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

golang 每日一庫之 bsm-redislock
bsm/redislock 是一個用於 在 Go 語言中實現基於 Redis 的分佈式鎖（distributed lock） 的開源庫，由 bsm 組織開發和維護。它實現了基於 Redis 的 SET NX PX 命令模式的分佈式鎖，兼容 Redlock 算法的核心思想，但更簡單和輕量。簡介–基於 Redis 單實例實現分佈式鎖 遵循 Redis 官方推薦的 SET resource-na ⌘ Read more

golang 每日一庫之 bsm-redislock
bsm/redislock 是一個用於 在 Go 語言中實現基於 Redis 的分佈式鎖（distributed lock） 的開源庫，由 bsm 組織開發和維護。它實現了基於 Redis 的 SET NX PX 命令模式的分佈式鎖，兼容 Redlock 算法的核心思想，但更簡單和輕量。簡介–基於 Redis 單實例實現分佈式鎖 遵循 Redis 官方推薦的 SET resource-na ⌘ Read more

Britain is set to splash £1billion on an ‘army of hackers’ to target the likes of Putin ⌘ Read more

Maybe you’ll enjoy this as well:

I still have one of my first modems, a Creatix LC 144 VF:

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I think this was the modem that I used when I first connected to the internet, but I’m not sure.

I plugged it in again and it still works:

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The firmware appears to be from 1994, which sounds about right. I don’t think we had internet access before that. We certainly did use local mailboxes, though. (Or BBS’s, as you might call them.)

I now want to actually use that modem again. For the moment, I can only use a phone to dial into it, I lack a second modem to actually establish a connection. Here’s a video:

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Not spectacular, but the modem does answer after me entering ATA.

I bought another cheap old modem on eBay and am now waiting for it to arrive. Once it’s here, I want to simulate an actual dial-up session, hopefully from OS/2 or Windows 3.x.

set up authelia as an OIDC provider for my forgejo instance :DDD

Buying an EV in Australia may be easy but getting one fixed isn’t that simple
While some shops are set up and ready to service electric vehicles, regulations and requirements can make it a struggle. ⌘ Read more

New (February 2025) paper, https://cms.mgt.tum.de/fileadmin/mgt.tum.de/faculty_and_research/mppe/39_Nora_von_Ingersleben-Seip_How_the_European_Union_Fell_Out_Of_Love_With_Open-Source_Software.pdf , describes “How the European Union Fell Out of Love with Open-Source Software”:

“A coalition of determined open-source software (OSS) advocates and a handful of technology experts working in the European Commission set out in 2004 to end Microsoft’s monopoly. They almost succeeded. This article reveals how they managed to change the EU’s software policies, made Microsoft lobbyists work overtime - and in the end, and despite their best efforts, could not withstand the power of proprietary companies’ lobbying campaigns.

Drawing on the Multiple Streams Framework, the article explains the European Commission’s decision to promote OSS and open standards in 2004, and its puzzling decision to reverse course just a few years later, in 2010, despite its unchanged rhetoric about the benefits of openness. The analysis reveals three key factors that drove the changes in the EU’s policies.

In 2004, OSS advocates managed to frame the EU’s dependency on proprietary software as a problem – and the promotion of OSS and open standards as the solution.

In 2010, #Microsoft and other proprietary companies used their existing connections in Brussels to sow doubt about the maturity and cost of #OSS among #EU policymakers.”

25 years later we’re where we started.

#OpenSource #EIF

How to Flush DNS Cache on macOS Sequoia & Sonoma
If you’re running macOS Sequoia or macOS Sonoma, you might occasionally find yourself in a situation where you need to flush the DNS cache on your Mac. This can be necessary to fix DNS related issues or errors, to clear out outdated DNS settings or records, to resolve issues with certain websites, or even to … Read More ⌘ Read more

10 Misconceptions in Art & Architectural History
Art history is filled with captivating stories, iconic masterpieces, and legendary artists—but not everything you’ve heard is true. From misattributed paintings to misunderstood movements, the art world has its fair share of myths and mix-ups. In this list, we’re setting the record straight by debunking some of the most common misconceptions in art and architecture. […]

The post [10 Misconceptions in Art & Architectural History](https: … ⌘ Read more

6 Super Useful Continuity Features for Mac, iPhone, & iPad, You Should Be Using
Continuity is a broad set of features for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, that make using all three of the devices together as seamless and easy as possible. Many of the Continuity features also will undoubtedly improve your workflow, making using MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS even better together. We’re going to focus on six of the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/19/6-super-usefu … ⌘ Read more

Five more stable kernels
The
6.14.7,
6.12.29,
6.6.91,
6.1.139, and
5.15.183
stable kernel updates have been released; each contains another set of
important fixes. ⌘ Read more

10 Horror Films That Failed to Launch Their Franchise
Horror, more than any other cinematic genre, is obsessed with franchise building, owing to the low-cost, high-reward potential. But movie making is big business, and financiers and studios are not afraid to pull the plug if they don’t see a big payday ahead, no matter the project. These movies were set up for sequels and […]

The post [10 Horror Films That Failed to Launch Their Franchise](https://listverse.com/2025/05/16/10- … ⌘ Read more

Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs
Comments ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Also the so-called “deadline” isn’t set it stone. We’re all busy people with day jobs and lives, so we may have to move it anyway 😅

Erlang Solutions: Common MVP mistakes: How to build smart without overbuilding
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is your first real signal to the market, your team, and your investors that you’re solving the right problem in the right way. While it’s often mentioned alongside terms like Proof-of-Concept (PoC), prototype, or pilot, an MVP plays a distinct role: validating real value with real users.

Avoiding common missteps early sets the stage for faster itera … ⌘ Read more

[$] The last of YaST?
The announcement
of the openSUSE Leap 16.0 beta contained something of a
surprise—along with the usual set of changes and updates, it
informed the community of the retirement of “the traditional YaST
stack” from Leap. The YaST (“Yet another Setup Tool”)
installation and configuration utility has been a core part of the
openSUSE distribution since its [inception](https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse … ⌘ Read more

10 Evil Religions in Fiction
Religion is a source of comfort and conscience. As people look to their respective gods for guidance, their conclusions inform their values, drive their actions, and give meaning to events. However, that pattern isn’t always a good thing, as some religious practices aren’t so righteous. An ignoble doctrine could be a cheap excuse to set […]

The post 10 Evil Religions in Fiction appeared first on [Listverse](h … ⌘ Read more

Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components
The Accessibility Design team created a set of annotations to bridge the gaps that design systems alone can’t fix and proactively addresses accessibility issues within Primer components.

The post [Design system annotations, part 1: How accessibility gets left out of components](https://github.blog/engineering/user-experience/design-system-annotations-part-1-how … ⌘ Read more

10 Wild Facts About the Making of Popular Westerns
Although Western films are no longer in their heyday—the Western cinematic gold rush lasted from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s—they’re still much loved. Gone are the days of the 1950s when Westerns outnumbered all other genres combined. Along with the enduring classics, a modern gem often hits the screen. Whether current or classic, movies set […]

The post [10 Wild Facts About the Making of Popular Westerns](https://listverse.com … ⌘ Read more

Bluetooth 6.1 Update Set to Improve Privacy, Battery Life of iPhone Accessories
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) has released Bluetooth 6.1 as part of its new bi-annual update schedule. The update introduces Randomized Resolvable Private Address (RPA), a feature designed to enhance both privacy and power efficiency.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2025/ … ⌘ Read more

[$] A FUSE implementation for famfs
The famfs
filesystem is meant to provide a shared-memory filesystem for large data
sets that are accessed for computations by multiple systems. It was
developed by John Groves, who led a combined filesystem and
memory-management session at
the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory
Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF) to discuss it. The session was a
follow-up to [the famfs session at last year’s\
summit](https://lwn.net/Articles … ⌘ Read more

Is there any way to retain vim 7.4 search setting while using vim 9.1? ⌘ Read more

[$] Debian’s AWKward essential set
The Debian project has the concept of essential\
packages, which provide the bare minimum functionality considered
absolutely necessary (or “essential”) for a system to
function. Packages tagged as essential, and the packages that are
required by the set of essential packages, are always installed as
part of a Debian system. However, Debian’s packaging rules do not
require developers to explicitly declare dependencies on t … ⌘ Read more

locked tf in today and set up prometheus + grafana + etc for my servers. grafana is demonic

How To Set Up Your Ultimate OOB Bug-Hunting Server

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Having your own hacking server is one of the most important investments you can make in your bug bounty journey.

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »](https://infosecwriteups.com/how-to-set-up-your-ultimate … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I set up a test feed here:

https://www.uninformativ.de/texudus.txt

I made some preliminary adjustments to my client so that it can work with the different threading model. (And I totally get the concerns, this can be quite a bit of work. Especially in a large code base like Yarn.)

@bender@twtxt.net Yes, you right. But is premium for more than that.
I use a feature I love a lot: customising different searches with different themes or links.
It’s easy to understand with an example. I have a search with the name “Django”. I set sources: Django documentation, stack overflow, topic “programming” and so on. It’s very quick to find Django solutions.
I also have another way to find my stuff: search my blog and repositories.
I had problems paying for the first mouths, now it’s a working tool for me.

How to Enable Automatic Dark / Light Mode on iPhone & iPad
If you’re an iPhone or iPad user, you might appreciate a feature that automatically switches your devices appearance from Light Mode to Dark Mode, and vice versa, automatically. Furthermore, you can set the automatic enabling of Dark and Light mode to follow sunset and sunrise, or a custom schedule, whichever you prefer. As you probably … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/05/02/how-to-enable-automatic-dark-light … ⌘ Read more

A pile of stable kernel updates
The
6.14.5,
6.12.26,
6.6.89,
6.1.136,
5.15.181,
5.10.237, and
5.4.293
stable kernel updates have all been released; each contains another set of
important fixes. ⌘ Read more

Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog)
After a somewhat tumultuous switch to the\
Server Side Public License (SSPL) in March 2024, Redis has backtracked
and is now offering Redis under the\
Affero GPLv3 (AGPLv3) starting with Redis 8, CEO Rowan Trollope
announced. The change back to an open-source license was led by Redis creator Salvatore\
”antirez” Sanfillipo, who also contributed the new Vector Set … ⌘ Read more

How I Set Up a Free Server That I’ll Never Have to Pay For

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About one year ago, after my Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud trials expired, I started looking for other free cloud services.

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups »]( … ⌘ Read more

I really do wish we would wake up and smell the roses here 🤦‍♂️ This whole sets of wars is utterly pointless. Senseless waste of precious human beings 😢

Hidden Tricks to Spot Phishing Emails Before They Trick You!

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Phishing emails are like traps set by cybercriminals to trick you into sharing personal details, clicking dangerous links, or downloading…

[Continue reading on InfoSec Write-ups … ⌘ Read more

How to Set Up a Honeypot for Your Apache2 Server ⌘ Read more

task tracking in obsidian with the tasks plugin has gone pretty well today. i’ve completed all but one tasks i had set for today. that makes me really happy

My Hypothesis for why registries didn’t work and why they still won’t really work today is because the bend the rules of “true” decentralization a bit. Users have to pick one or more registries to “register” to. Why would they want to do this? What is their incentive to do so? Then on the other hand, users need a client that has registry support, but now which registry or sets of registries do you choose?

Regex Isn’t Hard - Tim Kellogg 👈 this is a pretty good conscience article on regexes, and I agree, regex isn’t that hard™ – However I think I can make the TL;DR even shorter 😅

Regex core subset (portable across languages):

Character sets
• a matches “a”
• [a-z] any lowercase
• [a-zA-Z0-9] alphanumeric
• [^ab] any char but a or b

Repetition (applies to the preceding atom)
• ? zero or one
• * zero or more
• + one or more

Groups
• (ab)+ matches “ab”, “abab”, …
• Capture for extract/substitute via $1 or \1

Operators
• foo|bar = foo or bar
• ^ start anchor
• $ end anchor

Ignore non‑portable shortcuts: \w, ., {n}, *?, lookarounds.

#regex101

There we go. Restored all the old settings 👌

@bender@twtxt.net

I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though.

Recall what we had this set to for this pod? 🧐

Three stable kernels
The
6.14.3,
6.13.12, and
6.12.24 stable kernel updates have been
released; each contains another set of important fixes. Note that the
6.13.x series ends with 6.13.12. ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz you can let Caddy do it, and reuse the same certificates for Ergo (just enter the certificate/key path on Ergo). Once set Caddy will keep them current.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de no clue! i’ve never had issues setting up websockets and the gamja client itself seems to work fine when connecting to other servers, but my bouncer doesn’t work right so it’s soju T__T i THINK there’s a problem with the websockets but it seems to be working right so i’m just confused

hey everyone i’ve spent my whole day trying to set up soju + gamja in docker and now i am down a rabbit hole of building caddy with layer4 support and trying to get TLS for my IRC server and NOTHING IS WORKING

Trump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourismUS Economy to Lose Billions as Foreign Tourists Stay AwayTrump’s disastrous trade war is killing US tourism
Augusta Saraiva,  https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-economy-set-lose-billions-100000258.html  -  Yahoo! Finance | Bloomberg

_Stephan: If you live in an area where tourists are major contributors to your local budge … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de wouldn’t editing your own twtxts cause the same issue Yarnd (or any other client) has, which is breaking any replies to it? Under which conditions would this work the best? When copying the twtxt.txt file asynchronously? In my case I copy the twtxt.txt file to its web root right away, but I figure I could not do that, which would give me a set period of time to edit without worries.

Even though I really do like the shell, I always use Dolphin to mount my digicam SD card and copy the photos onto my computer. I finally added a context menu item in Dolphin to create a forest stroll directory with the current date in order to save some typing:

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The following goes in ~/.local/share/kservices5/ServiceMenus/galmkdir.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
X-KDE-ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,inode/directory
Actions=Waldspaziergang;

[Desktop Action Waldspaziergang]
Name=Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen…
Icon=folder-green
Exec=~/src/gelbariab/galmkdir "%f"

In order to update the KDE desktop cache and make this action menu item available in Dolphin, I ran:

kbuildsycoca5

The referenced galmkdir script looks like that:

#!/bin/sh
set -e

current_dir="$1"
if [ -z "$current_dir" ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 DIRECTORY" >&2
    exit 1
fi

dir="$(kdialog \
    --geometry 350x50 \
    --title "Heutigen Waldspaziergang anlegen" \
    --inputbox "Neues Verzeichnis in „$current_dir“ anlegen:" \
    "waldspaziergang-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)")"
mkdir "$current_dir/$dir"
dolphin "$current_dir/$dir"

This solution is far from perfect, though. Ideally, I’d love to have it in the “Create New” menu instead of the “Actions” menu. But that doesn’t really work. I cannot define a default directory name, not to mention even a dynamic one with the current date. (I would have to update the .desktop file every day or so.) I also failed to create an empty directory. I somehow managed to create a directory with some other templates in it for some reason I do not really understand.

Let’s see how that works out in the next days. If I like it, I might define a few more default directory names.

[$] Parallel directory operations
Allowing directories to be modified in parallel was the topic of Jeff
Layton’s filesystem-track session at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory Management, and BPF Summit (LSFMM+BPF). There are certain use
cases, including for the NFS and Lustre filesystems, as mentioned in a patch set
referenced in the topic\
proposal, where contention in cre … ⌘ Read more

@doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes having a set of specifications that anyone can write clients to.

(#mymzn2a) @doesnm.p.psf.lt@doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes …
@doesnm.p.psf.lt @doesnm.p.psf.lt It was always intended to have both Yarn.social and Salty.im integrate together. Yes. This includes having a set of specifications that anyone can write clients to. ⌘ Read more

@javivf@adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh size of our community 👌

(#eetsbtq) @javivf@javivf Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of sp …
@javivf @adn.org.es Generally speaking if it has been reviewed, discussed and merged, then we accept it as a standard to the set of specs we support. However we might want to document this process and set some guidelines about this to be clear 🤣 We’ve been fairly lax/lose here and I think that’s okay given teh s … ⌘ Read more

Setting custom primary and secondary colours isn’t working. I tried “red” for first, and “orange” for second. Didn’t work.

Armbian Introduces Optimized Cloud Images for x86 and aarch64 Deployments
Armbian has expanded its support for cloud infrastructure with a new line of dedicated cloud images designed for generic x86 and aarch64 platforms. These images are tailored for performance, efficiency, and streamlined deployment in virtualized and cloud-native environments. The new Armbian cloud image set aims to meet the growing demand for lightweight and reliable Linux […] ⌘ Read more

Five Critical Shifts for Cloud Native at a Crossroads
As enterprises run ever-more-complex workloads on Kubernetes, they’re facing a new set of challenges: how to ensure security requirements are met, budgets are deployed efficiently and operational complexity is, well, not as complex. Many are finding… ⌘ Read more

10 Times Actors Rewrote Scripts They Hated
So much goes into making a television show or a movie. Screenwriters produce polished scripts, and then directors and producers polish them even more. And that’s before the actors get on set and have a chance to look at the lines they’ll deliver. Now, in most cases, the vast majority of actors just read off […]

The post 10 Times Actors Rewrote Scripts They Hated appea … ⌘ Read more

Conduwit is set to archive on GitHub. It was my favourite Matrix server, which I still self host. I think I am going to get off Matrix altogether now.

Maybe go back to Jabber?

[$] Preparing DAMON for future memory-management problems
The Data Access\
MONitor (DAMON) subsystem provides access to detailed memory-management
statistics, along with a set of tools for implementing policies based on
those statistics. An update on DAMON by its primary author, SeongJae Park,
has been a fixture of the Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and
BPF Summit for some years. The 2025 Summit was no exception; Park led two
sessions on recent and future DAMON developme … ⌘ Read more

oh out of boredom yesterday i made my blog available via markdown files too so you can use charmbracelet/glow to read them in your terminal :)

basically i just set up a file directory on a path of my blog, organized the MD files by year, and so in theory you can navigate to that path and choose a folder, then copy a link to a markdown post and run this:

glow -p https://bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/md/2025/2025-03-31%20premature%20reflections%20on%20sudden%20responsibility.md

and then as long as you have glow installed, you can read my posts from the terminal :D it’s so cool

FreeDOS 1.4 released
Version\
1.4 of FreeDOS has been
released. This is the first stable release since 2022, and
includes improvements to the Fdisk hard-disk-management program, and
reliability updates for the mTCP set of TCP/IP applications for
DOS.

This version was much smoother because Jerome Shidel, our
distribution manager, had an idea after FreeDOS 1.3 that we could have
a rolling test release that collected all of the changes that people
mak … ⌘ Read more

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz It’s very well hidden, it took me a while to find that. Go to “Settings” in the menu bar up top → “Profile and Privacy” (already selected) → on the right at “User Info” → “1 Muted” → click the link with the minus in the circle at the message you want to unmute.

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (abseil, atop, jetty9, ruby-saml, tomcat10, trafficserver, xz-utils, and zfs-linux), Fedora (chromium, condor, containernetworking-plugins, cri-tools1.29, crosswords-puzzle-sets-xword-dl, exim, ghostscript, matrix-synapse, upx, varnish, and yarnpkg), Gentoo (XZ Utils), Mageia (augeas, corosync, nss & firefox, and thunderbird), Oracle (container-tools:ol8, firefox, freetype, and kernel), Red Hat (firefox), SUSE (chromium, gn, firefox-es … ⌘ Read more

So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:

dkv() {
  if [[ "$1" == "rm" && -n "$2" ]]; then
    read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
    confirm=${confirm:-Y}
    if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
      # Disable history
      set +o history

      # Delete the volume
      docker volume rm "$2"

      # Re-enable history
      set -o history
    else
      echo "Aborted."
    fi
  else
    docker volume "$@"
  fi
}

**(#zzyjqvq) So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time alias dkv="docker rm" to be a much safer shell function:

dkv() {
  if  ...**
So I re-write this shell alias that I used all the time `alias dkv="docker rm"` to be a much safer shell function:

dkv() {
if [[ “$1” == “rm” && -n “$2” ]]; then

read -r -p "Are you sure you want to delete volume '$2'? [Y/n] " confirm
confirm=${confirm:-Y}
if [[ "$confirm" =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
  # Disable history
  set +o history

  # Delete the volume
  dock ... ⌘ [Read more](https://twtxt.net/twt/ml3toqq)

Solarized-colo-users: do you get set spell? ⌘ Read more

MacRumors Giveaway: Win Custom Retro AirPods From ColorWare
For this week’s giveaway, we’ve teamed up with ColorWare to offer MacRumors readers a chance to win a set of AirPods Pro 2 or AirPods 4 that have been custom designed with a classic Mac aesthetic.

![](https://i … ⌘ Read more

Setting for copy pasting to WSL and mac system clipboard in tmux ⌘ Read more

[$] Slab allocator: sheaves and any-context allocations
The kernel’s slab allocator is charged with providing small objects on
demand; its performance and reliability are crucial for the functioning of
the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, two adjacent sessions in the
memory-management track dug into current work on the slab allocator. The
first focused on the new sheaves feature, while the second discussed a set
of allocation functions that are safe to call in any context. ⌘ Read more

Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (amd64-microcode, flatpak, intel-microcode, libdata-entropy-perl, librabbitmq, and vim), Fedora (augeas, containerd, crosswords-puzzle-sets-xword-dl, libssh2, libxml2, nodejs-nodemon, and webkitgtk), Red Hat (libreoffice and python-jinja2), SUSE (389-ds, apparmor, corosync, docker, docker-stable, erlang26, exim, ffmpeg-4, govulncheck-vulndb, istioctl, matrix-synapse, mercurial, openvpn, python3, rke2, and skopeo), and Ubuntu (ansible, linux, l … ⌘ Read more

After dominating television, Netflix is setting its sights on gaming
In a matter of years, Netflix’s new head of games, Alain Tascan, believes we’ll all be playing Netflix games on any device we choose. ⌘ Read more

He’s been gone a dozen years now, but I always picture him sleeping on the front stoop in the afdternoon, where the sun set in the West and warmed his sleeping place for him every day. Took this photo a year before he passed, at the amazing age of 21. ⌘ Read more

Interesting.. so running into an issue where queries only return a partal set of rows if i run in a docker image built from scratch. i have to add the debian root image for it to work. I wonder what file is missing that the root has?

Interesting.. so running into an issue where queries only return a partal set of rows if i run in a docker image built from scratch. i have to add the debian root image for it to work. I wonder what file is missing that the root has?

Edmundson: a modern Plasma Login Manager
KDE contributor David Edmundson has published
a blog post about improving KDE Plasma’s login experience by
replacing SDDM
with a new Plasma Login Manager.

It’s worth stressing nothing is official or set in stone yet,
whilst it has come up in previous Plasma online meetings and in the
2023 Akademy. I’m posting this whilst starting a more o … ⌘ Read more

Ignite Realtime Blog: It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen
When I explain to others what I do for a living, I often ask why it is that we are not surprised that one can use a Gmail account to send an email to someone who uses an Outlook account, yet many people fully accept that you can’t send a message to someone using WhatsApp from a Telegram account. We’re not surprised that we can use our phone to set up a call with someone who uses a differe … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Gemini has an answer for you:

This is a conversation thread from a twtxt network, detailing a user’s (movq) frustration with the Mastodon “export data” feature and their consideration of self-hosting a fediverse alternative. Here’s a summary:

• movq’s initial issue:
  
  • movq is concerned about the volatility of their data on their current Mastodon instance due to a broken “export data” feature.
    
  • They contacted the admins, but the issue remains unresolved.
    
  • This led them to contemplate self-hosting.
    
• Alternative fediverse software suggestions:
  
  • kat suggests gotosocial as a lightweight alternative to Mastodon.
    
  • movq agrees, and also mentions snac as a potential option.
    
• movq’s change of heart:
  
  • movq ultimately decides that self-hosting any fediverse software, besides twtxt, is too much effort.
    
• Resolution and compromise:
  
  • The Mastodon admins attribute the export failure to the size of movq’s account.
    
  • movq decides to set their Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after approximately 180 days to manage data size.
    
  • Movq also mentions that they use auto-expiring links on twtxt to reduce data storage.

The Mastodon admins say that it’s probably because of the size of my account (~600 MB), so the export process times out. And I understand that. Here on twtxt, I always use auto-expiring links when I post images or videos. It just gets too much data otherwise. I think I’ll just set my Mastodon account to auto-delete posts after ~180 days or something like that. Nobody cares about old posts anyway.

WWDC 2025 Starts January 9, iOS 19 & MacOS 16 Expected to Debut
Apple has announced that their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will be held online from June 9 to June 13, 2025. There’s also set to be a special event in Cupertino California at the Apple Park campus on June 9. Typically these special events are when Apple debuts upcoming operating systems for iPhone, iPad, Mac, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/25/wwdc-2025-starts-january-9-ios-19- … ⌘ Read more

Apple AirPods can now be used as hearing aids in Australia
From Wednesday, users with a set of $400 AirPods Pro 2 can self-administer a hearing test and use their earbuds as an over-the-counter hearing aid. ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There’s a reason it’s called “(n)curses”. 😏 The only advice I can give is to never fiddle with reassigning control sequences and $TERM variables. Leave $TERM at whatever value the terminal itself sets and use an appropriate terminfo file for it. If there are programs misbehaving, they probably blindly assume XTerm and should be fixed (or have XTerm as a hard requirement). If you try to fix this on your end, it’ll likely just break other programs. 🥴

Hmmm, when I Ctrl+Left to jump a word left, I get 1;5D in my tt2 message text. My TERM is set to rxvt-unicode-256color. In tt, it works just fine. When I change to TERM=xterm-256color, it also works in tt2. I have to read up on that. Maybe even try to capture these sequences and rewrite them.

(Back in tt.) Well, it kinda worked. At least appending to the file. But my cache database got screwed up. I do not yet support replies, so the subject and and root hash columns have not been set at all, resulting in a message that is just not shown at all. I gotta do something about that next. The good thing is, though, after simply fixing the two columns the message appeared on screen.

[$] Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation
Brendan Jackman has been working to try to get ahead of the next hardware CPU
vulnerability
before it gets discovered. In January, he posted the second version of
a patch set that introduces
address-space isolation (ASI) as a way of
preventing future CPU vulnerabilities from leaking important
information. The core concept is to ensure that data that is not currently
ne … ⌘ Read more

Assassin’s Creed Shadows Launches for Mac
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is available for download on the Mac as of today, and it is the first Assassin’s Creed title that is launching for Mac at the same time that it is launching on PlayStation 5, Windows machines, and the Xbox.

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Set in 16th century Japan, Assassin’s Creed Shadows is part of the main Assassin’s Creed gaming lineup, and it is the successor to Assass … ⌘ Read more

** A day off **
I didn’t go to work today. Six month ago I took the day off when I made my kids a dentist appointment. So, this morning I took them to the dentist where we played Mario Kart in the waiting room on the Nintendo the dentist keeps set up there.

After that, I dropped them each at school and picked up my dad and took him to Costco and to the Chinese takeaway place. While he gossiped with the folks at the takeaway I started Sally Rooney’s Normal People. I’m late to this book, but enjoying it right away.

After all th … ⌘ Read more

Get Googly Eyes in Your Mac Menu Bar to Follow Your Cursor Around
Ultra longtime Mac users may recall a fun Classic Mac OS application that placed a set of googly eyes into the Mac menu bar, and those eyes would follow your cursor around as you used the Mac. While the old Classic Mac OS days are long gone (sigh), you can still have a bit of … Read More ⌘ Read more

@thecanine@twtxt.net Yeah, nobody will ever find that setting.

Beta 4 of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, Available for Testing
Apple has released the fourth beta version of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4, all of which are set to be fairly minor software updates but do include a handful of new features, and will also include the usual round of bug fixes and security enhancements. New features currently being tested in these … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/17/beta-4-of-ios-18-4-ipados-18-4 … ⌘ Read more

CNCF & OpenSSF Announce Open Source SecurityCon 2025
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) are thrilled to introduce Open Source SecurityCon 2025—a premier event focused on strengthening cloud-native and open source software security. This one-day conference, set… ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.3
This release fixes some group chat issues and allows to store individual window sizes. Thank you for all your contributions!

With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.

Gajim 2.0.3 will store dimensions for each window, so it always remembers your preferred window size. Furthermore, this release fixes is … ⌘ Read more

I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.

It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.

With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.

In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.

So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.

The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.

Trump administration cancels classes at National Fire Academy amid funding freeze
,    -  Associated Press | The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: As wildfires consume forests across the United States, the resentful psychopath Americans chose for their President, has just closed the school that teaches fire fighters how to fight these fires (it is a difficult skill set). It is just another example of how the United States is a fundamentally differen … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.2
This release updates message moderation in group chats, improves handling of URIs, and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.

Gajim 2.0.2 updates Gajim’s support for [XEP-0425: Moderated Message Retraction](https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0425.h … ⌘ Read more

everoddandeven releases ‘Monero Daemon GUI’ v1.2.0
everoddandeven1 has released Monero node manager monerod-gui 2 version 1.2.0 Shadowness 3 with various upgrades, fixes and improvements:

Upgrade Electron to v35.0.0
Upgrade Angular to v19
Upgrade dependencies
TOR and I2P service
Private testnet tool
UI fixes and improvements
monerod settings fixes

Consult the Github repository2 for the complete changelog4, a demo … ⌘ Read more

@xuu@txt.sour.is My layout looks like this:

• storage/
  
  • storage.go: defines a Storage interface
    
  • sqlite.go: implements the Storage interface
    
  • sqlite_test.go: originally had a function to set up a test storage to test the SQLite storage implementation itself: newRAMStorage(testing.T, $initialData) *Storage
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds.go: uses a Storage
    
  • feeds_test.go: here I wanted to reuse the newRAMStorage(…) function
    

I then tried to relocate the newRAMStorage(…) into a

• teststorage/
  
  • storage.go: moved here as NewRAMStorage(…)
    

so that I could just reuse it from both

• storage/
  
  • sqlite_test.go: uses testutils.NewRAMStorage(…)
    
• controller/
  
  • feeds_test.go: uses testutils.NewRamStorage(…)
    

But that results into an import cycle, because the teststorage package imports storage for storage.Storage and the storage package imports testutils for testutils.NewRAMStorage(…) in its test. I’m just screwed. For now, I duplicated it as newRAMStorage(…) in controller/feeds_test.go.

I could put NewRAMStorage(…) in storage/testutils.go, which could be guarded with //go:build testutils. With go test -tags testutils …, in storage/sqlite_test.go could just use NewRAMStorage(…) directly and similarly in controller/feeds_test.go I could call storage.NewRamStorage(…). But I don’t know if I would consider this really elegant.

The more I think about it, the more appealing it sounds. Because I could then also use other test-related stuff across packages without introducing other dedicated test packages. Build some assertions, converters, types etc. directly into the same package, maybe even make them methods of types.

If I went that route, I might do the opposite with the build tag and make it something like !prod instead of testing. Only when building the final binary, I would have to specify the tag to exclude all the non-prod stuff. Hmmm.

Dang it! I ran into import cycles with shared test utilities again. :-( Either I have to copy this function to set up an in-memory test storage across packages or I have to put it in the storage package itself and guard it with a build tag that is only used in tests (otherwise I end up with this function in my production binary as well). I don’t like any of the alternatives. :-(

Hey everyone!

About the idea of improving the “thread” extension, what if we set aside March 2025 to gather proposals and thoughts from everyone? We could then vote on them at the end of the month to see if the change and migration are worth it.

The voting could include client maintainers (and maybe even users too). That way, we get a good mix of perspectives before taking a decision in a decent timelapse.

What do you think? If this sounds good, we can start agreeing on this. Let me know your thoughts!

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Docker Engine v28: Hardening Container Networking by Default
Learn how Docker streamlines developer onboarding and helps organizations set up the right guardrails to give developers the flexibility to innovate within the boundaries of company policies. ⌘ Read more

HeliBoard might be the first one of these fully open source Android keyboards, that doesn’t suck, idk, I’m still in the process of testing it, but I already like it a lot more than any of the ones I used before it.

Setting it up was somewhat clunky, but once you set it all up and dile in the settings, the keyboard itself, feels really great to use.