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Präventive Fahndung mit PrismX: Der Radikalisierung per KI zuvorkommen
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Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App
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Ein 19-Jähriger demoliert nachts 17 Autos und chattet Minuten später mit ChatGPT über seine Tat. Die Chat-Protokolle und weitere Spuren überführten ihn. ( KI, Security)

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Stromspeicher: Kombination aus Batterien und Wasserstoff geplant
Ein Start-up will die Vorteile beider Techniken für stabile und sichere Stromnetze kombinieren. Auch KI darf dabei nicht fehlen. ( Akku, Brennstoffzelle)

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Carsten Linnemann: CDU-Generalsekretär fordert Social-Media-Verbot bis 16
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Australia’s new food security strategy: What’s on the table, and what’s missing?
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Microsoft: KI knackt DNS-Sicherheitssysteme gegen Biowaffen
Forscher zeigen, wie künstliche Intelligenz Schutzmaßnahmen gegen die Entwicklung von Biowaffen und Giften umgehen könnte. ( KI, Sicherheitslücke)

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Ladesäulen-Forschung: Elektroautos sollen über Straßenlaternen laden
Das System ist skalierbar, verursacht nur geringe Kosten und könnte vor allem in dicht besiedelten Gegenden die Nutzung von Elektroautos fördern. ( Ladesäule, Elektroauto)

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Cariad: VW gibt alleinige Software-Entwicklung in Eigenregie auf
Volkswagen macht einen Reset bei Cariad: Die Software-Tochter wird zur Koordinierungsstelle für die Partner Rivian und Xpeng, entwickelt aber selbst auch. ( Cariad, Auto)

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From the chicken archive, 2017.

Not mine, these were more or less free roaming chickens. Farmers didn’t use some of their fields for a while and allowed some other farmer to let the birds live there in the meantime.

(Full resolution, CC BY-SA.)

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Autonome Roboter: KI-gesteuerte Maschinen platzieren 500.000 Solarpanels
Weil ein einfacher, aber kraftintensiver Schritt entfällt, sorgen die autonomen Maschinen für eine schnelle Installation großflächiger Solaranlagen. ( Energiewende, Roboter)

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Saturday Citations: Bird news: Vultures as curators and a newly discovered interspecies warning call
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(g+) Der vernetzte Arbeitsplatz: Wie MCP die Arbeit mit KI-Agenten verändert
MCP ist ein bemerkenswertes Protokoll, das die Schnittstelle zwischen verschiedenen KI-Modellen standardisiert: Wir erklären, wie man es sinnvoll nutzen kann. Ein Praxistest von Markus Kammermeier ( KI, API)

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Alien Earth: Xenomorph-Monster zum Schoßhund degradiert
Nach begeisterndem Start endet Staffel 1 von Alien: Earth ärgerlich schlecht und veranschaulicht damit ein Grundproblem für Serienkritiker. Eine Rezension von Daniel Pook ( Filme & Serien, Disney)

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That Manton guy is so incredible dull, not even funny: https://www.manton.org/2025/10/03/apparently-there-was-some-drama.html

(g+) Frei-Staat: Open Source in bayerischen Kommunen
Bayern steht im Verdacht, lieber sein eigenes Ding zu machen, als mit nördlichen Bundesländern zu kooperieren. Drei Beispiele zeigen, wie es auch anders gehen kann. Von Markus Feilner ( Open Source, Linux)

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Molecular coating cleans up noisy quantum light
Quantum technologies demand perfection: one photon at a time, every time, all with the same energy. Even tiny deviations in the number or energy of photons can derail devices, threatening the performance of quantum computers that someday could make up a quantum internet. ⌘ Read more

Elektroauto: Tesla erhöht Reichweite von Model 3 und Model Y
Das Tesla Model 3 und Model Y fahren jetzt weiter und haben auch noch andere technische Verbesserungen erhalten. Das Model 3 bekommt wieder Blinkerhebel. ( Tesla, Elektroauto)

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Einwanderung: US-Regierung bringt Apple zur Löschung von ICE-Tracking-App
Apple hat die App ICEBlock aus dem App Store entfernt - auf Druck der US-Regierung. Damit konnten Positionen von Einwanderungsbeamten gemeldet werden. ( Apple, Politik)

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Computational tool helps forecast volcano slope collapses and tsunamis
For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like those at Mount St. Helens, Washington, and Anak Krakatau, Indonesia. The latter triggered tsunamis blamed for most deaths from its historic eruptions in 1883. ⌘ Read more

First wolf-dog hybrid confirmed in Greece
A prominent Greek wildlife group on Friday said it had confirmed the first case of a wolf-dog hybrid in the north of the country. ⌘ Read more

Wegen Meta: Apple Vision Air gestoppt - smarte Brille im Fokus
Apple verschiebt seine Prioritäten und will Meta beim Wettlauf um Smart Glasses einholen. Dafür soll ein anderes Modell gestoppt werden. ( Vision Pro, Apple)

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Accelerated Gulf of Maine warming may pose a serious threat to American lobsters
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Why some human GII.4 noroviruses are better than others at infecting cells
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Energy harvesters surpass Carnot efficiency using non-thermal electron states
Harnessing quantum states that avoid thermalization enables energy harvesters to surpass traditional thermodynamic limits such as Carnot efficiency, report researchers from Japan. The team developed a new approach using a non-thermal Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid to convert waste heat into electricity with higher efficiency than conventional approaches. These findings pave the way for more sustainable low-power elect … ⌘ Read more

Novel method for controlling Faraday rotation in conductive polymers
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Ultra-thin sodium films offer low-cost alternative to gold and silver in optical technologies
From solar panels to next-generation medical devices, many emerging technologies rely on materials that can manipulate light with extreme precision. These materials—called plasmonic materials—are typically made from expensive metals like gold or silver. But what if a cheaper, more abundant metal could do the job just as well or better? ⌘ Read more

Neolithic Chinese culture artifacts show systematic human bone modification
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New telescope cuts through space noise in hunt for distant Earth-like worlds
EU researchers are developing powerful new telescopes to help uncover Earth-like planets around distant stars and advance the search for extraterrestrial life. ⌘ Read more

Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds
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Schatzsuche: Fingerabdruck-Matrix findet versteckte Objekte fast überall
Im Nebel, in Sand, sogar in Körpergewebe findet eine neue Methode das gesuchte Objekt. Das Prinzip lässt sich beliebig anwenden, auch in der Medizin. ( Physik, Suchmaschine)

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Gap-controlled infrared method enables analysis of molecular interfaces
A novel spectroscopic method developed at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan, enables highly sensitive analysis of molecules at material interfaces, using a combination of conventional ATR-IR, precise gap-control and advanced data processing. The technique offers a low-cost alternative to conventional interfacial spectroscopy and has potential applications in material sciences, nanotechnology, and biological sciences. ⌘ Read more

Researchers demonstrate substrate design principles for scalable superconducting quantum materials
Silicides—alloys of silicon and metals long used in microelectronics—are now being explored again for quantum hardware. But their use faces a critical challenge: achieving phase purity, since some silicide phases are superconducting while others are not. ⌘ Read more

Making yogurt with ants revives a creative fermentation process
Researchers recreated a nearly forgotten yogurt recipe that once was common across the Balkans and Turkey—using ants. Reporting in iScience on October 3, the team shows that bacteria, acids, and enzymes in ants can kickstart the fermentation process that turns milk into yogurt. The work highlights how traditional practices can inspire new approaches to food science and even add creativity to the dinner table. ⌘ Read more

Natural barriers in northern Sweden’s rivers challenge downstream assumptions
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Antarctica sees similar climate change effects as Greenland: Study
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Apple: Airpods Pro 3 sollen zu blutigen Ohren führen
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Physicists maneuver DNA molecules using electrical fields, offering real-time control
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Schwarzmeerküste: Fischer bergen ukrainische Seedrohne
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Trauma in a puppy’s first six months linked to adult aggression, says new study
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1.000 Milliarden: Aktienpaket für Elon Musk soll verhindert werden
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Even short school breaks can affect student learning unevenly across socioeconomic backgrounds
The COVID-19 pandemic affected people worldwide disproportionately, with economically disadvantaged households facing a heavier burden. Children were also affected since schools and classes were closed to contain the virus. ⌘ Read more

Unique videos show how trawling restrictions bring back life to the sea
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Supercomputer modeling unlocks longstanding mystery of subducted oceanic slabs
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Photovoltaik: Schwimmende Solarzelleninsel vor niederländischer Küste
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(g+) Auswandern: Schweden als Chance für deutsche IT-Spezialisten
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Security: Sicherheitslücke in Zahnarztpraxen-System
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Airport: Flughafen München nach Drohnensichtungen erneut gesperrt
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SPD-Verkehrsexpertin Cademartori: Merz hat nicht über das Verbrennerverbot zu entscheiden
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#py5 comes with some cool integrations with other #Python libraries, such as the ability to convert #Pillow images, #shapely and #trimesh objects.

But you can create and register your own conversion functions too!

https://py5coding.org/integrations/custom_integrations.html

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(g+) Monitoring, Alerting, Trending: Infrastruktur mit Netdata überwachen
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Hello again everyone! A little update on my twtxt client.

I think it’s finally shaping a bit better now, but… ☝️

As I’m trying to put all the parts together, I decided to build multiple parallel UIs, to ensure I don’t accidentally create a structure that is more rigid than planned.

I already decided on a UI that I would want to use for myself, it would be inspired by moshidon, misskey and some other “social feeds” mock-ups I found on dribbble.

I also plan on building a raw HTML version (for anyone wanting to do a full DIY client).

I would love to get any suggestions of what you would like to see (and possibly use) as a client, by sharing a link, app/website name or even a sketch made by you on paper.

I think I’ll pick a third and maybe a fourth design to build together with the two already mentioned.

For reference, the screens I think of providing are (some might be optional or conditionally/manually hidable):

• Global / personal timeline screen
  
• Profile screen (with timeline)
  
• Thread screen
  
• Notifications screen or popup (both valid)
  
• DM list & chat screens (still planning, might come later)
  
• Settings screen (it’ll probably be a hard coded form, but better mention it)
  
• Publish / edit post screen or popup (still analysing some use cases, as some “engines” might not have direct publishing support)
  

I also plan on adding two optional metadata fields:

• display_name: To show a human readable alternative for a nick, it fallback to nick if not defined
  
• banner: Using the same format as avatar but the image expected is wider, inspired by other socials around
  

I also plan on supporting any metadata provided, including a dynamically parsable regex rule format for those extra fields, this should allow anyone to build new clients that don’t limit themselves to just the social aspect of twtxt, hoping to see unique ways of using twtxt! 🤞

Alpine Linux plans /usr merge
The Alpine Linux project has announced
plans to change its base filesystem hierarchy:

In the future, /lib, /bin, and /sbin
will be symbolic links to their /usr counterparts, and every package
shall be installed under the /usr paths. For now,
/usr/bin and /usr/sbin will continue to be independent paths,
but that might change if the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) gets
updated.

The merge will take place in the upcomi … ⌘ Read more

[$] Linting Rust code in the kernel
Klint is a Rust compiler extension
developed by Gary Guo to run some
kernel-specific lint rules, which may also be useful for embedded system
development. He spoke about his
recent work on the project at
Kangrejos 2025. The next day, Alejandra González
led a discussion about Rust’s normal linter,
Clippy. The two tools … ⌘ Read more

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Hi everyone, here’s a little introduction of my twtxt client (still WIP).

The client I’m developing is a single tenant project that runs entirely in the browser (it might use an optional backend).

It’s entirely based on native web-components and vanilla JS, it is designed to act closer to a toolkit than a full-fledged client, allowing users to “DIY” their own interface with pure html or plain javascript functions.

Users can also build their own engines by including a global javascript object that implement the defined internal API (TBD).

I’m planning to build a system that is easy enough to build and use with any skill level, using only pure html (with a homebrew minimal template engine) or via plain JS (I’ll be also providing some pre-made templates too).

Everything can be self-hosted on any static hosting provider, this allows to spread twtxt within communities like Neocities and similarly hosted websites (basically any Indieweb/Smallweb/Digital garden website and any of the common GitHub/Lab/Berg/lify Pages).

It will be probably named something like TxtCraft or craf.txt but I’m not really sure yet… 🤔 (Maybe some suggestions could help)

I’m still in the experimental phase, so there’s no decent source-code to share yet, but it will soon enough!

Okay, now that I knew what to look for, I found existing bug reports:

• https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2023-04/msg00400.html
  
• https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?63960
  

Most importantly:

This is resolved in the groff trunk.

🥳

@prologic@twtxt.net No, this is a Linux manpage from the man-pages project: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/tree/man/man7/ascii.7

I do have an idea what’s going on. Could be an unfortunate interaction between the table preprocessor tbl and the man macro package. 🤔

XMPP Interop Testing: Two New Features for Clearer Testing
We’ve just released version 1.7.1 of all of our test runners. This release adds two improvements to make interop testing
both stricter and easier to set up!

Some tests can’t be executed if the server lacks required features. Previously, these “impossible” tests were skipped,
which could make a run look fully successful when it wasn’t. Now you can configure the suite to treat impossible t … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I can’t upload a screenshot (tried, but Yarnd simple “ate” my reply). See https://zsblog.mills.io/posts/hello-zs-blog.html. Is has no date/time on it.

And I need to make something absolutely clear as well here. Twtxt was completely and utterly dead back in {Aug 2020](https://yarn.social/about.html) when I came across the spec and its simplicity and realised the lost opportunity. Since then we’ve continued to grow a small but thriving community. The extensions we’ve built over time have stood and lasted the test of time for the past ~5 years. We need not break things too badly, because what we have today and was designed years ago actually works quite well™ (despite some flaws).

@zvava@twtxt.net Going to have to hard disagree here I’m sorry. a) no-one reads the raw/plain twtxt.txt files, the only time you do is to debug something, or have a stick beak at the comments which most clients will strip out and ignore and b) I’m sorry you’ve completely lost me! I’m old enough to pre-date before Linux became popular, so I’m not sure what UNIX principles you think are being broken or violated by having a Twt Subject (Subject) whose contents is a cryptographic content-addressable hash of the “thing”™ you’re replying to and forming a chain of other replies (a thread).

I’m sorry, but the simplest thing to do is to make the smallest number of changes to the Spec as possible and all agree on a “Magic Date” for which our clients use the modified function(s).

@bender@twtxt.net Yes I did about a week or so ago. It took me a lot of effort to get the content even rendered in the first place. LOL I had to basically export my blog as HTML (can you believe that?!) – The Hugo export just didn’t work at all 🤣

I just created a zs blogging template which I’m going to use for https://prologic.blog and I might starting writing long-form again soon™ 🔜 So far the “blogging” template/engine (if you weill) is quite simple. It comprises essentially of an index.md a prehook and a few utilities:

$ git ls-files
.gitignore
.zs/config.yml
.zs/editthispage
.zs/include
.zs/layout.html
.zs/list
.zs/months
.zs/now
.zs/onthispage
.zs/posthook
.zs/postsbymonth
.zs/prehook
.zs/scripts
.zs/styles
.zs/tagcloud
.zs/taglist
.zs/years
archives/.empty
assets/css/site.css
assets/js/main.js
index.md
posts/hello-zs-blog.md
posts/on-tagging.md
posts/second-post.md
tags/.empty

I would personally rather see something like this:

2025-09-25T22:41:19+10:00	Hello World
2025-09-25T22:41:19+10:00	(#kexv5vq https://example.com/twtxt.html#:~:text=2025-09-25T22:41:19%2B10:00) Hey!

Preserving both content-based addressing as well as location-based addressing and text fragment linking.

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@zvava@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not entirely sure about the spaces, but maybe they were omitted to simplify parsing of mentions in the form of @<nick url>. If the next token after the @<nick does not look like a URL, it’s not a mention but regular text. This is just wild guessing, though.

Looking at the regex and tests in the original twtxt reference implementation seems to confirm that theory in the sense as it relies on whitespace as the delimiter:

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-30-25.png

Another thing about nicks is that the original twtxt reference implementation converts nicks to all lowercase:

https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-20-39.png

You probably know this already, the original twtxt file format specification can be found here: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html

As for extensions, I don’t know of anything outside of twtxt.dev that has actually been (partially) implemented. However, there is also the issue tracker of the official reference implementation. You might wanna dig through that. For example, there is an alternative suggestions of multiline messages: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/157

@zvava@twtxt.net Good question. This is the spec, I think:

https://twtxt.dev/exts/metadata.html#nick

It doesn’t say much. 🤔

In the wild, I’ve only seen “traditional” nick names, i.e. ASCII 0x21 thru 0x7E.

My client removes anything but r'[a-zA-Z0-9]' from nick names.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org a content warning is kind of like a forum spoiler cut, or like the <details> tag in HTML; it lets you write a sentence or so that someone can then click to expand to see the actual post. it’s called a CW because most people use it to warn for potentially triggering/harmful subjects, but you can really use it for anything, like spoilers in a TV show or even for joke punchlines

Checking out this #leafmap demo…

https://demo.leafmap.org/lab/index.html

I hope that one day we’ll have a #py5 kernel running on #JupyterLite, via #pyodide :D

@dce@hashnix.club You should try los86! 8-)

Well, what are you trying to do on this ThinkPad? That might affect the OS choices.

I really had to laugh when I read your initial comparison. I love it! :-D