Hold the pav. North Queensland mangoes set to be in short supply at Christmas after warm winter
A warmer-than-average winter will see fewer Queensland mangoes on supermarket shelves this Christmas, with producers warning a lower yield will lead to a reduced supply of the tropical fruit. ⌘ Read more
Testing 3D Printed Rocket Fuel href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Can I Make an Aerospike Rocket at Home? href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Mixing 3D Printing Resin with Rocket Fuel href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Ignite Realtime Blog: Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire release 1.1.1
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce a new release of the Certificate Manager plugin for Openfire.
This plugin allows you to automate TLS certificate management tasks. This is particularly helpful when your certificates are short-lived, like the ones issued by Let’s Encrypt.
This release is a maintenance release. It adds translations. More details are available in the [changelog] … ⌘ Read more
My June ‘23 in Review
So, another month is over and with it the first half of the year 2023. Time for a short review. ⌘ Read more
** summer’s lease hath all too short a date **
After the excitement of last summer I was hopeful for a chill one this year. So far, so good.
We visited the island where we used to live and started our family. We saw a few friends, and visited some fa … ⌘ Read more
Prigozhin’s rebellion was pretty short-lived… supposedly he told his troops to turn back already. It’s hard to know what’s true coming from Russia.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de hehe, not 12, but down 12 from what it was 😀
polar circle, that is a place I have not been yet. but I’ve always wanted to drive from here and all the length of Norway. I live in the south, a short drive from the southernerst point in Norway.
Ciggy Butt Brain 2023 href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Live Show Sydney Tonight href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
My May ‘23 in Review
May is over, June has already started, so here is my short review of the past month. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net Always nice to get a day off and a short week 😀
twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it.
So, basically a .plan file for finger. But, on the web. like a *web*finger. We have come full circle on this loop!
twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it.
So, basically a .plan file for finger. But, on the web. like a *web*finger. We have come full circle on this loop!
@xuu@txt.sour.is @prologic@twtxt.net Yarn.social without threading (as it would be the case in a “truncated” feed) does not make sense to me.
Put another way: Yarn.social is not twtxt. The content that we all have in our feeds really is much closer to a web forum or usenet or whatever. It’s threaded conversations. twtxt, as I believe it was originally intended, are short little status updates – that’s it. The formats of Yarn.social and twtxt might be very similar, but the content is vastly different and, in a way, incompatible. (As such, I think I understand very well that the original twtxt crowd is disgruntled.)
That proposed truncated feed doesn’t really provide any value, if you ask me. 🤔 It’d just be chaotic.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Thank you! Yeah I fixed that now, short statuses got shifted, but that has been fixed. :)
Kev built his own microblog using WordPress and iOS shortcuts to separate his long and short posts. It sounds like this is a better alternative for him than micro.blog. Maybe with SQLite as the database he can even simplify this setup. ⌘ Read more
My March ‘23 in Review
And again a month is over, March comes to an end, April begins. A short review. ⌘ Read more
A lot of more work needs to be done, but at least now I got the basic timeline stuff done, took a good while to figure out how to solve it, but now I know. The reason why the statuses are cut short on some is because of html tags and stuff like that - c++ is a bit picky with strings and stuff like that. but I’ll get that sorted as well.
At least I can show the first screenshot. Keep in mind the GUI is not at all finished, I’m working on the basics first, implement all the features, then I work on finishing touches.
@prologic@twtxt.net it is from the generator. But in the actual go implementation methods are represented with a unsigned short. So 65k is the hard limit in go.
@prologic@twtxt.net it is from the generator. But in the actual go implementation methods are represented with a unsigned short. So 65k is the hard limit in go.
My February ‘23 in Review
And again a month is over, the shortest of the year. Here is my short monthly review. ⌘ Read more
blog: short note about why you should code it yourself
@prologic@twtxt.net short version: context is a linked list that is passed down a call stack that can share timeout, cancellation, or other data as needed by lower functions in the call stack.
@prologic@twtxt.net short version: context is a linked list that is passed down a call stack that can share timeout, cancellation, or other data as needed by lower functions in the call stack.
In reply to: Oatmeal - week notes
The worst kind of blogging is blogging about blogging, so, I’ll keep this blogging about blogging short!
I’ve made some minor updates to the design of the website that have improved it’s usability a wee bit, and are a step in the right direction toward upping my accessibility game. The major remaining accessibility issues are around color contrast and some structura … ⌘ Read more
At least I started on something today. Been months and months since I did anything. I started on a asset I want to use in a short I want to make some day.
Not done yet at all, but blocking things out just so I get a feel for it.
Why resolutions actually work href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
My December ‘22 in Review
Now the last month of the year is coming to an end and before I put together a short review of the year soon, here’s another monthly review. ⌘ Read more
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org when I take him to work I walk him at the parkinglot when I need a break. and on my way home I walk a km or two, and then around the neighbourhood as needed later. But when I go for long walks during the weekend I can walk anywhere from 10km to 20, then the rest is as needed around the house. so he’s well adjusted to short walks as well as long. today he pulled our kids on snow sleds on the street outside here, was really fun :) it was his first time trying that, and I could barely keep up with him. haha.
@eaplmx@twtxt.net This exact thing happened to me last night. I happened to be watching some random Youtube video, then this Ad came on, normally they are short 3-5s ads and I just tolerate them (sometimes) – But this particular ad was 20+ mins long! Somehow I kept listening to it too, despite my daughter telling me I could hit that “Skip Ad” button.
What was it you ask?! 😅 It was one of those testimonial-style, hyped up marketing videos of some product called “Gemini 2” (a currency trading app, allegedly), I kept watching all the way through, it was fantastic! 🤣
Then I went and read up on it! …
Short answer: TOTAL FUCKING SCAM 🤣
My November ‘22 in Review
November is now over and it’s December and the Christmas season begins. But first a short review of November… ⌘ Read more
Soil
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Neil deGrasse Tyson has his own asteroid!? href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Will Mind Control Become A Thing? 🧠 href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
This Bacteria Smells Like Bananas And Attracts Angry Bees href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
What Starquakes Teach Us About The Universe href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
BBSing at 300 Bits Per Second
I recently acquired a 3M Whisper Writer 1000 communications terminal circa 1983, and restored it to working order. This is a short session of it dialing into my Kludge BBS over its internal 300 bps modem. ⌘ Read more
Arnaud Joset: Updates: chatty server and HTTPAuthentificationOverXMPP
It’s been a long time since I updated this blog. It will be a short update post about two projects.
The first is chatty_server, a small XMPP bot I use to interact with my server. It allows me to get information about the CPU load, traffic, weather etc.
It also has a small feature to get reminder messages. There was a bug that allowed anyone to spam reminders. Anybody can add the bot to their rooster and could create random reminders t … ⌘ Read more
short blog post about onyx and building software tools for everybody
“They Don’t Want to Hear the Truth” -John Barilaro href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
My July ‘22 in Review
In a moment, the next month is already over. After June, it’s now July. Time for a short monthly review. ⌘ Read more
John Barilaro Fights a Cameraman href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Gajim: Gajim 1.4.6
Gajim 1.4.6 fixes some bugs with the status icon and notifications. Emoji short code detection has been improved.
Several issues have been fixed in this release.
- Improved detection of emoji short codes
- Tray icon with
libappindicatorhas been fixed
- Groups are now preserved when changing a contact’s name
- Windows: Notifications shouldn’t appear in the taskbar anymore
Have a look at the [chan … ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:
https://locusmag.com/2022/07/cory-doctorow-the-swerve/ 1/**
My latest @locusmag column is “The Swerve,” a short essay about the shape that hope takes when happy endings are off the table:
JD.com extends access to Tencent’s WeChat for three years with US$220 million in stock
JD.com is keeping its preferential access to WeChat’s 1.29 billion users, extending a partnership with Tencent that gives it a short cut on the platform. ⌘ Read more
China’s live-streaming e-commerce offers lifeline to fruit farmers amid Covid restrictions and short season
Local farmers have come to rely more on Big Tech platforms to boost sales in recent years, but a tough season for some produce is proving challenging for some. ⌘ Read more
Protesters in India burn trains over military jobs plan
Protesters were angry over new short-term military scheme, where a majority of recruits will be compulsorily retired after four years with no pension benefits. ⌘ Read more
wait, is CIRL incorrigible for the same reason that utility-maximizers don’t wirehead? https://niplav.github.io/notes.html#A-Short-Example-For-Why-CIRL-Is-Incorrigible
My May ‘22 in Review
May is now over too, it feels like it has flown by. But before the month is completely over, I want to take a short look back… ⌘ Read more
“Dodecahedron Assemblies was the publication I chose to read on my way to heaven”—apparently Uriel has managed to gain short contact via the Gato agent.
Fremantle Shows Tonight and Tomorrow href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Andrew Johns’ Message to Barnaby Joyce href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Tour my minimalist desk setup href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
My April ‘22 in Review
April is also over now, time to take a short look back. ⌘ Read more
Scomo texting during ANZAC Day Dawn Service href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Friendlyjordies Takes Melbourne! href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more
Scomo, Man of the People! href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
rathole - ngrok alternative
Some time ago I tried to make my Nitter instance available on the Internet from home via Tailscale, Caddy and an own building block in between, but stopped it again a short time later because it didn’t work that well somehow. Today I found out about rathole, and what can I say? It works great and seems to be much faster than my previous solution! ⌘ Read more
Kevin Rudd Saw This Coming href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
Alright, check this out. I just kinda completed today’s project of converting a jeans into a saw bag. It’s not fully done, the side seams on the flap need some more hand sewing, that’s for sure. No, I don’t have a sewing machine. Yet?
At first I wanted to put in the saw on the short side, but that would have made for more sewing work and increased material consumption. As a Swabian my genes force me to be very thrifty. Slipping in on the long side had the benefit of using the bottom trouser leg without any modification at all. The leg tapers slightly and gets wider and wider the more up you go. At the bottom it’s not as extreme as at the top.
The bag is made of two layers of cloth for extra durability. The double layers help to hide the inner two metal snap fastener counter parts, so the saw blade doesn’t get scratched. Not a big concern, but why not doing it, literally no added efforts were needed. Also I reckon it cuts off the metal on metal clinking sounds.
The only downside I noticed right after I pressed in the receiving ends of the snap fasteners is that the flap overhangs the bag by quite a lot. I fear that’s not really user-friendly. Oh well. Maybe I will fold it shorter and sew it on. Let’s see. The main purpose is to keep the folding saw closed, it only locks in two open positions.
Two buttons would have done the trick, with three I went a bit overkill. In fact the one in the middle is nearly sufficient. Not quite, but very close. But overkill is a bit my motto. The sides making up the bag are sewed together with like five stitch rows. As said in the introduction, the flap on the hand needs some more love.
Oh, and if I had made it in a vertical orientation I would have had the bonus of adding a belt loop and carrying it right along me. In the horizontal layout that’s not possible at all. The jeans cloth is too flimsy, the saw will immediately fall out if I open the middle button. It’s not ridgid enough. Anyways, I call it a success in my books so far. Definitely had some fun.
short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind
The Company Peter Dutton Keeps href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
My February ‘22 in Review
February, especially if it’s not a leap year, is a short month, but it’s already over now too. So time for a quick review…. ⌘ Read more
The Goldilocks Rule href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23Shorts”>#Shorts** ⌘ Read more
Had my 2nd interview yesterday. Here’s hoping it went well 🤞 should hear back within 2 weeks, which is only a short agonising wait 😅
I’ve heard that being a soldier in a combat zone is long hours of idleness, punctuated by short periods of terror and stress. That pretty much describes my time as a manager, without the “terror” part (and the bullets and explosions). People don’t work as much as they say | Hacker News
Nominally, my seen/read list for 2021, but I missed a lot of short readings. I may try to write more about these things this year. http://a.9srv.net/media/2021
Peter Saint-Andre: 2021 Readings
As best I can reconstruct it, here are the books I read in 2021. Not included are scholarly papers, essays, and other short works. I’ve provided links to books that are available online at my monadnock.net website for works in the public domain…. ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Short Fiction — All Quiet on the Vernal Front https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/12/05/war.html #fiction #christmas #holiday
So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.
I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.
Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.
Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.
So the evolution of my nick is as follows. I had a bicycle that had the word Zephyr written on it. Which means a western wind. That is related to the Greek god Zephyrus.
I liked words where X make a Z sound. And also had a bit of dyslexia so my firs IRC nick was Xypher swapping the y and e.. I would also use the forms Xypherius or just Xypheri.
Because its close hemming to Cypher I found the nick would get used by others.. Though that is not my origin.
Later I would sign websites I created as The X-Urban Underground (where X was short for Xypher) and that evolved to xuu. Pronounced like zoo.
Review Jam, day 2: try a short task in Teliva. https://buttondown.email/reviewjam/archive/advent-of-foc-day-2-brutalist-convivial-computing
Bidens Democracy Summit
There is an interesting article about The Summit for Democracy titled Biden Invites Taiwan to Democracy Summit Alongside 110 Countries.I want to add a short but important observation.As mentioned in the article Hungary and Turkey have not been invited to the Summit. But contrary to the article, I believe that the reason has nothing to […] ⌘ Read more
Secure deployments with OpenID Connect & GitHub Actions now generally available
GitHub Actions now supports OpenID Connect for secure deployment to different cloud providers via short-lived, auto-rotated tokens. ⌘ Read more
created a short introductory video to qiudanz mode 1 | https://compudanzas.net/qiudanz_mode_1.html
A Short Review of Selling on Tindie
I started using the Tindie platform in April to sell my WiFiStation kits. I’ve now sold out all of my initial inventory and am not planning on making any more, so I thought I’d offer my opinions of Tindie as a platform for selling things. ⌘ Read more
Painbow Award
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On the blog: Short Fiction — The Gevkahahal https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/31/gevkahahal.html #freeculture #creativecommons #fiction #horror
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I knew you were short sided from day one I saw Yarn. On desktop everything is huge, and I assumed it was to cater short-sightedness. Also, you have enabled underlines on buttons on iOS, bold and bigger fonts, etc., so that was also a give away. Sorry if I digress, but, glasses wouldn’t help? I have to wear mine all the time, otherwise I am also near blind myself!
@niplav@niplav.github.io Re: Liber Augmen: Not a whole lot of it is new to me either, but I thought the method of delivery (a single page full of short descriptions of things) is super interesting as a mindspace-delivery device
One day short of a full chain: Real world exploit chains explained ⌘ Read more…
In case you were wondering, taking a couple pairs of damp shorts fresh from the washing machine into a room and pointing a fan at them will raise the room’s humidity.
don’t get me wrong, I love the power of emacs. but it’s a very complex piece of software, which is inherrently brittle. not a problem in the short term, but for some of my more long term tools it’s a consideration.
Short Notice: Appearing on Millenniyule TONIGHT at 7PM New York Time
Sorry for the short notice, I’ve been busy for the holidays, but I’ve been asked to be interviewed on Millenniyule in less than two hours from when I’m posting this. I’m scheduled for 7PM to as late as 9PM New York time.
The livestream will be on this channel (i.e. not my own due to bandwidth issues).
If you miss it, you can get it [at the bottom of this playlist](https://www.youtube.com/ … ⌘ Read more
Short Notice: Appearing on Millenniyule TONIGHT at 7PM New York Time ⌘ Read more…
it is short, 140 pages, according to the table of contents. First impressions: 4 pages in. It is about a plucky, precocious redhead girl whose parents are lost at sea, and who is definitely NOT Pippi Longstocking. Distinct lack of waffles so far. Am disappoint.
On the blog: Short Fiction — Instant Podcast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/27/podcast.html #fiction #freeculture #humor
When I read this I see a a niche, super premium hardware company that managed to acquire tens of thousands of customers by word of mouth. Not only that, their customers are all in-effect self employed or small businesses with huge average revenue per employee. They manage global supply chains, intense competition, all while taking on and managing huge legal/compliance risk. How is is that supposedly “dumb,” criminals can do this, and yet many of us are stretching our intellectual capacities to learn new technologies and maths, developing our nth stupid app, trying to achieve a fraction of the customer traction and revenue that street thugs manage to do every day. Are these people much smarter than average, or does it mean that if you sell something people actually want, literally nothing else matters about your intelligence, education, character, background, or anything at all. When I read these drug stories, it just reinforces for me that growth solves everything. You can succeed with a crew of violent, drug addicted idiots whose only reliable characteristic is short term thinking, and who spend half their time in prison if you have product market fit. What I’m beginning to think is that the “smarter,” people are in a company, the less anyone will want their product. It’s like the success of a venture is inversely proportional to the number of ostensible geniuses it employs. reply How Police Secretly Took over a Global Phone Network for Organized Crime | Hacker News
@von@tilde.town Good luck. I wrote poems twice for a girl. They were rather short, the girls name length in lines. And if you read the lines first character from bottom to top you got, … I guess that’s obvious. 😁
Took a long walk earlier today and now I want to take a short nap.
The new anime season is so weird. A bunch of harem shit (yay) but all of it is short episodes (wut)
Million Short - What haven’t you found? https://www.millionshort.com/
“Great repository names are short and memorable. Need inspiration? How about supreme-couscous?” — I hadn’t heard about this particular Supreme collab, but then again I haven’t been subscribed to Hypebeast in a while…
Emotional Mechanics | Emily Short’s Interactive Storytelling https://emshort.blog/2019/03/12/39385/
There’s a tendency, when we don’t have a rational understanding of something, to classify it as only capable of IRrational understanding – i.e. pattern matching. Occasionally, this is the only practical solution in the short term.