Apple Prototypes Tabletop Robot With Lifelike Movements Ahead of Rumored Launch by 2027
A team of robotics researchers at Apple have designed and prototyped a lamp-like robot with lifelike movements, according to a blog post and accompanying video published last month on the Apple Machine Learning Research website. The lamp, which reminds us of the cute Pixar mascot [Luxo Jr.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0CmJa … ⌘ Read more

10 Bad Movies with Great Effects
As filmmaking progresses, the craft evolves. That pattern is evident in numerous aspects of a project, but the most noticeable are the special effects. Technology advances to new heights, and the artists use those breakthroughs to enhance the image onscreen. Their hope is to further immerse audiences in the film. That said, their efforts are […]

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You Can Now Use ChatGPT Search Without Signing In
ChatGPT’s search engine feature can now be accessed by anyone, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. Previously, users needed an account to use ChatGPT search, but the sign-in requirement has now been removed.

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ChatGPT Search is available on the ChatGPT website and in the desktop and mobile apps. Searches can be initiated ba … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This time it works! (For the first time). Using mutt, yes, and the config is yours. I’ll contact you later, when I have more data. Some time needed to experiment. Thanks!

@jost@jost.sdfeu.org Hmm, not really, no. Could you share your mutt config? (Are you using mutt?) Feel free to send me an email, if doing this over twtxt doesn’t work (yet). You can find the address on https://www.uninformativ.de/contact.html ✌️

Trump says US will ‘take over’ and ‘own’ Gaza Strip and says US troops will be deployed ‘if it’s necessary’ – live
Léonie Chao-Fong, Christy Cooney and Yohannes Lowe,  Staff Writers  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As you have probably already heard, Benjamin Netanyahu, an international war criminal and Donald Trump, a convicted sex offender and multiple felon just stood at a press conference in the White House and com … ⌘ Read more

10 Mysterious Beach Objects
The sea is a fascinating, largely unknown realm full of both potential perils and astounding mysteries. From time to time, the ocean reminds us of its secrets and its possible dangers as incoming tides and surf deliver to our beaches and shorelines strange objects or bizarre specimens of marine life for us to examine. Many […]

The post 10 Mysterious Beach Objects appeared first on [Listverse](https://listverse.c … ⌘ Read more

Thanks for your replies to my ‘Hello World’. Seems I can post but not reply myself. Using jenny, who isn’t as gentle as the name suggests ;-) I’ll figure it out.

CAN FD Adapter for High-Speed Industrial and Embedded Communication in M.2 and Mini-PCIe Form Factors
The CAN FD Adapter enables high-speed CAN FD connectivity for embedded and industrial applications. Available in M.2 B-key and mini-PCIe form factors, it supports data rates from 12.5 kbit/s to 8 Mbit/s. It integrates with systems used in industrial monitoring, robotics, automation, hardware-in-the-loop testing, remote access, and data loggin … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] Bulletproofs Inner Product Argument & Range Proofs in Monero using Bulletproofs
Link: https://risencrypto.github.io/Bulletproofs/

u/chillband@monero.town (Lemmy) ⌘ Read more

Red Hat Adding AI to Fedora Linux & GNOME
Red Hat’s Director of Desktop, outlines plans for 2025: “Big item on our list is looking at ways Fedora can make use of Artificial Intelligence” from IBM. ⌘ Read more

Touch Bar on Mac Showing “Touch ID to Sign In” or “Touch ID to Autofill” Requests in Safari? Here’s Why
MacBook Pro users with a Touch Bar equipped model may find themselves using Safari and have the Touch Bar constantly show a seemingly random “Touch ID to Autofill” or “Touch ID to Sign In” request, even if they’re using a website or a webpage with no forms, nothing to sign into, and nothing to autofill. … … ⌘ Read more

‘It’s a coup’: Musk’s DOGE granted access to system that pays out Social Security
Olivia Rosane,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams | AlterNet

_Stephan: What amounts to an oligarchical coup of the United States has just happened. The unelected billionaires who bought “emperor” Trump his office now have my, and probably your, complete personal financial data – anything any of us has ever filed with the federal government, as well as any military serv … ⌘ Read more

(#2skyjyq) I have no ties to the US, EU or even the AU. Government overreach can bite me 🤣
I have no ties to the US, EU or even the AU. Government overreach can bite me 🤣 ⌘ Read more

(#2skyjyq) @darch.dk@darch.dk You are welcome to use git.mills.io
@darch.dk @darch.dk You are welcome to use git.mills.io ⌘ Read more

@sorenpeter@darch.dk It depends on your requirements. If you just want to put your code somewhere for yourself, simply push it over SSH on a server and call it good. That’s what I do with lots of repos. If you want an additional web UI for read access for the public, cgit comes to mind (a mate uses that). Prologic runs Gitea, which offers heaps more functionality like merge requests.

10 Films That Are Still Banned in the UK
Westerners live in an age of relative freedom when it comes to the films we can enjoy. U.S. and UK censors are more forgiving than they used to be, and horrific, graphic, and downright lewd films that would previously have been banned from even the roughest fleapit make it into mainstream cinemas. https://web.archive.org/web/20200924204745/https://www.bbfc.co.uk/education-resources/education-news/video-nasties The UK’s […]

The post [10 Films That Are … ⌘ Read more

Trump & Elon Force Government Programmers to Disable DEI Language Chat Bot
Plus: US Government Devs are quickly deleting DEl material off GitHub, let’s see what they’re removing. (Spoiler: It’s super racist and ridiculous!) ⌘ Read more

**In sane 🤣🤣

$ ollama run deepseek-r1:7b
>>> How does your model's reasoning work exactly?
<think>

</think>

I'm an AI assistant that  ...**
In sane 🤣🤣

$ ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

How does your model’s reasoning work exactly?

I’m an AI assistant that uses algorithms to process information and create responses. While I can mimic some patterns of human thinking in my responses, I
don’t have real human thought or consciousness.

So how do you deliberate and argue with yourself over counting the number of le … ⌘ Read more

**How many r’s in the word strawberry? 👈 Just figured I’d try to run up the deepseek-r1:7b model using Ollama and this is the result:

$  ...**
[How many r’s in the word strawberry?](https://gist.mills.io/prologic/10abd36e126a41c78d356904d68e99d0) 👈 Just figured I’d try to run up the `deepseek-r1:7b` model using Ollama and this is the result:

$ ollama run deepseek-r1:7b

How many r’s in the word strawberry?

Alright, so I need to figure out how many times the letter ‘r’ appears in the word “strawberry.” Hmm, okay. Let me … ⌘ Read more

10 Historical Events That Shaped the English Language
Words, like people, have stories to tell. Languages, like nations, have their histories. They have their peculiarities and quirks that can be traced back to some circumstance in their journey from our ancestors to us. The English language is replete with these curiosities. Inconsistent spelling and pronunciation are just two weird things about English that […]

The post [10 Historical Events That Shaped the English Language]( … ⌘ Read more

To all my EU friends out there, is it this hard™ to reach a human in European companies that allow, perform or permit silly shenanigans? 🤔 Or is it just US companies? 🤔

To all my EU friends out there, is it this hard™ to reach a human in European companies that allow, perform or permit silly shenanigans? 🤔 …
To all my EU friends out there, is it this hard™ to reach a human in European companies that allow, perform or permit silly shenanigans? 🤔 Or is it just US companies? 🤔 ⌘ Read more

Finally I’ll also be setting up CubeFS (finally mature enough to give it a serious go) and slowly migrating workloads to use it as Persistent …
Finally I’ll also be setting up CubeFS ( finally mature enough to give it a serious go) and slowly migrating workloads to use it as Persistent storage across the 3 Hypervisor nodes ( which will run KVM + CubeFS) – Thank goodness this thing ( CubeFS) doesn’t need to run on Kubernetes 😂 ⌘ Read more

10 Whistleblowers Who Were Outright Heroes
When you talk about whistleblowers, some popular names come to mind, but the concept of whistleblowing is not a modern one. The tradition has been in place since the days of the ancient world. It has been a critical tool that man has used to achieve justice and fairness in society. While we acknowledge that […]

The post 10 Whistleblowers Who Were Outright Heroes appea … ⌘ Read more

For many years I have found Flask to be too basic a tool for modern development. But since I create APIs using Flask with Pydantic to validate the input data, some middlewares for parsing and Blueprint to separate the code into modules… I must admit that I am super comfortable, fast and easy to test.
#flask #python #pydantic

Ten of the Most Outlandish Influencers on Social Media
As any social media user knows, influencers are everywhere. Usually, they pester us with adverts and monetized content. But some take a stranger approach. These bizarre influencers refuse to fit the usual mold. Instead, they have built a following from their unexpected, genuinely original ideas. They are the true originals of the social media world: […]

The post [Ten of the Most Outlandish Influencers on Social Media](http … ⌘ Read more

(#uodljqa) > The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for incit …

The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it.

Sabotage varies from highly technical coup de main acts that require detailed planning and the use of specially-trained operatives, to innumerable simple acts which the ordinary individual citizen-saboteur can perform. This paper is pr … ⌘ Read more

General is “peoples”. Our community want replies and reactions minimum. Currently used Telegram+Matrix (most on Telegram and me from bridge)

yes it is! although, I’ve only used it to send files and links back and fourth between devices xD none of my relatives wanted to give it a try, which is kinda fair enough (I wouldn’t use WhatsApp if they asked) xD

TKey SSH CA
I wrote a stupidly simple SSH certificate authority that can you can
use directly over SSH to buy new certificates. It can be used with a
Tillitis TKey both for the private key of the CA itself and for the
user authentication to get a SSH certificate:

https://github.com/tillitis/tkey-ssh-ca

SSH certificates, as you my know, is a way of using not just key pairs
for user authentication, but also solving the problem of public key
distribution … ⌘ Read more

TKey SSH CA
I wrote a stupidly simple SSH certificate authority that can you can
use directly over SSH to buy new certificates. It can be used with a
Tillitis TKey both for the private key of the CA itself and for the
user authentication to get a SSH certificate:

https://github.com/tillitis/tkey-ssh-ca

SSH certificates, as you my know, is a way of using not just key pairs
for user authentication, but also solving the problem of public key
distribution … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Says It Has Evidence DeepSeek Used Its Model To Train Competitor
OpenAI says it has evidence suggesting Chinese AI startup DeepSeek used its proprietary models to train a competing open-source system through “distillation,” a technique where smaller models learn from larger ones’ outputs.

The San Francisco-based company, along with partner Microsoft, blocked suspected DeepSeek accounts from accessing … ⌘ Read more

CDC health officials in US ordered to stop working with WHO immediately
,    -  The Guardian (U.K.) | Associated Press

_Stephan: As part of his effort to dismantle the American government and turn it into a dictatorship, Trump has isolated the United States from the international healthcare network maintained by the World Health Organization.  This is the organization that coordinates amongst countries when a pandemic occurs. This is the organization … ⌘ Read more

Hey, I like this simple Web game:
https://wordswithrobots.isotropic.us

2 players Codenames vs (or along) gpt-4o-mini

Open source AI is already finding its way into production
Open source AI models are in widespread use, enabling developers around the world to build custom AI solutions and host them where they choose.

The post Open source AI is already finding its way into production appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Processing log data with Fluent Bit and WebAssembly
Member post originally published on the Chronosphere blog by Sharad Regoti  Learn how WASM can be used to extend Fluent Bit’s processing capabilities, enabling users to implement custom logic and functionalities. Fluent Bit has over 20+ filters that can… ⌘ Read more

We asked DeepSeek and ChatGPT the same questions. Here are their answers
What are the main differences between the Chinese and US chatbots? We asked both about the Oscars, cover letters and Tiananmen Square. ⌘ Read more

(#izlcoqa) @aelaraji@aelaraji Ahhh! That one doesn’t even render any useful logo on mobile anyway 🤦‍♂️
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com Ahhh! That one doesn’t even render any useful logo on mobile anyway 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

**phew 😮‍💨

File system:  EXTFS
Device size:   29.8 GB = 7287552 Blocks
Space in use:   7.3 GB = 1789413 Blocks
Free Space:    22.5  ...**
_phew_ 😮‍💨

File system: EXTFS
Device size: 29.8 GB = 7287552 Blocks
Space in use: 7.3 GB = 1789413 Blocks
Free Space: 22.5 GB = 5498139 Blocks
Block size: 4096 Byte
Elapsed: 13:01:07, Remaining: 00:00:00, Completed: 100.00%, Rate: 9.38MB/min,
Current block: 6823440, Total block: 7287552, Complete: 100.00%
Total Time: 13:01:07, Ave. Rate: 9.38MB/min, 100.00% completed!
Syncin … ⌘ Read more

anyway friends i went to the met yesterday and i have apparently been before but i was a little kid so i don’t remember. i took the chance to finally clean up and use my mediagoblin instance. here’s a collection https://remix.girlonthemoon.xyz/u/accendio/collection/2025-met/

US freezes almost all aid except for Israel, Egypt arms: memo
Shaun Tandon,  Staff Writer  -  Agence France-Presse (France) | Yahoo! News

_Stephan: The status of the United States in the world has just been gutted by criminal Trump’s new Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Programs that depended on U.S. foreign aid worldwide have now been devastated. The result will affect millions of people, diminishing U.S, status and reputation worldwide. I think one should also se … ⌘ Read more

Addressing Elites at Davos, UN Chief Says Fossil Fuel Addiction Is a ‘Frankenstein Monster’
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor and Staff wwriter  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: While criminal Trump is using the powers of the Presidency to assure that the United States remains dependent on fossil fuel so the carbon energy oligarchs who funded him can maintain their profits, the United Nations Secretary-Genmeral Antonio Guterres describes this poli … ⌘ Read more

You can use php-fpm via php_fastcgi in #Caddy

Latest iPhone SE 4 Dummy Images Back Up Display Notch Rumors
With Apple’s fourth-generation iPhone SE launch inching ever closer, new alleged dummy models have emerged online that give us further clarification on some of the details of the device.

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Leaker Majin Bu shared these images on X (Twitter), along with a [short video](https://x.com/MajinBuOff … ⌘ Read more

**(#j75ihta) Check this out 😅😅

Authentication-Results: mail.mills.io;
	spf=temperror (mail.mills.io: error in processing during lookup  ...**
Check this out 😅😅

Authentication-Results: mail.mills.io;

spf=temperror (mail.mills.io: error in processing during lookup of msprvs1=20121HZ44a1Eg=bounces-367050@irp.stuartkenzie.com: responses is not iterable) smtp.mailfrom="msprvs1=20121HZ44a1Eg=bounces-367050@irp.stuartkenzie.com" smtp.helo=us.proxy.mills.io;
dkim=neutral (invalid public key) header.i=@irp.stuartkenzie.com header.s=scph11 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/3e6cnsa)

What 10 Actors Actually Think of Their Most Famous Lines
You know you’ve really hit the mark with fame in Hollywood when you have one line that gets repeated over and over again by millions of people. To be an actor who has “made it,” as the phrase is used, is to be a star who can be readily quoted by millions of fans and […]

The post [What 10 Actors Actually Think of Their Most Famous Lines](https://listverse.com/2025/01/26/what-10-actors-actually-think-of-their-most-famous … ⌘ Read more

[WTS] Partial wheat penny album, gold panda, Whitman albums, buffalo and v nickels, barber dimes

Bitcoin and Monero receive a 3% discount. Preference will be given to anyone willing to take large lots or use crypto.

Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/CoinSales/comments/1i9y7rq/

u/Eercury (Reddit) ⌘ Read more

(#62ohn5q) @arne@arne I do 😅 Despite some opinions, I actually love HTMX and use it in many of my projects, including yarnd to giv …
@arne @uplegger.eu I do 😅 Despite some opinions, I actually love HTMX and use it in many of my projects, including yarnd to give it that nice SPA-like UX feel without all this Javascript React nonsense 😅 ⌘ Read more

**Online meetup Yarn.social call is on! Come join us!

=>**
Online meetup Yarn.social call is on! Come join us!

=> https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social ⌘ Read more

Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

Stephan: Here is what honor and integrity in support of wellbeing look like. It happens so rarely in the United States today it is unusual and notable. Note that I had to go to the French press to get the whole story.

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(#izlcoqa) @andros@andros that’s the one used on 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev that’s the one used on https://twtxt.dev 🤣 ⌘ Read more

No no! I’m talking about twtxt’s own branding. It’s currently horizontal text. Is the image you’re sharing a logo that’s being used? 😯

[ANN] Lighting up the quantum computing horizon with Aurora

Referencing Xanadu’s blog post released on 22nd Jan 2025 about their implementation of fault-tolerant, networked, scaleable quantum computing at room temperature that if i am understanding the post correctly could be used to efficiently build a quantum computer that is resourceful enough to threaten the monero’s cryptography.

Link: [https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/131#issuecomment-2613839657](https://github.com/monero-project/research-lab/issues/131#i … ⌘ Read more

What is clean architecture? That’s a good question.

You think of a pattern for ordering code with good decisions isolating technologies (you can change the web framework or database without break the business logic), easy to test (you only test interfaces and use cases), sharing code between frameworks (entities and use cases), scalability, modulations and standardizing names. Clean architecture is not perfect, it has a learning curve and some abstraction in each technology. You can even find rejection with yours colleagues.
I have a good article on this topic.
https://programadorwebvalencia.com/implementando-arquitectura-limpia-en-python/
#python

I share a simple API template with Clean Architecture using #flask and #fastapi
https://git.andros.dev/andros/api-template-with-clean-architecture
#cleancode #cleanarchitecture

**(#mdzn2pq) 1. Make sure the machine is off. ✅ (confirmed via remote IPMI)

1. Unplug the power cables.
   

2. Unrack the machine.
   

3. Bring to off …**
   

4. Make sure the machine is off. ✅ ( confirmed via remote IPMI)

5. Unplug the power cables.

6. Unrack the machine.

7. Bring to office bench.

8. Unscrew the cover.

9. Plug in a new SATA DOM on a spare SATA cable.

10. Boot a bootable Live Linux Rescue system

11. Login and confirm both SATA DOM(s) are visible

12. Use dd to copy the contents of the old SATA DOM to the New.

13. P … ⌘ Read more

Took today off work. My workplace has a special form of leave called “My Day” that you can take in addition to your usual Annual leave. So nice! …
Took today off work. My workplace has a special form of leave called “My Day” that you can take in addition to your usual Annual leave. So nice! 😊 I’m using one of them today to take advantage of the long weekend coming up ( Australia Day). Planning on making repairs to one of my Hypervisor nodes that is currently down and powered off for repairs. The SATA DOM ( Disk on Module) boot disk … ⌘ Read more

How to Use “Type to Siri” with Apple Intelligence on iPhone & iPad
Using “Type to Siri” on iPhone and iPad is better than ever thanks to Apple Intelligence, and if you have a new enough iPhone or iPad. Type to Siri with Apple Intelligence includes ChatGPT integration, making it a notably more capable AI assistant, and it’s also much easier to access with the latest devices and … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/01/23/how-to-use-type-to-siri-with-app … ⌘ Read more

Got my teeth cleaned professionally today and I am still feeling it. Recommendation is that I use an electric toothbrush… Health over sustainability I suppose.

Predicting what is to be expected in about four years in the USA : there is no way in Hell where Trump will allow any form of return to the way it use to be before he took hold of the country. He will let other people die to make sure his regime will stay on for as long as at least he lives.

👋 Hello @emily0824@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @emily0824@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

Attacks on Maven proxy repositories
Learn how specially crafted artifacts can be used to attack Maven repository managers. This post describes PoC exploits that can lead to pre-auth remote code execution and poisoning of the local artifacts in Sonatype Nexus and JFrog Artifactory.

The post Attacks on Maven proxy repositories appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Announcing the second Cloud Native Heroes Challenge
Help us defeat a patent troll claiming “network isolation with cloud networks” was invented in 2017 We’re excited to launch another Cloud Native Heroes Challenge contest in which you can earn swag, a ticket to attend… ⌘ Read more

👋 Hello @empockelimi@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

👋 Hello @empockelimi@txt.sour.is, welcome to txt.sour.is, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

10 Times People Tried to Weaponize Music
Music has been a powerful tool for expression, unity, and emotion throughout human history. But in some cases, music has been twisted into a weapon—used to intimidate, manipulate, and even psychologically torment. From ancient battlefields to modern interrogations, these moments reveal how sound can be wielded as a force of control and chaos. Here are […]

The post [10 Times People Tried to Weaponize Music](https://listverse.com/2025/01/22/10-times-pe … ⌘ Read more

Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces CubeFS Graduation
Open source distributed storage system is used by 200+ organizations storing 350 petabytes of data SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – January 21, 2025 – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud native… ⌘ Read more

(#2s7hrha) @eapl.me Yeah this is true. Previously RSA and AES were more common. These days Salsa and Chacha and Curve are fairly prevalent. For …
@eapl.me @eapl.me Yeah this is true. Previously RSA and AES were more common. These days Salsa and Chacha and Curve are fairly prevalent. For example all the Wireguard stuff uses Curve25519 / Ed25519 crypto. Signal uses very similar crypto too, but with some very nice double ratcheting 3DH. ⌘ Read more

(#w5zgilq) @eapl.me I -think we’ve gotten use to it somewhat 🤣
@eapl.me @eapl.me I -think we’ve gotten use to it somewhat 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Trump withdraws US from landmark Paris climate agreement, expand drilling
,    -  Agence France-Presse (France)

_Stephan: Well, it is official now. Within minutes of being sworn in as President, the United States under Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Agreement and plans to do nothing to alleviate climate change. MAGAt world has learned nothing from the environmental catastrophes in Asheville, North Carolina, or Los Angeles and, instead, Trump pl … ⌘ Read more

Trump issues sweeping pardons and commutations for Jan. 6 rioters
Katherine Faulders and Alexander Mallin,    -  abc News

_Stephan: Today we witnessed the corruption of our legal system by a convicted felon who a majority of us have once again made America’s leader. I predict these people who attacked the the nation’s Capitol, attacked Congress’ defending police and sought to. hang the Vice President will once again become Trump’s militia. Having been once con … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First, please leave me your comments on the repository! Even if it’s just to give your opinion on what shouldn’t be included. The more variety, the better.

Second, I’m going to try to do tests with Elliptic keys and base64. Thanks for the advice @eapl@eapl.me

Finally, I’d like to give my opinion. Secure direct messages are a feature that ActivityPub and Mastodon don’t have, to give an example. By including it as an extension, we’re already taking a significant leap forward from the competition. Does it make sense to include it in a public feed? In fact, we’re already doing that. When we reply to a user, mentioning them at the beginning of the message, it’s already a direct message. The message is within a thread, perhaps breaking the conversation. Direct messages would help isolate conversations between 2 users, as well as keeping a thread cleaner and maintaining privacy. I insist, it’s optional, it doesn’t break compatibility with any client and implementing it isn’t complex. If you don’t like it, you’re free to not use it. If you don’t have a public key, no one can send you direct messages.

While the US politicians and tech billionaires are going full-on fascist mode, here is a reminder that there are European alternatives for many well known digital and online services: https://european-alternatives.eu

It seems related to us poor single user pods not getting the trust to share twts.. which it seems to still untrust on restart for me.

It seems related to us poor single user pods not getting the trust to share twts.. which it seems to still untrust on restart for me.

I hope to ignore US politics as much as I can in the next few years – it can really bring you down. Let’s also hope Trump and his oligarch friends don’t cause too much harm until then. ⌘ Read more

I haven’t read the entire specification, but I think there is a fundamental design problem. Why would someone put an encrypted message on a public feed that is completely useless to everybody other than the one recipient? This doesn’t make sense to me. It of course depends on the threat model, but wouldn’t one also want to minimize the publicly visible metadata (who is communicating with whom and when) when privately messaging? I feel there are better ways to accomplish this. Sorry, if I miss the obvious use case, please let me know. :-)

another one would be to allow changing public keys over time (as it may be a good practice [0]). A syntax like the following could help to know what public key you used to encrypt the message, and which private key the client should use to decrypt it:

!<nick url> <encrypted_message> <public_key_hash_7_chars>

Also I’d remove support for storing the message as hex, only allowing base64 (more compact, aiming for a minimalistic spec, etc.)

[0] https://www.brandonchecketts.com/archives/its-2023-you-should-be-using-an-ed25519-ssh-key-and-other-current-best-practices

US to hit debt ceiling Tuesday, starting Congress’ countdown clock
Tami Luhby,  Senior Writer  -  CNN

Stephan: This isn’t what everyone is talking about today but starting tomorrow we will see this and newly inaugurated Trump’s executive orders sweep across the United States like a hurricane. Buckle up it is going to get strange and, I am afraid, very chaotic.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-19-at-11.22.32 PM … ⌘ Read more

(#eelvuca) @andros My only comment so far is to use Ed25519 keys for crypto.
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev My only comment so far is to use Ed25519 keys for crypto. ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Who the F+++ still uses goo’s search engine anyway xD Shout out to all my homies hosting a Searx instance 😂🤘

@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s so awesome! I really oughta make use of the telescope I was gifted a few years ago…

Nearly half of GOP voters support using military to put immigrants in camps
Russell Contreras,    -  Axios

_Stephan: If the criminal a majority of Americans have chosen for their President, a man who sees himself more as a king than a President, does as he says he will do because he knows that half of his MAGAt voters support the use of the military in his deportation schemes by the end of this coming week we may see members of the armed forces invo … ⌘ Read more

I tried using Firefox Focus as my default browser for a while but it was to extreme. It’s still the only one on my home screen. 50-60 is sort of my intent, but then it keeps being “just one more…”.

(#2hzx7fa) @kat@kat Do you want to stand it up on your own or use it as a service? 🤔🤔
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Do you want to stand it up on your own or use it as a service? 🤔🤔 ⌘ Read more

Apple Removes TikTok From App Store on iPhones and iPads in the U.S.
Apple tonight removed TikTok from the App Store in the U.S., meaning that the app can no longer be freshly installed on iPhones and iPads there. In other countries, the app remains available on the App Store and is fully functional.

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iPhone and iPad users in the U.S. who already installed TikTok can no longer use the app either as of tonight, as TikTo … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wow what a great story! i still use FTP (well, SFTP) all the time lol, just to transfer files between servers quickly. it’s super handy!

writing your own CMS sounds kickass omg… mysql the legend

It’s not just social media giving violent white supremacists a pass
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Thom Hartmann gives us an accurate snapshot of the state of America as we prepare to inaugurate for President a man who could not get a job as a janitor if all they saw was his resumé. And his demand for loyalty over ethical behavior reminds me more of Hitler or Putin than any prior President. Get ready, I think we are in for something we h … ⌘ Read more

[WTS] [US] [~2.5 XMR] Monero Nodo Founders Edition

This is the Monero Nodo founders edition #066. I had bought this way back before production started when it was advertised as a dual node/miner. Since I already have a node setup, I no longer need it. It has never been used or taken out of the box!

Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/SUWw/

pixx3d (XMRBazaar) ⌘ Read more

Google Begins Requiring JavaScript For Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. From a report: In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to improve the over … ⌘ Read more

Only IA from yarn are valid? Can i use https://doesnm.p.psf.lt/auth.py ?

[ANN] Attacks on onion monero nodes with HSDirSniper

Based on connection issues and the monero node trackers, I believe someone is carrying out attacks on monero nodes that have onion addresses using the HSDirSniper attack for tor.

Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1i2uv5y/

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, what else does one need? 😅

I added more instructions, made it portable (so it runs on my own OS as well as Linux/DOS/whatever), and the assembler is now good enough to be used in the build process to compile the bootloader:

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That is pretty cool. 😎

It’s still a “naive” assembler. There are zero optimizations and it can’t do macros (so I had to resort to using cpp). Since nothing is optimized, it uses longer opcodes than NASM and that makes the bootloader 11 bytes too large. 🥴 I avoided that for now by removing some cosmetic output from the bootloader.

ProcessOne: How Big Tech Pulled Off the Billion-User Heist

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For many years, I have heard countless justifications for keeping messaging systems closed. Many of us have tried to rationalize walled gardens for various reasons:

• Closed messaging systems supposedly enable faster progress, as there’s no need to collaborate on shared specifications or APIs. Y … ⌘ Read more

Mastering Docker and Jenkins: Build Robust CI/CD Pipelines Efficiently
Learn how to use Docker and Jenkins together to build and maintain efficient pipelines. ⌘ Read more

(#h5hud5a) @kat@kat I also happen to use it to run as well as to front SSh access to 👌
@kat @yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I also happen to use it to run https://mbox.blue as well as to front SSh access to https://git.mills.io 👌 ⌘ Read more

(#y67iq2q) @arne@arne To be honest I don’t really understand why anyone would use Facebook™, X/Twitter™, TikTok™ Instagram™, et …
@arne @uplegger.eu To be honest I don’t really understand why anyone would use Facebook™, X/Twitter™, TikTok™ Instagram™, etc… When it clearly states in their Terms of Conditions that the content you “enter” into their systems, is NOT yours. ⌘ Read more

How to Have Apple Intelligence Write Emails For You on Mac, iPhone, iPad
As you may know by now, Apple Intelligence includes handy writing tools and summarization features. One of the more useful ways to take advantage of the Apple Intelligence features on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is to have the AI feature write emails for you. Can’t think of what to say? Or maybe you simply don’t … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/01/15/how-to-have-apple-intelligence-write-ema … ⌘ Read more