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New York: 19-year-olds were planning attacks on Christians and Jews — They declared allegiance to ISIS and wanted to behead the unbelievers ⌘ Read more

Russian soldier sentenced to life in jail in unprecedented Ukrainian trial ⌘ Read more

Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I am genuinely curious as to why you think Geminis summarization and the categorization of your gopher post was and is as you say misunderstood?

I asked this very genuinely because before reading @bender@twtxt.net’s comments and Gemini summarization I actually went and unplugged your post into flood gaps go for proxy, and then listen to the text intently with my own human ears 👂

@bender@twtxt.net It’s sad. Remember that Munich once ran the LiMux project. 😞

We could build a strong IT sector in Germany or the EU, but we just don’t want to.

Bavaria is moving to the Microsoft cloud: The state government intends to conclude a contract with the US corporation by the end of the year for the use of the cloud office package Microsoft 365.

Source: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Bavaria-wants-to-move-to-Microsoft-cloud-by-year-end-11066929.html

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‘I’m not going to represent our country there’ — Trump to skip G20 summit, dashing hopes of brokering meeting between Zelensky, Putin ⌘ Read more

When I have to debug a colleague’s code from 2019 ⌘ Read more

German nurse gets life in jail after killing 10 to reduce work ⌘ Read more

When production goes down and everyone turns to our only DevOps ⌘ Read more

Mexico president to seek charges after being groped on street ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de this I find more worrisome, and saw no mention of it on your text: Right-Wing Chatbots Turbocharge America’s Political and Cultural Wars (gift article).

Enoch, one of the newer chatbots powered by artificial intelligence, promises “to ‘mind wipe’ the pro-pharma bias” from its answers. Another, Arya, produces content based on instructions that tell it to be an “unapologetic right-wing nationalist Christian A.I. model.”

Bulgaria plans to seize and sell Russian-owned oil refinery ⌘ Read more

Spud King expands empire with $14m orchard deal
WA’s “Spud King” Tony Galati has expanded his empire with a $14 million bid to purchase two South West orchards which will see his business move into apples and avocados. ⌘ Read more

Referral to German food aid resources disappears from US Army Garrison Bavaria website ⌘ Read more

Rubbing cock between thicc juicy thighs (Kamuo) [Aren’t grim reapers supposed to be scary] ⌘ Read more

British carrier to join NATO drill to send message to Russia ⌘ Read more

And, one last missed:

• AI is Forcing Legal Modernization: The copyright double standard is a failure of outdated law. AI provides the necessary impetus for legal reform to either create fair compensation frameworks for creators or establish a clear new definition of fair use for data-driven models.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Gemini liked your opinion very much. Here is how it countered:

The criticism of AI as untrustworthy is a problem of misapplication, not capability.

• AI as a Force Multiplier: AI should be treated as a high-speed drafting and brainstorming tool, not an authority. For experts, it offers an immense speed gain, shifting the work from slow manual creation to fast critical editing and verification.
  
• The Rise of AI Literacy: Users must develop a new skill—AI literacy—to critically evaluate and verify AI’s probabilistic output. This skill, along with improving citation features in AI tools, mitigates the “gaslighting” effect.
  

The fear of skill loss is based on a misunderstanding of how technology changes the nature of work; it’s skill evolution, not erosion.

• Shifting Focus to High-Level Skills: Just as the calculator shifted focus from manual math to complex problem-solving, AI shifts the focus from writing boilerplate code to architectural design and prompt engineering. It handles repetitive tasks, freeing humans for creative and complex challenges.
  
• Accessibility and Empowerment: AI serves as a powerful democratizing tool, offering personalized tutoring and automation to people who lack deep expertise. While dependency is a risk, this accessibility empowers a wider segment of the population previously limited by skill barriers.
  

The legal and technical flaws are issues of governance and ethical practice, not reasons to reject the core technology.

• Need for Better Bot Governance: Destructive scraping is a failure of ethical web behavior and can be solved with better bot identification, rate limits, and protocols (like enhanced robots.txt). The solution is to demand digital citizenship from AI companies, not to stop AI development.

@bender@twtxt.net Hahaha, great, mission accomplished! :-D The cleanup took half an hour, that was the annoying part. But the immediate aftermath of this accident looked really funny, I thought about taking a photo for a second. However, in order to confine the damage quickly, I decided against it.

@bender@twtxt.net Not sure, if we actually have a law like that. But I wish it was the case. The clamp doesn’t say anything like that, just that it is now cactus.

The glue takes three days to reach its final strength. Let’s see. I’m sceptical.

France moves to suspend Shein website ⌘ Read more

Norway to allocate $7 billion in aid to Ukraine in 2026 ⌘ Read more

When the server keeps restarting on its own and I have to figure out why ⌘ Read more

Wow, the memories those brought! Thank you! Fo brief moments I was transported to the early 1990s.

Prince William’s 5,500 mile flight to fight climate change under scrutiny ⌘ Read more

The US Army is advising its soldiers in Germany to go to German food banks because of the shutdown. ⌘ Read more

Maldives becomes the first country to impose a generational ban on smoking ⌘ Read more

Putin ally floats sending Venezuela nuclear-capable missiles to deter US ⌘ Read more

Jamaica PM says hurricane Melissa caused damage equivalent to nearly one-third of GDP ⌘ Read more

@kiwu@twtxt.net wanna trade? I would be willing to become celibate to go back to my 20s, and believe me, if there is something I don’t want to do is becoming celibate, so that ought to tell you something! 😅

The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter October 2025

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

The XMPP Newsletter is brought to you by the XSF Communication Team.

Just like any other product or project by the XSF, the Newsletter is the result of voluntary work … ⌘ Read more

@zvava@twtxt.net happy belated birthday! Also, I would love to see that website. I went to the one listed on your profile, and saw the old one, not this one. I like the current, and also the pink look of the one of the screenshot!

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org don’t German regulations require the country in which it was made to be clearly noted on the product? These days everyone is cheapening their craft. Don’t be surprised if it is, indeed, wholly Germanium.

@prologic@twtxt.net I requested an invitation. There are many like this, so it will be interesting to see how it develops. I also hope you are not hosting this on your infrastructure, at least not once you decide to monetise. I know self hosting is fun and all, but it also introduces variables that directly collide with a business model.

North Korea Sends Thousands of Troops to Russia Disguised as Construction Workers ⌘ Read more

Carney’s 1st budget calls for billions in new spending to prop up tariff-hit economy ⌘ Read more

Trump Weighs Options, and Risks, for Attacks on Venezuela - President Trump has yet to make a decision, but his advisers are pressing a range of objectives — from attacking drug cartels to seizing oil fields — to try to justify ousting Nicolás Maduro. ⌘ Read more

Flower likened to ‘cancer’ for environment still sold at nurseries
The colourful flowers of gazanias might attract you to buy them at a nursery but it is worth considering whether you are getting an invasive weed causing havoc to our landscapes. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, you have to manually move each card one by one. That’s annoying. Haha, I remember the old Windows Solitair animation. :-)

Won a bunch of games of Solitaire and then rearranged the cards for maximum negative points, to distract me from the horrors.

(Still ended up with >0 points on OS/2, because don’t ask me.)

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Grrrrr…eat, one of my Bessey spring clamps broke. Ripped the arm right in half. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just designed in Germany but actually made out of Chinesium. :-( I will attempt to glue it back together with two component adhesive tomorrow, but I don’t have high hopes.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh shit! :-( Time to switch companies. If you found something, please let me know. This hype train is derailing here as well.

Design trends I think will take off in 2026
but tierlist

S - move from flat design to more detailed, 3D, more complex logos.

A - glass, not just liquid, Windows Vista, 7, 11,… accessibility concerns, but I like to see it.

B-/C+ - black and white icons, favicons. I did it before it was cool, but it’s getting overused.

E - gradientslop, barely started, already all blends together.

Russia’s Oil Exports Plunge to Lowest Level in Months After US Sanctions ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Nothing, yet. It was sent in written form. There’s probably little point in fighting this, they have made up their minds already (and AI is being rolled up en masse in other departments), but on the other hand, there are – truthfully – very few areas where AI could actually be useful to me.

There are going to be many discussions about this …

This is completely against the “spirit” of this company, btw. We used to say: “It’s the goal that matters. Use whatever tools you think are appropriate.” That’s why I’m allowed to use Linux on my laptop. Maybe they will back down eventually when they realize that trying to push this on people is pointless. Maybe not.

I’m building a service that lets you:

create and manage disposable, brandable email aliases so you can track leaks, forward important messages, and keep your real inbox clean.

I’ve just finishing building it for the most part, and have cut a v0.1.0 release. It’s currently closed source (to be decided later) and now open to beta testers. cc @bender@twtxt.net 🙏 I fully intend to monetize and offer this as a paid service in teh coming weeks/months, but beta/invite-only testers and early adopters/users first 🤟

China sentences infamous Myanmar scam mafia members to death ⌘ Read more

It happened.

Management asked me if I’m using enough AI and what I’m doing to learn more about it.

Pakistan “will not be the first to resume nuclear tests,” official says in response to Trump’s 60 Minutes claim ⌘ Read more

When I have to explain the same bug to QA for the third time ⌘ Read more

Dick Cheney, influential Republican vice president to George W. Bush, dies ⌘ Read more

Norway’s mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package ⌘ Read more

Russian pre-school children learning hand to hand combat and firearms handling, report says ⌘ Read more

When my teammate commits directly to main ⌘ Read more

Pornography depicting strangulation to become criminal offence in the UK ⌘ Read more

China Urges US to Avoid ‘Red Lines’ After Reaching Trade Truce ⌘ Read more

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP Summit 28
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026.
The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all things XMPP - both in person and remotely!

The XMPP Summit is a two-day event for the people who write and implement XMPP extensions (XEPs).
The event is no … ⌘ Read more

sorry i haven’t been working on bbycll or even hanging around twtxt much at all as of late – gf was over for a few weeks, i turned twenty years old, and have been doing extremely unnecessary things to my website

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal ⌘ Read more

Uzaki Family, tsuki, Hana, yanagi (pzpana)[uzaki chan wants to hang out] ⌘ Read more

Debian Adding “Hard Dependency” on Rust, May Abandon Some PC Architectures
APT, Debian’s package manager also used by Ubuntu, to have a hard Rust requirement. ⌘ Read more

Ukraine to set up arms export offices in Berlin, Copenhagen, Zelenskiy says ⌘ Read more

Ukraine gets more US-made air defense systems to counter deadly Russian attacks ⌘ Read more

Ukraine is fighting for every block in Pokrovsk as 170,000-strong grouping continues to infiltrate ⌘ Read more

South Korea Launches Final Spy Satellite to Track North Korea 24/7, Completing “425 Project” ⌘ Read more

Ukraine Gamifies the War: 40 Points to Destroy a Tank, 12 to Kill a Soldier (Gift Article) ⌘ Read more

**How I Used Sequential IDs to Download an Entire Company’s User Database (And The Joker Helped) **

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Hey there!😁

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

Understanding JSON Web Token (JWT) Security

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From Basics to Breaking Authentication

Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups » ⌘ Read more

Ehxb | Path Traversal Vulnerabilities ⌘ Read more

A Hacker’s Journey to NASA’s Hall of Fame ⌘ Read more

Trump reveals Pakistan “testing” nuclear weapons, defends US’ decision to resume testing ⌘ Read more

When I merge my PR and have conflicts to resolve ⌘ Read more

China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show ⌘ Read more

Canada wants to seize russian transport plane and hand it over to Ukraine ⌘ Read more

** Delta chatting **
I’m trying out delta chat. If that’s your jam, feel free to say“hi.” ⌘ Read more

** Autumnal week notes **
Someone I grew up with happened to go to the same college as me, and now we happen to live in the same relatively small city. We’ve been totally casual but pretty consistent mainstays of each others’ lives for going on 20 years at this point. She’s also one of the few people that I run into who knows that I can’t actually see well enough to reliably tell people apart from any further away than like 4 or 5 feet, and I always feel really appreciative whenever she waves that she also always says“hi” and who … ⌘ Read more

Donald Trump: ‘I doubt’ US going to war with Venezuela, but Maduro’s days numbered ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I cant wait to be old one day!!

Miyo awaiting to be bred Blue Archive ⌘ Read more

Serving her only god (BlueTheBone) [The Road To El Dorado] ⌘ Read more

Germany Delivers Patriot Air Defenses to Ukraine to Counter Russian Missile Threat ⌘ Read more

It is always awesome to have a few minutes to converse, at least once I month. I will not miss one, adding it to my calendar. I mean, if we were neighbours you (or wife) would probably have to kick me out of your house, so it’s good I am really far, and a once a month call suffices. 🤣

Four Bulgarians jailed for Paris Holocaust Memorial vandalism linked to Russia ⌘ Read more

Russian soldiers deserting in mass, torching their own truck to escape suicide assaults near Pokrovsk ⌘ Read more

Hu Tao exists to serve Genshin Impact ⌘ Read more

Ukraine signs over 20 contracts with partner countries to supply weapons to Ukrainian forces ⌘ Read more

US attempted to capture Maduro by bribing his pilot, report claims ⌘ Read more

Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say ⌘ Read more

👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌

This was a bit of a challenge. Wanted to see if I can make a small version, combining the best/most interesting parts, of the previous ones. Like the black lines separating each colour, an interesting pose, more anatomically correct legs… something of a best of the 2025, profile picture.

** …but I can do that with regex? **
The other day a co-worker showed me a project that seemed genuinely useful, but I didn’t love some bits of how complicated and resource intensive its architecture were, so, I made my own version of it! Check out diff heatmap.

Your browser does not support the video tag. You are rad as hell.

As an aside, I put this one on github which I don’t generally choose to use for personal projects, but I’d love to see folks contribute rules to this projec … ⌘ Read more

‘This is not a game,’ Carney says as he signals he’s ready to fight election over federal budget ⌘ Read more

Lunduke Journal Hits 12.9 Million Views in October
The stories from The Lunduke Journal are continuing to spread further and further with each passing month. ⌘ Read more

Satellite images show US military edging closer to Venezuela - as Trump’s intentions questioned | World News | Sky News ⌘ Read more

Trump Admin Has Decided To Strike Inside Venezuela; Attacks Could Come At Any Time: Report ⌘ Read more

🥳 Just released Gatherly v0.3.0 🤟 – My instance is available at: https://gatherly.mills.io (free for anyone to use)

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence is working to stabilise Pokrovsk, denies Russian claim that landing group was wiped out ⌘ Read more

Pentagon cleared giving Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles, leaving final decision to Trump ⌘ Read more