Announcing H1 2026 KCDs
We’re excited to announce the first wave of Kubernetes Community Days (KCDs) for 2026! These community-organized events bring together local practitioners, adopters, and contributors to connect and share cloud native knowledge. What’s New in 2026 This… ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I feel you buddy 🤗 At one point we have quite a vibrant community. Phil was great, jlj too and Adi was well just Ado 😅

Erlang Solutions: Meet the Team: Adam Rack
Meet Adam Rack, our new Business Development Manager.

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Adam is all about building high-performing teams, driving innovation, and delivering solutions that make a difference.

In our latest chat, he talks about what excites him in this new chapter, his vision for growing our DACH presence, and why sustainability and community matter to him.

And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).

@prologic@twtxt.net the simplest thing to do is to completely forgo hashing anything because we are communicating using plain text files right now :3 while i agree hashes are incredibly helpful in the backend im not sure it has a place outside of it, it basically eliminates two core design principals of twtxt (human readability and integrating well with unix command line utilities) and makes new clients more difficult to build than it should be

Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
With the help of GitHub, UNHCR turned drone imagery into maps — helping refugees in Kakuma and Kalobeyei build sustainable, powered communities.

The post Using AI to map hope for refugees with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency appeared first on [The GitHub Blog](https://github. … ⌘ Read more

Local Roots, Global Reach: CNCJ Reflects on KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2025
Konnichiwa from Tokyo! 🇯🇵 In June 2025, something remarkable happened: the global cloud native community gathered in Tokyo for the first-ever KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) under the Linux… ⌘ Read more

ProcessOne: Why Europe’s ‘Chat Control’ Proposal Will Cripple European Communication Industry While Failing to Protect Children

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On October 14th, the European Concil will vote on a regulation that … ⌘ Read more

Albanese says he’d be surprised if Optus boss wasn’t considering his future
The prime minister says Optus hasn’t fulfilled its Triple Zero obligations, while Communications Minister Anika Wells says the telco “perpetuated an enormous failure on the Australian people”. ⌘ Read more

Hello everyone! 👋

After a long while away, I’m back on twtxt with this new feed.

Some of you might remember me as justamoment@twtxt.net, that was a test account I made for trying things out, but I ended up keeping it more than planned.

I also tried other social platforms in search of a place that felt right for me.

In the end twtxt was the one that ticked all of my boxes:

• Slow social: it act more like a feed reader and I really appreciate that there’s no flood of content that I can’t keep up with.
  
• No server needed: I absolutely love to have total control over my content, I tend to avoid having moving parts that might break, plus you can put your feed under version control and it’s all backed up.
  
• Ownership: I can put my feed anywhere I want and nobody can decide if I can access it or not.
  
• For hackers: a single .txt file allows me to join a community, how cool is that!
  

This is why I decided to build my own twtxt client, one that allows you to decide how the feed is presented on your “instance”.

It’s still in the making but I’ll try to share a bit of it once I defined how things should work.

Coincidentally, I discovered that @itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com and @zvava@twtxt.net were also building a twtxt client, seems like twtxt is set to grow!

Ignite Realtime Blog: Openfire 5.0.2 release!
The IgniteRealtime community is happy to announce a new release of its open source, real-time communications server server Openfire! Version 5.0.2 brings a number of stability improvements and bug fixes.

Notably, it addresses a recently identified security vulnerability, identifies as CVE-2025-59154. The issue allows for potential identity spoofing via unsafe Common Nam … ⌘ Read more

«… It all went well until 1980 or so, when Ronald Reagan appointed a new head of the EPA. The lady didn’t like her stationery we had designed and with a simple “I want my daisy back” undermined the overall graphic system. If the Queen doesn’t like it, we don’t like it became the attitude, and the program began to crumble. The old logo was fully reinstated and the graphic system was abandoned. A decade later, nobody at the EPA could find a copy of the Graphic Standards System, except a bunch of legalese that you will find on its website.

I’m a fan of the EPA and all its efforts and hope that we helped in some small way for this agency to communicate within itself, to other government agencies, and with the American people. I’m very grateful and appreciative that Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth of Standards Manual, and Julie Anixter of AIGA, brought this document to life again. Have fun revisiting.»
(from the introduction by Steff Geissbühler)

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter August 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of August 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these proj … ⌘ Read more

There’s always something more urgent: I’ve been known for a long time that sooner or later I’d feel prompted to switch from #github to somewhere else (since 2018 at least!), but I’ve been postponing and only very slowly flirting with the idea… That didn’t work too bad for me: if I had rushed into it I would have probably migrated to #gitlab, before knowing about the more objectionable sides to it. In the end, 2025 was the year I finally acted upon the urge to move. I did not do a very thorough analysis of the alternative hosts - what I have been reading about them along the years felt enough, and I easily decided to choose #codeberg. Being hasty like that, alas, was a mistake: I just now found - during this slow and time-consuming process of deciding what and how to migrate - that there is a low repository limit on codeberg: “The owner has already reached the limit of 100 repositories.” I’m not complaining, mind you, and those “lucky 100” that are already there will stay - at least as a sort of backup. But this means that codeberg is not for me - and so this time I turn to you, the #mastodon community.

What github alternative, not self-hosted, should I move my >100 projects into?

The XMPP Standards Foundation: MongooseIM 6.4 - Simplified and Unified
MongooseIM is a scalable and efficient instant messaging server. It implements the open, proven, extensible and constantly evolving XMPP protocol, which is an excellent choice when it comes to instant messaging. To communicate with other XMPP entities, the server uses three main types of interfaces, listed in the table below.

XMPP InterfacePurposeConnection typeReworked in v … ⌘ Read more

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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter July 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of July 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 helping these project … ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Supporting the BEAM Community with Free CI/CD Security Audits
At Erlang Solutions, our support for the BEAM community is long-standing and built into everything we do. From contributing to open-source tools and sponsoring events to improving security and shaping ecosystem standards, we’re proud to play an active role in helping the BEAM ecosystem grow and thrive.

One way we’re putting that support into action is by offering free CI/CD-based security … ⌘ Read more

i signed up for omg.lol and i’m really liking it. such a cozy and fun little community with a suite of fun web things. i wish the financial barrier to entry was a bit lower though (maybe like $5 for a few months on it or something) just so i could recommend it to my broke friends more, but i totally get why it’s priced the way it is (solo dev!!!)

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This is it, boys and girls! The year of the Linux Desktop is this! I can smell it! :-D

For the first time, Linux has officially broken the 5% desktop market share barrier in the United States of America! It’s a huge milestone for open-source and our fantastic Linux community.

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Pessoas da comunidade brasileira de #ProgramaçãoCriativa por muitos anos fizeram encontros sob o nome promovido pela Fundação Processing, os chamados #ProcessingCommunityDay, fizemos encontros em várias cidades e então depois de 2020, com a pandemia do COVID-19, fizemos três eventos nacionais muito inspiradores em 2021, 2022 e 2023 (vide https://compoetica.github.io/links/)

Ano passado não conseguimos fazer e este ano pretendemos retomar, só que usando outro nome: #Compoética. Vamos aos poucos divulgar mais sobre o encontro brasileiro de programação criativa em https://compoetica.github.io/CP2025/

Meus agradecimentos profundos ao @guilhermesv@guilhermesv que dedica generosamente um enorme esforço para organizar esses eventos da comunidade e cria o design e peças de comunicação sempre emocionantes de lindos.

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Ignite Realtime Blog: Empowering Digital Sovereignty with Openfire: A Secure and Customizable Communication Platform
In today’s interconnected world, digital sovereignty has become increasingly important for individuals and organizations seeking to maintain control over their data, infrastructure, and technologies. Openfire, an open-source, real-time collaboration (RTC) server that uses the XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I first wondered how the lists could be ever improved, but then b.png shows the better approach with the inset boxes on the left. No surprises there. Very clearly communicated.

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OpenBSD has the wonderful pledge() and unveil() syscalls:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXO6nelFt-E

Not only are they super useful (the program itself can drop privileges – like, it can initialize itself, read some files, whatever, and then tell the kernel that it will never do anything like that again; if it does, e.g. by being exploited through a bug, it gets killed by the kernel), but they are also extremely easy to use.

Imagine a server program with a connected socket in file descriptor 0. Before reading any data from the client, the program can do this:

unveil("/var/www/whatever", "r");
unveil(NULL, NULL);
pledge("stdio rpath", NULL);

Done. It’s now limited to reading files from that directory, communicating with the existing socket, stuff like that. But it cannot ever read any other files or exec() into something else.

I can’t wait for the day when we have something like this on Linux. There have been some attempts, but it’s not that easy. And it’s certainly not mainstream, yet.

I need to have a closer look at Linux’s Landlock soon (“soon”), but this is considerably more complicated than pledge()/unveil():

https://landlock.io/

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@bender@twtxt.net Yeah, well, it’s a bit like twtxt. There is a Gopher community, but it’s small. I actually don’t like that HTTP is so easily accessible. I don’t like it that much when people post links to my site on HackerNews or something like that. Too much exposure.

Gopher is a small world. It’s slow and cozy.

And much like twtxt, the protocol is simple®, so it’s easier to tinker with it.

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My Journey to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2024: A Story of Volunteering and Growth
My name is Oscar Ayra and I am from Lima, Peru. In 2024, I had the privilege of being part of the volunteer team at Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) Lima. It was an enriching experience where… ⌘ Read more

Neue Spiele: Dune Awakening schlägt GTA-Möchtegern-Klon
Zwei Neuveröffentlichungen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Reaktionen der Community: Ab sofort sind Dune Awakening und Mindseye erhältlich. ( Dune Awakening, Steam)

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20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.

The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more

Spielebranche: Apple präsentiert Games-App für iOS 26 & Co
Apple bündelt mit der neuen Games-App alle Spiele und Community-Funktionen bei Mac. Dazu kommen optimierte Entwickler-Tools für bessere Performance. ( WWCD 2025, Apple)

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Restrictions frustrate residents reliant on flood-wrecked road
Residents in a small north Queensland community say they are struggling with a system that only allows access to their main road in daylight hours. ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter May 2025

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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of May 2025.

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Int … ⌘ Read more

The “interception, carried out outside Israeli territorial waters, constitutes a blatant violation of international law, including maritime and humanitarian law.”

“Co-Chair of The Left, Manon Aubry (La France Insoumise, France) said: “Netanyahu’s army has intercepted the Freedom Flotilla against a backdrop of deafening silence from political leaders in Europe and the world. History is watching them. Their inaction to end the genocide is nothing more than complicity. We demand immediate action from European authorities to guarantee the safety of the crew and allow humanitarian aid to enter.”

The Left calls upon states, the European Union, the United Nations, and the entire international community to strongly condemn this illegal detention, demand the immediate and unconditional release of all crew members, and urge Israeli authorities to allow immediate and unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid to Gaza, in full compliance with international law and the orders imposed on Israel by the International Court of Justice.

#Solidarity is not a crime, €genocide is. Free the #FreedomFlotilla crew.”

#madleen

https://left.eu/freedom-flotilla-intercepted-as-gaza-starves/

Angle grinder used to shear off 185-year-old church bell
A Hunter Valley farming community is reeling after a church bell that rang out the day World War I ended was stolen. ⌘ Read more

OIDC: The Digitally signed Pinky Swear “It’s Me” (Part I)

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Whenever an Elbow-Shake Protocol is being established, there’s always Users try to communicate safely during Corona pandemic!

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwrit … ⌘ Read more

Senior Wadeye elder identified as latest NT death in custody
A man who died in police custody at a Darwin hospital on Saturday has been remembered as a “great visionary and educator” as the remote community of Wadeye mourns his loss. ⌘ Read more

‘Buy a generator’, power provider tells WA hotel angry at blackouts
The owners of Bremer Bay Resort say Western Power told them purchasing a diesel generator was the only way to avoid the outages plaguing the small community. ⌘ Read more

From Hollywood heavyweights to community advocates: King’s honours announced
Some 830 Australians will be recognised as part of the King’s Birthday 2025 Honours on Monday, including film director Baz Luhrmann and his frequent collaborator Catherine Martin, an award-winning costume, production and set designer. ⌘ Read more

Perth rallies against Indigenous deaths in custody in third day of protests
Perth rally organiser and Indigenous elder Hedley Hayward said the community was standing alongside the rest of the country in demanding justice for Aboriginal people who had died in police custody. ⌘ Read more

Community services buckling under demand for mental health support
Mental health support services in regional WA are in such short supply that severely unwell residents are turning to grassroots community service groups, which are struggling to cope with surging demand. ⌘ Read more

Drought devastates farming town desperate for rain relief
The effects of drought creep insidiously into every corner of a country Victorian community. ⌘ Read more

Events cop funding hit as Queensland council wields budget axe
A North Queensland council is slashing its contributions to volunteer-run events 12 months after raising rates and parking fees. ⌘ Read more

Outpouring of grief as police find remains in search for Pheobe Bishop
Floral tributes line the street as a community in mourning plans a candlelit vigil for 17-year-old Pheobe Bishop, as police work to identify remains found in dense bushland. ⌘ Read more

Kubeflow Advances Cloud Native AI:  a glimpse into KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The Kubeflow community is rapidly growing due to its contributions to advancing AI by streamlining the AI/ML experience in Kubernetes. Kubeflow provides a composable ecosystem for implementing end-to-end solutions for AI/ML. Kubeflow includes the following projects:… ⌘ Read more

Anger as major renewable projects in Victoria get the green light
Permits for two renewable energy projects in regional Victoria have been approved despite community opposition. ⌘ Read more

‘We need justice’: Kumanjayi White remembered at Alice Springs vigil
Relatives and friends of Kumanjayi White along with members of the Alice Springs community have come together to mourn and demand “justice”, 10 days on from the young Warlpiri man’s death. ⌘ Read more

Perth community divided over Swan River electric ferry plan
As the WA government attempts to create “Metronet on the Swan” using electric ferries, campaigners want the Matilda Bay terminal moved south. ⌘ Read more

使用 dig 查詢 dns 遞歸查詢過程
DNS 查詢過程中如果沒有命中緩存，查詢實際上是一個遞歸過程。DNS 解析工具 dig 提供了 trace 功能，可以展示遞歸查詢的整個過程。以查詢 www.baidu.com 爲例，查詢結果如下：root@ubuntu:~# dig +trace +nodnssec www.baidu.com;; communications error to 114.114.114.114#53: timed ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mitigating MITMs in XMPP
In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees … ⌘ Read more

‘My body was for God’: Being queer in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community
Sara Glass’ life was controlled by her husband and her rabbi. She had to fight her way out before she could embrace her sexuality. ⌘ Read more

JMP: Mitigating MITMs in XMPP
In October 2023, Jabber.ru, “the largest Russian XMPP messaging service”, discovered that both Hetzner and Linode had been targeting them with Machine-In-The-Middle (MITM) attacks for up to 6 months. MITM attacks are when an unauthorised third party intercepts traffic intended for someone else. At the point of interception, the attacker can inspect and even modify that traffic. TLS was created to mitigate this; all communication between the two parties is encrypted, so the third party sees … ⌘ Read more

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Charge dropped against US conspiracy theorist linked to Wieambilla attack
Donald Day Jr — who regularly communicated with Wieambilla killers Gareth, Stacey, and Nathaniel Train — is facing charges relating to making alleged threats and violating firearms laws. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de oh, you bet someone is adding them. Being as we are a small community, I could almost guess who added what. 😅

Residents say council push to develop green space ‘concerning’
Port Lincoln residents push back against a proposal from their council to develop five parcels of land for housing. ⌘ Read more

Gippsland residents fear erosion measures no match for rising tides
The Victorian government spent more than $500,000 earlier this year on protective works that have already failed to stop erosion in a coastal community. ⌘ Read more

Not a ‘talkfest’: What is happening with Aboriginal treaty in NSW?
Discussions will get underway in the coming months with New South Wales Aboriginal communities across the state being asked: do they want a treaty? ⌘ Read more

Thank You, Equinix Metal: The CNCF Community Bids Farewell to the Bare Metal Cluster
To our incredible open source community, Today, we’re announcing the sunset of the CNCF Community Cluster at the end of 2025. As Equinix Metal sunsets its offering, support for community initiatives like ours is also being… ⌘ Read more

Strategy 2028 update (Fedora Community Blog)
Outgoing Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller has posted an update
on Fedora’s high-level plan through 2028:

[Fedora] Council members identified potential Initiatives that we
believe are important to work on next. We came up with a list of
thirteen — which is way more than we can handle at once. We previously
set a limit of four Initiatives at a time. We decided to keep to that
… ⌘ Read more

Pork abattoir closure rubs ‘salt in injury’ for drought-hit towns
About 270 people will lose their jobs and multiple communities will be impacted with the pending closure of a rural South Australian pork processing plant. ⌘ Read more

Outback community’s ethereal-looking rock formation a ‘peaceful place’
Many in the remote iron ore mining town of Pannawonica call it the Panna Hill, but Robe River Kuruma people know it as Parlapuni. ⌘ Read more

The diabetes program lifting people out a ‘really dark place’
When Kelly Anderson suddenly lost her daughter, she became depressed and rapidly gained weight. A community exercise program helped turn her life around. ⌘ Read more

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Olimex Showcases Open Source €20 Smart Home Server Project
Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server. The initiative was introduced during a lightning talk at TuxCon 2025, a community-driven open-source conference held earlier this month in Bulgaria. The project aims to deliver a compact, easy-to-use smart home server that prioritizes local control, […] ⌘ Read more

MinIO Removes Web UI Features from Community Version, Pushes Users to Paid Plans
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Debian XMPP Team: XMPP/Jabber Debian 13 Trixie News
Debian 13 “Trixie” full freeze has started 2025-05-17, so this is
a good time to take a look at some of the features, that this release
will bring. Here we will focus on packages related to XMPP, a.k.a.\
Jabber.

XMPP is a universal communication protocol for instant messaging, push
notifications, IoT, WebRTC, and social applications. It has existed sin … ⌘ Read more

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[$] System-wide encrypted DNS
The increasing sophistication of attackers has organizations
realizing that perimeter-based security models are inadequate. Many
are planning to transition their internal networks to a zero-trust\
architecture. This requires every communication on the network to
be encrypted, authenticated, and authorized. This can be achieved in
applications and services by using modern communication
protocols. However, the world still depends on Domain Name Syste … ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux OS 10.0 released
Version\
10 of the AlmaLinux OS distribution has been released.

The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux
OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on
maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we
have made small improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target
specific sections of our userbase.

See [the\
release notes](https://wiki.almalinux.org/release-notes/10.0.h … ⌘ Read more

Beyond best practices: Using OWASP ASVS to bake security into your delivery pipeline for 2025

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How to turn a community-driven checklist into a living part of your SDLC.

[Cont … ⌘ Read more

Armbian 25.5 Adds New Board Support, Application Modules, and Receives Community Recognition
The Armbian team has released version 25.5, bringing expanded hardware compatibility, improved system tools, and a growing library of post-install application modules. The update also coincides with Armbian being recognized by NetBox Labs with a 2025 NetBox Hero Award for its role in open infrastructure innovation. New in Armbian v25.5 The latest release include … ⌘ Read more

Turkey’s Erdogan blames the LGBT community for falling birthrate ⌘ Read more

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)
  

My vision with this newsletter is to have a slower medium for communicating about my art as well as ideas and projects I’m working on regarding how we can use digital technology to our own benefits instead of being exploited by big tech.

Twtxt not sloe enough for you? 🤣

@thecanine@twtxt.net I admit I’m a little unclear of your position. What do you mean by “not the right approach”? What’s your position here? 🤔 – I have a funny feeling we actually algin, just getting our wires all mixed up in communicating it 🤣

Machinist and Machine
Reading and “accepting/rejecting” so much AI generated code in the last months has made me a bit burned out and have somewhat of an identity crisis.

I have been making more and more time at night to reconnect with the craft.

I think more people in the community might be struggling, so I just wanted to share my way of dealing with it.

Please share how you are dealing with the tokens.

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Komi-san Can’t communicate ⌘ Read more

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How Stolen iPhones Travel From Western Streets to Chinese Markets
The Feiyang Times is an unassuming tower in Shenzhen’s Huaqiangbei district, but it has earned the nickname “the stolen iPhone building” in Apple community forums. According to a Financial Times investigation (paywalled), the building has become a major hub in a global network trafficking stolen iPhones.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2 … ⌘ Read more

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[$] Faster firewalls with bpfilter
From
servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices
communicating on a network will eventually have to filter network
traffic, whether it’s for security or performance reasons. As a result,
this is a domain where a lot of work is put into improving performance:
a tiny performance improvement can have considerable gains.
Bpfilter is a
project that allows for packet filtering to easily be done with BPF, which can
be faster than other mechanisms. ⌘ Read more

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iPhone Shipments Crash 50% in China as Local Brands Dominate
Foreign-branded smartphone shipments in China, dominated by Apple’s iPhone, dropped dramatically in March 2025, plunging 49.6% year-over-year according to data released by The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT).

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The steep decline saw shipments fall to just 1.89 million units, down from 3.75 million during the … ⌘ Read more

[$] The last of YaST?
The announcement
of the openSUSE Leap 16.0 beta contained something of a
surprise—along with the usual set of changes and updates, it
informed the community of the retirement of “the traditional YaST
stack” from Leap. The YaST (“Yet another Setup Tool”)
installation and configuration utility has been a core part of the
openSUSE distribution since its [inception](https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse … ⌘ Read more

Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography
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Komi can’t communicate, but she can sure show off ⌘ Read more

Zelda’s penetrating success into interspecies communication left her speechless… ⌘ Read more