@bender@twtxt.net This story just reminds me of the couple of times we’ve paid for things in cash 💰 💲 and the stupid banks with the ridiculous “scam alert policy” ask you all kind of dumb ass questions about what you need the cash for 🤦‍♂️ One of these days I need an excuse to buy something that costs a few $k just so I can answer when asked, “what do you need the cash for?” to which my response will be “drugs and hookers of course!” 🤣

@bender@twtxt.net Sounds good to me! Done ✅ Also you did some, so thanks! 🙏

That’s exactly what came to mind. Even millionaires would simply pay with a credit card for the convenience, and yes, because what kind of a sociopath will carry $3,000 around?! Just one more stumping item to that despicable person list.

Apple Releases New iOS 18.5 and macOS Sequoia 15.5 Public Betas
Apple today seeded the second public betas of upcoming iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and macOS Sequoia 15.5 updates, allowing the public to test the updates ahead of when they see an official launch. The public betas come a day after Apple provided the third betas to developers.

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@bender@twtxt.net The DM specification has been updated from time to time in response to advice from the community. For me, It is a successful!
The adoption is another topic 😂
(I am working on my side)

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Trump’s Power Feeds on White Demographic Fears
James Risen,  Staff Writer  -  The Intercept

_Stephan: Despot Trump’s racism was inherited from his father, and has been a life-long attribute of his character, and is a defining aspect of MAGAt world. Black MAGAts don’t seem to get this, but then there were Black slave owners in pre-Civil War America. We don’t talk enough about this White supremacy racism in the Republican Party, and media doesn’t cover it properly, if at all.  But … ⌘ Read more

Money Worries: Just 13% of Americans Feel Confident About Their Finances
Study Fiinds Staff,    -  Study Finds

_Stephan: Financial insecurity and stress, as this study shows, are hallmarks of American society. We are truly becoming a neo-medieval culture with The population the United States is 347,275,807. In 2025, the United States has 902 billionaires, which is the highest number of billionaires in the world, according to [Forbes](https://www.google.c … ⌘ Read more

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control
Noor Al-Sibai,  Staff Writer  -  The Byte

_Stephan: Sunday, I watched the segment of 60 Minutes discussing AI. Here is another view. What I don’t see any of these people discussing is the reality of what has happened as a result of the weaponization of the internet as a result of intentional misinformation, and how it has served tech billionaires supporting Trump’s fascist coup. I think the issue … ⌘ Read more

‘Deep red rural America’ hurts most as Trump attacks on liberal programs backfire: report
Jennifer Bowers Bahney,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Just as I, and many others have predicted, MAGAt world is going to experience the worst effects of the Trump coup and dismantlement of the economy and government. And in many ways, MAGAt voters didn’t even think about that when they voted. Here is an example of what I mean. I think … ⌘ Read more

Exciting new for Python 3.14!
t-string, not to be confused with f-string, to avoid malicious code and make life easier for web developers.
https://davepeck.org/2025/04/11/pythons-new-t-strings/
#python

10 Things You Might Not Know About Greenland
Greenland has been in the news because President Trump has expressed a desire to buy the country. But just how much do you know about this frozen land? With a coastline of 24,430 miles (39,316 km) punctuated by deep fjords, it’s the world’s largest island. It is described as “an autonomous territory within the Kingdom […]

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[47°09′13″S, 126°43′01″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

@prologic@twtxt.net Yarn repo has 88 issues open, some related to ActivityPub. Why you do not close it?

iPhone 17e Nears Trial Production, Launch Tipped for Late May 2026
Apple’s next-generation iPhone 17e is nearing the trial production stage, with the mid-range device tentatively scheduled for a May release, according to a proven leaker with sources in Apple’s Chinese supply chain.

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I found this super clingy cat in the middle of the street, so I gave her some water. I’m not sure if I should take her home or if she lives nearby. I’ll come back tomorrow to check if she’s still there, then I’ll decide. Geez, she’s so cute! ⌘ Read more

rough day today T__T therapy was hard. i’m trying yet again to establish a routine and stick to it. or at least a way of tracking my tasks and making a routine out of that over time. i really hope it sticks

Responded to a bunch of Twtxt open issues across multiple repositories today 👌

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@bender@twtxt.net You said:

as long as those working on clients can reach an agreement on how to move forward. That has proven, though, to be a pickle in the past.

I think this is because we probably need to start thinking about three different aspects to the ecosystem and document them out:

• Specifications (as they are now)
  
• Server recommendations (e.g: Timeline, yarnd, etc)
  
• Client recommendations (e.g: jenny, tt, tt2, twet, etc)

also I may have forgor to bookmark this when I started using zen primarily instead of librewolf hallo timeline again

trying to not feel stressed today, so I digitally colored a smol frog that says fuck terfs! >m< i have no idea if I did that right bc it’s my first time using yarn to post an image so rip to me if I messed that up :’D

Said goodbye to my sometimes sweet, sometimes evil girl today. ⌘ Read more

[$] Indirect calls in BPF
Anton Protopopov kicked off the BPF track on
the second day of the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a discussion about permitting
indirect calls in BPF. He also spoke about his continuing work on
static keys, a topic which is related because the implementation of indirect
jumps and static keys in the verifier use some of the same mechanisms for
tracking indirect control-flow.
Although some design work remains to be done, it may soon be … ⌘ Read more

How to Customize Your Mac Mouse Cursor with Mousescape
Have you ever wanted to customize the cursor in MacOS? Perhaps you want to use a Windows-style white cursor on your Mac, or a grey 3d looking Linux style cursor, or even cursors from the Wii interface on your Mac? You can do all of that and more with a free app called Mousescape for … Read More ⌘ Read more

Copilot taking over?
I tried GitHub Copilot (Free) in Visual Studio Code again for some small GoBlog changes. Copilot can now generate tests (although it doesn’t feel intelligent, as you need to correct quite a few things), it can do code reviews before committing and it can generate commit messages. Of course, it can also do code completions and write complete code, if you want it to do so. ⌘ Read more

Blizzard developers reflect on 30 years of Warcraft
Blizzard game developers Darren Williams and Ely Cannon sit down with 9News.com.au to reflect on 30 years of Warcraft. ⌘ Read more

“A handbag belonging to the homeland security secretary Kristi Noem containing her passport, department security badge and $3,000 in cash was stolen on Sunday night at a restaurant in Washington, the department confirmed.”

Oh dear!

Beta 3 of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testers
In what must be the most exciting thing to happen on a Monday since the prior Monday, Apple has released the third beta version of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, and iPadOS 18.5. These new thrilling third beta versions are available to the developer wizards participating in the beta testing programs of Apple system software, … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/04/21/beta-3-of-ios-18-5-mac … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net Thanks! The rain rapidly cooled off the 17°C to just 10°C. I certainly appreciated that. The weather is coming from the west here, so I thought you’ve sent it our way. Let me try to return it. :-)

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev nothing stands still, I agree. I think current twtxt has surpassed the initial specification, while still being relatively backwards compliant/compatible but, for how long?

As for new extensions (DM, for example), they should be OK as long as those working on clients can reach an agreement on how to move forward. That has proven, though, to be a pickle in the past.

Today’s stroll was really nice. Just around 11km in total I’d reckon. We had a barbie at a mate’s garden where everybody went on a hunt for an easter basket. Oh boy, what a preparation that must have been! Baking the bunnies, dying the eggs, mixing the bear leek butter and so on. That’s dedication, let me tell you. :-)

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It was the first time this year that we had half proper April weather and a thunderstorm in general. It started off with clear sky and lovely sunshine. Right after arvo lunch it started to rain, so we went into the hut. Then, the sun returned.

On the way back with the growling thunder in the distance coming closer and closer we escaped the rain just perfectly. A minute or two after we reached the car, wet stuff started coming down the sky. Not even half a minute after opening the front door, it poured like crazy. Lucky twice today. There’s beautiful sunshine again by now. It smells absolutely great after the rain. I love it!

https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-21/

@prologic@twtxt.net I won’t give you the link for the moment because I want to check how well it works! 😋

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Haha 🤣 We’ve explored this idea in the past and we decided that it’s actually a good idea to have an “append-only” feed for various reasons. We’ve also explored the idea of using Range requests, but opted instead to just archive/rotate our feeds periodically 😅 There really isn’t much point in having a feed in reverse chronological order, except (maybe?) so a human read view the new twts at the top of the file?! 🤣

@prologic@twtxt.net “curated” channels (you can see the guide to see the topics it covers), without the ability to fast forward, nor pause. You know, like live television.

Template strings accepted for Python 3.14
The Python Steering Council
accepted PEP 750
(” Template Strings”) on April 10. LWN
covered the discussion around the proposal, including the
substantial revisions to the idea that were needed for it
to be accepted. Template strings (t-strings) are a new kind of string that produces
structured data instead o … ⌘ Read more

@bender@twtxt.net I use it. It’s not the feature I use the most in the fediverse, but I communicate this way with several friends. For example, it’s the main way I talk to the original creator of the twtxt-el repository, the way people greet me for the first time or the way they notify me of some bugs in the software I maintain. I can even tell you that it’s the main way I talk to some maintainers of the Emacs community. If there are any of you reading my words, speak up!
Why not have the same? There are things I want to say to @prologic@twtxt.net in private, why should I have to send him an email or private IRC? Or an public twt.
Of course, here’s a topic we’ve already talked about: what is twtxt for you? For me it will always be a social network, in microblogging format, but an asynchronous way of communicating. And having a tool to control visibility is basic 😄
I look forward to hearing from you @eapl.me@eapl.me !

[$] Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution
Ask a Linux enthusiast who created the Linux kernel, and odds are they will have
no trouble naming Linus Torvalds—but many would be stumped if asked what the
first Linux distribution was, and who created it. Some might guess Slackware, or its predecessor, Softlanding Linux\
System (SLS); both were arguably more influential but arrived just a bit
later. The first honest-to-goodness distribut … ⌘ Read more

After reading you, @eapl.me@eapl.me, I’ll tell you my point of view.
In my opinion, a feed does not have to be equivalent to a timeline. A timeline is a representation of the feed adapted to a user. You may not be interested in seeing other people’s threads or DMs. But perhaps they are interested in seeing mentions or DMs directed at them. It is important not to fall into the trap. With that clarification…
I insist, this is my point of view, it is not an absolute truth: I don’t think extensions should be respectful of customers who are no longer maintained.
We cannot have a system that is simple, backwards compatible and extensible all at the same time. We have to give up some of the 3 points. I would not like to give up simplicity because it will then make it harder to maintain the customers who do stay. Therefore, I think it is better to give up backwards compatibility and play with new formulas in the extensions. I don’t think it’s a good idea to make a hash keep so much load: a hashtag, a thread and also a DM.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yes @david@collantes.us It would be good for me, or new developers, if the documentation were agnostic. And if possible with many example cases. I’m fine-tuning the code as you inform me of bugs, trial and error. It’s a lesson to be learned for the future.

How to take climate action with your code
There are 60,000+ climate-focused projects on GitHub, explore one this Earth Day!

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Deep Dive into the Gateway API Inference Extension
Running AI inference workloads on Kubernetes has some unique characteristics and challenges, and the Gateway API Inference Extension project aims to solve some of those challenges. I recently wrote about these new capabilities in the kgateway… ⌘ Read more

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

See:

<textarea id="text" name="text" placeholder="Hi! 👋 Don't forget to post a Twt today!" rows="4" maxlength="576" required="true" aria-required="true"></textarea>

So, 576?

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good morning everyone. before going to bed last night i accidentally password protected the entirety of my biggest site superlove because i botched a refactor of my caddyfile config. lmao

@bender@twtxt.net

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

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

All these remind me of the “blog” ability once existed in Yarnd. I hate to be the party pooper, but little to non interest from me. LOL. I am up to increase the length of a twtxt, though. It is rather limiting right now.

Just had a freak storm ⛈️ with lots of horizontal rain ☔️ that took out and tripped our internal RCD (again) 😱 Took out our Fibre too (servers were fine, good ‘ol UPS). Need to get a UPS for the Fibre box 📦 Haha 🤣

Trump signs executive order ending years of protections in Pacific monument
Sam Mauhay-Moore,  Trending News Reporter  -  SFGate

_Stephan: It is unclear to me whether Despot Trump is simply too stupid to understand the importance of supporting ecosystems, or he knows but just doesn’t care because someone has bribed him to make a decision that will allow them to damage an ecosystem. Or, most probably, it is both.  In any case the United States has no … ⌘ Read more

EPA Deletes Pollution Tracking Tools as It Offers Exemptions to Polluters
Mike Ludwig ,  Staff Writer  -  truthout

_Stephan: Here is yet another example of Despot Trump’s corruption doing favors for the uber-rich who enrich him so that he permits them to destroy Earth’s matrix of life and wellbeing. His corruption is going to have a decades-long impact, and will be a major factor contributing to the civilization-altering catastrophe that happens betwe … ⌘ Read more

America’s Ten Most Endangered Rivers Announced in New Report
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: The United States has not paid appropriate and adequate attention to the wellbeing of the nation’s ecosystems since President Jimmy Carter’s administration, and Despot Trump is doing everything in his power to gut any kind of climate protection in order to serve the uber-rich who bought him his office. And, sadly, American voters don’t … ⌘ Read more

My boy is so happy to see me. Every time I come home from work, Rambo meets me 500 meters from my house. 13 years of love and loyalty 😻 ⌘ Read more

Get Apple’s M3 iPad Air for Up to $70 Off on Amazon
Amazon is kicking off the week with multiple discounts on Apple’s M3 iPad Air, offering as much as $70 off these tablets. Prices start at $569.00 for the 128GB Wi-Fi 11-inch M3 iPad Air, down from $599.00.

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10 Pop Culture Figures Who Actually Existed
From Darth Vader to Mary Poppins, pop culture icons can excite, enrage, or inspire us. And though most characters tend to be wholly fictional in nature, some famous ones are actually based on real-life people. Here’s our list of 10 pop culture figures who existed IRL. Related: Top 10 Underrated Minor Characters from Pop Culture […]

The post [10 Pop Culture Figures Who Actually Existed](https://listverse.com/2025/04/21/10-pop-culture-figures-who … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de So cool! 😎 Where’s the time lapse video you used to have of this tree? 🌳 Hmm 🧐

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I know 🤣 I found another bug in lextwt 🤦‍♂️ This whole DM / bang-mention thingy has thrown a spanner in the works 🔧 – Even if I wanted to implement it, I’m not even ready to try at the moment 😢

@prologic@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de @bmallred@staystrong.run @ionores@twtxt.net Thank you! Yeah, the yellow meadows look truly awesome.

Watching “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” in German the evening before, this thing totally looked like a trap to us. So, we decided to sit on another, more rustic bench nearby. :-) Oh neat, it turns out, there is a much longer four part series of the documentary in English on YouTube. Highly recommended! This is part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbhPIK-oBvA

Judging by the surroundings, I think this is actually a forest altar or something of that nature. But it looks like they started with the chappel’s reinforcement steel and then they ran out of money before completing it or even placing the concrete forms. :-P

Yeah, 78 might be photo of the month. It’s one of my favorites.

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz (as I was trying to say…), Glad you think so👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Holy hell?! When I post this:

@<kate https://yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz/user/kat/twtxt.txt> Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (_best that I can anyway!_) truly decentralised (_slow_) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Something is swallowing it.

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Glad you think so! 👌 My goal with Yarn.social has always been to provide the best (best that I can anyway!) truly decentralised (slow) social experience that uses the Twtxt format under the hood 😅

️ Free TryHackMe Jr Penetration Tester Roadmap with Resources and Labs

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A free, TryHackMe-inspired roadmap with resources and labs to kickstart your penetration testing journey.

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Lab: Exploiting an API endpoint using documentation

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We will solve this lab based on the API documentation exposed to delete Carlos’s user.

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This expands the usefulness of Twtxt / Yarn.social to:

• Sharing small posts
  
• Sharing links
  
• Sharing media
  
• Having long conversations
  
• Voting on topics, opinions or decisions
  
• RSVPing to virtual or physical events

The nice thing here is that any Ui/UX rendering for a “good user experience” is similar to what yarnd does for Youtube/Spotify/whatever embedding. Plus anyone can participate, even if they don’t really have a client that understand it, it’s just text with some “syntax” afterall.

I’d have to write i up in full, but essentially looks a bit like this (contribived examples follow)…

💡 I had this crazy idea (or is it?) last night while thinking about Twtxt and Yarn.social 😅 There are two things I think that could be really useful additions to the yarnd UI/UX experience (for those that use it) and as “client” features (not spec changes). The two ideas are quite simple:

• Voting – a way to cast, collect a vote on a decision, topic or opinion.
  
• RSVP – a way to “rsvp” to a virtual (pr physical) event.
  

Both would use “plain text” on top of the way we already use Twtxt today and clients would render an appropriate UI/UX.

Open Source Initiative Hides Election Details, Others Fear “Political Retribution”
Last month, the Open Source Initiative held an election where the votes were tampered with in order to exclude “reform” candidates”. ⌘ Read more

Realized I could definitely have a silly gameplay montage youtube channel if I wanted to. All of my best video editing has been goofy visual gags… I could do it…

@bender@twtxt.net I think I could, but I haven’t bothered to do so yet… I’ll try that out later…

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@prologic@twtxt.net OH SHIT using this for a protocol like gopher is smart! might have to try that for gemini so i don’t have to keep a port open for that

@sorenpeter@darch.dk I really think you should fix the # url in your feed to be https:// 😅

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yes it used be http:// only and to keep hashes from breaking i added # url = http://... and now we are stock with it due to the curret specs.

good morning friends. i don’t know what i’m gonna do today. perhaps work on my patreon and login wall more personal sites behind authelia that i could offer access to via patreon tier

@kingdomcome@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz it’s slang that means to like focus and get shit done i guess. originates from AAVE

[47°09′45″S, 126°43′05″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

@prologic@twtxt.net want to share the snippet of your Caddyfile for irc.mills.io?

I have a very old inspired with two-ish nodes. Though you have to be on the DN42 network to reach it.

I have a very old inspired with two-ish nodes. Though you have to be on the DN42 network to reach it.

@bender@twtxt.net I noticed that although the Discover view (and your own Timeline) is much improved with a MaxAgeDays configuration at the pod level, that now some profiles are rather empty. This is only because well, they’re a bit “inactive” so to speak 🗣️ Not sure what to do about this at the moment… Open to ideas? 💡

@prologic@twtxt.net Hmm, speaking of locally running “AI” stuff: Someone on Mastodon has this in their profile description:

My profile pic is AI modified to prevent deepfakes. I used local Stable Diffusion on my solar powered 7900XTX to average a few selfies.

That sounds like a fun thing to do. Do I have a chance of doing that on my old box from 2013 without a dedicated GPU? 😂

@bender@twtxt.net According to his @buckket Github profile, I belive so.

There are other tasks LLM(s) are far better suited for, which are also its downsides, and gawd so expensive and unrealistic to run yourself 🤦‍♂️ Do you know what one of these NVIDIA H100’s cost? 💲 That’s right! 🤣 > $50k USD 😱 And many of the models out there require 8 of these suckers 🤣 Each one consumes around ~400W of power each (not including the machine that houses them!)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah I couldn’t agree more. The utility of using it in any way to form “truths” or to do anything that require a high degree of “accuracy” is utterly pointless.

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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
Alec MacGillis,  Reporters  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Fascist authoritarians like Despot Trump and his minions don’t ever like objectively verifiable databases to be compiled or maintained because the information can be used to prove how inferior their social policies are. If you have been reading my research papers (see SR arch … ⌘ Read more

China’s Breakthrough: Thorium Discovery Promises 60,000 Years of Clean Energy
,    -  Discovery / Alert

_Stephan: This, I think, is a very big deal and, in a planetary sense, good news, although not for the United States. It is going to be a major factor in ending the carbon era that Despot Trump, his unethical servants, and his oligarch funders are working so hard to keep Americans trapped in. I think this is the technology my remote viewers have b … ⌘ Read more

Experts Say Abrupt and “Staggering” CDC Cuts Will Cost Lives
Rita Rubin,    -  Journal of the American Medical Association

Stephan: America’s medical community of physicians and nurses is beginning to recognize how deadly the incompetence and disregard for human life of Despot Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and the rest of the fascist MAGAts really is.  It is going to have a fatal effect on the population of America.

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‘Victory for scammers’: Trump fires 90% of Consumer Protection Agency staff
Jake Johnson,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story | Common Dreams

_Stephan: Donald Trump is both a fascist authoritarian and a lifelong scammer and grifter. Steaks, University, I am sure you can remember some of them. Or do a Google search, you’ll be amazed he is not in prison. So it is entirely predictable that as President, he is making it very hard to catch scammers and grifters. Un … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Since you have to check and double check everything it spits out (without providing sources), I don’t find any of this helpful. It’s like someone’s in the room with you and that person is saying random stuff that might or might not be correct. At best, it might spark some new idea in your head and then you follow that idea the traditional way.

Information published on the internet (or anywhere, for that matter) was never guaranteed to be correct. But at least you had a “frame of reference”: “Ah, I read this information about Linux on a blog that usually posts about Windows, so this one single Linux post might not necessarily be correct.” That is completely lost with LLMs. It’s literally all mushed together. 🤷

AI isn’t a shortcut for thinking. In her guide for skeptics, Hilary Gridley reframes AI as a collaborator—not a replacement. Use it like spellcheck for your thoughts. Don’t fear it—iterate with it. Insight improves, speed follows. Full post: https://hils.substack.com/p/the-ai-skeptics-guide-to-ai-collaboration

A mate and I had an amazing but also exhausting hike to the highest of the Three Emperor Mountains yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Sunny 18°C, blue sky with barly a cloud and a little welcoming breeze, just beautiful.

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Mt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. It’s also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both aren’t at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.

We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devil’s pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Haven’t come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, it’s yummy.

We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I won’t do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.

Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/

Chaining Bugs Like a Hacker: IDOR to Account Takeover in 10 Minutes

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️ TryHackMe: Agent T Walkthrough

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“A sneaky mission to uncover secrets from Agent T’s server.”

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