@thecanine@twtxt.net My apologies, mate! :-( As @david@collantes.us pointed out, this was definitely not my intent at all.
For the easter egg hunt, I first looked for a hidden image map link on the pixel dog in the right lower corner itself. Maybe one giant pixel just links to somewhere else, I figured. But I couldn’t find any and then quickly moved on. Hence, I naturally viewed the HTML source. Because where else would be a good hiding place for easter eggs, right?
Next, I noticed the <font> tags. I thought I had read quite some time ago that they are not an HTML5 thing, but wasn’t entirely sure about it. So, I asked the W3C HTML validator. Sure enough. I thought I let you know about the violations. If somebody had found a mistake on my site, I’d love to hear about it, so I could fix it. I’m sorry that my chosen form of report didn’t resonate with you all that well. I reckoned you’ll also find it a bit funny, but I was clearly very wrong on that.
I actually followed the dog cow link to the video, so I ended up on the easter egg. However, I didn’t recognize it as such. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Oh well.
Regarding my message about the browser quirks: I read your answer that you were arguing against the HTML validator findings. Of course, everybody can do with their sites whatever they likes.
Rust 1.86.0 released
Version\
1.86.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes include support
for trait upcasting, the ability to index multiple elements of HashMaps and
slices mutably, and a number of stabilized APIs. ⌘ Read more
I played the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s worth the hype
Nintendo’s hybrid console gets new gimmicks, new games, and a tech upgrade to meet the wider games industry. ⌘ Read more
XMPP Interop Testing: Enabling Tests
Our project creates a framework that allows anyone to easily add XMPP standards compliance tests to the test phase of
their build pipeline. Prior to our most recent release (version 1.5.0) a test execution would basically run all tests
in the test suite. We provided an option to exclude certain tests, but in essence, the bulk of tests would execute.
This behavior is generally preferable when testing an XMPP server implementation. A benefit of exclusion-based
… ⌘ Read more
The digital age is a pain in the digit – and my texting thumb is over it
So you’ve never had this condition, “texting thumb”? Keep scrolling – and scrolling – and you’ll get the feel of it. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:インシデント報告Webフォームメンテナンス(2025/04/17)のお知らせ ⌘ Read more
Nintendo Switch 2 announced for a June 5 launch
The system supports 4K graphics, has an integrated voice chat platform and will cost $700. ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I do agree “the rules of the web”, are far too loose - at least the syntax ones. I do think backwards compatibility is necessary.
As for my website, it might be visually very similar, to how it looked since its creation, many years ago, but it is frequently improved. Features that originally used JavaScript, changed to HTML and CSS components, code simplified, optimised to withstand browser updates and new screen resolutions,… Even a good chunk of the errors on your list, were already addressed and I plan to address the rest soon.
Just find it a bit depressing, that my attempt to bring back some of the old Internet spirit, by making a hidden easteregg page page for this years April 1st, was met with people complaining about April fools day jokes and you insinuating my website sucks.
Amazon Makes Last Minute Offer for TikTok as Ban Looms
Retail giant Amazon today made an offer to acquire TikTok just days ahead of when TikTok must be sold off or face a ban, reports The New York Times. Unspecified participants involved in the TikTok talks “do not appear to be taking Amazon’s bid seriously,” and multiple interested parties are scrambling to plead their cases for a TikTok purchase.
[$] Memory persistence over kexec
The kernel’s kexec\
mechanism allows one kernel to directly boot a new one; it can be
thought of as a sort of kernel equivalent to the execve()
system call. Kexec has a number of uses, including booting a special kernel
to perform dumps after a crash. Normally, one does not expect user-space
processes to survive booting into a new kernel, but that has not stopped
developers from trying to im … ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org you must be loved by all the web developers in town! But ok, I have added all the missing semicolons, that should technically be there, but them not being there, does not make a difference.
Font color change inside every summary element, was a very deliberate choice, to color the text, but leave the arrow black (same as website background). But ok, I rewrote the CSS to hide the arrows and make all summaries white - since this also works better, with some dark theme enforcing browser extensions.
HOWEVER “p” as a child element of “summary” is a thing, that as far as I know, all browsers respect and if a font color is applied only once, I don’t think it matters, if it’s done through HTML or CSS, you smart ass.
[$] Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility
The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been
gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux
distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible\
builds for more than a decade; it can now
produce [official\
live CDs](https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleInst … ⌘ Read more
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After dominating television, Netflix is setting its sights on gaming
In a matter of years, Netflix’s new head of games, Alain Tascan, believes we’ll all be playing Netflix games on any device we choose. ⌘ Read more
Apple’s latest MacBook Air, Mac Studio put its new chips to good work
Apple’s M4 chip, which debuted in the iPad Pro last year, has made its way to the entire portfolio of Macs, bringing improvements in processing and graphics as well as AI. ⌘ Read more
somehow I forgot that existed.
Perhaps it was its mention of being a demo implementation here:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html#registry
So I though it wasn’t really active.
Anyway, I think that’s a good idea.
Is there something similar available on Yarn? Sorry for for asking if that was mentioned recently.
I think that the clients may help you to submit your URL to these directories, and also to get a view of the twts in them.
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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/24 to 03/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/28/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Mathieu Pasquet: Poezio 0.15 / 0.15.1
About three years since the last version, poezio 0.15 (and 0.15.1 to address
a small packaging mishap, version numbers are cheap) was released yesterday!
Poezio is a terminal-based XMPP client which aims to replicate the
feeling of terminal-based IRC clients such as irssi or weechat; to
this end, poezio originally only supported multi-user chats.
Not a lot this time around… Maybe next time?
- A new
moderateplugin (for [XEP-0425](http://xmpp.org/ex … ⌘ Read more
The race is on to build the world’s most important machine
Few would expect the future of one of the world’s fastest-growing industries to depend on a quiet Dutch town. ⌘ Read more
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Rust adopting Ferrocene Language Specification
One recurring criticism of Rust has been that the language has no official specification. This is a barrier to adoption in some safety-conscious organizations, as well as to writing alternate language implementations. Now, the Rust project has
announced
that it will be adopting the
Ferrocene Language Specification (FLS) developed by
Ferrous Systems and maintaining … ⌘ Read more
A new home for kernel.org
Akamai has sent out a\
press release saying that it is now hosting the kernel.org
repositories.
The Linux kernel is massive — approximately 28 million lines of
code. Since 2005, more than 13,500 developers from more than 1,300
different companies have contributed to the Linux
kernel. Additionally, there are many kernel versions, and
developers updat … ⌘ Read more
Apple’s iPhone 17 range will feature the thinnest iPhone ever
For the first time, 9News can reveal these leaked iPhone 17 Models in video to show the likely changes coming later this year. ⌘ Read more
Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.10
This new version does not have many new features, but it has quite a few
breaking changes, which should not impact many people, as well as one important
security fix.
Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!
SecurityAfter working on TLS stuff, I noticed that we still allowed unencrypted SCRAM to be negociated, which is really not good.
For packagers who only want this security fix, the commit fd66aef38d48b6474654cbe87464d7d416d6a5f3 should app … ⌘ Read more
Neovim 0.11 released
Version\
0.11 of the Neovim text editor has been released. Notable changes
in this release include simpler Language Server Protocol (LSP) client
setup, improved tree-sitter performance, better emoji support, and
enhancements for Neovim’s embedded terminal emulator. See the release notes for
a full list of changes. ⌘ Read more
Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible
In a short\
note to the Reproducible Builds
mailing list, Debian developer Roland Clobus announced that live
images for Debian 12.10 (“bookworm”) are now 100% reproducible. See the reproducible\
live images and Debian Live todo
pages on the Debian wiki for more inf … ⌘ Read more
Use Apple AirPods Pro 2 to perform medically certified hearing test
One of the most hyped new features Apple announced last year was the potential to use the existing Apple AirPods Pro 2 to perform a hearing test - and that feature is rolling out in Australia today. ⌘ Read more
Apple AirPods can now be used as hearing aids in Australia
From Wednesday, users with a set of $400 AirPods Pro 2 can self-administer a hearing test and use their earbuds as an over-the-counter hearing aid. ⌘ Read more
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Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4.
While hardware requirements for large language models (LLMs) are typically high, this particular PowerBook G4 model from 2005 is equ … ⌘ Read more
Looking for the perfect night out? There’s an AI for that – no joke
The “Funny Finder” released for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival matches fans to their perfect show – with a little help from artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「制御システムセキュリティカンファレンス2025 開催レポート」 ⌘ Read more
The best Windows laptop for work has one major letdown
Small, fast and packed with raw AI power, HP’s latest premium productivity laptop hits all the right notes for working on the go. But, there is one quibble. ⌘ Read more
I lost my original Windows 95 CD (and it’s too expensive for my taste to buy on eBay), so I finally sat down and got an old disk image of one of my PCs to work in QEMU.
I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Sulphur Nimbus https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/22/sulphur-nimbus.html #freeculture #bookclub
Why tracking your parents is about to be the next big thing
While most tracking app users are antsy parents who keep tabs on their kids, adult children tracking elderly parents could be the next big thing. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/17 to 03/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/21/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Julien Malka proposes method for detecting XZ-like backdoors
Julien Malka has
called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated tarballs, but since the materials included in them are usually documentation, extra build scripts, and so on, it makes sense to check that they don’t … ⌘ Read more
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The Compressed Book Edition
Image: The Compressed Book Edition. Image by Marie Verdeil and Hugo Lopez.
_The Compressed Edition is available in our bookshop as a [paperback](https://www.lulu.com/shop/kris-de-decker/low-tech-magazine-2007-2021-the-compressed-edition/paperback/product-jeqeevm.html?page=1&page … ⌘ Read more
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@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Can you reproduce any of this outside of your client? I can’t spot a mistake here:
$ curl -sI 'http://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:17 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ curl -sI 'https://movq.de/v/8684c7d264/gimp11%2D1.png'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 131798
Content-Type: image/png
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:19 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:18:07 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
$ telnet movq.de 80
Trying 185.162.249.140...
Connected to movq.de.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD /v/8684c7d264/.html%2Dindex%2Dthumb%2Dgimp11%2D1.png.jpg HTTP/1.1
Host: movq.de
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Content-Length: 2615
Content-Type: image/jpeg
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:53:31 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:34:08 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Connection closed by foreign host.
$
Budget phone wars: The three cheaper Androids taking on Apple’s $1000 iPhone 16e
Google has just unveiled its new cut-price Pixel phone to join a crowded field. ⌘ Read more
Digital transformation: a journey towards sustainable innovation
Integrating digital technologies into operations, processes and products is now a necessity rather than a choice for modern organisations. ⌘ Read more
Chinese EV giant launches cars that can fully charge in 5 minutes
BYD says its latest range of electric vehicles can be charged almost as fast as it takes to refuel a regular car. ⌘ Read more
The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’ symbolic ways of currying favour with China, such as asking President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child, are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country. ⌘ Read more
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz It’s there, but yarnd’s markdown library probably thinks that it’s some broken HTML and swallows it, not sure.
On my blog: Developer Diary, Saint Patrick’s Day ☘️ https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/17/patrick.html #programming #project #devjournal
As a full-time writer, I know I should fear AI. Instead, I’m embracing it
My income depends on me possessing a skill that I now share with chatbots but this technological advance doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. ⌘ Read more
Much ado about Nothing: British firm’s new phone is a mid-range marvel
At $600, the Nothing Phone 3a packs a lot more style and capability than most phones. And a lot less AI bloat. ⌘ Read more
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On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/10 to 03/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/14/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
I’d like to know more about what andros and prologic are talking about, I feel lost.
“This will be managed by Registries.” Are we talking about these registries?
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html
NRMA Insurance helping customers recover quickly after Cyclone Alfred
With the effects of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred still unfolding, NRMA Insurance is encouraging community members across South East Queensland and Northern NSW to prioritise safety. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/13/birthright-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Datalagring, igen!
Some of my usual readers will have to excuse me. This post will be in
Swedish. It’s about proposed Swedish legislation for forcing someone
who offers a message system to the public to cooperate with the law.
— — —
Ändring- Första version: 2025-03-10 07:55
- Ändrad: 2025-03-12 18:01 +0100: Listan i “En bugg?” hade automatiskt
numrerats av blogverktyget och HTML så poängen försvann. Nu citerad
mer korrekt där det framgår att “1.” är borttagen.
Nytt lagförslag: Även chatsystem ska va … ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「JSAC2025 開催レポート~Workshop & Lightning Talk~」 ⌘ Read more
[ANN] Monero, Arti, and I2P Apps for TrueNAS Scale
As part of our efforts to support critical cryptocurrency infrastructure and privacy, MAGIC Grants has implemented Monero, Arti, and I2P apps for TrueNAS Scale.
Link: https://magicgrants.org/2025/03/11/truenas-monero-arti-i2p.html
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Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.1
This is mostly a bugfix release over version 1.9.0.
The main fix is the rust JID implementation that would behave incorrectly when
hashed if the JID contained non-ascii characters. This is an important issue as
using a non-ascii JID was mostly broken, and interacting with one failed in
interesting ways.
- The previously mentioned JID hash issue
- Various edge cases in the roster code
- One edge case in the MUC ( [XEP-0045](https: … ⌘ Read more
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Datalagring, igen!
Some of my usual readers will have to excuse me. This post will be in
Swedish. It’s about proposed Swedish legislation for forcing someone
who offers a message system to the public to cooperate with the law.
— — —
InledningNytt lagförslag: Även chatsystem ska vara “anpassningsskyldiga” för
hemlig avlyssning och hemlig övervakning!
Det är väl ingen överraskning bland mina läsare vad jag tycker om det.
Går förslaget igenom gör vi det mer komplicerat för vanliga användare
att meddela sig med varan … ⌘ Read more
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The billionaire Elon Musk disciple protecting Earth from city-killing asteroids
Meet Jared Isaacman, a daredevil private astronaut and billionaire ally of Elon Musk who has been lined up by Donald Trump to lead NASA. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/06/birthright-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
NRMA Insurance reveals key to EV uptake
Research from NRMA Insurance shows that driving familiarity with electric vehicles (EVs) could be the game-changer needed to speed up their adoption. ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「JSAC2025 開催レポート~DAY 2~」 ⌘ Read more
Video game auteur’s latest two-player tale is another bizarre hit
New adventure games you can play on the couch next to a friend are vanishingly rare, but Josef Fares has the genre dialled in. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, World Wildlife Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/03/wildlife.html #programming #project #devjournal
Why a Chinese gadget maker beat Apple on electric vehicles
While the US tech giant has burned over $16 billion in its failed attempt to make an electric car, this Chinese phone maker is pumping out thousands of vehicles. ⌘ Read more
The latest budget iPhone cuts a few corners, but is it still worth buying?
Apple’s new phone – the iPhone 16e – doesn’t have the latest cameras, faster charging or a brighter display, but it will leave you with an extra $400 in your pocket. ⌘ Read more
@bmallred@staystrong.run Any edit automatically changes the twt hash, because the hash is built over the hash URL, message timestamp and message text. https://twtxt.dev/exts/twt-hash.html So, it is only a problem, if somebody replied to your original message with the old hash. The original message suddenly doesn’t exist anymore and the reply becomes detached, orphaned, whatever you wanna call it. Threading doesn’t break, though, if nobody replied to your message.
mobile setup: mmx02 | https://nilfm.cc/mmx02.html
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On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Stories by Matthew DeBlock https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/01/deblock.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 02/24 to 02/28 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/28/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I could show you some places here, in MeckPomm.
You may also want to renovate an old abandoned manor!?
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「TSUBAMEレポート Overflow(2024年10~12月)」 ⌘ Read more
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC インターネット定点観測レポート[2024年10月1日~2024年12月31日] ⌘ Read more
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Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.9.0
It has not been too long since 1.8.6 and here we are with 1.9.0, which is kind of a major release (following the well-known pridever numbering scheme).
Long story short, there are at least two major changes warranting the new number (and plenty of other things, read on!):
- switching the cython jid implementation for a rust one, which will be faster and more correct
- removing the xmpp.process() method (planned since the 1.8.0 release)
Special thanks to nicoco … ⌘ Read more
also @Andros, I see that if I open that URL on my browser, I see weird characters in the .txt file:
description = ðŸ—
Perhaps your nginx server is missing a Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header?
https://serverfault.com/a/975289
In timeline it looks OK however, I think it’s relying on
The file must be encoded with UTF-8
of the original spec:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
To me it appeared that the failed attempts to ban NPD in the past actually helped them gain more supporters.
What makes AfD stronger for sure is just going “lol nah we’re not even going to try”:
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/afd-verbot-antrag-100.html
If they don’t try, then it means that “it can’t be that bad, it’s just a normal party”, right? 😡
お知らせ:JPCERT/CC Eyes「JSAC2025 開催レポート~DAY 1~」 ⌘ Read more
Du brauchst schon fast keine AfD mehr, wenn du Medien (ÖR!) hast, die so die Interviews führen: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/interview-mit-bodo-ramelow-linke-ex-ministerpraesident-thueringen-zur-wahl-100.html
Tesla hit with Australian class action over ‘phantom braking’
Law firm alleges the electric vehicle company has been dishonest in its marketing, backed out of its promises and has not ensured its products are safe. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Kingdom of Ava https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/24/ava.html #programming #project #devjournal
On my blog: The Comet https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/23/comet.html #blackhistorymonth #fiction
Turo boss outlines car-sharing app’s plan for dominance, how it will differ from Airbnb
Turo is often described as the Airbnb for cars, but Andre Haddard, the boss of the US-based car sharing app, prefers a comparison with Amazon. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Cairn Wardens Guide, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/22/cairn-3.html #freeculture #bookclub
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 02/17 to 02/21 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/21/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
‘Hey ChatGPT, is Gen Z the canary in the AI coalmine?’
From homework to get-rich schemes, younger users are the first to explore generative AI’s potential – and encounter its setbacks. ⌘ Read more
@eapl.me@eapl.me @andros@twtxt.andros.dev Eureka! It works! https://github.com/upputter/testing-twtxt-dm
PBKDF2_KEY_SIZE = 48 was the turning point! My dirty little crypt.class.php can en- and decrypt, accoridng to the OpenSSL standard and options used in https://twtxt.dev/exts/direct-message.html
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Face of the Enemy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/20/face-enemy.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Apple reveals new iPhone
Technology expert Trevor Long speaks on Apple’s new iPhone 16e. ⌘ Read more
Telstra to splash $800m on network upgrades, ups dividend
The telco lifted its first-half profit and dividend while CEO Vicki Brady also announced a $750 million share buyback plan. ⌘ Read more