Tuve de ir ver ao estudo propriamente dito.
Parece que a PCGuia trocou as legendas de dois dos resultados e a coisa é ainda mais incrível que antes: só 3 em cada 10 trabalhadores em Portugal é que não usam IA no seu trabalho. Volto a perguntar: será credível?

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Segundo o resumo publicado na #PCGuia a um estudo da @kpmg@kpmg só 2 em cada 5 trabalhadores em Portugal não usam #IA. Será possível?

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Da mais recente newsletter da @climaximo@climaximo :

“Nos últimos dois anos, a Equipa Legal do Climáximo tem acompanhado quase cem pessoas que realizaram ações com risco de detenção, num total de 72 ações. Destes, 8 foram arquivados, 3 foram absolvidos, e em 10 casos as ativistas foram condenadas. Temos ainda uns 20 casos no tribunal, e mais 20 casos que podem vir a ser objeto de processos-crime.”

“Aqui queremos fazer uma pequena pausa para esclarecer que isto não é toda a repressão que o movimento pela justiça climática enfrenta. Isto é a parte que é visível para a equipa legal do Climáximo, e portanto exclui, por exemplo, a indemnização ao Luís Montenegro por causa do seu fato de luxo que ficou sujo numa ação da Greve Climática Estudantil.

E também não vemos como assunto separado os polícias que acompanharam os despejos em Loures nem os vários grupos neo-nazis que de repente veio a público estarem a preparar-se. Esta tendência de governo autoritário é estrutural e é uma resposta consciente por quem manda nesta sociedade, exatamente por perceberem a crise climática que têm alimentado.”

“Até agora, apoiantes do Climáximo participaram em ações diretas pela justiça climática e tiveram 8 casos concluídos e 2 ainda em recurso […] Isto por dizerem a verdade sobre a emergência climática.”

https://www.climaximo.pt/com-mais-de-40-casos-a-frente-e-ate-250-mil-euros-em-multas-no-futuro-a-resistencia-climatica-continua-a-ser-a-unica-saida-do-colapso-climatico/

Ah, so apparently they don’t like writing manpages anymore and instead use XML:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/doc/apt.8.xml

And then they use XSLT on top and what not:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/doc/manpage-style.xsl.cmake.in

It’s not even explicitly blue:

https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/blob/main/doc/apt.ent?ref_type=heads#L17

Abstractions upon abstractions upon abstractions.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de According to this screenshot, KDE still shows good old application icons: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/KDE_Plasma_5.21_Breeze_Twilight_screenshot.png

And GNOME used to have them, too: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Gnome-2-22_%284%29.png

I like the looks of your window manager. That’s using Wayland, right? The only thing on this screenshot to critique is all that wasted space of the windows not making use of the full screen!!!1 At least the file browser. 8-)

This drives me nuts when my workmates share their screens. I really don’t get it how people can work like that. You can’t even read the whole line in the IDE or log viewer with all the expanded side bars. And then there’s 200 pixels on the left and another 300 pixels on the right where the desktop wallpaper shows. Gnaa! There’s the other extreme end when somebody shares their ultra wide screen and I just have a “regularish” 16:10 monitor and don’t see shit, because it’s resized way too tiny to fit my width. Good times. :-D

Sorry for going off on a tangent here. :-) Back to your WM: It has the right mix of being subtle and still similar to motif. Probably close to the older Windowses. My memory doesn’t serve me well, but I think they actually got it fairly good in my opinion. Your purple active window title looks killer. It just fits so well. This brown one (https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-07-22/0/leafpads.png) gives me also classic vibes. Awww. We ran some similar brownish color scheme (don’t recall its name) on Win95 or Win98 for some time on the family computer. I remember other people visting us not liking these colors. :-D

Here’s an example of X11/Xlib being old and archaic.

X11 knows the data type “cardinal”. For example, the window property _NET_WM_ICON (which holds image data for icons) is an array of “cardinal”. I am already not really familiar with that word and I’m assuming that it comes from mathematics:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number

(It could also be a bird, but probably not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinalidae)

We would probably call this an “integer” today.

EWMH says that icons are arrays of cardinals and that they’re 32-bit numbers:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/latest-single/#id-1.6.13

So it’s something like 0x11223344 with 0x11 being the alpha channel, 0x22 is red, and so on.

You would assume that, when you retrieve such an array from the X11 server, you’d get an array of uint32_t, right?

Nope.

Xlib is so old, they use char for 8-bit stuff, short int for 16-bit, and long int for 32-bit:

https://x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/libX11/libX11.html#Obtaining_and_Changing_Window_Properties

That is congruent with the general C data types, so it does make sense:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types

Now the funny thing is, on modern x86_64, the type long int is actually 64 bits wide.

The result is that every pixel in a Pixmap, for example, is twice as large in memory as it would need to be. Just because Xlib uses long int, because uint32_t didn’t exist, yet.

And this is something that I wouldn’t know how to fix without breaking clients.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I spent so much time in the past figuring out if something is a dict or a list in YAML, for example.

What are the types in this example?

items:
- part_no:   A4786
  descrip:   Water Bucket (Filled)
  price:     1.47
  quantity:  4
- part_no:   E1628
  descrip:   High Heeled "Ruby" Slippers
  size:      8
  price:     133.7
  quantity:  1

items is a dict containing … a list of two other dicts? Right?

It is quite hard for me to grasp the structure of YAML docs. 😢

The big advantage of YAML (and JSON and TOML) is that it’s much easier to write code for those formats, than it is with XML. json.loads() and you’re done.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, this really could use a proper definition or a “manifest”. 😅 Many of these ideas are not very wide spread. And I haven’t come across similar projects in all these years.

Let’s take the farbfeld image format as an example again. I think this captures the “spirit” quite well, because this isn’t even about code.

This is the entire farbfeld spec:

farbfeld is a lossless image format which is easy to parse, pipe and compress. It has the following format:

╔════════╤═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗
║ Bytes  │ Description                                             ║
╠════════╪═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣
║ 8      │ "farbfeld" magic value                                  ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (width)                      ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ 4      │ 32-Bit BE unsigned integer (height)                     ║
╟────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╢
║ [2222] │ 4x16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-major ║
╚════════╧═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

The RGB-data should be sRGB for best interoperability and not alpha-premultiplied.

(Now, I don’t know if your screen reader can work with this. Let me know if it doesn’t.)

I think these are some of the properties worth mentioning:

• The spec is extremely short. You can read this in under a minute and fully understand it. That alone is gold.
  
• There are no “knobs”: It’s just a single version, it’s not like there’s also an 8-bit color depth version and one for 16-bit and one for extra large images and one that supports layers and so on. This makes it much easier to implement a fully compliant program.
  
• Despite being so simple, it’s useful. I’ve used it in various programs, like my window manager, my status bars, some toy programs like “tuxeyes” (an Xeyes variant), or Advent of Code.
  
• The format does not include compression because it doesn’t need to. Just use something like bzip2 to get file sizes similar to PNG.
  
• It doesn’t cover every use case under the sun, but it does cover the most important ones (imho). They have discussed using something other than RGBA and decided it’s not worth the trouble.
  
• They refrained from adding extra baggage like metadata. It would have needlessly complicated things.

Saw this on Mastodon:

https://racingbunny.com/@mookie/114718466149264471

18 rules of Software Engineering

1. You will regret complexity when on-call
   
2. Stop falling in love with your own code
   
3. Everything is a trade-off. There’s no “best” 3. Every line of code you write is a liability 4. Document your decisions and designs
   
4. Everyone hates code they didn’t write
   
5. Don’t use unnecessary dependencies
   
6. Coding standards prevent arguments
   
7. Write meaningful commit messages
   
8. Don’t ever stop learning new things
   
9. Code reviews spread knowledge
   
10. Always build for maintainability
    
11. Ask for help when you’re stuck
    
12. Fix root causes, not symptoms
    
13. Software is never completed
    
14. Estimates are not promises
    
15. Ship early, iterate often
    
16. Keep. It. Simple.
    

Solid list, even though 14 is up for debate in my opinion: Software can be completed. You have a use case / problem, you solve that problem, done. Your software is completed now. There might still be bugs and they should be fixed – but this doesn’t “add” to the program. Don’t use “software is never done” as an excuse to keep adding and adding stuff to your code.

fn sub(foo: &String) {
    println!("We got this string: [{}]", foo);
}

fn main() {
    // "Hello", 0x00, 0x00, "!"
    let buf: [u8; 8] = [0x48, 0x65, 0x6C, 0x6C, 0x6F, 0x00, 0x00, 0x21];

    // Create a string from the byte array above, interpret as UTF-8, ignore decoding errors.
    let lossy_unicode = String::from_utf8_lossy(&buf).to_string();

    sub(&lossy_unicode);
}

Create a string from a byte array, but the result isn’t a string, it’s a cow 🐮, so you need another to_string() to convert your “string” into a string.

• https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/string/struct.String.html#method.from_utf8_lossy
  
• https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/borrow/enum.Cow.html
  

I still have a lot to learn.

(into_owned() instead of to_string() also works and makes more sense to me, it’s just that the compiler suggested to_string() first, which led to this funny example.)

Hmmm 🧐 Not what I thought was going on… No bug…

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Podcast Besser Wissen: Das 8-bit-Steckschwein mit Pacman
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[$] The second half of the 6.16 merge window
The 6.16 merge window
closed on June 8, as
expected, containing 12,899 non-merge commits. This is
slightly more than the 6.15 merge window, but well in line with expectations.
7,353 of those were merged after
the summary of the first half of the merge\
window was written. More detailed statistics can be found in
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[$] Improving Fedora’s documentation
At Flock,
Fedora’s annual developer conference, held in Prague from June 5
to June 8, two members of the Fedora\
documentation team, Petr Bokoč and Peter Boy, led a\
session on the state of Fedora documentation. The pair covered a
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FreeBSD laptop support update
The FreeBSD Foundation
has announced
a report
for work completed in April to improve FreeBSD support for
laptops. This includes installer updates, improved suspend/resume
behavior, as well as progress on [a\
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Mieten steigen, Zufriedenheit bleibt hoch
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Atarino: Atari-Computer in Münzengröße vorgestellt
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Loyal dog’s barking alerts rescuers to pooch down mine shaft
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One of the nicest things about Go is the language itself, comparing Go to other popular languages in terms of the complexity to learn to be proficient in:

• Go: 25 keywords (Stack Overflow); CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)
  
• Python 2: 30 keywords (TutorialsPoint); GIL-bound threads & multiprocessing (Wikipedia)
  
• Python 3: 35 keywords (Initial Commit); GIL-bound threads, asyncio & multiprocessing (Wikipedia, DEV Community)
  
• Java: 50 keywords (Stack Overflow); threads + java.util.concurrent (Wikipedia)
  
• C++: 82 keywords (Stack Overflow); std::thread, atomics & futures (en.cppreference.com)
  
• JavaScript: 38 keywords (Stack Overflow); single-threaded event loop & async/await, Web Workers (Wikipedia)
  
• Ruby: 42 keywords (Stack Overflow); GIL-bound threads (MRI), fibers & processes (Wikipedia)
  

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Five new stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.14.8, 6.12.30, 6.6.92, 6.1.140, and 5.15.184 stable kernels. As usual, each
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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (mozilla-ublock-origin and sudo-rs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, compat-openssl10, grafana, osbuild-composer, redis:6, ruby:2.5, and webkit2gtk3), SUSE (dante, firefox-esr, gnuplot, govulncheck-vulndb, grype, postgresql13, postgresql14, postgresql15, postgresql16, postgresql17, python-tornado6, python314, thunderbird, ucode-intel, and xen), and Ubuntu (bind9, libfcgi-perl, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-oracle-5.4 … ⌘ Read more

6.14.8: stable
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Mortgage rates jump above 7% after Moody’s downgrade of U.S. credit
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_Stephan: As the Trump fascist coup dismantles the American economy, buying a house becomes ever more difficult. As this report describes, because of what the Trump coup has done, Moody’s dropped the United States’ credit rating and this, in turn, has caused mortgage rates to go above 7%. The average house price in the U.S. is currently $503,8 … ⌘ Read more

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Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point I’ll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable… It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with “only” 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.

At this point, I’ll probably settle for anything that doesn’t literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.

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**The Hidden Language: Exploiting GraphQL for Unauthorized Data Dump **

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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (fossil, libapache2-mod-auth-openidc, and request-tracker4), Fedora (thunderbird), Mageia (firefox and thunderbird), SUSE (389-ds, apparmor, cargo-c, chromium, go1.24, govulncheck-vulndb, java-1_8_0-openjdk, kanidm, libsoup, mozjs102, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, python-Django, sccache, tealdeer, tomcat, transfig, wasm-bindgen, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (libreoffice and python-h11). ⌘ Read more

Ça y est ! Nicolas, 35 ans, achète une maison !
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Enfin ! Après moults péripéties, d’incessants allers-retours pour des visites et des discussions sans fin avec sa femme autour des “points non-négociables”, Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) a enfin trouvé la maison idéale pour la petite famille. […] ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 8, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Debian and essential packages; Custom BPF OOM killers; Speculation barriers for BPF programs; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.

• Briefs: Deepin on openSUSE; AUTOSEL; Mission Center 1.0.0; OASIS ODF; Redis license; USENIX ATC; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (chromium and kappanhang), Red Hat (osbuild-composer and thunderbird), SUSE (chromedriver), and Ubuntu (c-ares, corosync, mysql-8.0, mysql-8.4, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, openjdk-24, openjdk-8, and openjdk-lts). ⌘ Read more

** I Slashed My Spring Boot Startup Time to 1.8**

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When people complain about Spring Boot being slow, it’s not entirely wrong — but it’s often misunderstood. Out of the box, Spring Boot is…

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Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department
Rob Stein,  Staff Writer  -  npr

_Stephan: For the past 20 years I have written a column for the largest holistic medicine journal, Explore. I am also on the editorial board of about 8 other peer reviewed journals in a spectrum of disciplines, and, over the years, I have been the editor of several scientific journals. I tell you this to make it clear that I understand the peer review pr … ⌘ Read more

Confession:

I’ve never found microblogging like twtxt or the Fediverse or any other “modern” social media to be truly fulfilling/satisfying.

The reason is that it is focused so much on people. You follow this or that person, everybody spends time making a nice profile page, the posts are all very “ego-centric”. Seriously, it feels like everybody is on an ego-trip all the time (this is much worse on the Fediverse, not so much here on twtxt).

I miss the days of topic-based forums/groups. A Linux forum here, a forum about programming there, another one about a certain game. Stuff like that. That was really great – and it didn’t even suffer from the need to federate.

Sadly, most of these forums are dead now. Especially the nerds spend a lot of time on the Fediverse now and have abandoned forums almost completely.

On Mastodon, you can follow hashtags, which somewhat emulates a topic-based experience. But it’s not that great and the protocol isn’t meant to be used that way (just read the snac2 docs on this issue). And the concept of “likes” has eliminated lots of the actual user interaction. ☹️

Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, nodejs, openjdk-17, and thunderbird), Fedora (firefox, golang-github-nvidia-container-toolkit, and thunderbird), Mageia (kernel), Oracle (ghostscript, glibc, kernel, libxslt, php:8.1, and thunderbird), SUSE (cmctl, firefox-esr, govulncheck-vulndb, java-21-openjdk, libxml2, poppler, python-h11, and redis), and Ubuntu (docker.io, ghostscript, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and micropython). ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, veut s’acheter une maison
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Il faut se résoudre à l’évidence : Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) manque de place dans l’appartement qu’il loue depuis 7 ans. C’est donc décidé : la famille va enfin réaliser l’achat d’une maison. Après quelques années passées […] ⌘ Read more

Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the\
Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked
and is now offering Redis under the\
Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope
announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore\
”antirez” Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Set … ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 1, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Mailman 2 vulnerabilities; AI in Debian; __nonstring__; Cache-aware scheduling; Freezing filesystems; Socket-level storage; Debugging information; LWN in 2025.

• Briefs: Debian election; Kali Linux key; OpenBSD 7.7; Firefox 138.0; GCC 15.1; Meson 1.8.0; Valgrind 3.25.0; FSF review; OSI retrospective; Mastodon; Quotes; …

• [Announcements](https://lwn.net/Arti … ⌘ Read more

Meson 1.8.0 released
Version 1.8.0
of the Meson build system has
been released. Notable changes in this release include the ability to
run rustdoc for Rust projects, support for the c2y and gnu2y
compiler options, and a new argument ( android_exe_type) that
makes it possible to use the same meson.build file for
Android and non-Android systems. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (glibc, php:8.1, and thunderbird), Debian (libreoffice), Fedora (caddy), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Red Hat (php:8.1), SUSE (glow), and Ubuntu (kicad, linux-aws-5.15, linux-azure-nvidia, linux-gcp-5.15, mistral, python-mistral-lib, tomcat8, and trafficserver). ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (thunderbird), Debian (distro-info-data, imagemagick, kernel, libsoup2.4, and poppler), Fedora (chromium, java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-1.8.0-openjdk-portable, java-17-openjdk, java-17-openjdk-portable, java-latest-openjdk, pgadmin4, thunderbird, and xz), Mageia (haproxy and libxml2), Oracle (bluez, firefox, gnutls, libtasn1, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, ruby:3.1, thunderbird, and xmlrpc-c), Red Hat (delve and golang, glibc, mod_auth_o … ⌘ Read more

$8 billion of US climate tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025
Casey Crownhart,  Senior Climate Reporter  -  MIT Technology Review

_Stephan: You, your kids, and their kids are going to have a severely degraded quality of life because despot Trump is doing everything he can to stop any preparation for climate change, or anything that will take the United States out of the carbon energy era. The actions of this psychopath is going to negatively … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Great tits always makes for lovely nick names!

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libxslt, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, and webkit2gtk3), Fedora (c-ares, giflib, jupyterlab, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, prometheus-podman-exporter, python-notebook, python-pydantic-core, rpki-client, ruby, rust-adblock, rust-cookie_store, rust-gitui, rust-gstreamer, rust-icu_collections, rust-icu_locid, rust-icu_locid_transform, rust-icu_locid_transform_data, rust-icu_normalizer, rust-icu_normalizer_data … ⌘ Read more

There are other tasks LLM(s) are far better suited for, which are also its downsides, and gawd so expensive and unrealistic to run yourself 🤦‍♂️ Do you know what one of these NVIDIA H100’s cost? 💲 That’s right! 🤣 > $50k USD 😱 And many of the models out there require 8 of these suckers 🤣 Each one consumes around ~400W of power each (not including the machine that houses them!)

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Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (graphicsmagick and libapache2-mod-auth-openidc), Fedora (giflib, mod_auth_openidc, mysql8.0, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, perl-String-Compare-ConstantTime, rust-openssl, rust-openssl-sys, trunk, and workrave), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable and rust), Oracle (java-1.8.0-openjdk, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, libreoffice, and webkit2gtk3), Red Hat (gvisor-tap-vsock), SUSE (containerd, docker, docker-stable, forge … ⌘ Read more

I just noticed that my unread messages counter was off by quite a bit. It showed 8, but I only saw one unread message. Even after restarting my client, which recalculates the number of unread messages, it remained at eight. Weird. Looking in the database revealed that this is indeed correct.

Apparently, my query to build up the message tree must be incorrect. It somehow misses seven messages. They all are orphaned, maybe that’s a clue. However, generating missing root messages (and thereby including the replies) typically works just fine. Hmm.

iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China’s Q1 Smartphone Boom
Apple’s iPhone shipments in China declined by 9 percent in the first quarter compared to the year earlier, and it was the only major smartphone vendor to see a decline, according to data from research firm IDC.

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Shipments of iPhones fell to 9.8 million units, giving Apple a market share of 13.7 percent, do … ⌘ Read more

@david@collantes.us If I run

printf '%s\n%s\n%s' 'https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt' '2025-04-16T22:49:11+00:00' "Am I tripping or `rsync` is actually THIS effing faster than `scp`!!? 🫨" | b2sum -l 256 | awk '{ print $1 }' | xxd -r -p | base32 | tr -d '=' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tail -c 8

I have xqfsv6a. It is raw text

But… If I change de date to 2025-04-16T22:49:11Z I have si4er3q.

iPhone Fold: New Leak Corroborates Camera Setup on Outer Display
Further details have emerged about the camera system on Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone, informally dubbed the “iPhone Fold.”

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Expected to launch next year, Apple’s book-style foldable is rumored to feature a 7.8-inch crease-free internal display and a 5.5-inch external screen. According to industry analyst [Ming-Chi Kuo](https … ⌘ Read more

This 8 bit trip is really cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCm1fKZGvl47

Nicolas, 35 ans, découvre les urgences à la française
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans), vit un quotidien familial plutôt paisible et des week-ends rythmés par les activités extra-scolaires des deux marmots. Cette année, alors qu’Emma pratique la danse, pour Léo, la question se pose encore : […] ⌘ Read more

Apple’s 18.8-Inch Foldable Device to Enter Mass Production in Late 2026
Along with an iPhone “Fold,” Apple is believed to be working on a larger foldable device that’s somewhere around 19 inches, and one analyst suggests it could arrive as soon as late next year alongside Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone.

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Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gimp, libxslt, python3.11, python3.12, and tomcat), Debian (ghostscript and libnet-easytcp-perl), Fedora (openvpn, perl-Data-Entropy, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (python-jinja2), SUSE (giflib, pam, and xen), and Ubuntu (apache2, binutils, expat, fis-gtm, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.8, linux-nvidia-lowlatency, linux-azure, linux-azure-fde, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fde-5.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-gcp-fips, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-nvidia, … ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, désespère de l’Éducation Nationale
Un billet à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Nicolas, 35 ans, marié, et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) apprécie plus que tout sa petite routine. Le matin, après un bon petit déjeuner, il emmène ses enfants à l’école et se rend au travail ; il apprécie sa petite pause-déjeuner avec ses […] ⌘ Read more

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 3, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Calibre 8.0; Fedora reproducibility; OpenWrt One; 6.15 Merge Window; LSFMM+BPF coverage including BPF in GCC, Rust merging process, and more.

• Briefs: Ubuntu namespaces; New FPL; PorteuX 2.0; Firefox 137.0; GCC Rust; Rockbox 4.0; Rust specification; Thundermail; Dave Täht RIP; Quotes; …

• Announcements: Newsletters, confer … ⌘ Read more

[$] 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

Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (firefox-esr, jetty9, openjpeg2, and tomcat9), Fedora (dokuwiki, firefox, php-kissifrot-php-ixr, php-phpseclib3, and rust-zincati), Red Hat (kernel and pki-core), Slackware (mozilla), SUSE (apparmor, atop, docker, docker-stable, firefox, govulncheck-vulndb, libmodsecurity3, openvpn, upx, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (inspircd, linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm,
linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linu … ⌘ Read more

iOS 16.7.11, iOS 15.8.4, & iPadOS 17.7.6 Security Updates Released for Older iPhone & iPad
While iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 updates were just released for modern iPhone and iPad devices, Apple has also released a bevy of software updates for older iPhone and iPad devices. Each of these updates include important security fixes and are therefore recommended for all eligible users and their devices to install. Specifically, you will … [Read Mor … ⌘ Read more

[$] Memory persistence over kexec
The kernel’s kexec\
mechanism allows one kernel to directly boot a new one; it can be
thought of as a sort of kernel equivalent to the execve()
system call. Kexec has a number of uses, including booting a special kernel
to perform dumps after a crash. Normally, one does not expect user-space
processes to survive booting into a new kernel, but that has not stopped
developers from trying to im … ⌘ Read more

Go 1-25：工具鏈優化與運行時改進
Go 語言自誕生以來，始終保持着穩定的迭代節奏。2025 年 8 月即將發佈的 Go 1.25 版本在工具鏈、運行時、編譯器及標準庫等方面都帶來了值得關注的改進。本文將從實際開發角度出發，詳細解析這些變化的技術細節及其對開發者產生的實際影響。工具鏈增強—–構建系統優化go build命令的-asan選項在 1.25 版本中默認啓用了內存泄漏檢測機制。該功能會在程序退出時自動檢查未釋放的 C ⌘ Read more

Nicolas, 35 ans, ne touchera jamais sa retraite
Un article rédigé à 4 mains par Citronne et h16 Avec le mois qui se termine, Nicolas, 35 ans, marié avec deux enfants de 5 et 8 ans, examine sa feuille de paie. Les petites lignes se multiplient mais un montant le rassure : celui que lui et son patron ont cotisé pour sa retraite. Nicolas […] ⌘ Read more

neat! my watcher is currently sitting at about 75 MB following over 1500 feeds. only about 200 are currently somewhat active.

-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   69M Mar 25 20:46 twt.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   32K Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu  5.6M Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-wal

sqlite> select state, count(*) n from feeds group by 1;
hot|7
warm|8
cold|183
frozen|743
permanantly-dead|857

neat! my watcher is currently sitting at about 75 MB following over 1500 feeds. only about 200 are currently somewhat active.

-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   69M Mar 25 20:46 twt.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   32K Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu  5.6M Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-wal

sqlite> select state, count(*) n from feeds group by 1;
hot|7
warm|8
cold|183
frozen|743
permanantly-dead|857

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

My backing SQLite database with indices is 8.7 MiB in size right now.

The twtxt cache is 7.6 MiB, it uses Python’s pickle module. And next to it there is a 16.0 MiB second database with all the read statuses for the old tt. Wow, super inefficient, it shouldn’t contain anything else, it’s a giant, pickled {"$hash": {"read": True/False}, …}. What the heck, why is it so big?! O_o

8 Ways to Empower Engineering Teams to Balance Productivity, Security, and Innovation
Explore how Docker’s suite of products empowers industry leaders and their development teams to innovate faster, stay secure, and deliver impactful results. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ruby-rack), Fedora (chromium, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, OpenIPMI, and python-jinja2), Mageia (kernel, kernel-linus, and wpa_supplicant, hostapd), Red Hat (fence-agents, kernel, kernel-rt, libxml2, libxslt, and pcs), SUSE (cadvisor, docker, freetype2, nodejs-electron, php8, rsync, u-boot, warewulf4, webkit2gtk3, and zvbi), and Ubuntu (elfutils, python3.5, python3.8, ruby-rack, smartdns, and zvbi). ⌘ Read more

Three Saturday stable kernels
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.13.8, 6.12.20, and 6.6.84 stable kernels. Each contains a
number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree; users of those
series should upgrade. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, that name is certainly fitting! :-D

Yeah, I should revert that and try to figure out which programs misbehaved. But that’s something for future Lyse. 8-) Right now, I just redefine TERM in my Makefile when the USER happens to be me.

Nicolas, 35 ans, cherche une location de vacances
Un article à 4 mains écrit par h16 & Citronne Voilà, le budget pour le trajet semble établi mais pour Nicolas, 35 ans, marié et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans), le planning des vacances estivales ne s’arrête pas là : il faut à présent déterminer l’hébergement sur place. C’est pour cela que […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

@prologic@twtxt.net

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 11 2025: 14 PRs, 3 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (8)

monero-project/monero:

• #98321 wallet: fix different-signedness int comparison warnings (jeffro256)
  
• #98332 src: fix windows path handling in daemonizer (#9665) (0xFFFC0000)
  
• #98363 cryptono … ⌘ Read more

Ich war auf der Ausstellung meines letztes Jahr verstorbenen BK-Lehrers. Er war ein ziemlich cooler Typ und guter Lehrer. Wenn ich mich recht erinnere, müsste ich ihn in der 7. und vermutlich auch 8. Klasse gehabt haben. Seine Schelme waren hier im Landkreis und vermutlich darüber hinaus weit bekannt.

Bilderrahmenglas in Verbindung mit vergleichsweise dunkler Beleuchtung gibt leider keine gute Kombination mit meiner Kamera ab. Vorab entschuldige ich mich bereits für die zu wünschen übrig lassende Qualität. Nichtsdestotrotz habe ich ein paar witzige Bilder abfotografiert. Obacht, kann mitunter anzüglichen Inhalt enthalten: https://lyse.isobeef.org/siegfried-wagner-farrenstall-2025-03-15/

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Nicolas, 35 ans, planifie ses vacances
L’arrivée du printemps pousse les uns et les autres à s’organiser pour l’été qui vient et avec lui, les vacances familiales. Nicolas, 35 ans, marié et père de deux enfants (de 5 et 8 ans) réfléchit donc à son prochain voyage en famille. Français de la classe moyenne, correctement imbibé des « réalités » médiatiques actuelles, Nicolas […] ⌘ Read more

UNIHIKER K10 is an ESP32-S3 based platform with TinyML and built-in sensors
The UNIHIKER K10 is an AI learning device designed for education, integrating features for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT applications. It includes a 2.8″ color screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a camera, microphone, speaker, RGB light, and multiple sensors. The device features an ESP32-S3 Xtensa LX7 microcontroller with 512KB SRAM and 16MB flash storage. It supports […] ⌘ Read more