Tasmania likely to end the day with a state election underway
Premier Jeremy Rockliff is expected to go to the state’s governor later today to seek a snap election after parliament passes an emergency budget supply bill. ⌘ Read more

Australia to be caught up in Trump’s new tax war
Australia is likely to be a major casualty as the White House launches a new weapon in its war against the Western alliance. ⌘ Read more

Prosecution case is like a movie script, Mark Gordon says in closing speech at Old Bailey
In his closing speech, Gordon says the prosecution case is “just a show, an act”. ⌘ Read more

Ish: Grep-like text search with optimal alignment, built with Mojo
Associated preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.04.657890v1

The “built with Mojo” is there because this tool exists specifically to test run Mojo as a language for bioinformatics tool development.

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Prosecution case like a movie script, Mark Gordon says
In his closing speech, Gordon says the prosecution case is “just a show, an act”. ⌘ Read more

Are EVs more likely to catch fire? Why we’re still falling for the myths
A new study finds that EV myths are so ingrained in society that even owners believe misinformation that they catch fire more easily and emit electromagnetic fields that damage health. ⌘ Read more

She won’t stop talking, follows me everywhere, waits by the door like clockwork… and I think I just got adopted. Wasn’t planning on a third cat but she clearly had other plans🤣 What do I name her? ⌘ Read more

** More stink **
I read A Court of Throne and Roses this weekend. Not my usual fare but what the heck it was there so I read it. I found it to be an unremarkable, relatively conservative romantasy.

What stood out to me, though, is that everyone is so stinky. The main character is always describing how folks smell, smelling them before they round a corner and stuff. Even if they don’t like smell bad, this setting seems overwhelming perfumed. ⌘ Read more

It feels like all the people have suddenly disappeared from Gopher.

10 Recent Times the Earth Acted Bafflingly Strange
We like to think Earth is a well-oiled planetary machine—spinning reliably, shifting gradually, and following natural rhythms. But every now and then, it throws us a curveball. From pulsating seismic events to disappearing landmasses and bizarre atmospheric phenomena, these recent examples prove that our planet still has secrets. Whether explained after the fact or still […]

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10 Presidential Mysteries That Are Still Unsolved
There’s no shortage of mysteries and unsolved uncertainties when it comes to the various presidents who have run the United States. Every single term, in fact, it seems like more mysteries crop up. Of course, you can attribute many of those to conspiracy theories and the like. And hey, who are we to say whether […]

The post [10 Presidential Mysteries That Are Still Unsolved](https://listverse.com/2025/06/08/10-presidential-mysteries … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice! The final desk looks like it’s right out of Skyrim. 😃

‘Not giving it up for anything’: Tasmanian Labor leader firm on stadium
The leaders of both of Tasmania’s major political parties double down on their support for the proposed Macquarie Point stadium as an early election appears likely. ⌘ Read more

‘Every cell, every organ’: The rising health issue affecting 40 per cent of Australians
“Are you losing sleep tonight, like I am?” They’re not just the lyrics to a country music heartbreaker but a question Australians should be asking each other to avoid some major health issues. ⌘ Read more

Gauff dedicates French Open win to ‘Americans who look like me’
Coco Gauff continues a spectacular season for American women at the grand slams, battling from a set down to topple world number one Aryna Sabalenka in the French Open final. ⌘ Read more

How can one write blazing fast yet useful compilers (for lazy pure functional languages)?
I’ve decided enough is enough and I want to write my own compiler (seems I caught a bug and lobste.rs is definitely not discouraging it). The language I have in mind is a basic (lazy?) statically-typed pure functional programming language with do notation and records (i.e. mostly Haskell-lite).

I have other ideas I’d like to explore as well, but mainly, I want the compiler to be so fast (w/ optimisations) that … ⌘ Read more

Securing Kubernetes Traffic with Calico Ingress Gateway
Kubernetes, Envoy, GatewayAPI, cert-manager, CNI, Calico If you’ve managed traffic in Kubernetes, you’ve likely navigated the world of Ingress controllers. For years, Ingress has been the standard way of getting our HTTP/S services exposed. But let’s… ⌘ Read more

[$] Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser
Nyxt is an unusual web
browser that tries to answer the question, “what if Emacs was a
good web browser?”. Nyxt is not an Emacs package, but a full
web browser written in Common Lisp and available under the BSD
three-clause license. Its target audience is developers who want a
browser that is keyboard-driven and extensible; Nyxt is also developed
for Linux first, rather than Linux being an afterthought or just a
sliver of its audience. The philosophy (as described … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Like this? 😅

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Source: https://mastodon.social/@islieb/114635884398567253

Meet the historians making sure video games get their facts right
A new study has found that players who engage in historic games like Assassin’s Creed or Age of Empires are driven to keep learning after they put down the controller. So historians are stepping up. ⌘ Read more

CodeEdit Might be the Best Free Code Editor for Mac
CodeEdit is an increasingly popular, free, open source native code editor for Mac that offers a super lightweight and speedy alternative to other code editors for Mac like Xcode, Zed, Visual Studio Pro, and other similar apps and IDEs. CodeEdit offers a fast experience that feels like it was built for MacOS, with many of … Read More ⌘ Read more

Pregnancy warning to women taking ‘skinny jabs’ like Ozempic and Mounjaro
The warning comes after the agency received 40 reports relating to unintended pregnancies while using such weight loss drugs. ⌘ Read more

Redesigned Swift.org is now live
swift.org, the site in question

They did a messaging refresh like this once before, a year-and-change ago.

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I never did anything remotely like this. I might have to look into it some day. It might be a good topic for a Do What You Want Day.

Thank You, Equinix Metal: The CNCF Community Bids Farewell to the Bare Metal Cluster
To our incredible open source community, Today, we’re announcing the sunset of the CNCF Community Cluster at the end of 2025. As Equinix Metal sunsets its offering, support for community initiatives like ours is also being… ⌘ Read more

[$] The importance of free software to science
Free software plays a critical role in science, both in research and in
disseminating it. Aspects of software freedom are directly relevant to
simulation, analysis, document preparation and preservation, security,
reproducibility, and usability. Free software brings practical and specific
advantages, beyond just its ideological roots, to science, while
proprietary software comes with equally specific risks. As a practicing
scientist, I would like to help others—scientists or not—see the … ⌘ Read more

Navy to erase civil rights leaders’ names from ships — starting with Harvey Milk
Jennifer Bowers,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Donald Trump, like his father before him, has always been a White Supremacy racist, and that racism has now reached so far into the Navy that ships bearing the name of once prominent Black civil rights leaders and even a Black Supreme Court Justice are being changed, as this article describing th … ⌘ Read more

‘This Is the Scalpel They’ll Use to Ruin the Lives of Individuals the President Is Opposed To.’
Ian Ward,    -  Politico Magazine

_Stephan: Like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin before him, like all fascist authoritarians in history, Trump is very thin-skinned about criticism and very vengeful. Here is the morally revolting first-person account of Miles Taylor, former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, describing wha … ⌘ Read more

What’s your go-to message queue in 2025?

The space is confusing to say the least.

Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless:
Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis {Pub-Sub, Streams}, Cloud Providers {AWS SQS, Kinesis; Google Pub/Sub; Azure Event Hubs, Service Bus}, Pulsar, ZeroMQ… and then there’s the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.

I’m trying to make sense of the tradeoffs between:

• async fire-and-forget pub/sub vs. sync RPC-like point … ⌘ Read more

Ten FBI Facts You Won’t Believe Are True
The FBI is definitely one of the most interesting organizations of any involved in the United States government. They are the nation’s most powerful (and arguably most well-known) law enforcement arm. And the more you read about them, the more it seems like they have their hands mixed up in every major thing that occurred […]

The post Ten FBI Facts You Won’t Believe Are True … ⌘ Read more

Ex-Apple Designer Reveals ‘Living Glass’ iOS 26 Concepts
Designer Sebastiaan de With has published an impressive preview of what Apple’s rumored iOS redesign might look like, complete with detailed mockups and a design philosophy that he believes could reshape how users interact with their devices.

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With WWDC just days away, de With – co-foun … ⌘ Read more

Live: ASX to rise ahead of first-quarter GDP data release
A rally on Wall Street is likely to send Australian stocks higher, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics is set to release the GDP figures for the March quarter at 11:30am AEST. Follow the latest updates in our live blog. ⌘ Read more

When I chose the MIT license for all of my software, I thought:

“Should I use GPL, which I don’t really understand? Is that worth it? Yeah, there is a theoretical possibility that some company might use my code in their proprietary product … and then what? Should I sue them to enforce the GPL? I’m not going to do that anyway, so I’ll just use the MIT license.”

And now we have those LLM scrapers and now it’s suddenly a reality that these companies (ab)use my code. I can see it in my logs. I didn’t expect that back then.

GPL wouldn’t help, either, of course. (Regardless, I now think that GPL would have been the better choice anyway.)

I’m honestly considering taking my code and website offline. Maybe make it accessible through some obscure protocol like Gopher or Gemini, but no more HTTP.

(Yes, Anubis might help. Temporarily.)

I’m just tired.

Sooo many new spam feeds to mute in the twtxt.net discovery view. :-( The RSS/Atom to Twtxt feed bridge was a mistake, I believe. I guess I just have to abandon that altogether and rely on my subscriptions to interact with new feeds in order to discover legitimate new ones. Not sure if that works, sounds like a chicken-‘n’-egg problem.

Family ‘haunted’ by questions after boy’s snakebite death
A coronial inquest has been told an 11-year-old Queensland boy would likely have survived a fatal snakebite if he had received medical treatment. ⌘ Read more

I’ve spent time with tech oligarchs – you have no idea just how weird they are
Like the rocket ships Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are shovelling money into, the tech being prioritised by Silicon Valley’s billionaires isn’t designed to save us. It’s meant to save them. ⌘ Read more

Putin likes to have the upper hand, but before Istanbul Zelenskyy played an ace
Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent delegates to Istanbul to talk peace, but a day prior Ukraine sent its strongest signal to Russia and any third-party brokers: The war is not lost, writes Emily Clark. ⌘ Read more

Explaining cloudd, photolibraryd, & cloudphotod Processes in MacOS
If you’re a Mac user and you’ve ever opened Activity Monitor to explore why your Mac might be feeling slow, it’s likely that you’ve seen a few processes running that could be using a lot of CPU, energy, or memory, in particular cloudd, cloudphotod, photolibraryd, and nsurlsessiond. So what the heck are these processes that … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/06/02/explaining-cloudd-photolibraryd- … ⌘ Read more

Felt like sharing a couple pic of my kitten Olive ⌘ Read more

[$] Hardening fixes lead to hard questions
Kees Cook’s “hardening\
fixes” pull request for the 6.16 merge window looked like a
straightforward exercise; it only contained four commits. So just about
everybody was surprised when it resulted in Cook being temporarily blocked
from his kernel.org account among fears of malicious activity. When the
dust settled, though, the red alert was canceled. It turns out,
surprisingly, that Git is a tool with which one can inflict substantial … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz A blast from the past! 😅 And all of it still works, that’s quite the surprise. I mean, I’m making real phone calls here and let the modems talk over that connection … Almost like in the 90ies. 😅

WhisperD: linux voice-to-text using OpenAI whisper-1 transcription
I wrote this as an exercise to learn how to use ioctl & input devices, but I like how it turned out! It does have a hard dependency on pipewire though.

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10 Unusual Things Famous Historical Figures Did for Love
Everyone has their own opinion about what love and relationships should be like, but one thing is certain: they can make people do some strange things. Even some of the past’s most famous figures approached the tasks of finding and holding onto lovers in ways that seem very unusual today. Some were merely following the […]

The post [10 Unusual Things Famous Historical Figures Did for Love](https://listverse.com/2025/06 … ⌘ Read more

Bono reckons with the price of fame in surprising new one-man stage show
In Stories of Surrender, Bono appears solo on stage, sharing stories, jokes and songs that illuminate what life is like for the man behind the sunglasses. ⌘ Read more

Paraglider video out of China likely doctored with AI, experts say
The ABC was among hundreds of media outlets which reported on the incredible footage. Experts say the video was at least partially manipulated by artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more

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How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)
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This is what ultrawealth looks like
A very specific kind of extravagance portrays the hierarchy among ultrarich in HBO’s new film from the ‘Succession’ creator. ⌘ Read more

Congrats. A 10k would likely kill me.

Did you know about @panoramax@panoramax , “a federation offering geolocated street-level pictures”?

Pictures are offered through a decentralized architecture, with a set of free and open-source tools. In other words, it is “like a self-hosted Street View” that does not impose its own app and gives you the right to fork the server.

#fediverse #osm

GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland
Sharpen your skills, test out new tools, and connect with people who build like you.

The post GitHub Universe 2025: Here’s what’s in store at this year’s developer wonderland appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Adopted this little guy yesterday. Save to say, he likes it here ⌘ Read more

The Billion-Dollar Business Behind Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Elizabeth Findell, Jack Gillum, Jemal R. Brinson, and Juanje Gómez,    -  Wall Street Journal

_Stephan: The fascist coup Trump and the Republican Party are trying to carry out, like all fascist coups, requires an “other”. A group of people, the racist, low IQ, low education members of their movement, can hate and focus their resentments against. For Hitler, it was the Jews. For Trump and the Repub … ⌘ Read more

hey @prologic@twtxt.net heads up - my pod is suddenly having weird 400 bad request errors on things like posting twts, new user registration, following, and more. it’s not just me because a friend is also having these issues as a new user and can’t post. i saw one exception in the logs but i’m not sure if it’s related, i’ll link it in a reply to this

My music listening is inconsistent. I don’t listen to much music, sometimes weeks without any music streaming at all. And when I do, I often listen to some automatic playlists with recommendations from YouTube. I don’t have any specific artists I always listen too. Furthermore, I don’t even have a specific genre I like the most, often it’s something electronic. ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net i LOVE katseye so much they’re like one of my fave girl groups rn

Trump Stonewalls Federal Judges In New Round Of Brazen Defiance
David Kurtz,  Editor at Large  -  TPM

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump, like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin before him wants to castrate the judicial system of the nation he seeks to rule. Here is a clear fact-based description of what he is doing. Note also the picture at the head of this article. Again, like Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, Trump wants banner of his picture hanging from government … ⌘ Read more

‘Mar-a-Lago face’ now the most in-demand plastic surgery — doctor reveals who everyone is requesting to look like
Adriana Diaz,  Reporter  -  New York Post

Stephan: This is a trend, and it is one of the sickest, weirdest in American history.

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How to Make MacOS Sequoia Feel Faster: Tips to Speed Up Slow MacOS
macOS Sequoia is a pretty solid operating system with some great features like iPhone Mirroring, and while performance is fantastic for most, not all users are experiencing the speediest of experiences. If you feel like macOS Sequoia is running slower than your Mac was on prior operating system versions, you might appreciate some of these … Read More ⌘ Read more

The Final Checkmate: Republicans Move to Destroy the Balance of Powers
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  The Hartmann Report

_Stephan: Corporate media and newspapers like The Washington Post and the The Los Angeles Times, both owned by MAGAt billionaires, as well as local television stations owned by MAGAts, and the social media rightwing disinformation network are not reporting what is happening in the United States accurately. They do not acknowledge that … ⌘ Read more

@quark@ferengi.one Ah, I see. Hm, only problem is, IE 3 doesn’t seem to support this yet. 😅 Nah, I don’t think I’ll go down that road – seems like a slippery slope. 🤣

Almost sure it would look even better if you removed CSS altogether for IE3, and the like. Your site is clean as a whistle, just vanilla, no CSS.

HTML is like a camera
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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz since rebuilding eunoia in astro i’ve had soooo much fun with it and i don’t even like JS

@prologic@twtxt.net interesting that ruby is so low on the list, i find it the easiest to learn! hell i struggle with python more than ruby and i’ve been told that python is like ruby but better lol. maybe it’s just my weird brain!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de help yeah i struggle so hard with this stuff! it’s why wordier languages like ruby come easier to me

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ah, I see. I would assume that you’ll get used to it at some point. 🤔 But yeah, a lot of meaning is packed into these symbols. (It’s much, much worse with languages like Rust. 😅)

@prologic@twtxt.net what’s to like? :-P

@bender@twtxt.net What’s not to like? 😅

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I don’t like Golang much either, but I am not a programmer. This little site, Go by example might explain a thing or two.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i feel like when i read go code i’m reading some algebra shit where every part is 1-5 letters long and then there’s weird symbols like := and it’s just infinitely harder for me to parse and infer meaning from lol. it’s such a me problem

10 Things That Will Make You Rethink Everything Normal
We like to think we’ve got a grip on reality. That the world mostly makes sense, and the things we were taught in school are—more or less—true. But scratch just beneath the surface, and things get ‘weird’ fast. This isn’t your average trivia list. These are the cracks in the matrix, the “wait, what?” facts […]

The post [10 Things That Will Make You Rethink Everything Normal](https://listverse.com/2025/05/24/10-things-that- … ⌘ Read more

Top Stories: iPhone 17 Air Details, Apple’s Smart Glasses, and More
WWDC is coming up quickly with a number of software announcements in store, but we’re also looking further ahead to hardware launches like the iPhone 17 lineup and even Apple’s smart glasses project.

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This week also saw big news with former Apple design guru Jony Ive joining forces with OpenAI to build future AI-driven devices, while Fortnite return … ⌘ Read more

i wish it was realistic for me to learn golang but every single time i try to comprehend any go code i’m like What the fuck am i looking at. why is all of this so short and condensed GIVE ME VERBOSE CODE

Over the past few weeks I’ve been experimenting with and doing some deep learning and researching into neutral networks and evolutionary adaptation of them. The thing is I haven’t gotten very far. I’ve been able to build two different approaches so far with limited results. The frustrating part is that these things are so “random” it isn’t even funny. Like I can’t even get a basic ANN + GA to evolve a network that solves the XOR pattern every time with high levels of accuracy. 😞

[$] Formally verifying the BPF verifier
The BPF verifier is an increasingly complex and security-critical piece of code.
When the kinds of people who are apt to work on BPF see a situation like that,
they naturally question whether it’s possible to use formal verification to
ensure that the implementation of the code in question is correct. Santosh
Nagarakatte led the first of two extra-long sessions in the BPF track
of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit
about his team’s work formally verifying the … ⌘ Read more

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Trump’s cultural overhaul throttles local arts, humanities programs nationwide
Piper Hudspeth Blackburn and Sunlen Serfaty,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Aspiring dictator Trump, like his father before him, has always been a White supremacist racist. He and his father were both penalized decades ago for using racism in the renting of the apartments they owned. Trump and his MAGAt followers don’t want children to be taught the true history of America … ⌘ Read more

Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students
COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHAEL CASEY,  Reporters  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The United States is becoming a fascist pseudo-democracy so quickly that I don’t think many Americans understand or realize what is happening. We have never experienced anything like this. Harvard, according to aspiring dictator Trump, can no longer enroll foreign students. The media is covering this, but what they aren … ⌘ Read more

AAEON EPIC-RPS7 Targets Compact Industrial Control with 14th Gen Intel Core Support
AAEON has introduced the EPIC-RPS7, a 4″ industrial SBC aimed at cost-sensitive applications like industrial control, PLC automation, and remote monitoring. It supports 12th to 14th Gen Intel Core processors (up to 65W TDP), bringing high performance to space-limited deployments. The EPIC-RPS7 supports up to 64GB of DDR5 memory across two SODIMM slots and is […] ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net What I meant, is that I will not say that someone is not really a writer, if they choose to have what they wrote, ran through some spelling and sentence structure checker, like the one included in MS Word, the average phone keyboard, or on reverso.net - given that they look over the output and make sure the corrections make sense.

Similarly, I won’t complain much, if someone uses AI, to remove backgrounds from images, where the AI can preform this task, as well as a human would and makes sure to check it afterwards, or use ai as a way to sort large quantities of images - usually done for science. An example of this, would be having terabytes of plant photos, from some cities camera system and having an AI analyse them, in an attempt to detect notable changes, like mold, parasites, or the plants needing more water.

‘They’re Not Just Cutting Medicaid’: GOP Bill Would Trigger Over $500 Billion in Medicare Cuts
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: By the time you read this, if the Congressional MAGAt Trump servitors pull off their dead of night scheme and pass Trump’s bill if you depend on Medicaid for healthcare, you may have lost it. If you, like my wife and I, are old enough to be on Medicare, it may have been devastated. If y … ⌘ Read more

Trump demands Obama arrest in frantic QAnon-fueled posting spree
Matthew Chapman,  News Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The increasing fascism that is pervading Trump’s administration flows from the top down, and it is actually getting rather scary. “Disappearing” people to places like South Sudan, where they will probably never be seen again. Congressional testimony by high-ranking officials who clearly are incompetent and unqualified to hold the posts to whic … ⌘ Read more

FEMA Shifts Disaster Burden to States in Wake of Deadly Tornadoes
Ellyn Lapointe,  Contributing Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I feel very sorry for the individuals and families, particularly in Red states, who are already suffering from climate events like tornadoes, but I am particularly concerned about those living in hurricane regions. The dismantlement of FEMA by the Trump coup is going to leave hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of Americans, without t … ⌘ Read more

10 Fascinatingly Gross Secrets About Your Body
The human body is an amazing biological machine that’s capable of the most remarkable abilities, including abstract thought and creating profound art. It’s also capable of some pretty gross things, like excreting cholesterol through the skin or producing a literal pitcher of flatulence on a daily basis. The following facts highlight some of our amazing […]

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Trump admin permits sale of device that allows standard firearms to fire like machine guns
Ken Dilanian,  Reporter  -  NBC News

Stephan: The Trump coup and its corrupt Supreme Court, in deference to the NRA and the White militias, have re-legalized the right to own what amounts to a machine gun. Expect to see more murders and civil violence. It’s that simple.

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@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Ta! The dead end wasn’t all that bad in my opinion. Personally, I really do like dirt paths and exploring. It was all dried up, so no muddy mess we had to walk through. More like climbing over thick branches that have been worked into the ground by harvesters or forwarders in the muddy winter. Rough terrain. My mate, on the other hand – whose idea it was to check out the real summit in the first place ;-) — wasn’t all that pleased about the detour. Oh well. :-D

@bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Jokes aside, I don’t think that’s the right approach either. We had spell checkers, since I can remember, as well as other tools, like the smart image select, used mostly to remove backgrounds. These are tools, that just simplify the process of either opening up a dictionary and looking up a word, you can’t remember the spelling of, or the process of placing a billion little dots around the part of an image you want to select - none of these are creative or enjoyable tasks, we already had tools for them, decades before AI. I don’t think we need to go back to cave paintings, to be free of AIs influence on our creative work.

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‘Second biggest scandal’: Trump accused of new grift that puts Qatari plane in shade
Matt Laslo,  Washington Correspondent  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: The corruption of aspiring dictator Trump and his family is so vast I don’t think most Americans even understand how bizarre and extreme it has become. There has never been anything like it in the previous 250 years. The Qatar 13-year-old hand-me-down airplane got a lot of attention, but that is jus … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org that’s alright haha! i don’t expect anyone to listen/watch in full or with full attention bc it’s so long lmao

the thing with PHP for me is that i… feel like it hits a kind of simplicity that i can understand? it’s so plain but can be very powerful. i quite like that. as much as i can learn something infinitely more powerful, PHP hits a comfortable thing where i can handle things like backend sqlite DBs AND how a page is rendered, without requiring a complex frontend with its own quirks (like ruby on rails, which as much as i know and love it, can be heavy).

but i totally get you! PHP security is very scary. i’m always worried that i’m messing something up. it’s why the PHP application i’m working on i have dockerized by default for a small but extra layer of protection

i’ll try to not get discouraged tysm for your advice

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s an interesting premise in that article:

The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.

This is like saying it’s pointless to make music yourself because some professional player/audio engineer does a better job. Really, there’s always someone or something that’s better than you at a particular job.

If we focus too much on “competition”, then yes, you can just stop doing anything. I don’t know how common this mindset is, especially among artists or creative people. 🤔 I would have assumed that many writers, for example, simply enjoy the process of writing. Am I being too naive once more? 🤣

This is my wife’s cat. He’s 16 and we’ve lived together for the last 9 or so years. He’s always liked me but never wanted to “hang out” with me. For some reason that changed a couple days ago. 🤷🏻‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m glad you like that raven. :-) This is the original for when you get a screen as big as an entire wall one day: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2025-05-16/01.JPG

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I only listened to you while going through my photos, so I did not pay very close attention. :-)

Since you have a proper server – haha, not just one – and hence are not limited, I suggest you learn a real programming language and don’t waste your time with this PHP mess. It might have improved a wee bit since I was a kid, but it felt like some hacked together shit. The defaults also were questionable at best, it was easier to hold it wrong than right. This stands testament to bad design and is especially terrible from a security point of view.

You’re right, programming is like any other craft. You only truly learn by actually doing it. And this just takes time. Very long time to master it. Or as close to as it gets. The more you know, the more you realize what else you don’t know (yet). It’s a never ending process. So, take it easy, don’t get discouraged, happy hacking and enjoy the endeavor! :-)

whys my feed back to showing like 5 twts

Five home gadgets you think you don’t need but are secretly great
Some tech, like a talking toothbrush, doesn’t seem like much when you first hear about it, but can become indispensable once you’ve tried it. ⌘ Read more

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Buying a TV these days, means trying to avoid endless enshitification:
-Spyware and adware
-Shitty AI upscaling/ frame interpolation
-HW that breaks after 2 - 3 years
-One off OS, dead on arrival
-Android OS, that starts lagging after the third update
-8 buttons worth of ads, on your remote

You probably have to make some kind of a compromise. I thought that was buying from some other brand like Hyundai, but that one also felt into some of those categories and just broke, after less than 3 years of use. At this point I’ll probably go back to LG and hope their HW is still reliable and the rest manageable… It has AI bullshit and knowing LG, probably some spyware you have to try your best to get rid of, can buy a remote with “only” 2 ads on it, some web-based OS shared between all their TVs, that usually gets 4 - 5 years worth of updates and works decently enough afterwards.

At this point, I’ll probably settle for anything that doesn’t literally fall apart, not even 3 years in, like the Hyundai did.