Leaked Recording Confirms Apple’s Discriminatory DEI Hiring Policies
Apple VP of Engineering, Jon Andrews, on refusing to hire for a management role “until we find a diverse slate”: “This is super important because… ⌘ Read more

here is my progress so far: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/twtxt-direct-message-php
The encryption part seems to work, if I decrypt it the message with OpenSSL.
I think it can help you for some key parts not well explained in OpenSSL documentation.

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev reading your spec I wrote a few notes here: https://github.com/eapl-gemugami/twtxt-direct-message-php/blob/main/direct_message_spec.md

@arne@uplegger.eu I haven’t check your repo yet, although you are using sodium, right?

Microsoft Creates New Form of Quantum Matter to Avoid Fixing Windows
Microsoft’s new quantum processor, Majorana 1, currently can do nothing. ⌘ Read more

@eapl.me@eapl.me Here is what I’ve got so far: https://github.com/upputter/testing-twtxt-dm

There is a “00_well_known_message.enc” file, which I have the encryption paremters for (https://github.com/upputter/testing-twtxt-dm/blob/9fdf3be6aa8fe810a4cb275375dbb3d4a2a958ee/wellknown_test.php#L28).

According to my finding, I assume, that the saltsize in openssl is “8” and the PBKDF2 algo is “sha256”.

Engaging with the developer community on our approach to content moderation
We share the full year 2024 data update on our Transparency Center and highlight how developers can engage with us on our site policies and content moderation.

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Those are some impressive wigs: https://imgur.com/gallery/life-imitates-video-game-5KlJBhj I wonder how it feels to wear such a thing for a day – especially in summer. 😅🥵

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev Could you share (perhaps in the extension document) the private key for alice?

I want to compare that I can read the encrypted message both from OpenSSL CLI and from the PHP OpenSSL library, following the spec.

trying to implement it quickly, I get the same questions than you

# https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-pbkdf2.php
    $password = $sharedKey;
    $salt = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16);  # What's the salt length ?
    $keyLength = 20;  # What's the key length here ?
    $iterations = 100000;
    $generatedKey = openssl_pbkdf2($password, $salt, $keyLength, $iterations, 'sha256');
    echo bin2hex($generatedKey)."\n";
    echo base64_encode($generatedKey)."\n";

    $iv = openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16); // AES-256-CBC requires 16-byte IV
    $cipherText = openssl_encrypt($message, 'aes-256-cbc', $generatedKey, OPENSSL_RAW_DATA, $iv);
    return base64_encode($iv . $cipherText);

@arne@uplegger.eu I think you want to use the sodium_crypto functions/modules for PHP 🤔🤔

(#k2ob6bq) @arne@arne I think you want to use the sodium_crypto functions/modules for PHP 🤔🤔
@arne @uplegger.eu I think you want to use the sodium_crypto functions/modules for PHP 🤔🤔 ⌘ Read more

@arne@uplegger.eu Hi! I love that you’re implementing it! Maybe, when we’re both done, we could test the clients by communicating both.
I don’t think I’m going to be able to help you much, my knowledge of OpenSSL and PHP is not as high as I’d like it to be.
Maybe the OpenSSL version uses SHA-1 by default in PHP. Or that the IV is derived together with the key (not generated separately). But I’m not able to answer your questions, sorry.
I’m invoking the commands directly, without any libraries in between. Maybe that would help you?

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hello @c8e00 ! All the best to you too, despite a very disrupted world… I live in France, lost in the countryside.

@arne@uplegger.eu Well, just for my understanding. The command:
echo "Lorem ipsum" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100000 -out message.enc -pass file:shared_key.bin
will take the input string from echo to openssl. It then will

1. use the content of shared_key.bin as password
   
2. use PBKDF2 with an iteration of 100000 to generate a encryption key from the given password (shared_key.bin)
   
3. use the PBKDF2 generated key for an aes-256-cbc encryption
   

The final result is encrypted data with the prepended salt (which was generated by runtime), e.g.: Salted__q�;��-�T���"h%��5�� ....

With a dummy script I now can generate a valide shared key within PHP ‘openssl_pkey_derive()’ - identical to OpenSSL.
I also can en-/decrypt salted data within my script, but not with OpenSSL. There are several parameters of PBKDF2 unknown to me.

Question:

1. Is the salt, used by aes-256-cbc and PBKDF2 the same, prepended in the encrypted data?
   
2. Witch algorithm/cipher is used within PBKDF2: sha1, sha256, …?
   
3. What is the desired key length of PBKDF2 (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.openssl-pbkdf2.php)?
   

To be continued …

(#7mxlpza) @movq@movq that used to be me until I lobbied to have fiber optic to the premise
@movq @www.uninformativ.de that used to be me until I lobbied to have fiber optic to the premise ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Highlights from CodeBEAM Lite London
The inaugural CodeBEAM Lite London conference was held at CodeNode last month, featuring 10 talks, 80 attendees, and an Erlang Solutions booth. There, attendees had the chance to set a high score in a BEAM-based asteroid game created by ESL’s Hernan Rivas Acosta, and win an Atari replica.

Learning from and networking with experts across the BEAM world was an exciting opportunity. Here are the highlights from the talks at the event.

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‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security
Jake Johnson,  Senior Editor  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: Social Security and Medicaid are about to be gutted. Millions will be affected by the loss of financial support and healthcare. I have told you over and over we are in the midst of a coup and one party – the Republicans – has collapsed and like docile hamsters are doing what they are told. The only thin … ⌘ Read more

The Man Madison Warned Us Against
Harold Meyerson,  Editor-at-Large  -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: I have spent some time watching and reading “king” Trump’s propaganda media, as well as CNN’s weird Abby Philips show. Not surprisingly they are all tying themselves into knots trying to normalize the Trumpian/Musk coup. I think Harold Meyerson gets it right. Criminal Trump, his Frankenstein Musk, and his other servile lackeys working to implement the coup are exactly what the Founder Jam … ⌘ Read more

Some of the country’s most coveted voters are fed up with American democracy
John Sakellariadis,    -  Politico

_Stephan: This, I think, encapsulates where American voters stand in both parties. I think much of this is driven by the research paper on Humanity’s Precognition that I posted to SR a short while ago. If you haven;t read it I suggest you do (go to the SR archive). WHat I don’t understand is why the Democractic Party cannot seem to compreh … ⌘ Read more

Trump Could Make China Great Again
James Crabtree,  Columnist  -  Foreign Policy

_Stephan: Trump and those who serve his coup has just destroyed the 80 year NATO alliance which has kept the developed world at peace. But his geopolitical ignorance is even worse than that. Trump has set it up for China to become the most important nation in the world. Trump has cut off all kinds of aid and support across the globe, and in the influence vacuums he has created China is happily stepping up to r … ⌘ Read more

oh cool @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org !! and thanks, got rid of that empty line. ATM I’m using twtxt very much in an experimental way, only manual editing or writing my tools. curious to see how it will evolve. #meta #twtxt

10 Greatest Corporate Faceplants of All Time
Even the most powerful corporations can crumble overnight when bad decisions pile up. Some ignored innovation, others made catastrophic financial moves, and a few simply refused to believe their downfall was possible. In many cases, their mistakes were obvious in hindsight. Yet executives remained blind to the warning signs until it was too late. These […]

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10 Times Eclipses Marked History
Telling the time in the ancient world was tricky; trying to describe the past between different cultures was almost impossible. People used different calendars, and attempting to make them work together was tricky. Your year of the Consulship of Cornelius Rufus and Curius Dentatus might be the year of the Archon Charinus to your neighbor. […]

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Turned around only to find my cats staring at me. ⌘ Read more

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I finally captured this lil guy last week and have been holding him the past several days. He has taken well to socialization as you can see. ⌘ Read more

Does anybody know a right mouse click save and reduce a screen saver image to a smaller file, say 50KB?
My usual method is slow, place in image program and re-save it smaller.

I used to have a Window’s way to reduce file images from 1MB to 50 KB with right mouse click.

Love my new shed, getting ready to retire

[WTS] [~4 XMR] Monero-chan.com domain

I currently have it listed on Unstoppable Domains for $1000 (roughly equivalent to 4 XMR). If anyone buys this within a week, I’ll donate 1 XMR to this sub’s Monero-chan art fund. :)

Link: https://unstoppabledomains.com/search?searchTerm=monero-chan&ref=club&tlds=com

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I finally got Ubuntu Software to find Kolourpaint and it installed, now when I run the APP nothing happens.
Dead, zip narda.

Stupid program , what is wrong?

iPhone Camera App Deleted or Icon Missing? Here’s the Fix
Occasionally, some iPhone users have gone to use their Camera app and discovered the Camera app icon is missing from their iPhone Home Screen. Uh oh! Does this mean your Camera app was deleted? What do you do now? Don’t distress, fixing a missing Camera app on iPhone is usually pretty easy. The Camera app … Read More ⌘ Read more

The Open Source Initiative Has No Control of “Open Source” (but they want it!)
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Telstra to splash $800m on network upgrades, ups dividend
The telco lifted its first-half profit and dividend while CEO Vicki Brady also announced a $750 million share buyback plan. ⌘ Read more

no body to say hello?

happy to be here!

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev I have really tried to get behind it. For an implementation for my TwtxtReader (PHP) I simply lack the knowledge of the standard-openssl parameters.
All my solution approaches require “nonce” or “initialization vector” on one or the other side. In addition, the “magic numbers” (“Salted__”) were not consistent in my tests.

@prologic@twtxt.net I wish getting a static IP and a (more) stable internet connection wasn’t so hard over here. Then I could do proper self-hosting as well. But as it stands, I need some rented VPS.

I could go ahead and just use the VPS for the IP, i.e. forward all traffic through Wireguard to a box here at home. Big downside is that the network connection would be even slower than it already is and my ISP breaks down all the time for a few minutes … it’s just bad overall and much easier/better to rent a VPS. 🫤

hey @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I’ve seen your mention from uhhmmm 4months ago just now using my crawler -__-’ / curious to know, do you see my mention now? #meta #twtxt

Kmesh v1.0 officially released!
Stable, simple and high performance sidecarless service mesh At the beginning of the new year 2025, we are thrilled to announce the official release of Kmesh v1.0.0. We extend our heartfelt gratitude to all Kmesh community… ⌘ Read more

OSTIF Announces Linkerd Security Audit Results
The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF) is proud to share the results of our security audit of Linkerd. Linkerd is an open source service mesh for Kubernetes which prioritizes reliability, security, and simplicity. Thanks to… ⌘ Read more

Exploring multi-cluster fault tolerance with k8gb
Ambassador post by Gerardo Lopez (The Spanish version of this post is below.) As a CNCF Ambassador and proud Kubestronaut, I am always eager to explore innovative tools that enhance the resilience and scalability of cloud-native… ⌘ Read more

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Phew, okay. So, it took a few months to grow that big. I feared that it could have been just a week or so. Yeah, insulation always is a good idea.

My cat died yesterday, so I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures of him ⌘ Read more

NOAA Imposes Restrictions on Scientists, Raising Concerns Over Global Forecasting
: Cristen Hemingway Jaynes,  Contributing Writer  -  EcoWatch

_Stephan: I keep trying to find some positive trends shaping the United States. Sadly, I don’t find them. Instead, here is another report on the further trashing of the American government by “king” Trump and co-president Musk and his lackeys. The result will be that you will no longer get the same leve … ⌘ Read more

Solar has taken off in red states. Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic
Stephen Starr ,    -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: Do not expect the United States to be prepared for the climate change disasters that are occurring with increasing frequency. Everything that “king” Trump and his administration can do to sabotage the preparation for what I think is going to be a civilization-threatening crisis within 15 years is being done. They are undercutti … ⌘ Read more

Ukraine war: Macron warns against ‘capitulation’ as Trump suggests Russia may not make concessions
David Smith,  Staff Writer  -  The Guardian (U.K.)

_Stephan: It is becoming clear to the leaders of the NATO alliance that the United States is no longer a democracy or a reliable ally. It has become a christofascist, White supremacy, male-dominant, oligarchy-owned, kingdom ruled by a multiple felon. As I have been predicting not on … ⌘ Read more

USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
Allan Smith, Melanie Zanona and Laura Strickler,  Reporters  -  NBC News

_Stephan: If you read me regularly you will remember the story I ran the other day describing how “king” Trump and his prime minister Musk and his lackeys accidentally fired the men and women with the expertise to keep everything nuclear safe, then realized the stupidity of their a … ⌘ Read more

10 Societies with Unconventional Concepts of Time
We like to think of time as an unshakable force, ticking away with military precision in measured increments. But here’s the thing—time, as we know it, is completely made up. Sure, the sun rises and sets and seasons change, but the rigid structure of seconds, minutes, and hours, really, is all a human invention, like […]

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I am so sorry Maggie Forest, but I won’t be voting for you for the Ryan electorate. I will continue to vote for and support Elizabeth Watson-Br …
I am so sorry Maggie Forest, but I won’t be voting for you for the Ryan electorate. I will continue to vote for and support Elizabeth Watson-Brown a voice for the people of Ryan who actually gets things done! ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Holly, didn’t know bots and crawlers could do comedy now… they should’ve added “Dave Chappelle/69.420” to their UA.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m speculating, but if I had to guess I’d say it’s probably asking for your user password in order to access some user keyring (or whatever your OS uses to manage user secret credentials) used to safely store your passkeys related data in order to do its passkeys /ME doing air quotes Magic™ … you could try with a different password manager to avoid said scenario.

Also, passkeys UX sucks.

jeffro256 posts January 2024 Monero/Carrot dev update
jeffro2561 has posted the first progress report (M1/January 2025)2 for their Monero/Carrot3 dev work CCS proposal4:

I spent a lot of time reviewing / debugging the upcoming release v0.18.4.0 build. I would like to post more details about this for transparency, but some of it involves vulnerability work, so I will hold off for now. I plan to publish reports about this eventually.

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Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 26 February 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 26th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• FCMP research progress status4
  
• Fluffy blocks efficiency improvements
  
• Research on subnet deduplication for peer selectio … ⌘ Read more

Rucknium completes second milestone for statistical research CCS proposal
Rucknium1 has completed2 the second milestone for their latest CCS proposal to conduct statistical research to improve Monero’s privacy 3:

I have completed Milestone 2. [..] With @Boog900, investigated the empirical privacy impact of suspected spy nodes and organized a public campaign to urge Monero node operators to ban suspected spy nodes from connecting to their no … ⌘ Read more

KM3NeT
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How to Disable Apple Intelligence on iPhone, Mac, iPad
Apple Intelligence is an intriguing and powerful set of AI features available on the latest models of Mac, iPhone, and iPad with modern versions of system software. These AI features are tied to ChatGPT and range from useful writing and summarization tools, to business plan creation, to writing emails on your behalf, image generation with … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/18/how-to-disable-apple-intelligence-on-iphone … ⌘ Read more

Deals: M2 iPad Air 11″ for $499, iPad Air 13″ for $799, Apple Watch Series 10 for $329
Amazon is at it again with even more great deals on some popular Apple products, including the iPad Air in both 13″ and 11″ display sizes, great deals on Apple Watch Series 10, and an ongoing great deal on the 4-pack of AirTags. Why pay full price when you don’t have to? Check out the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/18/deals-m2-ipad-air-11-for-49 … ⌘ Read more

How to Disable Apple Intelligence on iPhone, Mac, iPad
Apple Intelligence is an intriguing and powerful set of AI features available on the latest models of Mac, iPhone, and iPad with modern versions of system software. These AI features are tied to ChatGPT and range from useful writing and summarization tools, to business plan creation, to writing emails on your behalf, image generation with … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/18/how-to-disable-apple-intelligence-on-iphone … ⌘ Read more

iPhone 16E Name is Increasingly Likely Instead of iPhone SE 4
Apple is expected to announce a new entry-level iPhone model tomorrow, and it is increasingly likely that the device will be named iPhone 16E.

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Most rumors have referred to the device as a new iPhone SE, since it will succeed the iPhone SE (3rd generation), but there is mounting evidence t … ⌘ Read more

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I don’t remember exactly. They might have been growing all winter. The trick is to have a badly insulated extension to the house.

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Hahaha, that’s sick, I love it! :-D I envy you a bit. On the other hand, I have to admit I’m glad that I don’t have to chisel down giant blocks of ice from the house.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I am a big fan of “obvious” math facts that turn out to be wrong. If you want to understand how reusing space actually works, you are mostly stuck reading complexity theory papers right now. Ian wrote a good survey: https://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~iwmertz/papers/m23.reusing_space.pdf . It’s written for complexity theorists, but some of will make sense to programmers comfortable with math. Alternatively, I wrote an essay a few years ago explaining one technique, with (math-loving) programmers as the intended audience: https://www.falsifian.org/blog/2021/06/04/catalytic/ .

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Mate, what an amazing video, holy cow! :-D We only get complete jokes of icicles compared to what you had there ealier today. It’s a giant wall. For how many days did that grow on your roof?

Powered by Docker: Streamlining Engineering Operations as a Platform Engineer
Learn how Docker streamlines developer onboarding and helps organizations set up the right guardrails to give developers the flexibility to innovate within the boundaries of company policies. ⌘ Read more

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Oh, that’s neat! Interesting how “obviously” isn’t all that obvious at all, even to the contrary. I reckon I have to read up on that subject on the weekend. :-)

I like how Ian’s and your photo complement each other, winter and summer join forces for something special. :-)

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org Wooooaaaahhh! That is BY FAR the biggest icicle I’ve ever seen. Really cool! :-) How long did it take to melt in your sink? The video download is still dripping in, looking forward to that.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk Sorry, I realized that shortly after posting. Here’s another attempt to post the images:

I’m surprised, here you can’t find dial controls anymore. How old are your ovens? The last one my parents had was from the 90s.

I was amazed experimenting with different combinations, for instance instead of 100, using 60 for a minute, 90 for 1:30, and stupid stuff like heating with 11, 22, 55 seconds and so, to make it quicker to type any time.

What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?
Comments: https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/twtxt.dev/issues/9#issuecomment-18960

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What would you like the new twtxt logo to be?

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Demo an Automated Canary Deployment on Kubernetes with Argo Rollouts, Istio, and Prometheus
Building stuff is fun! Let’s use Argo Rollouts, Istio, and Prometheus to automate a canary deployment on Kubernetes! The application we’ll run is the Argo Rollouts Demo Application which does a great job of visualizing how… ⌘ Read more

Royal Bank of Canada’s Cloud Evolution
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) is a global financial services institution and Canada’s largest bank (based on market capitalization). Technology is vital for RBC to deliver cutting-edge services to our clients and advance our businesses, ultimately… ⌘ Read more

How to manage three top Kubernetes security vulnerabilities
This article explains: Kubernetes and security Across various organizations, Kubernetes is being adopted at lightning rates. It is estimated that 60% of organizations have adopted this technology, and the list of companies planning on transitioning to… ⌘ Read more

When you’re half awake, but still too cute to handle 🐾 ⌘ Read more

iPhone SE 4’s Specs Could Lead to Enhanced Resale Value
Apple is expected to announce the fourth-generation iPhone SE as soon as tomorrow, potentially with improved long-term value retention, according to analysis by SellCell.

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Trump layoffs leave Hanford nuclear site with ‘skeleton crew’
Jayati Ramakrishnan,  Reporter  -  Seattle Times

_Stephan: The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the most dangerous and radioactive site in the Western hemisphere. It is where two-thirds of the plutonium that was used to make the U.S. nuclear weapons was created.  “King” Trump and his co-president Musk have now fired a large portion of the staff that keeps Hanford from becoming a nuclear disaster like Chern … ⌘ Read more

Trump officials struggled to reinstate nuclear weapons staff after firing hundreds
Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh,  Reporters  -  CNN

_Stephan: Criminal Trump’s coup is breathtaking. Even by the Nazis standards, that seem to be what is guiding him his plan, like everything else in his life, is third-rate. Incompetent. Nasty. Stupid. Nouveau riche flashy. They fired the men and women who keep our nuclear weapons, reactors, and waste storage – rem … ⌘ Read more

Head of Social Security abruptly resigns after clash with Elon Musk over DOGE’s access to sensitive data
Stephen M. Lepore,  Reporter  -  Daily Mail

_Stephan: The Musk gangsters of “king” Trump are looting your personal information and Michelle King, Acting Commissioner of Social Security had the integrity to resign from her post after she could not stop them.  And so the Trumpian coup continues. The American people creat … ⌘ Read more

The GOP’s Taliban has a new message for women
Thom Hartmann,  Commentator  -  Raw Story

_Stephan: As the MAGAt coup continues, as Thom Hartmann describes in this article, I think we are going to see an increasing trend to repress the voting capability of women and people of color. “king” Trump and the oligarchs who bought him his throne and control the government are largely genderists and White supremacy racists. They would prefer to have only ignorant White males voting because … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net All the URL are missing the protocol part (https://) and my markdown parser does not know how to handle but I see yarnd does it just fine.

10 Terrifying Ways to Take in the View
Everyone loves a good view, right? There are even entire TV shows dedicated to houses and buildings that provide the best views of the sea, mountains, or forests. Those not afraid of heights may enjoy their views of Earth’s most spectacular scenes from a viewing deck or observatory or while dangling from a harness between […]

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[47°09′14″S, 126°43′56″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

iPhone 17 Pro: Here’s What It Might Look Like
Is this what the iPhone 17 Pro model looks like in Apple’s upcoming iPhone 17 series? Front Page Tech’s 3D artist Asher this morning shared this image of the alleged design of the iPhone 17 Pro, offering perhaps the most polished example yet of Apple’s next-generation premium smartphone, should it turn out to be accurate. The image is based on increasingly consistent reports that Apple … ⌘ Read more

My Cat Sushi went to heaven at this moment. ⌘ Read more

Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 25 February 2024 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, February 25 2025 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.

Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.

Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business

The meeting’s moderator should be Boog9003. Consult the Cuprate co … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net Have you tried Google’s robots.txt report? https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062598?hl=en . I would expect Google to be pretty good about this sort of thing. If you have the energy to dig into it and, for example, post on support.google.com, I’d be curious to hear what you find out.

Install & Manage Homebrew Cask Apps on Mac Easily with Applite
Applite is a powerful free and open source MacOS application for streamlining the installation, updating, and management of third party apps using the Homebrew cask feature, without ever having to use the Terminal. Presented in an easy to use simple graphical interface, Applite is sort of like a third-party App Store that makes using Homebrew … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/02/17/install-manage-hom … ⌘ Read more

Self-hosting my emails again: A few weeks in
A few weeks ago, I moved back to self-hosting my mail server after using Purelymail for three years. The decision wasn’t about cost – it’s actually more expensive to rent a VPS – but about control, security, and data locality. My mails are now hosted in Europe, giving me more confidence in their privacy, and I can configure everything exactly as I want while ensuring compliance with GDPR. ⌘ Read more

Something interesting to think about for twtxt, the microblogging for hackers and friends…

The biggest challenge of ActivityPub is that it’s too technical to easily explain to regular people. Nobody is interested in a jargon-laden diatribe about servers and federation. When simple questions have overly complex answers, people tend to switch off.
https://activitypub.ghost.org/your-thoughts-on-onboarding/

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well, Gemini clients like Lagrange allow to show inline images when you click on an image link. Text based clients, like Amfora, usually allow to watch the image in another ‘window’.

For example here: gemini://text.eapl.mx/en-making-a-tic-tac-toe-variant and there https://text.eapl.mx/en-making-a-tic-tac-toe-variant

I agree that some topics require images to make it easier to explain.

Spotify Readies Premium Tier With Hi-Fi Audio and AI Features
Spotify users waiting to learn when the service’s long-delayed high-quality premium audio service will materialize may finally have something to chew on. Bloomberg reports that the streaming service hopes to roll out a new “Music Pro” tier later this year.

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On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• more to come…

**On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft
  

• Google
  

• Alibaba
  

• Open AI

• _more to come …**
  On my hit list of assholes tech giants that break the rules and are bad web citizens:

• Microsoft

• Google

• Alibaba

• Open AI

• more to come… ⌘ Read more

Can’t seem to prevent “bad bots” from aggressively hitting your shit™ 🤦‍♂️
Can’t seem to prevent “bad bots” from aggressively hitting your shit™ 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

American troops in Europe are not ‘forever,’ US defense chief Hegseth warns
Laura Kayali,    -  Politico

_Stephan: ”King” Trump and his vassals do not seem to understand the geopolitical relationships that for 80 years have kept us from world war. Sadly, I think we are going to see this structure wrecked by these morons. If the Ukrainian war ends in the Putin-Trump conclusion as it seems to be headed, I think we are going to see much more violence in t … ⌘ Read more

What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Robin Fields,  Staff Writer  -  ProPublica

_Stephan: Yet another factual proof that the pharmaceutical industry is about profit not fostering wellbeing. I think this story is disgusting, and you will notice that even though your tax dollars are used to develop drugs once developed they become tools to empty your pocket. If you don’t already know about it please use a discount service such as G … ⌘ Read more

I am so, so, so fed up with the arrogance of people in tech. People think they know everything. Everything is easy and trivial. “Told you so!”, everywhere you look. And this bloody condescending tone, all the time. When I ask for an opinion, I don’t want to get a “well, duh, idiot”. For fuck’s sake.

It’s nothing new, it’s always been like that. Which makes it even worse.

This really makes me not want to work in this field anymore.