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talk next to nothing

I could rant about AI a bit and how it ruins every day at work, if that helps? 🤣

Mystery object seen over Mississippi turns out to be from Roswell
Aviation authorities have confirmed the identity of an object that was sighted high above the state last week. With all the talk of the US government … ⌘ Read more

Woah, now this “rain, snow, hail, thunder, wind and sunshine” is truly something! We have started to get our “summer-in-spring” afternoon rains, turning the previously brown lawn super green, and making it grow at an exorbitant pace. Soon I will be force to mow weekly, and I am certainly not looking forward to it. 😅

NASA makes final preparations for April 1st manned Moon mission
It is looking extremely likely that we are about to witness the first manned Moon mission since 1972. As the enormous silhouette of NASA’s Space Launc… ⌘ Read more

When I discover someone uses a float to store monetary amounts ⌘ Read more

ISS mystery medical emergency left astronaut ‘unable to speak’
The first ever medical evacuation from the space station was reportedly prompted by a still-unexplained condition. Back in January, we reported on the… ⌘ Read more

Researchers allegedly find ‘second Sphinx’ beneath the Giza Plateau
Italian researchers claim to have discovered evidence of a second Sphinx and ‘megastructures’ beneath the ground. The remarkable claim comes courtesy … ⌘ Read more

When someone comes to talk to me about work during my lunch break ⌘ Read more

Pope meets with delegation of exorcists over acute rise in ‘occultism’
The attendees, who met the Pope at the Vatican, were from the International Association of Exorcists. Whether or not you happen to believe in the idea… ⌘ Read more

When the boss asks me to put on a good face with our worst client ⌘ Read more

This one comes from this years (now scrapped) April 1st DLSS 5 gag, that was originally supposed to use Microsofts AI - in ways similar to the Nvidia technology, which produced interesting, overly detailed results. I wanted to see if I could beat the AI thing at drawing something like that myself and many redraws later, this is my best result.

(This one actually has the potential to live longer than 3 days.)

When someone stands up in the open space to go get a coffee ⌘ Read more

Escaped capybara gives search teams the runaround in England
The evasive mammal managed to escape its handlers at Marwell Zoo last week and has been on the run ever since. An unexpected creature is currently on … ⌘ Read more

When I have to write “just in case” documentation for a project that will be abandoned in 2 months ⌘ Read more

When the new hire tells me they deployed to prod without going through staging first ⌘ Read more

Farmers rubbish ‘worst ever’ EU free trade agreement
The National Farmers’ Federation says the deal will leave farmers without meaningful access to the EU market. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net both, but neither directly. I know every workaround there is, including those used by developers, to test apps, while working on them. However if “sideloading” becomes so tedious, even the more technical users, cannot be bothered to do it, competing appstores and independent developers, not wanting to send their money and ID to Google, loose users at such rate, they likely won’t be able to justify continuing to maintain their projects, people like me rely on.

When the manager asks me to build a dashboard to track the team’s productivity ⌘ Read more

2nd Van trip coming up this weekend, taking Friday off work. Gonna sleep in the Van tonight and see if I can fiddle with the town water supply (basically our outside tap near the Van haha 😆) and see if I can have a shower in the Van, brush my teeth and go to bed 🛌 – Basically I just want to figure out the rest of the plumbing 🪠

@thecanine@twtxt.net congrats on the win! Hopefully it will not turn sour with the next “enter period of time here”. It seems flip-flopping is the law of the land around here.

I never got to ask you, are you affected by this as a developer, or end user, or both?

When I take a look at a coworker’s repo to grab a piece of code ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thank you for the suggestions. I will probably do some of that when I have time. For the thumbnails, I’m also thinking about trying the loading=“lazy” img attribute. Top on my mind is actually understanding why the big images don’t load. Maybe my VPS’s network connection is saturated, for example. I’ve never needed to worry about such things until now. I’m looking forward to spending some time on it.

Scientists identify the 45 most Earth-like extrasolar worlds ever found
The shortlist was picked out of more than 6,000 candidates based on a range of factors pertaining to habitability. Given that we still only know of on… ⌘ Read more

15-year-old steals bus, then drives 80 miles to pick up his girlfriend
The teenager had seemingly managed to take the bus without anyone realizing for quite some time. According to reports, the bizarre incident began on M… ⌘ Read more

In the interest of fairness and hopefully for the last time, I ever have to address this, Google has flip-flopped again and promised “sideloading” will not be removed from their version of Android, but instead have to be enabled in the developer settings, using the following “advanced flow”:

To be perfectly clear, this still falls short of what I wanted, but at this point, it is a compromise I’m willing to take, over further pursuing this, through the various available European courts, myself.

Here is their full statement:
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html

@prologic@twtxt.net don’t! You might be into troubles. Just record something small, and masterful, for us to listen, forget the costume. 😅

When the new CTO wants to track everything in Jira ⌘ Read more

Dancing robot goes nuts, causes chaos in California restaurant
A robot that had been showing off its dance moves to customers ended up getting a little bit too excited. It’s probably no exaggeration to say that ro… ⌘ Read more

When I have to maintain 4 versions in parallel for different clients ⌘ Read more

This year for some reason or another, I decided to purchase an Ocarina, I’ve been practising a fair bit every now and again, basically during work breaks and sometimes in the afternoon / evenings (not enough to annoy the family 🤣) Anyhoo, that was 3 months ago, since then I’ve built up a bit of a Repertoire:

• Silent Night
  
• My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
  
• Amazing Grace
  
• O Holy Night
  
• Happy Birthday
  
• Greensleeves
  
• Scarborough Fair
  
• She’ll Be Coming ’Round the Mountain
  

I’ve now decided to purchase a slightly better quality Ocarina, the one I originally bought was a cheap $28 one, I’m now upgrading to a more professional instrument worth about $80 – Wish my luck 🍀

Just learned this nice little life-hack for disconnecting MC4 Solar connectors 👌 Works really well! And I don’t have to buy a special little MC4 assembly tool 🥳

When the client wants a POC that’s shippable to production ⌘ Read more

Apple variety once thought extinct confirmed on NSW farm
The Rymer variety of cooking apple, once believed to have died out, has been found on a rural property in the NSW Southern Tablelands. ⌘ Read more

Scientists move one step closer to reviving a cryopreserved brain
Researchers have succeeded in partially reviving the frozen brain tissue of a mouse for the first time. Every year, thousands of people around the wor… ⌘ Read more

When I have to trigger a rollback at the end of the day ⌘ Read more

When I show up to our first meeting where we’re supposed to talk about technical debt ⌘ Read more

Mystery as US government registers alien.gov and aliens.gov domain names
Rumors of impending alien disclosure are rife after the White House registered two mysterious new domain names. According to federal records, the US g… ⌘ Read more

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com your site link on your profile is broken. It goes to https://www.itsericcwoodward.com/, but it should be https://itsericwoodward.com/ (works).

@itsericwoodward@itsericwoodward.com hey, link to repository on https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-twtkpr is broken. It points to https://git.itsericwoodward.com/eric/express-twtkp. Looking forward to see more documentation!

yey! I remembered how to prune my Jenny/Neomutt Twtxt feed! (I only keep 6 months worth of Twts) Now, I need to figure out how to set up a macro for that.

Region now lost to the sea was once home to forests thriving with wildlife
During the last ice age, a long-lost landmass once bridged the gap between the UK and mainland Europe. Known as Doggerland, this vast prehistoric land… ⌘ Read more

When I have to rebase a branch that hasn’t been synced for 3 months ⌘ Read more

When I have to merge a PR with 157 review comments ⌘ Read more

When I have to train a junior on a project I’m discovering myself ⌘ Read more

Artemis II technical issues fixed: NASA reveals new launch date
It looks like mankind’s first trip around the Moon in decades may finally be happening in the very near future. For those hoping to bear witness to th… ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I am reasonably happy with jenny. If I find time for a twtxt project, I would like to make a web page that works as follows: you point it to your own twtxt feed (as a URL parameter), and then it shows you all the feeds referenced by your “# follow =” lines. So, if I put this up, anyone could use it to view their own feed, with no login required. (Probably a difficult project. For example, I’d want to make sure the backend couldn’t be tricked into helping ddos a web server by trying to fetch lots of “feeds” from it. Anyway, I have too many other projects.)

‘Time travel’ conspiracy surrounds 100-year-old ‘Trump’ drawings
Back in the early 20th-Century, a Prussian artist named Charles Dellschau created some very peculiar sketches. Dellschau, who emigrated to Texas in 18… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org sounds like a plan, it’d be the second biggest version, in Australia.

Number one is on the rplace.live map canvas, where the previous one is in America and the one from today here - no reason other than the fact those countries had a good empty spot, to put them in, at the time I drew them.

Back to the regular scheduled dogpostin and back to something very low resolution.

Also new stuff on my website, won’t list it all here, you’ll just have to check.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thanks for letting me know. HTML checkers seem happy now. I’m not sure what to do about the images not loading. The photos have three sizes (thumbnail, photo page, and original if you click the img tag on the photo page); can you at least see the smaller two sizes? Maybe I will do some experimental fetches and/or start measuring things on my web server.

Woman spends 70 days counting out loud to reach 1,070,000
A woman from Nigeria has achieved a new Guinness World Record by counting out loud for several weeks straight. Imagine doing nothing at all with your … ⌘ Read more

FBI joins the search as mystery of missing USAF general deepens
Retired general William Neil McCasland had many links to government conspiracies and the UFO phenomenon. It’s a mystery that continues to grip the nat… ⌘ Read more

When the CI takes 45 minutes to pass ⌘ Read more

When I have to edit a config file that’s several hundred lines long ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I would like to see that. 😘

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Enigmatic interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS yields intriguing new discovery
The object, which made headline news last year, appears to contain something that scientists were not expecting. By now, just about everyone will have… ⌘ Read more

** WARNING: connection is not using a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.
** This session may be vulnerable to “store now, decrypt later” attacks.
** The server may need to be upgraded. See https://openssh.com/pq.html

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When I manage to fix the bug the team had been stuck on for days ⌘ Read more

Man and woman were once tied to each other for an entire year
A peculiar experiment once saw two performance artists tie themselves together with an 8ft length of rope. Imagine being permanently attached to anoth… ⌘ Read more

Hmm I think it’s a bug in the Javascript. It’s meant to be ![title](url)

When my database update that was supposed to take 30 seconds is still running after 5 minutes ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net It is not yet lost, other than the ongoing communication with local politicians, the European Commission, (thanks to other developers) the U.S. Department of Justice, over 50 other organizations (see some of them, signed on the open letter, top of the before mentioned website), we’re also actively looking into possible workarounds and exploring other available legal options, while companies like Motorola, are already planning to offer GrapheneOS, on some phones.

@thecanine@twtxt.net sorry to hear that, mate. Don’t worry, something better will come up. After all, it has got to be easy to beat Android, right? :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de and @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org rock, and thank you for taking the initiative to get this done. @prologic@twtxt.net, what say you?

@bender@twtxt.net Yes, really should have chosen my words more wisely. As @movq@www.uninformativ.de mentions, we got a vague promise of an “advanced flow” being implemented, and in my case also a vague promise of a video call, with someone at Google, regarding it. Now when the backlash died down, it does not look like Google plans to follow through, with any of this and they’re completely unwilling to elaborate and get back to us, about if and how any of this will be implemented.

Queen bumblebees have the ability to breath underwater, study finds
The insects appear to have a unique solution to surviving the winter in flooded, underground conditions. A question that is often asked is how certain… ⌘ Read more

@thecanine@twtxt.net are you referring to the “WE FUCKING WON!” twtxt?

When my pair tells me they managed to get us extra time for our delivery ⌘ Read more

Mystery surrounds Bigfoot sightings surge in Portage County, Ohio
Something big has been lurking in the forests of Ohio this month and quite a few people claim to have seen it. Despite a lack of definitive evidence o… ⌘ Read more

Last year, I made a huge mistake. I repeated on here, what multiple sourcea at Google told me, and what is to this day, written on their blog about Android.
I failed to take into consideration, that people who work at Google, often just lie, or present things intentionally vaguely, so they do not have to follow through with their promises.
I would like to apologize to everyone, who took my previous posts here, as assurance software not explicitly approved by Google, will continue working on Android, past this year (or even just a couple months from now) and that everything has been resolved, as things are now in fact even worse, than they were before. To follow the current state of “Open Android”, please check: https://keepandroidopen.org/

When we come across a library that’s going to save us one to two weeks of dev ⌘ Read more

Flower importers feel the pinch as Iran war affects flight routes
The war in the Middle East is not just affecting petrol prices and travel plans — florists and their suppliers have suddenly found themselves unable to supply blooms due to the disruption of air freight routes. ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I never saw the point of a registry to be honest, as it defeated the point of what I believed to be a truly decentralised non-social social ecosystem. What can and does work however is a search engine and crawler. I used to run one, but I took it down, mostly because it got expensive to operate, at least the implementation I built… Maybe one day i’ll try again with a SQLite backend.

Could the infamous Majestic-12 papers have been real all along?
Documents pertaining to a shadowy UFO organization known as Majestic-12 may hold more merit than previously thought. The idea that there could be a cl… ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me most of our conversations used to be about twtxt, I am not going to lie. Lately? Not so much. It turns out (a) we don’t need a longer hash, (b) we don’t care so much about changing addressing, and © I am just Bender, what else can I say? :-D :-P

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me you’ve got to get a nice client. For example, that mention is broken.

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Yeah, but I think the registries are very slow and unhandy. I just search for “twtxt” in my favorite search engine. From time to time there are new feeds to follow.

NASA’s DART mission changed parent asteroid’s trajectory, study finds
A mission designed to change the trajectory of a small moonlet around an asteroid actually did more than expected. One of the best defenses we may eve… ⌘ Read more

When the user table I have to work with has more than a hundred fields ⌘ Read more

When the PO tells me a feature was implicit to them ⌘ Read more

When I have to justify why the refactor is necessary ⌘ Read more

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me I mean, if you’re talking about a “Follow me” button you can put on your site somewhere and it somehow magically™ works, yeah we haven’t figured out a good way to do this honestly.

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me

Replies aren’t actually broken, I just… need to add myself to the follow list?! That’s quite counter-intuitive and (IIRC) not mentioned in the docs. But… It seems to be working now, which is nice (I still don’t know how webmentions and webfinger works, so can’t speak about this so far)

yarnd (what runs here at twtxt.net) actually does this automatically by default. I think it’s just an implementation detail to be honest. There’s nothing about this in the specs over at https://twtxt.dev

@rdlmda@rdlmda.me Haha 😆 I mean I try to, as time poor as I am 🤣 Welcome to our little corner of the Yarniverse as some call it 😅

Fertiliser prices skyrocket for Aussie farmers as Middle East conflict rages on
The Middle East conflict is forcing up the cost of an essential fertiliser for Australian farmers, but there are other factors more likely to affect grocery prices. ⌘ Read more

Fresh appeal as police try to identify mystery man found dead in reservoir
The body of the unidentified individual had been discovered wearing a wetsuit in a reservoir in a remote part of Wales. It’s a mystery that has grippe… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org hahhaha! Succulent, as in this type of plant. Certainly not looking to eat them, for sure! 😅

Did Nostradamus’ predictions for 2026 refer to the war in Iran ?
The 16th-Century seer made several predictions for this year and some of them seem surprisingly pertinent. There are few people in history as well kno… ⌘ Read more

Worker recalls seeing gigantic 10-inch scorpions in Florida
Cryptozoologist Dr Karl Shuker recently received an intriguing email from a man with a fascinating story to tell. Tales of gargantuan scorpions, both … ⌘ Read more

Martian organisms might have hitched a ride to primordial Earth
A new study has determined that certain life forms are capable of surviving a trip through space on an asteroid. Panspermia is the name given to the h… ⌘ Read more

Have aliens been attempting to communicate with us for decades?
A new study suggests that we may have been receiving signals from intelligent aliens but simply didn’t realize it. Astronomers have been listening out… ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org he will tell you, like in “The Princess and the Pea”, it was horrendous, but I made it to dawn!

NASA offers final verdict on odds of asteroid striking the Moon in 2032
An asteroid that was once thought to be heading for the Earth was later found to be heading toward the Moon instead. Back in 2025, concerns were raise… ⌘ Read more

When I manage to fix a bug without using Google or an AI ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net LOL. Best test ever: if it doesn’t work out, walk a few steps to complete comfort. Win-win!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de oh god, make it stop!

Recently the guy maintaining chardet changed its GPL license to MIT because “it is a complete re-write” (by AI, of course). It was called out by the original author. Changing the license is something the current maintainer wanted to do for long time, getting nos, and nos then. That didn’t stop him 12 years later.

When a coworker tells me they have time to handle a few of my pending tickets ⌘ Read more

When the senior dev refuses to approve our technical solution ⌘ Read more

New cold storage facility to streamline supply chains for citrus growers
Oranges, mandarins, lemons and table grapes could soon have a more direct path to market. ⌘ Read more