Building a personal archive of the web, the slow way
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Infant with rare, incurable disease is first to successfully receive personalized gene therapy treatment
NIH/Office of the Director,    -  Science News

_Stephan: Here is a first report on what I think is going to become a major good news trend. I was first introduced to genetic manipulation before it actually existed by remote viewers who, when I asked them about healthcare in the future, told me that many traditional dis … ⌘ Read more

New Life Hack: Using LLMs to Generate Constraint Solver Programs for Personal Logistics Tasks
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Docker at Microsoft Build 2025: Where Secure Software Meets Intelligent Innovation
This year at Microsoft Build, Docker will blend developer experience, security, and AI innovation with our latest product announcements. Whether you attend in person at the Seattle Convention Center or tune in online, you’ll see how Docker is redefining the way teams build, secure, and scale modern applications. Docker’s Vision for Developers At Microsoft Build… ⌘ Read more

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Trump administration ‘looking at’ suspending habeas corpus, Stephen Miller says
Dan Mangan,  Reporter  -  CNBC

_Stephan: Habeas Corpus – literally in Latin, “you have the body” is a legal principle so old and revered it predates the creation of the United States in 1787. It is a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person’s release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detent … ⌘ Read more

According to a very old email one of my more personal family domains was registered in 2013 making it 12 years old, so I was closed 🤣 my public facing one is much much older 🤣

@anth@a.9srv.net I actually don’t have a clue how old my public-facing domain is 🤣 I have another more personal one that’s probably around ~15 years, but I’m not even sure how to check tbh 😅

i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i don’t think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal

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10 Strange Things Science Has Taught Us About Our Preferences
The things that people like and dislike lie at the heart of their personality, shaping everything from their choice of friends to the lifestyle they live and their career. Yet preferences are also shrouded in mystery. Tracking down the influences that lead to people’s tastes and opinions is a challenging task fraught with uncertainty. Still, […]

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10 Things Humans Are Weirdly Bad at Predicting
Humans like to think of themselves as rational, forward-looking creatures. But when it comes to forecasting the future—even our own—we’re often laughably wrong. From personal choices to global crises, our brains are wired with cognitive shortcuts and emotional biases that lead us to consistently underestimate, overestimate, or misjudge reality. Sometimes, the error is small. Other […]

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This is Gypsy and she has worn this for 4 days straight. The mask falls off easily and every time it has fallen off, she meows constantly until you put it back on her head. I guess, until she gets tired of it, I will have to call her Bat-Gypsy 😂 such a weird lovable cat with loads of personality. ⌘ Read more

How Nearly a Century of Happiness Research Led to One Big Finding
Susan Dominus,  Contributing Writer  -  The New York Times Magazine

_Stephan: As this article describes, scientists have been trying to determine what creates personal happiness for a century, and it is a very complicated research task. But the one constant I see in almost all these studies, and I have been doing and following this research for over 50 years, although it is rarely mentioned as … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz @quark@ferengi.one In 2014 one person created protocol ii. Later it forked in IDEC. Why i said this? Because it’s simple “federated” forum-like protocol where from your station fetch another every 5-10 minutes. Stations has topic-based channels like idec.talks, linux.16, haiku.os, zx.spectrum. In short it’s FIDO but.. more modern? Documentation: https://github.com/idec-net/new-docs (mostly Russian, but you can use translator, also protocol already translated to english)

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. ☹️

Astro Linker Chrome Extension - A Fun Personal Project
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Republican posts video defending law that declared slaves ‘three-fifths’ of a person
Sarah K. Burris,  Senior Editor  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: I think it is very important to recognize that Donny “2 doll”, as Lawrence O’Donnell called him on his program tonight, when Trump said basically that American children have too many toys, is just the leader of a racist fascist coup, but far from the only person perpetrating this destruction of the feder … ⌘ Read more

The Trump administration’s push to privatize US public lands
Chris D’Angelo,  Staff Writer  -  Grist

_Stephan: Many of my most beloved memories occurred in the public lands, parks, forests, rivers and lakes all Americans own collectively. Well, as this article describes, psychopath Trump’s fascist coup is trying to change that. His oligarch co-conspirators want those lands to mine, and drill on, or to develop for their personal profit. And Trump is supporting them … ⌘ Read more

The return of the tilde
As some of you may have noticed my web page is now under /~mc instead
of just /mc. This is a return to olden times.

The Apache web server, and probably many other web servers, had a
simple way of adding personal web pages for local users. This meant
that an URL ending with ~mc led directly to a subdirectory of user
mc’s home directory. Whatever they put in that directory was
immediately available on the Intertubes! Neat, huh?

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Hidden Tricks to Spot Phishing Emails Before They Trick You!

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Phishing emails are like traps set by cybercriminals to trick you into sharing personal details, clicking dangerous links, or downloading…

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@eapl.me@eapl.me I wouldn’t call it natural, it is the way Bluesky decided to handle handles (not meaning to make a pun, or anything). There is no other way, but that.

The bottomline is, there are agreed upon “standards”, right? From example, on Yarnd you show as “eapl.me”, from “eapl.me”. A kind of weird redundancy because on twtxt, ever since I started using it, one will expect to see a “nick” (equivalent to a person’s first name), from “a domain” (like a surname).

There is nothing holding back someone from giving themselves the nick:

thisismyawesomenickforwhichiwillbeknownforeverandeveritsgreatisntit

But, do we really want that? 😅

That’s exactly what came to mind. Even millionaires would simply pay with a credit card for the convenience, and yes, because what kind of a sociopath will carry $3,000 around?! Just one more stumping item to that despicable person list.

good morning friends. i don’t know what i’m gonna do today. perhaps work on my patreon and login wall more personal sites behind authelia that i could offer access to via patreon tier

@prologic@twtxt.net Since you have to check and double check everything it spits out (without providing sources), I don’t find any of this helpful. It’s like someone’s in the room with you and that person is saying random stuff that might or might not be correct. At best, it might spark some new idea in your head and then you follow that idea the traditional way.

Information published on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter) was never guaranteed to be correct. But at least you had a “frame of reference”: “Ah, I read this information about Linux on a blog that usually posts about Windows, so this one single Linux post might not necessarily be correct.” That is completely lost with LLMs. It’s literally all mushed together. 🤷

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha 🤣 Figures 🤦‍♂️ Also no need to be concerned with that here, I’ve personally blocked the ASN(s) of Microsoft, OpenAI, Claude and Google 😂

so i had the idea of adding a page to my otherwise single page girl on the moon personal site that featured my more notable projects, but it’s been hours and i CAN’T THINK OF ANYTHING TO ADD THAT I HAVEN’T ALREADY MENTIONED. i just host other people’s stuff!!!

@bender@twtxt.net awww thank you :‘))) you all are too nice!!! i really wanted to share how i did this because i think i’m the first person to publicly attempt a production instance of dreamwidth code in docker, so i’m glad i did a good job at documenting it!!!!!!!

jenny really isn’t well equipped to handle edits of my own twts.

For example, in 2021, this change got introduced:

https://www.uninformativ.de/git/jenny/commit/6b5b25a542c2dd46c002ec5a422137275febc5a1.html

This means that jenny will always ignore my own edits unless I also manually edit its internal “json database”. Annoying.

That change was requested by a user who had the habit of deleting twts or moving them to another mailbox or something. I think that person is long gone and I might revert that change. 🤔

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz As someone who has a say in hiring decisions (every now and then – I’m not an executive nor an HR person 😆): This is gold. Writeups like these tell me/us so much about job applicants. It’s much more valuable than “a CV without gaps” or “know your algorithms” or whatever. Instead, it shows how you work and that you understand what you’re doing, and that’s the most important part. 🥇

The CNCF TOC @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) 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

‘The Homegrowns Are Next’: Trump Promises to Send American Citizens to El Salvador in Harrowing Comments to Bukele
Colby Hall,  Founding Editor  -  Mediate

_Stephan: I am surprised the media isn’t saying out loud what is actually going on. American dictator Donald Trump has made a deal with dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to run a concentration camp for which he will pay him $6,000 per person of your tax doll … ⌘ Read more

How to Get SSL Certificate Info in Safari on Mac
The latest versions of Safari for Mac have changed how a person might find SSL certificate information for a particular website, something that is commonly needed in web development, information security, and developmental web work in general. While in prior versions of Safari you could simply click on the little padlock icon next to the … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Get SSL Certificate Info in Safari on Mac
The latest versions of Safari for Mac have changed how a person might find SSL certificate information for a particular website, something that is commonly needed in web development, information security, and developmental web work in general. While in prior versions of Safari you could simply click on the little padlock icon next to the … Read More ⌘ 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 don’t think I’d personally be worried about migrating, just re-fetch. Sounds cleaner anyway?
Sorry I’m late to the party!

Gmail Showing 1 Unread Message? Here’s How to Find It
If you’re the type of person who likes to maintain Inbox Zero, or who recently went and tidied up their Gmail inbox to get every email marked as read, you may come across a frustrating situation where Gmail shows 1 unread message, and you simply can’t locate that unread email message in Gmail. If you … Read More ⌘ Read more

I personally really like the news minimalist (fuck it mentions are kind of broken atm here in the UI :/) feed myself, really good quality, very high signal 👌

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There are now two (recentish) quotes I really like these days:

The smartest person in the room is not the one with all the answers—it’s the one who’s brave enough to ask the dumb questions

and

The kindest person in the room is often the smartest

@bender@twtxt.net @ionores@twtxt.net Yep, it’s extremely seldom that a photo turns out looking better than reality. Very rarely does that happen. But basically never with sunsets. ;-) Maybe once a leap year I’m very surprised to wonder how that subject wasn’t better in person but actually on film.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org now, that’s what I am talking about! Having been witness of similar sunsets, I would wholeheartedly agree that a photo (no matter how good!) is a poor replacement for not being able to spectate it in person.

A mate and I met at the scout yard to prepare an upcoming workshop. Boy did we have an amazing sunset when we left. The photos don’t reflect it, it was a hell lot more beautiful in person: https://lyse.isobeef.org/plaetzle-2025-04-11/

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hey does anyone know of yarn pods with open registrations besides mine? quite literally asking for a friend who i told about yarn but can’t use my site for personal reasons sadly otherwise i’d gladly invite her

well, that leads to a long conversation.

Piracy is a difficult topic which is very personal, so I won’t say much about it.

On writing books, I’ve tried along with other digital products such as courses and videogames, and I got to confess that it has been hard for me.

If it helps, I think it all reaches our expectations on the activity and the result. If royalties is the expectation, it’s going to be slow. By 5% of royalties, for a rough example, a huge amount of sales will be required to get a decent “wage”, so I’ve understood of doing it by the side of a normal employment although it has been discouraging and a bit sad.

I have reflected about it in Spanish here: https://sembrandojuegos.substack.com/p/sobre-expectativas-al-crear-juegos

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

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The 6.14 kernel is out
Linus has released the 6.14 kernel, a bit
later than expected:

So it’s early Monday morning (well - early for me, I’m not really a
morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I
didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon
release schedule.

I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and
delayed things.

But no. It’s just pure incompetence.

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It’s extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. I’ve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is “Benutzername” in German, literally “username”. Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.

This wasn’t the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some “real” username. Even non-techies. It looks like some “common knowledge” is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.

Have you experienced something similar?

RPI Image Gen Introduces Custom Raspberry Pi Image Creation
The Raspberry Pi team has introduced rpi image gen, a new tool for creating custom software images with detailed control over configuration. It is designed for embedded systems, industrial applications, and personalized projects. rpi image gen is an alternative to the existing pi gen tool, which is used to produce the official Raspberry Pi OS […] ⌘ Read more

well, I assume by syntax you mean Gemtext (which I like a lot, my personal blog is built on top of it), so I think it might work for twtxt clients…

I knew of twtxt in Gemini Antenna, so at least the 2017 spec might work on that protocol. I think the main issue with extensions is that they weren’t designed with many URLs and protocols in mind.

Also I have to admit that the Gemini community significantly reduced in the last few years. I don’t know how worth it is to add support for Gemini now.

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10 Amazingly Ancient Jokes That Might Still Make You Laugh
Humor is a deeply subjective thing. What one person finds hilarious leaves another sitting stony-faced. There is often a humor gap between generations, with children laughing at things their parents can barely understand. So it might be surprising that some truly ancient jokes have never gone out of style. Here are ten jokes from history […]

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

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

A New Missouri Bill Would Let Residents Donate to Anti-Abortion Centers Instead of Paying Any Taxes
Jeremy Kohler,  Contributing Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: If you are a woman and you live in the Red state, and maybe you voted for psychopath Trump and other MAGAt Republicans, you voted to put your personal health at risk. OB/GYN specialist physicians and nurses are fleeing your state, Trump and his DOGE Frankenstein have … ⌘ Read more

I grew up a dog person afraid of cats and then I adopted a kitten and well… now I’m so obsessed with my baby that i… ⌘ Read more

U.S. Added to Global Human Rights Watchlist Over Declining Civil Liberties
Solcyré Burga,  Staff Reporter  -  Time Magazine

_Stephan: Psychopath Trump – I say psychopath, by the way, because no functioning rational person would behave as Trump is behaving – aided by the MAGAt flying monkeys – an image from the Wizard of Oz – in Congress are not only destroying our democrsacy and economy, they are also completely trashing the stature of the United … ⌘ Read more

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

John Gruber Says ‘Something is Rotten’ at Apple
Daring Fireball’s John Gruber today shared some strongly-worded comments about Apple’s delayed personalized Siri features. Gruber is a well-known Apple pundit who has been writing about the company for more than two decades.

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PicoCalc Brings Classic Computing to ClockworkPi v2.0 with Raspberry Pi Pico
The PicoCalc is a compact computing platform designed to recreate the experience of early personal computers. Running on 260KB of memory, it allows users to code in BASIC, explore Lisp, interact with a UNIX-like environment, and run retro games and digital music. Its modular and open-source design makes it adaptable for various applications. Built on […] ⌘ Read more

10 Times Regular People Built Unbelievable Things at Home
We should never underestimate the power of a single determined person working alone in a locked room. When people have a dream and a vision to build something that they clearly envision in their mind, they will forgo sleep, think about it, and continuously work on the project each day until it’s done. What a […]

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Texas Instruments Introduces MSPM0C1104 as the Smallest Available Microcontroller
Texas Instruments has introduced the MSPM0C1104, which it describes as the world’s smallest microcontroller, expanding its MSPM0 MCU portfolio. Measuring only 1.38mm², this wafer chip-scale package MCU is 38% smaller than existing alternatives. It is designed for applications where board space is limited, such as medical wearables and personal electronics, while maintaining functio … ⌘ Read more

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

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

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

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

Good vibes to everyone!

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

Apple Pulls iPhone 16 Ad Showing Off ‘More Personal Siri’
Apple has pulled an ad for the iPhone 16 that depicted a “ more personal Siri,” following the company’s admission last week that it is delaying some of the Apple Intelligence Siri features that it originally expected to release in iOS 18.

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Apple’s Smart Home Hub Now ‘Postponed’ Due to Delayed Siri Features
Apple has pushed back the launch of its rumored smart home hub due to delayed Siri features, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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

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

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a few async ideas for later

The editing process needs a lot of consideration and compromises.

From one side, editing and deleting it’s necessary IMO. People will do it anyway, and personally I like to edit my texts, so I’d put some effort on make it work.
Should we keep a history of edits? Should we hash every edit to avoid abuse? Should we mark internally a twt as deleted, but keeping the replies?

I think that’s part of a more complete ‘thread’ extension, although I’d say it’s worth to agree on something reflecting the real usage in the wild, along with what people usually do on other platforms.

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

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

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@bmallred@staystrong.run I forgot one more effect of edits. If clients remember the read status of massages by hash, an edit will mark the updated message as unread again. To some degree that is even the right behavior, because the message was updated, so the user might want to have a look at the updated version. On the other hand, if it’s just a small typo fix, it’s maybe not worth to tell the user about. But the client doesn’t know, at least not with additional logic.

Having said that, it appears that this only affects me personally, noone else. I don’t know of any other client that saves read statuses. But don’t worry about me, all good. Just keep doing what you’ve done so far. I wanted to mention that only for the sake of completeness. :-)

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

OpenAI Debuts New GPT-4.5 Model for ChatGPT
OpenAI today introduced the next iteration of its AI models, GPT-4.5. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s “best model yet” for chat purposes, with scaling in unsupervised learning that allows the model to better recognize patterns, draw connections, and generate creative insights.

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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Just before the pandemic, we watched Uncle Bob videos once a week in the lunch break. While almost all of my old teammates agreed with his views, I partially found them to be very odd and even counterproductive.

I didn’t come across John Ousterhout or any of his work before, at least not deliberately. So, this document is my first contact.

I only finished the chapter on comments and I totally agree with John so far. This document just manifests to me how weird Bob’s view is on certain subjects.

I always disagreed with the concept of a maximum method length. Sure, generally, shorter functions are probably better, but it always depends. And I’ve certainly seen super short methods that just made the code flow even worse to follow. While “one function should only do one thing” is a nice general rule, I’m 100% in team John with the shown examples. There are cases, where this doesn’t help readability at all. Not even close.

To me, a function always has to justify its existence. Either by reusing it at least at another place or by coming up with dedicated tests for it. But if it is just called once and there are no tests, I almost always decide against it. Personally, I don’t mind longer methods. We just recently had a discussion about that and I lost against two other workmates who are more in Uncle Bob’s camp, they refactored one medium sized method into three very short ones. Luckily, we agree on most other topics.

Lol, what!? The shorter the method, the longer the variables inside? I first thought I misread or the writeup mixed it up. I’ll always do it the other way around.

I’ve been also bitten badly by outdated comments in the past, but Bob must have worked on really terrible projects to end up with such an attitude to dislike comments. Oh well. No doubt, I’ve come across by several orders of magnitude more useless comments, in my experience (autogenerated) JavaDocs fall in the category more frequently than not. So, I know that there are different types of comments. A comment doesn’t automatically mean that it is good and justified.

But I also partially agree with Bob and John and think that a good name has a proper chance to save a comment. Though, when in doubt, I go John’s route and use a shorter name with a comment rather than use a kilometer long identifier. Writing good comments typically takes some time, sometimes much longer than writing the code. It regularly takes me several minutes. It’s a hard art.

I perhaps should read up on John’s work. He seems to be more reasonable and likeminded. :-) Let me continue to complete this document.

Amazon Debuts Alexa+ Generative AI
Amazon today announced the launch of Alexa+, a new version of Alexa that includes large language models, agentic capabilities, services, and devices at scale to redefine “the way we interact with digital assistants.”

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Donald Trump Has Launched a War Against the Working Class
Michael Arria,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: As Trump’s fascist oligarch coup moves into its second month I confess I am surprised that Trump voters don’t yet seem to fully realize how severely Trump is going to damage the quality of their personal life, and the lives of their family. I keep seeing interviews with Trump voters, particularly White men, who just don’t seem capable of comprehending what is … ⌘ Read more

Trump orders justice department to fire all US attorneys appointed by Biden
Hugo Lowell ,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: The United States is no longer going to have a fair and legitimate legal system. The FBI has been corrupted into a personal internal army to pursue what “king” Trump wants pursued, and the lawyers of DOJ that are ethical men and women are resigning or, as this article describes, being fired. Like everything else T … ⌘ Read more

IRS cuts over 6,000 jobs in the middle of tax season
Scott Horsley,  Reporter  -  npr

_Stephan: I can tell you from personal experience that the IRS has never been efficient or easy to work with. I spent four years trying to get a mistake the IRS made in not correctly registering a payment so small I couldn’t buy a new monitor for my computer sorted out. It didn’t matter that I sent proof of the payment over and over and over, so I finally just paid it again to end the non … ⌘ Read more

10 Weird Stories Missing People Told When They Were Found
It is such a relief when a missing person is found alive, whether they have been gone a matter of hours, weeks, or even years. However, the explanations for why the person vanished to begin with or stories about experiences they had during their absence are sometimes very bizarre. From strange crimes to supernatural tales, […]

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I really like the concept of “twt”. It’s the perfect blend of txt and twtxt. An abbreviated form. Even though it’s the name given to posts, I personally find it very nice.
#twtxt

@eapl.me@eapl.me I couldn’t care less about ActivityPub, but twtxt is the thing for hackers by design. That’s the appealing part for me, personally. I actually do enjoy that not everybody and their dogs are here. :-)

@thecanine@twtxt.net I agree!

Head of Social Security abruptly resigns after clash with Elon Musk over DOGE’s access to sensitive data
Stephen M. Lepore,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: The Musk gangsters of “king” Trump are looting your personal information and Michelle King, Acting Commissioner of Social Security had the integrity to resign from her post after she could not stop them.  And so the Trumpian coup continues. The American people creat … ⌘ Read more

Microsoft’s first big game of the year is an RPG masterpiece
Avowed is a brilliant story, a wonderful world and an excuse for a lot of crunchy first-person combat rolled up into an excellent and breezy RPG. ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me Yeah, you need some kind of storage for that. But chances are that there’s already a cache in place. Ideally, the client remembers etags or last modified timestamps in order to reduce unnecessary network traffic when fetching feeds over HTTP(S).

A newsreader without read flags would be totally useless to me. But I also do not subscribe to fire hose feeds, so maybe that’s a different story with these. I don’t know.

To me, filtering read messages out and only showing new messages is the obvious solution. No need for notifications in my opinion.

There are different approaches with read flags. Personally, I like to explicitly mark messages read or unread. This way, I can think about something and easily come back later to reply. Of course, marking messages read could also happen automatically. All decent mail clients I’ve used in my life offered even more advanced features, like delayed automatic marking.

All I can say is that I’m super happy with that for years. It works absolutely great for me. The only downside is that I see heaps of new, despite years old messages when a bug causes a feed to be incorrectly updated (https://twtxt.net/twt/tnsuifa). ;-)

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev The article is a good reminder of the true blogging mindset. But let’s try to think beyond. 2 ideas: (1) writing “forces clarity, structures your thoughts, sharpens your perspective”. But it also generates thoughts in the sense of Heinrich von Kleist (1805). (2) You’re writing for “the future you, one right person, one day” but you are also writing for the AI. The idea of AI as an audience.

Scientists used a computer to predict exactly when society will collapse
Lucy Devine,    -  LADBIBLE

_Stephan: I have been telling you, my readers, as well as anyone else who was interested and would listen that between 2040-2045 there was going to be a cataclysmic change in humanity’s cultures, including the United States. (See YouTube searching on my name, or my personal website, where you can hear or read me expoun … ⌘ Read more

Member of Elon Musk’s DOGE team resigns after racist posts resurface
Bobby Allyn, Shannon Bond,  Reporters  -  npr

_Stephan: Did you know that almost all your personal data was made available to an openly racist sexist bully boy who was one of Elon Musk’s lieutenants until he was outed by journalists? The hallmark of the men and women committing the Republican coup is their objectively verifiable racism, sexism, dishonesty, and marginal competence. These ar … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So true! Either I’m hanging around with my direct teammates socializing in person in a meeting room or some other workmates are making so much noise in the open-plan office that I cannot concentrate at all. In any case, completely unproductive. :-D Luckily, I very rarely have to go to the office.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de The light pollution map reports red for my town. That’s fairly accurate, I’d say. The view from home is not all that great. Yeah, I can see Ursa Major and a bunch of other stars. Maybe even some satellites. But there’s definitely a sky glow at the horizon.

When I leave town, I can see a bit more. However, it doesn’t compare to the alps or even some rural parts in Australia. The latter was by far the craziest I’ve ever seen in my life. Looked like a space telescope photo in person. Soooooooooooooo many stars and the band of the milky way was easily visible to the naked eye. Up until then, I didn’t even know this was remotely possible down on earth. Absolutely stunning. :-)

‘It’s a coup’: Musk’s DOGE granted access to system that pays out Social Security
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams | AlterNet

_Stephan: What amounts to an oligarchical coup of the United States has just happened. The unelected billionaires who bought “emperor” Trump his office now have my, and probably your, complete personal financial data – anything any of us has ever filed with the federal government, as well as any military serv … ⌘ Read more

How to Disable “Follow Up” Mail Suggestions on Mac
One of the polarizing Mail for Mac features is “Follow Up”, which are suggestions on emails that Apple Mail thinks you should follow up with. The idea behind “Follow Up” suggestions in Mail is pretty simple; if you haven’t received a reply or heard back from a particular person or email, the last sent message … Read More ⌘ Read more

How to Disable “Follow Up” Mail Suggestions on Mac
One of the polarizing Mail for Mac features is “Follow Up”, which are suggestions on emails that Apple Mail thinks you should follow up with. The idea behind “Follow Up” suggestions in Mail is pretty simple; if you haven’t received a reply or heard back from a particular person or email, the last sent message … Read More ⌘ Read more

Trump Medicaid freeze seems to lock 72 million Americans out of their health insurance
Bruce Gil,  Staff Writer  -  Quartz

_Stephan: Thanks to criminal Trump about a third of Americans just lost their healthcare. If you are on Medicaid you may be one of them. If you have a child that depends on food support, or an elderly person who gets some kind of federal aid, they are cut off as well. What can you do? Please call  (202) 224-3121 and a … ⌘ Read more

Navajo Nation leaders raise alarm over reports of Indigenous people being questioned and detained during immigration sweeps
Alaa Elassar,  Writer  -  CNN

_Stephan: If you are a Native American you are being warned to carry documentation of your citizenship and tribal affiliation on your person because Native Americans are being stopped by criminal Trump’s immigration patrols because they aren’t pale Wh … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz franz von stuck is one of my fave artists and i was so delighted to see one of his pieces displayed in person but i got separated from my family when i saw it and just barely got a pic before my sister dragged me back to follow them away T__T next time i will see if the met has more of his art… https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/m/franz-von-stuck-inferno-1908/

This client was made by a finnish person but sure, you believe whatever you want to

A Third of the Arctic’s Landmass is Now a Source of Carbon: Study
Eloise Goldsmith,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Criminal Trump has made it clear that he either doesn’t care about climate change, isn’t smart enough to understand what is happening, or figures it won’t happen in his lifetime so sucking up to the petroleum oligarchs has no downside for him personally. Humanity, however, is going to experience great misery because of what Trump is doin … ⌘ Read more

Sometimes things happen that you did not expect: You hear a song, you really like it, you research who made it, and you find out that person lives in the same town as you: AK – Discovery. ⌘ Read more