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In-reply-to » An interesting episode about naming stuff, and some implications of the "Trademarks"

In Mexico you couldn’t register the word Sonora (state), nor Taqueria (kind of restaurant) as there are two common words, but perhaps the combination of both is trademarkable, I’m not sure, so many ‘taquerias’ here don’t file a trademark request. It’s usually “Taquería [LAST_NAME]” or “Taquería [PLACE]”.

At the same time, the word “taqueria” was trademarked in UK, like it would be “Paris” or “Pub” I guess, so basically Sonora Taqueria didn’t reply to the cease and desist, based on:

[Lizbeth García]: A brand may not use a word that is generic or descriptive of the products or services it is putting into circulation on the market.

Since he (Ismael, Taqueria’s representative) didn’t get any response, he decided to leave it in the hands of his law firm.

In early 2023, after all the noise on the internet and the mobilization caused by this case, an agreement was finally reached with Taquería to settle the matter peaceably.

In March 2023, Michelle and Sam decided to register the Sonora Taquería brand and logo with the UK Intellectual Property Office.

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[$] Catching up with calibre
Saying that calibre is
ebook-management software undersells the application by a fair
margin. Calibre is an open-source Swiss Army knife for ebooks that can
be used for everything from creating ebooks, converting ebooks from
obscure formats to modern formats like EPUB, to serving up an ebook
library over the web. The most recent major release, calibre 8.0,
brings a better text-to-speech engine, a tool for creating audio
overlays w … ⌘ Read more

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Ten Disturbing News Stories Involving Chatbots
Artificial intelligence has changed the world as we know it, for better and worse. With so many new developments, disturbing stories are sadly arising all around the globe. These range from vicious cyberstalking to chatbots encouraging users to harm themselves or others. AI has a dark underbelly. With the growth of platforms like ChatGPT and […]

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net I only buy stuff like that, for example games on GOG.COM. Or simply CDs or DVDs. (Rarely I “buy” a movie on some popular streaming service, fully aware that this is just “renting it”.)

But yeah, I sadly have to agree with @bender@twtxt.net. 😢

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Pam Bondi orders DOJ to drop case accusing Georgia of suppressing Black voters
David Edwards,  Staff Writer  -  Raw Story

Stephan: Pam Bondi, incomprehensibly the Attorney General of the United States looks to me like a Barbie doll and sounds about as competent as one. But she is an unfailingly loyal vassal of psychopath “monarch” Trump and is doing his bidding to destroy voting rights in the country. Here is the latest in that trend.

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In-reply-to » I have just received the royalties for the last book: 98 euros for the four-month period, about 24 euros a month on average. Not even enough for the gym membership. If you have to keep some knowledge: don't write for money, the paper (or ebook) industry is in a very bad way, the margins for the author are very small and piracy is devastating.

@prologic@twtxt.net Fully agreed. I’m far more likely to buy such mediums when DRM-free. I never go near Amazon eBooks etc because of their lock-in, and I have a Kobo eReader which needs to have the books side loaded unless directly from the Kobo store. I prefer DRM-free files every time.

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In-reply-to » hey friends guess who had tiktok teens flood a mostly abandoned site of hers that was meant for a small group of friends? and went from 15 to ~60 users in 20 minutes? ya girl

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz They all just wanted to be friends with a cool gal like you. ;-) It’s sad that putting things openly on the internet just waits to be raided by script kiddies, bots or spammers eventually.

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In-reply-to » This time, I brought my cam along. We checked out a piece of ex-forest they've cut down. It looks terrible now. :-( At least the spruce resin smell was nice. https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-03-27/

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, like nearly all of them. There is the so called Bannwald, where it typically is not allowed to log, but there’s only one in my entire county and I haven’t even visted it. I should change that. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bannwald

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Apple Begins Testing iOS 18.6 Update for iPhones
Apple this week began testing iOS 18.6, according to our website’s visitor logs, which have been a reliable indicator of upcoming iOS versions. The update is currently limited to Apple’s software engineers, with no developer or public beta available yet.

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10 Historical Connections That Don’t Seem Real but Are
Are you ready to have your minds blown? When we look at historical events, we generally like to group them into categories that our brains can handle. Historic happenings in one realm (like war) are often linked to those in similar realms (like politics) in a bid to show cause and effect. Similarly, events are […]

The post [10 Historical Connections That Don’t Seem Real but Are](https://listverse.com/2025/03/31/10-historica … ⌘ Read more

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Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters after attorney general sues
Thomas Beaumont,  Reporter  -  The Associated Press

_Stephan: America’s judiciary like its law firms is partially corrupt and weak and partially ethical and strong. This appellate court decision is an example of corruption and weakness. How could any ethical court rule that open bribery of voters to buy an election outcome is lega … ⌘ Read more

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10 Times Patriotism Influenced Pop Culture
Americans have found many ways to display a sense of patriotism over the years, but when patriotic symbols and messages find their way into pop culture, they can be inspiring in a fresh, unexpected way. Sometimes, this happens with films that depict impactful events, such as World War II, or that explore topics like freedom […]

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Microchip PolarFire-Powered TinyBeast FPGA Delivers Real-Time Performance with DDR4 and PCIe
CrowdSupply recently introduced the TinyBeast FPGA, a compact platform based on Microchip’s PolarFire FPGA technology. It stands out for its ability to offload computationally intensive tasks from the central processor, enabling real-time data processing in space-constrained environments like automation, measurement, and robotics. TinyBeast FPGA comes in two c … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds. I'd like to change that. It's by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn't have to be hacky all the time, as you don't need to be a nerd to have a blog. But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

thanks for sharing @xuu@txt.sour.is!

Checking for example https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt or https://registry.twtxt.org/api/plain/tweets, I don’t know whether this syntax is being used by clients or by people. Is it integrated on Yarn in any way? Genuinely asking to know more about it.

If I might throw a quick thought to those working on the registries, it would be nice to have an endpoint with a valid twtxt output (perhaps cached or dumped to a static file) which a client could point to, helping to discover it’s content in a way which is compatible with the twtxt spec.

Taking the first twt I found in https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt as an example:
reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt 2025-03-28T00:29:25Z **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])
it would be something like
TIME <@NICK URL> TWT
2025-03-28T00:29:25Z <@reddit_world_news https://feeds.twtxt.net/Reddit_World_News/twtxt.txt> **China bans US logs. 3 billion dollar[...])

That way you could watch the latest twts with your client, something similar to what we find on Mastodon: https://mastodon.online/public/local

Some support from the clients to separate these ‘discovery’ content, from your following timeline might be required. 🤔

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Women twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as men — but scientists do not know why
Sofia Moutinho ,  Contributing Writer  -  Nature Medicine

Stephan: If you are a woman, or married to a woman, or with female older relatives, please read this fact-based research report on Alzheimer’s disease. Notice three things: First, the extreme gender disparity. Second, the racial disparity. Third, the hormonal factor.

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M5Stack Expands Offline LLM Lineup with Ethernet-Enabled Kit
M5Stack has launched the Module LLM Kit, combining the Module LLM and Module13.2 LLM Mate for offline AI inference and data communication. It supports applications like voice assistants, text-to-speech conversion, smart home control, and more. This module operates using the AiXin AX630C SoC processor, also found in other M5Stack products like the LLM630 Compute Kit […] ⌘ Read more

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RFK Jr.’s Mass Layoffs: How Many Jobs Top Health Agencies Will Lose
Kristina Fiore,  Director of Enterprise & Investigative Reporting  -  MedPage Today

Stephan: The United States already has the lowest-ranked and most expensive healthcare system in the developed world. Now, as the fascists continue their coup, it is going to get worse. The vast majority of Americans have no idea what good healthcare is actually like.

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greek myth is crazy bc there’s the misogny but also yeah she IS getting that man pregnant. penelope and odysseus obviously (he literally WAS the one that carried telemachus) and ofc andromeda and perseus & hektor and andromache but also like. you cannot tell me helen didn’t get menelaos pregnant bffr

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LILYGO T-Deck Pro Offers E-Paper Display with Configurable 4G and Voice Options
LILYGO has introduced the T-Deck Pro, an open-source development board with a built-in keyboard and a 3.1-inch e-paper touchscreen. Combining sensor integration with touchscreen functionality, it can be applied to various projects in areas like IoT and portable devices. The board features the ESP32-S3FN16R8 dual-core LX7 microprocessor, similar to the T-Deck Plus released in December. … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @bender I taught the whole ecosystem 😁 @prologic @eapl.me The question I was asked the most was: How do I discover people? Someone came up with a fantastic idea, instead of adding the new twt at the end of the feed, do it at the beginning. So you can paginate by cutting the request every few lines.

Twtxt was made for nerds, by nerds.
I’d like to change that. It’s by nerds/hackers, for nerds/hackers and friends of these. It doesn’t have to be hacky all the time, as you don’t need to be a nerd to have a blog.
But, for that to happen, someone has to build the tools to improve UX.

by design there really is no way to easily discovers others
Yeah, I agree, and although there are directories of email addresses, usually you don’t want that, unless you are a ‘public figure’.
I couldn’t say that a microblogging is a “social network” by default, as a blog is not either. At the same time, people would expect to find new people and conversations, as you’d do in a forum.

I think of two features on top of the current spec:

  • Clients showing a few posts of what your following are watching but you don’t, so perhaps you find something interesting to follow next. Or that feature of “Your ‘followings’ are following these accounts/people”. (Hard to explain in english, but I hope you get the idea)
  • Sharing your .txt into some directory, saying “Hey, I have this twtxt URL, I want to be discovered”. I’m thinking of something like the Federated tab on Mastodon.

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10 OCD Themes That Are Not About Cleanliness
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a “mental health condition where distressing, intrusive thoughts (obsessions) trigger repetitive behaviors (compulsions) aimed at reducing anxiety or preventing something bad from occurring.” When most people think of OCD, they think of orderliness, cleanliness, color-coded closets, pristine lists, and grouping your Skittles into colors before eating them. Television and movies like […]

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In-reply-to » Wow, phishing is just around the corner 👀

@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.

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In-reply-to » I think I should try self-hosting some Mastodon thingy again.

@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. ☹️

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In-reply-to » I think I should try self-hosting some Mastodon thingy again.

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.

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Speaker Mike Johnson floats eliminating federal courts as GOP ramps up attacks on judges
Scott Wong, Melanie Zanona and Rebecca Kaplan,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, is not functioning as the leader of a coequal branch of the Executive branch. Instead, he behaves like a White House staff assistant. He is clearly a participant in the authoritarian dismantlement of the legal system of the United … ⌘ Read more

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Here’s What Apple’s iOS 19 Messages App Might Look Like
Leaker Jon Prosser today shared a mockup of what he says the Messages app will look like in iOS 19, demoing an interface with rounded, translucent bubble-shaped navigation buttons at the top and softer, rounder corners for the keyboard and word suggestions.

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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

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[$] 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

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In-reply-to » i really wanna learn golang it looks fun and capable and i can read it kind of but every time i try it i'm immediately stuck on basic concepts like "what the fuck is a pointer" (this has been explained to me and i still don't get it). i did have types explained to me as like notes on code which makes sense a bit but i'm mostly lost on basic code concepts

@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.

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Hahaha, a bird is singing really load and it sounds almost exactly like a car alarm. Well, it’s probably the other way around, the car alarm was modeled after the birdcall. :-)

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In-reply-to » 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.

@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

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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?

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Bill Gates Is Giving Up on Climate Change as Trump Drains the Woke Out of Washington: Looks like banking on billionaires to solve climate change isn’t gonna do the trick.
AJ Dellinger,  Staff Writer  -  Gizmodo

_Stephan: I confess this report surprised me. I thought Bill Gates, and his cohorts, recognized that no matter what Trump did they would stay the cour … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » 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.

@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. 🥴

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In-reply-to » 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.

Well, some time ago I put this in my ~/.Xdefaults:

URxvt.keysym.Control-Up:    \033[1;5A
    URxvt.keysym.Control-Down:  \033[1;5B
URxvt.keysym.Control-Left:  \033[1;5D
    URxvt.keysym.Control-Right: \033[1;5C

Probably to behave more like XTerm and fix a few other issues I had with other programs. But, it turns out, tcell expects the original sequence: https://github.com/gdamore/tcell/blob/main/terminfo/r/rxvt/term.go#L487

Hmm.

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Is there a way to auto-insert a time stamp on vi or vim at the beginning of each line? Like, upon opening like so:

2025-03-20 15:04:03 Blah blah blah blah
2025-03-20 15:04:15 Bleh bleh bleh bleh
2025-03-20 15:04:22 ...

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Julien Malka proposes method for detecting XZ-like backdoors
Julien Malka has
called for the NixOS project to use build-reproducibility to detect when a program has a maintainer-generated tarball that results in a different artifact than building from source. There are good reasons for projects to release maintainer-generated tarballs, but since the materials included in them are usually documentation, extra build scripts, and so on, it makes sense to check that they don’t … ⌘ Read more

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i really wanna learn golang it looks fun and capable and i can read it kind of but every time i try it i’m immediately stuck on basic concepts like “what the fuck is a pointer” (this has been explained to me and i still don’t get it). i did have types explained to me as like notes on code which makes sense a bit but i’m mostly lost on basic code concepts

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I always find the ‘Adven of code’ challenges difficult to follow.
i18n-puzzles.com has been a blast, but I don’t like having to think about puzzles on weekends. Like with exercise, doing it every day without rest doesn’t sound healthy.

I’d rater have a weekly challenge, at most three.

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In-reply-to » my biggest fear of starting to work with servers professionally is realizing that no one uses servers anymore and having to do some cloud bullshit instead

@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Using full-blown Cloud services is good for old people like me who don’t want to do on-call duty when a disk fails. 😂 I like sleep! 😂

Jokes aside, I like IaaS as a middle ground. There are IaaS hosters who allow you to spin up VMs as you wish and connect them in a network as you wish. You get direct access to all those Linux boxes and to a layer 2 network, so you can do all the fun networking stuff like BGP, VRRP, IPSec/Wireguard, whatever. And you never have to worry about failing disks, server racks getting full, cable management, all that. 😅

I’m confident that we will always need people who do bare-bones or “low-level” stuff instead of just click some Cloud service. I guess that smaller companies don’t use Cloud services very often (because it’s way too expensive for them).

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Here are the 60 universities under investigation by the Trump administration
Ray Bogan ,  Political Correspondent  -  Straight Arrow News

_Stephan: The Trump coup has made clear it considers the universities of America enemies of its authoritarian takeover of the United States. So completely predictably, like all fascist coups in history, the Trumpers (read neo-Nazis) are attacking and attempting to take control of American higher education. They g … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » My twtxt feed is now also available at gemini://roccodrom.de/twtxt.txt

well, I assume by syntax you mean Gemtext (which I like a lot, my personal blog is built on top of it), so I think it might work for twtxt clients…

I knew of twtxt in Gemini Antenna, so at least the 2017 spec might work on that protocol. I think the main issue with extensions is that they weren’t designed with many URLs and protocols in mind.

Also I have to admit that the Gemini community significantly reduced in the last few years. I don’t know how worth it is to add support for Gemini now.

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Judge finds Elon Musk likely acted unconstitutionally in shuttering USAID
Zach Schonfeld and Ella Lee,  Staff Writers  -  The Hill

_Stephan: This is good news on several levels. First, it will restore aid to millions of needy or ill men, women, and children. Second, it will hopefully, restore respect and appreciation for the United States – although trusting the U.S. again may take quite a while. Third, there have been a whole series of court rulings … ⌘ Read more

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Deals: EarPods Wired Headphones for $16, M3 iPad Air for $549, & More
While AirPods are wildly popular and completely wireless, there’s a growing movement of people who like to use more traditional wired headphones instead of wireless, whether it’s with their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Many people even prefer the wired headphones over wireless for various reasons. Apple still produces the classic white wired Apple EarPods headphones … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/202 … ⌘ Read more

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‘This Felt Like a Kidnapping Because It Was’: Family of Mahmoud Khalil Releases Arrest Video
Jessica Corbett,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: As I search the media each day it becomes ever more obvious that psychopath fascist Trump’s idea of government is to mimic Hitler. We are now at the stage where men in plain clothes showing no warrant can break into someone’s home and kidnap them, just as the Gestapo did. You can click … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @prologic I created a script for your book. i have only done the first two chapters. have to do some adjustments to the text so it sounds ok and that takes time..

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

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In-reply-to » @prologic I created a script for your book. i have only done the first two chapters. have to do some adjustments to the text so it sounds ok and that takes time..

ah crap. chapters 2, 4 and 5 are being cropped by yarn on upload. they should be more like 2-3 hours long

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wahhh i wanna work towards my dream of offering pay as you can web hosting (static & dynamic) but i don’t know how!!!!! i keep drifting towards hosting panels but i don’t exactly have fresh linux servers for those nor do i like the level of access they require. so i’m like ok i can do the static site part with SFTP chroot jails and a front-end like filebrowser or something…. but then what about the dynamic sites!!!!!!! UGH

granted i doubt i’d get much interest in dynamic sites but i’d like to do this old school where i can offer people isolated mySQL databases or something for some project (i’m thinking PHP based fanlistings), which means i could do it the old school way of… people ask me to run it and i do it for them. but i kind of want to let people have access to be able to do it themselves just short of giving them SSH access which isn’t happening

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DHS Official Explicitly Equates Protest to Terrorism in ‘Stunning’ Interview
Julia Conley,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Your country is being taken away from you, I hope every American realizes that. It is happening because a small majority of us voted for it. After all, all of what is taking place day-by-day was completely spelled out in Project 2025. Aspiring dictator Trump doesn’t like opposition so he has his flying monkeys trying to … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » @xuu Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the "Reply" button spits out @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me for me, which then gets eaten as two mentions, probably matching twice against my following list?

it seems like yarn still points my nick to both my older URL (404 now) along with the current one.

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In-reply-to » @eapl.me@eapl.me I replied in the fork, but essentially there's no reason we can't support two different models here. We already do this anyway with numerous single-user, single hosted and managed feeds + a bunch of multi-user yarnd pods that form a "distributed network".

@xuu@txt.sour.is Yeah looks like an edge case. Because of the way he announces his preferred nick in the feed the “Reply” button spits out @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me for me, which then gets eaten as two mentions, probably matching twice against my following list?

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SQL scares me i tweaked a bash script that pulled from a DB and the bash part was easy even if i was just going off of the code in there that i didn’t write (like i understood it at least) but the SQL parts had me suffering

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Apple Launches ‘Surveyor’ App for Apple Maps Data Collection
Apple today launched a new app called Surveyor, which is designed to allow users to collect data like images of street signs and roadside details to improve Apple Maps.

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The app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with … ⌘ Read more

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In-reply-to » 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.

ah! those german calendars. Somehow I was thinking of something like mine, with spaces to write inside each day.

I worked for a german company and they gave away these calendars to our clients and team every year, but the model you can hang on the wall. Memory unlocked!

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In-reply-to » 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.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ah, yes, a calendar that shows the past $x months is great! I have this as a widget in my bar:

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Before that I also used something like cal. It works, but it’s a bit cumbersome.

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In-reply-to » 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.

@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:

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This particular one is 95mm wide and 185mm high. Fairly compact.

I can only use it figure out distances to other dates and to do some basic calendar math. I’m not able to actually schedule anything. But I grew up with a month calendar like you have there where all appointments of the entire family was recorded.

By far most of my paper use is drawing random stuff on scratch paper during meetings. :-D

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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.

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In-reply-to » twtxt is a decentralised, minimalist microblogging service for hackers.

well (insert stubborn emoji here) 😛, word blog comes from weblog, and microblogging could derivate from ‘smaller weblog’. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Microblogging

I’d differentiate it from sharing status updates as it was done with ‘finger’ or even a BBS. For example, being able to reply; create new threads and sharing them on a URL is something we could expect from ‘Twitter’, the most popular microbloging model (citation needed)

I like to discuss it, since conversations usually are improved if we sync on what we understand for the same words.

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In-reply-to » What does the #twtxt community think about having a p2p database to store all history? This will be managed by Registries.

pls elaborate on a ‘p2p database’, ‘all story’ and ‘Registries’.

My first thought takes me to something like secure-scuttlebutt which it’s painful to sync data using clients, and too slow compared to downloading a text file.

Also I’d like for twtxt to avoid becoming an ActivityPub. Works well but it’s uses too many resources IMO.
https://kingant.net/2025/02/mastodon-the-cost-of-running-my-own-server/

I’m defending being able to self-host your Web client (like you’d do with a Wordpress, twtxt is a micrologging, at the end), instead of federated instances, so in a first thought I’d say Registries have many disadvantages being the first one that someone has to maintain them active.

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PicoCalc Brings Classic Computing to ClockworkPi v2.0 with Raspberry Pi Pico
The PicoCalc is a compact computing platform designed to recreate the experience of early personal computers. Running on 260KB of memory, it allows users to code in BASIC, explore Lisp, interact with a UNIX-like environment, and run retro games and digital music. Its modular and open-source design makes it adaptable for various applications. Built on […] ⌘ Read more

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