Ten Movies Overshadowed by Behind-the-Scenes Controversies
The job of Hollywood is to present us with an immaculately presented fantasy with beautiful people and big money. That’s why we can’t look away when things go wrong. For these ten movies, things went so wrong behind the scenes that it overshadowed the Hollywood magic; these ten movies had controversies bigger and more memorable […]
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[47°09′23″S, 126°43′33″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
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more examples:
2020 Jan1 New Year's Day @yearly
2020 jan 3Mon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day @yearly
2020 feb 3Mon President's Day @yearly
2020 may -1Mon Memorial Day @yearly
2020 jun19 Juneteenth @yearly
2020 jul1 Independence Day @yearly
2020 jul24 Pioneer Day @yearly
2020 sept 1Mon Labor Day @yearly
2020 oct 2Mon Columbus Day @yearly
2020 nov11 Veteran's Day @yearly
2020 nov 4Thur Thanksgiving Day @yearly
2020 dec25 Christmas Day @yearly
2025-01 Fri [ ] Take out Trash @weekly
2024-10-17 Thu [x] (A) Did this and that completed:2024-10-18
2025-10-18
[ ] (A) Submit important papers
[ ] (B) Work on +ProjectB
- some note
2024-10-21
- some notes about things to remember for Monday
[ ] Do that
[ ] Travel the stars
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more examples:
2020 Jan1 New Year's Day @yearly
2020 jan 3Mon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day @yearly
2020 feb 3Mon President's Day @yearly
2020 may -1Mon Memorial Day @yearly
2020 jun19 Juneteenth @yearly
2020 jul1 Independence Day @yearly
2020 jul24 Pioneer Day @yearly
2020 sept 1Mon Labor Day @yearly
2020 oct 2Mon Columbus Day @yearly
2020 nov11 Veteran's Day @yearly
2020 nov 4Thur Thanksgiving Day @yearly
2020 dec25 Christmas Day @yearly
2025-01 Fri [ ] Take out Trash @weekly
2024-10-17 Thu [x] (A) Did this and that completed:2024-10-18
2025-10-18
[ ] (A) Submit important papers
[ ] (B) Work on +ProjectB
- some note
2024-10-21
- some notes about things to remember for Monday
[ ] Do that
[ ] Travel the stars
Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 11 2025: 14 PRs, 3 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.
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MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 22 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 22nd 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.
The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.
Logs for the previous meeting are available in the #monerokon channels2.
It is worth mentioning that a CCS proposal to partially fund this year’ … ⌘ Read more
I taught my tabby how to take selfies, now she’s obsessed with it ⌘ Read more
(#h3a6nma) @xuu@xuu Got a sample to show/share? 🤔
@xuu @txt.sour.is Got a sample to show/share? 🤔 ⌘ Read more
(#7ujtv2a) @xuu@xuu Oh wow! Thank you ! 🙏 And yeah even at 2x it sounds good enough to comprehend 🤣
@xuu @txt.sour.is Oh wow! Thank you ! 🙏 And yeah even at 2x it sounds good enough to comprehend 🤣 ⌘ Read more
Yeah. It’s mostly a parser at the moment. But I have extended the calendar.txt to include todo.txt and a repeat syntax to generate future occurances of events and todos.
Yeah. It’s mostly a parser at the moment. But I have extended the calendar.txt to include todo.txt and a repeat syntax to generate future occurances of events and todos.
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
so dry.. haha this would put me to sleep
Chapter 3:
Chapter 4:
so dry.. haha this would put me to sleep
Bit of an update, there is now a general licence for all my stuff:
“Unless projects are accompanied by a different license, Creative Commons apply (“BY-NC-ND” for all art featuring the Canine mascot and “BY-NC” for everything else).”
It’s even included on my website, where most of the demand for a clear licence originated from:

In practice this changes nothing, as I was never enforcing anything more than this anyway and given permission for other use too. Now it’s just official that this is the baseline, of what can be done, without having to ask for permission first.
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
Chapter 1:
Chapter 2:
if you want a different voice let me know which to use: https://rhasspy.github.io/piper-samples/
@prologic@twtxt.net 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..
@prologic@twtxt.net 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..
In the meantime, I tried to add English subtitles, so the international audience has a chance of enjoying some of them, too. There are a bunch of puns, so translations don’t work at that great.
I went to an exhibition of my fine arts teacher who passed away last year. He was a pretty cool dude and good teacher. I reckon I had him in 7th and probably also 8th grade. His Schelme (imps) were very famous here in this county and presumably well beyond.
Unfortunately, picture frame glas doesn’t mix all that great with a fairly dark light and my camera. So, sorry in adavance for the poor quality. Anyway, I photographed a few funny paintings. Watch out, it may contain saucy contents: https://lyse.isobeef.org/siegfried-wagner-farrenstall-2025-03-15/.
i’m going to k-pop-ify the yarn verse. everyone look at miyawaki sakura or i will uh do server magic to make your CPU run worse or something
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Hahaha, nice! :-D I had to check the solution to get it. It’s a good one.
also friends i started a patreon to support my one woman website stuff :) i’m nervous about it so i only have a single $3 tier but i might add more if i can think of more stuff to offer
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
guys i loveee this song it’s so late 70s early 80s but idol-ified it has this j-idol groove to it that i rarely hear in k-pop it’s great
(#zldiqva) @movq@movq I’d have to hear it to get it 🤣
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Extreme weather and powerful winds predicted for 100m Americans
, - Associated Press
Stephan: Maybe this is getting covered on your local media, but I don’t see much discussion in the national media (this came from A British newspaper). It is, of course, yet another manifestation of the changing climate. Anyway if these storms are headed your way, prepare. This is all just going to get worse and worse.
 @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me MH my pod seems to have the correct URL 🤣
@eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me MH my pod seems to have the correct URL 🤣 ⌘ Read more
@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.
Gajim: Gajim 2.0.3
This release fixes some group chat issues and allows to store individual window sizes. Thank you for all your contributions!
With Gajim 2.0, we migrated Gajim’s user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow.
Gajim 2.0.3 will store dimensions for each window, so it always remembers your preferred window size. Furthermore, this release fixes is … ⌘ Read more
yarnd pods that form a "distributed network".
@prologic@twtxt.net how come when you reply to eapl.me it doubles up? bug?
yarnd pods that form a "distributed network".
@prologic@twtxt.net how come when you reply to eapl.me it doubles up? bug?
(#j3xacqa) @eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me@eapl.me I think the general idea that we’re settling on here is that maybe we can build a simple solution …
@eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me @eapl.me I think the general idea that we’re settling on here is that maybe we can build a simple solution to this whole “wtf is this hash?” problem. yarnd already forms a sort-of “distributed network” amongst its pe … ⌘ Read more
@a658d you’re so wrong btw, there’s no need to reinvent stuff but reimplementing is always a good idea
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 03/10 to 03/14 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/14/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
Tasting room helps consumers detect different flavours in olive oil
Olive oil producers and judges want Australians to get more familiar with the different flavours of the pantry staple. ⌘ Read more
it seems to be “an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#History
I’d like to know more about what andros and prologic are talking about, I feel lost.
“This will be managed by Registries.” Are we talking about these registries?
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html
@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Dito. Even though I only had four day weeks and three days of weekend the last month, I feel very exhausted as well. Back to five days next week. :-(
@movq@www.uninformativ.de That’s cool! I just can’t justify the amount of space it permanently takes. But it fits nicely with the other gauges you have. And with that in mind, it actually is super tiny.
@eapl.me@eapl.me Interesting, I wasn’t aware that other parts of the world consider them to be a German thing :-)
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[47°09′50″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
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.
The app is not public facing and appears to be for use with companies that Apple partners with … ⌘ Read more
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Judge orders Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back
Lily Jamali, Tech Correspodent - BBC (U.K.)
Stephan: Here is some good news. It tells us that there are still honorable men and women serving as judges. Congressional Republican flying monkeys, of course, are trying to impeach them. However, these judges offer hope that some part of the U.S. government that Trump’s coup is trying to destroy still works.

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10 Expensive Infrastructure “Solutions” That Were Total Fails
Infrastructure projects are meant to improve lives, reduce congestion, and modernize cities, but sometimes, they backfire spectacularly. Whether due to poor planning, unintended consequences, or outright corruption, these projects exacerbated the very problems they were designed to fix. From flood barriers that made flooding worse to highways that increased traffic, here are 10 times infrastructure […]
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Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update
Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services ( RCS) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates.
“End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported since the … ⌘ Read more
(#r5t4s6q) @andros@andros What a nice thing to say 🙇♂️
@andros @twtxt.andros.dev What a nice thing to say 🙇♂️ ⌘ Read more
[AFH] Hungarian - English translation
Native Hungarian speaker. I can both translate from and to English. The pricing is flexible.
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/FNqv/
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter February 2025
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Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again!
This issue covers the month of February 2025.
Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help thes … ⌘ Read more
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NRMA Insurance helping customers recover quickly after Cyclone Alfred
With the effects of ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred still unfolding, NRMA Insurance is encouraging community members across South East Queensland and Northern NSW to prioritise safety. ⌘ Read more
How to Disable Type to Siri on MacOS Sequoia
The latest versions of MacOS make it easier than ever to use Type to Siri, but many Mac users are finding themselves accidentally triggering the ‘Type to Siri’ feature on their Mac running the latest MacOS Sequoia releases. This can be frustrating, and if you don’t use Siri or Type To Siri you might not … Read More ⌘ Read more
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!
Part 1 of the move (Kassel to Braunschweig) is complete. Today we dropped off the van, handed over the apartment, and took the opportunity to take one last walk through the nearby park and nature. Part 2 (second home to new primary residence) will follow soon. ⌘ Read more
Work takes up 110% of my energy at the moment. All I can do is sit here and try to unwind.
On an entirely unrelated note, Resident Alien (Alan Tudyk!) and Ghosts (Rose McIver!) are great shows.
@eapl.me@eapl.me @bender@twtxt.net @prologic@twtxt.net Not including a photo was a stupid move, sorry. There you go:
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
How GitHub engineers learn new codebases
Strategies to quickly get up to speed, whether you’re a seasoned engineer or a newcomer to the field.
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@prologic@twtxt.net @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I like to listen to you.
I found this cat outside a few weeks ago and decided to keep it. My dad is convinced it’s a small bobcat, can I return it to the wild? ⌘ Read more
OpenAI Calls on U.S. Government to Let It Freely Use Copyrighted Material for AI Training
OpenAI, known for its ChatGPT chatbot, today submitted AI recommendations to the Trump administration, calling for deregulation and policies that give AI companies free rein to train models on copyrighted material in order to compete with China on AI development.

_Stephan: You may be one of the thousands of federal workers who lost their job without notice, but the psychopath who caused you to lose your job has plenty of time to play golf, does it most weekends by being flown from the White House to Mar-a-Lago in Florida, and American taxpayers, including you, are payin … ⌘ Read more
(#r5t4s6q) @lyse@lyse Ita more so that with enough data you start to need an index
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10 Noteworthy Rock Bands That Don’t Have a Drummer
No matter where you are in the world, everyone knows the sound of a rock band: vocals, guitars, bass, and drums. Simple, effective, and easy to recreate in your own living room or garage. But, while drums are generally considered an essential part of the rock band sound—driving the beat, maintaining the rhythm, and providing […]
The post [10 Noteworthy Rock Bands That Don’t Have a Drummer](https://listverse.com/2025/03/13/10-notewo … ⌘ Read more
Is Woke-ism Being Weaponized to Destroy Free & Open Source Software?
Let’s take a look at the theory that Big Tech & Activists are attempting to destroy Open Source with Woke & DEl ideology. ⌘ Read more
IMDT V2N SBC: A Vision-AI Computing Platform with Dual MIPI CSI and Renesas RZ/V2N Processor
IMDT has introduced its latest System-on-Module and Single-Board Computer, both powered by the Renesas RZ/V2N processor. These new platforms are designed to deliver cost-effective, high-performance AI computing at the edge, supporting applications in robotics, smart cities, industrial automation, IoT, and smart retail. The core of both the SOM and SBC is the Re … ⌘ Read more
iPhone 17 Pro Machined Parts Leak Reflects Camera Redesign Rumors
Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 Pro models are expected to feature a significant design overhaul, and a new image apparently taken on an assembly line for the unreleased devices appears to confirm the biggest rumored change.
Render of an iPhone 17 Pro model shared by Jon Prosser
The iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are … ⌘ Read more
Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Line-up for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon China 2025
This June in Hong Kong, cloud native enthusiasts from across Asia and around the world will convene to move forward cloud native, open source, and AI technologies Hong Kong, China, 12 March, 2025 – The Cloud… ⌘ Read more
Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 19 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 19th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.
PEP 779: Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python
The acceptance of PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython), as announced by the Steering Council, describes three phases of development for the work to remove the Global Interpreter Lock. Phase I started early in the development of Python 3.13, and includes making the free-threaded (GIL-less) Python build available but explicitly experimental. Phase II would make the free-threaded build officially supported but still optional, and phase III would … ⌘ Read more
the way he just starts falling back asleep right after trying to bite 😭 ⌘ Read more
How Long Does Updating MacOS Take? Why Is MacOS Update Taking So Long?
One of the questions many Mac users have when they see newly available system software updates for MacOS is “how long will updating MacOS take?” followed by “why is MacOS update taking forever?” These are both perfectly reasonable questions, and it’s important to remember the answers can vary. But, with modern MacOS, you can also … Read More ⌘ Read more
I got a small desk calendar as advertising gift. It shows three months at once. I’m using this thing since the beginning of this year and I have to say that it turned out to be super useful. I’m happily surprised.
It sits on my desk next to my rightmost monitor. I’ve set it up so that I can see the last, current and next months. Each morning, I advance the “today window” or whatever its proper name is. This gives me a sense of what date we have today and which I will have forgotten half a minute later already. At most. However, it’s easily at hand by turning my head just a few degrees.
With the last month still showing, I had several occasions so far where a date in the past popped up in a meeting. I could easily tell when something happened, how long ago that was. Or how many days or weeks are left until we have to deliver something, etc.
In hindsight, this is absolutely no surprise at all. But I still find it fascinating. I’m now actually wondering why I never had something like that before. How could I live without that thing? Sure, I pulled up a calendar on my computer, ncal -w3 or so. But I always hated the inverted ncal output, necessary for showing week numbers, though. Having a paper calander right next to my screen at all times is sooooo much more handy.
So, do yourself a favor and think about whether such a desk calendar might be useful to you.
The only annoying thing is that the “today window” moves too easily. It slips down by its own. I reckon it wants me to regularly interact with it, so that I memorize the current date.
@andros@twtxt.andros.dev If something fits in a CSV file, it typically doesn’t require a database. I agree with that. Depending on the application, more complicated queries might benefit from a database, though. I don’t know awk very well, but I could imagine that grep, sed and cut reach their CSV processing limits rather quickly when you have to deal with escaped (multiline) fields.
I only very rarely have to deal with CSV files or databases in my day to day life. Maybe, these classic Unix tools offer some tricks I’m not aware of. When I have some more complicated CSV input, I generally reach for Python.
Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials
Critical authentication bypass vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-25291 + CVE-2025-25292) were discovered in ruby-saml up to version 1.17.0. In this blog post, we’ll shed light on how these vulnerabilities that rely on a parser differential were uncovered.
The post [Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials](https://github.blog/security/sign-in-as-anyone- … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′05″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
Legends of Open Source Under Attack by Leftist Extremists
The most prominent leaders in Free and Open Source Software (from Stallman to Torvalds) are regularly attacked, ostracized, or outright banned by Leftist Extremists. ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation Wants “Non-White, Non-Male” People in their Projects
Linux Foundation Community Manager proudly proclaims, “I haven’t contributed” anything but wants “Non-White, Non-Male, Non-30ish” people to feel welcome. ⌘ Read more
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.
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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