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.

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

[47°09′21″S, 126°43′20″W] Analyzing samples

@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. 😆

[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. 🤓

@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.

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There ya go: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-06-24/

@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

[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

A bill from our ISP in 1998.

We’re talking about a month here, 1998-07-27 to 1998-08-26.

Basic fee: 7.50 DM (about 6€ today).

Online time: 516 minutes, 23.53 DM (about 20€ today).

That’s just the ISP costs, if I’m not mistaken. The underlying phone calls were pretty pricey as well.

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[47°09′20″S, 126°43′59″W] Dosimeter overflow

[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] 4426 days without news from Herve

morning yarn verse, i was up for 20 hours yesterday and i got 4 hours of sleep today. FML

@anth@a.9srv.net 24 years is quite a long time. 😳 My blog domain is from 2006 (still, almost 20 years, oof).

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′34″W] Resetting dosimeter

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′28″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′13″S, 126°43′20″W] Transfer aborted

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net 28°C right now, but luckily, just 20°C tomorrow and rain. Even a thunderstorm at night. On Sunday we’re down to 12°C. What a ride. Oh boys!

July 1st. 63 days from now to implement a backward-incompatible change, apparently not open to other ideas like replacing blake with SHA, or discussing implementation challenges for other languages and platforms.
Finally just closing #18, #19 and #20 without starting a proper discussion and ignoring a ‘micro consensus’ feels… not right.

I don’t know what to think rather than letting it rest (May will be busy here) and focus on other stuff in the future.

twt-hash-v2.md#implementation-timeline

@prologic@twtxt.net This was like 20 minutes, but yeah 🤣

[47°09′05″S, 126°43′20″W] Dosimeter malfunction

[47°09′11″S, 126°43′20″W] –interrupted–

A mate and I had an amazing but also exhausting hike to the highest of the Three Emperor Mountains yesterday with perfect weather conditions. Sunny 18°C, blue sky with barly a cloud and a little welcoming breeze, just beautiful.

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Mt. Stuifen is 757 meters above sea level, has a small shelter and a barbie area and is still the most boring one of the three. It’s also the one farthest away from me. Not sure why it has two summit crosses, but both aren’t at the summit. The third, makeshift one at the real summit was gone by now. Four years ago, somebody had cobbled one together and put it up.

We bought our tucker at a local bakery on our way. This was the first time I tried a Teufelsbrezel (lit. devil’s pretzel), a lye pretzel with pepper. Haven’t come across that anywhere else. But I can certainly recommend that, it’s yummy.

We were glad when we were finally back home after some 26 or 27km. I won’t do much today and let my feet rest. Another friend called for a much, much shorter hike tomorrow.

Enjoy the 92 photos: https://lyse.isobeef.org/wanderung-auf-den-stuifen-2025-04-19/

That was a wild ride:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSMDb1CWD6Y

Notice how old all these people sound. They started playing this game like 10, 15, 20 years ago, most of them left, but some are still there. I love that level of commitment. 😃

Also interesting from a technical point of view. Creating that virtual world and keeping it running consistently for so long … 🤯

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′36″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′39″S, 126°43′20″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

One article assigning a draw of 20 watts to the human brain.

@prologic@twtxt.net you wrote:

“Based on a recent study of the brains of mice I estimated the human brain to have 200B cells/neurons and 50,000T connections.”

What’s the relation between the brains of mice, and the human brain? I am kind of lost trying to make the connection.

I also read that it isn’t 5 watts, but more like 10-20 watts. Still a super tiny consumption, comparing to what it takes to run anything AI.

OH wait! 😳 Why am I storing the timestamp as created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z ?! 😱 @movq@www.uninformativ.de’s feed shows:

2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00	I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:

    $ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
    [2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

It’s not toooo far into the future.

It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴

Hmmmm

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Not according to the output of ./yarnc debug <your feed url>:

znf6csa 2025-04-07T19:59:51+00:00	I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:

    $ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
    [2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

It’s not toooo far into the future.

It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴

Doesn’t look like it Hmmm

sqlite> select * from twts where content LIKE '%Linux installation%';
    hash = znf6csa
feed_url = https://www.uninformativ.de/twtxt.txt
 content = I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:

    $ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
    [2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

It’s not toooo far into the future.

It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴
 created = 2025-04-07T19:59:51Z
 subject = (#znf6csa)
mentions = []
    tags = []
   links = []

I wonder if my current Linux installation will actually make it to 20 years:

$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)

It’s not toooo far into the future.

It would be crazy … 20 years without reinstalling once … phew. 🥴

And we’re back to the regular landscape! Not only in subject but also photo orientation. No more silly portrait. I can’t recall it exactly, but I reckon that was one of ~20°C days. The evening sun was really crazy that day, made a great combination with the puddles: https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-04-02/

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[47°09′20″S, 126°43′44″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

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

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: N/A – Cannot comunicate

neat! my watcher is currently sitting at about 75 MB following over 1500 feeds. only about 200 are currently somewhat active.

-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   69M Mar 25 20:46 twt.db
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu   32K Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-shm
-rw-r--r--. 1 xuu  xuu  5.6M Mar 25 21:34 twt.db-wal

sqlite> select state, count(*) n from feeds group by 1;
hot|7
warm|8
cold|183
frozen|743
permanantly-dead|857

[47°09′18″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder malfunction

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′21″W] Wind speed: 42kph – batteries low

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′55″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′12″W] 4346 days without news from Herve

2025-03-02T13:20:00-07:00 (#<fmgas3a https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt?t=2025-03-02T10:12:13Z>) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> its hard to change by consensus. Some things are won in implementation.

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′41″W] Transponder still failing

[47°09′52″S, 126°43′20″W] Taking samples

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);

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′16″W] Transponder malfunction

[47°09′32″S, 126°43′20″W] –no signal–

[47°09′34″S, 126°43′20″W] Reading: 0.89 Sv

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′54″W] Transfer 50% complete…

[47°09′32″S, 126°43′20″W] Not enough data – sampling finished

@movq@www.uninformativ.de An ähnliche Aktionen, von vor 20 Jahren, kann ich mich auch noch erinnern. Viel aktueller als damals™ waren unsere Spiele gestern auch nicht. BF1942, CoD, Flatout, CnC, AoE2, Unreal und Quake3, um nur einige zu nennen.

[47°09′41″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: 64kph

[47°09′35″S, 126°43′20″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication

[47°09′18″S, 126°43′20″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′32″W] Transponder malfunction

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′22″W] Dosimeter overflow

Das Spiel der 20 Felder: Die möglichen Regeln des 4.600 Jahre alten Spiels mit einem Entwurf für einen modernen Spielplan.

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′38″W] Wind speed: 90kph – batteries low

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′49″W] Wind speed: 75kph

[47°09′26″S, 126°43′20″W] Working impossible due to heavy rain

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′56″W] Transponder fixed

[47°09′55″S, 126°43′20″W] Waiting for carrier

[47°09′04″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: 62kph

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′07″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′25″S, 126°43′20″W] Resetting transponder

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′57″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please

[47°09′19″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

[47°09′35″S, 126°43′20″W] Re-taking samples

[47°09′14″S, 126°43′20″W] Transfer 25% complete…

[47°09′17″S, 126°43′20″W] –no signal–

[47°09′30″S, 126°43′20″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′49″S, 126°43′20″W] Reading: 0.81000 PPM

[47°09′28″S, 126°43′20″W] Wind speed: N/A – Cannot comunicate

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′05″W] Waiting for carrier

[47°09′23″S, 126°43′20″W] Dosimeter fixed

[47°09′51″S, 126°43′20″W] Reading: 0.23000 PPM

Hmm:

42 75 69 6C 64 20 77 68 61 74 20 6D 61 6B 65 73 20 79 6F 75 20 68 61 70 70 79 2E 20 4C 65 74 20 6D 69 73 65 72 61 62 6C 65 20 70 65 6F 70 6C 65 20 62 75 69 6C 64 20 74 68 65 20 72 65 73 74 2E

[47°09′29″S, 126°43′20″W] Dosimeter malfunction

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes, the tools are surprisingly fast. Still, magrep takes about 20 seconds to search through my archive of 140K emails, so to speed things up I would probably combine it with an indexer like mu, mairix or notmuch.

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′13″W] Sample analyzing complete – starting transfer

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′08″W] –interrupted–

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′29″W] Reading: 1.71000 PPM

[47°09′36″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′53″W] Reading: 0.55 Sv

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′53″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′43″W] Working impossible due to blizzard

[47°09′20″S, 126°43′46″W] Dosimeter fixed

[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished

[47°09′10″S, 126°43′20″W] Transfer 75% complete…