Deep Dive into the Gateway API Inference Extension
Running AI inference workloads on Kubernetes has some unique characteristics and challenges, and the Gateway API Inference Extension project aims to solve some of those challenges. I recently wrote about these new capabilities in the kgateway… ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Developer Diary, Grounation Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/21/grounation.html #programming #project #devjournal
Taxes on super rich and tech giants stall under Trump
Editorial Staff Agence France-Presse, https://www.rawstory.com/trump-super-rich/ - Agence France-Presse | Raw Story
_Stephan: Despot Trump has proven repeatedly that he doesn’t give a damn for the health, wellbeing, longevity, or education of you and your family. But he sure cares for the oligarchs and uber-rich who bought him his office with their hundreds of millions of dollars of donations and gifts. The United … ⌘ Read more
Trump signs executive order ending years of protections in Pacific monument
Sam Mauhay-Moore, Trending News Reporter - SFGate
_Stephan: It is unclear to me whether Despot Trump is simply too stupid to understand the importance of supporting ecosystems, or he knows but just doesn’t care because someone has bribed him to make a decision that will allow them to damage an ecosystem. Or, most probably, it is both. In any case the United States has no … ⌘ Read more
EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters
Mike Ludwig , Staff Writer - truthout
_Stephan: Here is yet another example of Despot Trump’s corruption doing favors for the uber-rich who enrich him so that he permits them to destroy Earth’s matrix of life and wellbeing. His corruption is going to have a decades-long impact, and will be a major factor contributing to the civilization-altering catastrophe that happens betwe … ⌘ Read more
America’s Ten Most Endangered Rivers Announced in New Report
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: The United States has not paid appropriate and adequate attention to the wellbeing of the nation’s ecosystems since President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and Despot Trump is doing everything in his power to gut any kind of climate protection in order to serve the uber-rich who bought him his office. And, sadly, American voters don’t … ⌘ Read more
Get Apple’s M3 iPad Air for Up to $70 Off on Amazon
Amazon is kicking off the week with multiple discounts on Apple’s M3 iPad Air, offering as much as $70 off these tablets. Prices start at $569.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi 11-inch M3 iPad Air, down from $599.00.
10 Pop Culture Figures Who Actually Existed
From Darth Vader to Mary Poppins, pop culture icons can excite, enrage, or inspire us. And though most characters tend to be wholly fictional in nature, some famous ones are actually based on real-life people. Here’s our list of 10 pop culture figures who existed IRL. Related: Top 10 Underrated Minor Characters from Pop Culture […]
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6.15-rc3: mainline
Version:6.15-rc3 (mainline)Released:2025-04-20Source:linux-6.15-rc3.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
From $30 parmigianas to $15 pints, can Australia still afford the pub?
From our coffee addiction to a weekend pub tradition, some of the simple pleasures many Australians have taken for granted now feel like luxuries. But if patrons can no longer afford to visit the pubs and cafés we love, there may be something bigger at stake. ⌘ Read more
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
Alec MacGillis, Reporters - ProPublica
_Stephan: Fascist authoritarians like Despot Trump and his minions don’t ever like objectively verifiable databases to be compiled or maintained because the information can be used to prove how inferior their social policies are. If you have been reading my research papers (see SR arch … ⌘ Read more
China’s Breakthrough: Thorium Discovery Promises 60,000 Years of Clean Energy
, - Discovery / Alert
_Stephan: This, I think, is a very big deal and, in a planetary sense, good news, although not for the United States. It is going to be a major factor in ending the carbon era that Despot Trump, his unethical servants, and his oligarch funders are working so hard to keep Americans trapped in. I think this is the technology my remote viewers have b … ⌘ Read more
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.
Released:2025-04-20Source:linux-6.12.24.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.24.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.24 ⌘ Read more
A mate and I had an amazing but also exhausting hike to the highest of the Three Emperor Mountains yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Sunny 18°C, blue sky with barly a cloud and a little welcoming breeze, just beautiful.
Mt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. It’s also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both aren’t at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.
We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devil’s pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Haven’t come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, it’s yummy.
We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I won’t do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.
Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/
10 Most Unique and Remote Vacation Retreats
Many times, when people go away on vacation, one of the goals is to be as far removed from civilization as possible. Seeking out secluded getaways can result in the discovery of some very exotic destinations that often feature resorts geared toward the adventurous tourist and make the most of the unusual locale. From fjord […]
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How a world-famous apple first sprouted in a Sydney grandma’s backyard
Thanks to a “chance seedling in Granny Smith’s backyard”, we now have the Granny Smith apple as one of Australia’s predominant varieties, with an annual festival held in her honour. ⌘ Read more
DietPi April 2025 Update (Version 9.12)
The April 18th update of DietPi v9.12 introduces new software options including the fish shell and Amiberry v7/Amiberry-Lite, while also expanding compatibility and resolving various issues. This release focuses on improving usability, editor flexibility, and hardware support across platforms. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board computers and embedded systems. […] ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Secrets in the Static https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/19/secrets-static.html #freeculture #bookclub
Editor’s Note
, -
Stephan:
These Are Four Things You Can Do to Save America_Like billions of others across the planet I have been watching for months now as the entire social order of the United States of America is dismantled in an attempt to create a neo-medieval oligarch owned white supremacy, male dominant, authoritarian fascist state. [1], [2], [3] As I write this we are not the same country we were before January 2025, and the destruction of the na … ⌘ Read more
Judge orders halt to mass firings at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Alexander Mallin and Peter Charalambous, Reporters - abc News
_Stephan: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), created by President Obama, has saved Americans over $20 billion from grifts. So is it surprising that Dictator Trump, who has been convicted multiple times of millions of dollars of grifts and scams, is trying to destroy the CFPB by firing 1,474 who work a … ⌘ Read more
White House proposes eliminating Head Start funding as part of sweeping budget cuts
JOCELYN GECKER, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: Since its inception in 1965, the Head Start program has served nearly 40 million children and their families. If you have a preschool child, are they benefiting from a Head Start program? Well, Dictator Trump doesn’t give a damn about the wellbeing of little children, and he is working hard to eliminate … ⌘ Read more
Earth’s Atmosphere Faces ‘Thirstwaves,’ Scientists Warn
Paige Bennett, Contributing Writer - EcoWatch
_Stephan: I had never even heard of Thirst Waves, and I doubt if you have either, but this is going to be a big deal as we go through climate change. I read a technical paper on this phenomenon and then found this article that explains it clearly. If you live in an area where it is dry and water is in short supply, I am afraid your life is going to get a lot more diffic … ⌘ Read more
Everything Trump is doing makes perfect sense if you understand one simple fact
Thom Hartmann, Commentator - Raw Story
Stephan: I think Thom Hartmann’s assessment of Directator Trump Is very insightful. It certainly agrees with what I have been telling you for years.
Droits de douane : ce n’est qu’un souci de passage pour les actions de qualité
Un article de Henry Bonner De nouveau en déplacement en Amérique, de l’État de New York au Nord-Est, à l’État de Virginie dans le partie du sud, le pays me laisse l’opportunité de la réflexion sur le rôle des mœurs et des coutumes dans la création de richesse et dans la prospérité. Mon lieu de […] ⌘ Read more
10 Foods Unexpectedly Named After Real People from History
What’s in a name? If you’re eating one of these ten foods we’ve listed below, the answer is a whole heck of a lot! See, foods aren’t just named after their ingredients or how they are prepared. Some foods—including some very famous foods—have been named after people. (Including some very famous people!) Having a city […]
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10 Psychological Tricks Brands Use to Influence You
You’re not just buying a product—you’re stepping into a carefully crafted psychological trap. Modern brands work with behavioral economists, neuro marketers, and data scientists to make sure everything—from colors to prices to your choices—leads you exactly where they want. These aren’t generic marketing clichés—these are real, specific strategies currently being used to win your attention, […]
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Top Stories: iPhone 17 Pro Rumors, CarPlay Bug Fix, and More
This week saw rumor updates on the iPhone 17 Pro and next-generation Vision Pro, while a minor iOS 18.4.1 update delivered not just security fixes but also a fix for some CarPlay issues.
We also looked ahead at what else is in Apple’s pipeline for the rest of 2025 and even the 20th-anniversary iPhone coming in 2027, so read on belo … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/14 to 04/18 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/18/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Google Gemini Advanced & 2TB Storage Free for Students
Google is offering their Gemini Advanced AI model for free to students, along with 2TB of free storage. This is a limited time offer where students must sign up by June 30, 2025. Students will need a valid .edu email address to be able to signup for the deal. Google says you can use Gemini … Read More ⌘ Read more
Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 for $299, Save $200 on M4 iPad Pro, & More
Amazon is back with some fantastic deals right now, including taking $100 off the price of the Apple Watch Series 10 bringing the price down to $299 from $399. Plus, there’s $200 off the iPad Pro M4 13″ models and $100 off the 11″ model, a discount on the new iPad Air M3 models, a … Read More ⌘ Read more
[$] The problem of unnecessary readahead
The final session in the memory-management track of the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit was a brief, last-minute
addition run by Kalesh Singh. The kernel’s readahead mechanism is
generally good for performance; it ensures that data is present by the time
an application gets around to asking for it. Sometimes, though, readahead
can go a little too far. ⌘ Read more
[$] Tracepoints for the VFS?
Adding tracepoints to some kernel subsystems has been controversial—or
disallowed—due to concerns about the user-space\
ABI that they might create. The virtual filesystem (VFS) layer has
long been one of the subsystems that has not allowed any tracepoints, but
that may be changing. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), Ted Ts’o led a discussion about
whether the ABI concerns are outweighed by the utility of tracepoints for … ⌘ Read more
Creating a ClickHouse Cluster on Raspberry Pis
Want a hands-on way to explore Kubernetes and ClickHouse®—without spinning up cloud VMs? In this post, we’ll build a home-lab cluster of Raspberry Pi 5 boards that mimics a high-availability setup. Whether you’re a cloud-native developer… ⌘ Read more
Apple Sports App Now Lets You Share Game Cards via iMessage and Social Media
Just in time for the start of the NBA and NHL playoffs this weekend, the Apple Sports app has received a new Game Card Sharing feature.
With this feature, Apple Sports users can generate and share game cards for all supported leagues, whether the matchup is upcoming, live, … ⌘ Read more
Trump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourismUS Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay AwayTrump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourism
Augusta Saraiva, https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-set-lose-billions-100000258.html - Yahoo! Finance | Bloomberg
_Stephan: If you live in an area where tourists are major contributors to your local budge … ⌘ Read more
Trump EPA’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from Roundup
Schuyler Mitchell, - The Intercept
_Stephan: A reader who said she had contracted and is being treated for cancer from using Roundup in her gardening sent me this. It is yet another nasty horrifying report about Dictator Trump’s MAGAt coup. I find it quite notable that so much of the evil of this coup and its corruption is how badly it harms the wellbeing a million … ⌘ Read more
Getting Rid of FEMA Will Bankrupt Small Towns
Jesse M. Keenan and Yuliya Panfil, Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning within the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Tulane University - Scientific America
_Stephan: Dictator Trump, the oligarchs who bought him his office, and his Congressional retainers, don’t give a damn about the American population. I don’t know how many ways they have to make this clear before it sinks … ⌘ Read more
The measles crisis is worse than we know—and the CDC can’t keep up
Walter Einenkel, Staff Writer - Daily Kos
_Stephan: We are beginning to see the effects resulting from Dictator Trump’s dismantlement of healthcare in the U.S., and it is not pretty. I predict we are going to see an increase in all kinds of healthcare issues in the coming months. I don’t really understand why the MAGAt coup is destroying healthcare in America, because I don’t see what they … ⌘ Read more
** CVSS 10.0 Critical Vulnerability in Erlang/OTP’s SSH: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Risk**
A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2025–32433) with a CVSS … ⌘ Read more
10 Mind-Blowing Revelations About Our Solar System
Considering the universe is almost 100 billion light-years across—due to inflation (not monetary) and whatnot—it’s amazing that some of the coolest discoveries and revelations are in our solar system. That’s like crossing the world (many, many, many times) and then finding treasure in your own backyard. Maybe the proximity is part of the appeal because […]
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10 Times That Inmates Helped Save Lives
When people think of prison, heroism is rarely the first thing that comes to mind. But behind bars, stories occasionally emerge that challenge assumptions about those serving time. Despite their past mistakes, some inmates have proven that when a life is on the line, compassion and courage can shine through—even in the most unlikely places. […]
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iPhone Shipments Down 9% in China’s Q1 Smartphone Boom
Apple’s iPhone shipments in China declined by 9 percent in the first quarter compared to the year earlier, and it was the only major smartphone vendor to see a decline, according to data from research firm IDC.
Shipments of iPhones fell to 9.8 million units, giving Apple a market share of 13.7 percent, do … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Suspicions https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/17/suspicions.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Golf 2025-04-17 ⌘ Read more
3 Free Auto-Clickers for Mac
Auto-clickers are sort of niche software, typically associated with repetitive tasks with data entry, gaming, or software testing, but have gained some broader popularity with many people working from home. If you need an auto clicker for Mac, there are a variety of free autoclicker options for Mac, and we’ll point you to a few … Read More ⌘ Read more
@david@collantes.us If I run
printf '%s\n%s\n%s' 'https://aelaraji.com/twtxt.txt' '2025-04-16T22:49:11+00:00' "Am I tripping or `rsync` is actually THIS effing faster than `scp`!!? 🫨" | b2sum -l 256 | awk '{ print $1 }' | xxd -r -p | base32 | tr -d '=' | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | tail -c 8
I have xqfsv6a. It is raw text
But… If I change de date to 2025-04-16T22:49:11Z I have si4er3q.
White House embraces Abrego Garcia fight
Brett Samuels, Staff writer - The Hill
_Stephan: The United States has come to the abyss of dictatorship. In the next three weeks we are going to learn whether Donald Trump must follow the laws as the courts decide or whether Donald Trump now defines the laws. Whether we remain a democracy or become a formal dictatorship. When Hitler took power in 1933, 53 days after coming into power he started opening concentration camps. The first one wa … ⌘ Read more
El Salvador denies senator visit with mistakenly deported man: Van Hollen
Sareen Habeshian, Staff Writer - Axios
_Stephan: The utterly incompetent Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and her $50,000 Rolex, had no problem getting into the El Salvador concentration camp and posing in front of the inmates. But Democrat Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, when he went to El Salvador, was denied any access. Dictator Trump’s deal with Dictator Nayib B … ⌘ Read more
Open Your Favorite Chat Right From Your iPhone Lock Screen
In iOS 18.4, Apple added a new Shortcuts action to open a specific conversation in the Messages app. This means it’s now possible to open a chat thread with someone important to you straight from your Lock Screen, for example. Keep reading to learn more.
If you’d like to reduce the time it takes to chat with a frequently conta … ⌘ Read more
State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’
Robbie Gramer and Nahal Toosi, Staff Writers - Politico
_Stephan: Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a man who throughout his career has made it clear that he is utterly lacking in honorable ethics, in service to Dictator Trump, is now doing something straight out of the Hitler playbook. This is exactly what Hitler did, although few in the media seem to know this. It is just another … ⌘ Read more
Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young
John Leicester, Reporter - Associated Press
_Stephan: Concurrent with the coup in the United States, something equally dangerous to democracy is going on internationally: the weaponization of the internet by terrorists and fascists. If you have young children who spend hours of their day on the internet, you would be wise to underst … ⌘ Read more
next-20250417: linux-next
Version:next-20250417 (linux-next)Released:2025-04-17 ⌘ Read more
Ten Times Scientists Created Astonishing New States of Matter
Most people are well aware of the three main states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases. Some might even know about plasma, a fourth state made of charged particles and found throughout the universe. But how about swirlons? Does the phrase Rydberg polaron mean anything to you? As scientists expand their understanding of the universe, […]
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10 Times Humanity Tried to Redesign the Calendar
For most of us, the Gregorian calendar is simply the way time works. But history is filled with people and cultures who believed they could build something more rational, accurate, or aligned with nature or ideology. Some were utopian dreams, others were bureaucratic rethinks—but all of them tried to challenge what we now take for […]
The post [10 Times Humanity Tried to Redesign the Calendar](https://listverse.com/2025/04/17/10-times … ⌘ Read more
Planning for Scotland, second try
My fiancée and I were in Scotland in 2023 on an Interrail trip. But with some bad luck, we got COVID-19 after half of the trip and had to go home and recover. We always said we wanted to finish our trip in one of the next years. ⌘ 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)終了のお知らせ ⌘ Read more
iPhone 18’s Costly 2nm Process Adoption Could Lead to Price Hikes
Apple’s iPhone 18 models will adopt TSMC’s 2nm manufacturing process for the next-generation A20 chip, which will bring substantial performance and power efficiency improvements to next year’s iPhones, but it may also incur significantly more costs that Apple could pass onto the customer.
The latest corroboration that Apple will use TSMC’s 2nm proce … ⌘ Read more
Shocking scale of avocado waste inspires engineer’s new venture
In the heart of WA’s prime avocado growing region, a former engineer is turning formerly rejected fruit into sought-after oil. ⌘ Read more
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 17, 2025
Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: APT 3.0; Fedora 42; Lots more LSFMM+BPF coverage.
Briefs: CVE funding; Yelp vulnerability; Fedora 42; Manjaro 25.0; GCC 15; Pinta 3.0; Quotes; …
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more. ⌘ Read more
GitHub Availability Report: March 2025
In March, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
The post GitHub Availability Report: March 2025 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more
iOS 18.4.1 Update Released with CarPlay Fix & Security Patches
Apple has released iOS 18.4.1 update for iPhone, along with iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad. The software updates include a few bug fixes and important security patches, making them recommended to update. Additionally, iOS 18.4.1 includes a bug fix for a particular issue with CarPlay not connecting properly in some situations. If you have been experiencing … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/16/ios-18-4-1-up … ⌘ Read more
MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 Update Released with Bug & Security Fixes
Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.4.1 as a software update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The update focuses exclusively on security updates and bug fixes, and contains no new features. Separately, Apple also released iOS 18.4.1 for iPhone, iPadOS 18.4.1 for iPad, and updates to tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, and those updates … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/16/macos-sequoia-15- … ⌘ Read more
[$] What’s new in APT 3.0
Debian’s Advanced Package Tool (APT) is the suite of utilities that handle package
management on Debian and Debian-derived operating systems. APT recently received a
major upgrade to 3.0 just in time for inclusion in Debian 13
(“trixie”), which is planned for release sometime in 2025. The version bump is
warranted; the latest APT has user-interface improvements, switches to [Sequoia](https://sequoia-pgp.org/pr … ⌘ Read more
Catanzaro: Dangerous arbitrary file read vulnerability in Yelp
GNOME contributor Michael Catanzaro has written a blog\
post about a noteworthy vulnerability in GNOME’s help browser, Yelp.
I don’t normally blog about particular CVEs, but Yelp CVE-2025-3155 is
noteworthy because it is quite severe, public for several weeks now,
and not yet fixed upstream. In short, help files can rea … ⌘ Read more
We had some nice 22°C today. But after work, it got rather windy and cloudy, temps rapidly dropped so just 14°C. Still a nice stroll to our backyard mountain. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-16/
The CNCF TOC @ KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) provides technical leadership to the cloud native community. Strong TOC participation at this year’s KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in London enabled in-person discussions and strategic planning for CNCF project technical priorities… ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd 25.04
Just a few weeks after previous release, ejabberd 25.04 is published with an important security fix, several bug fixes and a new API command.
Release Highlights:
If you are upgrading from a previous version, there are no change … ⌘ Read more
[$] Parallel directory operations
Allowing directories to be modified in parallel was the topic of Jeff
Layton’s filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). There are certain use
cases, including for the NFS and Lustre filesystems, as mentioned in a patch set
referenced in the topic\
proposal, where contention in cre … ⌘ Read more
[$] Taking BPF programs beyond one-million instructions
The BPF verifier is not magic; it cannot solve the
halting problem. Therefore,
it has to err on the side of assuming that a program will run too long if it
cannot prove that the program will not.
The ultimate check on the size of a BPF program is the
one-million-instruction limit — the verifier will refuse to process more than
one-million instructions, no matter what a BPF program does. Alexei Starovoitov gave
a talk at the 2025 L … ⌘ Read more
[$] Improvements for the contiguous memory allocator
As a system runs, its memory becomes fragmented; it does not take long
before the allocation of large, physically contiguous memory ranges becomes
difficult or impossible. The contiguous memory\
allocator (CMA) is a kernel subsystem that attempts to address this
problem, but it has never worked as well as some would like. Two sessions
in the memory-management track at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit looked at … ⌘ Read more
Apple Releases iOS 18.4.1 With Bug Fixes
Apple today released iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1, minor updates to the iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 operating systems that came out last September. iOS 18.4.1 and iPadOS 18.4.1 come two weeks after the launch of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4.
Released:2025-04-16 ⌘ Read more
Best Cybersecurity Certifications for Beginners and Experts in 2025
Cybersecurity — has fastly become one of the critical fields in Bigtech, making certifications essential for career advancement. Companies…
[Cont … ⌘ Read more
iPhone Fold: New Leak Corroborates Camera Setup on Outer Display
Further details have emerged about the camera system on Apple’s upcoming foldable iPhone, informally dubbed the “iPhone Fold.”
Expected to launch next year, Apple’s book-style foldable is rumored to feature a 7.8-inch crease-free internal display and a 5.5-inch external screen. According to industry analyst [Ming-Chi Kuo](https … ⌘ Read more
** In reply to: Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta **
In reply to: Common Cyborg | Jillian Weise | Granta
They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture and consider ourselves cured. They like exoskeletons, which none of us use. They would never consider cyborg those of us with pace … ⌘ Read more
[$] Topics from the virtual filesystem layer
In the first filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF), virtual
filesystem (VFS) layer co-maintainer Christian Brauner had a few different
topics he wanted to talk about. Issues on the agenda
included iterating through anonymous mount namespaces, a needed feature
for ID-mapped mounts, the perennial unprivileged mounts topic, potentially
using hazard pointers for file reference counting, and Rust bindings. He
did not expect … ⌘ 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
Deals: AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality for $190, Apple Watch Series 10 for $329, & More
Amazon is offering some fantastic deals on various Apple products, including the AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality, Apple Watch Series 10, and the M4 series of MacBook Pro models. AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid Functionality – $190 (down from $249) AirPods Pro 2 are much more than standard earbud headphones, they also … [Read … ⌘ 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
Docker Desktop for Mac: QEMU Virtualization Option to be Deprecated in 90 Days
We are announcing the upcoming deprecation of QEMU as a virtualization option for Docker Desktop on Apple Silicon Macs. After serving as our legacy virtualization solution during the early transition to Apple Silicon, QEMU will be fully deprecated 90 days from today, on July 14, 2025. This deprecation does not affect QEMU’s role in emulating […] ⌘ Read more
it should be
# 2025-04-13T11:02:12+02:00 !<dm-echo https://dm-echo.andros.dev/twtxt.txt> U2FsdGVkX1+QmwBNmk9Yu9jvazVRFPS2TGJRGle/BDDzFult6zCtxNhJrV0g+sx0EIKbjL2a9QpCT5C0Z2qWvw==
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==
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