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@kiwu@twtxt.net wanna trade? I would be willing to become celibate to go back to my 20s, and believe me, if there is something I don’t want to do is becoming celibate, so that ought to tell you something! 😅
** Autumnal week notes **
Someone I grew up with happened to go to the same college as me, and now we happen to live in the same relatively small city. We’ve been totally casual but pretty consistent mainstays of each others’ lives for going on 20 years at this point. She’s also one of the few people that I run into who knows that I can’t actually see well enough to reliably tell people apart from any further away than like 4 or 5 feet, and I always feel really appreciative whenever she waves that she also always says“hi” and who … ⌘ Read more
Ukraine signs over 20 contracts with partner countries to supply weapons to Ukrainian forces ⌘ Read more
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$20,000 Bounty Offered to Bribe FFmpeg Team to Fire Contributor
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Who are the released hostages?
The Israeli military says 20 living hostages have been released by Hamas and have returned to Israel. ⌘ Read more
Who are the released hostages?
A ceasefire deal should see Hamas hand over all 48 remaining Israeli and foreign hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. ⌘ Read more
Who are the hostages being released?
A ceasefire deal should see Hamas hand over all 48 remaining Israeli and foreign hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. ⌘ Read more
Who are the 20 hostages being released?
A ceasefire deal should see Hamas hand over all 48 remaining Israeli and foreign hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. ⌘ Read more
Who are the 20 hostages being released?
A ceasefire deal should see Hamas hand over all 48 remaining Israeli and foreign hostages, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. ⌘ Read more
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**Shooting at crowded South Carolina bar leaves four dead **
Four people were killed and at least 20 injured, several critically, after a shooting at a crowded bar in South Carolina on Sunday. ⌘ Read more
**Shooting at crowded South Carolina bar leaves 4 dead **
Four people were killed and at least 20 injured, several critically, after a shooting at a crowded bar in South Carolina on Sunday. ⌘ Read more
“Trade war 2.0? China just told Trump: We’re not afraid of a tariff war” 🇨🇳🔥🇺🇸 ⌘ Read more
Ende „dramatischer Rallye“ bei Kakaopreis
Der Preis für Rohkakao ist in den vergangenen Jahren auf den internationalen Rohstoffmärkten steil nach oben geschossen und erreichte teils historische Höchstwerte. Doch durch den Rückgang der Nachfrage sowie positivere Ernteprognosen sind die Preise nun so niedrig wie seit 20 Monaten nicht, berichtete kürzlich die „Financial Times“ („FT“). Analysten sehen damit das Ende einer „dramatischen zweijährigen Rallye“ eingeläutet. ⌘ Read more
Plaid promises universal childcare if it wins Welsh election
Plaid will offer 20 hours of care for all families if it wins the next Senedd election, leader says. ⌘ Read more
Plaid promises universal childcare if it wins Welsh election
Plaid will offer 20 hours of care for all families if it wins the next Senedd election, leader says. ⌘ Read more
Plaid promises universal childcare if it wins Welsh election
Plaid will offer 20 hours of care for all families if it wins the next Senedd election, leader says. ⌘ Read more
Plaid promises universal childcare if it wins Senedd election
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Life sentence for man who murdered Syrian refugee
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Sabalenka extends Wuhan win streak to 20 matches
Aryna Sabalenka extends her winning streak at the Wuhan Open to 20 matches with a straight-set victory over Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals. ⌘ Read more
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Aryna Sabalenka extends her winning streak at the Wuhan Open to 20 matches with a straight-set victory over Elena Rybakina in the quarter-finals. ⌘ Read more
How 20 minutes of nature can boost your health
Spending just 20 minutes in nature can lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress levels. ⌘ Read more
‘No energy’ - Tuchel unhappy at ‘silent’ Wembley
England boss Thomas Tuchel sees his side score three times in 20 minutes in their 3-0 friendly win over Wales, but is left frustrated by the Wembley atmosphere. ⌘ Read more
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Deutsche Bundeswehr bekommt 20 neue Eurofighter ⌘ Read more
Man sentenced, fined over medicinal cannabis company insider trading
A Melbourne man found guilty of insider trading during a $20 million capital raise by a medicinal cannabis company has been ordered to pay more than $225,000. ⌘ Read more
Stealing Part of a Production Language Model (2024)
We introduce the first model-stealing attack that extracts precise, nontrivial information from black-box production language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s PaLM-2. Specifically, our attack recovers the embedding projection layer (up to symmetries) of a transformer model, given typical API access. For under $20 USD, our attack extracts the entire projection matrix of OpenAI’s ada and babbage language models. We thereby confirm, for the first time, that these black-box … ⌘ Read more
N3694: Functions with Data - Closures in C (A Comprehensive Proposal Overviewing Blocks, Nested Functions, and Lambdas)
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Hiring in high-growth firms: Exploring the timing of organizational changes
High-growth firms (HGFs) refer to businesses that achieve rapid growth in terms of employees or revenue. Based on the established definition, HGFs are businesses with at least 10 employees and annual growth rates of 20% or more, observed over a period of three years. This three-year span is considered the high-growth (HG) period of the company. Even though this growth is often short-lived and difficult to sustain, it plays … ⌘ Read more
US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex-trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. ⌘ Read more
Rise in Victoria’s prisoner numbers outpace population growth
Victoria’s prison population has surged by 62 per cent in the last 20 years as the number of accused held on remand triples. ⌘ Read more
IStGH spricht Ex-Milizenchef schuldig
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Raumfahrt: Jeff Bezos will Rechenzentren ins All verlagern
In zehn bis 20 Jahren könnten sich die Rechenzentren laut Jeff Bezos ins All verlagert haben und Millionen von Menschen wohnen dort. ( Jeff Bezos, Ferrari)
US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex -trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. ⌘ Read more
US Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell appeal in Epstein case
The British socialite is serving a 20-year prison sentence on sex -trafficking charges related to former boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein. ⌘ Read more
Anzeige: Beliebte Überwachungskamera TP-Link-Tapo-C200 unter 20 Euro
Die Tapo C200 bietet 360°-Sicht, Nachtsicht und Zwei-Wege-Audio. Aktuell ist die smarte WLAN-Kamera von TP-Link so günstig wie nie zuvor. ( TP-Link, Webcam)
Schüsse auf Straße in Sydney: 20 Personen verletzt ⌘ Read more
Man dies after becoming stuck in water tank
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Egypt reopens Amenhotep III’s tomb after over 20 years of renovation
Egypt on Saturday opened a tomb of a pharaoh for visitors after more than two decades of renovation in the southern city of Luxor, as it prepares for the official opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo. ⌘ Read more
@zvava@twtxt.net yarnd fetches the feeds roughly every ten minutes:
grep twtxt.net www/logs/twtxt.log | cut -d ' ' -f1 | tail -n 20
2025-10-04T07:00:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:10:26+02:00
2025-10-04T07:22:43+02:00
2025-10-04T07:30:45+02:00
2025-10-04T07:40:48+02:00
2025-10-04T07:52:59+02:00
2025-10-04T08:00:07+02:00
2025-10-04T08:13:33+02:00
2025-10-04T08:23:13+02:00
2025-10-04T08:31:22+02:00
2025-10-04T08:41:29+02:00
2025-10-04T08:53:25+02:00
2025-10-04T09:03:31+02:00
2025-10-04T09:11:42+02:00
2025-10-04T09:23:11+02:00
2025-10-04T09:29:49+02:00
2025-10-04T09:36:17+02:00
2025-10-04T09:46:33+02:00
2025-10-04T09:58:40+02:00
2025-10-04T10:06:54+02:00
I suspect that the timing was just right. Or wrong, depending on how you’re looking at it. ;-)
All good things come to an end, I guess.
I have an Epson printer (AcuLaser C1100) and an Epson scanner (Perfection V10), both of which I bought about 20 years ago. The hardware still works perfectly fine.
Until recently, Epson still provided Linux drivers for them. That is pretty cool! I noticed today that they have relaunched their driver website – and now I can’t find any Linux drivers for that hardware anymore. Just doesn’t list it (it does list some drivers for Windows 7, for example).
I mean, okay, we’re talking about 20 years here. That is a very long time, much more than I expected. But if it still works, why not keep using it?
Some years ago, I started archiving these drivers locally, because I anticipated that they might vanish at some point. So I can still use my hardware for now (even if I had to reinstall my PC for some reason). It might get hacky at some point in the future, though.
This once more underlines the importance of FOSS drivers for your hardware. I sadly didn’t pay attention to that 20 years ago.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Yeah, it’s probably not black and white. (I have no idea why you would connect a bloody light bulb to your WiFi …) But I do get the impression that there are way more “neo-luddites” that 20 years ago. 😅
20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could
now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest
Best Buy’s Member Deal Days Sale Has $20 Credit With AirPods Pro 3 Purchase and More
Best Buy recently kicked off a Member Deals Days sale, with exclusive discounts available only to My Best Buy Plus and My Best Buy Total members. With Amazon Prime Big Deal Days approaching, many retailers have begun introducing their own discount events, and Best Buy’s is set to end this … ⌘ Read more
MSI EdgeXpert Compact AI Supercomputer Based on NVIDIA DGX Spark
The MSI EdgeXpert is a compact AI supercomputer based on the NVIDIA DGX Spark platform and Grace Blackwell architecture. It combines a 20-core Arm CPU with NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU to deliver high compute density in a 1.19-liter form factor, targeting developers, researchers, and enterprises running local AI workloads, prototyping, and inference. The EdgeXpert achieves up […] ⌘ Read more
10 Ancient Places That Dropped Surprising New Finds
Human history is pockmarked with missing information, and that’s what makes new discoveries so valuable: they plug the gaps and provide a more complete timeline. Such finds should be rarer at well-studied sites. And yet, famous monuments are still dropping revelations that change the way we see them. In recent years, new finds showed that […]
The post [10 Ancient Places That Dropped Surprising New Finds](https://listverse.com/20 … ⌘ Read more
Lobby du tout-électrique, PwC, Jean Tirole : dépenses pour la croissance
Un article de Henry Bonner Et voilà, c’est fait : Fitch abaisse la note de la dette de la France… Et en dépit de l’envolée des taux d’intérêt, le gouvernement continue les dépenses. Comme l’échec du Premier ministre en France, la « défaite » du parti de M. Milei en Argentine dans une élection locale ce mois-ci montre […] ⌘ Read more
A bike ride to reset
After a tough last weekend, a little cold, and bad weather, I was really exhausted and not in the best mood this week. But I knew the weather would be great on Friday, so I planned a bike tour. A 47-kilometer round trip north where there aren’t many hills. ⌘ Read more
nicks? i remember reading somewhere whitespace should not be allowed, but i don't see it in the spec on twtxt.dev — in fact, are there any other resources on twtxt extensions outside of twtxt.dev?
@zvava@twtxt.net @movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m not entirely sure about the spaces, but maybe they were omitted to simplify parsing of mentions in the form of @<nick url>. If the next token after the @<nick does not look like a URL, it’s not a mention but regular text. This is just wild guessing, though.
Looking at the regex and tests in the original twtxt reference implementation seems to confirm that theory in the sense as it relies on whitespace as the delimiter:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-30-25.png
Another thing about nicks is that the original twtxt reference implementation converts nicks to all lowercase:
https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/screenshot-2025-09-17-21-20-39.png
You probably know this already, the original twtxt file format specification can be found here: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html
As for extensions, I don’t know of anything outside of twtxt.dev that has actually been (partially) implemented. However, there is also the issue tracker of the official reference implementation. You might wanna dig through that. For example, there is an alternative suggestions of multiline messages: https://github.com/buckket/twtxt/issues/157
20 ans !
Eh oui, cela fait 20 ans déjà ! C’est en septembre 2005 que ce blog vit le jour, recueil de notes et de remarques sur une actualité déjà assez liberticide à l’époque. Petit-à-petit, les notes sont devenues plus longues, les billets plus construits, illustrés, puis relayés au fil des années par différents supports numériques. De quelques […] ⌘ Read more
@zvava@twtxt.net It is just completely impossible to make v2 backwards-compatible with v1.
Well, breaking threads on edits is considered a feature by some people. I reckon the only approach to reasonably deal with that property is to carefully review messages before publishing them, thus delaying feed updates. Any typos etc., that have been discovered afterwards, are just left alone. That’s what I and some others do. I only risk editing if the feed has been published very few seconds earlier. More than 20 seconds and I just ignore it. Works alright for the most part.
Dear dev.alessandrocutolo.it, do you really need to fetch my twtxt feed every 20-30 seconds? 😅 Not that it’s posing a problem, but I feel like this could be optimized. For example, how about using the if-modified-since request header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/If-Modified-Since
RIP Android:
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
Since nobody is going to push back on this (I don’t even know if that would be possible), this is going to be a reality on every platform sooner or later.
I’d guess in 20, 30 years, there won’t be “PCs” anymore. No more home computing, no more “I just write my own software”. You won’t own devices anymore, it’ll all be rented and the landlord will tell you what you can do with it.
I hope that I’m wrong, but given where we are today, I don’t think that I will be.
Le 10 septembre, ça va chauffer !
Cela suffit ! Kevin ne se laissera pas faire, il est temps que ce gouvernement de fascistes comprenne que le peuple français refuse cette austérité imposée par des puissances étrangères ! Kevin essuie sa sueur abondante d’un revers de main : dans sa petite chambre-étuve d’étudiant inscrit en sociologie à Rennes 2, devant ses murs décorés d’un poster […] ⌘ Read more
Queria ouvir coisas novas e dei de caras com a lista de álbuns do ano do Resident Advisor, que é boa para apanhar as pérolas que nos passaram ao lado nos últimos 20 anos:
2006: Booka Shade - Movements
2007: Burial - Untrue
2008: Shed - Shedding the Past
2009: DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
2010: Caribou - Swim
2011: Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
2012: Voices from the Lake - Voices from the Lake
2013: James Holden - The Inheritors
2014: Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
2015: Floating Points - Elaenia
2016: Babyfather - “BBF” Hosted by DJ Escrow
2019: FKA Twigs - Magdalene
2020: DJ Python - Mas Amable
2021: Space Afrika - Honest Labour
2022: D. Tiffany and Roza Terenzi - Edge of Innocence
2023: Kelela - Raven
2024: Loidis - One Day
Da mais recente newsletter da @climaximo@climaximo :
“Nos últimos dois anos, a Equipa Legal do Climáximo tem acompanhado quase cem pessoas que realizaram ações com risco de detenção, num total de 72 ações. Destes, 8 foram arquivados, 3 foram absolvidos, e em 10 casos as ativistas foram condenadas. Temos ainda uns 20 casos no tribunal, e mais 20 casos que podem vir a ser objeto de processos-crime.”
“Aqui queremos fazer uma pequena pausa para esclarecer que isto não é toda a repressão que o movimento pela justiça climática enfrenta. Isto é a parte que é visível para a equipa legal do Climáximo, e portanto exclui, por exemplo, a indemnização ao Luís Montenegro por causa do seu fato de luxo que ficou sujo numa ação da Greve Climática Estudantil.
E também não vemos como assunto separado os polícias que acompanharam os despejos em Loures nem os vários grupos neo-nazis que de repente veio a público estarem a preparar-se. Esta tendência de governo autoritário é estrutural e é uma resposta consciente por quem manda nesta sociedade, exatamente por perceberem a crise climática que têm alimentado.”
“Até agora, apoiantes do Climáximo participaram em ações diretas pela justiça climática e tiveram 8 casos concluídos e 2 ainda em recurso […] Isto por dizerem a verdade sobre a emergência climática.”
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[47°09′21″S, 126°43′20″W] Analyzing samples
XMPP Providers: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Providers SurveyIn May 2025, we ran a small survey to gather feedback from XMPP server operators.
Our main concerns were XMPP Provider’s service and the project itself.
First of all, we would like to thank almost 60 people who participated in this survey.
While the XMPP Providers project currently lists a little more than 70 providers, this is a good turnout.
At this point we can already tell that the gen … ⌘ Read more
There are 19 million legal residents of the U.S. Southwest who are of Hispanic ancestry. If we include legal residents who have not been in the continental United States for more than a year or two, we may add the 1,169,000 Cubans in New York and Florida, and the 800,000 Puerto Ricans in New York, for a total of 20,611,000.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org To be fair, I did first notice this a while ago. But no monitor I ever had showed burn-ins like this (be it TFT or CRT), so I didn’t know that I should have sent it back. And then it got worse over time and now I see ghost images after 20-30 minutes. :(
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′11″W] Dosimeter overflow
@prologic@twtxt.net I’d expect a custom build like that to cost at least 50’000€ here in Europe. Used campers with 100’000 - 200’000 km already on their clock are 20-40k€, apparently. 😆
Ainda têm 20 dias para submeter uma apresentação na @FestaSoftwareLivre@FestaSoftwareLivre !
https://masto.pt/@FestaSoftwareLivre/114727786622693696
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′20″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′19″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Ja, eine kleine Inventur vorab kann auch nicht schaden. Der Bestand an Erdankern, Heringen und Gaskartuschen ist durch mich die Tage schon wieder aufgestockt worden.
Wo das Gas bleibt weiß ich. Warum die Befestigungen immer weniger werden, obwohl wir durchzählen (!), ist mir unbekannt. Vielleicht sind wir im Zahlenraum von 1 bis 20 einfach nur noch sehr unsicher. 🤓
📚 Programa completo:
📖𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟮, 𝘀𝗮́𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗼
16h00 Abertura da Feira do Livro
17h30 Mesa-redonda “A Literatura Lamecense é uma encruzilhada”
18h00 Apresentação livro “Lamego, a terra, a história e a gente”
21h00 Sons do Douro
𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟰, 𝘀𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮
15h00 Oficinas: Estórias Electromagnéticas
16h00 VOZ DOS LIVROS – Encontro com Autores e Palavras Vivas Alberto Almeida
18h00 Apresentação livro: Cristina Parauta
𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟱, 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗰̧𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮
15h00 Oficinas: Estórias Electromagnéticas
16h00 VOZ DOS LIVROS – Encontro com Autores e Palavras Vivas José Pessoa
18h00 Apresentação livro “na cabeça dos Poemas sem pés”
21h00 Espetáculo de Dança - AD
𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟲, 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮
15h00 Oficinas: INSECTARIUM
16h00 VOZ DOS LIVROS – Encontro com Autores e Palavras Vivas Aurora Simões
18h00 Conto da Raposa
21h00 CINEMA EU, DANIEL BLAKE
𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟳, 𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮
15h00 Oficinas: Burricos e Burrancas
15h00 Yoga para crianças
16h00 VOZ DOS LIVROS – Encontro com Autores e Palavras Vivas Manuela Vaquero
18h00 Apresentação do livro de Carlos Costa “O Entrudo de Lazarim” Fotografia
21h00 Cinema: “Os Miseráveis”
𝗗𝗶𝗮 𝟭𝟴, 𝘀𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗮-𝗳𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮
15h00 Yoga para crianças
16h00 VOZ DOS LIVROS – Encontro com Autores e Palavras Vivas André Freire
Para além da Feira do Livro, o Parque Isidoro Guedes acolhe o evento 𝗧𝗥𝗖 𝗮̀ 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘁𝗮, de 18 a 20 de julho.
A entrada é, está claro, livre.
𝗙𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮 𝗱𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗿𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗴𝗼 📚
A Câmara Municipal de Lamego volta a promover a 𝗙𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗮 𝗱𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗿𝗼 📚👩🏫 no Parque Isidoro Guedes, oferecendo um programa enriquecido com uma grande variedade de atividades culturais.
Este evento, que funcionará numa 𝗹ó𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝘁í𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗼 à 𝗹𝗲𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮, constitui uma das grandes apostas, na vertente literária, desta autarquia, decorrendo de 12 a 20 de julho.
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club This wasn’t always the case, though. Quake3, Quake4, Unreal Tournament 99 and 2004 are examples of games that used to run very well as native Linux games. But that was 20+ years ago …
Hahaha, I’m sure there were well over one thousand fireflies today! Basically at all times I could watch at least 15 of them around me. At better spots where one could see a few meters into the forest, there were easily 30 individuals, probably more. One even landed on my small finger. I didn’t feel anything at all, but my finger glowed. :-) Awwww! After a 20 meters ride it took off.
But it looks like I have to go already at 21:30 at sunset the next days. Today, I left the house at 22:00 and all the above happend in the first half. The second half of the walk was rather boring, maybe just around 70 glowworms in total. The extremely busy route yesterday was virtually dead this time I came around. They all have already gone to sleep, or something like that.
I also encountered two toads. I nearly stepped on the first one, but it luckily jumped to the side in time. No animals harmed.
OH, FUCK ME DEAD! On the way home from today’s walk I saw easily 800 fireflies! Yes, over eight hundred! That was absolutely amazing. First time this year and already this many. Crazy! They were just fricking everywhere in the entire forest. I counted to one hundred and then stopped. The darker it got, the more fireflies came out and glowed around. :-) There were spots where in under ten seconds I counted 20 glowworms. Super sick. Soooo beautiful. <3
Before I left I tried to call a mate to join me, who apparently wasn’t home yet, though, didn’t pick up. But in the very end I surprisingly met her in the forest and we were super happy to encounter all the fireflies. She also said that today was her first time this year to spot them. I’ll definitely check them out in the next days, too.
Apart from all the glowworms, I also came across some goats, two deer (one of which only the ears showing out of the grass), according to the sounds I sadly must have scared up four more, bucketloads of tadpoles, four big and very active anthills next to each other and three bats to finish the stroll off. I call that extremely successful.
There ya go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-24/
On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 06/16 to 06/20 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/20/week.html #linkdump #socialmedia #quotes #week
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I use Alt+. all the time, it’s great. 👌
FWIW, another thing I often use is !! to recall the entire previous command line:
$ find -iname '*foo*'
./This is a foo file.txt
$ cat "$(!!)"
cat "$(find -iname '*foo*')"
This is just a test.
Yep!
Or:
$ ls -al subdir
ls: cannot open directory 'subdir': Permission denied
$ sudo !!
sudo ls -al subdir
total 0
drwx------ 2 root root 60 Jun 20 19:39 .
drwx------ 7 jess jess 360 Jun 20 19:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jun 20 19:39 nothing-to-see
** growing good **
“…for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
George Eliot, Middlemarch ⌘ Read more
[47°09′20″S, 126°43′50″W] –no signal–
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder jammed
[47°09′57″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: 92kph – batteries low
[47°09′19″S, 126°43′20″W] Resetting dosimeter
Of Pointlessware and CEOs
Had a moment, to check up on some of the companies, I stopped following, get to The Browser Company and see their newest product - it’s just Chrome, with an AI chat window pop-up and that’s it. Something Canary Chrome, come with already.
I see Theo from T3.gg, making fun of it on YouTube and promoting “his” product - an AI chat app, where you can choose from multiple models, by all the popular AI companies. Something I already have a worse version of, at work and I don’t even use it.
There’s also an interview, about the future of virtual keyboards, surely this is at least actually a real thing and not more pointless horse shit. I check the website of the keyboard SDK, and it’s around 20 identical apps, that just copy the same keyboard SDK/api and slap chatgpt features on top - in the App Store, these are surrounded by chatgpt clones, that just feed the users prompts, into the real thing and put ads, next to the answers.
[47°09′34″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder malfunction
[47°09′13″S, 126°43′20″W] Raw reading: 0x684880B1, offset +/-1
Neom: Brücke über das Rote Meer zu The Line geplant
Saudi-Arabien und die Halbinsel Sinai sollen mit einer 20 km langen Brücke verbunden werden. Das Megaprojekt Neom würde damit eine Bahnverbindung bekommen. ( Infrastruktur, Energie & Klima)
20 Years of the Open Invention Network
The Open Invention Network (OIN) is celebrating
its 20th anniversary.
The central feature of the OIN community is a patent cross-license
that covers core Open Source functionality and expands in parallel
with the growth of Open Source technology. As growth in Open Source
has accelerated, OIN has proactively expanded the scope of the OIN
license’s benefit by including more than 4,500 software components … ⌘ Read more
Zelenskyy: US diverting 20,000 missiles promised for Ukraine to the Middle East ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Geforce Grafikkarten: Fast 20.000 Euro für eine RTX 5090 mit Echtgold
Mit der Dahab-Edition hat Asus eine besonders exklusive Geforce RTX 5090 herausgebracht. Scalper machen auch vor dieser Karte keinen Halt. ( Grafikkarten, eBay)
Couple stranded in blizzard rescued in 20-hour operation
Hikers visiting the alps are being urged to take the necessary precautions after a series of rescues in NSW and Victoria. ⌘ Read more
Illicit tobacco crop worth $4.4m discovered near Shepparton after tip-off
Authorities seize a 20-tonne crop of mature tobacco being grown on 2.4 hectares, an area equivalent to more than 450 tennis courts, in Victoria’s north. ⌘ Read more
This is my cat 20 minutes after his teeth surgery. ⌘ Read more
Ukraine meldet bisher größten Angriff
Russland hat die Ukraine nach Angaben der Luftstreitkräfte in Kiew mit dem bisher größten Drohnenangriff seit Kriegsbeginn überzogen. Das Gebiet der Ukraine sei mit 479 Drohnen sowie zusätzlich mit 20 Marschflugkörpern angegriffen worden, hieß es am Montag. ⌘ Read more