”, which allows for lossless editing and cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut lets you quickly extract, remove, add, and combine audio … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/27/quickly-edit-cut-video-lossle … ⌘ Read more

Quickly Edit & Cut Video Lossless on Mac with LosslessCut
Whether you’re a regular video and audio editor or just have occasional needs to do so, you might appreciate using the handy free LosslessCut app, the “swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing”, which allows for lossless editing and cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut lets you quickly extract, remove, add, and combine audio … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/27/quickly-edit-cut-video-lossle … ⌘ Read more

working on my bookmarks tool, I found out that http(s)://domain.tls is not a valid resource, but http(s)://domain.tls/ is, as you can see here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2581423

I suppose that internally the wget/curl or whatever client you are using is redirecting it?

Use Firefox? Mozilla Says it Can Use Your Data However it Wants.
“When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information,” says Mozilla. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, well, what they want is for us to become hopeless and give up. We should just try. Not wait and … wait.