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
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:
25keywords (Stack Overflow); CSP-style concurrency (goroutines & channels)
- Python 2:
30keywords (TutorialsPoint); GIL-bound threads & multiprocessing (Wikipedia)
- Python 3:
35keywords (Initial Commit); GIL-bound threads,asyncio& multiprocessing (Wikipedia, DEV Community)
- Java:
50keywords (Stack Overflow); threads +java.util.concurrent(Wikipedia)
- C++:
82keywords (Stack Overflow);std::thread, atomics & futures (en.cppreference.com)
- JavaScript:
38keywords (Stack Overflow); single-threaded event loop &async/await, Web Workers (Wikipedia)
- Ruby:
42keywords (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.
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.
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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
Komi can’t communicate, but she can sure show off ⌘ Read more
Zelda’s penetrating success into interspecies communication left her speechless… ⌘ Read more
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10 Recent Newsworthy Hallucinations
The University of Nebraska identifies seven elements of newsworthiness: impact (the number of people affected by a reported item); proximity (the degree of a community’s physical closeness to the reported item); timeliness (the more recent, the more timely); prominence (the importance of the reported item or the fact that it is associated with a celebrity); […]
The post [10 Recent Newsworthy Hallucinations](https://listverse.com/2025/05/09/10-recent-newsworthy … ⌘ Read more
Which AI “arena” is the one we can actually trust?
I’m getting deeper and deeper into the AI space, and I’m discovering the different AI “arenas” and benchmarking. I have no idea what to trust or leverage to help me learn about the different models out there. Does the lobste.rs community have one that they go to by default? ⌘ Read more
North American Bird Populations Are Collapsing in Places They Once Thrived: Study
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: Human technology is destroying Earth’s matrix of life, and except for the scientific community, there is almost no awareness of this, even though it is going to have a devastatingly negative impact on human civilization. Human governments must make fostering wellbeing their first priority if the … ⌘ Read more
Stop Uncapped Cloud Billing
This emerging community was created when its author got a single-day cloud bill of $97k due to a DoS attack that killed his small business.
[$] Injecting speculation barriers into BPF programs
The disclosure of the Spectre\
class of hardware vulnerabilities created a lot of pain for kernel
developers (and many others). That pain was especially acutely felt in the
BPF community. While an attacker might have to painfully search the kernel
code base for exploitable code, an attacker using BPF can simply write and
load their own speculation gadgets, which is a much more efficient way of
operating. The BPF comm … ⌘ Read more
Open Home Foundation Marks Second Year with Structural Changes and Home Assistant 2025.4 Update
April 2025 marked the start of the Open Home Foundation’s second year. Since its launch at the State of the Open Home 2024 event, the Foundation has grown rapidly, gaining broad community and industry support. Last month’s 2025 event highlighted key milestones from its first year and outlined plans for continued development. Over the past […] ⌘ Read more
LILYGO T-Echo Lite Offers Integrated LoRa, GNSS, and E-Paper Display in Compact Form
The LILYGO T-Echo Lite is a compact wireless development board designed for embedded applications that require long-range communication, positioning, and low-power display capabilities. Built around the Nordic nRF52840 microcontroller, the platform supports a wide range of wireless protocols and is available in several hardware configurations. The main processing component is t … ⌘ Read more
The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter April 2025
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of April 2025.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these project … ⌘ Read more
It is Going to Be More Complicated to Remain a Constitutional Federal Republic Than Many Seem to Realize
Stephan A. Schwartz, Editor - Schwartzreport
_Stephan: Last Friday ASO Communications and Research Collaborative published a polling memo of data collected by Data for Progress just days before – 18-21 April. It showed that just as the country approaches Donald Trump’s 100th day in office 52% of likely voters acros … ⌘ Read more
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Understanding Kubernetes Gateway API: A Modern Approach to Traffic Management
Traffic management in Kubernetes can be complex, especially with modern applications composed of multiple services like frontends, APIs, and backends spread across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As these environments grow, ensuring secure, efficient, and reliable communication… ⌘ Read more
3rvya6q and your feed, but your feed certainly does not include that particular twt (it comes from my feed).
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oooooohhhhhh, I see. Hmmmm.
To answer your question: Ideally, you would have replied directly to my reply. :-) The flat conversation model always felt unnatural to me. I just yielded to the community’s way of doing it.
I’ve just released version 1.0 of twtxt.el (the Emacs client), the stable and final version with the current extensions. I’ll let the community maintain it, if there are interested in using it. I will also be open to fix small bugs.
I don’t know if this twt is a goodbye or a see you later. Maybe I will never come back, or maybe I will post a new twt this afternoon. But it’s always important to be grateful. Thanks to @prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com @arne@uplegger.eu @david@collantes.us @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt @xuu@txt.sour.is @sorenpeter@darch.dk for everything you have taught me. I’ve learned a lot about #twtxt, HTTP and working in community. It has been a fantastic adventure!
What will become of me? I have created a twtxt fork called Texudus (https://texudus.readthedocs.io/). I want to continue learning on my own without the legacy limitations or technologies that implement twtxt. It’s not a replacement for any technology, it’s just my own little lab. I have also made a fork of my own client and will be focusing on it for a while. I don’t expect anyone to use it, but feedback is always welcome.
Best regards to everyone.
#twtxt #emacs #twtxt-el #texudus
Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
Updated May 1, 2025: CNCF and Synadia have come to an agreement to ensure that NATS continues to thrive as a healthy open source project within CNCF, with Synadia’s continued support and involvement. Please see our… ⌘ Read more
The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration
Collaboration is crucial to successful software delivery. Let’s dive into how AI can help your development teams decrease their time to delivery, and foster better communication and collaboration using GitHub Copilot.
The post [The AI-Powered DevOps revolution: Redefining developer collaboration](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/the-ai-powered-devops-revolution-redefining-de … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Looking Forward to ElixirConf EU 2025
ElixirConf EU 2025 is only two weeks away! Soon, it will once again be time for the Elixir community from Europe and beyond to come together, connect, and learn from each other about Elixir and its ecosystem. There will be dozens of talks from speakers across the community, training opportunities, and more.
This year’s event is being held in Kraków, Poland from May 15-16, with optional training available o … ⌘ Read more
7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
that said, and reading to @sorenpeter@darch.dk and @andros@twtxt.andros.dev I have new thoughts. I assume that this won’t change anyone’s opinions or priorities, so it makes no harm sharing them.
It’s always tempting to use something that already exists (like X, Masto, Bsky, etc.) rather that building anything through effort and disagreement until reaching to something useful and valuable together. A ‘social service’ is only useful if people is using it.
I’ll add that I haven’t lost interest on the ‘hacky’ part of twtxt about developing tools, protocols, and extensions as a community. It’s the appealing part! It’s a nice hobby to have, shared with random people across the world.
But this is not the right way for me, and makes me feel that I’m unwelcome to propose something different (after watching replies to my previous twt). Feels like “If you don’t agree, you are free to leave, we’ll miss you.” Naah, not cool. I’ve lived that many times before, and nowadays I don’t have enough spare time and energy for a hobby like that.
Let’s see what happens next with the micro-community!
7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
just for the record I didn’t say I was leaving the twtxt ‘community’ (did I?) but than I have other priorities to focus on in the following months. Please don’t be condescending, is not cool.
Development of Timeline (PHP client) has been stale for some reasons, a few of them in my side, so I think it won’t be updated to the new thread model, at least pretty soon.
So is not that I’ll stop using twtxt, just the client I use won’t be compatible with the new model in July.
7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
@prologic@twtxt.net I’m very sorry but my feelings are similar to @eapl.me@eapl.me . For a long time I thought that Yarn was part of the Twtxt ecosystem, and not that Twtxt is an extension of Yarn. I don’t feel comfortable with what has happened. I didn’t expect this change of direction.
The nice part of Twtxt is that it is read by humans, with a simpler format. It’s the heart of the social network.
I need to think for a little time, but I’m thinking of stopping my involvement in the community.
7 to 12 and use the first 12 characters of the base32 encoded blake2b hash. This will solve two problems, the fact that all hashes today either end in q or a (oops) 😅 And increasing the Twt Hash size will ensure that we never run into the chance of collision for ions to come. Chances of a 50% collision with 64 bits / 12 characters is roughly ~12.44B Twts. That ought to be enough! -- I also propose that we modify all our clients and make this change from the 1st July 2025, which will be Yarn.social's 5th birthday and 5 years since I started this whole project and endeavour! 😱 #Twtxt #Update
@eapl.me@eapl.me I honestly believe you are overreacting here a little bit 🤣 I completely emphasize with you, it can be pretty tough to feel part of a community at times and run a project with a kind of “democracy” or “vote by committee”. But one thing that life has taught me about open source projects and especially decentralised ecosystems is that this doesn’t really work.
It isn’t that I’ve not considered all the other options on the table (which can still be), it’s just that I’ve made a decision as the project lead that largely helped trigger a rebirth of the use of Twtxt back in July 1 2020. There are good reasons not to change the threading model right now, as the changes being proposed are quite disruptive and don’t consider all the possible things that could go wrong.
Firefox Browser Gets Tab Groups
Mozilla recently updated the Firefox browser to add support for tab groups, a feature that Firefox users have been wanting for years. According to Mozilla, tab groups have been the most requested idea on the Mozilla Connect community platform, and it was actually the first request that Mozilla received when launching Connect in 2022.
 or the message's creation timestamp? I reckon the latter is the case, but it's undefined right now. Then we can discuss and potentially tweak the proposal.
Also, I see what you did there in regards to the reply model change poll. ]:->
The community is heavily divided in this regard, and yet we need consensous. We’re like the three Borg in VOY: Survival Instinct. 🥴
@prologic@twtxt.net if not that, what else? Communism? Is there, really, such thing? 🤣
OSI publishes election retrospective
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has quietly published
“takeaways” from its internal retrospective on the recent board
of directors election as an update
to the March blog\
post that announced the new members of the board. The election was
controversial, in part, due to poor communication and OSI changing the
election rules and disqualifying sever … ⌘ Read more
@javivf@adn.org.es Go for it! You’re free to use it.
It’s been a community adventure to explore the whole DM/encryption thing. So the community can do with it whatever they want. 😎
Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Civil Rights Act of 1964
, - Daily Kos | VPS Community
_Stephan: I still vividly remember walking down Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial to hear Martin Luther King give his “I have a Dream” speech, and months later taking my then-girlfriend, who worked for the President, to a White House party after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act in 1964. After years of being involved in Ci … ⌘ Read more
LitmusChaos at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: A Recap
The cloud native community recently converged in London from April 1 – 4, 2025, for an incredible edition of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe. From our perspective at LitmusChaos, it was a week filled with inspiring sessions,… ⌘ Read more
Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community
When a company contributes a project to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), it’s not just sharing code—it’s making a commitment to the open source community. It’s a pledge to uphold open collaboration, shared community ownership,… ⌘ Read more
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CNCF Announces Schedule for OpenTelemetry Community Day, Highlighting End-to-End Observability Innovation
Showcasing real-world implementations and community-driven advancements in open source observability SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – April 23, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native software, today announced the full… ⌘ Read more
OSTIF Announces NATS Security Audit Results
OSTIF is proud to share the results of our security audit of NATS. NATS is an open source project made by Synadia Communications for secure always-on messaging for a variety of digital formats and clients. With… ⌘ Read more
dm-only.txt feeds. 😂
by commenting out DMs are you giving up on simplicity? See the Metadata extension holding the data inside comments, as the client doesn’t need to show it inside the timeline.
I don’t think that commenting out DMs as we are doing for metadata is giving up on simplicity (it’s a feature already), and it helps to hide unwanted DMs to clients that will take months to add it’s support to something named… an extension.
For some other extensions in https://twtxt.dev/extensions.html (for example the reply-to hash #abcdfeg or the mention @ < example http://example.org/twtxt.txt >) is not a big deal. The twt is still understandable in plain text.
For DM, it’s only interesting for you if you are the recipient, otherwise you see an scrambled message like 1234567890abcdef=. Even if you see it, you’ll need some decryption to read it. I’ve said before that DMs shouldn’t be in the same section that the timeline as it’s confusing.
So my point stands, and as I’ve said before, we are discussing it as a community, so let’s see what other maintainers add to the convo.
@bender@twtxt.net The DM specification has been updated from time to time in response to advice from the community. For me, It is a successful!
The adoption is another topic 😂
(I am working on my side)
@bender@twtxt.net I use it. It’s not the feature I use the most in the fediverse, but I communicate this way with several friends. For example, it’s the main way I talk to the original creator of the twtxt-el repository, the way people greet me for the first time or the way they notify me of some bugs in the software I maintain. I can even tell you that it’s the main way I talk to some maintainers of the Emacs community. If there are any of you reading my words, speak up!
Why not have the same? There are things I want to say to @prologic@twtxt.net in private, why should I have to send him an email or private IRC? Or an public twt.
Of course, here’s a topic we’ve already talked about: what is twtxt for you? For me it will always be a social network, in microblogging format, but an asynchronous way of communicating. And having a tool to control visibility is basic 😄
I look forward to hearing from you @eapl.me@eapl.me !
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Experts Say Abrupt and “Staggering” CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives
Rita Rubin, - Journal of the American Medical Association
Stephan: America’s medical community of physicians and nurses is beginning to recognize how deadly the incompetence and disregard for human life of Despot Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and the rest of the fascist MAGAts really is. It is going to have a fatal effect on the population of America.
 provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Strong TOC participation at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London enabled in-person discussions and strategic planning for CNCF project technical priorities… ⌘ Read more
CISA extends funding to the CVE program (BleepingComputer)
Sergiu Gatlan reports
that the US government has extended funding for the Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program, following yesterday’s reports that funding
would run out as of April 16.
“The CVE Program is invaluable to cyber community and a priority of
CISA,” the U.S. cybersecurity agency told BleepingCompu … ⌘ Read more
@javivf@adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh size of our community 👌
vimToGo - Community directory of advanced vim commands ⌘ Read more
my main itch with the DMs extensions is that these messages are intended to be private, not public information. That’s why other extensions make sense, but DMs are another kind of feature.
TwiXter, Mastodon, FB and some other services usually hide the DMs in another section, so they are not mixed with the public timeline.
I find the DM topic interesting, I even made an indie experiment for a centralized messaging system here https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/owl.
Although, as I’ve said a few times here, I’m not particularly interested in supporting it on microblogging, as I don’t use it that much. In the rare case I’ve used them, I don’t have to manage public and private keys, and finally none of my acquaintances use encrypted email.
Nothing personal against anyone, and although I like to debate and even fight, it’s not the case here. This proposal is the only one allowing DMs on twtxt, and if the community wants it, I’ll support it, with my personal input, of course.
A good approach I could find with a good compromise between compatibility with current clients and keeping these messages private is ‘hiding’ the DMs in comments. For example:
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
I think I would encourage anyone in this community is to care less about supporting “legacy clients” and focus more on value-add whilst balancing the burden of client authors – which have very precious little “spare time” 🤣
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I don’t see any “fighting” here. This is just good experimentation. Unfortunately there hasn’t really been enough time or effort by other “client authors” yet, me especially as I’ve been super busy with ya’ know my “day job” that pays the bills and refactoring yarnd to use a new and shiny and much better SqliteCache 🤣 – I certainly don’t think your efforts are wasted at all. I would however like @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt encourage you to look at the work we’ve done as a community (which was also driven out of the Yarn.social / Twtxt community years back).
@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net @eapl.me@eapl.me I think opening another file is a bad idea because it adds complexity to the clients, breaks the single feed and I think keeping legacy clients will be more complex to add new features in the future. A modern approach is important.
I’ll be honest, I’m a bit tired of the fight around the direct message. Perhaps, we can remove it as an extension and use the alternative @prologic@twtxt.net . My suggestion apparently doesn’t like to the community. I have no problem with remove it.
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