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I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:

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I think this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.

I plugged it in again and it still works:

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The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)

I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:

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Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering ATA.

I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.

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Workers at top US consumer watchdog sound warning as Trump bids to gut agency
Michael Sainato, Ā Ā  - Ā The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan:Ā The fascist Trumpian coup continues, and one of its main goals, to turn Americans into powerless peasants, escalates. One of its strategies, as this article in the British newspaper The Guardian describes, is that you and I will no longer have any place to turn if we are cheated or ripped off by a corporation. A bipart … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @bender Basically the way I'm reading this is 1 RPM. This is a rather aggressive rate limit actually. This basically makes Github inaccessible and useless for basically anything unless you're logged in. You can basically kiss "pursuing" casually, anonymously goodbye.

@prologic@twtxt.net right. I wonder what prompted the measure. Perhaps Microsoft doesn’t want any scrapper but Copilot to be lurking around? That might even sound as anti-competitive. I wonder how long will it take for lawsuits to kick in.

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In-reply-to » I'm thinking of bringing back filters (this time not as a feature flag, just baked in): New filters: Hide Feed, Hide Bots, Hide News, Media Only, No Replies, Local Only — toggle to trim noise & surface the Twts you care about.

That should minimise the need for muting all those awkward feeds, I figure. :-D Sounds good!

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In-reply-to » i started a little thing on my dreamwidth and called it a flash prompt box. basically it's a limited time thing where people can prompt me for stuff i'm offering, like short fanfiction, photoshop-edited user icons, music recs, and a bit more! i'm having sooo much fun with it so far it's been a blast just making stuff for friends :)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz This sounds cool! šŸ˜Ž Can you show me? šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » grafana is confusing af i deployed it again for my job (that is so wild to say...) and i'm like HOW DO THESE ALERTS WORK

@prologic@twtxt.net noted! that all sounds very scary to me but i should lock in for the best experience for my users! (the best experience for my users is my server not crashing most of the time though so i guess the next best experience LOL)

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In-reply-to » @kat I've almost fixed this btw šŸ¤— Just testing it thoroughly and polihsing the code. In case you're curious, I do this style of development called "Observability Driven Development" (ODD) whereby I make observations of the system via metrics and internal observations and adjust the system's overall behavior to the desired outcome šŸ˜…

I am sure it wasn’t your intention (not even remotely), but it sounds a lot like corporate bullshit. Hahahaha! Are you sure you haven’t been institutionalised?

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In-reply-to » @kat I've almost fixed this btw šŸ¤— Just testing it thoroughly and polihsing the code. In case you're curious, I do this style of development called "Observability Driven Development" (ODD) whereby I make observations of the system via metrics and internal observations and adjust the system's overall behavior to the desired outcome šŸ˜…

@prologic@twtxt.net ODD, lol. I don’t wanna be rude, but this sounds more like Code And Fix.

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In-reply-to » Someone has started to run git pull on one of my repos – once every two minutes. This is a very pointless endeavour. I push new code a couple of times per month.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You better push new code sooner!!

As @bender@twtxt.net says, that sounds like a bot. I’d just block the IP address, hoping it doesn’t change all the time. But then you know for sure that it’s the AI fuckwits.

Also, the devil in me thinks it’s funny to swap out the repo in question for something entirely different. :-D

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In-reply-to » I’m thinking of building a hardened peering protocol for Yarn.social’s yarnd: pods establish cryptographic identities, exchange signed /info and /twt payloads with signature verification, ensuring authenticity, integrity, and spoof-proof identity validation across the distributed network.

Sounds like a good plan. When can we expect this; end of the month? :-P

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In-reply-to » Testing mentions, immediately followed by commas. Let's see: @prologic, this one is local, it might not break. Now, this one @ isn't local. Nor this @ one. Will they break. Let's find out!

hehe, just catching up on this thread! I’ve replied in another that using periods/dots sounds good to me as it’s usual in domains, but perhaps some agreement would be needed. For now I think any character is valid as long as it is not a space.
For example we are using this for PHP twtxt.php#L153

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In-reply-to » I had Chick-fil-A breakfast today (sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit, hash browns, coffee, and orange juice). Then at lunch my work place offered hot dogs. I had two (kosher, if that matters), plus a coke, a macadamia nuts cookie, and a small chocolate brownie.

@bender@twtxt.net Hell yeah, that sounds like a good day!

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In-reply-to » šŸ’” I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social šŸ˜… There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as "client" features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

@prologic@twtxt.net these sound so fun! i’m all for them

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In-reply-to » AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, speaking of locally running ā€œAIā€ stuff: Someone on Mastodon has this in their profile description:

My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.

That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? šŸ˜‚

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In-reply-to » @kate @eldersnake @abucci -- I've already spoken to @xuu on IRC about this, but the new SqliteCache backend I'm working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache (which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? šŸ¤”

@prologic@twtxt.net best of luck!!! discover view having no limit sounds scary oh god lol

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In-reply-to » @kate @eldersnake @abucci -- I've already spoken to @xuu on IRC about this, but the new SqliteCache backend I'm working on here, what are your thoughts regarding mgirations from old MemoryCache (which is now gone in the codebase in this branch). Do you care to migrate at all, or just let the pod re-fetch all feeds? šŸ¤”

I don’t think I’d personally be worried about migrating, just re-fetch. Sounds cleaner anyway?
Sorry I’m late to the party!

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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:

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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

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Pam Bondi orders DOJ to drop case accusing Georgia of suppressing Black voters
David Edwards, Ā Staff WriterĀ  - Ā Raw Story

Stephan:Ā Pam Bondi, incomprehensibly the Attorney General of the United States looks to me like a Barbie doll and sounds about as competent as one. But she is an unfailingly loyal vassal of psychopath ā€œmonarchā€ Trump and is doing his bidding to destroy voting rights in the country. Here is the latest in that trend.

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In-reply-to » Guilty pleasure, blasphemy, shitty audio, … something like that. Seven Nation Army on double bass. 🤪 https://movq.de/v/e3a4dcff2e/sad-nation-army.ogg

Not in the mood to deal with reality today, so here’s another one of those silly things: https://movq.de/v/68c61f8ecc/r2_session.ogg This time on electric bass, tuned down to B-standard because oomph. (Well, sounds okay on my headphones, but I’m obviously no sound engineer. 🤪)

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Customize Adaptive Audio on AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2
Apple’s AirPods 4 and second-generation AirPods Pro have an Adaptive Audio feature that includes Adaptive Noise Control, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness, which are all features that adjust sound and Active Noise Cancellation in response to the environment around you. If you haven’t used Adaptive Audio, it could be worth a look – especially since iOS 18 allows you more control over the feature.

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I always find the ā€˜Adven of code’ challenges difficult to follow.
i18n-puzzles.com has been a blast, but I don’t like having to think about puzzles on weekends. Like with exercise, doing it every day without rest doesn’t sound healthy.

I’d rater have a weekly challenge, at most three.

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ā€˜DOGE has broken into our building’: Nonprofit sounds alarm as Musk’s team forces way in
Erik De La Garza, Ā Staff WriterĀ  - Ā Raw Story

_Stephan:Ā So the United States under the authority of psychopath Trump and his co-president Elon Musk have now recreated the Gestapo, the Third Reich’s secret political police force, within the Prussian police department. This is the second time DOGE has used armed federal officers to force their way into an … ⌘ Read more

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10 Noteworthy Rock Bands That Don’t Have a Drummer
No matter where you are in the world, everyone knows the sound of a rock band: vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. Simple, effective, and easy to recreate in your own living room or garage. But, while drums are generally considered an essential part of the rock band sound—driving the beat, maintaining the rhythm, and providing […]

The post [10 Noteworthy Rock Bands That Don’t Have a Drummer](https://listverse.com/2025/03/13/10-notewo … ⌘ Read more

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It’s been ages since the last time we’ve had as much and as frequent of a rainfall as we’ve been having this week. The smell, the sounds, the wind pushing against my body … are taking over my senses with joy, leaving no room for worryā„¢ (about the possibility of a flood).

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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 […]

The post [10 Wacky but Fascinating New Health Stories](https://listverse.com/2025/03/09/10-wacky-but … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » 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. :-(

@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.

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Hey everyone!

About the idea of improving the ā€œthreadā€ extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.

The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.

What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!

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How to Turn Off AMBER Alerts on Apple Watch & iPhone
AMBER alerts are well intentioned and aim to help locate missing children, but can also be incredibly disruptive and jarring, thus many iPhone and Apple Watch users might want to disable AMBER alerts on their devices. By turning off AMBER alerts, you will avoid the sudden screeching loud alarm sound that is disruptive to whatever … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/24/how-to-turn-off-amber-alerts-on-apple-watch-iphone/ … ⌘ Read more

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10 Icons from History Who Actually Went by Fake Names
You might not know it, but far more famous people than you realize rocketed to celebrity status using fake names. We’re not talking about actors here, either. It’s commonplace for actors to take a stage name that sounds better, different, or more memorable than their real name. It’s happened countless times and doesn’t exactly warrant […]

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iOS 18.4 Adds New Ambient Music Feature
In iOS 18.4, there’s a new Ambient Music option that can be added to Control Center. There are four different sound categories, including Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing.

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Each category can be added to Control Center separately, and tapping one plays a random selection of sounds or music from that particular category.

You can’t choose what’s playing from Control Center, but if … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » I got promoted today to try using Passkeys on Github.com. Fine šŸ˜… I did that, but I discovered that when you use your Passkey to login, Chrome prompts you for your device's password (i.e: The password you use to login to your macOS Desktop). Is that intentional? Kind of defeats the point no? I mean sure, now there's no Password being transmitted, stored or presented to Github.com but still, all an attacker has to do is somehow be on my device and know my login password to my device right? Is that better or worse? šŸ¤”

@prologic@twtxt.net That boycott didn’t last very long, eh!?

Yeah, sounds like another hype train arriving at the station.

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In-reply-to » Have you ever had to refactor a project that was not documented? Any suggestions?

ok, sounds like a ā€˜large’ project to me.
Is it more an API (more oriented to developers), more oriented to UI/UX/Frontend? Perhaps both?

I’d go with prologic’s advice of measuring and prioritizing. Perhaps you have a budget or at least something like ā€œlet’s see how far can we reach in 6 monthsā€, and possibly you won’t finish in the time you have (just guessing).

Something that has helped me was defining ā€œWhy do you we want to refactor this project?ā€.
Could it be to make it compile on newer versions, or making it easier to grow and scale, or perhaps they are trying to sell that product to another company. Every reason has a different path, IMO.

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Cyrix126 releases Gupaxx v1.8.0
Cyrix1261 has released Gupaxx 2 version 1.8.03 with various improvements and bugfixes:

This release is making the use of advanced submenu and simple submenu together sound. New feature to hide tabs you don’t use. New fields in advanced submenu for Node,P2Pool,Xmrig and Proxy tabs.

Changes overview


[UI] Node: button to enable "fast mode"
[UI] P2pool: binding port field
[UI] Xmrig: token field
[Internal] processes are now aware of custom va ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cyrix126-releases-gupaxx-v1.8.0/)

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10 Dishes That Aren’t from the Place They’re Named After
We all tell little white lies sometimes. Whether it’s to spare someone’s feelings or make ourselves sound just a little bit cooler, these little fibs are generally gone in the blink of an eye. But sometimes lies stick around. Foods, in particular, have a way of being named after the places they’re from. Or are […]

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In-reply-to » To all my EU friends out there, is it this hardā„¢ to reach a human in European companies that allow, perform or permit silly shenanigans? šŸ¤” Or is it just US companies? šŸ¤”

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

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

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

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

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10 Times People Tried to Weaponize Music
Music has been a powerful tool for expression, unity, and emotion throughout human history. But in some cases, music has been twisted into a weapon—used to intimidate, manipulate, and even psychologically torment. From ancient battlefields to modern interrogations, these moments reveal how sound can be wielded as a force of control and chaos. Here are […]

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In-reply-to » šŸ¤” Prosoal: Disallowed the @<url> form of mentions. Strictly require that all mentions include a nickname/name; i.e: @<name url>.

Sounds about as complex as adding @nick@domain support by doing a webfinger lookup to get the URL.

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In-reply-to » šŸ¤” Prosoal: Disallowed the @<url> form of mentions. Strictly require that all mentions include a nickname/name; i.e: @<name url>.

Sounds about as complex as adding @nick@domain support by doing a webfinger lookup to get the URL.

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Religious Leaders Experiment With AI In Sermons
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: To members of his synagogue, the voice that played over the speakers of Congregation Emanu El in Houston sounded just like Rabbi Josh Fixler’s. In the same steady rhythm his congregation had grown used to, the voice delivered a sermon about what it meant to be a neighbor in the age of artificial intelligence. Then, Rabbi Fix … ⌘ Read more

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HackerBox 0110 Explores MIDI and Synth Technology with Raspberry Pi Pico 2
HackerBox 0110 offers a hands-on kit for synthesizer technology, showcasing the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. Equipped with the RP2350 microcontroller, the kit enables exploration of MIDI technology, sound synthesis, and digital audio applications, providing tools for both learning and experimentation. The Raspberry Pi Pico 2 was launched last year, offering significant hardware […] ⌘ Read more

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[LTH] Monero Talk/MoneroTopia needs your help

We’re looking for a passionate Monero fan to help us find and reach out to guests for Monero Talk and MoneroTopia shows on a weekly basis. This is a small gig (we will tip!), not a full-time job—perfect for someone who knows Monero deeply, values freedom tech, lives the ā€œopt-outā€ ethos, and is already an avid fan of our shows! We need someone reliable, proactive, and excited about helping us expand the reach of these shows. If this sounds like you, email us with the subject: ā€œHelp wi … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s ā€˜Government of Billionaires’ Boasts Combined Wealth Greater Than New Zealand’s GDP
David Gilmour, Ā Staff WriterĀ  - Ā msn | MEDIAite

_Stephan:Ā On January 20th we will officially become a government of oligarchs, grifters, and sex offenders, headed by a multiple felon, rapist, and traitor.Ā  Welcome to the USA. That may sound like a politically partisan statement, but it isn’t. It is a simple statement of fact. One can only imagine h … ⌘ Read more

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Here is Apple’s Annual Holiday Season Ad
Apple today shared its annual holiday season ad. The video is titled ā€œHeartstringsā€ and highlights the new hearing aid feature on AirPods Pro 2.

ā€œFor so many of us, sound and how we hear shape how we connect to the world around us,ā€ said Apple, in the video description. ā€œYet, people with hearing loss wait an average of 10 years before getting their hearing tested and fitted for heari … ⌘ Read more

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Fun: Retro-fy MacOS with Old System Sounds, Tiling Wallpapers, & Classic Finder
While the only Time Machine we know of is the easy to use and fantastic backup tool for Mac users, some of us have geeky dreams of digital time machines, where we can get lost in flashbacks to retro computing, like the early Macintosh days of Classic MacOS System 7. While there are ways to … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/11/25/fun-retro-fy-macos-with-old-system-sounds … ⌘ Read more

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woodser releases Haveno v1.0.12 with various fixes and improvements
woodser1 has released Haveno2 version 1.0.123 with various improvements, updates, and bug fixes.

Changes overview


Update to monero-project v0.18.3.4 and monero-java v0.8.33
Play sounds for notifications (can be disabled in Settings)
Schedule offers using available and pending funds
Support AppImage installer for Linux
Fix exporting and importing payment accounts across clients
Reclassify mainnet nodes as pub ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/woodser-releases-haveno-v1.0.12/)

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In-reply-to » @prologic I’m sure you can somehow install something that calculates blake2b on OpenBSD. But it’s not part of the base system as a standalone CLI tool, there only appear to be Perl modules for it. The other SHA tools do exist.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i’m sorry if I sound too contrarian. I’m not a fan of using an obscure hash as well. The problem is that of future and backward compatibility. If we change to sha256 or another we don’t just need to support sha256. But need to now support both sha256 AND blake2b. Or we devide the community. Users of some clients will still use the old algorithm and get left behind.

Really we should all think hard about how changes will break things and if those breakages are acceptable.

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In-reply-to » @prologic I’m sure you can somehow install something that calculates blake2b on OpenBSD. But it’s not part of the base system as a standalone CLI tool, there only appear to be Perl modules for it. The other SHA tools do exist.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i’m sorry if I sound too contrarian. I’m not a fan of using an obscure hash as well. The problem is that of future and backward compatibility. If we change to sha256 or another we don’t just need to support sha256. But need to now support both sha256 AND blake2b. Or we devide the community. Users of some clients will still use the old algorithm and get left behind.

Really we should all think hard about how changes will break things and if those breakages are acceptable.

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In-reply-to » Oh boy, I'm looking for trapezoidal (like ACME thread) screws and nuts in left hand form. The rods are already expensive, but nuts feel like a total ripoff. A hex nut for Tr20x2 being 30mm long and 30mm in "diameter" costs me 22 bucks! O_o Just a single one, made of regular steel. A meter of rod is 21€. The more common Tr20x4 hex nut is just 7€ and the rod 17€, but 4mm pitch is a bit much for a leadscrew for semi-precision work I reckon.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org what are you building now? The things you are mentioning I couldn’t even start wrapping my head around them! šŸ˜… They sure sound expensive, tough.

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Turning legacy to leverage: building developer platforms in brownfield environments
Member post originally published on the Syntasso blog by Cat Morris While building an internal developer platform sounds like something an engineering organisation would do – and often tries to do – from scratch, the reality is, most… ⌘ Read more

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HiFiBerry DAC8x and Amp4 Pro for High-Quality Multi-Channel and Stereo Sound
The HiFiBerry DAC8x and HiFiBerry Amp4 Pro are two significant upgrades for enhancing audio capabilities on the Raspberry Pi 5. These devices expand the audio options for users seeking higher-quality output and greater flexibility in audio configurations, offering solutions for both multi-channel audio and powerful stereo amplification. The HiFiBerry DAC8x addresses a long-standing limitation of […] ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » And finally the legibility of feeds when viewing them in their raw form are worsened as you go from a Twt Subject of (#abcdefg12345) to something like (https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt 2024-09-22T07:51:16Z).

Aggred. But reading twtxt in raw form sounds… I can’t do this

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Had to build a list of all feeds (that I follow) and all twts in them and there are two collisions already:

$ ./stats
Saw 58263 hashes
7fqcxaa
  https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt
  https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
ntnakqa
  https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt
  https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt

Namely:

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/justamoment/twtxt.txt | grep 7fqcxaa

[7fqcxaa] [2022-12-28 04:53:30+00:00] [(#pmuqoca) @prologic@twtxt.net I checked the GitHub discussion, it became a request to join forces.

Do you plan on having them join?

Also for the name, how about:

  • ā€œprogitā€ or ā€œprologitā€ (prologic official hard fork)
  • ā€œgit-stanceā€ (git instance)
  • ā€œGitTreeā€ (Gitea inspired, maybe to related)
  • ā€œGitomataā€ (git automata)
  • ā€œGit.Sourceā€
  • ā€œForgorā€ (forgit is taken so I forgor) 🤣
  • ā€œSweetGitā€ (as salty chat)
  • ā€œPepper Gitā€ (other ingredients) šŸ˜‰
  • ā€œGitHeartā€ (core of git with a GitHub sounding name)
  • ā€œGitTakaā€ (With music in mind)

Ok, enough fun… Hope this helps sprout some ideas from others if nothing is to your taste.]

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/5 | grep 7fqcxaa

[7fqcxaa] [2022-02-25 21:14:45+00:00] [(#bqq6fxq) It’s handled by blue Monday]

And:

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/thecanine/twtxt.txt | grep ntnakqa
[ntnakqa] [2022-01-23 10:24:09+00:00] [(#2wh7r4q) <a href="https://txt.sour.is/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt">@prologic<em>@twtxt.net</em></a> I know, I was just hoping it might have also gotten fixed by that change, by some kind of backend miracles. šŸ˜‚]

$ jenny -D https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt/1 | grep ntnakqa
[ntnakqa] [2024-02-27 05:51:50+00:00] [(#otuupfq) <a href="https://txt.sour.is/external?uri=https://twtxt.net/user/shreyan/twtxt.txt">@shreyan<em>@twtxt.net</em></a>  Ahh šŸ‘Œ]

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In-reply-to » @prologic Yeah, that thing with (#hash;#originalHash) would also work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de

Maybe I’m being a bit too purist/minimalistic here. As I said before (in one of the 1372739 posts on this topic – or maybe I didn’t even send that twt, I don’t remember šŸ˜…), I never really liked hashes to begin with. They aren’t super hard to implement but they are kind of against the beauty of the original twtxt – because you need special client support for them. It’s not something that you could write manually in your twtxt.txt file. With @sorenpeter@darch.dk’s proposal, though, that would be possible.

Tangentially related, I was a bit disappointed to learn that the twt subject extension is now never used except with hashes. Manually-written subjects sounded so beautifully ad-hoc and organic as a way to disambiguate replies. Maybe I’ll try it some time just for fun.

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In-reply-to » The tag URI scheme looks interesting. I like that it human read- and writable. And since we already got the timestamp in the twtxt.txt it would be somewhat trivial to parse. But there are still the issue with what the name/id should be... Maybe it doesn't have to bee that stick?

@mckinley@twtxt.net Thanks for the feedback.

  1. Yeah I agrees that nick sound not be part of syntax. Any valid URL to a twtxt.txt-file should be enough and is more clear, so it is not confused with a email (one of the the issues with webfinger and fedivese handles)
  2. I think any valid URL would work, since we are not bound to look for exact matches. Accepting both http and https as well as a gemni and gophe could all work as long as the path to the twtxt.txt is the same.
  3. My idea is that you quote the timestamp as it is in the original twtxt.txt that you are referring to, so you can do it by simply copy/pasting. Also what are the change that the same human will make two different posts within the same second?!

Regarding the whole cryptographic keys for identity, to me it seems like an unnecessary layer of complexity. If you move to a new house or city you tell people that you moved - you can do the same in a twtxt.txt. Just post something like ā€œI move to this new URL, please follow me there!ā€ I did that with my feeds at least twice, and you guys still seem to read my posts:)

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