NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner,  Health Car Reporter | Health and Environment Reporter  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: MAGAt Monarch Trump and his regime are very pointedly doing nothing to prepare for climate change. Indeed, they deny it exists as a real alteration in the ecosystems of Earth. So no funding for healthcare to prepare for what is demonstrably happening. It is going to create … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s iPhone 17 range will feature the thinnest iPhone ever
For the first time, 9News can reveal these leaked iPhone 17 Models in video to show the likely changes coming later this year. ⌘ Read more

[47°09′32″S, 126°43′30″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain

10 High-Tech Projects Made Possible Only by Global Partnerships
In an increasingly interconnected world, many of humanity’s greatest technological achievements didn’t come from a single nation—they came from global collaboration. Whether the goal was to explore space, contain disaster, or decode the building blocks of life, these projects demonstrate that when countries pool their resources, talent, and innovation, the results can be nothing short […]

The post [10 Hig … ⌘ Read more

‘iPhone Fold’ to Feature Metallic Glass Hinge That Resists Deformation
Last week, we covered a report claiming that Apple’s book-style foldable iPhone (or “iPhone Fold,” as we are provisionally calling it here) will use liquid metal hinges to improve durability and help minimize screen creasing. Today, a Chinese leaker provided more details on the properties of this hinge material that help to clarify why Apple chose it for its first foldable device.

![](https://images.macrumors.com/arti … ⌘ Read more

Easily Create MacOS Virtual Machines with VirtualBuddy
VirtualBuddy offers a simple way to quickly virtualize MacOS (and Linux) on any Apple Silicon Mac, offering an easy method for developers, enthusiasts, and the curious to run multiple instances of MacOS on their Mac. And VirtualBuddy is speedy with great performance, plus it’s free and open source, so you can easily explore the world … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/26/easily-create-macos-virtual-machines-with-virt … ⌘ Read more

Woman visited the pet store to pick out a new cat. Look what just happened ⌘ Read more

2 is a great idea, you should suggest it in that blog post.

About 1, well, I think anyone has an email address and only about 5% use a Feed, so it makes sense to offer what most people use 🤔

hmm @prologic@twtxt.net how did replying to lyse double up here?

hmm @prologic@twtxt.net how did replying to lyse double up here?

if it hasn’t updated in a while so i put the request rate to once a week it will take some time before i see an update if it happens today.

if it hasn’t updated in a while so i put the request rate to once a week it will take some time before i see an update if it happens today.

I need to figure out a way to back off requests to feeds that don’t update often.

I need to figure out a way to back off requests to feeds that don’t update often.

We recently buried ook 18 year old cat at the pet cemetery, so my wife and me started fixing up the neglected graves, tonight on her bday she wanted to light a candle for every pet. ⌘ Read more

Easily Create MacOS Virtual Machines with VirtualBuddy
VirtualBuddy offers a simple way to quickly virtualize MacOS (and Linux) on any Apple Silicon Mac, offering an easy method for developers, enthusiasts, and the curious to run multiple instances of MacOS on their Mac. And VirtualBuddy is speedy with great performance, plus it’s free and open source, so you can easily explore the world … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/26/easily-create-macos-virtual-machines-with-virt … ⌘ Read more

Here’s to 18 ½ Years ⌘ Read more

Mathieu Pasquet: slixmpp v1.10
This new version does not have many new features, but it has quite a few
breaking changes, which should not impact many people, as well as one important
security fix.

Thanks to everyone who contributed with code, issues, suggestions, and reviews!

After working on TLS stuff, I noticed that we still allowed unencrypted SCRAM to be negociated, which is really not good.
For packagers who only want this security fix, the commit fd66aef38d48b6474654cbe87464d7d416d6a5f3 should app … ⌘ Read more

“Unread messages: -1”: Well, classic off by one error. I gotta have to hunt that down.

[47°09′28″S, 126°43′57″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain

@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting! Two points stood right out to me:

1. Why the hell are e-mail newsletters considered a valid option in the first place? Just offer an Atom feed and be done with it! Especially for a blog of this very type. This doesn’t even involve a third party service. Although, in addition he also links to Feedburner, what the fuck!? No e-mail address or the like is needed and subject to being disclosed.

2. When these spam mailers want to prevent resubscribing, then for fuck’s sake, why don’t they use a hash of the e-mail address (I saw that in yarnd) for that purpose? Storing the e-mail address in clear text after unsubscribing is illegal in my book.

@prologic@twtxt.net In all seriousness: Don’t worry, I’m not going to host some Fediverse thingy at the moment, probably never will. 😅

But I do use it quite a lot. Although, I don’t really use it as a social network (as in: following people). I follow some tags like #retrocomputing, which fills my timeline with interesting content. If there was a traditional web forum or mailing list or even a usenet group that covered this topic, I’d use that instead. But that’s all (mostly) dead by now. ☹️

Karmada Launches Adopter Group
Karmada is thrilled to announce the launch of the Adopter Group program. This program aims to create a dynamic platform where adopters can connect, collaborate, and share information efficiently. By fostering an environment of shared experiences… ⌘ Read more

Debian bookworm live images now fully reproducible
In a short\
note to the Reproducible Builds
mailing list, Debian developer Roland Clobus announced that live
images for Debian 12.10 (“bookworm”) are now 100% reproducible. See the reproducible\
live images and Debian Live todo
pages on the Debian wiki for more inf … ⌘ Read more

I want to present the twtxt feed from Python Valencia: https://twtxt.python-valencia.es/
Technical curiosity: It is generated using n8n, using the official rss.
#welcome

@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 state of the page in 2025
The folio transition is one of the most
fundamental kernel changes ever made; it can be thought of as being similar
to replacing the foundation of a building while it remains open for
business. So it is not surprising that, for some years, the annual Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit has included a
session on the state of this transition. The 2025 Summit was no exception,
with Matthew Wilcox updating the group on what has been accomplishe … ⌘ Read more

Apple’s Mac Site Features Fictional ‘Lumon Terminal Pro’
Apple is going all out with promotions for the popular Severance Apple TV + show today, and as of right now, you’ll find a new “Lumon Terminal Pro” listed on Apple’s Mac site.

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The Lumon Terminal Pro is designed to look similar to the machines that Severance employees like Mark … ⌘ Read more

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.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net It already is a tiling window manager, but some windows can’t be tiled in a meaningful way. I admit that I’m mostly thinking about QEMU or Wine here: They run at a fixed size and can’t be tiled, but I still want to put them in “full screen” mode (i.e., hide anything else).

Alien Enemies Act Deportations Were Carefully Orchestrated To Keep Courts In The Dark
Josh Kovensky,  Investigative Reporter  -  TPM

Stephan: We are all watching the ongoing coup and the rising autocracy. What particularly stands out for me over the past several days is the deliberate carefully constructed dismantlement of our democracy’s legal system.

![](https://www.schwartzreport.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Screenshot-2025-03-25-a … ⌘ Read more

Law firms refuse to represent Trump opponents in the wake of his attacks
Michael Birnbaum ,    -  msn | The Washington Post

_Stephan: One of the keys to all fascist takeovers of democracies when the democracy is being taken apart is to so threaten and badly damage the legal system that when critics and opponents are attacked by the authoritarian, they cannot even get a lawyer to represent and defend them in the courts while, at the same time, the cour … ⌘ Read more

There are 132 lawsuits against Trump. Pay attention to these two.
Ian Millhiser,  Senior Correspondent  -  Vox

_Stephan: I predict we are within a few weeks of the final threshold to see if the United States still has a functioning democracy-based legal system. As this article describes, the answer to this question will come down to how the Supreme Court rules on these two cases. Speaking as a historian, the two worst Supreme Court decisions, in my opinion, of … ⌘ Read more

iPhone 17 Pro Supports 8K Video Recording, Suggests Leaker
Apple’s forthcoming iPhone 17 Pro models are capable of shooting 8K video, up from the current maximum 4K capture resolution on the iPhone 16 series, a Chinese leaker has today suggested.

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The Weibo-based account Fixed Focus Digital on Wednesday said that the iPhone 17 Pro is “something to look … ⌘ Read more

I need to import my yarn cache. It’s sitting at about 1.5G in registry format. That should make things interesting…

I need to import my yarn cache. It’s sitting at about 1.5G in registry format. That should make things interesting…

Lmao, its just a hack around the search input thingy, and the server stores your search and serves it to us as a chat

Rock Identification
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There are 82.108 read statuses, but only 24.421 messages in the cache. In contrast to the cache with the messages, the read statuses are never cleaned up when a feed was unsubscribed from. And the read statuses also contain old style hashes, before we settled on the what we have today. Still a huge difference. Hmm.

Thanks, @movq@www.uninformativ.de!

My backing SQLite database with indices is 8.7 MiB in size right now.

The twtxt cache is 7.6 MiB, it uses Python’s pickle module. And next to it there is a 16.0 MiB second database with all the read statuses for the old tt. Wow, super inefficient, it shouldn’t contain anything else, it’s a giant, pickled {"$hash": {"read": True/False}, …}. What the heck, why is it so big?! O_o

My girlfriend and our two girls brought this little girl home after finding her abandoned on a walking trail , she was pretty traumatized but after a few weeks she is starting to come around. This is Kitty . ⌘ Read more

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

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You could also just use a tiling window manager. :-) As a bonus, it doesn’t waste dead space, the window utilizes the entire screen. To also get rid of panels and stuff, put the window in fullscreen mode.

Thinking about adding a little “focus” feature to my window manager: It hides all but one window, no wallpaper, no bars.

It would turn this

https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a0.jpg

into this

https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/a1.jpg

or this

https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b0.jpg

into this:

https://movq.de/v/a75eb68770/b1.jpg

🤔

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’m glad to hear that! Yay for more clients. 😊

Use Apple AirPods Pro 2 to perform medically certified hearing test
One of the most hyped new features Apple announced last year was the potential to use the existing Apple AirPods Pro 2 to perform a hearing test - and that feature is rolling out in Australia today. ⌘ Read more

If I didn’t mess this up, 61 feeds reduced down to 36.

I now subscribed to most feeds in my Go tt reimplementation that I already followed with the old Python tt. Previously, I just had a few feeds for testing purposes in my new config. While transfering, I “dropped” heaps of feeds that appeared to be inactive.

This might motivate me to actually “finish” the new client, so that it could become my daily driver. No need to use the old software stack any longer. Let’s see how bad this goes.

I’ve identified several issues with my current (admittedly cheap) upright bass by now. It might be time to upgrade to a better model. 🤔

If only those things weren’t so damn expensive. I just checked the prices and simply burst out laughing. 😂

8 Ways to Empower Engineering Teams to Balance Productivity, Security, and Innovation
Explore how Docker’s suite of products empowers industry leaders and their development teams to innovate faster, stay secure, and deliver impactful results. ⌘ Read more

I fed this guy for a couple of days and now he came and sat next to me 🥹 ⌘ Read more

Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode
Discover the differences between agent mode and Copilot Edits with GitHub Copilot—and when to use them in your workflows.

The post Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Building Secure Kubernetes Edge Images with Kairos and k0s
Why combining these CNCF projects simplifies Kubernetes deployment at the edge. Edge computing is rapidly changing the landscape of application deployment, demanding solutions that are lightweight, secure, and easily managed, particularly when it comes to Kubernetes… ⌘ Read more

[$] Development statistics for 6.14
By the time that Linus Torvalds released
the 6.14 kernel, 11,003 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the
mainline, making this one of the smallest releases we have seen in some
time. Indeed, one must go back to the 4.0\
release, which happened almost exactly ten years ago, to find a release
with fewer changesets than 6.14. Even so, “small” is relative, and 6.14
contains a lot of significant changes. ⌘ Read more

just wanted to share my baby girl ⌘ Read more

‘I don’t care what judges think’: Tom Homan doubles down despite deportation ban
David Edwards,  Contributing Writer  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: Border czar Tom Homan is a despicable human being. He is also stating out loud what psychopath “king” Trump and his MAGAt servants believe and Project 2025 stated clearly, and which the Supreme Court has ruled is American law. The President is above the law, and immune to any prosecution for his official decis … ⌘ Read more

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change
Annie Waldman and Sharon Lerner,  Staff Writers  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: An important part of the psychopath “king” Trump’s coup and strategy to create a kind of neo-medieval society owned and controlled by Trump’s oligarch aristocracy, is to dismantle and disable any attempt to prepare for climate change. This report describes the coup group’s latest move. Why is this happening? The an … ⌘ Read more

(#ajd3rxa) @lyse@lyse I think the community should be allowed to experiment mate 😅 Just make tt2 ignore such items in feeds a …
@lyse @lyse.isobeef.org I think the community should be allowed to experiment mate 😅 Just make tt2 ignore such items in feeds and you’re good 👍 ⌘ Read more

Customize Adaptive Audio on AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2
Apple’s AirPods 4 and second-generation AirPods Pro have an Adaptive Audio feature that includes Adaptive Noise Control, Personalized Volume, and Conversation Awareness, which are all features that adjust sound and Active Noise Cancellation in response to the environment around you. If you haven’t used Adaptive Audio, it could be worth a look – especially since iOS 18 allows you more control over the feature.

![](https://images.m … ⌘ Read more

My best friend made me promise to take care of his cat (pancreatic cancer). Now, both my friend and his cat are gone but they were both good friends. Sad face. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, most of the graphical applications are actually KDE programs:

• KMail – e-mail client
  
• Okular – PDF viewer
  
• Gwenview – image viewer
  
• Dolphin – file browser
  
• KWallet – password manager (I want to check out pass one day. The most annoying thing is that when I copy a password, it says that the password has been modified and asks me whether I want to save the changes. I never do, because the password is still the same. I don’t get it.)
  
• KPatience – card game
  
• Kdenlive – video editor
  
• Kleopatra – certificate manager
  

Qt:

• VLC – video player
  
• Psi – Jabber client (I happily used Kopete in the past, but that is not supported anymore or so. I don’t remember.)
  
• sqlitebrowser – SQLite browser
  

Gtk:

• Firefox – web browser
  
• Quod Libet – music player (I should look for a better alternative. Can’t remember why I had to move away from Amarok, was it dead? There was a fork Clementine or so, but I had to drop that for some unknown reason, too.)
  
• Audacity – audio editor
  
• GIMP – image editor
  

These are the things that are open right now or that I could think of. Most other stuff I actually do in the terminal.

In the past™, I used the Python KDE4 bindings. That was really nice. I could pass most stuff directly in the constructor and didn’t have to call gazillions of setters improving the experience significantly. If I ever wanted to do GUI programming again, I’d definitely go that route. There are also great Qt bindings for Python if one wanted to avoid the KDE stuff on top. The vast majority I do for myself, though, is either CLI or maybe TUI. A few web shit things, but no GUIs anymore. :-)

Release Candidate of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, Available for Testing
Apple has issued the Release Candidate builds of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4. Release Candidate (RC) builds are typically the last version of a beta cycle before the software gets issued to the general public, indicating that final versions of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4 are coming soon, possibly … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/ … ⌘ Read more

Deals: Apple Watch 10 for $299, AirPods 4 for $100, AirPods Pro 2 for $170
Amazon is back with some more great deals on Apple gear, this time taking $100 off the price of Apple Watch Series 10, $30 off AirPods 4, and knocking $80 off the price of AirPods Pro 2. Why pay full price when you don’t have to? Check out the deals and enjoy. Apple Watch Series … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/24/deals-apple-watch-10-for-299-airpods-4-for-100-airpods-pro-2-for-170 … ⌘ Read more

@2a23a/c8705/a3f9c : It feels good to read positive texts! I also wish you the best in this increasingly unstable world. from Limoges (France).

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, right, a type would be good to have! :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where can I join your club? Although, most software I use is decentish in that regard.

I just noted today that JetBrains improv^Wcompletely fucked up their new commit dialog. There’s no diff anymore where I would also be able to select which changes to stage. I guess from now on I’m going to exclusively commit from only the shell. No bloody git integration anymore. >:-( This is so useless now, unbelievable.

My disabled calico girl learned to climb the stairs!!! ❤️ ⌘ Read more

A maintainer’s guide to vulnerability disclosure: GitHub tools to make it simple
A step-by-step guide for open source maintainers on how to handle vulnerability reports confidently from the start.

The post A maintainer’s guide to vulnerability disclosure: GitHub tools to make it simple appeared fir … ⌘ Read more

[47°09′33″S, 126°43′56″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

“it is very easy to filter or ignore it” This is the interesting part for legacy clients, hehe

Joking aside, let’s see how it works in the wild!

The 6.14 kernel is out
Linus has released the 6.14 kernel, a bit
later than expected:

So it’s early Monday morning (well - early for me, I’m not really a
morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I
didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon
release schedule.

I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and
delayed things.

But no. It’s just pure incompetence.

See the LWN merge-window summaries ( [part 1](https://lwn. … ⌘ Read more

Reimagining Log Management Tools and Software: The Impact of AI and GenAI
Today’s distributed, cloud-native systems generate logs at a high rate, making it increasingly difficult to derive actionable insights. AI and Generative AI (GenAI) technologies—particularly large language models (LLMs)— are transforming log management tools by enabling teams… ⌘ Read more

Explore our DEI Community Hub at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025
The CNCF community is truly global; our contributors, members and ambassadors span the world. We invest heavily in community-driven initiatives to fuel sustained momentum, expansion, growth and adoption. Importantly, we continued to support DEI initiatives to… ⌘ Read more

[$] Lessons from open source in the Mexican government
The adoption of open-source software in governments has had its ups and
downs. While open source seems like a “no-brainer”, it turns out that
governments can be surprisingly resistant to using FOSS for a variety of
reasons. Federico González Waite spoke in the Open Government track at SCALE 22x in Pasadena,
California to recount his [experiences\
working with and for the Mexican government](https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x/speak … ⌘ Read more

(#uuch2uq) It looks interesting but not enough for me to buy one 😅
It looks interesting but not enough for me to buy one 😅 ⌘ Read more

(#xxu5i3a) @andros@andros This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev This is cool! 😍 Migut just have to add support for this to see how it might work in yarnd 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Goodbye to my best friend Walter ⌘ Read more

Software Engineer Runs Generative AI on 20-Year-Old PowerBook G4
In a blog post this week, software engineer Andrew Rossignol (my brother!) detailed how he managed to run generative AI on an old PowerBook G4.

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While hardware requirements for large language models (LLMs) are typically high, this particular PowerBook G4 model from 2005 is equ … ⌘ Read more

There Are Four Things You Must Do to Save America
Stephan A. Schwartz,  Editor  -  Schwartzreport

_Stephan: As I was researching stories for today’s SR, I did a podcast with a host named Helen Cowan. She asked me what I thought was going on in the United States, and what I thought ordinary people could do to preserve the nation’s democracy and avoid the country being owned by oligarchs. As I answered her I thought that rather than do the usual four trend stories … ⌘ Read more

10 Real-Life Crimes Inspired by Fiction
Fictional stories are meant to entertain, provoke thought, or even inspire—but sometimes, they inspire people in the worst way possible. Throughout history, there have been disturbing cases where individuals committed real-life crimes after being influenced by movies, books, TV shows, or even video games. Whether driven by delusions, obsession, or a desire to mimic their […]

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Looking for the perfect night out? There’s an AI for that – no joke
The “Funny Finder” released for this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival matches fans to their perfect show – with a little help from artificial intelligence. ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me I think the benefits do not outweigh the disadvantages. Clients would have to read and merge the information from 2 txt and a new metadata would have to be added with the address of this file.
Also, it is very easy to filter or ignore it.

Apple Watch Blood Pressure Feature Hits More Snags in Apple’s Testing
Apple’s plan to bring blood-pressure tracking to the Apple Watch is still hitting snags, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman says that … ⌘ Read more

👀

Is it working now?
I’d say again that perhaps the DMs could be stored in another .txt, but anyway I’d like to try it.

Any ideas on what to name this cute 1-year-old girl? ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org (I think of pointers as “memory location + type”, but I have done so much C and Assembler by now that the whole thing feels almost trivial to me. And I would have trouble explaining these concepts, I guess. 😅 Maybe I’ll cover this topic with our new Azubis/trainees some day …)

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Pointers can be a bit tricky. I know it took me also quite some time to wrap my head around them. Let my try to explain. It’s a pretty simple, yet very powerful concept with many facets to it.

A pointer is an indirection. At a lower level, when you have some chunk of memory, you can have some actual values sitting in there, ready for direct use. A pointer, on the other hand, points to some other location where to look for the values one’s actually after. Following that pointer is also called dereferencing the pointer.

I can’t come up with a good real-world example, so this poor comparison has to do. It’s a bit like you have a book (the real value that is being pointed to) and an ISBN referencing that book (the pointer). So, instead of sending you all these many pages from that book, I could give you just a small tag containing the ISBN. With that small piece of information, you’re able to locate the book. Probably a copy of that book and that’s where this analogy falls apart.

In contrast to that flawed comparision, it’s actually the other way around. Many different pointers can point to the same value. But there are many books (values) and just one ISBN (pointer).

The pointer’s target might actually be another pointer. You typically then would follow both of them. There are no limits on how long your pointer chains can become.

One important property of pointers is that they can also point into nothingness, signalling a dead end. This is typically called a null pointer. Following such a null pointer calls for big trouble, it typically crashes your program. Hence, you must never follow any null pointer.

Pointers are important for example in linked lists, trees or graphs. Let’s look at a doubly linked list. One entry could be a triple consisting of (actual value, pointer to next entry, pointer to previous entry).

  _______________________
 /               ________\_______________
↓               ↓         |              \
+---+---+---+   +---+---+-|-+   +---+---+-|-+
| 7 | n | x |   | 23| n | p |   | 42| x | p |
+---+-|-+---+   +---+-|-+---+   +---+---+---+
      |         ↑     |         ↑
       \_______/       \_______/

The “x” indicates a null pointer. So, the first element of the doubly linked list with value 7 does not have any reference to a previous element. The same is true for the next element pointer in the last element with value 42.

In the middle element with value 23, both pointers to the next (labeled “n”) and previous (labeled “p”) elements are pointing to the respective elements.

You can also see that the middle element is pointed to by two pointers. By the “next” pointer in the first element and the “previous” pointer in the last element.

That’s it for now. There are heaps ;-) more things to tell about pointers. But it might help you a tiny bit.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev @prologic@twtxt.net Exactly. The screenshots of the last few days show it in action. But I do not consider it ready for the world yet. @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt appears to have a high pain tolerance, though. :-)

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev You use your real name as login name, too?

@prologic@twtxt.net I see this with the scouts. Luckily, not at work. But at work, I’m surrounded by techies.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh my goodness! I’m so glad that I don’t have to deal with that in my family. But yeah, I guess you’re onto something with your theory. This article is also quite horrific. O_o

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I guess the thing is that usernames are no longer needed for many popular things, like WhatsApp. “Just install the app”, done. When I ran my Matrix server for our family, this was the first thing that people were bummed out about: “Oh, this needs a username and a password? Why doesn’t it just work? That’s annoying.”

People are less and less exposed to “low-level” details like this. There was also this story in 2021 about the concept of a “file”: https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

I lost my original Windows 95 CD (and it’s too expensive for my taste to buy on eBay), so I finally sat down and got an old disk image of one of my PCs to work in QEMU.

I don’t intend to do much with Win95. I just want to be able to boot it, if I want to check how certain things worked or looked in that version. The purpose of this really is to be an archeological digsite.

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@eapl.me@eapl.me I looked at the first few puzzles and they are pretty cool so far! I haven’t actually implemented any of them, but I’m fairly certain about how I’d solve them properly. I went through some linked reference articles yesterday, they’re also really good. I will recommend this to some workmates. :-)

Musk PAC offers voters $100 for signing petition against ‘activist judges’
Henry Redman,  Reporter  -  Wisconsin Examiner / Raw Story

_Stephan: It is apparently now legal in the United States for oligarchs to openly bribe American voters to vote for the candidate of their choice. Can this possibly be true? I am ashamed to tell you it is, and here is the factual proof.  Psychopath Trump’s Frankenstein co-president Musk, as this report describes, is openl … ⌘ Read more

20% of Americans support boycott of firms aligning themselves with Trump agenda
Lauren Aratani ,  Reporter  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

Stephan: Americans, at least some of them, seem to be waking up to what is being done to the democracy, economics, and gender and racial equality of the United States by psychopath Trump and his oligarchs and MAGAt (formerly Republican) Party. I completely support this, and my wife and I are amongst the boycotters.
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List of American Companies That Support President Donald Trump
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_Stephan: Here is a list of companies and individuals who are supporting psychopath “king” Trump and what he is doing to the United States. If you want to stop the destruction of American democracy, our economy, gender and racial equality, and the place of the United States in the world, don’t spend a dime with any of these companies. (cl … ⌘ Read more

Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance
Joe Lancaster ,  Staff Writer  -  reason

_Stephan: In the course of my life, as I have studied how wellbeing fostering social transformations can be made to happen, I have spent a considerable amount of time in fascist, authoritarian, and communist countries. One of the things I learned over those years is that the people in those countries become very sensitive to tripwires … ⌘ Read more

It’s extremely surprising to me that younger non-technical people just type in their full name (properly cased first and last name with a space in between) for a technical username in account registration or login forms. I’ve seen that happening several times in the past few years. The field name is “Benutzername” in German, literally “username”. Even adding a placeholder text to signal that they could simply use their nickname in lowercase did not change anything at all. Well, one person used at least an e-mail address.

This wasn’t the case six, seven years ago, everybody had some “real” username. Even non-techies. It looks like some “common knowledge” is getting lost. Strange. Very weird. It trips me every time I see it.

Have you experienced something similar?

10 Crazy Ideas for Colonizing Outer Space
Are we humans destined for outer space? It would seem so. Because eventually, what’s a civilization to do other than expand to other worlds beyond its own comfortable cosmic nursery? Whether based on science fiction or science-science, as civilization advances, it seems that the natural inkling is to explore and expand, to settle its solar […]

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Apple Watches With Cameras Rumored, But FaceTime Unlikely
Apple is working on multiple new Apple Watch models with built-in cameras for release by 2027, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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Apple Watch SE With Plastic Design Now in ‘Jeopardy’ for Two Reasons
There might not be a plastic Apple Watch SE this year after all, according to the latest word from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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